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Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music
september 12-15, 2013 bifem.com.au
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COMPOSERSPierluigi BILLONE, ItalyElliot CARTER, U.S.A.David CHISHOLM, AustraliaDaniel D’ADAMO, ArgentinaFranco DONATONI, ItalyHugues DUFOURT, FranceSamuel DUNSCOMBE, AustraliaMorton FELDMAN, U.S.A.Fernando GARNERO, ArgentinaAlexander GARSDEN, AustraliaVinko GLOBOKAR, France
Raffaele GRIMALDI, ItalyHans Werner HENZE, Germany Heinz HOLLIGER, SwitzerlandHelmut LACHENMANN, GermanyKlaus LANG, AustriaJeanette LITTLE, AustraliaAlvin LUCIER, U.S.A.Sergio LUQUE, MexicoBen MARKS, AustraliaLara MORCIANO, ItalyLuigi NONO, ItalyEmmanuel NUNES, Portugal
Mauricio PAULY, Costa RicaRohan PHILLIPS, AustraliaAlex POZNIAK, AustraliaDamien RICKETSON, AustraliaFausto ROMITELLI, Italy James RUSHFORD, AustraliaGiacinto SCELSI, ItalySalvatore SCIARRINO, ItalyMatthew SHLOMOWITZ, Australia Tristram WILLIAMS, AustraliaIannis XENAKIS, GreeceJoji YUASA, Japan
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” Christopher ColumbusBendigo is a city founded on exploration and discovery. With a spirit of independence, openness to new ideas, and with a people recognised for their generosity and grace, Bendigo is the perfect home for this new festival.
BIFEM’s mission is to give the citizens of and visitors to our city access to the most innovative and virtuosic concert music from all around the world. In this first edition, music from 15 different countries will be performed across three recitals, eight concerts, two talks, a lecture, a workshop and a vernissage. Of these 16 elements, five are free, and nine are about the price of a cinema ticket. BIFEM’s promise is clear: our doors are open to you, if your ears and minds are open to us. Come explore.
David Chisholm Founder and Artistic Director, BIFEM
WHO’S WHO IN BENDIGO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPLORATORY MUSIC, 2013
MUSICIANSJustine ANDERSON, Soprano (Six Degrees)Jessica ASZODI, Soprano Aaron BARNDEN, Violin Mauricio CARRASCO, Electric GuitarMatteo CESARI, FluteTom CHUI, Violin (Flux)Ysolt CLARK, HornJames CUDDEFORD, Violin (Offspring)Peter DE JAGER, Piano Melissa DOECKE, FlutePeter DUMSDAY, PianoSamuel DUNSCOMBE, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Claire EDWARDES, Percussion (Offspring)Aviva ENDEAN, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Felix FAN, Cello (Flux)
Jessica FOTINOS, Harp Alexander GARSDEN, GuitarPhoebe GREEN, Viola (Six Degrees)Callum G’FROERER, Trumpet Judith HAMANN, Cello Rowan HAMWOOD, Flute Blair HARRIS, Cello Conrad HARRIS, Violin (Flux)Xina HAWKINS, ViolaZachary JOHNSTON, ViolinCharles MACINNES, Bass TromboneMax MANDEL, Viola (Flux)Ben MARKS, TromboneKaylie MELVILLE, PercussionPeter NEVILLE, Percussion (Six Degrees)Jason NOBLE, Clarinet (Offspring)
Benjamin OPIE, Oboe/Cor AnglaisMaxime PASCAL, ConductorTimothy PHILLIPS, PercussionJames RUSHFORD, PianoAshley SMITH, Clainet/Bass ClarinetKim TAN, Contrasbass FluteBree VAN REYK, Percussion (Offspring)Elizabeth WELSH, Violin/Baroque ViolinTristram WILLIAMS, TrumpetwithRod COOPER, ArtistPaul FLETCHER, ArtistBenjamin KOLAITIS, ArtistAlistair NOBLE, LecturerDean STANTON, ArtistNatascha STELLMACH, Artist
FESTIVAL STAFFDavid CHISHOLM, Founder and Artistic DirectorGlyn CRYER, Chair
Marina MILANKOVIC, Production Manager Loretta GIBSON, Partnerships and Marketing Consultant
Mauricio CARRASCO, Artistic Associate Tristram WILLIAMS, Additional Programming GOOD ONE, Festival Identity and Design
BIFEM THANKSStephen ADAMS Jude ANDERSONJohn BECKETTDeborah BLAKEOwen DAVIESJulian DAYBronwyn DERHAMMargot FALCONERNicole FERRIELeanne FITZGIBBONMarcus GARDNER Elliott GYGER
Stephen HENDERSON John HIGGSGeoff HOCKING Scott HYATTRobert JOHANSONJacoba KELLYDavid LLOYDKathyrn MCKENZIE Timothy MOSSClare NEEDHAMPeter NEVILLEPaul NORTHAMGail McNAULTY
Bron PHILLIPS Rohan PHILLIPS Nicole PRETTYThomas REINER David RICHARDSONGianna ROSICA Clive SCOTT Jacques SODDELLKaren SUTHERLAND Keith SUTHERLAND David TYZACK Verena WÜSTHOFF Eva ZÖLLNER
KEY VP Victorian Premiere
AP Australian Premiere
WP World Premiere
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ARGONAUT
ARGONAUT ENSEMBLE (Bendigo)Argonaut is a new, flexible roster of virtuosi who will perform as BIFEM’s core ensemble. The inaugural trilogy of concerts, exclusive to Bendigo, is full of Australian premiere performances with Opening Night and Argonaut in Italy featuring the Australian début of exceptional young French conductor Maxime Pascal.
