Festival

Percaso String Quartet

Tirza Bluhm violin

Ioanna Boultadaki violin

Theresa Wagner viola

Clara Dietze cello

 

Kaija Saariaho Terra memoria (2007)

 

 

 

Presentation of results of the Special Program

Call for Scores . Double Bass in Dialogue

coached by Uli Fussenegger

 

with participants of the impuls Academy 2025

Pietro Elia Barcellona | Cem Gürakar | Manuel Mayr | Doğukan Pahsa | Simon Toth double bass, electronics

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This program brings together brandnew compositions, conceived specifically for the Special Program Double Bass in Dialogue at the impuls Academy 2025, and well-known and approved compositions for string instruments, amongst others Kaja Saariaho´s "Terra memoria", performed by Percaso String Quartet, one of the young string quartets coached by Quatuor Diotima at the Academy.

 

The Double Bass Creation - Interpretation Studio at the impuls Academy 2025 focusses on new solo repertoire for bass solo and bass with electronics. Improvisation and the development of concepts with and without electronics are further topics of the studio. Under the guidance of Uli Fussenegger, former member of Klangforum Wien and Head of Contemporary Music at the Basel University of Music FHNW/sonic space basel since 2018, participants experiment, find new approaches to the instrument, including also advanced instrumental techniques, and develope solutions for convincing performances. Double Bass in Dialogue, a call for scores set up by impuls (with young Academy composers Caleb Abner, Amit Buium, Linxi Chen, Daniele Di Virgilio, Davide Paolillo, Chih-Yun Wang and Davide Wang having been selected for the program), again connects the young bassists with the composers on spot, to develope further works either for one or two double basses or for double bass and electronics.