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2024
Enno Poppe
Workshop leader / Composer in Residence 2024Participants
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Patrik Kako (1998)- studies composition at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Luboš Mrkvička, Michal Rataj and (Hanuš Bartoň 2017-2019), he participated in the Erasmus exchange program at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig, in the class of Fabien Lévy and electro-acoustic music with Prof. Ipke Starke.
His current compositional work is based on the pillars of analysis and various transformations of sound recordings, the result of which serves as an inspirational cohesive material in various elements. The result of the analysis is combined at various points in the traditional composition. (instrumentation, a combination of instruments, chordal timing, etc.). The formal aspect is the simultaneous combination of several harmonic layers and their implementation over time. In his work, we hear a summary of avant-garde information from the second half of the twentieth century, a post-Webern tradition, and also inspiration from spectral music. An integral part of his work is the use of advanced tool techniques and their hierarchization in the compositional process.
Since 2020, he has led the student ensemble Ensemble Terrible, with whom he premiered his chamber opera finitika, a chamber opera about the end of human evolution. A recent success was the guest appearance of the soloist Martin Adámek. In 2022 he presented two projects with 12 new works by composers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the USA.He conducted the project eroica > re:destructed, where he performed recompositions of Beethoven's Eroica.
Professional experience
Cooperation with Klangforum Wien (Prague offspring 2022), MDI ensemble (masterclasses with F. Bedrossian + Marco Stroppa (june 2023), Festival Mixtur (2023). Compositional - orchestra experiences - Philharmonic Hradec Králove (2021), North Czech Philharmonic (2020).
Director and conductor - Ensemble Terrible (2020—2023), where I composed a chamber opera .finitika (2020), and created dramaturgy plan (recomposition of Beethovens Eroica).
His compositions are regularly performed at various Slovak and Czech festivals, such as Asynchronie, a project of the SOUNDME. Recently, his audiovisual compositions were performed in concerts by the Swedish group FMT Musik-SPETRA in Sweden, Brazil, and Malaysia.
Masterclass: Frank Bedrossian, Hector Parra, Tristan Murial, Mark André, Miguel Azguime, Marco Stroppa, Ivo Medek, Anders Flodin, etc.
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Marco Longo (1979) is an Italian composer and pianist. His musical catalogue includes chamber works, orchestral compositions, solo pieces and music for theatre.
His works have been played in several concerts and festivals in Europe, USA and China, like Festival Pontino (Latina), Nuove Musiche (Treviso), GAMO (Firenze), Rondò (Milano), Mondi Sonori (Trento), Mixtur (Barcelona), Mostra Sonora de Sueca (Valencia), New Music Miami, Mise- en Festival (New York), Sun River Prize (Chengdu - Cina), Noisy Nights (Scotland), Festival 5 Giornate (Milano), Matinée dell'Accademia (Roma), Cluster (Lucca), Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Roma), Nuova Consonanza (Roma), Festival Il Suono, ISCM 2018 World New Music Days (Beijing), NOSPR (Katowice), Echoes of Time (Miami) International Review of Composers (Belgrade), Encuentros Sonoros (Sevilla), Twin Cities Contemporary Music Festival (USA), Weimarer Früjahrstage, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Centro Cultural de Belem (Portugal) etc.
Ensembles and soloists who have performed his works include Divertimento Ensemble, Dedalo Ensemble, SurPlus, AlterEgo, dissonArt, l’Arsenale, PMCE, Vertixe Sonora, mise-en ensemble, Nodus, Red Note ensemble, Tokyo Nomad ensemble, NewMade ensemble, Ensemble Suonogiallo, Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, Imago Sonora, via nova ensemble, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Icarus vs. Muzak, Grupo Musica Contemporanea Lisboa, Alda Caiello, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Francesco Gesualdi, Dario Savron, Marco Fusi.
