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Sonic Morphology – Perspectives on Contemporary German Music from Within and Without

New Music Concert|mit Duo Tesserae (Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke, violine und Michiko Saiki, Klavier)

  • Goethe-Institut Boston, Boston, MA

  • Tickets at the door

Duo Tesserae Qu (c) Duo Tesserae

Duo Tesserae (c) Duo Tesserae

Der Geiger Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke und die Pianistin Michiko Saiki (Duo Tesserae) präsentieren ein Programm, das selten zu hörende Stimmen aus Ostdeutschland in einen Dialog mit internationalen Zeitgenossen bringt. Auf dem Programm stehen Rebecca Saunders’ „Duo“ (1996/99), Thuon Burtevitz’ „Rabba in Sard…“ (2004, überarbeitet 2015), Wilfried Krätzschmars „Neun Späte Bagatellen“ (2009) und Eric Wubbels’ „the children of fire come looking for fire“ (2012).

Durch die Gegenüberstellung der fein ausgearbeiteten, wenn auch kontrastreichen Klangwelten von Burtevitz und Krätzschmar mit der viszeralen Intensität von Saunders und der komplexen rhythmischen Architektur von Wubbels verdeutlicht das Duo Tesserae die Bandbreite der heutigen zeitgenössischen Musik. Das Programm rückt nicht nur unterrepräsentierte ostdeutsche Komponisten stärker ins Rampenlicht, sondern spiegelt auch Deutschlands Rolle als Zentrum für Neue Musik wider, wie Saunders’ in Berlin verlaufende Karriere und Wubbels’ Verleihung des Ernst-von-Siemens-Komponistenpreises 2023 verdeutlichen.

Dieses Zusammentreffen deutscher Traditionen und internationaler Perspektiven entführt das Publikum in eine Welt voller markanter Kontraste und Resonanzen – eine lebendige Begegnung mit der ästhetischen Vielfalt der heutigen Musik. Präzision, Klarheit und Klangfarbe – die Markenzeichen des Duo Tesserae – prägen den Ansatz des Konzerts und schaffen eine lebendige Begegnung zwischen verschiedenen kompositorischen Stimmen und Traditionen.

Programm:

Thuon Burtevitz Rabba in Sard… via Violin and prepared Piano (2004 rev. 2015) 15’

Wilfried Krätzschmar Neun Späte Bagatellen ("bagatelles sur le tard“) for Violin and Piano (2009) 15’

Rebecca Saunders Duo (1996/99) 12’

Eric Wubbels the children of fire come looking for fire (2012) 25’

  • Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke

    New Zealand-born Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke has devoted himself to innovative forms of sound and performance for many years as a violinist, composer and conductor. He is co-founder of the new-music ensemble Tema (Karlsruhe), the El Perro Andaluz ensemble (Dresden), specializing in experimental concert, media, and theater formats, and the Polytheistic Ensemble (Karlsruhe), a crossover formation mixing contemporary art music, jazz, and rock. Since 2010, he has also been the violinist in the Ensemble Phorminx (Tübingen). His concertising has taken him to Korea, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland.

    As a performer, Westbrooke derives particular inspiration from the collaboration with living composers, and he has worked with renowned composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Rebecca Saunders, Brian Ferneyhough, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wolfgang Rihm, Hanna Eimermacher, Heinz Holliger, Isabel Mundry, Simon Steen-Andersen, Georg Friedrich Haas and Johannes Kreidler.
    As a composer, his work spans film music, pieces for orchestra and electronics, music for diverse chamber forces, vocal music and music theater. His works have been performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), Ensemble Sorpresa, and the Saguaro Trio, among others.

    Westbrooke is a lecturer in the performance practice of contemporary music and deputy director of the masters’ program in contemporary music performance at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden, and also teaches music theory and organology at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.

     

  • Michiko Saiki

    Dr. Michiko Saiki is a Japanese-born pianist and  multimedia artist based in Leipzig, Germany. She is deeply committed to contemporary music and living composers, and her artistic work explores the genre of the “vocalizing pianist”– where voice, body and gender become integral components of performance.

    Since relocating to Leipzig in 2016, Michiko has been developing her ongoing multimedia music-theater project, Voices of Women, in which she collaborates closely with female composers to stage intimate, feminist narratives through music, video, and performance, of which the most recent performance took place in Leipzig in 2022: a multilayered, sensually immersive production combining a minimalist stage, video projections, voice, piano, and a self-designed sculpture. Her works have been presented internationally, including as part of an artist’s residency at Royaumont Abbey (France, 2020), at the ZfGM Festival at HMT Leipzig (2018), and the Berlin concert series Unerhörte Musik (2018), as well as in museum and lecture-concert settings in Turkey, the UK, and the USA.

    Since October 2024, she has been a lecturer in the performance practice of contemporary music at the “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. As a versatile soloist, chamber musician, improviser, and media artist, she can be heard on recordings such as A Thing Made Whole (Kairos), Turns and Tensions (NEOS), and Chamber Music (NEOS); her video works have been presented and won prizes at film festivals in the USA, Belgium, France, and Australia. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Contemporary Music with a specialization in Piano Performance and a secondary focus on Digital Media from Bowling Green State University in 2017.
     

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