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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Like last year, the Capital of Culture year edition of the contemporary music festival and competition revolves around the thoughts and concerns of the master Remus Georgescu, who is said to have said that “music can also be seen as a way of sculpture, of shaping the sky can”. Accordingly, the theme of this year’s festival is “sound sculpture” as a source of inspiration for the five composers, the winners of the International Remus Georgescu Competition.
“Maestro Remus Georgescu was and remains an extremely valuable and respected musician, an outstanding personality in our city. He has influenced many generations of musicians. His house was a center of attraction for important artists from all areas. He was and remains a reference point for many musicians and I am one of the lucky ones who had him as a teacher, first in orchestration and then in composition…and the fact that we keep his memory alive is not a duty, but the desire to perhaps give others at least a small insight into what the master gave us,” says the Timisoara composer Gabriel Almași, adding: “Music is a form of truth, and contemporary music is a form of freedom that comes from the everyday present has broken out. You don’t need any preparation for contemporary music, just openness and curiosity. There are so many styles of contemporary music in this festival, and certainly a large part of the audience will find themselves somewhere.”
This 10th edition lasts ten days and is now nearing its end on October 26th. In addition to concerts, it also hosted lectures, a composition workshop (with Yann Robin from France) and a symposium. The artistic director of the festival for new music (formerly known to Timisoara as “Intrada”) is composer Gabriel Mălăncioiu. In the run-up to the festival there was a composition competition with over 150 entries from all over the world. Five winners were chosen by the Timisoara jury, whose works were presented within the festival. The concert was conceived as a traveling performance that began on Sunday, in the Central Park/Parcul Central with Joel Frederick Kirk’s piece by the Percutissimo band, in the Cărturești bookstore with the sound sculpture by Áron Török-Gyurkó of the Romanian Flute Ensemble (director Matei Ioachimescu), Bas Martin Wistinghausen performed Henri Colombat’s third winning work in the foyer of the Romanian National Opera, and then the auditory vocal ensemble from Dresden performed Michael Taplin’s piece in St. George’s Cathedral. Finally, there was “Atem” sound sculpture with Yuri Demetz in the Theresien Bastion.
“Exosculpturi” is the name of the concert that the German composer and singer bass Martin Wistinghausen will give this evening together with the breathing ensemble from Timisoara from 7 p.m. in the Capitol Hall of the Banatul Philharmonic. The last concert of the festival, on October 26th, is perhaps a highlight of the entire festival, with the presence of the Metamorfosis ensemble from Serbia, together with violist Saša Mirkovic, under the motto “Balkan Sound Sculptures” in the Capitol Hall from 7 p.m will be heard. It is to be welcomed that Brâncuși’s works can be seen in the National Art Museum at the same time as the sound sculptures and that this year an increasing number of students from the Faculty of Music and Theater Studies at the Timisoara West University are taking part in the concerts and have even contributed, said Gabriel Mălăncioiu.
2023-10-24 01:05:14
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