A • DEvantgarde
A • DEvantgarde is an association of composers in Munich . It was founded in 1991 on the initiative of Wilhelm Killmayer by Moritz Eggert and Sandeep Bhagwati as a registered association A • DEvantgarde - Projects for New Music . Since then, A • DEvantgarde has organized the A • DEvantgarde festival every two years .
history
The A • DEvantgarde Festival has so far alternated with the Munich Biennale for New Music Theater, which was always held in even years, while the A • DEvantgarde Festival took place in odd years. The main purpose of the festival is the world premiere or German or Munich premiere of works by contemporary composers who set different accents than the composers of new music who have previously performed at established festivals such as B. the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Darmstadt summer courses or the Stuttgart ECLAT festival were presented. Those festivals are still organized by curators and established composers, while the A • DEvantgarde festival is organized by younger curators who focus their view on the change and further development of new music.
So far (as of 2011) eleven festivals have been held. Main partners and sponsors were z. E.g. the cultural department of the state capital Munich , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , the Bavarian Theater Academy , the State University for Music and Theater Munich , the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation , the Gasteig cultural center Munich , I-camp / New Theater Munich , the Schwere Reiter Kulturzentrum , the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio . In the period between the festivals, individual concerts take place in cooperation with the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts or Lautwechsel , for example the concert for the 75th birthday of the festival initiator Wilhelm Killmayer in 2002.
Members of A • DEvantgarde are in addition to the founders Moritz Eggert and Sandeep Bhagwati to this day. a. Klaus Schedl , Leopold Hurt , Bernhard Weidner, Markus Schmitt , Helga Pogatschar , Markus Muench, Alexander Strauch , Axel F. Singer, Fredrik Schwenk , Johannes X. Schachtner, Markus Lehmann-Horn, Kay Westerman, Carl Christian Bettendorf , Maxim Seloujanov, Benedikt Schiefer and Georg Haider.
Web links
- The website of A • DEvantgarde
- Interview with Markus Schmitt and Moritz Eggert on the occasion of the 10th A • DEvantgarde Festival in the Neue Musikzeitung (NMZ 5/09)
- Review of the A • DEvantgarde Festival 1997 by Reinhard Schulz in the Neue Musikzeitung (NMZ 7/97)