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Ensemble Academy’s production Composer’s Portrait: Seung-Won Oh

alioki — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:09:43 +0000

The whole concert is one continuous sound experience which requires an absolute minimum break between the compositions. Six compositions are staged in different parts of the hall surrounding the audience. Each piece expresses its own unique musical goal while the entire program as a whole demonstrates a glimpse of a continuous pursual of the composer’s self reflection.
The concert is free to the public but the registration is required due to a limited seating plan. You are kindly advised to register via the following link.

Program:
Fragments
Yaw-Unn II
Intermixtus
Mixtures III
Equilibrium
Aphonic Dialogue

The oldest piece is Intermixtus and the newest is Equilibrium. The program contains a wide array of musical styles and deals with different musical subjects:
Intermixtus(1999) is Oh’s early period focusing on melody, counterpoint and harmony with solo saxophone, recognition of the Korean culture by exploration of micro-tonality and musical textures in Yaw-Unn II (2003), curiosity of timbre and sound blocks in Fragments (2009).
Aphonic Dialogue, double concerto for cello, voice and chamber orchestra (2014) is Oh’s the first score where the noise/non-pitch based sound appeared into the conventional orchestra writing.
Mixtures III (2021)- world premiere- is a re-arrangement in contraction of Mixtures II for four amplified violins into amplified string quartet. It experiments with acoustic spatialization for a non-conventional music stage.
Equilibrium (2021/2022) for amplified cello, bass clarinet with Tam-tam taps into a soft and delicate sound world void of excess expression and emotion.

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Success at the Composer’s Portrait concert

alioki — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:07:49 +0000

Ensemble Academy led by Gregory Charette outdid an amazing performance with depth and mature interpretation of the whole program on 18 Feb 2023.
Eva Beunk wrote a post concert interview in the following link.

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Orkést De Ereprijs premieres “Modular 4 for Fourteen”

alioki — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:32:19 +0000

Modular 4 for Fourteen is the fourth work of the Modular composition series. The air sound and microtonal pitch bend in repeating units encourages personalized interpretation. Further, these gestures are duplicated in other instruments unsynchronized. Naturally, the intended un-synchronization of similar gestures not only creates a traditional sense of contrapuntal relationship between the layers but also the rich timbral texture.

The players in Modular compositions are the co-architect of composition: the parts provide a clear direction of musical goal but minimal information for music to operate. The players fill in and add flesh to grow and ripen to the full flavor of the final product.

Reflecting the strong identity of Orkést De Ereprijs, Modular 4 for Fourteen is composed for three groups in the orchestra: two similar-sounding quintets (group 1 and group 2) emulates personal and musical take on the relationship between object and its shadow. Group 3 remains steadfast in drone-like ostinato forming a distant connection to the other groups. By the end of time travel, group 1 and group 2 swap their positions, hence raising the question of what are the ultimate object and true shadow. Are they absolute or relative?

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