Activities 2004 15 January 2004 Deadline for entries: International Composition Prize 2004 Composers of any age or nationality are invited to present new compositions for the ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta. www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 16 February 2004 International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2004 Five finalists nominated The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music has invited composers from all over the world to compose new works for its third International Composition Prize. 134 composers applicants from 37 countries participated in the competition, the countries being Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldavia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA. The international jury consisting of Violeta Dinescu (Romania), Volker David Kirchner (Germany), Garth Knox (Great Britain), Roger Tessier (France) and Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg) has chosen five works to be played in the final concert of the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2004. The selected compositions will be performed on Saturday, the 8th May 2004 in a public concert at the Centre des Arts Pluriels in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under the direction of Marcel Wengler will appear in the following composition: clarinet, clarinet bass, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, horn, 2 trumpets, tenor trombone, tuba, 2 violins, viola, violoncello, piano, mandolin, accordion, percussion. The works of the following five composers have been chosen for the final concert: (in alphabetical order) Jonathan EATO (Great Britain) Bling Bling Balaam Matteo FRANCESCHINI (Italy) làbara Satoru IKEDA (Japan) Fireworks Chanaral ORTEGA-MIRANDA (Chile) Q'inti Lin WANG (China) Lin Lang 3 March 2004 Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg 20.00 Musique Militaire Grand-Ducale Direction: André Reichling Soloist: Alain Baustert, clarinette Concert de Musique Luxembourgeoise Concert à l'occasion du 20e anniversaire de la "Lëtzebuerger Gesellschaft fir Nei Musek" Programme: René Hemmer Ouverture Symphonique Jules Krüger Variations sur "d'Margretchen" Norbert Hoffmann Rhapsodie Luxembourgeoise Walter Civitareale In Memoriam Leonard Bernstein pour flûte solo et orchestre Roland Wiltgen Canzona Marcel Wengler Versuche über einen Marsch Réservation et vente: Billeterie Nationale: Tel (00352) 47 08 95-1 www.luxembourgticket.lu en collaboration avec "les amis de la musique militaire asbl" 8 May 2004 Centre des Arts Pluriel Ettelbruck 20.00 Final Concert International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2004 Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler Programme: Jonathan Eato Bling Bling Balaam Matteo Franceschini làbara Satoru Ikeda Fireworks Chañaral Ortega-Miranda Q'inti Lin Wang Lin Lang International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2004 Result: 1. Prize: Chañaral Ortega-Miranda (Chile) 2. Prize: Lin Wang (China) 3. Prize: Satoru Ikeda (Japan) The Chilean composer Chañaral Ortega-Miranda won the first prize in the “International Composition Prize – Luxembourg 2004”. With his work Q’inti Ortega-Miranda won over the international jury in the face of competition from 134 candidates from 37 countries. Chañaral Ortega-Miranda was born in Arica, Chile in 1973 and exiled in France for the first six years of his life. Chañaral Ortega-Miranda began his studies of musical theory and composition in Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1993. In this latter year, he settled in France and continued his studies in the composition class of Sergio Ortega until 2000. He participated in several festivals: “Musiques à l’encre fraîche” from 1993 to 2000; the Acanthes Centre, where he worked with Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Zoltan Jeney and Peter Eötvos; the composition Session at the Foundation Royaumont – Voix Nouvelles under the direction of Brian Ferneyhough, Brice Pauset and Stefano Gervasoni. The second prize was awarded to the Chinese composer Lin Wang, who had written a work entitled Lin Lang for the Luxembourg Sinfonietta. Lin Wang, born 1976 in China, studied at the Composition Faculty at the Central Music Conservatory in Peking. In 1997, she received a scholarship, followed by brief study in Avignon where she attended the masterclass of Sofia Gubaidulina. Since 2002 she studied composition as main subject under Professor Theo Brandmüller at the Conservatory of the Saarland. She was awarded a prize in the competition “New music with historic instruments” at the Mönchengladbach Festival with the piece for chamber music entitled Dong Xiang Xie Yi. The third prize was for the work Fireworks by the Japanese composer Satoru Ikeda, who was born in 1961 in Hamamatsu City. He took his M.A. in composition in 1987 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Satoru Ikeda has won several awards, including the first prize in the Japan Music Competition in 1988, an award from the Japan Symphony Promotion Foundation in 2000 and an award in the Orchestral lied competition in 2001. A Special Prize was awarded by the audience to Lin Wang. The Orchestra Award was presented to Satoru Ikeda by the musicians of the Luxembourg Sinfonietta. 