ICTUS ENSEMBLE (BELGIA): SYLVAIN DEVAUX, AURÉLIE ETRINGER, HUGO ABRAHAM
Seminar F. Romitelli ja P. Pachini video-ooperi “The Index of Metals” analüüsist ja esituspraktikast
22. aprillili kell 17.00-19.00 ruumis D-501
An Index of Metals” (2003) on kahtlemata üks silmapaistvamaid audiovisuaalseid teoseid klassikalise nüüdismuusika repertuaaris, mida on esitatud üle kogu maailma rohkem kui 50 korda. See on helilooja Fausto Romitelli viimane teos, mis kirjutatud 19 aastat tagasi veidi enne tema surma. Koos helilooja ja videokunstniku Paolo Pachini ning poetess Kenka Lekovitšiga lõid nad ambitsioonika video-ooperi sopranile, 11-liikmelisele instrumentaalansamblile, elektroonikale ja videole. Helilooja on lähtunud helist kui sepistatavast materjalist: poorsus, läige, tihedus, elastsus on omadused, mis saavad elektroakustilises töötluses või instrumendikõlades oma väljenduse.
Convinced that diversity is the keystone for a thriving artistic journey, Sylvain Devaux takes part in a large variety of projects. His performative experience in 20th century and contemporary music together with his dedication for improvised music led him to carry on an activity as composer.
He is the oboe player of the ensemble l’Itinéraire, and a member of the company Miroirs étendus, which devotes itself to new operatic pieces and original staged shows. He founded in 2019 the Sonar Scape trio, whose music explores the territories between improvisation and composition. Sylvain collaborates on a regular basis with various ensembles such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Ictus, l’Instant Donné, 2e2m, Orchestre de Paris, or the Lucern Alumni Ensemble.
After graduating at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) in oboe and free improvisation, he completed his Master degree within the new European joint Master program CoPeCo, partnership between the conservatoires of Tallinn, Stockholm, Lyon and Hamburg, during which he studied composition and musical programming. He pursued his composition’s training with Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz in the conservatoire of Boulogne-Billancourt.
Aurélie Etringer won the Concours des Jeunes Altistes de Paris and obtained her master’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. In 2001, Aurélie went to study at Indiana University in Bloomington (US) in the class of Atar Arad, where she obtained her soloist diploma and was named “Classic Adami Revelation” in 2004.
In chamber music, she has worked with such renowned artists like Yuri Bashmet, Roberto Diaz, Paul Katz, Maurizio Fuks, Donald Weilerstein, Ilya Kaler, Miriam Fried, StanleyRitchie, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jensen, Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov. Invited by the soloists of the Metropolitan Opera as part of the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra from 2000 to 2010, the opportunity was given to her to play under the direction of the greatest conductors of our time such as Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Kurt Mazur, Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov, Wolfgang Sawallish, Kent Nagano, Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Emmanuel Krivine, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paavo Järvi, Jacob Kreisberg and Bernard Haitink.
Aurélie Entringer currently performs with of several renowned chamber orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Les Dissonances and as solo viola of such symphony orchestras as the Sydney Symphony and the Brussels Philharmonic . She also plays with various contemporary music ensembles, including the lctus Ensemble, Ensemble Musique Nouvelle and Klangforum Wien. Aurélie Entringer has performed in over 35 countries and plays a 1688 Hendrick Willems viola.
Hugo Abraham discovered music as a child playing the violin and the viola da gamba. He later switched to the double bass driven by a passion for jazz. After completing his undergraduate studies in Paris, he moved to the USA to study at the New England Conservatory (Boston) with an emphasis on new and avant-guard musics, after which, he went on to graduate in Historical Performance at the Juilliard school (NYC). Additionally, he has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, the Verbier Festival Orchestra and Orchestre Français des Jeunes.
A versatile performer, Hugo maintains a busy touring schedule regularly joining ensembles such as Ictus Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire, Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Jupiter, Le Consort, Acronym, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France or Orchestre de Paris exploring a wide variety of repertoires with dedicated and specialized ensembles and settings. He occasionally writes musics for his friends, curates shows, organizes choir or broken-consort gatherings, writes and gives lectures/performances on his on-going researches.
