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Katowice | New Music Orchestra – Pēteris Vasks Days

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On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the NOSPR chamber hall in Katowice the New Music Orchestra conducted by Szymon Bywalec will premiere, among others, works by Emil Wojtacki and Karolina Filipska. The concert will take place as part of Pēteris Vasks Days.

The Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (1946) is today one of the most recognizable European composers. His name is mentioned next to Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina or Alfred Schnittke – composers coming from the so-called Eastern Block countries, whose music is associated with spirituality. Vasks arises from a tradition which roots reach minimalism in its special version, concentrating on slowly flowing time, meditation, concentration on nature or inspiration flowing from silence. During the concert, we will hear his Viatore (2001) for 11 solo strings.

A similar approach to composing is presented by a much younger Latvian artist – Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977). In Fantāzija (2003), commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn Friends' Foundation, the source of the sound, besides the traditional instruments, are bottles of various sizes. The soft, delicate color complements the sound textures written in the score.

The concert will also premiere two Polish works commissioned by the Brand New Music festival. Geständnis. The operatic music by Emil Wojtacki is a composition inspired by a fragment of the Guilt Confession (from the Uncertainty of the Situation) by the contemporary German playwright and director Philipp Löhle. The second piece, Angel's Fall by Karolina Filipska, is a mini-concert for four multipercussion sets, sinfonietta and tape. The inspiration for the piece was a sculpture in the eastern part of Madrid and a fragment of John Milton's Paradise lost.

More information at: http://www.nospr.org.pl/