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The purpose of this Music Week is to promote and protect advent-garde and experimental music by unfolding the achievements in new music, to bring Shanghai audience face-to-face contact with the new music by new international maestros while enjoying the new civilization created by humankind, and to introduce new music by Composers of Shanghai Conservatory. During the Music Week, Qu Xiaosong, selected as the composer-in-residence considering his combination of rooted Chinese traditional culture and western contemporary musical cultivation, is to give a portrait concert, a lecture on his own works and two master classes for young composers. His elegant, ethereal but innovative music is flowing with Taoist and Zen spirit and incarnates unique features of Chinese traditional literati.
Ensemble GRENZENLOS is to bring us a number of music works which premiere in China, including Vortex Temporum by Gérard Grisey, one of the founders of French Spectral Music, Sequenza VI by Luciano Berio, Tre Notturni Brillianti by Salvatore, Triplum by Franco Donatoni, three well-known Italian composers, Clarinet Quartet by Penderecki, ‘Pression by Helmut Lachenmann, a German composer of noise music and other some of new works by young European composers ...
The American pianist, Thomas Rosenkranz, is to present us a profusion of excellent music by less well-known composers, like Piano Piece no.4 by Frederic Rzewski, Piano Sonata no. 2 “Concord Mass” by Charles Ives, The Body of Your Dreams (for piano and boombox) by Jacob Ter Veldhuis.
Chinese composers, the objects of our protection and support, are sure to be promoted especially favorably during the Music Week. Except for Qu Xiaosong’s early master pieces and some of his recent pioneer works, new music of traditional Chinese and western styles by composers in Shanghai Conservatory are carefully picked out as well as some of the work by Liang Lei, a young Chinese composer who are beginning to become famous overseas.
In order to encourage students to become skillful in performing contemporary music, Practice Concert x by Contemporary Music Performance Class of Shanghai Conservatory is also included in the Music Week, which will present excellent works by composers of Shanghai Conservatory with their high quality performance.
With the purpose of gearing the lectures for Master Classes to international standards, Eric Gaudibert, the famous Swiss composer and educator, is to introduce his own music and make on-the-spot comments on music works by Shanghai Conservatory students.
The art sound of installation is a burgeoning form of sound art in the world. Introducing such a form of art to our music week will help draw our audience closer to contemporary music, immerse our environment into an artistic ambience and infuse contemporary music with human culture. Robin Minard, the Canadian composer who teaches in Germany, is to decorate our campus with modern acoustics while bringing us his electro music.
Electro music has become one of indiscerptible parts in modern music. Three foreign composers of electro music, invited by the Electric Music Department of Shanghai Conservatory, will add more slenderness and magnificence to our music week with their lectures and electric music concert.
Wen Deqing
The Artistic Director
June 21, 2008, Shanghai