Young ensembles in residency – Looptail
09/2014 Gaudeamus – NL
As in 2013, Gaudeamus Muziekweek invites another young ensemble for its 2014 edition to work intensively with young composers on the spot.
During their residencies the ensembles are given the possibility for extensive rehearsals and artistic cooperation, taking advantage also of other offers: meet up with tutors, attend lectures, meet and exchange, interlink and work with different instrumentalists, building up new repertoire… and present the results in public concerts.
In 2014 the selected ensemble is the Looptail Ensemble from Amsterdam (NL).
In 2014, Looptail’s residency at Gaudeamus Muziekweek goes as follows:
4-10 September – Gaudeamus Academy: residency period together with 5 candidates for Gaudeamus Prize 2014. All were commissioned by Gaudeamus to write a new work and study them with the ensemble during this week:
Hikari Kiyama, Anna Korsun, Marina Poleukhina, Benjamin Scheuer, Francisco Castillo Trigueros.
10-14 September – Gaudeamus Muziekweek: performances each day and unexpected musical manoeuvres during receptions and intermissions (and in the elevators) in the new TivoliVredenburg concert venue etc., and in 3 formal concerts:
works of these 5 composers mentioned above plus new works by Noriko Koide, Giuliano Bracci, Yu Oda.
Please read more information on the Gaudeamus Muziekweek website.
Benjamin Scheuer is a composer selected also by the Composer Exchange program between impuls (Graz, AT) and Opus XXI (Hamburg, DE) and will be in residency in Graz during impuls festival and academy 2015.