7.30pm THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12
All Tickets $30
OPENING CONCERT: ARGONAUT
Bendigo Bank Theatre and Capital Theatre
Spiral Forth (2013) feat. Timothy Phillips VP Alex POZNIAK
Cerclé (2009) feat. Ashley Smith AP Daniel D’ADAMO
Tussilage (2011) James RUSHFORD
Seven Little Miracles (2008) AP David CHISHOLM
Continuity Girl (2008) feat. Benjamin Opie AP Fernando GARNERO
Con tentáculos. No patente pero subpatente (2011) AP Mauricio PAULY
8.30pm FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13
Tickets $20/$15
CONCERT: ARGONAUT IN ITALY
Capital Theatre
Alis (1998) AP Lara MORCIANO
Trash TV Trance (2002) feat. Mauricio Carrasco VP Fausto ROMITELLI
Kya (1959) feat. Ashley Smith VP Giacinto SCELSI
Rima (1983) feat. Peter de Jager VP Franco DONATONI
Metamorphic Shady Diary (2011-12) AP Raffaele GRIMALDI
2.30pm SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15
FREE EVENT
CONCERT: ARGONAUT BRASS QUINTET
(Ysolt Clark, Callum G’Froerer, Charles MacInnes, Ben Marks and Tristram Williams)
Rosalind Park Rotunda
Retracing II/Retracing III/Retracing V (2009/2011) Elliot CARTER
Assembly (2013) W
P Ben MARKS and Tristram WILLIAMS
Fragmente aus einer Show (1971) Hans Werner HENZE
Brass Quintet (2013) W
P Rohan PHILLIPS
Discours VII (1987) Vinko GLOBOKAR
Brass Quintet (1974) Elliot CARTER
Opening Night and Argonaut in Italy are supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, The Robert Salzer Foundation and have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Argonaut Brass Quintet is supported by the Strategem Financial Group Community Foundation.
Image: Maxime Pascal © Le Balcon.
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recitals
ELIZABETH WELSH, Violin and Baroque Violin (Melbourne)With an equal passion for new music and early music, Violinist Elizabeth Welsh brings these worlds together in an exciting concert that features the world premiere of works by two important new compositional voices, Jeanette Little and Alexander Garsden (who will join Elizabeth as guitarist). Welsh also makes her performance début of the legendary Sciarrino Sei Capricci (Six Caprices) the most significant breakaway work for solo violin of the 20th Century.
12.30pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
Tickets $20/$15
RECITAL: ELIzABETH WELSH
Bendigo Bank Theatre
Fou (2013) feat. Alexander Garsden
WP Jeanette LITTLE
Law II (2013) W
P Alexander GARSDEN
Interludio from De la incertidumbre (2005) AP Sergio LUQUE
Sei Capricci (1976) Salvatore SCIARRINO
Elizabeth Welsh’s recital is made possible thanks to BIFEM donors Joan and Barry Miskin.
Law II received support through Arts Victoria Arts Development, Project Grants.
See also www.sergioluque.com
SAMUEL DUNSCOMBE, Clarinet (San Diego)Samuel Dunscombe is fast becoming a Clarinettist and composer reputed for his engaging, dynamic electro-acoustic recitals. In this BIFEM 2013 exclusive, Dunscombe presents a terrific programme of mostly Australian premiere performances that include his recent composition Poetic Cartography for Clarinet and Rainforest, which has become a USA and Asian festival hit in 2013. Now based in San Diego, this recital is a rare chance to see Dunscombe performing in Australia.
