FRIDAY Oct 12, 19:45 @ Lutheran Church
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EnsembleSpectrum is one of the most prominent Slovak ensembles specializing in 20th and 21st-century chamber music. What began as a desire to perform lesser-known and new works—often mentally and technically challenging—has, over the years, evolved into a passion and a life mission, driving the ensemble to ever more ambitious programs.
In its ten years of activity, the ensemble has studied over 130 works of contemporary Slovak and international composers, founded the label UBU Collection (short for “utopická brána umenia” – utopian gateway to art in English), under which it has released three of its five albums, established the Institute of Contemporary Music Questions aimed at education, and premiered over seventy new works, many commissioned by EnsembleSpectrum.
At JAMA – 78th Edition of Milan Adamčiak, the ensemble will present a new program, Flow of the Static Sound, dedicated to works by American composer James Tenney and Canadian composer Chiyoko Szlavnics, who currently resides in Berlin.
James Tenney is one of the foremost figures in experimental music since the 1970s. His theoretical and compositional legacy remains relevant, still resonating powerfully today. Chiyoko Szlavnics continues Tenney’s work, synthesizing his search for new harmony through just intonation with slowly evolving glissandi and psychoacoustic phenomena.
The evening will also feature the release of EnsembleSpectrum’s new CD: James Tenney – Harmonic Spaces. A Bratislava warm-up for the concert will take place with a lecture by Chiyoko Szlavnics on October 8 at LOM in Bratislava, as part of the Mikroskop – Platform for Microtonal Music project.
The concert is part of the project “Series of Chamber Concerts with EnsembleSpectrum in 2024,” supported with the use of public funds by the Slovak Arts Council as the main partner of the project. With financial support from the Music Fund Slovakia.
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