16 May 2004 Centre national de littérature Mersch 11.00 «Le Grand Luxe» Matinée musicale Les solistes du Luxembourg Sinfonietta Vania Lecuit, violon Jean-Emmanuel Grebet, violon Petar Mladenovic, alto Judith Lecuit, violoncelle Programme: Dimitri Schostakowitch String Quartet No 7 Walter Civitareale String Quartet No 2 Dimitri Schostakowitch String Quartet No 8 Réservation: Tel : (+352) 22 58 21 e-mail: info@lgnm.lu 25 June 2004 Centre Culturel « Neumünster » Luxembourg 20.00 “Haydnseek” a remix of original piano music by Franz Joseph Haydn Bruce Brubaker Bruce Brubaker, piano Nico Muhly, computer and sampling “It is about 65 minutes of music which includes two complete piano sonatas by Haydn played by me. It also includes electronic music material created by the young American composer Nico Muhly. The electronic elements provide context and re-interpret the music by Haydn. There are sections where the materials overlap and other parts where the two things are heard separately. As a live event, Muhly would use a computer and sampling and function more or less as a DJ – while I performed the Haydn on the piano.” Bruce Brubaker Réservation: Tel : (+352) 22 58 21 e-mail: info@lgnm.lu 14 July 2004 Centre Culturel « Neumünster » Luxembourg 20.00 Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler Marcel Wengler PIETRE SONORE for sound stones and orchestra (world-première) Stone sculptures by Pinuccio Sciola 21-26 September 2004 IAMIC Annual Conference - Warsaw / Poland Warsaw Autumn – New Music Festival Annual Conference of the IAMIC International Association of Music Information Centres www.iamic.net 3-12 November 2004 ISCM World Music Days 2004 - Switzerland TRANS-IT New Music Festival General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Trans-it Music Festival 2004 in Switzerland: Luzern, Lugano, Winterthur, Basel, La Chaux-De-Fonds, Biel, Lausanne, Genf, Aarau, Bern, Zürich Ensemble Bern Modern performed at Bernisches Historisches Museum the work Suonare a tre by Marcel Wengler Horia Dumitrache clarinet Noelle-Anne Darbellay violin Milena Mateva piano Complete Festival Programme:  www.wnmd2004.ch 20 November 2004 Conservatoire de Musique - Luxembourg 20.00 Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Conductor : Arturo Tamayo Soloists : Giovanna Reitano harp Miklós Nagy horn Michael Wendeberg piano Classics of the 20th Century Klaus Huber   80th  Anniversary Programme: James Joyce Chamber Music Klaus Huber Piano Concerto No 27 W. A. Mozart Intarsi, Piano Concerto Klaus Huber Six pièces pour orchestre, op. 6 Anton Webern Supported by IBM New release International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2004 World Première Recordings Q’inti Chañaral Ortega-Miranda Lin Lang Lin Wang Fireworks Satoru Ikeda Làbara Matteo Franceschini Bling Bling Balaam Jonathan Eato   Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler Published by Editions LGNM (No 404) Price 15.-€      info@luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 21 November 2004 Cercle Municipal - Luxembourg 11.00 Ensemble CEFLOR Conductor: François Bousch Spectres & Dragons Ensemble CEFLOR on tour in Bern, Winterthur, Nancy, Metz, Brussels, Amsterdam and Luxembourg Programme: Roger Tessier L’autre rive Jean-Luc Darbellay Mania Max E. Keller Schnitt-Muster François Bousch Dragon Michel Decoust Parcours mélodique Marcel Wengler Pearls Quartet Reservation: Tel (+352) 22 58 21 28 November 2004 Barocksaal Kloster Machern Bernkastel / Germany 17.00 Musikfestival MOSEL-FESTWOCHEN Luxembourg Sinfonietta Soloist: Carlo Hartmann, baritone Conductor: Marcel Wengler Franz Schubert   Winterreise new orchestration for the Luxembourg Sinfonietta by Marcel Wengler Reservation: Tel (+49) 6531 3000 e-mail: info@moselfestwochen.de 9 December 2004 Warsaw Chamber Opera Theatre - Warsaw 19.00 An Ode to Europe A Season Of Music From A United Europe at the Warsaw Chamber Opera 25 programmes of operatic, oratorial, symphonic and chamber music devoted to the 25 countries of a United Europe Music from Luxembourg ROYAL STRING QUARTET Izabella Szalaj-Zimak 1st violin Elwira Przybylowska 2nd violin Marek Czech viola Michael Pepol cello and Elzbieta Wroblewska mezzo-soprano, Krzysztof Malicki flute, Artur Pachlewsi clarinet, Anna Sikorzak-Olek harp, Grzegorz Gorczyca piano Programme: René Mertzig Piano Trio Johny Fritz Trois chansons d’amour René Mertzig String Quartet Marcel Wengler String Trio Edmond Cigrang Five Songs to Japanese Poetry Laurent Menager String Quartet in A major Op.1 in cooperation with the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music 26 December 2004 René Hemmer's 85th Anniversary New release   CD Portrait René Hemmer The LGNM –  Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music celebrates the 85th birthday of the composer René Hemmer. Facetten für Orchester   René Hemmer String Quartet   René Hemmer Solitaire   René Hemmer Sinfonia da Camera   René Hemmer Les Musiciens, Orchestre Symphonique de RTL, Dir. : Pierre Cao Ethos String Quartet, Henri Foehr Solo Cello Published by Editions LGNM (No 522) Price 15.