Brice Pauset / Misato Mochizuki / Chikage Imai / Toshio Hosokawa / Gérard Pesson

Brice Pauset/Misato Mochizuki/ Chikage Imai/Toshio Hosokawa/ Gérard Pesson

Nieuw Ensemble / Yoichi Sugiyama

Archive 2008
Opéra Bastille
octoberoct 21

Brice Pauset, Vita nova for violin and ensemble
Misato Mochizuki, Silent Circle  for flute, koto and ensemble
Chikage Imai, Vectorial Projection IV- Fireworks violin and ensemble
Creation. Made-to-order for the Rohm Foundation
Toshio Hosokawa, In Ajimano pour for koto/vocals, cello and ensemble
Gérard Pesson, Branle du Poitou for ensemble
Irvine Arditti, violin 
Harrie Starreveld, flute
Kyoko Kawamura, koto / vocals
Makiko Goto, koto
Jeroen den Herder, cello
Nieuw Ensemble
Yoichi Sugiyama, Musical direction

Co-realized by the Opéra national de Paris and the Festival d'Automne à Paris
Thanks to the support of the Mécenat Musical Société Générale, and the Sacem
As well as the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation for Music
With the support of Nomura, the Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation, and the Foundation for the study of the Japanese language and culture, working under the aegis of the Foundation of France
Within the context of the 150th anniversary of Franco-Japanese relations

Two key elements of the 2008 Festival d'Automne come together with works by contemporary Japanese composers and a “portrait in music” of Gerard Pesson, the common ground being a multiplicity of sound expressions in a dialectical encounter with tradition, “transcending modernity”.