GZ begegnungen

"Begegnungen" 2001

Sanja Drakulic

famous pianist and composer.
She graduated from Music Academy in Zagreb in class of Prof. P. Gvozdic, and specialised in piano in Nice, Weimar, Paris and Moscow.
She studied composition for cinema at Ecole Normale de Paris / Alfred Cortot, at Music Academy in Zagreb in class of Prof. S. Horvart, and in class of E. Urbanner at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.
In 1987 at Moscow Conservatory "P. I. Tchaikovsky" she studied musicology and organ where she obtain the degree Master of Fine Arts (1992) and Ph. D. (1994). She was the teaching assistant in composition at the same conservatory for two years. In 1992 she completed her study of composition on Conservatory in Moscow in class of A. Pirumova and J. Bucka with special award.
Her compositions were performed on more than 50 concerts in Moscow, and on many international festivals of contemporary music. Her composition "Five Intermezzos" for piano solo was awarded the First Prize at the "All Russian Young Composers" Competition in Moscow (1993).
Famous soloists and ensembles are performing her compositions, and her orchestral pieces were performed in Croatia, Russia, Japan, Germany ....
She composed pieces for piano, organ, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and symphonic orchestras. She is a member of Croatian Composers Association, Croatian Freelance Artists Association, the Russian Composers Association and the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters.
She teaches composition and music theory at masterclasses.

Bruno Karrer

After completing his education at a teacher'straining college BK moved on to the Musikhochschule Winterthur, where he studied the guitar. After graduating he studied theory of music as main subject and gave concerts as a soloist as well as together with various chamber music ensembles. He has been professor for theory of music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Winterthur-Zürich since 1986.
His compositional work has been growing more central since 1987 and has found its result in 30 works, most of which were written on request for musicians, ensembles and institutions (e.g. Pro Helvetia and Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein). In 1988 BK was the winner of a Werkbeitrag of the city of St.Gallen, in 1998 of the canton of St.Gallen. As a result of his work for Contrapunkt ( IGNM St.Gallen ) he has championed the realisation and propagation of contemporary music. Starting from the aestetics and technique of the classical avant-garde BK arrived at a personal style which is independent from establisced styles. In this connection the search for the densest musical statement achieved with the simplest means has become central. Meaning and methods are related in the same way as emotion and construction – they stimulate and give rise to each other.

Alberto Caprioli

Born in 1956 in Bologna, he studied at the Conservatories of Music in Parma and Bologna (diplomas in guitar with Renzo Cabassi in 1977, choir-direction with Tito Gotti in 1979, composition with Camillo Togni in 1983).
Between 1979 and 1983 he lived in Vienna and Berlin and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music (orchestral conducting diploma with Otmar Suitner in 1983, with a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Science).
Studies in composition with Boguslaw Schaeffer at Salzburg "Mozarteum"; composition courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franco Donatoni; mentioned in 1985 at Concours International de Composition in Avignon.
Doctorate in humanities at the Bologna University (dissertation with Ezio Raimondi). 1987-89 work at C.S.C. at the Padua University (two compositions for solo-instruments and computer music with the 4x system by G. Di Giugno-IRCAM Paris). Conducting studies with Kyrill Kondrashin, Franco Ferrara, Carlo Maria Giulini.