- €     info@lgnm.lu Activities 2005 15 January 2005 Deadline for Entries: International Composition Prize 2005 Composers of any age or nationality are invited to present new compositions for the ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta. More information in German, French, Spanish and Japanese homepage: www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 22 January 2005 IAMIC Winter Meeting – Nice Annual winter meeting of the IAMIC International Association of Music Information Centres www.iamic.net 23 - 25 January 2005 MIDEM 2005 – Cannes The Luxembourg Music Information Centre at the MIDEM 2005 30 January 2005 Centre Culturel Neumünster Luxembourg 17.00 Récital de piano Francesco Tristano Schlimé 1er prix du Concours international de piano du XXème siècle d’Orléans 2004 Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003) Intégrale des œuvres pour piano (79 min)   Cinque Variazioni Wasserklavier Sequenza IV Rounds Erdenklavier Luftklavier Feuerklavier Brin Leaf Petite Suite Petite Air Gavotte Petite Air II Gigue Sonata En partenariat avec le Concours de Piano du XXme siècle d’Orléans Réservation: Billetterie Centrale:  Tél  47 08 95 15 February 2005 International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2005 Five finalists nominated The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music has invited composers from all over the world to compose new works for its annual International Composition Prize. 163 composers from 44 countries participated in the competition, the countries being Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Belarus, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and USA. The international jury consisting of Klaus Arp (Germany), François Bousch (France), Jean-Luc Darbellay (Switzerland), Toshiro Saruya (Japan) and Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg) has chosen five works to be played in the final concert of the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2005. The selected compositions will be performed on Saturday, the 16th April 2005 in a public concert at the Centre des Arts Pluriels in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under the direction of Marcel Wengler will appear in the following composition: clarinet, clarinet bass, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, horn, 2 trumpets, tenor trombone, tuba, violin, violoncello, piano, mandolin, accordion and percussion. The works of the following five composers have been chosen for the final concert: (in alphabetical order) Ezequiel MENALLED (Argentina) “…and everything was dead…” Maiko NAKAO (Japan) jet-black Maria Cristina PASCUAL (Spain) Magnetism Lorenc XHUVANI (Albania) di tenue vivo chiarore Frank ZABEL (Germany) Chant De La Lave Ezequiel MENALLED Maiko NAKAO Maria Cristina PASCUAL Lorenc XHUVANI Frank ZABEL 27 February 2005 Cercle Municipal Luxembourg 11.00 Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Juan José Olives Programme: Concerto da camera   Jesús Rueda Variations sur un thème de Scarlatti   José Luis Turina Concerto per cembalo   Manuel de Falla Exchange concert to promote cooperation between Orquesta da Cámara de Zaragoza and the Luxembourg Sinfonietta Réservation: Tel (+352) 22 58 21  Email: info@luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 15 - 24 April 2005 ISCM World Music Days 2005 – Zagreb (Croatia) 23rd Music Biennale Zagreb General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) as part of the Music Biennale Zagreb Complete Festival Programme: www.biennale-zagreb.hr 16 April 2005 Centre des Arts Pluriel Ettelbruck 20.00 Final Concert International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2005 Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler Programme: Maiko Nakao naminoyo Lorenc Xhuvani di tenue vivo chiarore Frank Zabel Chant De La Lave Cristina Pascual Magnetism Ezequiel Menalled “…and everything was death around…” Result: 1. Prize: Cristina Pascual (Spain) 2. Prize: Ezequiel Menalled (Argentina) 3. Prize: Maiko Nakao (Japan) and Frank Zabel (Germany) A Special Prize was awarded by the audience to Cristina Pascual. Cristina Pascual was born in Barcelone, Spain, in 1971. She studied architecture at the “Universidad Simon Bolivar” in Caracas. Her formal composition and orchestration studies began in Madrid in 2001 