A Journey of Artistic Discovery Across Europe
IN-SITU: TEAM COMPOSITION
Organised by impuls, Austria
coached by Matthew Shlomowitz and Dimitrios Polisoidis
with
PPCM-Ensemble
Jun Nakamura flute | Sara Valle flute | Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone | Mario Porcar Rueda percussion | Maria Iaiza piano | Maurizio De Luca accordion | Szymon Kałużny violin | Aleksandra Kornowicz violin | Mina Zakić cello | Irati Goñi Leoz cello
+ further selected performers, Anika Ariana Hernández Vera piano | Nina Casati violin | Christoven Tan viola
+ selected composers, Simon Bahr | José del Avellanal Carreño | Roni Glaser | Athanasia Kontou | Arianna Pittino | Bernat Pont Anglada
As one of the various Special Programs at the impuls Academy 2025, composer and performer participants were invited to sign up for “Team Composition”. Works created for this project could either be co-authored (such as score-based work between multiple composers, or between a composer and performers e.g. creating their own parts) or “open works” that leave room for performers to make creative contributions beyond the remit usually ascribed to “interpretation” (examples for „open works“ include e.g. instruction scores, graphic scores, pieces with modified stave/staff notation, and pieces involving improvisation).
The project draws on Matthew Shlomowitz’s experience as a composer of open scored work such as his “Letter Piece”-series, where players create their own content within guidelines. Dimitrios Polisoidis, coordinator of the PPCM course, in turn, assists in the realization of the “Team Composition”-project with his experience in conceptual music and improvisation projects with artists such as Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang and others. In addition to the PPCM ensemble, a number of individual instrumental participants were selected to join several projects and conceptual ideas, that were handed in at a Call set up by impuls for this Special Program. For the final presentations the works created on spot were supplimented by pieces by Jennifer Walshe and Matthew Shlomowitz, and further pieces by composers such as Anthony Braxton, Cathy Van Eck, Pauline Oliveros, Marina Rosenfeld, and James Saunders were discussed in order to investigate the different strategies for creating openness and the types of creative participation open scores can afford.
Special Program: 18.-25.2.2025, various rooms at KUG
24.2.2025, 16.30 + 19.00, Hermann-Markus-Preßl-Saal, Brandhofgasse 21, 8010 Graz
Presentation of results of the Special Program Team Composition
16.30
Roni Glaser | Christoven Tan From one ear to another (2025, world premiere)
Christoven Tan viola | Sara Valle flute | Maurizio De Luca accordion | Mina Zakić cello
Arianna Pittino | Athanasia Kontou Stories of vulnerability: a ritual (2025, world premiere)
Irati Goñi Leoz cello | Aleksandra Kornowicz violin | Pablo Marin-Reyes trombone | Anika Ariani Hernández Vera piano | Nina Casati violin
Bernat Pont Anglada | José del Avellanal Carreño Krizo Asembleo de la Civitano Konsilio de la Libera Reglando de la Roko (2025, world premiere)
Maria Iaiza piano | Jun Nakamura flute | Mario Porcar Rueda percussion | Szymon Kałużny violin
19.00
Carolyn Chen Agadio (2009)
Matthew Shlomowitz Letter Piece 1 (2008)
Simon Bahr Lead Sheet pieces (2025, world premiere)
Jennifer Walshe Zusammen i (2014)
Simon Bahr | Nina Casati | Maurizio De Luca | Irati Goñi Leoz | Anika Arianna Hernández Vera Maria Iaiza | Athanasia Kontou | Aleksandra Kornowicz | Pablo Marin-Reyes | Jun Nakamura Arianna Pittino | Bernat Pont Anglada | Mario Porcar Rueda | Christoven Tan | Sara Valle | Mina Zakić
