Eclat (music festival)
Eclat is a new music festival that takes place in Stuttgart every year at the beginning of February .
history
The festival was founded in 1980 under the name Tage für Neue Musik Stuttgart . The godfathers were the composers Reinhard Febel and Albrecht Imbescheid, the conductors Manfred Schreier and Michael Zilm and the SDR editor Clytus Gottwald . In 1983 Hans-Peter Jahn took over the artistic direction and initially organized the annual meetings as composer portraits. The festival has been called Eclat since 1997 . According to Jahn, the name refers less to the usual associations in the German loan word Eklat , such as “scandal” or “Aufruhr”, but rather plays with the French term “Éclat” and its meanings such as “appearance”, “shine”, “splinter” and “bang” ". Since the renaming and reorientation, the winners' concert of the Stuttgart Composition Prize has also been integrated into the festival. The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Art counts Eclat to be a permanent part of the state's cultural scene, and it is one of the most important festivals for new music nationwide .
program
Today the festival includes solo, ensemble, choir and orchestral concerts. Another focus of Eclat is music theater . A large part of the program consists of world premieres and German premieres. In addition to guest soloists and ensembles, the SWR Symphony Orchestra , the SWR Vocal Ensemble and the New Vocal Soloists are among the pillars of the festival.
Artistic Director
From 1983 to 2013 Hans-Peter Jahn shaped the Festival Eclat as artistic director. In 2014, a two-year team consisting of SWR editor Björn Gottstein and Christine Fischer, director of the organizing organization Music of the Centuries, followed for two years . Christine Fischer has been the overall director of the festival since 2016. Lydia Jeschke is the artistic director of two concerts under the title SWR JetztMusik in Eclat .
literature
- Jürgen Hartmann: Eclat - Festival New Music Stuttgart . In: Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Norbert Bolin (Hrsg.): Musikland Baden-Württemberg. Base and tip. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-17-019428-1 , pp. 31 f .
Web links
- Festival website
- Data on Eclat at the German Music Information Center
- Website of the organizing organization Music of the Centuries
- Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- Eclat on stuttgart.de
- On the history of the festival
- Claus Spahn: Caravan dance with household junk. In: The time . November 22, 1991. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- Contribution by Björn Gottstein about festivals of new music, Goethe-Institut 2009
- Festival balance 2018 of the SWR
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Nonnenmann: Hans-Peter Jahn says goodbye to Eclat. In: MusikTexte May 137 , 2013, accessed April 4, 2018 .
- ^ History of the festival
- ↑ Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Kulturamt (Ed.): 60 Years Composition Prize . Stuttgart 2015, OCLC 952323950 , p. 65 .
- ^ Website of the Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
- ^ Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Culture 2020. Art policy for Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032298-3 , pp. 104 .
- ↑ List of the Goethe-Institut with festivals for new music
- ↑ Gerhard Rohde: He tied the Ariadne thread through the music labyrinth. In: Neue Musikzeitung . March 2013, accessed April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Julia Hellmig: For a better world. In: Concerti . January 23, 2018, accessed April 4, 2018 .