Festival

zone expérimentale basel

Alena Verin-Galitskaya voice

Raphaëlle Proust piano

Alexandre Tavares piano

Yi-Chen Tsai percussion

Ioanna Boultadaki violin

Yu-Yun Peng viola

Clara Dietze cello

Pietro Elia Barcellona double bass

With zone expérimentale basel, an ensemble comprising students of the Masters course for contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel/sonic space, Switzerland will be present at the impuls Academy and Festival in 2025 anew.

zone expérimentale comprises a group of students who have distinguished themselves both as exceptional artistic personalities as well as virtuoso instrumentalists. zone expérimentale is not a classical ensemble: it rather creates a framework for discovery, both for the players themselves and the audience. The focus therefore is on the discovery of different possibilities for musical expression in contemporary music, but also on the works of the ‘parents’ of today’s music. Chamber music programmes are therefore alternated with installations or improvisational work. The ensemble’s programmes deal with a wide range of subjects and span from solo works to pieces for a large ensemble of up to 16 players.

Aside from working with various coaches at the Academy in various constellations, a Call for Scores was set up by impuls, to interconnect the ensemble with young composer participants of the impuls Academy. Laila Arafah, Love Carbin, Daniele Di Virgilio, Changjin Ha, Floriana Provenzano and Haodong Wang are amongst the selected composers, who contributed brandnew pieces for the ensemble, to be worked on intensively at impuls. At least part of them will now see their world or Austrian premieres tonight.