Thursday November 6 2014 20:30 Concerts 21:30 Sharp!

Sonic Trans-Fusion Concert in NK Projekt

Solo Performances by Philippe Petit / Yoni Silver / Iancu Dumitrescu

Soloist Special Guest: Stephen O’Malley

World premieres by Philippe Petit, Ana-Maria Avram, Iancu Dumitrescu, Yoni Silver,

Hyperion Ensemble is a chamber music ensemble based in Bucharest. It was founded in 1976 by composer Iancu Dumitrescu and specializes in the performance of contemporary classical music, more particular it is the main promoter in Romania of the Spectral Music trend. Spectralism has become worldwide present with several notorious main schools from France, Canada, Italy and Romania, the Romanian school being largely accepted as the most valuable contributor to this trend. HYPERION has attained universal prominence due to the openness, force and originality of its creations, being considered, from USA to Japan, from South Africa to Chile or Korea, as the laboratory of daring and original musical contributions.
“As a starting point, Hyperion explored possible connections between the most archaic Romanian music – Byzantine music, folk music collected by Bartok, etc. – and today’s avant-garde music. It is a tradition of performance, of interpreting each new score as a provocation of the spirit, and a quest for new domains of sound. Aesthetically, at the heart of this work is the notion of spectrality as it developed in the work of Dumitrescu, Avram and other Romanian composers, that is: a specifically transformational spectrality, as opposed to the structural spectrality of the French Itinéraire group. Hyperion has performed all over Europe, and recently in United States, and recorded numerous LPs and 24 compact discs.”(Mode Records – New York).

Iancu Dumitrescu is considered one of the leaders of the spectral music trend at a worldwide level, proposing a new aesthetic in today’s music, hyper-spectral, based on the radiant power of sound, within its microcosmic complexity – which is questioned, analyzed, re-composed from a spectral perspective. His creation counts more than 300 works, chamber music, electro acoustic, orchestral music, computer music, etc.
His work is edited by Salabert (Paris), Editura Musicala (Bucharest) Gerig Musikverlage-Schott-Schöne (Köln). The LPs and Cds of his music are published by Edition RZ (Berlin), Generation Unlimited (United States), Escargot-Harmonia Mundi (France), Electrecord (Bucharest), Artgallery (Paris), ReR Megacorp (London), Bananafish (Los Angeles) Edition Modern (London-Bucharest).

Ana-Maria AVRAM is a composer, pianist and conductor, born in Bucharest. In 1994 she was awarded the Grand Prize in Composition from the Romanian Academy. Since 1988, Ana-Maria Avram has mentained a close collaboration with Iancu Dumitrescu, but she has also continued to forge her own direction in music. She is considered to be one of the most important Romanian composers of her generation. Her music is affiliated with the spectral music trend. She represents with Iancu Dumitrescu the Hyper-Spectral trend in contemporary avant-garde music. Conductor with Dumitrescu of the Hyperion Ensemble Her music is spectral, acousmatic, heterophonic and transformational. She composed since now around 200 works, music for soloists, chamber music, music for orchestra, electronic music and computer assisted music

Maya Dunietz (b. 1981 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pianist, singer, composer, choir conductor and sound artist, recording and performing worldwide in a wide range of musical genres.

Born in Israel in September 1976, Ilan Volkov began his conducting career at the age of nineteen. Following studies at London’s Royal College of Music he secured positions as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony. In 2003 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and subsequently became its Principal Guest Conductor in 2009. Volkov took up his new appointment as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2011/12 season. Volkov’s arrival in post in Iceland coincided with the opening of Harpa, Reykjavík’s visually striking new concert hall. He is the initiator and curator of TECTONICS festival and the dynamic force behind Levontin7, the Tel-Aviv venue. He is alo a stunning experimental music player and improviser on various instruments, mainly on violin.

Tim Hodgkinson (b 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds and keyboards. He is best known as one of the core members of the British avant-rock group Henry Cow, which he formed with Fred Frith in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow, he participated in a number of bands and projects, including a solo recording career. His music is played all over the world in concerts and festivals.

Stephen O’Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA) is an american guitarist, producer and composer who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music groups (the most notable of which is Sunn O)))). He is a founding member of several groups, and a permanent collaborator of Hyperion International Ensemble since 2011.O’Malley also produced work together with the French choreographer and theatre director Gisèle Vienne, American sculptor Banks Violette, Italian performance artist Nico Vascellari, Swiss art collective KLAT (2009), and the Belgian film maker Alexis Destoop (“Kairos” (2010), with Oren Ambarchi).

