Anthony Pateras

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Anthony Pateras

Anthony Pateras (* 1979 in Melbourne ) is an Australian jazz musician and composer of new music .

Life and work

He studied composition with Neil Kelly and John McCaughey at La Trobe University Melbourne and with Thomas Reiner at Monash University . His instruments are the piano and various analog keyboards. He composes for orchestras, chamber music ensembles and solo musicians. His major orchestral works have been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Brett Dean .

Since he has a special affinity for percussion , he often played in duo formation with numerous drummers such as Han Bennink , Paul Lovens , Tony Buck , Lê Quan Ninh , Will Guthrie and Robbie Avenaim. This series also included a musical project with Max Kohane, which made it into the final selection of The Wire magazine's best jazz / improv list of 2009 under the title PIVIXKI (Sabbatical) with a debut CD release .

On behalf of the Südwestrundfunk , Pateras composed a work for the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2009 . It was performed under his musical direction in November 2009 in a quintet line-up. This improvisation quintet Thymolphthalein included Pateras himself (artistic director, prepared piano, electronics), Natasha Anderson, (double bass recorder, electronics), Jérôme Noetinger (Revox b-77), Clayton Thomas (double bass), Will Guthrie (percussion, electronics).

Since 2000 Pateras has also worked as a film composer. He wrote the music for Errors of the Human Body (2012) by Eron Sheean or for The Man Who Disappeared (2015) by Sylvère Lotringer .

Pateras lives and works in his hometown of Melbourne.

Musical classification

According to the Cyclic Defrost interview on the album Chasms from July 2007, Pateras' main interest is as a solo pianist on the prepared piano . He wants to expand the sound space of the piano without the aid of a computer or other post-processing.

Pateras refers to role models such as the free jazz musicians Derek Bailey or Peter Brötzmann and others. They showed that there are possibilities that, according to Patera's wishes, lie “beyond scales, harmony, fixed rhythm, and melody”.

The specialist magazine Liquid Architecture cites the following musical areas that inspire him : compositions after 1940, Balkan folk music, live electronic music and contemporary improvised music.

Awards

Pateras was Australia's representative at the UNESCO Rostrum of composers in 2004 and 2011 . In 2017 he won the Giga-Hertz Prize for Electronic Music at the ZKM Karlsruhe . In 2018 he was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart.

Discography

Solo albums

  • Chromatophores , 2008 ( Tzadik )
  • Chasms , 2007 (Sirr, Portugal)
  • Mutant Theater , 2004 ( Tzadik )
  • Malfunction Studies , 2002

together with Robin Fox

  • End of Daze , 2008/9 (eMego)
  • Flux Compendium , 2006 (eMego)
  • Coagulate , 2003 (Synaesthesia)
  • Asbestos Milkshake 3 , 2001 (s / r)

with the trio Pateras / Baxter / Brown

  • Live at L'Usine , 2008 (Cave12 Alive)
  • Interference , 2008 (emd.pl/records)
  • Gauticle , 2006 (Synaesthesia)
  • Ataxia , 2004 (Syanesthesia)

as a studio musician

  • Beta Erko: I'm OK You're OK , 2005 (Mercury)

tetema

  • Geocidal , 2014
  • Necroscape , 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anthony Pateras at the Australian Music Center
  2. ^ The Wire - Best Jazz & Improv 2009 list
  3. ↑ The Wire, January 12, 2010: 2009 Rewind , accessed June 24, 2010
  4. ↑ Südwestrundfunk from September 10, 2009: SWR2 NEWJazz Meeting 2009 , accessed on June 23, 2010
  5. ↑ Anthony Pateras in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missingTemplate: IMDb / Maintenance / Unnecessary use of parameter 2
  6. ↑ a b scholarship holder 2018
  7. ↑ a b Bob Baker Fish in Cyclic Defrost : Interview with Anthony Pateras from July 26, 2007 (web only) , accessed December 8, 2018
  8. ↑ Short biography ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Giga Hertz Prize 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Pateras, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian jazz pianist and new music composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne