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++G U I T A RAarhus, 12th to 22nd of August 2013

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Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.Skovgaardsgade 2C 8000 Aarhus C

Musikhuset AarhusThomas Jensens Allé8000 Aarhus C

BoRA BoRAValdemarsgade 18000 Aarhus C

Den PermanenteSalonvejen 18240 Risskov

galleriV58Hans Hartvig Seedorffs Stræde 128000 Aarhus C

StatsbiblioteketVictor Albecks Vej 18000 Aarhus C

Admission fee:All concerts are free of charge except for the concert 16th of august, 19.30 at BORA BORA

Welcome to GUITAR+, a festival and an intensive study course focusing on the modern chamber music repertoire with and for guitarists. We at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus are happy to welcome musicians, composers, students and lecturers from Germany, Finland, Spain and Sweden and are looking very much forward to this first edition of GUITAR+.A special welcome to our guests from the partner institutions: Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Helsinki Conservatory at Metropolia University for Applied Sciences and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

Keld Hosbond,Head of International Relations

Frederik Munk Larsen, Associate professor, classical guitar

Tue. 13.08 / Time 22.00oPeningS And imProS Atden PermAnente Venue: Den Permanente

Performers: Impro Ensemble KOMMA and students from: Hochschule für Musik, Würz-burg, Helsinki Conservatory, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

Wed. 14.08 / Time 17.00Solo guitAr And eleCtroniCSVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, Kammermusiksal

Performer: Seth Josel (USA/DE)

Works by: S. CluettN. Epstein M. Feldman A. Greenwald

Wed. 14.08 / Time 20.00oPen SPACeVenue: galleriV58

Performers: Students from Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Helsinki Conservatory, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

Thu. 15.08 / Time 15.30oPen SPACeVenue: Statsbiblioteket, Aarhus University

Performers: Students from Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Helsinki Conservatory, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

Fri. 16.08 / Time 19.30CuriouS ChAmber PlAyerS Venue: BORA BORA, admission fee 75 kr.This concert is presented in cooperation with AUT

Works by: M. BångR. MunakataJ. Combier T. KozlovaJ. P. MøllerK. Duncan David S. Steen-Andersen

Curious Chamber Players (SWE)Rei Munakata, conductorHannah Törnell Wettermark, flute Malin Bång, sound objectsPer Sjögren, percussionAnna Christensson, piano Karin Hellqvist, violinKarolina Öhman, cello Dries Tack, clarinetSynne Skagen, percussionGuest guitarists: Jakob Bangsø, Antero Pellikka, Juan José Begines, Raphael Ophaus, Vesa HolopainenStefan Koim, Javier LucíoE-Bass: Jens Peter Møller

Sat. 17.08 / Time 16.00guitAr enSembleVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, Symfonisk sal

Works by: L. DestremauW. SiegelA. FrankA. Herteux

Performers: Students from Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Helsinki Conservatory, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

Mon. 19.08 / Time 19.30ruCk/kumelA: goldbergVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, KammermusiksalWorks by: J. SchneiderJ. S. BachS. Steen-Andersen

Performers: Jürgen Ruck Petri Kumela Juan José Begines Antero Pellikka Frederik Munk

Tue. 20.08 / Time 19.30SánChez-Verdú PortrAitVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, Lille sal

Works by: J. M. Sánchez-Verdú

Performers: Robert Karlsson, violaSofia Olsson, celloSven Slot, pianoMarie Sønderskov, fluteAnders Abelseth, saxophoneJonas Weitling, percussionEduard Hausauer, E-guitarGuitarists:Jürgen Ruck, Antonio Duro,Petri Kumela, Frederik Munk,Mikkel Egelund Nielsen, Francisco Burgos

Wed. 21.08 / Time 19.30With VoiCeVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, Kammermusiksal

Works by: T. NielsenE. Højsgaard G. KurtágA. Blanes D. Heusinger

Performers: Hanne Marie le Fevre, voiceDaniela Acampora, voiceKatariina Petersen, fluteMarie Sønderskov, fluteChristian Tscherning Larsen, tromboneSynne Skagen, percussionAna Rocío Lama, guitarPanu Henriksson, guitarMikkel Schou, guitar

Thu. 22.08 / Time 19.30FinAl ConCertWorks by: H. ÖerhingG. F. Haas A. Fuentes B. FurrerR. Zwicki M. Heiniö

Performers:Camilla Løvstad, sopranoStudents from: Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg, Helsinki Conservatory, Royal Academy of Music, Aar-hus and Conservatorio Superior de Música “Manuel Castillo”, Sevilla.

