Spectrum XXI: the Third Edition of the International festival of Spectral Music Trends with Hyperion Ensemble (Bucharest) IO String Quartet (New York), Tim Hodgkinson (London), Gustavo Aguilar, Robert Reigle (USA) This is the UK leg of a Festival which also takes place in Brussels, Mons, and Paris during November 2008.

Programme:

Thursday, 20 November 2008

19.30, Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre, De La Warr Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3BS; Box Office: 01342 302 000 - IO Quartet ( New York) Iancu Dumitrescu :”Spectrum” ( VI) for string quartet Ana-Maria Avram: “Réveil” for string quartet and computer assisted sounds Mario Diaz de Leon: “Moonblood” for string quartet - Hyperion Ensemble, conducted by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram Costin Cazaban: “Daedalus III” (UK première) Tim Hodgkinson: “Aici schiteaza pe acum” (UK première) Ulpiu Vlad: “From the sounds of a glance” (UK première) Petru Teodorescu: “Metempsychosis II” ( UK première) Ana-Maria Avram: “Endless Burning Fire V” (world première) Iancu Dumitrescu: “Temps Condensés V “ (world première)

Friday, 21 November 2008

19.30, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL; Tel. 020 7242 8032 - Hyperion Ensemble, conducted by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram Tim Hodgkinson: “Vers Kongsu” (UK première) Iancu Dumitrescu: “Nucléons Chaotiques” (world première) Costin Cazaban: “Hosanna” (world première) Petru Teodorescu: “Metempsychosis III” (world première) Ana-Maria Avram: “Voices of the desert” (III) (UK premiere) Iancu Dumitrescu: “Temps Condensés V” (world première)

Saturday, 22 November 2008

19.30, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL; Tel. 020 7242 8032 - IO Quartet Iancu Dumitrescu: “Perspectives au Movemur” for string quartet Ana-Maria Avram: “Nouvelle Axe (V)” for string quartet (UK première) Iancu Dumitrescu: “Spectrum” (VI for string quartet) (UK première) Ana-Maria Avram: “Ikarus” for string quartet and tape (UK première) - Hyperion Esemble, conducted by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram Soloists: Tim Hodgkinson (UK), Gustavo Aguilar (USA) World and UK premières for ensemble and electronics conducted by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram. With an introduction by Ben Watson. Iancu Dumitrescu: Remote Pulsar, Numérologie secète, Meteors and pulsars Ana-Maria Avram: Endless Burning Fire, Labyrinthe ( IV), Réveil (III)

The Hyperion Ensemble

The Hyperion Ensemble was founded in 1976 by composer Iancu Dumitrescu. 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).