at the “Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid” under Anton Garcia Abril, Zulema de la Cruz, Manuel Seco de Arpe and AlfonsoRomero. At the same time she worked on acoustics and building restoration. She has studied under Volker Stenzl, Frank Fernandez, Reinhard Febel and Darlen Blake. In july 2003 she was invited by the “Teatro Real de Madrid” to take part in the Pierrot Lunaire workshop with Isabel Mundry, Daniel Barenboim and Peter Musbach. She is currently completing her fourth year of composition studies in Karlsruhe, Germany, under the composer Wolfgang Rihm, on an Erasmus scholarship. Ezequiel Menalled was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November 1980. He startet learning the guitar at the age of 9 with Pablo Green. Since then he has kept that as his main instrument, studying different styles with several teachers. From 1996 until 1999 he studied at the Centre of Advanced Studies in Contemporary Music (CEAMC). In 2000 and 2001 he took private lessons in composition with Santiago Santero. Since September 2002 Ezequiel Menalled has been studying composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, with Clarence Barlow, Gilius van Bergeijk and Diderik Wagenaar. He is taking part in the project Bezeilde Zijd organized by the Nieuw Ensemble, working periodically with the group on sketches of a new piece to be premiered on 23 April 2005 in Amsterdam. In 2000, the Arditti String Quartet selected and performed his composition “First diurnal for string quartet” in the competition organised in Buenos Aires by the above mentioned group and the CEAMC. Maiko Nakao was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1981. She started her musical training by playing the piano at the age of four years. She was seventeen years old when she started music theory and composition under the direction of Hideo Fukutomi, professor at the Okinawa prefectural art university. After graduating from high school in Okinawa in 2000, she decided to go to the United States. While attending Salt Lake Community College, she took music theory classes and participated in the college choir. In 2002, she obtained admission to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she studied composition with Karen Tanaka, orchestration with Jeremy Haladyna and electronic music with Curtis Roads. In June 2004, she graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in music composition. Currently Maiko Nakao is persuing a master’s degree in music compostion at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has thus far studied with Dr. Paul Rudy. Frank Zabel was born on 14 October 1968 in Meinerzhagen/Germany. He finished school in 1988 with the German Abitur. He was taught piano (Robert v. d. Beck) and violin/viola (Lieselotte Doecke, Karin Schmidt) at the Volmetal Music School. In his teens he received various national youth prizes in composition and took lessions in composition with Prof. Theo Brandmüller and Prof. Martin Christoph Redel. Since 1990 Frank Zabel studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Köln with Prof. Pi-hsien Chen (piano), Prof. Friedrich Jaecker (musical theory) and Prof. Roland Löbner (musical theory). Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf. His compositions have been played at various festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan. He has had compositions commisisoned by the WDR (West German Broadcasting Service, Cologne), Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament), Minguet String Quartet and many others. In 2004 he wrote a cycle of Shakespeare songs for countertenor Andreas Scholl.   Luxembourg Sinfonietta 16 April 2005 Finalists and International Jury Matthias Tolle - John Schadeck - Francois Bousch The Finalists Finalists - Sponsors - International Jury Maiko Nakao - Marcel Wengler - Cristina Pascual Francois Bousch - Toshiro Saruya - Jean-Luc Darbellay - Lorenc Xhuvani Maiko Nakao - Frank Zabel Cristina Pascual, First Prize 11 June 2005 Deutschlandfunk – Atelier neuer Musik 22.05 Grenzüberschreitend und hochmotiviert Die aktuelle luxemburgische Komponierszene „Eigentlich will die Neue Musik gar nicht so recht zu Luxemburg passen, jenem so beschaulich wirkenden Land im Herzen Westeuropas, das sich vor allem als bedeutendes Finanz- und Verwaltungszentrum der EU einen Namen gemacht hat. Doch im Schlagschatten unzähliger Banken und EU-Institutionen ist eine junge Neue-Musik-Szene herangewachsen, die sich durch eine grenzüberschreitende Vielgestaltigkeit und Vitalität auszeichnet. So unterschiedliche Komponistenpersönlichkeiten wie Alexander Mullenbach, Marcel Wengler, Claude Lenners und Marcel Reuter bilden den kreativen Kern dieser Gemeinschaft.