bioSJosé M. Sánchez-Verdú, Composer, was born in Algeciras (Spain) in 1968. He graduated in Orchestra Conducting, Musicology and Composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid and has a degree in Law (Universidad Complutense). He studied composition in 1992 under F. Donatoni in Siena. He finished his post-graduate studies under H. Zender at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt from 1996 to 1999 and gained first experiences as composer in resi-dence at the Spanish Academy in Rome in 1997 and du-ring the DAAD/la Caixa scholarship from 1997 to 1999. As a conductor, he has worked with different ensembles and orchestras in Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, Peru, Argentina, Egypt, etc. (Ensemble Modern, KNM Berlin, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Orquesta Sinfónica de Gali-cia, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and many more).

His versatile carrier led to numerous commissions contai-ning the Hannover Biennial for new music, the Expo 2000 German pavilion, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza of Granada, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich Biennial, Teatro Real de Madrid,  Venice Biennale/Operadohy/Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, Beet-hoven-Festspiele Bonn, Salzburg Biennale, etc. His works have been performed at festivals such as Venice Bienna-le, Saarbrücken-Festspiele, MaerzMusik Berlin, Warsaw Autumn Festival, and at venues like Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Berlin and Cologne Philharmonics, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Musikverein (Vienna), Progetto-Musica (Rome), Spring Festival (Prague), Ultraschall Ber-lin, Ars Musica Brussels, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center (New York).Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976) studied with Ras-mussen, Spahlinger, Valverde and Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen, received nu-merous grants and awards - most recently the Carl Niel-sen Prize (DK) and Kunstpreis Musik from Akademie der Künste 2013, Kranichsteiner Music Award 2008, the In-ternational Rostrum of Composers, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm 2010, and received commissions by ensembles, orchestras and festivals such as ensemble recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten, the SWR Orchestra, the French National Orchestra, Ensemble Ascolta, Donaue-schinger Musiktage, Ultraschall, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik and ECLAT. Simon Steen-Andersen is ac-tive as a composer, performer and installation artist as well as a lecturer of composition at the Royal Academy

of Music in Aarhus, Denmark and author of articles pub-lished in magazines such as kunstmusik, positionen, autograf, nutida musik and parergon. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany. 2013-2014 guest professor at the Nor-wegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

Simon Steen-Andersen’s works include instrumental music, electronics, video and performance within a range of settings from symphony and chamber music (with and without multimedia) to installations. The works from the last 5 years concentrate on integrating concrete elements in the music and emphasizing the physical and choreo-graphic aspects of instrumental performance. The works often include amplified acoustic instruments in combina-tion with sampler, video (playback, interactive and live-video), simple everyday objects and obsolete electronics or homemade constructions/extensions/preparations of the instruments.

Joachim F. W. Schneider, composer, studied with Heinz Winbeck at the Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg. He has received many national and international awards, inclu-ding 1st Prize in the II. International Uuno Klami Com-position Competition, the Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis, given by the German Federal State of Bavaria, and the European Composer’s Award. His works have been per-formed by prestigious soloists, ensembles and orchestras (such as Sol Gabetta, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Lap-land Chamber Orchestra, Kymi Sinfonietta, Münchener Kammerherrn) and have been played in Europe, USA and Canada. He worked with conductors such as Kent Naga-no, John Storgårds, Yasuo Shinozaki, Alexander Liebreich and Jonathan Stockhammer. Schneider’s compositions include works for string quartet, orchestra and choir as well as piano, guitar and solo tuba. His music is complex and multilayered, he uses all possible ways of expression and techniques of the instruments involved. This variety is brought together into an own and original aestheticism which is dense in colour and time. Schneider has taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg since 1998. He gives lessons in music theory to advanced placement students (PreCollege). Since the summer term 2013 he is deputy professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg

Malin Bång (1974) is residing in Berlin and Stockholm, Sweden. Her work includes music for instrumental en-sembles, orchestra, staged music, electronic music, in-strumental sound installations and performance pieces. Her music is performed in festivals and concerts such as Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (DE), Festival Musica Strasbourg (FR), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (DE), Huddersfield (UK), Sommerakademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (DE), Voix Nouvelles and Grand Atelier at Ro-

yaumont (FR), June in Buffalo (US), Nuovo Virtuoso (JP), Zeitfenster at Konzerthaus Berlin (DE), EstoVest in Torino (IT), Ultima festival in Oslo (NO), Sound Around and SPOR festivals in Denmark, Stockholm New Music, and the nor-dic festivals Ung Nordisk Musik and Nordic Music Days. Malin Bång is the Composer In Residence for Curious Chamber Players, Sweden’s most active young contem-porary music ensemble, with which she has had a close collaboration since the start in 2003.

