music september 2006

15. 9. - 30. 9. 2006

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HERITAGE OF TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE OF THE PRESENT

 

I believe that it is natural for everyone and especially for us, who work in the field of culture, to respect the artistic creativity of one's own nation. We all know the feeling of happiness and pride, when one of us succeeds. The feeling of satisfaction when we have the opportunity to support one of ours on his/her way to success is unforgettable. However, when we talk in the universal language of music very often self-interest and restriction of criteria, such as quality, creativity, innovativeness, persuasiveness and attractiveness are hidden behind phrases about supporting 'national' artists and the pretext of favouring the 'Slovenian'.

If we do not want to tolerate the clichés about supporting national artists then how do we answer the following questions: why are the large majority of creators at this year's festival from Slovenia and what is the essence of the latest musical September?

With all the respect to the immortality of true musical works of art it is a unique phenomena of our time that so-called classical music is most often celebrated in form of a cult of the great performer, who is  surrounded by great performers in the mausoleum of glory, which have died a long time ago. Being aware of this, from time to time we have to leave our own boundaries and catch the current trends outside our everyday limitations.

All for the benefit of creativity! And to the benefit of creative people who, as we all, are defined by the time and space were we are living – the heritage of tradition and experience of the present; the interaction of contemporary guidelines when building a cathedral and modern trends when we place a bazaar next to it.

Only when we decide for the benefit of creativity “here and now”, we give meaning to our mission and the role of the Slovenian artist is understood.

This is the reason why Slovenian artists hold the reins of this year's festival.

In the new projects of Karmina Šilec, Bojan Cvetrežnik, Jure Ivanušič, Marko Vezovišek and Gal Gjurin we can expect not only interaction between different musical worlds but also the unison of different art genres. The caravan of Slovenian composers and interpreters will be joined by Slovenian writers of lyrics and those responsible for sound, movement and light design.

Heritage of tradition and experience of the present is at the same time also the main theme of those concerts that are not part of the authorial festival production. Also here the pulse of creativity in different contexts and with performers as Milko Lazar and Bojan Gorišek, Branimir and Zora Slokar as well as Gerard Causse and Frank Braley, can be felt.

 

Brigita Pavlic

Cultural events Centre narodni dom Maribor - Concert Management

Head of Concert Management

Friday, 15th September, at 7.30 pm, Union Hall Maribor

 

DRUM CAFÉ

FORMAL OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL

Premiere performance of the festival’s own production, a project by KARMINA SILEC

 

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KARMINA SILEC – project author and conductor

 

Ethnic vocal group CARMINA SLOVENICA

Eder Simona, Pavalec Martina, Stegne Nadja, Segula Ula, Celcer Marija, Kusar Lucija, Pavokovic Masa, Bohinc Maja, Harc Ida, Pusnik Barbara, Stubicar Nastja, Bernarda Ferlez, Grahovac Sandra, Kaube Zala, Vantur Jasna, Koren Natalija, Struc Nezka, Coh Nusa, Kocbek Mateja, Huremovic Larisa, Krajnc Mateja, Kovacic Eneja, Jurtela Kaja, Katja Lipovaca, Leyla Al Shamary

 

STOP (Slovenian percussion project): Dejan Tamse, Damir Korosec, Davor Plamberger, Franci Krevh – percussion

NINO MURESIKC and JAM-BASHI (Tadej Furlan, Andrej Hrvatin, Damir Mazrek) – percussion

VASKO ATANASOVSKI – pipes

JANEZ DOVC – accordion, double bass

Ensemble KEBATAOLA: Ula Segula, Nadja Stegne, Zvezdana Novakovic, Kaja Jurtela, Mateja Krajnc, Eva Bracic) – vocal, percussion

ZVEZDANA NOVAKOVIC and EVA BRACIC – ethno vocal

SANDRA GRAHOVAC, KATJA LIPOVACA, NEZKA STRUC – authentic vocal

DARKO ROSKER – tuba

JASNA VANTUR – celesta

NADJA STEGNE – violin

MARINA GUMZI - narrator

 

Light Design: DAVID ORESIC

Sound Design: DANILO ZENKO

 

Programme:

Pojemajoča luč

Pavkaste pesmi

                        Dve beli grlici

                        Sji olwätt

                        Ženska ima dolge lase

Pred starimi materami

Navpične misli

Klic dežju

Oj, momčeto

Ljubovni raboti

 

Voice and percussion have been the first and the strongest musical means of expression throughout all periods and civilizations of mankind.

From old they have accompanied important events in peoples’ lives: certain transitions in life (birth, initiation, death), religious rituals – both traditionally and in the worlds religions, social events, meditation, campaigns, etc… Project Drum Café brings a fresh selection of music for voice and percussion. The repertoire is very heterogeneous, an ethnic atmosphere of North and South Europe with added colour through its characteristic vocal techniques. The programme consists of compositions featuring ethnic Ukrainian solo voice and a percussion quartet, a Swedish ethno duet and timpani and vigorous south European traditional melodies. Avant-garde compositions of chamber music for vocals and percussion instruments are also part of the programme. The bond between vocal creation and the use of percussion is a challenge to many modern authors and this is why their work forms an interesting counterpoint to those compositions that are based on folk tradition. (Karmina Silec)

A CELEBRATION OF SOUND COLOURS, RHYTHM AND PULSE!

