Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to travel from Germany to Vietnam. The exchange between musicians in Vietnam and Germany however continues. With innovative ideas we make dialogue and joint concerts possible.
The past months’ experience has shown that online concerts, rehearsals, and lessons are but a poor substitute for performing together live in one location, especially with scores that require exact notation and nuanced conducting.
That means musicians had to adjust their repertoire. The musicians from Germany and Vietnam jointly developed a program with which they react creatively to both the spatial distance and the time delays caused by the Internet.
In this concert they focus on works written after the 1960s that do not rely on precise pitch or perfect unison and that do not prescribe an exact duration or specific instruments, etc. These pieces are scored with graphic elements or mere text, allowing and even intending for each musicians and each ensemble to create a whole new interpretation and sound entirely different from any other performance of that same piece. These scores whose core element is a free and varied approach are ideally suited for the kind of socially distanced collaboration we are now planning.
Program
Werner Heider
(*1930, Fürth, Germany)
Edition (1969)
About the composer:
Werner Heider lives in Erlangen and is a composer, pianist and conductor. He often played the concert format chamber music and jazz with chamber music works, often his own premieres, which were played by the same interpreters as jazz pieces.
Sandeep Bhagwati
(*1963, Mumbai, Indien)
Sutra (2013)
About the composer:
Sandeep Bhagwati grew up in Germany, works as a composer and teaches in Canada. He is known for his often cross-border work, as well as for his preoccupation with Asian and Western musical cultures.
Terry Riley
(*1935, Colfax, USA)
in C (1964)
About the composer:
Terry Riley is a composer and has dealt intensively with Indian music. He is considered to be the co-founder of minimal music.
Pauline Oliveros
(1932-2016)
From Unknown Silences (1996)
About the composer:
Pauline Oliveros was a composer and accordionist. She has significantly influenced conceptual art through composed improvisations and spatial sound art.
MUSICIANS
Nina Janßen-Deinzer (*1972)
Foto: Nina Janßen-Deinzer
studied in Hanover at the school of Hans Deinzer and completed her studies with a concert exam. She gained first winner awards at ‚Jugend Musiziert‘ at the german musicians competition and at the international chamber music competition in Osaka / Japan. She has been a solo clarinetist of Ensemble Modern from 2006 to 2017. As a solo artist, she had many plays on various festivals like Salzburger Festspiele, Salzburg biennale, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ultraschall Berlin, Festival NOW Essen, Berliner Festwochen, Forum Festival Moskau and with orchestras like SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg, hr- Sinfonieorchester, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Kremerata Baltica and many more. Since 2015 she teaches as a professor for chamber music at Music College Nuremburg and in addition to that she also teaches contemporary music at Music College Nuremburg.
Lucas Fels(*1962)
Foto: Bernhard Strauss
studied at Christoph Henkel in Freiburg, at Anner Bijlsmain in Amsterdam and at Amadeo Baldovino in Fiesole. He did more than over thousand first plays and for 100 CDs of solo- and chamber music of the 20th and the 21st century. In 1985 he was a co-initiator of ensemble recherche Freiburg, cellist and music executive until 2005. For Arditti String Quartet London he plays cello since 2006. He holds a professors chair at Music And Performing Arts College Frankfurt for interpretative practice and communicating new music since 2013. Masterclasses and lectures at lots of colleges and universities worldwide are hosted by him.
Luu Duc Anh (*1990)
She has been awarded prizes from several international competitions, amongst these are 1st prize with “Jury Prize of Excellence” from Thailand International Strings Competition 2013; the Gold Medal from SETTRADE Young Musician Competition, which led to an invitation to perform as a soloist for concert of the year with Salaya Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr.Sax Chamber Orchestra and Salaya Faculty Ensemble; and the 1st prize from the Golden Strings of America 2012, which she has performed the winner concert at the Weill Recital Hall at the Carnegie Hall, New York, 2nd prize from Mozart Strings Competition 2010 and more.
In 2018, he graduated from the Vietnam National Academy of Music and has worked at the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra until now. Along with research and experimentation combines traditional Vietnamese culture with his trumpet. In 2018,2019,2020 he joined the Wonder Art Education, Practice and Research Organization run by pianist Trang Trinh, to carry out art projects towards the introduction of trumpets. and traditional Vietnamese music for audiences aged 2 to 12 years old. In Podcast Series he plays on the online music platform Spotify 2020 is also the year he and his friends from different orchestras create Hanoi Brass Community to create a playground for brass lovers in general, including Hanoi Brass Quintet and Hanoi Brass Ensemble.
Besides performing orchestral programs and with Hanoi Brass Quintet, he was invited to teach Trumpet at British Vietnamese International bilingual School and British International School, he also the Suggest Teacher to do Trumpet private lessons in United Nations International School Hanoi ( UNIS Hanoi ).
Long has moved back to Vietnam from Australia in December 2019 to join the Sun Symphony Orchestra. He is currently teaching at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and the International School of Vietnam.