He won prizes and honor mentions at several national and international composition competitions: the National Prize of Arts, “Premio Bucchi” (Roma), “A. Manoni” competition, G.A.M.’s Composition Competition (Milano), Jeunesse Musical Competition (Bucarest), MeA Competition (Roma), AFAM Competition (Milano), “...a Camillo Togni” International Competition (Brescia), Sun River Prize (China), NewMade Week (Milano), "L. Nono" Competition (Torino), International Wroclaw Orchestra Competition (Poland), Premio Evangelisti (Roma), Irino Prize (Tokyo), Weimar Composition Competition (Germany), “J.Peixinho” Competition (Lisboa).
His music has been broadcasted by Rai RadioTre and RadioClassica.
He is founder of MotoContrario, a musical ensemble and a collective of composers and performers, based in Trento (Italy), born for the study and the divulgation of the contemporary repertoire.
He earned the Piano Diploma and the Composition Diploma at the State Conservatory in Trento, his hometown.
Then he has improved his knowledge of composition with Azio Corghi and Mauro Bonifacio in Siena (Accademia Chigiana), in Brescia (Romanini Foundation) and in Bologna (Philarmonic Academy). He took also part in seminars and masterclass held by A. Solbiati, S. Gervasoni and N. Vassena.
He was admitted at the Schloss Solitude Summer Academy in Stuttgart, (Chaya Czernowin, Steven Takasugi and Amnon Wolman); he attended the 46th Summer Courses in Darmstadt and the 8th Impuls Academy in Graz, following especially the classes of Pierluigi Billone.
He has earned the Composition Diploma at S.Cecilia Academy in Roma, under the guide of Ivan Fedele.Since his youth, he dedicated himself to teaching: he received a two-years training in piano teaching at Trento Conservatory and he has taught piano, chamber music and ear training at several music schools. He earned a Didactic Master Diploma in piano and the State Teaching Qualification.
He taught Score Reading at Conservatory in La Spezia and in Sassari; currently he teaches Composition at Reggio Emilia Conservatory. -
Franziska Roth begann ihre musikalische Ausbildung im Alter von 16 Jahren mit privatem Violin – und Klavierunterricht bei Peter Czerner und Sándor Galgoczi. Als junge Erwachsene entwickelte sie, aus einer bestehenden Begeisterung für das schöpferische Gestalten in Worten und Zeichnungen heraus, zunehmendes Interesse am Komponieren.
2015 inskribierte sie an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien zunächst für den Vorbereitungslehrgang Komposition, bevor sie ein Jahr später das ordentliche Studium Komposition bei Prof. Herbert Lauermann und anschließend bei Prof. Detlev Müller-Siemens aufnahm und 2023 mit dem Diplom abschloss. Ihre Werke werden von Klangkörpern wie dem Platypus Ensemble, dem Pro Arte Orchester Wien und dem Vogl String Trio unter anderem im Rahmen von Wien Modern und in der Alten Schmiede Wien aufgeführt.
2017 begann Franziska Roth parallel ihr künstlerisches Violinstudium am Joseph-Haydn-Konservatorium Eisenstadt bei Prof. Cornelia Gradwohl und Prof. Florian Wilscher, das sie 2022 mit dem Erwerb des ersten Diploms beendete. Ihr besonderes Augenmerk bei der Repertoireauswahl liegt auf der Erarbeitung zeitgenössischer Werke. Sie konnte professionelle Orchestererfahrung sammeln unter anderem durch die Mitwirkung im Pro Arte Orchester Wien, im Imperial Classic Orchestra sowie im Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich.
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The music of American composer Matthew Schultheis (b. 1997) is driven by a love of visual art and literature, a preference for dramatic, rich, sometimes opulent textures, a reverence for present-day musicians’ inheritance of past musical idioms, and a fascination with the connections performers and listeners make between deeply familiar and newly-heard pieces.
Born in the Washington, D.C. area and based in New York City, Matthew is a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School, having completed his master's degree there in 2022. He has studied with Matthias Pintscher since 2020. He earned his BM in composition, additionally studying piano full-time, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Matthew has collaborated with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra; Attacca, Mivos, JACK, and Hausmann Quartets; IU New Music Ensemble; Ensemble intercontemporain, and Sound Icon. He has participated in summer festivals at Bowdoin College, the Brevard Music Center, New Music On the Point, SUNY-Purchase (with the National Youth Orchestra) and the EAMA–Nadia Boulanger Institute. Upcoming projects in the 2022–23 season include commissions from Ensemble intercontemporain, Giancarlo Latta of the Argus Quartet, and the New York Virtuoso Singers.
