11th FESTIVAL SLOWIND 2009

Featured ensembles:

KAIROS Quartet
SToP – Slovenian Percussion Project
TASF – Slovenian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble

October 10, 2009 from 10.30 until 18:00

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, Ljubljana, “Modra soba” (5th floor)
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP for musicians, composers, musicologists, students of music and musicology and any other professionals (in English)
lecturer Prof Chou Wen-chung – Composer, Professor Emeritus at Columbia Universiy, New York, Varèse’s last assistant and editor
Programme:
Edgard Varese: Insights on the man and his music
A discussion of Déserts, his magnum opus, in which Varèse declares his vision for the future of music.

October 10, 2009 at 20:00

Ljubljana, Slovenska filharmonija (Slovenian Philharmonic), Marjan Kozina Hall – Festival Slowind 2009
Pre-concert talk at 19.15 with the composer Mihael Paš
Slowind Wind Quintet
KAIROS Quartet
SToP – Slovenian Percussion Project
TASF – Slovenian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
conductor Robert Aitken
Programme:
André Jolivet: Cérémonial – Hommage a Varese for six percussionists
Mihael Paš (b. 1970): New Work for woodwind quintet, piano, axe and electronic
Chou Wen-chung (b. 1923): Echoes from the Gorge for four percussionists
Chou Wen-chung: Introduction with the dias to the work Déserts
Edgard Varese (1883-1965): Déserts (1950-54, rev. 1961)

October 11, 2009 at 20:00

Ljubljana, Slovenska filharmonija (Slovenian Philharmonic), Marjan Kozina Hall – Festival Slowind 2009
Pre-concert talk at 19.00 with the composer Petra Strahovnik
Slowind Wind Quintet
KAIROS Quartet
SToP – Slovenian Percussion Project
TASF – Slovenian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
conductor Robert Aitken
Barbara Jernejčič Fürst mezzo-soprano
Programme:
Edgard Varese (1883-1965): Offrandes
Albert Roussel: Deux Poemes de Ronsard, op. 26 for soprano and flute
Chou Wen-chung: Twilight Colors
Albert Roussel: Divertissement, op. 6 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano
Carlos Salzedo: Concerto for harp and seven wind instruments
Petra Strahovnik: Indigo for wind quintet, two percussionists and tape
Claude Debussy (arr. Benno Sachs): Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune

October 12, 2009 at 21:00

Ljubljana, Kinodvor (The Dvor Cinema)
Slowind Wind Quintet
KAIROS Quartet
SToP – Slovenian Percussion Project
TASF – Slovenian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
conductor Robert Aitken
Programme:
Edgard Varese (1883-1965): Octandre (1923)
Edgard Varese: Density 21.5 (1936, rev. 1946) for flute solo, Bis Edition 1936
Pogovor z Chou Wen-chungom
The One All Alone – A film by Franka Schefferja (2008)

October 13, 2009 at 20:00

Ljubljana, Slovenska filharmonija (Slovenian Philharmonic), Marjan Kozina Hall – Festival Slowind 2009
Pre-concert talk at 19.00 with the composer Vasja Progar
Slowind Wind Quintet
KAIROS Quartet
SToP – Slovenian Percussion Project
TASF – Slovenian Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
conductor Robert Aitken
Programme:
Edgard Varese: Hyperprism (1922-23)
Ferruccio Busoni (arr. Erwin Stein): Berceuse, élègiaque. Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarg seiner Mutter, op. 42
Carl Ruggles: Angels for four trumpets and three trombones
Vasja Progar: New Work for wind quintet
Edgard Varese: Intégrales (1925)
Edgard Varese: Ionisation (1929-31) for 13 percussionists

14. oktober 2009, ob 20:00

Ljubljana, Slovenska filharmonija (Slovenian Philharmonic), Marjan Kozina Hall – Festival Slowind 2009
KAIROS Quartet
Programme:
Claude Debussy: String Quartet
Julio Estrada (1943): Canto mnémico Fugue en 4 dimensions
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): st/4 – 1,080262 [1955-62] Giorgio Netti (1963): )place( [2001]