Her music has been performed by ensembles and mu-sicians such as ensemble recherche (DE), Ensemble Aleph (FR), Nadar (BE), Ensemble Cairn (FR), Ensemble Contrechamps (CH), Ensemble SurPlus (DE), Madrigirls (JP), Athelas Sinfonietta (DK), Figura (DK), Esbjerg En-semble (DK), The Icelandic Flute Ensemble (IS), Ham-rali∂ Choir (IS), KammarensembleN (SE), The Six Tones (VN/SE), Sabine Vogel (DE), Liv-Merete Kroken (NO), George Kentros (SE), KROCK (SE), the Basho Ensem-ble (SE), Quartet Nordir (SE). She has received many grants and commissions from Integra, Fondation de Royaumont, Ultima Festival, the Nordic Music Days, the Swedish Radio, the Swedish Concert Institute, the Ro-yal Swedish Music Academy, and the Swedish Art Grant Committee among others.

Rei Munakata, composer and conductor, is currently the artistic director and the principal conductor of the Stockholm based contemporary music ensemble Curious Chamber Players. He has led the group to numerous world premiere performances all over the world. He is also the conductor of ensemble Scenatet in Aarhus and Mimita-bu in Göteborg. He is frequently collaborating with new music ensembles such as Gageego! Gothenburg, Kam-marensemble Neue Musik Berlin, SMASH Ensemble Sa-lamanca, Esbjerg Ensemble, Athelas Sinfonietta Copen-hagen, KammarensembleN Stockholm, Ensemble Ars Nova Malmö, Ensemble Aleph Paris, and Oslo Sinfonietta.

Curious Chamber Players (Sweden)Always curious, CCP has since its inception in 2003 ex-plored a wide range of new music repertoire: from hard-core modernism to graphically notated chance music, from minimalism to noise music, and from electronics to improvisation. The ensemble has experimented with framing concerts and sound installations with a unique use of time and space, each different according to the ve-nue and situation. Experimentation is at the core of CCP’s work and past projects have included bringing other art forms such as video improvisation, theatre, Tarot medita-tion, dance, poetry and fragrance. Other than conventional instrumentation (flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello), CCP extends its sound world through integra-ting everyday objects into their projects such as balloons,

kitchen tools, and the infamous “beckoning cat”. CCP has performed in contemporary music festivals such as Gau-deamus, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Donau-Eschingen, November Musik, Sound Scotland, Intersonanzen, Esto-nian Music Days, SPOR, Ung Nordisk Musik, Sirén, and Stockholm New Music to critical acclaim, bringing their own flavour of spontaneity and identity to every project they undertake.With Malin Bång as the resident composer and co-artistic director, CCP specializes in collaborating with composers of the younger generation throughout Scandinavia. As a result the group has formed a special place in Swedish culture which is cosmopolitan in its core membership and repertoire, but also dedicated to the development of art music in the world.

Jürgen Ruck, professor, Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg.First prizes in competitions like the international Kra-nichstein prize for the interpretation of New Music (1990) and 1st prize in “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb”, 1986. He appeared as soloist with e.g. Berlin Philharmonic Orche-stra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris) and the London Sinfonietta. Jürgen Ruck is especially interested in the music of our time: being the guitarist of Ensemble Mo-dern, the leading German Ensemble for New Music and collaborating with important composers like György Kur-tág, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann and John Adams. Jürgen Ruck teaches guitar at the Musikhoch- schule in Würzburg. He has been head of the guitar studio at the International Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2000-2008.

Petri Kumela, main guitar teacher at Metropolia Univer-sity for Applied Sciences. Winner of the international Scandinavian Guitar Festival and Stafford Classical Guitar Competition. In addition to giving solo recitals he is an extremely active chamber musician, has appeared in the ranks of Avanti! and the Tampere Raw chamber ensemble, with Izumi Tateno, Erkki Rautio and Julius Berger and with the Eusia and Tempera String Quartets and with conductors such as Juha Kangas, Hannu Lintu, Yasuo Shinozaki, Dmitri Slo-bodeniouk and John Storgårds. An artist with a special commitment to contemporary music, Petri Kumela has premiered many works both in Finland and abroad. Among the composers who have de-dicated works to him are Paavo Korpijaakko, Jan Vainio, Riikka Talvitie, Lotta Wennäkoski and Pehr Henrik Nord-gren. His partnership with Nordgren resulted in six new additions to the Finnish repertoire for various instrumen-tal combinations, from a solo work to a concerto.

