Concours de composition / Prix des enfants
Dimanche 3 août - 15h
Eglise Notre Dame de Toute Grâce
Quatuor Lontano :
Pauline Klaus, Olivier Robin, violons
LoÎc Abdelfettah,alto
Camille Renault, violoncelle
PROGRAMME :
Lauréats du Concours de composition 2025
Venez écouter les oeuvres en lice pour le concours de composition 2025 et faites gagner votre candidat favori en l'aidant à remporter le Prix des enfants !
Participation libre
Lauréats du Concours de composition 2025 :
Charles Peck (USA) : "Rift and shade"
Carl Tertio Druml (Autriche) "Toccata dei Cristalli"
Yuki Nakahashi (Japon) : "Quattro Intermezzi"
(Prix du Jury)
Alberto Carretero (Espagne) : "El encaje roto"
(Prix du Jury)
Daniele Di Virgilio (Italie) : "Kordax"
Judith Zaimont (USA) : "A strange Magic"
📍15h : CONCERT
Eglise Notre Dame de Toute Grâce
Durée : 1h
Présentation et découverte en de courts extraits musicaux des 6 quatuors à cordes sélectionnés, en présence des compositeurs.
Présentation : le Quatuor Lontano et les compositeurs lauréats.
📍16h : REMISE DU PRIX DES ENFANTS
Villa Véronique (Parking de L'église)
Durée : 30 minutes
Vote pour l'attribution du Prix des enfants, qui sera remis au compositeur gagnant lors du concert de Gala à 18h.
En compagnie des musiciens du Quatuor Lontano.
Présentation des lauréats:
Alberto Carretero (Seville, 1985) is a composer, researcher and professor. He has a multifaceted background in Composition, Musicology, Computer Engineering and Journalism, with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his thesis about bio-inspired techniques and AI for Music. Winner of numerous international awards and recognitions, his music has been performed in venues such as the Pompidou Center, Carnegie Hall, Wien Modern, Maestranza, Turina by Klangforum, Musikfabrik, Recherche, Intercontemporain, PHACE, etc.
"El encaje roto" (The broken lace) is the direct and sonorous title of one of the stories by the renowned Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán. It is a feminist text "avant la lettre" that anticipates later social movements, showing aspects of female psychology often silenced or frowned upon in a woman. The way in which Bazán describes the scenes and constructs the dynamics of the events serves as a basis for the musical dramaturgy which, without being descriptive, suggests states of mind and a network of perceptions according to possible psychological processes. The musical architecture is guided by a driving impulse that generates a continuous and inexorable movement that branches out in the instruments, articulating time according to levels of speed and real and perceived intensity. The torn yet semi-transparent texture, suggesting rather than showing, inspires the timbral and rhythmic scenes of the string quartet. The warmth of the strings allows for a palette of colours ranging from almost vocal sounds to chills, creaks, thumps and other movements that evoke human nature. The textural framework of the work creates a kind of labyrinth, in which violence takes on the role of the minotaur, not only to be escaped from, but to be defeated.
Carl Tertio Druml (Vienna 1991) studied composition, music theory and philosophy in Amsterdam and Vienna. His work spans various genres from concert music, over film music, to jazz and pop. He has worked with international ensembles such as Ensemble Modern (De), Orchestra for the Earth (Uk) and Quartetto Prometeo (It).
His latest orchestra work Tempus Tempestatis (2024) won the KlangBildKlang prize of the University of Music and performing Arts Vienna.
He is currently working on his orchestra piece Parabeln, which the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg commissioned for the fall 2025.
He lives in Vienna where he writes a PhD in musicology, works as an arranger and sings in the extra chorus of the Vienna State Opera.
"Toccata dei Cristalli" originated during a master class with Salvatore Sciarrino and was reworked in the spring of 2025.
As its name suggests, the piece takes old forms, with their emphasis on motivic interplay and counterpoint, as an example but fills them with a new - crystalline - harmonic language.
Meanwhile it acts as a study on the relationship between fore- and background: glistening harmonies in the air that exchange with the grounded melodic lines on a an unstoppable rhythm that gives no repose.
Daniele Di Virgilio is an Italian Berlin-based composer. His music is inspired by a theatrical imagination and focuses on manipulating and transfiguring human archetypes and cultural references.
Mentee of Peter Eötvös Foundation in 2024, he has been awarded by Krzysztof Penderecki, Magnus Lindberg, Pascal Dusapin and Zygmunt Krauze.
