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1/16/2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Toronto, January 12, 2006
PLEASE ADD TO YOUR LISTINGS THROUGH TO FEBRUARY 5, 2006
Playing in Tongues
A snapshot of the Canadian Music Scene
Sunday, February 5 at 8pm at the Music Gallery, St. George the Martyr
Continuum presents the second concert in its 20th anniversary season, Playing in Tongues, a snapshot of the Canadian scene featuring world premieres by three of our most original composers � Peter Hatch, Michael Oesterle and Patrick Saint-Denis. Taking form and technique to the breaking point, Hatch and Saint-Denis play with theatre and virtuosity in works for full ensemble while Oesterle reflects on the past in his monumental new duo for violin and piano. The program also includes Meet Caf�, by Argentinean-American Fernando Benadon. The work was selected through Continuum's 2003 International Call for Scores*. Playing in Tongues, featuring the Continuum Ensemble with conductor Robin Engelman takes place Sunday, February 5 at 8pm at the Music Gallery, St. George the Martyr.
Peter Hatch�s Five Memos alludes to Italo Calvino�s writing with a series of theatrical tableaux in which the ensemble fade in and out of darkness. Incorporating �some unusual behaviour from the players�, Hatch plays with the conventions which separate the rehearsal room from the concert hall. The new work follows in a long line of theatrical and multi-media creations, stemming from his interest in extending traditional concert music performance practices and from collaborations with director David McMurray Smith, architect Dereck Revington and choreographers David Earle and Bill James. Active as a curator and artistic director, Hatch is currently Artistic Director of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound. He is also Professor and coordinator of the composition programme at The Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Young Qu�b�cois composer Patrick Saint-Denis won the prestigious Jules-L�ger Prize in 2004. He cites creative influences ranging from composers Charles Ives, Anton Webern and G�rard Grisey to Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaker, director Robert Lepage, and writer Peter Handke. His new work for Continuum, Zone Confortable, features an ambient CD part derived from the Qu�bec-Expo 2004. Born in Quebec City in 1975, Saint-Denis studied composition at conservatories in Quebec City, Montreal and The Hague, where his teachers included Serge Provost, Clarence Barlow and Louis Andriessen. His music has been played at many festivals, including the International Gaudeamus Music Week (The Netherlands, 2003, 2004), Montreal Nouvelles Musiques (Canada, 2005) and the ISCM World Music Days in Zagreb (Croatia, 2005).
Michael Oesterle envisages his monumental duo for violin and piano, Heuristic Imitations, as a �bridge between aesthetic models... The piece�s ornamentation draws from the �lightness� of the Romantic period�s intimate, and somehow mundane, salon aesthetic.� However, �what appears to be ornamentation, are in fact fragments of a pre-existing architecture�� One of the leading composers of his generation, Oesterle won the international Gaudeamus Prize in 1995, the Grand Prize at the 12th CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers, and the Jules-L�ger Prize in 1998. Oesterle's works have been performed by ensembles including the Ives Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Contemporain de Montr�al (ECM), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), the Chicago Civic Orchestra, les Percussions de Strasbourg, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He has produced projects in collaboration with German composer Gerhard Staebler, violinist Clemens Merkel, painters Christine Unger and video/installation artist Wanda Koop. Currently, he is developing the music for a film by animator Christopher Hinton, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Meet Caf�, by Argentinean composer Fernando Benadon, takes its title from a passage in William Burroughs� novel Naked Lunch and was inspired by the novel�s �recklessness, intensity, nonlinearity, and humour�. A native of Buenos Aires, Benadon (b. 1972) studied jazz at the Berklee College of Music and composition at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in 2004. He is the winner of the Fromm commission at Tanglewood, the Aaron Copland Award from the Copland House, the League of Composers/ISCM Competition, and UC-Berkeley�s Ladd Prize for a two-year residency in Paris. His soundtrack for the feature film Arimpara premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and was screened at film festivals around the world.
About Continuum
Now in its 20th season, Toronto�s fearless Continuum ensemble performs contemporary music with virtuosity and passion across Canada and Europe. Anne Thompson (flute), Max Christie (clarinet), Benjamin Bowman (violin), Paul Widner (cello), Laurent Philippe (piano) and Ryan Scott and Graham Hargrove (percussion) form the core ensemble, often augmented by voice, other instruments or electronics. De Telegraaf (Amsterdam) wrote, �Continuum performs magic with sound.�
Continuum offers a way for people who love music and are curious about the world around them to engage � as a listener, as a supporter or as a volunteer. Continuum originated as a collective of composers and musicians dedicated to presenting contemporary music and fostering the work of emerging composers. Through energy, imagination and superb musicianship, Continuum has become a vital part of the contemporary cultural scene in Canada and increasingly abroad. Concerts in the 2005-06 season are curated by Juliet Palmer and James Rolfe while artistic director Jennifer Waring is currently in residence at the European centre for creative music, the Gaudeamus Foundation in Amsterdam. On Thursday, June 8, Continuum presents Touch Space, as part of the soundaxis Festival of Music and Architecture at The Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building (University of Toronto).
* Continuum�s biennial Call for Scores provides an opportunity to bring exciting new works, new composers, and even new forms of music, to the attention of a widening audience. �We have been ploughing through a mountain of scores and CDs sent from around the globe - from Chihuahua to Gorgonzola - since November�, comment guest curators James Rolfe & Juliet Palmer. �In response to our 2005 Call for Scores, we received over 450 works from 140 composers working in 34 countries. We look forward to bringing the fruits of the Call to our audience over the coming seasons.�
Continuum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, the Laidlaw Foundation, the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation, the SOCAN Foundation and the Julie Jiggs Foundation.
Playing in Tongues
Sunday, February 5 at 8pm -Music Gallery, St. George the Martyr: 197 John Street, Toronto
Individual Tickets: $20 regular/$10 seniors and arts workers/$5 students (cheapseats)
Music Gallery box office (416) 204-1080
Continuum (416) 924-4945
www.continuummusic.org
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