PLUS, Sa, 18.10.2008, 11 Uhr, Glockenhaus (Glockenstraße)
Workshop "Klavier und Live-Elektronik"
mit Sonsoles Alonso,
anlässlich des 2nd European competition for live-electronic music projects
| Peter Adriaansz (1966-) | Wave 3 (2007) |
| Jerke van den Braak (1984-) | Without title (2008), for piano and live electronics |
| Riccardo Massari (1966-) | Cadenze Oblique (2008) for piano and tape I. (art?) II. (cadenza muta) III. (untitled) IV. (art sonore) V. (A Chopin- Souvenir from Mallorca) |
| Gustavo A. Trujillo (1972-) | Arrorró (2008) for piano and tape |
| Matthijs Janssens (1986-) | Hehe... (2008), for piano and live electronics |
| José María Sánchez Verdú (1968-) | Deploratio III (2005) |
| Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951-) | The Body of your Dreams (2002), for piano and boombox |
Sonsoles Alonso
...’The highest point of the evening was Luigi Nono's ‘Sofferte onde Serene’, played formidably by pianist Sonsoles Alonso... ...Alonso brought forth with thunder the most deep and profound caverns of the piano.’...
Spanish-born, Netherlands-based Sonsoles Alonso is a versatile pianist.
Influenced by her teachers Anthony de Mare (20th-century piano literature) and Morton Feldman’s disciple Nils Vigeland (20th-century analysis), Sonsoles moved to Amsterdam in 1996 to specialize in the interpretation of contemporary music as a soloist and as a member of various ensembles.
The past 10 years she has built an impressive career with concerts in Holland and abroad, multidisciplinary projects and concerts with other musicians and different ensembles.
Besides interpreting classical and contemporary repertoire, Sonsoles improvises and works with live electronics as well.
She has been heard during: Gentse Vleugels (Belgium), Traces of Voices (Tilburg, Holland), Festival Punto Aparte (Spain), Randspiele Festival (Berlin), Rumor Festival (Utrecht), Fundación March (Madrid), EULEC -European Live Electronic Centre- (Lüneburg, Germany), Treveszaal (Second Chamber, The Hague), Headquarters of the ABN-Amro Bank Amsterdam, AKBank (Istanbul), Goethe Institut Boston (US), Deep Listening Space of Pauline Oliveros (New Vanguard Series, New York) and with different ensembles during the Gaudeamus Week, de Suite Muziekweek, Festival Spazio Musica (Cagliari, Italië), Week van de Hedendaagse Kamermuziek en de Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Duitsland).
Sonsoles holds degrees in Classical Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and the Manhattan School of Music (Master’s Degree) in New York. She also studied privately with Vitalij Margulis in Freiburg (Germany) and with Philip Kawin in New York. At the Conservatory of Amsterdam she followed the course ‘Contemporary Music through Non-Western Techniques’ focusing on rhythmic complexity.
She has collaborated with Jannie Pranger, Albert van Veenendaal and Jozef Dumoulin (Travelling Light Piano Trio), Jorrit Tamminga (piano and live electronics), Rosa Ensemble & Hans Dagelet, John Addison and Ville Hiltula.
In 2009 she and Moritz Eggert will premiere a new piece by German/Dutch composer Marko Ciciliani for 2 pianos, 2 keyboards, laser, light and live electronics with funding from the 'Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten'.
She is often invited to give lectures and masterclasses on the subject of contemporary music with and without (live) electronics. With Jorrit Tamminga she has taught in Spain and Germany.
José María Sánchez Verdú is one of Spain's most successful and international composers of the moment. A student of among others F. Donatoni and Hans Zender, he currently teaches composition in Düsseldorf at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. His music is published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Deploratio III is dedicated to Joaquim Homs (in memoriam) and is part of a series of pieces dedicated to different composers.
The Body of your Dreams is based on spoken word samples from an American television commercial about the Ab Tronic Pro, a kind of belt that produces 3000 muscle contractions in just 10 minutes: it's one of the easiest ways ever to get your body in the shape you want it. It helps you to tone and tighten your upper abs, lower abs, arms and legs with no sweat at all! It's one of the simplest, smallest and most comfortable toning devices ever. You can use it while watching television, doing the dishes, mowing the lawn...you decide. It also works great as an abdominal toning device while you are working out on your eliptical trainer or your treadmill; or while you are out for your daily walk. It's easy and effective. And no sweat!
Pitch and rhythm of each and every piano tone in The Body of your Dreams is determined by one-liners from the commercial.
It was commissioned by Deutschlandfunk, composed in 2002 and revised in 2004.
Mathijs Janssens wrote his Hehe for Sonsoles.
Part one is a graphic score to be played inside the piano. Part two is a dreamy fairy tale to be performed at the keys.
Jerke van den Braak incorporates live electronics in his Without Title.
The electronics is triggered by the pianist and blends with the sound of the piano.
Both Matthijs Janssens and Jerke van den Braak are composition students at Music & Technology in Hilversum.
Cadenze Oblique was written for Sonsoles and premiered in april of this year at the Fundación March in Madrid. Riccardo Massari, an Italian born and Barcelona-based composer and performance artist incorporates in it theatrical elements, tape and inside-piano techniques.
Arrorró by Gustavo Trujillo was written for Sonsoles and premiered in april of this year at the Fundación March in Madrid as well. Arrorró is a lullaby from the Canary Islands.
The composer, a teacher at the Conservatory of Rotterdam and born in La Orotava (Tenerife) used elements from a lullaby from Fuerteventura as well as melodies (bells) he grew up hearing in his natal La Orotava both in the tape and in the note material.
Waves #3 is part of Waves 1-4, four pieces for E-bow piano, sines & live-delay also written for Sonsoles by Peter Adriaansz.
The title refers to the beating which occurs when two or more pitches are slightly out of tune.