“ New release Contemporary Music of Luxembourg New release Panorama de musique contemporaine Works by Norbert Hoffmann, Jos Kinzé, René Hemmer, Jeannot Heinen, Johny Fritz, Marcel Wengler, Alex Mullenbach, Walter Civitareale, Claude Lenners, Marco Kraus, Roland Wiltgen, Camille Kerger, Georges Lentz, Luc Rollinger, Marcel Reuter and Luc Grethen Supported by Sacem Luxembourg 7 July 2005 Philharmonie - Luxembourg 20.00 Georges Lentz Festival International Echternach Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Conductor: Steven Sloane Soloist: Tabea Zimmermann World-Première Georges Lentz   Monh, concerto for viola and orchestra Festival programme:  www.echternachfestival.lu 25 - 29 September 2005 IAMIC Annual Conference – New York City Annual Conference of the IAMIC International Association of Music Information Centres Organized by the American Music Center www.amc.net/iamic Remembering that Luxembourg is a tiny country of fewer than half a million people, its MIC website puts several of the larger countries’ to shame. Inevitably the databases involved are smaller than some other countries, allowing for simpler navigation to brief composer biographies. Works are reached through a separate search form. An archive of Society for Contemporary Music activities dating back to 1998 is included, as well as catalogues of documentation and recordings available.  The Rambler’s Webguide April 08, 2005 www.johnsons-rambler.blogspot.com 5 October 2005 Philharmonie      Luxembourg 20.00 Opening Concert - Espace Découverte ”dances for the ears” Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler  „The cycle Musique d’aujourd’hui will be inaugurated by the Luxembourg Sinfonietta with an entrancing “dances for the ears” ranging from Johann Hermann Schein’s astonishing Renaissance Suites to première performances by Luxembourg composers.” Reservation: e-mail: tickets@philharmonie.lu 26 Oct - 2 Nov 2005 Pan Music Festival 2005     South Korea      Seoul Arts Center 32nd Pan Music Festival For 33 years, Pan Music Festival has towered the landscape of Korean contemporary music. Since 1969, Pan Music Festival has introduced the world-wide contemporary music and grown up to the leading contemporary music festival with many composers and performers from various countries. TRIO HAAN Kyung-Ok Kim piano Rok-Kyun Kwon clarinet Eun-Hye Yoo violin and guest musicians perform Music from Luxembourg Programme: Walter Civitareale   Trio for violin, clarinet and piano Roland Wiltgen   Wormholes Marcel Wengler   Suonare a tre Jeannot Heinen   Trio op. 155 TRIO HAAN, specialized in contemporary music performance, had its first concert in 1995. Since its foundation, through its annual concert and numerous invitation performances, the group has given strong impression on the music world, premiering many compositions both domestic and abroad. Korea Luxembourg exchange program 17 November 2005 Bochum / Germany Kammerspiele des Schauspielhauses Bochum 19.00 Opening concert of the Festival „open systems“ Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler The Luxembourg Sinfonietta performs world-premières by Georg Graewe and Günter Steinke (Germany), Boudewijn Buckinx (Belgium) and Anthony Fiumara (The Netherlands). “The Festival “open systems” acceeded for the first time in 1997 with the idea to install an interdisciplinary festival as a platform for new approaches and cooperations. Meanwhile this uncompromising concept has found many allies and sponsors and become a festival for different artistic trends. “open systems” focusses mainly on contemporary avant-garde music in the sphere of improvisation, new composition, electronic music, dance, performance and installation. “open systems” serves as an “artistic laboratory” and with its experimental orientation forms a pool for creative ideas and their implementations. In the sphere of experimental art and music the festival presents an internationally unique concept in the Ruhr area. The expansion to an European event has already been carried out since 2003 by the cooperation with the Festival “November Music” (Netherlands and Belgium).” 25 November 2005 Philharmonie – Grand Auditorium  Luxembourg 20.00 René Mertzig 1911-1986 Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Conductor: Pierre-André Valade Soloist: Gérard Caussé viola Classics of the 20th Century Programme: Le Crépuscule des dieux Richard Wagner Le Cyprès blanc, Concerto pour alto et orchestre Hugues Dufourt Quatre Poèmes pour orchestre - Cerisiers en fleurs... - Par une aube de juillet... - Vendanges mosellanes - Flocons de neige vers la Noël René Mertzig Gondwana pour orchestre Tristan Murail Tristan et Isolde: Prélude et Mort d’Isolde Richard Wagner Supported by IBM 27 November 2005 Philharmonie - Luxembourg 14.30 Final concert Festival «Musique spectrale» Luxembourg Sinfonietta Soloist: Roula Safar mezzo soprano Conductor: Marcel Wengler Programme: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Maurice Ravel La Romance d’Ariel Michael Lévinas Wolff Lieder orchestration de 4 Lieder de Hugo Wolff Gérard Grisey Les „Aragons“ Michael Lévinas Berceuse Gérard Grisey

