Phoenix Trabant 2022/2023

With «Octandre», Edgard Varèse wrote an epoch-making work for a large chamber music ensemble in 1923 and at the same time founded a new genre: Four woodwinds and three brass instruments are supplemented by a double bass to form an octet - with the complete omission of keyboard instruments, percussion and high strings.

In its «Trabant» competition for young musicians, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel has set itself the task of composing a new work in precisely this instrumentation that makes reference to «Octandre» and circles this work like a Trabant. At the end of a workshop with the ensemble and Detlev Müller-Siemens as composition coach, the two prize-winners will present their new «Trabant» compositions together with «Octandre» by Edgard Varèse.

The work «Monolith» by the German composer Thomas Bruttger was commissioned by Ensemble Aventure (Freiburg i. Br.) in 1991 and completes the programme.

19:00 Concert introduction with the composers and Jürg Henneberger

With

Christoph Bösch (flute/piccolo/bass flute), Antje Thierbach (oboe/English horn/baritone oboe), Toshiko Sakakibara (clarinet/as clarinet/bass clarinet), Lucas Rößner (bassoon/contraforte), Aurélien Tschopp (horn), Nenad Marković (trumpet/piccolo trumpet), Michael Büttler (trombone), Aleksander Gabryś (double bass)

Program

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965): «Octandre» for 8 instruments (1923) 8'
Thomas Bruttger (*1954): «Monolith» for 8 instruments (1991) 9'
Asia Ahmetjanova (*1992, Latvia): «Ich möchte aufhören zu singen» for piccolo and 7 instruments (2023, première, commissioned by EPhB)
Francesca Gaza (*1995, Germany/Italy): «ruhe zur lautesten stunde» for 8 instruments (2023, première, commissioned by EPhB)
Tze Yeung Ho (*1992, Norway): «hortensia» for 8 instruments (2023, première, commissioned by EPhB)

Duration

90 minutes, with break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.

Links

→ ensemble-phoenix.ch