Sequitur V (2008)
for toy piano and live-electronics

Xenia Pestova: toy piano

Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

Gold.Berg.Werk (2003-2012)
Interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations
Version for harpsichord and live-electronics

Katelyn Clark: harpsichord

Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

Austrian composer and performance artist Karlheinz Essl from Vienna will be giving a presentation at Adam Sherkin's composer's forum. He will speak about his ideas on realtime composition and demonstrate his developments in generative and algorithmic music. Members of the JunctQín keyboard collective will be playing pieces form his Sequitur cycle, whereas the composer himself performs Lexikon-Sonate for computer-controlled piano.

Sequitur XIV (2009)

for kalimba and live-electronics

Stephanie Chua: kalimba & live-electronics

Sequitur V (2008)

for toy piano and live-electronics

Elaine Lau: toy piano

Stephanie Chua: live-electronics

Lexikon-Sonate (1992 ff.)

realtime composition for computer-controlled piano

Karlheinz Essl: computer performance

Karlheinz Essl will speak about his compositions for keyboards and electronics, giving insights into his compositional ideas, his algorithmic concepts and the performance aspects of his music. This class will take place within a composition seminar, taught by Linda Catlin Smith; students of piano faculty Elaine Lau will also perform pieces by Karlheinz Essl. Open to all interested composers and musicians.

more or less (1999-2007)

realtime composition for computer-controlled soloists

Oliver McCallum, Merissa Michell: piano

Sarah Buisman: toy piano

Sequitur V (2008)

for toy piano and live-electronics

Lisa Szczepanski: toy piano

Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

Sequitur XIII (2009)

for extended piano and live-electronics

Joseph Ferretti: piano

Elaine Lau: live-electronics

Lexikon-Sonate (1992 ff.)

realtime composition for computer-controlled piano

Karlheinz Essl: computer performance

junctQín keyboard collective performs a portrait concert of Viennese composer Karlheinz Essl alongside the composer himself. This event is a culmination of a week-long residency by Essl, hosted by junctQín. Steeped in the language of serialism, Essl’s aesthetics address the lineage of the Second Viennese school, while bringing it into today’s society through his use of computer-generated soundscapes. The program will include two works for ensemble: Pandora’s Secret for music box and live electronics and the world première of juncTions for piano (2 players) and live electronics. The members of junctQín will also be featured individually; Sequiturs V, XIII and XIV are solos for toy piano, extended piano and kalimba with live electronics. Karlheinz Essl will be joining the ensemble in the performance of electronics.

Programm

Pandora's Secret (2008/2009)

Performance for punch-tape controlled music box and live-electronics

Elaine Lau, Joseph Ferretti, Steph Chua: music box performance & live-electronics

Sequitur XIII (2009)

for extended piano and live-electronics

Joseph Ferretti: piano

Elaine Lau: live-electronics

Sequitur V (2008)

for toy piano and live-electronics

Elaine Lau: toy piano

Stephanie Chua: live-electronics

Sequitur XIV (2009)

for kalimba and live-electronics

Stephanie Chua: kalimba & live-electronics

juncTions (2011/2012) - premier
for piano (2 players) and live-electronics

Elaine Lau, Joseph Ferretti: piano

Steph Chua: live-electronics

Biographies

Karlheinz Essl’s music has been the feature of many festival portrait concerts including the Salzburg Festival, Wien Modern (Vienna), Ars Musica (Brussels), and Festival de Música Electroacústica Querétaro (Mexico). He has served four years as composer-in-residence at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1990 – 1994) and completed a commission for IRCAM Paris (1993). Essl has collaborated with some of the most important contemporary ensembles of our time, including the Arditti Quartet (London), Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), and Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt). Since 2007, Karlheinz Essl has been Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.

junctQín is a collective of pianists, Joseph Ferretti, Stephanie Chua and Elaine Lau. Founded in 2009, the ensemble’s mandate is to perform works of the 20th and 21st centuries, commissioning and collaborating with composers and artists of all genres. Recent collaborations include Canadian composers Alex Eddington, Aaron Gervais and the Toy Piano composers, along with Canadian multi-media artists Kenneth Doren and Derek Liddington. Performance highlights include recitals and projects presented by the Canadian Opera Company’s Four Seasons Centre, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, and Barrie’s Colours of Music Festival. junctQín has also engaged in many outreach events and activities, including the spOtlight Festival of Ontario, Culture Days in Toronto, and school workshops.

junctQín’s individual members are all active individually in activities ranging from solo recitals, to performances as concerto soloists, to performances with ensembles such as the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Contact Contemporary Music, the Talisker Chamber Players, and in such festivals as the Music Gallery’s X-Avant, the Open Ears Festival (Kitchener-Waterloo), NUMUS (KW), the CMC’s New Music in New Places and many others.