Foto Primo Gnani, Bologna

As a student, he conducted music of Alban Berg at the Berlin State Opera and the Viennese Radio ORF and Gustav Mahler's 10. Symphony Adagio at Wiener Musikverein;
in 1983 the Italian debut in Bologna with the Dresdner Philharmoniker. Guest conductor, viennese-school and italian new music repertoire (Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Adriano Guarnieri, Gilberto Cappelli, Federico Incardona, Aldo Clementi, Camillo Togni, Niccolò Castiglioni).
Commissioned works and first performances, a. o.:
Austria (Vienna, Festival Wien Modern, 1995, Klangforum Wien, Konzerthaus 1991, 1992, 1997 IGNM; Salzburg, "Zeitfluss" 1989, Festival "Aspekte"-Composer's-Portrait in 1989, Radio ORF), Germany (Stuttgart, Europäisches Musikfest 1988, 1991, Internationale Bachakademie; Freiburg, E-Werk; Radio SDR, SWF, SAR), Italy (Roma, "Festival Roma-Europa"; Pesaro, Rossini Opera Festival; Bologna, Teatro Comunale; Parma, "Fondazione Arturo Toscanini"; Bologna, "Feste Musicali"; Palermo, "Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea"; Siena, Estate Musicale Chigiana; Rai Uno TV and Rai Due and Rai Tre Radios), Poland (Warsaw Autumn; Cracow), Slovakia (Festival Melos Ethos Bratislava), Switzerland (Zürich, Basel), Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem), Greece (Athens), U.S.A. (New York, Boston), Japan (Radio NHK), Russia (St. Petersburg). Guest conductor of Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik Salzburg, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Rossini Opera Festival, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini", Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Festival Nuova Consonanza Rome, "Traiettorie" Teatro Regio Parma, "Settembre Musica" Turin, Festival Internazionale "Il Cinema Ritrovato", Bologna, "De Ijsbreker" Amsterdam.
Teacher since 1980, in 1989 he becomes titular of the chair of Orchestral Training at the Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini" in Bologna and collaborates with the Corso di Alta Formazione Orchestrale of the Arturo Toscanini-Foundation in Parma. Since 1994 member of the board of directors of the SICL (Italian Society for Comparative Literature) at the Florence University.
He published studies on Robert Schumann, Giacomo Leopardi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gustav Mahler, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and read papers at following congresses:
VII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (SIM, Roma, 1988); Colloquio Internazionale "Structures Musicales et Assistance Informatique" (LIM, Marsiglia, 1988);
VIII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (SIM, Cagliari, 1989); "Le vie delle nuova musica" (Rai Radio Due, 1990); "Mikrotöne - 4. Internationales Symposion" (Salisburgo, "Mozarteum", 1991);
"XXIII Incontro Musicologico Italo-Polacco: Recenti sviluppi dell'analisi musicale e riflessi nel lavoro storiografico" (Università di Varsavia, 1991); "John Cage e l'Europa" (Perugia, 1992); "L'Italia nell'Europa Romantica" (Università di Verona, 1993);
"Literature and Diversity: Languages, Cultures, Societies" (International Comparative Literature Association, XIV Congress, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1994); "Eroe e personaggio.
Dal mito alla dissoluzione novecentesca" (Società Italiana di Comparatistica Letteraria, Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Verona, 1995);
"13th International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies" (University of Maryland, 1996); "Risonanze Classiche nell'Europa Romantica" (Università di Verona, 1996);
"Literature as Cultural Memory" (International Comparative Literature Association, XV Congress, Leiden University, 1997);
"La Musica e il suo doppio" (Palermo, Festival "Musica su più dimensioni", 1997);
"Riflessi europei sull'Italia Romantica" (Università di Verona, 1998); "Giacomo Leopardi e Bologna" (Università di Bologna, 1998);
"Boguslaw Schaeffer" (Cracovia, Università Jagellonica, 1999); "Schoenberg 2000: e oltre" (Genova, Centro Culturale "Primo Levi", Teatro Carlo Felice, 1999).

Gerard Pape

Gerard Pape was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University in 1976, while simultaneously beginning private composition lessons with David Winkler. He obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1982 from the University if Michigan, and continued private conposition lessons with U-M music composition faculty members George Cacioppo and William Albright. Pape studied elctronic music with George Wilson in the analog and digital studios of University of Michigan.
Gerard Pape has composed more than 50 works for orchestra, chamber music, and electronic works for instruments, voice and/or tape. His music has been performed in numerous festivals in the USA, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Greece, Roumania, Sweden, Australia, Mexico, Hong Kong and Japan and was presented in the international Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Tokyo in 1993 and in Hong Kong in 1996. He has been granted ASCAP standard awards each year from 1992 through 1999.

