The program includes the U.S. premieres of compositions by Austrian composers
Clemens Gadenstätter and Bernhard Gander, as well as the performance of a piece
by Bernhard Lang.
PROGRAM
Bernhard Lang: DW 16: Songbook 1 (2004)
Clemens Gadenstätter: Streichtrio II (U.S. Premiere) (1992)
Bernhard Gander: ö (U.S. Premiere) (2004)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
New York-based Talea Ensemble is renowned for its advocacy for new and contemporary
music, with an aim to increase awareness and understanding of contemporary music
through outreach by participating in residencies, performances, and projects for
broad audiences. Talea Ensemble’srecent concert with the ACFNY dedicated to
the oeuvre of Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth was named one of the year’s
best by Artforum magazine.
For more information, please visit: www.taleaensemble.org
French soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac studied violin and piano at the
Conservatoire National de Région in Nantes, and later studied voice at the
Paris Conservatoire. Thanks to her close collaboration with IRCAM (since 1993)
she has premiered numerous works by such composers as Philippe Manoury,
Pascal Dusapin, Luca Francesconi, Georges Aperghis, Fausto Romitelli, and
Philippe Leroux. Donatienne Michel-Dansac is also intensely involved with
baroque repertoire.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.smcq.qc.ca/smcq/en/artistes/m/micheldansac_do/
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde
school, particularly advocating a style he has self-termed "repetition-perpetrator",
and has composed almost 30 pieces under the name Differenz/Wiederholung
(difference / repetition). Lang and his work were featured at the Austrian
Cultural Forum’s 2009 Moving Sounds Festival, which saw the
U.S. premiere of his piece DW2.
For more information on Bernhard Lang, please
visit: http://members.chello.at/bernhard.lang/
Clemens Gadenstätter’s work revolves around the semantic aspects of sounds.
His interest lies not only in the sounds of new music, but more generally, all sounds
that shape the human hearing experience: noises from everyday life, entertainment,
music, and even sounds from advertisement or movies.
For more information on Clemens Gadenstätter, please visit: www.gadenstaetter.info
Austrian composer Bernhard Gander was born in 1969, and studied at piano and
conducting in the conservatory in Innsbruck. Later, he studied composition in Graz
with Beat Furrer, and electro-acoustic music at Studio UPIC/Paris and Zürich.
His works have been performed by Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, and at
concerts in Vienna, Paris, Zürich, Seattle, Japan, Munich, and Seoul. Gander’s
piece Neid (2009), was performed at the ACFNY last September, by the
incomparable Eva Reiter at the 2011 Moving Sounds Festival.
