ALEA ensemble
The ALEA Ensemble is an ensemble for contemporary music from Graz .
history
The ensemble was founded in 1988 by the composer and conductor Gerhard Present and his wife Sigrid Present (violin) in Graz for a concert in the Forum Stadtpark . The name originally associated the compositional style aleatoric , but in later years it also stands for the variable line-up that was always adapted to the respective needs.
The aim of the ensemble is to bring contemporary music closer to the audience without stylistic reservations - often in relevant combinations with traditional repertoire . The musicians have produced several CDs that have also received international recognition, including a. in the English string magazine "The Strad".
Concert activity
The ensemble has been giving concerts regularly since 1990 - often as the ALEA Quartet ( string quartet ) - and has been a. a. at the festivals "Österreich heute" and "Hörzüge" in the Vienna Konzerthaus , "Nuovi Spazi Musicali" in Rome , in the "Musikforum München", at the " Witold Lutosławski Festival" in Lublin , in the " Austrian Cultural Forum " in New York City as well as in London , Washington, DC and Genoa , at the festival " Carinthischer Sommer ", in the " Styriarte " in Graz , in the art association " Alte Schmiede " Vienna, in the " Forum Stadtpark " and in the concert series "Steirischer Tonkünstlerbund" and "die Andere saite " can be heard in Graz and on ORF .
Cooperation exists u. a. with the pianists Rita Melem, Edda König, Georg Pammer and Eike Straub, with Berndt Luef (vibraphone, jazz composer), Alexander Puhrer (baritone), Jörg-Martin Willnauer (actor), Bertram Egger (clarinet), Barbara Payer (flute), Christine Kügerl (harp), Krisztina Faludy (bassoon) and with the composers Iván Eröd (2nd and 3rd string quartet), Herbert Blendinger (2nd, 3rd and 4th quartet) and Franz Zebinger.
Occupations
From 1993 to 2009 the ensemble gave concerts preferably as a string quartet (also with an additional piano), since 2010 mainly as a string trio (2 violins and violoncello), also with possible piano. The current line-up consists of Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin) with Tobias Stosiek (violoncello), optionally with Rita Melem (piano).
CDs
- "La Tâche" ALEA-01-97 ( Iván Eröd , Gerhard Present , Herbert Blendinger , Jörg-Martin Willnauer , Mohamed Abdel-Fattah)
- "Sounds of Wood" ALEA-02-99 ( Gerhard Present - 7 works)
- "ALEA Quartet Barbara Payer / Flute" STB 05/01 (Johann Teibenbacher, Gerhard Present , Maximilian Kreuz, Viktor Fortin , Herbert Blendinger , Franz Zebinger, Kurt Schwertsik )
- "... got lost in the world" with Alexander Puhrer (baritone) STB 05/08 ( Kurt Schwertsik , Georg Arányi-Aschner, Daniela Rusch, Iván Eröd , Gerhard Present , Gustav Mahler : Rückert-Lieder in the version for piano quartet by Gerhard Present)
- "ALEA-Ensemble" (with Christine Kügerl / harp) STB 07/01 (Kurt Anton Hueber, Georg Arányi-Aschner, Viktor Fortin , Iván Eröd , Franz Zebinger, Gerhard Present , Maximilian Kreuz, Hannes Kuegerl)
- "Classic meets Jazz" with Berndt Luef (vibraphone) STB 08/01 (Gerd Noack, Oliver Nelson , Berndt Luef, Iván Eröd , Hannes Kügerl, Gerhard Present and others)
- "Back from New York" with Rita Melem (piano) STB 08/07 ( Herbert Blendinger , Anselm Schaufler, Christoph Smola, Gerhard Present , Franz Zebinger, Charris Efthimiou, Iván Eröd , George Gershwin / Gerhard Present)
- "ALEA Live 2009" with Edda König (piano) STB 09/07 ( Iván Eröd , Viktor Fortin , Rudolf Hinterdorfer, Franz Zebinger, Herbert Blendinger , Georg Arányi-Aschner, Gerhard Present )
- “ALEA String Action” with Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Tobias Stosiek (violoncello) and Rita Melem (piano) STB 11/02 (Georg Winkler, Henrik Sande, Igmar Jenner, Franz Zebinger, Gerhard Present , Renaud Garcia-Fons and Iván Eröd )
- "Gerhard PRAESENT - String Music" ALEA-03-11 ( Gerhard Present : String Quartets No.2-4, "Canzona op.50" for Vl & Vc, "Four Dances for Two Violins")
- "ALEA - Intricato" STB 12/02 with Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Delphine Krenn-Viard (viola), Tobias Stosiek (violoncello) and Rita Melem (piano) ( Graham Waterhouse , Viktor Fortin, Dieter Zenz, Igmar Jenner , Wolfram Wagner , Herbert Blendinger , Charris Efthimiou and Gerhard Present )
- “Live String Action 2011” with ALEA ensemble Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Tobias Stosiek (cello) ALEA-04-12 ( Antonio Vivaldi , Johann Sebastian Bach , Joseph Haydn , Franz Zebinger, Gerhard Present , Antonín Dvořák , Igmar Jenner, Renaud Garcia-Fons and Iván Eröd )
- "BIG BEN - Back from London" STB 13/01 with Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Tobias Stosiek (violoncello) and Edda König (piano), (Kurt Anton Hueber, Charris Efthimiou, Georg Arányi-Aschner, Karl Haidmayer , Gerhard Present , Michele Trenti, Herbert Blendinger and Igmar Jenner)
- 1 - 2 - 3 solos, duos, trios STB 13/10: Erik Satie / Gerhard Praes , Jenő Takács , Georg Arányi-Aschner, Viktor Fortin , Gerhard Praes, Berndt Luef, Igmar Jenner and Wolfram Wagner , 2014
- Extravaganza STB 14/02 with Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Tobias Stosiek (violoncello) and Eduard Lanner (piano): Michael Wahlmüller, Henrik Sande, Wolfram Wagner , Georg Arányi-Aschner, Gerd Noack, Michele Trenti , Iván Eröd and Gerhard Present , 2014
- Big Apple STB 15/01, with Sigrid Present and Igmar Jenner (violin), Wolfgang Stangl (viola), Tobias Stosiek (violoncello) and Bernhard Riedler (piano): Bernhard Riedler, Walter Vaterl, Georg Arányi-Aschner, Franz Zebinger, Gerd Noack, Michele Trenti , Wolfram Wagner , Patrick Hahn and Gerhard Present , 2015
Web links
- official website
- Culture server Graz
- mica music information center austria
- Culture server Styria