Antonio Duro, professor, Conservatorio Superior de Mú-sica Manuel Castillo, Sevilla. Awards include the XIII International Guitar Competi-tion “Andrés Segovia” (1997), VII International Guitar Duo Competition – Bubenreuth/Germany (2000) and in the X International Guitar Duo Competition – Montelimar/France (2001). He has performed as a soloist and with dif-ferent chamber music ensembles in international guitar festivals in Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Italy… as well as collaborated as a soloist with the “Orquesta Sinfó-nica de Sevilla” in Cinema Music Series with Ennio Mor-riccone, Orchestra “Manuel de Falla” of Cádiz, Chamber Music Orchestra “Manuel Castillo” of Seville, Orchestra Mouvement 12 of France and Bratislava Symphony Or-chestra. He has recorded the music of different theatrical and contemporary dance productions.

Frederik Munk Larsen (1974) is pursuing a path of uncompromising artistic quality and versatility. His close collaboration with contemporary composers has resulted in the premiere of more than 100 works - both solo and in various chamber music constellations. He is Associate Professor and the main teacher of classical guitar at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Hochschule für Musik, Köln, and in Barcelona. F. Munk Larsen has given concerts in the USA, most European countries and South America - both as soloist, in solo recitals and in different chamber music constellations. In 2006 he premiered Si-mon Steen-Andersen’s monumental and demanding gui-tar concerto, “Amongst” together with the Aalborg Sym-phony Orchestra. He frequently performs with ensembles like Scenatet, Curious Chamber Players (SWE), Aarhus Sinfonietta, Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, Esbjerg Ensemble and trio Voz Nueva. A winner of several prizes both as a soloist and chamber musician, numerous ap-pearances in the national radios in all of the European countries and up to now 9 CD releases - solo and with various ensembles on the labels Dacapo, Classico and Danacord.

Seth Josel - originally from New York, now residing in Berlin - has as a soloist concertized in Europe, the US and Canada. He has performed as a guest with leading orchestras and ensembles of Europe, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), the RSB Berlin, the Deut-sches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, and has appeared at several major European festivals including the Salzburg Festspiele, Ars Musica, Donaueschingen, The Holland Festival, Munich Biennale and London’s South Bank Fes-tival. From 1991 till 2000 he was a permanent member of the Ensemble Musikfabrik NRW. In recent seasons he has been guesting regularly with KNM Berlin, Ensemble

SurPlus of Freiburg as well as with the Basel Sinfonietta.As ensemble player and soloist Seth Josel has been in-volved in the first performances of more than one hund-red works. He has collaborated and consulted closely with such composers as Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail and James Tenney. In addition, he has been highly committed to working with several of the young composers of our time. He appears as ensemble/chamber music performer on several CDs. He recorded Berio’s “Sequenza XI” for the complete Sequenza-Cycle which was released on Mode, and the eagerly awaited magnum opus “33-127” by Peter Ablinger was released by Mode in February 2009.

In addition to having published articles which concern is-sues related to New Art Music, Seth Josel is co-founder of “www.sheerpluck.de”, a website dedicated to contem-porary guitar music which has been online since the sum-mer of 2003.

At GUITAR+ he will present his new book “The Techniques of Guitar Playing” - to be published on Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel.

SCENATET is recognized as one of the most innovative and experimental ensembles for music and sound art in Denmark. The ensemble moves in a cross-genre field of music, drama and happenings to areas with yet undefined genre. In addition, they have a close cooperation with the younger generation of Danish composers and a strong commitment to the international avant-garde repertoire. Performances at A.O. Bergen Festspillene, Huddersfield Festival, November Musik, Transit Festival, Ultima Festi-val, Spor Festival and many more.

SeminArSThu. 15.08 / Time 20.00Simon Steen-AndersenVenue: Musikhuset Aarhus, Kammermusiksal

Fri. 16.08 / Time 14.00 Malin BångVenue: Room 224, Royal Academy of Music, Musikhuset Aarhus

Mon. 19.08 / Time 13.00 José Maria Sánchez-VerdúVenue: Room 224, Royal Academy of Music, Musikhuset Aarhus

SCENATETensemble for art & music

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