L'art pour l'Aar festival
The festival L'art pour l'Aar is an international festival for contemporary music in the canton of Bern . Since 2007 it has been an associated member of the International Society for New Music .
history
The L'art pour l'Aar festival dates back to 2002, with the first festival taking place in 2003. The name is explained by the “constant interplay of color and dynamism” of the Aare , the longest river that runs entirely within Switzerland. The founding members included the Bern composers Jean-Luc Darbellay , Hans Eugen Frischknecht , Ursula Gut and Alfred Schweizer (no longer represented on the committee). For a time the conductor Pierre-Alain Monot was part of the committee; the flautists and composers Pierre-André Bovey and Markus Hofer joined them later.
Swiss musicians such as the Basel Chamber Orchestra , the Biel Symphony Orchestra , the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain , the Ensemble Proton Bern and the Camerata Bern as well as guest ensembles from all over Europe have performed, including the Ensemble Phorminx , the Ensemble Sortisatio , the Leipzig Horn Quartet and the Ensemble Horizonte and the Leipzig drum ensemble from Germany. The Ensemble Aldubàran (Faroe Islands), the Ensemble vocal d'Erguël (Turkey), the Luxembourg Sinfonietta (Luxembourg) and the Ensemble Accroche Note (Strasbourg) have also been won. Guitarist Reinbert Evers (Münster), drummer Thierry Mroglio (Paris) and pianists Ancuza Aprodu and Roumen Kroumov (Bulgaria) performed as soloists .
In addition to symposia and composer portraits held u. a. one cooperated with the Swiss Music Research Society .
The venues are in the canton of Bern, for example in Bern , Biel / Bienne and Meiringen , as well as in Neuchâtel , Perrefitte , Thun and Zurich .
World premieres (selection)
Swiss composers in particular are heard, but internationally renowned composers have also premiered .
- Daniel Andres
- Irinel Anghel
- Pierre-André Bovey
- Thuringia Bräm
- Pierre-Albert Castanet
- Jean-Luc Darbellay
- Hans Eugen Frischknecht
- Frank Gerhardt
- Christian Henking
- Markus Hofer
- Yoriaki Matsudaira
- Miklós Maros
- Max E. Keller
- Cord Meijering
- Alfred Schweizer
- Mihaela Stănculescu-Vosganian
- Fritz Voegelin
- Yun I-sang
- Gérard interest day
Discography
The festivals are recorded by DRS 2 and are published by Musikverlag Müller & Schade .
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" I, January 2003 (3 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" II, November 2003 (3 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" III, January 2005 (4 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" IV, 2006/2007 (4 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" V, 2008/2009 (3 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" VI, 2010/2011 (4 CDs)
- Festival “L'art pour l'Aar” VII, 2012/2014
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" VIII, 2014/2016 (4 CDs)
- Festival "L'art pour l'Aar" IX, 2016/2018 (4 CDs)
literature
- Stephan Thomas: The Aare and New Music . In: Schweizer Musikzeitung 10 (2007) 12, p. 5.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festival l'Art pour l'Aar , www.iscm.org, accessed on January 31, 2018.