Activities 2006 1 March 2006 Deadline for Entries: International Composition Prize 2006        Composers of any age or nationality are invited to present new compositions for solo piano and the ensemble Luxembourg Sinfonietta. More information in German, French, Spanish, and Japanese homepage: www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 18-21 March 2006 Dvorak Hall - Rudolfinum in Prague   Festival “...European Crossings” Prague Premieres 2006 A review of selected contemporary works 2000 - 2005 This international Festival has presented a review of selected contemporary works from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The event was organized by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with the cooperation of the Luxembourg Embassy to Prague and with the support of the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music. The first review of selected contemporary works, entitled Prague Premieres, focusing on current trends in Czech music and initiated by professor Václav Riedlbauch, General Director of the Czech Philharmonic, was held in 2004. A project like this wouldn’t be possible without foreign collaboration… We’ve had support from foreign music publishers and institutions who’ll be working with us to provide the music scores, in particular: from Germany, Schott, Bärenreiter, Ricordi, from Austria Universal Edition, Doblinger and the Mica Information Centre in Vienna, Donemus in the Netherlands, CeBeDem Belgique and the Music Information Centre in Luxembourg. Prof. Václav Riedlbauch Music from Luxembourg 19 March 2006 Rudolfinum 19.00 Brno Philharmonic Orchestra Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno Conductor: Jakub Hrusa Programme: Camille Kerger   Altars of Light 21 March 2006 Rudolfinum 19.00 Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Leos Svárovsky Soloist: Carlo Jans flute Programme: Marcel Wengler   Flute concerto 23 March 2006 Rudolfinum 19.00 Prague Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink Programme: Georges Lentz   Caeli enarrant The “Prague Premieres” is by today still a young but already firmly established event in the world of contemporary music, with a wide European and international participation. I am particularly pleased that the 2006 festival will focus on the composers and performers from neighboring nations, furthering in this fashion a platform where public and professionals can meet over a most intensive period of seven days. I hope that the unique atmosphere of Prague will help inspire future cross-border cooperation and an even more interactive European contemporary musical scene. I wish the festival, its public, its performers and composers, as well as its organizers many moments of musical bliss, as well success and recognition for their truly groundbraking initiative. Pierre-Louis Lorenz Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Prague May 2006 International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006 Five finalists nominated The Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music has invited composers from all over the world to compose new works for its annual International Composition Prize. 126 composers from 41 countries participated in the competition, the countries being Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tatarstan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA and Venezuela. The international jury consisting of Theo Brandmüller (Germany), Jay Gottlieb (USA), André Laporte (Belgium), Seungwoo Paik (Korea) and Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg) has chosen five works to be played in the final concert of the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006. The selected compositions will be performed on Saturday, the 14th October 2006 in a public concert at the Centre des Arts Pluriels in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Sinfonietta, under the direction of Marcel Wengler will appear in the following composition: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, tuba, 2 violins, viola, cello, doublebass, mandolin, accordion percussion and piano-solo. The works of the following five composers have been chosen for the final concert: (in alphabetical order) Alice Ping Yee HO - Canada Angst II Barnaby HOLLINGTON – Great Britain Mechanical Avunculogratulation Iain MATHESON – Great Britain Equal Parts Maki NAKAJIMA - Japan passing rain Alexander SHCHETYNSKY - Ukraine Chamber Concerto Alice Ping Yee HO Barnaby HOLLINGTON Iain MATHESON Maki NAKAJIMA Alexander SHCHETYNSKY 17 June 2006 Philharmonie Luxembourg 20.00 Festival International Echternach Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Conductor: Bramwell Tovey Soloist: Yundi Li piano World-Première The Visions of James Ensor Marcel Wengler commissioned by Festival International Echternach Blazon pour orchestre   E. Gregson The Visions of