With the premiere of the third and final part of Rules of Engagement, the ensemble piece Sumud, happening soon, it’s an appropriate time to give some information about the cycle as a whole. Sumud will be premiered on 21 March at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music, Leipzig, by Contemporary Insights, conducted by Zachary M. Seely.
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Nico Couck, fretless electric guitar
Ensemble Interface, conducted by Maurice Donnet-Monnay
Transit Festival Leuven, 19 October 2019
Razor’s Edge (2018) for fretless electric guitar and ensemble will receive its premiere on 19 October at the Transit Festival in Leuven, Belgium, with Nico Couck and Ensemble Interface. Details here.
The new solo CD by Diego Castro Magaš features the complete version of Knokler alongside pieces by Chilean and British composers. It can be downloaded and purchased here (and elsewhere):
https://diegocastromagas.bandcamp.com/releases
On 21 October, at the Sound Plasma festival in Berlin, the Spanish saxophone quartet SigmaProject will premiere the first part of my piece Ariadne, which will have three parts in total. Part II is planned for premiere in Tehran in April.
For more on the festival, see:
Sound Plasma Berlin
For the full programme, see:
http://ackerstadtpalast.de/Sound-Plasma-Festival-for-microtonal-music
VAN magazine has a feature on my censorship letter and the larger context here: https://van-us.atavist.com/rules-of-engagement
For decades, the Donaueschingen Festival (Donaueschinger Musiktage) has stood not only for new sounds, but also for new ideas and discourses, including controversial ones. Whether dealing with world politics or cultural policy, with globalization or equal opportunities in the music industry, there were generally no taboo topics. Continue reading
