Composers at breakfast
with ensemble courage & Hanspeter Kyburz
The Dresden ensemble courage presents the renowned composer Hanspeter Kyburz in a concert format – with Sunday morning coffee and moderated discussions – whose music is primarily based on electronic methods and processes and is essentially characterised by chaos theory and fractal geometry.
For Hanspeter Kyburz, who now lives and teaches in Berlin, each new piece marks the beginning of an individual, meticulous and analytical research project. The study of models of systems theory and computer-aided formal processes, as well as the element of planned structure, is very important in his work and is repeatedly influenced by phenomena from other artistic genres such as literature, visual art or film.
Program
- Danse aveugle for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello (1996/97/2013), 14‘
- Tropus for violoncello solo (2012/2013), 10‘
- Réseaux for flute, oboe, harp, piano, violin, violoncello (2003/2007/2012), 25‘
Duration: ca. 2 h
Language: German
Breakfast includes: 1 bread roll (optionally another bread roll or a sweet pastry), butter or margarine, jam as offered, 1 glass of fruit juice, filter coffee
Hanspeter Kyburz, born on 8 July 1960 in Lagos/Nigeria to Swiss parents, began his composition studies in 1980 with Gösta Neuwirth and Andrzej Dobrowolsky in Graz. In 1982, he moved to Berlin, where he continued his composition studies with Frank Michael Beyer and again with Neuwirth, and also studied musicology (with Carl Dahlhaus), philosophy and art history. This was followed by further studies with Hans Zender in Frankfurt/Main. Kyburz has received numerous prizes, including the Boris Blacher Prize in 1990, the Schneider-Schott Prize in 1994, the Academy of Arts Berlin Prize in 1996 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Prize in 2000; he was also a fellow of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
He has worked as a lecturer at the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, taught at the Basel University of Music and has held a professorship for composition at the Hans Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin since 1997. Kyburz has become known as a composer through performances at the Berlin Biennale, the Vienna Festival, the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik and the Donaueschinger Musiktage, among others. His works have been interpreted by internationally renowned ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Contrechamps Geneva, Ensemble Modern, Camerata Quartet Warsaw and ensemble recherche Freiburg. Kyburz fulfils commissions from various radio stations and music festivals. Important works by him such as Cells, The Voynich Cipher Manuscript and Malstrom were premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. In summer 2001, Kyburz was composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival.
With:
ensemble courage and guests
Musical direction: Xixi Wang
Moderation and talk: Jan Michael Horstmann with Hanspeter Kyburz
‘Composer at Breakfast’ is a cooperation between ensemble courage and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts. The concert is supported by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the City of Dresden and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This programme is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