Among his recent compositions is the work "Feu Toujours Vivant" for large orchestra and 4 sampler keyboards, commisioned by the electronic ensemble Art Zoyd and the National Orchestra of Lille, conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus.. After ist world premiere in Lille, March 9, 1997, the work was replayed twice more in Maubeuge and Créteil, France.

Pape has written numerous psychoanalytic articles. A book of his literary works, includinf short stories, plays and poetry, was published in the USA in 1984. More recently, he has published articles on musical complexity, and on the music of Luigi Nono (published in "Contemporary Music Review"). He has written and lectrured extensively on the subject of "Composing in the Continuum" and is currently editing a book on this subject to be published in Paris this year. He has recently been asked to write an article on Varèse, also to be published in "Contemporary Music Review".

His discography consists of a mongraphic disk released in 1992 by Mode (NY), including works played by the Arditti Quartet, the Prism Orchestra of New York, and William Albroght. The Computer Music Journal released an anthology disk in 1997 that contained an excerpt of Pape's "Le Fleuve du Desir III" for string quartet and tape, as played by the Arditti Quartet. In September 1998, Mode released a second monographic disk of Pape's work including works performed by Arditti Quartet, Ensemble 2E2M, Ensemble VOXNOVA, saxophonist Daniel Kientzy, singer Nicholas Isherwood and flutist Cécile Daroux. A third monographic disk is in preparation at the invitation of the label Edition Modern that will include his most recent works.

Pape is working in two operatic projects. One is based on Clive Barker's novel "Weaveworld". This project involves a very close collaboration with Yann Kersalé, famous French visual artist, known worldwide fir his visionary use of dynamic light projections. The second operatic project is based on Antonin Artaud's play "The Cenci" and involves a collaboration with the actor-director. Michel de Maulne, and his theater, Maison de la Poésie, located in Paris.

Gerard Pape has directed Les Ateliers UPIC since 1991. This organisation is a computer music center located in Paris and is under the honorary presidency of Iannis Xenakis. Les Ateliers UPIC is funded by the French Ministry of Culture since 1985.

Igor Lintz-Maues

Austro-Brazilian composer. Born.1955 in Sao Paulo. He studied composition, electroacoustic and computer music and musicology in Sao Paulo, The Hague, Utrecht and Vienna with W. Correa de Oliveira, Gilberto Mendes, Louis Andriessen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Wilhelm Zobl.
He is since 1991 lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Director of the Vienna Noise Orchestra. Partitipation at numerous international concerts. Among his prizes: Max Brand Prize 1993, nominations for the International Computer Music Association Commission Award 1995 and 1996.

Sieben Aspekte meiner Musik:
1. Annäherung verschiedener Klangwelten.
2. Klangerweiterung und -veränderung mit elektroakustischen Mittel.
3. Musik über Musik.
4. Übertragung außermusikalische Elemente in musikalische Elemente (Mimesis).
5. Phonetische-Semantische Mischformen.
6. Improvisation, Experiment, Teamwork.
7. Außereoropäische Elemente (ilm, 1997)

Johannes Wallmann

Composer/Sound Artist, born in 1952 in Leipzig; after course of study in music, composed numerous chamber, orchestral, and landscape sound compositions.
1990-93, founder and artistic director of »Bauhütte Klangzeit Wuppertal«.
1994, »Auri -- Music in Space for chamberensemble« (broadcast live by DeutschlandRadio);
1995, »Glocken Requiem Dresden«, (Requiem for 129 interlinked churchbells - broadcast live by MDR, DeutschlandRadio, BBC);
1996, »Klang Felsen Helgoland« (Sound Cliffs Helgoland - Landscape- soundcomposition, broadcast live by NDR 3);
1997 »Innenklang - Music in space for four orchestral groups and sopranos« in the Cathedral Berlin (Radio-Symphony Orchestra Berlin, broadcast live by DeutschlandRadio);
1997 »Transforma - Music in Space for 5 Sopranos« (after St. Mallarmé), Kryptonale Berlin.
Member of the artist group KrypTonale Berlin, teaches in the department of architecture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee (College of the Arts, Berlin-Weißensee).
Numerous radio productions, awards, and invitations.