Saturday, 16th September, at 7.30 pm, Cultural hall Slovenj Gradec

 

DRUM CAFÉ

Repetition of the project by Karmina Silec

 

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Tuesday, 19th September, at 7.30 pm, Union Hall Maribor

IN COMPANY WITH MASTERS OF THEIR INSTRUMENTS

 

GÉRARD CAUSSÉ – viola

FRANK BRALEY – piano

 

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Programme: Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Matija Tomc, Benjamin Britten, Robert Schumann

 

Leading French viola player Gérard Caussé is one of the greatest artists of our time and he is one of the few viola players, successors of legendary William Primrose, who has succeeded in elevating the viola to a solo instrument again. This is why we are delighted that Caussé, famous as an exceptional expert of the music of the 20th century, has accepted our invitation to perform also a work by a Slovenian composer. He chose from scores of Slovenian composers, who have written for viola and piano and has decided to perform a composition by Matija Tomc, which we will hear on his viola Gaspalo da Salo from 1560, side by side with composers such as Hummel, Shostakovich, Schumann and Britten. The sound of his viola will combine with the sound of the piano played by the virtuoso pianist Frank Braley, a master of the colours of sound and an exceptionally sensuous and enlightened pianist. By winning First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition of 1991, he gained the reputation of a musician who can perform in the best concert halls worldwide.

Friday, 22nd September, at 7.30 pm, Union Hall Maribor

 

GORISEK LAZAR

2 PIANOS

BOJAN GORISEK – piano

MILKO LAZAR – piano

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Programme: Milko Lazar, Maurice Ravel

 

The piano duo GORISEK – LAZAR unites two exceptional Slovenian musicians. Both are prize – winners of the Preseren funds: Bojan Gorisek, the leading Slovenian pianist in the field of contemporary piano writings and Milko Lazar, one of our most versatile musicians (composer, pianist, harpsichord player, saxophonist and Jazz musician). Their music is a mixture of modern chamber music, improvisation and jazz and for the most part Milko Lazar has written the music. Bojan Gorisek is »a musical personality with a sharpened sense for aesthetics and he feels a great need to reveal the deeper, veiled and mystic«. He received international reputation with his recording of the complete piano opus of Erik Satie for the Blaricum Music Group. This recording is rated as one of the best recordings of all time. Milko Lazar from Maribor regularly works with the Big Band of RTV Slovenija as a soloist playing first alto saxophone, and he is active as conductor and composer for different chamber ensembles and orchestras and he performs baroque music on the harpsichord. His latest classical works were performed all over Europe and in America, such as in Carnegie Hall in New York. Their concert will comprise mostly compositions by Milko Lazar. With this repertoire they have delighted also numerous audiences in New York!

Saturday, 23rd September, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm, Union Hall Maribor

Sunday, 24th September, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm, Union Hall Maribor

Monday, 25th September, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and at 6.00pm, Union Hall Maribor

 

YOUNG ARTISTS AT MUSIC SEPTEMBER

COMPOSITION WORKSHOPS, IMPROVISATION AND ENSEMBLE PLAYING

GAL GJURIN – head of workshops

 

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The music workshops within the framework of Music September 2006 will be dedicated to composition and especially to composing within the workshop itself, improvisation and ensemble playing within certain compositional contexts. There will be a larger collective – an orchestra of thirty young musicians, who are interested in these aspects of music. At the same time we will touch on basic improvisational principles and reflections as well as on theoretical viewpoints of music that help with improvisation (melody: harmony: rhythm). After three days of hard work there will be a concluding concert of the orchestra and all participants of the workshops will be performing. The young music enthusiasts should bring their instruments, music paper, pencils and a good frame of mind. Gal Gjurin a composer, instrumentalist and literary man from Ljubljana will lead the workshops (Gal in Galeristi, Olivija, Projekt Mesto, BAST). (Gal Gjurin)

Monday, 25th September, at 6.00 pm, Union Hall Maribor

 

MUSIC SEPTEMBER FOR YOUTH

FROM SILENCE TO MUSIC

CONCERT FOR AN ANECDOTE AND PIANO

Premiere of the festival’s own production, a project of JURE IVANUSIC and MARKO VEZOVISEK

PERFORMING: JURE IVANUSIC

 

