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| Berndt
Thurner (AUT):
triangle, bass
drum November 20th, 2008 |
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Alvin
Lucier: 'Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra', for amplified triangle (1988,
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Thurner Berndt Thurner was born in Austria. A percussionist of remarkable breadth who is equally at home as a soloist and in an ensemble setting, he also studied jazz and improvisation. Thurner´s musicality is influenced by his passionate travels to regions all over the world, voyages from which he returns with impressions and musical instruments alike. He has made appearances at many important European festivals including Wien modern, the Holland Festival and IGNM World Music Days among others. He performs frequently with several noteworthy ensembles for contemporary music including exxj, Klangforum Wien, The Janus Ensemble, Ensemble Symphoid and music online. Nader Mashayekhi Nader Mashayekhi is a Persian avant-garde composer. Born 25 October 1958, Tehran, Iran; Conservatory Tehran: piano, music theory; from 1978 studies at the University of Music, Vienna, music theory (Erich Urbanner), conducting (Karl Österreicher), composition (Roman Haubenstock-Ramati), electro-acoustics (Dieter Kaufmann); founded in 1989 the Ensemble Wien 2001, renamed Ensemble Twenty-first Century; video installations and computer works; 1993-1997 multi-media-opera Malakut (premiered in fall of 1997, Wien Modern); 1997/98 artist in residence at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Lower Austria Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He attended Yale and Brandeis and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. From 1962 to 1970 he taught at Brandeis, where he conducted the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus which devoted much of its time to the performance of new music. Since 1970 he has taught at Wesleyan University. In 1966, along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Gordon Mumma, Lucier founded the Sonic Arts Union, for whose concerts he developed numerous live electronic works, exploring echolocation, brain waves, room acoustics and the visual representation of sound. His recent works include a series of installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which rhythmic patterns and related spatial phenomena are created by close tunings. http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu |
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