impuls Opening Concert - Laureate Concert

Klangforum Wien | Bas Wiegers conductor 

Thomas Frey flute 
Markus Deuter oboe 
Olivier Vivarès clarinet 
Lorelei Dowling bassoon 
Gerald Preinfalk saxophone 
Christoph Walder horn 
Anders Nyqvist trumpet 
Mikael Rudolfsson trombone 
Georgios Lolas accordion 

Andraž Frece accordion 
Aurélie Saraf harp 
Florian Müller piano 
Björn Wilker percussion 

Alex Lipowski percussion 
Sophie Schafleitner violin 

Olivia de Prato violin 
Dimitrios Polisoidis viola 
Benedikt Leitner cello

Leo Morello cello 
Paul Salomon double bass 

Alexander Kaiser Feed me!, for amplified ensemble and electronics (2019/20, impuls commission, premiere) 

Yiqing Zhu DeepBlue, for large ensemble and electronics (2020, impuls commission, premiere)

Ole Hübner Masse und Bewegung 3 [Mass and Movement 3], for 12 (partly prepared) instruments and solo-conductor (2019/20, impuls commission, premiere)

Sonja Mutić Kontakt, for 12 amplified instruments and fixed media (2019/20, impuls commission, premiere)

Emre Sihan Kaleli Adjacent rooms, a part of a labyrinth, for 12 amplified instruments (2020, impuls commission, premiere)

impuls promotes and supports young composers not only at its Academy, but also through the international impuls Composition Competition. Every second year impuls opens a call for its competition, commissions new works for ensemble from the composers selected and invites them to work with Klangforum Wien, one of the world´s leading ensembles, intensively at the impuls Composition Workshop. Tonight five of these newly written works will be premiered and the composers will be present at this special event, except for the Chinese composer Yiqing Zhu due to COVID-19-restrictions. 

Anyone interested to find out more about the composers and their works has several chances to meet up with them beyond the concert itself: Already on August 11th a rehearsal will be opened up at the Proberaum of Klangforum Wien followed by a discussion of composers, conductor and also some of the interpreters (moderation: Doris Weberberger) and just before tonight´s concert you will get the chance to meet up with the composers for a half hour composers´ talk (moderation: Bas Wiegers). A more in depth analysis of the works and discussion with the composers and Bas Wiegers is to follow on August 17th at KUG. 

On top of that, Klangforum Wien and Bas Wiegers will also be present at the impuls Academy and offer a full day with Reading-sessions for its young composer participants, where, amongst others, questions on formal and esthetic aspects, notation and instrumentation are discussed.

admission: € 16.- / € 11.- (reduced) 

€ 6.- (music students with identity-card at the box-office) 

reservation required under office(at)impuls(dot)cc due to Corona-precautions

Thanks to AVL Cultural Foundation for the kind support of the composition commissions.