The Centre for Music Composition and Performance - CMCP, invites the Ensemble Aleph in Athens, in order to perform two concerts of works for violin, violoncello, clarinet, piano and soprano. Ensemble Aleph is one of the major musical ensembles in Europe in the contemporary music domain.
Two concerts are scheduled:
Friday, June 11 2010, time 20.30 – Athens French Institute, 31 Sina str. - Athens
Works by Iannis Xenakis, Mauricio Kagel, Georges Aperghis, Camille Roy, Marco Stroppa and Maria Aloupi
Saturday, June 12 2010, time 20.00 – “ABOUT:” - 18 Miaouli str. - Psirri – Athens, www.aboutt.gr.
Works by John Cage, Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez and Andreas Diktyopoulos.
Entrance: 8 euro
A few words…
After the widespread success of his recital at the National Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the 2nd I.Xenakis tribute on September 2009 and his recital at the Herakleidon Museum on October 2007, violoncellist Christophe Roy, a member of the Ensemble Aleph, is coming to execute two more performances in Athens. This time he will perform alongside Ensemble Aleph at the Athens French Institute as well as at the new cultural space ABOUT: in Psirri, 18 Miaouli str.
Ensemble Aleph
www.ensemblealeph.com
Ensemble Aleph was born in 1983 and is still in good health...
Ensemble Aleph is a partnership of soloists, in a flexible formation, an ensemble of musicians united by their enthusiasm for living theatre, who want to serve composers in an innovative way while also exploring new ways to relate sound to text, movement and music. Ensemble Aleph resists a precise definition and denies any adoption of inadequate and restrictive labels. Audiences at performances by Ensemble Aleph - of staged works such as Frequents Stops, or concerts offering an overview of contemporary music - are invited to embark upon an exciting discovery voyage.
With more than 150 world premieres to its credit, Ensemble Aleph is considered to be an "instrument of choice" by composers of diverse aesthetic directions. Aleph regularly presents major 20th-century works by Berio, Boucourechliev, Boulez, Bussotti, Cage, Grisey, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Messiaen, Scelsi, Stockhausen, Xenakis and Zimmermann. Aleph is committed to interdisciplinary art forms, especially music theatre and music/dance performance.
Ensemble Aleph: Dominique Clément (clarinet), Sylvie Druin (piano), Jean-Charles François (percussion), Monica Jordan (soprano), Cristophe Roy (violoncello) και Noëmi Schindler (violin).
Concert Schedule
Friday, June 11 2010 – Athens French Institute, 31 Sina str. - Athens
Works by Iannis Xenakis - Dhipli Zyia & Charisma, Mauricio Kagel - Klangwölfe, Georges Aperghis – Recitations & 280 Mesures, Camille Roy – Parmi l'arbre, Marco Stroppa - Ossia. Seven strophes for a Literary Drone trio and Maria Aloupi - Vato.
Saturday, June 12 2010 – “ABOUT:” - 18 Miaouli str. - Psirri – Athens
Works by John Cage – Aria & Sonatas and Interludes & A Flower & The wonderful widow of the eighteenth spring, Maurice Ravel - Sonate, Pierre Boulez - Domaines and Andreas Diktyopoulos – Aleph 0.
A “Ballet Lesson” will take place at the Herakleidon Museum between 21:00 – 00:00 hrs. The pianist will perform music that traditionally accompanies ballet classes by F. Chopin, R. Schumann, C. Debussy, E. Satie and others.
Students from the dance school Dance Way will bring the ballerinas
in the art of Edgar Degas to life,
whereas the “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen” will participate
in a Unique Ballet Lesson.
Admission will be free after sunset, at 20:26 hrs.
The event is supported by the French Insitute in Athens.
Museum's guests will be treated with Greenall’s Gin, generously offered by Boikos.
Piano sponsored by
, is the opening day of ABOUT: with video projections,
an interactive installation and the presentation of Dirty Electronics, a live performance by the English composer - experiment artist John Richards(www.jsrichards.com).