James Ensor   Marcel Wengler World-Première   Concerto pour pianoNo1 mi bémol majeur   Franz Liszt Symphonie No 2   Sergey Rachmaninov In cooperation with the Luxembourg Society for Contemporary Music Festival programme: www.echternachfestival.lu 18-23 June 2006 IAMIC Annual Conference - Göteborg / Sweden Annual Conference of the IAMIC International Association of Music Information Centres Organized by the Swedish Music Information Centre www.smbf.nu/iaml-iamic-ims2006 14-29 July 2006 ISCM World Music Days 2006 - Stuttgart / Germany General Assembly of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) Irvine Arditti performed at Theaterhaus Stuttgart the work Apollo for violin by Claude Lenners Complete Festival Programme: www.mdjstuttgart.de New release International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2005 World Première Recordings Maiko Nakao naminoyo Cristina Pascual Magnetism                    Ezequiel Menalled and everything was death... Frank Zabel Chant de la Lave Lorenc Xhuvani di tenue vivo chiarore Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor : Marcel Wengler Published by Editions LGNM (No 405) Price 15.- €            info@luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu 9 September 2006 Eglise St. Michel - Luxembourg 19.00 Ensemble Korrespondenzen – Baden Baden Conductor: Marco Boido Soloist: Marie-Denise Heinen violin Programme: Jeannot Heinen Inclination for string orchestra – world-première Edmond Cigrang Pièce brève for string orchestra Jeannot Heinen Symphony No 5 for string orchestra 27 September 2006 ArcA - Bertrange 20.00 Ensemble LuxSax Direction: Guy Goethals Programme: Jean-Paul Frisch Saxonatina Ivan Boumans SenSAXionnel Marco Pütz Septentrion Walter S. Hartleyr Music for 12 Saxophones Jacques Neuen Tanz der Ohrwürmer Leonard Bernstein Slava 1 October 2006 Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain 17.00 “Musique et Poésie” Une séance «Musique et Poésie» où seront présentées des pièces musicales créées sur des poèmes. Ensemble Instrumental “Spirales” Laure Chauvris-Darbon soprano Marc Sieffert saxophone Axel Salmona cello Christine Marchais piano Programme: Pierre Albert Castanet A l’aube d’Ismée poem by Elie Stephenson Béla Bartók Cinq pièces extraites de Mikrokosmos for saxophone and cello Roger Tessier Commentaires sur Tristan poem by László Bárdos Giacinto Scelsi To the master for cello and piano Andor Losonczy Commentaires sur Tristan poem by László Bárdos Jean-Luc Darbellay Observatory poem by Sarah Day Jean-Luc Darbellay D’une noire étoile poem by François Deblue Marcel Wengler Tu t’attardes à la terrasse poem by Paul Bélanger Marcel Wengler A l’arraché poem by Alain Suied Klaus Ager Pebbles poem by E. D. Blodgett François Bousch Ce soir... poem by Gerty Dambury Luxembourg première of all works Reservation: Casino Luxembourg www.casino-luxembourg.lu 14 October 2006 Centre des Arts Pluriel Ettelbruck 20.00 Final Concert International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006 Luxembourg Sinfonietta Conductor: Marcel Wengler Five concertos for piano premièred by the soloists: Annie Kraus piano Xenia Pestova piano Zénon Bialas piano Pascal Meyer piano Annie KRAUS Xenia PESTOVA Pascal MEYER Programme: Alexander Shchetynsky Chamber Concerto Iain Matheson Equal parts Alice Ho Angst II Maki Nakajima passing rain Barnaby Hollington Mechanical Avunculogratulation Reservation: Centre des Arts Pluriels billetterie@cape.lu Result: 1. Prize: Barnaby Hollington (Great Britain) 2. Prize: Alexander Shchetynsky (Ukraine) 3. Prize: Maki Nakajima (Japan) A Special Prize was awarded by the audience to Barnaby Hollington. Barnaby Hollington is a British composer born in 1975. He grew up mainly in Australia, France and the United Kingdom, and now lives in London. He began composing at an early age. His first composition teachers were Timothy Bond (London), Elliot Gyger (Sydney) and Charles Villeneuve (Nantes). He then studied music at New College, Oxford. He had many pieces performed at Oxford during this period. He also had a handful of composition lessons from Hugh Collins Rice. In 1996, he graduated with “First Class Honours”. After a brief period working as a violinist, Barnaby Hollington studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Timothy Salter, gaining an MMus in 1998. He then resumed work as a violinist before teaching as a schoolteacher. Since late 2002 he has entered several international composition competitions. In September 2004, he was awarded second prize (shared) in the Uuno Klami International Composition Competition in Finland for A Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia, a piece for small orchestra. In March 2005, he was awarded second prize in the Zeitklang International Composition Competition in Austria for Jeux de Miroirs, another piece for small orchestra Alexander Shchetynsky was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1960. He