NachtKonzert

Donnerstag, 20.10.2011, 21 Uhr Glockenhaus, Glockenstraße

Elektroakustische Musik aus Slowenien

Marjan Sijanec           
Venus Orchestra (13´44)

Brina Jez Brezavscek           
Orpheus (14´29)
for Bass Clarinet and Electronics

Bor Turel           
Ode to the Blazon facing the heights 2 (30´42)

Marjan Šijanec was born on April 2nd 1950 in Maribor, Slovenia. He graduated Composition in 1978 at University in Ljubljana, Academy for Music, Department of Composition. Later he followed a specialist course in electronic music in electronic studio at Radio Belgrade and computer programming (C - language and UNIX system at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Vin?a). Šijanec's compositions could be described as post-modern, belonging to the »information era«. Composer among the beginners of the computer music on the territory of former Yugoslavia. He developed special algorhytmical music and is an author of the unique technique in composition which is based on integral serialism of magic squares. Šijanec realises his projects both in Slovenia and abroad (International Festival of Contemporary Music - MBZ, Zagreb; Bemus, Belgrade; Annual Review of Yugoslav Music, Opatija (1984 - 1990); Festival of Experimental Music, Bourges, France; Slovene Days of Music, Ljubljana; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria ...). He has received numerous accolades for his work.
Major works are VENUS ORCHESTRA, MIRAGE SIMPHONY, CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PICTURE (for mixed choir and percussion), LEAVES FALLING MAKE TREES INVISIBLE (electroacoustic), THE DANCE OF GLASS BALLERINAS (for 7 x 7 glasses and computer), OSTINATO III, RANDOM TOCCATA, FLAUTIADA (for flute and computer), WATER DANCE, PARALLEL WORLDS (for piano and computer), MUSIC OF COSMIC MODELS (SATURNALIAS, KHESED, FIRE MUSIC, SOLE, VENUS ORCHESTRA, URIEL, LUMINA). Šijanec's works were published by Editions DSS (Composer's Fellowship of Slovenia - Ljubljana) and UKS (Composers Fellowship of Serbia - Belgrade). 

Brina Jež-Brezavš?ek wurde am 11. März 1957 in Ljubljana/Slowenien geboren.
Nach ihrer Gymnasialzeit studierte sie Musikwissenschaft, Klavier bei Darinka Berneti? und Komposition bei Uroš Krek.
Daneben besuchte sie internationale Kurse in Darmstadt (1984), Belgrad (1985) und Graz (1988).
1981 schloss sie ihr Studium der Komposition mit einem Diplom ab.
1981-1983 unterrichtete Brina Jež-Brezavš?ek an der Musikschule in Trzi? und von 1984-1987 an der Mittelschule in Ljubljana.
1988 arbeitete sie als Dozentin an der pädagogischen Fakultät in Ljubljana.
1994 war sie in den Studios CIRM in Nizza und GRM in Paris tätig.
Sie ist Mitbegründerin und Präsidentin der Gesellschaft zur Förderung und Entwicklung der Neuen Musik Muzina, jetzt leitet sie die Gesellschaft für Gegenwärtige Musik Cosound.
Der Schwerpunkt des kompositorischen Schaffens von Brina Jež-Brezavš?ek liegt in der Kammermusik, aber auch Werke für Soloinstrumente, Orchesterstücke und szenische Werke entspringen ihrer Feder.

Bor Turel
For over 25 years now, Bor Turel has been the most prominent Slovene composer of electroacoustic and experimental music. After studying composition at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, he continued his studies at the Department of Electroacoustic Music of the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure in Paris, as well as in master classes for electronic music of the Department for Electronic Music of the Montreal University in Orford, Canada; in Salzburg and Marly-le-Roy. In 1992 he worked as Composer in Residence at the Electronic Studio of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Turel's electroacoustic and other works received performances at important international festivals of contemporary music such as the Zagreb Music Biennale, International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music, ISMEAM festival in Sárvár, Hungary, World Music Days in Copenhagen, Days of Contemporary Music in Vienna, Prix Italia, the European Month of Culture in Ljubljana, Festival of Electroacoustic Music Synthèse in Bourges and the Festival of contemporary music Klangspuren in Innsbruck. Mr Turel has devoted the last years to creating audio and radiophonic art – mainly ars acustica projects and ambiental music works which are based on a poetic text. He has been also dedicated to composing electroacoustic works for instruments and tape. In these works he explores sound connections and dynamic relations between acoustic instruments and the electroacoustic recording.