Groupe Lacroix
The Groupe Lacroix is a Swiss - Austrian composer group.
history
The formation of the Groupe Lacroix goes back to a joint master class visit of the founding members to the Russian avant-garde composer Edisson Denissow as part of the International Music Festival Lucerne IMF at the Lucerne Conservatory in the summer of 1993.
The group was then formed in autumn 1993 by six well-known Swiss composers in the Center musical de la Fondation Hindemith Chalet de Lacroix (today: Hindemith Music Center of the Hindemith Foundation ). The founding members included Michael Baumgartner (who did not become an official member), John Wolf Brennan from Lucerne, Jean-Luc Darbellay from Bern, Christian Henking from Bern, Stephan Sabotta (who did not become an official member) and Michael Schneider from Aarau.
Marianne Schroeder from Basel joined them in 1994, Michael Radanovics from Vienna (Austria) in 1996 and Alfons Karl Zwicker from St. Gallen in 2000 . Guest composers were Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg) in 1999 and Thüring Bräm in 2003 , who is also the group's organizer. Radanowics and Brennan specialize in jazz . Schroeder follows the minimal music of John Cage , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Giacinto Scelsi and Galina Ustwolskaja .
The aim of the composer group is the common dialogue. According to his own statements, the core idea is: "that the individuality of artistic expression and the exchange beyond the concert hall and desk are not only not mutually exclusive, but mutually beneficial."
International cooperation took place in Lucerne in 1993 , in Moscow in 1995/96 (at the Moscow Alternativa Festival ), in Dublin , Blonay, Friborg and Lucerne in 1997 and in Weggis and Leipzig in 1999 (at the MDR Music Summer ). Since the Leipzig concerts there has been an intensive cooperation in a " Klee project" with the Sortisatio ensemble .
Discography
- 1997: The Composer Group with the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio ( Creative Works Records )
- 1999: Arpiade with Barbara Sutter, Béatrice Wolf and Michael Wolf (edition edex)
- 2003: 8 Pieces on Paul Klee with the Ensemble Sortisatio (Creative Works Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen W. Ellis: Booklet-Text, CD 8 Pieces on Paul Klee, 2003, CW 1035, p. 6.
- ↑ a b MDR Musiksommer , in: Concert program, June 28, 1999, p. 4.
- ^ A b Fritz Huser: Booklet-Text, CD The Composer Group, 1997, CW 1030, p. 2.
- ^ Anton Rovner: Interview with Jean-Luc Darbellay , in: Musica Ukrainica online magazine .
- ^ Anton Rovner : Interview with Jean-Luc Darbellay (PDF file; 650 kB) , in: 21st Century Music , March 2001, p. 1 ff.
- ^ Groupe Lacroix, B of I Arts Center , in: The Irish Times , February 2, 1997.