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What came first: the chicken or the egg? Silence or music? During this hour long performance of FROM SILENCE TO MUSIC the actor and pianist Jure Ivanusic takes us through history and the phenomenon of music in all its diversity. He does so in an interesting and attractive way with anecdotes and jokes. In his illustrative, witty, yet credible, virtuosic, thematically and genre rich performance he masterly changes from one musically relevant role to another; from pianist to singer, from composer to conductor from musicologist to musical critic. He refers to the history and development of music, composing, musical peculiarities, even plagiarism and anecdotes which are given emphasis with examples. He also refers to the consuming of music, habits and bad habits, from frivialities to good fashion and from overture to applause. He takes the audience from the stoneage to the Rolling Stones, from classic to modern music, from Jazz to Pop and from popular songs to chanson. (Marko Vezovisek)

Wednesday, 27th September, at 8.30 pm, Cathedral, Maribor

FROM RENAISSANCE TO CONTEMPORARY

 

ZORA SLOKAR – horn

BRANIMIR SLOKAR – trombone

KLEMENS SCHNORR – organ

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Programme: Antonio Valente, Petronio Franceschini, Robert Schumann, Hannes Meyer, Camille Saint Saëns, Enrique Crespo, Jean François Michel

 

We are honoured to welcome the exceptional musician Branimir Slokar, for the second time this year. He is renowned as one of the best trombone players of our time. Originally from Maribor, he has been living and creating abroad for many years, and at this concert he will perform together with his daughter, Zora Slokar, horn. She currently plays first horn in the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and despite her young age she can be proud of numerous successful performances as a chamber musician and soloist working with orchestras all over Europe, and she is quite well-known in Slovenia too. The two members of the Slokar family will be accompanied by the well known organ player Klemens Schnorr from Germany. A variety of compositions from Renaissance to contemporary awaits you in the pleasant atmosphere of the Cathedral.

Friday, 29th September, at 7.30 pm, Union Hall Maribor

Saturday, 30th September, at 7.30 pm, Union Hall Maribor

 

CHAMBER MUSIC OF TODAY

Premiere of the festival’s own production, project by BOJAN CVETREZNIK

 

SYMBOLIC ORCHESTRA OF THE FESTIVAL MUSIC SEPTEMBER and TERRAFOLK

 

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SYMBOLIC ORCHESTRA OF THE FESTIVAL MUSIC SEPTEMBER

Benjamin Ziervogel – I. violin

Sasa Olenjuk – I. violin

Vesna Cobal – I. violin

Laura Zafred – I. violina, vocal

Raphael Kasprian – II. violin

Bozena Angelova – II. violin

Mojca Kriznic – II. violin

Polona Udovic – II. violin, vocal

JAMirko - II. violin

Manfred Plessl – viola

Una Palliser – viola

Klemen Bracko – viola

Thomas Wiesflecker – cello

Gorazd Strlic – cello

Rina Kaçinari – cello

Darko Kovacic – double bass

Piero Malkoc – double bass

Matej Hotko – double bass, bass guitar

Mateja Kremljak – flute

Saso Vollmaier – piano

Grega Gorenšek – marimba, percussion

Andrej Pekarovic – guitar

Luka Vehar – guitar

Nino Mureskic – percussion

Borut Krzisnik – vocal

JAMirko – key boards

 

TERRAFOLK

Bojan Cv – violin

Danijel Cerne – guitar

Marko Hatlak – accordion, percussion, vocal

Janez Dovc – accordion, double bass

 

IZIDOR LEITINGER conductor

 

Guests:

ANJA BUKOVEC – violin

BOSTJAN GOMBAC – pipes

KATHRYN HOSKING – vocals

KLASICK (Igor Vicentic, Mirko Vicentic, DJ Piere)

UNA PALLISER – violin, vocal

 

Sound Design: DANILO ZENKO

 

Programme: Bojan Cv, Danijel Cerne – Mystica, Izidor Leitinger, Borut Krzisnik, Milos Simic, Marko Hatlak, Janez Dovc In Una Palliser, Mitja Vrhovnik – Smrekar, Lojze Krajncan, Neza Buh – Neisha, Saso Vollmaier, Klasick, Andrej Pekarovic, Luka Vehar

 

Chamber music – emerged during those times when there was no artificial way of increasing the volume of sound; music at that time was written according to natural acoustics. The solo performance of a quiet instrument always meant a withdrawal from the forte performance of the accomanying orchestra; acoustics as well as the use of loudspeakers enhance the performances each adding charm to the music with its own way of expression. Let us imagine a classical composer, who produces his recording on the main square of the nearest city or a DJ who creates in a chamber athmosphere and forgets to use electricity. The volume of this concert will test the boundaries to the limit and will provide the opportunity of expression of chamber acoustics – the Union Hall. This concert is an escape from the uniformity of sound, a legalization of Pop. It is divided into three movements: (1) expectation, (2) variation, (3) relaxation, question and pardon. The scenario and method of the concert direction have been made especially for the two concerts on the 29th and 30th September 2006; location – Union Hall; audience – the traditional audience of the festival ‘Music September’ as well as the faithful audience of Terrafolk. In another time and space there cannot be an identical scenario with the same message. (Bojan Cv)

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