His compositions have been commissioned, performed and promoted by renowned ensembles and institutions, such as MiTo Settembre Musica, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, JACK Quartet, Fidelio Trio, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Divertimento Ensemble, Vacuum Quartet, Barcelona Modern, impuls Festival.
Kordax (or Cordax) has been a satirical and comic dance of ancient Greek comedy, sometimes also described as licentious, obscene and provocative.
The word sounds also pretty similar to the term chorda (Latin) or khordé (Greek), which leads us into the world of musical instruments (e.g., quatuor à cordes).
Therefore the composition is a grotesque ballet conceived for string quartet, where the virtuosity reaches paroxysm and the theatricality of body and voice is pushed to the point of subverting the traditional dynamics of a concert: the triad musicians-dancers-audience is here dropped, leading the performers to merge the different roles.
Né au Japon en 1995, Yuki Nakahashi a étudié la composition à l’Université des Arts de Tokyo et poursuit actuellement ses études au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Ses œuvres couvrent différents domaines tels que la musique vocale, instrumentale, mixte et électronique.
Ses pièces ont été récompensées dans plusieurs concours de composition au Japon et à l’étranger.
En 2022, il a remporté le 2e Prix, le Prix jeune public, le prix des étudiants, le Prix Nicati-de Luze du Concours international de Genève.
Cette œuvre "Quattro Intermezzi" s’inscrit dans mes explorations visant à redécouvrir la musicalité cachée au sein de matériaux qui, à première vue, ne paraissent pas significatifs.
Chaque mouvement se compose de plusieurs fragments anecdotiques, reliés de façon à faire ressortir leurs différences gestuelles.
Par moments, un instrumentiste peut se détacher des autres, créant une tension interne. À travers les quatre mouvements, ces divergences sont mises en valeur afin de former de multiples contrastes expressifs, voire mélodiques.
Charles Peck is a composer whose work has been called “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review) and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund). His music, spanning a range of chamber and large ensembles, has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany and Columbus Symphonies, Alarm Will Sound, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the JACK Quartet, and Sandbox Percussion. Recently awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peck has also received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the McKnight Foundation, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Alarm Will Sound, the Bergamot Quartet, and Ji Hye Jung, among others. His music has been featured at a variety of venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Aspen and Cabrillo Festivals, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Peck is also a member of the composition faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Rift & Shade" is a two-movement piece driven by stark contrasts. The first movement is an energetic, kaleidoscopic rotation of four very short, contrasting gestures, each of which strives to assert itself. The second movement, on the other hand, is a slow and expressive exploration of extreme ranges, with the violins playing melodies in their highest register, while the viola and cello provide a low, shifting drone as an anchor.
The music of Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945) is internationally acclaimed for its immediacy, dynamism and emotion and is performed world-wide. Her style is distinguished by its spirit of rhapsody featuring sudden shifts in texture, instrumental coloring and atmosphere, and unique forms. Her 138 works include several commissioned for major international performance competitions, and many prize-winning pieces covering every genre: Six symphonies, chamber opera, music for wind ensemble, for chorus and solo voice, and works for individual instruments plus a wide variety of chamber music. She is the subject of 27 doctoral dissertations, and two of her compositions are on century lists. Her numerous prizes and honors include the 2016 The American Prize- FIRST PRIZE for Chamber Music Composition, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, awards from both National Endowments (NEA: composition / NEH: musicology), a 2005 Bush Foundation Fellowship and earlier American Pen Women Fellowship, IAWM, CBDNA, Maryland, and New York State, Maryland, and Arizona arts fellowships, the Andrew G. Mellon Foundation (2007), and an Aaron Copland Award (2003). There are a number of significant prizes especially for her orchestral music: First Prize - Gold Medal - Gottschalk Centenary International Composition Competition (1972); First Prize - contest to honor the Statue of Liberty Centennial (1986); First Prize - International McCollin Competition for Composers (1995; Symphony No. 1); and Ernst Bacon Award: The American Prize (2018, PURE, COOL (Water) - Symphony No. 4).
A STRANGE MAGIC : an active single 12-minute movement, it begins as it remains throughout: immediate, confrontational, rhythmic, intense.. Constructed in 3 big building blocks from the opening motive of competing minor seconds flared in opposing directions, the quartet is only occasionally relieved by more restful, poetic moments. The descriptive word "Strange" refers to ritual incantations and spells (of faith as well as the arcane) which have no fixed length and do their job absolutely, though in non-logical ways -- mysterious, yet purposeful.