spokenscores
Trickster Orchestra
What is the relationship between writing, speaking and musical scores in a post-migrant and globalized musical practice? In a new cooperation with HELLERAU, the Trickster Orchestra, recently accepted into the “Excellent Orchestra Landscape Germany”, presents itself in a one-week residency at DTzM. Together with the New York composer George Lewis, some of the world’s most outstanding virtuosos from a wide range of global art music genres will explore the fascinating border areas between written and oral scores, in which the relationship between performer and composer is reshaped.
Duration: ca. 1 h 20 min
Little dialog
19:00 introduction of the work in german and english
A cooperation with the Trickster Orchestra. The project is realized with the kind support of Musikfonds e.V. and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The Trickster Orchestra is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
The Trickster Orchestra brings together outstanding soloists in a post-migrant contemporary music ensemble. Under the direction of Cymin Samawatie and Ketan Bhatti, the orchestra brings together some of the world’s most virtuosic musicians and their fascinating range of instruments from diverse global musical traditions in one of the most exciting, innovative musical forms of our time. With their special knowledge and the r/evolutionary sound of the ensemble, they forge new worlds like the mythological tricksters, inevitably disrupting traditional boundaries and orders. The ensemble includes soloists from jazz, global art music traditions, electronic, real-time and new music as well as free improvisation. The Trickster Orchestra was founded in 2013 by Cymin Samawatie, Ketan Bhatti and Philip Geisler and has performed in Europe and West Asia, including at Jazzfest Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Bauart Istanbul. In 2021, the debut album was released by ECM Records. In 2022, the orchestra won the German Jazz Award for Best Large Ensemble and the TONALi Classical Music Prize for its courage to embrace utopia.
George Lewis is an American composer, musicologist, computer installation artist, and trombonist. He is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University, Area Chair in Composition and Department of Historical Musicology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Other honors for George Lewis include the Doris Duke Artist Award (2019), fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation (2002), and the Guggenheim Foundation (2015). His work in electronic and computer-based music and multimedia installation, as well as notated and improvised formats, has been performed by ensembles worldwide and he is widely considered a pioneer of interactive computer music, developing programs that improvise with human musicians. His music is published by Edition Peters.