Matthew’s music has received three consecutive BMI Student Composer Awards and additional honors from ASCAP, the Society of Composers, Inc., the Music Teachers National Association, and the IU composition department. In 2021, his first work for orchestra, Columbia, In Old Age, received the Palmer Dixon Prize from The Juilliard School for most outstanding work of the year.
An accomplished pianist dedicated to performing new music, Matthew has frequently premiered his own works throughout his time as a student, in addition to giving recitals of music in the standard repertoire. He was a member and frequent featured soloist of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble from 2016–2019. Performances as a soloist with that ensemble include György Ligeti's Piano Concerto (2018), the American premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's Mad Dog (2017), and Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez's concerto New Short Stories (2019). He is also active as a conductor, having directed many of his own works as well as those of his colleagues.
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Christiaan Willemse wurde 1997 in Pretoria, Südafrika geboren. Mit 13 begann er seine musikalische Ausbildung auf der Violine und kurz danach folgte ein Interesse am Komponieren. Im August 2014 war er Teil der Kompositionsklasse von Alexander Müllenbach an der Sommerakademie der Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. 2012 erhielt er den ersten Preis in der Jugend-Kategorie des Stefans Grové National Composition Competition in Südafrika. 2015 wurde er mit einem Preis im Rahmen des Kompositionswettbewerbs des Golden Key Music Festival ausgezeichnet.
Von 2016 bis 2020 studierte er Komposition in der Klasse von Kurt Estermann am Mozarteum in Salzburg. Er schloss das Bachelorstudium im Oktober 2020 mit Auszeichnung ab. Seitdem ist er Teil der Klasse von Johannes Maria Staud,* ebenfalls am Mozarteum, und bleibt nach seinem Masterabschluss im Oktober 2023 weiterhin als Postgraduierter Teil dieser Klasse. Er hatte 2022-2023 die Möglichkeit einen Erasmus-Austausch in Paris in der Klasse von Frédéric Durieux für Instrumentalkomposition und Yan Maresz, Luis Naon und Grégoire Lorieux für Elektronik zu absolvieren. Nebenbei erhielt er das Auslandsstipendium der Francis-Burt-Stiftung Wien für 2022-2023 und war 2023 als Arrangeur an der Produktion Unterwegs am Linzer Landestheater beteiligt.
In den vergangenen Jahren hat er an mehreren Festivals und Akademien für Neue Musik in Europa teilgenommen. Dazu zählen das Crossroads Festival (Salzburg), ARCO (Salzburg/Marseille) und die Académie Ravel (Saint-Jean-de-Luz). In dieser Zeit hatte er die Gelegenheit von der Expertise namhafter Komponisten wie Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Eva Reiter, Henry Foures, Michael Jarrell und Ramon Lazkano zu profitieren. Seine Musik wurde schon von renommierten Ensembles präsentiert, u. a. dem oenm (Österreich), dem Ensemble Zahir (Spanien) und Les Métaboles (Frankreich).
2023 wurde er mit dem ersten Kompositionspreis der Académie Ravel ausgezeichnet. Als Teil des Preises erhält er einen Kompositionsauftrag für das Festival Ravel 2024; dieses Werk wird anschließend von der Edition Durand Salabert Eschig veröffentlicht.
Schedule
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12 – 14 March 2024
Score analysis and working on the applicants’ compositions, workshop with section leaders of the Tonkunstler Orchestra as well a workshop on musical notation for creating a professional score.
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16 – 25 August 2024
Orchestra rehearsals, conducting coaching, video analysis of the orchestra rehearsals and Music Lab-workshops on career development for composers. Ink Still Wet Closing concert: 25 August 2024, 3pm.
(Subject to changes)