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Nicolas Hodges piano

 

Rebecca Saunders To an utterance - study (2020)

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Trio Sun-Weiss-Fussenegger

Sarah Maria Sun voice | Marcus Weiss saxophone | Uli Fussenegger double bass

 

Oscar Bianchi sconquasso (2024, world premiere)

Yair Klartag Masse amorphe et indistincte (2024, world premiere)

Nadir Vassena from: luce migrante. quasi un madrigale su una poesia di Fabio Pusterla: 1, 2, 3 (2022)

Jannick Giger Made for you (2024, world premiere)

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Christian Dierstein percussion

 

Elnaz Seyedi Glasfluss, for solo percussion (2023)

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Trio Accanto

Marcus Weiss saxophone | Nicolas Hodges piano | Christian Dierstein percussion

 

Misato Mochizuki Satellites (2019-2020)

Rebecca Saunders That Time (2019/2021)

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After a three-day focus on the Austrian music scene, international guests, teaching at the impuls Academy, will now have their say on two evenings. Tonight twice as soloists, twice in trio constellations.

 

Trio Accanto has been praised for its “mastery” and “world-class interpretations” since 1994. The instrumentation of saxophone, piano and percussion is common in jazz, but was a rarity in classical music (leading to the description "a jazz trio that doesn't play jazz") until Trio Accanto reversed this situation, inspiring more than a hundred composers to write new works over the years.

Trio Sun-Weiss-Fussenegger will in turn give its debut concert at the impuls Festival 2025, hereby also premiering three commissioned compositions. In addition to composers of the younger generation, the program also includes well-established composers such as Rebecca Saunders and Nadir Vassena, who have taught at the impuls Academy in recent years, as well as Misato Mochizuki, who is joining the Academy team for the first time, and furthermore former impuls composition competition winner Oscar Bianchi.

And with Christian Dierstein and Nicolas Hodges, two of the most internationally renowned long-term interpreters of contemporary music will contribute solo pieces by two female composers, the young Iranian Elnaz Seyedi and Rebecca Saunders, who was recently awarded the Golden Lion for her life's work at the Biennale di Venezia.