Festival
25.2.2025, 18.45+19.30
Composers' talk + Laureate Concert
Helmut List Halle, Waagner-Biro-Straße 98a, 8020 Graz
18.45-19.15
Composers' Talk
Damián Gorandi | Jieun Jeong | Piyawat Louilarppasert | Njabulo Phungula | Kelley Sheehan
Vimbayi Kaziboni moderation
19.30
Wendy Vo Cong Tri flutes
Markus Deuter oboe
Hugo Queiros clarinets
Lorelei Dowling bassoon, contraforte
Gerald Preinfalk saxophones
Christoph Walder horn
Anders Nyqvist trumpet
Mikael Rudolfsson trombone
Alex Lipowski percussion
Björn Wilker percussion
Krassimir Sterev accordion
Tina Žerdin harp
Johannes Piirto piano
Judith Fliedl violin
Annette Bik violin
Paul Beckett viola
Benedikt Leitner cello
Evan Hulbert double bass
Vimbayi Kaziboni conductor
Damian Gorandi Digital suicide (2024, impuls commission, world premiere)
Jieun Jeong volatile (2024, impuls commission, world premiere)
Piyawat Louilarpprasert Parasite (2024, impuls commission, world premiere)
Njabulo Phungula ochre song (2024, impuls commission, world premiere)
Kelley Sheehan strainer (2024, impuls commission, world premiere)
Every second year impuls opens a call for its international Composition Competition, commissions new works for ensemble from the composers selected and invites them to work intensively with Klangforum Wien, one of the world´s leading ensembles, at the impuls Composition Workshop. Hereby impuls contributes to the careers of young and internationally rising composers, aside from supporting young composition participants at the impuls Academies and including the younger generation of composers in other projects such as "Text im Klang".
Tonight another five commissioned works by composers from Argentina, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and the USA will be premiered at the impuls Festival, and of course the composers are on sight for this very special occasion.
Aside from some short films on these five composers, that impuls sponsor AVL Cultural Foundation has published in its series „Composer Portraits“ and that are shown also in the Foyer tonight, anyone interested to meet the artists also in person and find out more about their works, can do so before tonight´s concert at a half hour Composers´ Talk, moderated by Vimbayi Kaziboni. A more in depth analysis of the works and discussion with the composers and Vimbayi Kaziboni is then to follow on February 26th, 9.30-10.30, at KUG.
On top of that, Klangforum Wien and Vimbayi Kaziboni will also be present at the impuls Academy and offer a full day with Reading Sessions for composition Academy participants, where, amongst others, questions on formal and esthetic aspects, notation and instrumentation are discussed.
€ 18 | € 12* | € 7**
Combined ticket (18.45 + 19.30)
* Pupils, students, conscripts/civil servants and unemployed persons with valid identity card
** Music students with valid ID at the box office and children up to 10 years of age
*** Free admission for Hunger auf Kunst & Kultur at the box office from 15 minutes before the start of the concert
Ticket reservation: office@impuls.cc
Thanks to AVL Cultural Foundation for the kind support of the composition commissions.
Klangforum Wien is kindly supported by ERSTE BANK.