Mit dem international renommierten Komponisten und Universitätsprofessor Karlheinz Essl setzen wir im Jahre 2012 die Reihe der österreichischen „Composers in Residence“ bei der LOISIARTE fort. Meine erste Begegnung mit Karlheinz Essl geht auf das Jahr 1983 zurück. Wir lernten einander anlässlich der Festkonzerte zum hundertsten Geburtstag von Anton von Webern im Wiener Konzerthaus kennen, - eine Veranstaltungsreihe, die Karlheinz Essl als prägend für seinen musikalischen Werdegang bezeichnet. Zwei der Kompositionen Anton von Weberns haben wir daher auch im Programm der LOISIARTE 2012 ausgewählten Kammermusikwerken Karlheinz Essls gegenüber gestellt. Als Interpret und Improvisator wird Karlheinz Essl bei der LOISIARTE 2012 auch selbst auftreten und gemeinsam mit der Sängerin Agnes Heginger die zweite Hälfte der Matinee am Sonntag in der Basilika gestalten. (Christian Altenburger)

Programm

Thu, 22 Mar 2012, 19:00

Langenlois, Loisium (A)

Christian Altenburger: violin

Fri, 23 Mar 2012, 19:00

Langenlois, Loisium (A)

Christian Altenburger: violin

Quirine Viersen: cello

Sat, 24 Mar 2012, 19:00

Langenlois, Loisium (A)

Christian Altenburger: violin

Christoph Schiller: viola

Patrick Demenga: cello

Sun, 25 Mar 2012, 11:00

Langenlois, Loisium (A)

Agnes Heginger: voice

Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

Víctor Trescolí, Spanish pianist from Valencia, is giving a solo recital with compositions by the Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl which are focussing on his works for toy piano and electronics. The next day, Mr. Essl is giving a masterclass about the music that has been played the evening before, providing insights into his compositional concepts and the algorithms that he has developed for the electronics.

Kalimba (2005)

for toy piano and playback

Víctor Trescolí: toy piano

Sequitur V (2008)

for toy piano and live-electronics

Víctor Trescolí: toy piano & live-electronics

Sequitur XIII (2009)

for extended piano and live-electronics

Víctor Trescolí: piano

Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

WebernSpielWerk (2005)

for amplified toy piano

Víctor Trescolí: toy piano

whatever shall be (2010)

for toy piano, dreidel, music box with live-electronics and surround sound

Víctor Trescolí: toy piano & live-electronics

Biographies

Karlheinz Essl was born 1960 in Vienna. At the University of Music in Vienna he studied composition with Friedrich Cerha, electro-acoustic music and double bass. At the University of Vienna he wrote his musicological doctoral thesis on the late compositions of Anton Webern.

His work with computers (with emphasis on Algorithmic Composition) and a prolonged occupation with the poetics of serial music have been a formative influence on his compositional thinking. Besides writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the field of electronic music, interactive realtime compositions and sound installations. Since the early 1990's he has developed software environments for interactive algorithmic composition in real time which he uses for his own live performances and also in collaboration with artists from other fields (choreographers, dancers, visual artists and poets).

1990-94 „composer in residence” at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. 1992-93 work on a commission at IRCAM (Paris). 1997 Essl was featured at the Salzburg Festival with portrait concerts and sound installation. Between 1995-2006 Essl was teaching „Algorithmic Composition” at the Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology of the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. Since 2007 he is professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Víctor Trescolí Sanz is a pianist with a special interest in presenting contemporary works alongside traditional repertoire. After his studies in Spain he moved to the Netherlands to follow his carrer doing a Master in music by Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CVA) and Master by Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). Among his teachers are Brenno Ambrosini, David Kuyken, Hakon Austbo and Ralph van Raat. At same time he studies harpshichord with Johan Hoffman and pianoforte with Baart van Oort. Awarded by Jaques Vonk Foundation (the Netherlands) and by IVM (Instituto Valenciano de la Música) and Spanish government to follow his studies, first price in Chamber music competition (Academia Valenciana de la Música) with Art! Trio.

In addition to solo recitals, Víctor enjoyed collaboration with Avlitria Ensemble, CVA- New muziek ensemble (Harry Sparnaay), Alart quartet, Sorolla ensemble, he has a duo with cellist Josep Trescolí Sanz and is founding member of Art! Trio which focuses on the repertoire for violin, cello and piano. and of ensemble Grup Mixtour as well. Victor research presents a variety of studies, which are about “Dies Irae in Rachmaninov”, an interpretation studie of Mompou’s Música Callada (“SILENT MUSIC: Federico Mompou’s Música Callada”. CVA Research Symposium 2010, Holanda), “Toy piano, juguete e intrumento” (research about history, interpretation and repertoire for Toy piano), today he is joining an UPV doctorate programm in contemporary music.