Festival

18.45-19.15

Composers' Talk

Damián Gorandi | Jieun Jeong | Piyawat Louilarppasert | Njabulo Phungula | Kelley Sheehan

Vimbayi Kaziboni moderation

19.30

Klangforum Wien

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.