1.00pm SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15
Tickets $20/$15
RECITAL: SAMUEL DUNSCOMBE
Old Fire Station, Bendigo
Dal Niente (1970) Helmut LACHENMANN
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (1972) Alvin LUCIER
A Pierre, dell’azzurro silenzio inquietum, (1985) feat. Kim Tan
AP Luigi NONO
Poetic Cartography (2013) AP Samuel DUNSCOMBE
Samuel Dunscombe’s recital is supported by Bendigo Bank.
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MATTEO CESARI, Flute (Paris)“Outstanding” Sunday Times
BIFEM in association with Bendigo Art Gallery is proud to present the Australian début performance of Italian born virtuoso flautist Matteo Cesari in a dynamic programme of works for solo flute and bass flute. Cesari has won awards and scholarships including the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in Darmstadt. Currently based in France completing a doctorate at the Conservatoire in Paris and University Paris IV Sorbonne, his teachers have included Mario Caroli and Sophie Cherrier. Cesari has performed with ensembles including Ensembe Intercontemporain, L’Itinéraire and Nieuw Ensemble and has worked with leading contemporary artists including Pierre Boulez, Barbara Hannigan, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, Ivan Fedele, Brian Ferneyhough, Stefano Gervasoni, Bruno Mantovani and Michael Finnissy.
6.30pm FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13
Tickets $20/$15
RECITAL: MATTEO CESARI
Bendigo Art Gallery
(t)air(e) (1980-83) AP Heinz HOLLIGER (b.1939)
Terms of temporal detailing: Homage to David Hockney (1989)
AP Joji YUASA (b.1929)
Duel à coups de gourdin (2008) AP Hugues DUFOURT (b.1943)
Aura (1983–1989) AP Emmanuel NUNES (1941-2012)
Matteo Cesari’s recital at the Bendigo Art Gallery is made possible thanks to BIFEM donor Mr Glyn Cryer.
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Ensembles
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SIX DEGREES (Melbourne) “Each sound in einfalt. stille. might be a collector’s item.” Los Angeles Times
The meditative work by Austrian composer Klaus Lang is another BIFEM Australian premiere. With a post-Feldman sense of mood and time, Lang creates a unique sound world, at once familiar and new, trance-like, yet electric. Eloquently performed by Melbourne ensemble Six Degrees with guest flautist Melissa Doecke, einfalt.stille (simplicity.quiet.) is a spellbinding work from an important composer, whose work is mostly unheard outside Europe.
10.30pm FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13
Tickets $20/$15
CONCERT: SIMPLICITY.QUIET.
Bendigo Bank Theatre
einfalt.stille. (2001) AP Klaus LANG
This concert will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Six Degrees’s concert is supported by Bendigo Bank.
ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING (Sydney) “A revelatory concert-going experience.” Resonate Magazine
Sydney exploratory music champions Ensemble Offspring appear for the first time in regional Victoria presenting an energetic concert structured as mini-portraits of the group’s two founding composers and 20th century iconoclast Iannis Xenakis. Offspring are joined in this programme by guest violinist James Cuddeford.
4.00pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
Tickets $20/$15
CONCERT: SLOW FLIPPING HARMONIES
Bendigo Bank Theatre
Fractured Again Suite (2010) Damien RICKETSON
Some Shade of Blue (2011) Damien RICKETSON
Rebonds A/B (1987/1989) Iannis XENAKIS
Mikka/Mikka S (1971/1975) Iannis XENAKIS
Slow Flipping Harmony (2006) Matthew SHLOMOWITZ
Letter Piece 8 (Sit up Stand down) (2013) Matthew SHLOMOWITZ
Image: Christopher Hayles © 2009.
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Ensembles
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FLUX QUARTET (New York) “...New York’s highly respected FLUX Quartet has built its reputation by handling the most daunting challenges set forth by contemporary composers...” Billboard Magazine
“Feldman’s legacy is in good hands with the Flux Quartet...” The New York Times
BIFEM proudly presents the exclusive Australasian premiere of US composer Morton Feldman’s epic String Quartet No.2. This quartet, which plays without break for more than six hours, is a free event for audiences to come and go, or to settle in for a once in a lifetime experience. This concert will be one of the most talked about Australian musical events of the year.