Alex (Drool) Yonovich (b.1976) is a drummer, and improviser. He has collaborated with a diverse selection of international musicians such as Steve Noble, Adam Bohman, Jérôme Noetinger, Steve Mackay, Dora Doll, Sharon Gal, Arnaud Rivière, Valerio Tricoli, Daniel Padden, Mattin, Ignaz Schick, Eric Boros & many more, utilizing a simple setup of modified acoustic instruments, tape loops and sometimes analogue synths he creates a variety of dynamic sounds .

Eran Sachs is a composer, player and improviser from Israel. He has released albums on labels such as Sub-Rosa and Mille Plateau and has worked with artists such as Philip Jeck, Keith Rowe, Mattin, C. Spencer Yeh, Oren Ambarchi, Sophie Angel and Valerio Tricoli, mainly playing his version of a No-Input-Mixer, which he has been playing since 1998.

Yoni Silver is a London based Israeli bass clarinetist, saxophonist, violinist, improviser, composer and performer. Involved as performer/composer in numerous projects in the fields of free improv, noise, contemporary and experimental music in Israel and Europe, Silver has collaborated/played with the Hyperion Ensemble, Primate Arena, Ensemble of the 21st Century, Steve Noble, Grundik Kasyansky, Birgit Ulher, etc., has performed solo contemporary pieces for bass clarinet, and written and arranged music for film, puppet theatre and song.

Andrei Kivu is a cello player specialised in new music, commposer and improviser. He studied cello and music in general with Marc Coppey, George Lewis, Iancu Dumitrescu and David Hykes. With a wide orchestral experience (he played as prime cello in many prestigieous orchestras worldwide) he also teached (at New York University , Givat Ram- Israel, Minnesota University). He received several international prizes as The Interational Consortium of New Music (NYC-2003), the Excellence Prize of the Actualitatea Muzicala review (Bucharest, 2004) the Uchimura prize (Unesco, 2003)

Haggai Fershtman (b. 1972 in Israel) is a graduate of philosophy and musicology of the Tel Aviv University and of the “Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas” He studied in parallel clasical, contemporary and african percussions. Haggai realised numerous tours and recordings, as a percussion player, from 2000, together with prestigieous artists such as Harold Rubin, Jean Claude Jones, The Midnight Peacocks, Sharon Kantor Elliot, Ariel Shibolet, Albert Beger, The Family Butchers, Ex Lion Tamer, Katamine.

Born in 1953, in Bucharest, Ioan Marius Lacraru performs violin and viola in various concerts and recitals, as soloist and first violin of the Florilegium String Quartet. He is a founder member of Hyperion International and Archaeus Ensembles. He realised an impressive number of tours, all over the world, broadcasts, recordings and Cds – as soloist or as a chamber music player.

Adam Scheflan and Shmil Frankel are two doublebassists from Israel, involved in numerous projects as players and improvisers. Their stylistic versatility is impressive, addressing music from contemporary to jazz, rock, experimental. They regularly play in Hyperion International Ensemble since 2011 realizing numerous tours, boradcastings, recordings and Cds.

Orban Godri is a bassoon player, graduated from the Bucharest National Music Academy. Since 1985 he plays as a prime bassoonist and solo bassoon in the Bucharest George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the first orchestral ensemble in Romania. Since 1988 he is a Member of Hyperion Ensemble realizing numerous tours all over the world as soloist or as an ensemble player.

Tiberiu Cenuser is a trombone player, soloist of the Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He plays in Hyperion Enseble since 1990, and has collaborated with many other Romanian chamber music ensembles.

Colin Hacklander is an american composer, drummer improviser and electronic music performer based in Berlin.. He works as co-director of NK-Projekt in Berlin, curating lots of workshops, concerts and conferences.
Interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music

Philippe Petit rather agrees to be introduced as a “musical travel agent” than a composer. Since the early 2000s he have been performing the world, playing festivals all over Europe, Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia & Asia.. He release his own music on several international labels such as Aagoo, Southern UK, Monotype, Alrealon Musique, Beta Lactam Ring, Sub Rosa, HomeNormal, Important, HelloSquare, Public Eyesore, Utech, Staubgold, etc…