Jason Eckardt / Tristan Murail / Pascal Dusapin / Joshua Fineberg / Drew Baker
Jason Eckardt / Tristan Murail Pascal Dusapin / Joshua Fineberg / Drew Baker
© Photo : Denis Bretin ©
Tristan Murail
La Barque mystique for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (1993)
Joshua Fineberg
Veils for solo piano
Jason Eckardt
Trespass for solo piano and ensemble (2006)
French premiere
Pascal Dusapin
Prélude pour piano (2006), first part of a cycle
World premiere
Commissioned by Marilyn Nonken and Ensemble 21
with the support of the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music
Drew Baker
Ellipsis for ensemble (2006)
World premiere
Commissioned by the Montclair State University / New Jersey
and Festival d’Automne à Paris
Piano, Marilyn Nonken
Ensemble 21
Conducted by Jean Deroyer
Co-produced by Montclair State University and Festival d’Automne à Paris
Co-presented by Ircam-Centre Pompidou
Concert presented with the help of the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music (a FACE program), with the support of SACEM, BMG Music Publishing, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (French embassy in the US) and AFAA, The Kellen Foundation, The Goelet Foundation
This concert is a first collaboration of Festival d’Automne with the Division of Art and Cultural Programming at Montclair State University / New Jersey.
The second part of this overview of “transatlantic spectralism” is an invitation to prolong the analogy between visual arts and music composed on both sides of the Atlantic. Whether verging on minimalism, or evoking symbolism, a clockwork precision governs this music which seems sculpted directly out of silence.