6.00pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
FREE EVENT
CONCERT: FLUX/FELDMAN 2
Capital Theatre
String Quartet No.2 (1983) AP Morton FELDMAN
Flux Quartet is presented by The Capital - Bendigo’s Performing Arts Centre.
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special events
1+1=1 (Melbourne/San Diego)“One drop plus one drop makes a bigger drop, not two.” Tarkovsky, Nostalghia
An intense electric hour of this work by Italian composer Pierluigi Billone makes for an unforgettable inaugural BIFEM midnight show. 1+1=1 showcases the remarkable talent of clarinettists Aviva Endean (also playing with Argonaut) and Samuel Dunscombe (a BIFEM 2013 featured Recitalist) following their successful collaboration at Tokyo Wonder Site Academy this year. Dunscombe and Endean present this dramatic Bass Clarinet duo under BIFEM’s special events umbrella.
MIDNIGHT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13
All tickets $20
DUO: AVIVA ENDEAN AND SAMUEL DUNSCOMBE
Old Fire Station
1+1=1 for 2 Bass Clarinets (2006) AP Pierluigi BILLONE (b.1960)
NATASCHA STELLMACH (MELBOURNE/Berlin)In 2008 Natascha Stellmach installed a joint in a commercial Berlin gallery, containing the alleged ashes of Kurt Cobain. An international call was sent out – via press release – inviting six members of the public to join her in a private, undocumented ritual to explore commemoration and attachment. This ignited public and media furore and interest. Complete Burning Away investigates the emotional responses associated with idolatry and critiques the role of the artist, the media and contemporary art in society. This site-specific installation includes six of the ten works. Presented by La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, BIFEM is proud to host the vernissage of this talented, dynamic Australian artist and her important work under our special events umbrella.
2.00pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
FREE EVENT
VERNISSAGE: Complete Burning Away: (the ashes of Kurt Cobain) VP
Featuring an encore performance of Mauricio Carrasco performing Fausto Romitelli’s Trash TV Trance
La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
Exhibition runs 14 September – 20 October, 2013
Image: Natascha Stellmach, Guitar used in Scream, 2010, 4-channel video, sound, 4:40 min. © the artist, Courtesy of Wagner+Partner Berlin.
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ALISTAIR NOBLE (Canberra)5.00pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
FREE EVENT
PUBLIC LECTURE: ON MORTON FELDMAN
Auditorium, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
Australian-born pianist, composer and musicologist Alistair Noble has taught at The Australian National University since 2006, where he has also served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. His primary research area is mid-20th century music, with a special focus on the work of Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe and Edgard Varèse. Drawing from his new book Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman, Dr Noble will discuss the remarkable consistency of Feldman’s compositional method, tracing links in compositional language from his early works in the 1950s to his late works of the 1980s, including the Second String Quartet.
This free public lecture is made possible thanks to BIFEM donor Commissioner Leigh Johns.
HANDMADE MUSIC (Melbourne/Bendigo)11:30am SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
FREE EVENT
TALK: HANDMADE MUSIC
Bendigo Art Gallery
Join artists Benjamin Kolaitis, Rod Cooper, Paul Fletcher & Dean Stanton for a fun, interactive and information-rich presentation exploring how musical instrumentation has been influenced by technological change, and what it means to re-design new forms of musical instruments in a world now bursting at the seams with technology, resource and waste. This event is presented by Bendigo Art Gallery in partnership with Experimenta Media Arts, to coincide with the exhibition Experimenta Speak to Me (7 September – 13 October 2013) and appears under BIFEM’s special events umbrella. Bookings required. Call 5434 6088.
2.30pm-5.00pm SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
All tickets $30 (12 participants only)
WORKSHOP: MY LITTLE OSCILLATOR
Old Fire Station
BIFEM invites you to spend Saturday afternoon with Benjamin Kolaitis and Richie Cyngler from OpenLAB, learning how to build your own mini Synthesiser.
Make a simple oscillator and learn how to control it using all manner of weird and wonderful things like pot plants, light and even touch! All you need is some imagination and enthusiasm. All workshop materials provided.
11:30am SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15
FREE EVENT
TALK: WE’RE HERE TO SHARE
La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
OpenLAB explores the wonderful world of creative electronics and programming. Find out about Kinect midi controllers combined with Virtual Reality visuals, electronic crickets that live with nature, synthesisers controlled by plants and some history to the important roles opensource and DIY communities have in creative exploration. OpenLAB is a monthly forum, based in Melbourne, where artists, musicians, engineers, performers and designers can come together and share their work and creative passions. BIFEM 2013 is proud to present Open LAB’s Talk and Workshop.