graduated from the composition department of the Kharkiv Art Institute and participated in masterclasses with L. Andriessen, E. Denisov, W. Lutoslawski, K. Penderecki, P. Rouders and B. Schaeffer. He received awards at six international composer’s competitions in Austria, France, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. His works have been presented in most European countries and North America, performed by the Moscow Helikon-Opera, the BBC National Welsh Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the choir Maîtrise de Radio France, the Arditti String Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ensemble Wiener Collage, the pianist Yvar Mikhashoff, the soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson and the cellist Alexander Rudin. Two of his CDs were released in the USA and France. Alexander Shchetynsky taught composition at the Kharkiv Art Institute. Since 1995, he has been a free-lance composer. He is one of the leaders of the festival Contrasts in Lviv – the biggest and most prestigious international contemporary music festival in Ukraine. Maki Nakajima was born in 1965 in Japan. She studied piano in Tokyo at the Kunitachi College of Music with Hiroko Kashu and in Geneva, Switzerland at the “Institute Jacques Dalcroze” with Christianne Montandon. Here she studied piano improvisation with Rainer Boesch, Christianne Montandon and David Dolan. Maki Nakajima also studied composition at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de la Musique et de la Danse” in Lyon, France with Philippe Manoury, Marco Stroppa, Robert Pascal and Rainer Boesch. She attended composition seminars with Jonathan Harvey, Klaus Huber, George Crumb, Gérard Grisey and studied electro-acoustic music with Denis Lorrain, François Roux, Rainer Boesch and Nicolas Sordet. Maki Nakajima was semi-finalist in the “Concours International de Composition Reine Elisabeth” in Belgium She is currently a professor of music formation for dancers at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de la Musique et de la Danse” in Lyon.     Luxembourg Sinfonietta 2006 Finalists 2006 Jury and Finalists 2006 First Prize awarded by Mrs Denise Weber-Ludwig (FONDATION INDEPENDANCE) to Barnaby Hollington Prize-Winners 2006 Soloists 2006 Final Concert 2006   22 October 2006 Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain 17.00 Minguet Quartett Ulrich Isfort 1st violin Annette Reisinger 2nd violin Irene Schwalb viola Matthias Diener cello Programme: Iannis Xenakis St/4-1, 080262 Jules Kruger Spleen Philip Glass String Quartet No 5 George Gershwin Lullaby for String Quartet Wolfgang Rihm Quartettstudie 2003 Jörg Widmann 3. Quartett “Jagdquartett” Reservation: Casino Luxembourg www.casino-luxembourg.lu 27 October 2006 Merscher Kulturhaus - Luxembourg 20.00 Das Cid-femmes gab der Komponistin Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska den Auftrag, ein Werk speziell für Jugendliche und Kinder zu schreiben. Entstanden ist … Blaues Labyrinth…, ein Zyklus von 15 Solo- und Ensemblestücken. Die jungen Musikerinnen und Musiker arbeiten an einem Workshop-Wochenende mit der Komponistin persönlich an der Interpretation des Werkes. Programme: Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska Blaues Labyrinth for percussion, woodwind- and brass instruments world-première Reservation: Billetterie nationale Tel. +352 47 08 95 - 1 Organisation: Euterpe - Frauenmusikforum Luxemburg im Cid-femmes 21 November 2006 Philharmonie - Salle de Musique de Chambre 20.00 Classics of the 20th Century Mauricio Kagel (*1931) «Jeux» / «Play» Luxembourg Sinfonietta Soloists: Yannchen Hoffmann mezzo soprano Carlo Hartmann baritone Noëlle-Anne Darbellay violin Konrad Scheel narrator Conductor: Marcel Wengler Programme: Mauricio Kagel Tango Alemán for voice, violin, bandonion and piano Luc Rollinger Play Jeannot Sanavia Play it again... Marcel Wengler Pietre sonore for sound stones and orchestra Maurizio Spiridigliozzi Tarot Jean-Luc Darbellay Es war ein Kind, das wollte nie Marcel Wengler Play Station Eine KANTate über die Kritik der reinen Unvernunft für Sprecher, Sopran, Bariton und 4 Orchestergruppen Reservation: Philharmonie         e-mail: tickets@philharmonie.lu 24 November 2006 Philharmonie - Grand Auditorium 20.00 Classics of the 20th Century Mauricio Kagel (*1931) «Jeux» / «Play» Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg Conductor: Fabrice Bollon Soloist: Klara Csordás mezzo-soprano Récitant: Jean Lorrain Programme: Symphonic works by Mauricio Kagel Les idées fixes Rondo pour orchestre (1988-1989) Une lettre Scène de concert pour mezzo-soprano et orchestre (1985-1986) Interview avec D. pour Monsieur Croche et orchestre (1993 1994) Szenario pour cordes et bande (1981-1982) Supported by IBM Reservation: Philharmonie         e-mail: tickets@philharmonie.lu

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