OpenLAB(Melbourne)
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CLosing concert
JESSICA ASZODI (San Diego)
“A voice that can take you places” San Diego Herald Tribune
“Brilliant, assured and consistently thrilling” The Age
Soprano sensation Jessica Aszodi continues to forge a stellar career as a unique and dexterous voice of power and beauty. Aszodi returns to Australia for an exclusive Bendigo performance of her lauded interpretation of Morton Feldman’s iconic work Three Voices.
Completed the year before Feldman’s Second String Quartet, Three Voices is the perfect piece to close BIFEM 2013: an echo of the previous night’s epic quartet, and a foreshadowing of technology-led works that will form a core part of the BIFEM 2014 programme.
4.00pm SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15
Tickets $20/$15
CLOSING CONCERT: THREE VOICES
Bendigo Bank Theatre
Three Voices (1982) AP Morton FELDMAN
Jessica Aszodi’s appearance is supported by Bendigo Bank. Image: © Samuel Dunscombe.
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CLosing concert
date / time event name venue finish costThursday September 12 / 7.30PM Opening Concert: Argonaut The Capital 8.40PM $30
Friday September 13 / 6.30PM Recital: Matteo Cesari Bendigo Art Gallery 8.00PM $20/15
Friday September 13 / 8.30PM Concert: Argonaut In Italy The Capital 9.45PM $20/15
Friday September 13 / 10.30PM Concert: Simplicity.Quiet. Bendigo Bank Theatre 11.30PM $20/15
Friday September 13 / Midnight Duo: 1+1=1 Old Fire Station 1.10AM $20
Saturday September 14 / 11.30AM Talk: Handmade Music Bendigo Art Gallery 12.15PM Free
Saturday September 14 / 12.30PM Recital: Elizabeth Welsh Bendigo Bank Theatre 1.30PM $20/15
Saturday September 14 / 2.00PM Vernissage: Natascha Stellmach La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
4.00PM Free
Saturday September 14 / 2.30PM Workshop: My Little Oscillator Old Fire Station 5.00PM $30
Saturday September 14 / 4.00PM Concert: Slow Flipping Harmonies Bendigo Bank Theatre 5.00PM $20/15
Saturday September 14 / 5.00PM Lecture: On Morton Feldman La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
5.30PM Free
Saturday September 14 / 6.00PM Concert: Flux/Feldman 2 The Capital Midnight Free
Sunday September 15 / 11.30AM Talk: We’re Here To Share La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre
12.30PM Free
Sunday September 15 / 1.00PM Recital: Samuel Dunscombe Old Fire Station 2.00PM $20/15
Sunday September 15 / 2.30PM Concert: Argonaut Brass Quintet Rosalind Park Rotunda 3.30PM Free
Sunday September 15 / 4.00PM Closing Concert: Three Voices Bendigo Bank Theatre 5.00PM $20/15
FESTIVAL GRID
TICKETS Tickets can be purchased online at www.bifem.com.au, by calling 03 5434 6100 or in person at The Capital box office The Capital Bendigo’s Performing Arts Centre, 50 View Street, Bendigo. Many ticketed events have strictly limited numbers, so book early to avoid disappointment. Free events are unticketed and patrons are not guaranteed entry beyond venue capacity. Latecomers will not be admitted until there is a suitable break in the performance.
date / time event nameFriday September 13 / 8.30PM Concert: Argonaut In Italy
Friday September 13 / 10.30PM Concert: Simplicity.Quiet.
Saturday September 14 / 10.30PM Concert: Flux/Feldman 2
Monday September 16 / 9.00PM Opening Concert: Argonaut
Wednesday September 18 / 9.00PM Concert: Slow Flipping Harmonies
Friday September 20 / 10.30PM Recital: Samuel Dunscombe Closing Concert: Three Voices
Saturday September 21 / 10.30PM Recital: Elizabeth Welsh
BROADCASTSABC Classic FM will broadcast much of the festival, ensuring that listeners who are unable to make it along in person, can nonetheless enjoy the spoils of BIFEM 2013.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: PHILANTHROPIC PARTNER:
PRIVATE DONORS: Glyn Cryer, Joan and Barry Miskin, Cmr. Leigh Johns, Marina Milankovic and David Chisholm.
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Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music will return September 4 - 7, 2014
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