FINALIST Re_cre@ 2025
CONCERT PROGRAM
Talk Circus – Kelley Sheehan
Vuoi Che Nel Fuori – Marco Momi
RePercussion Trio
RePercussion Trio is a percussion trio that began in 2016 and is composed of Alexandre Silva, Daniel Araújo and Jorge Pereira.
The group is dedicated to contemporary, experimental and performative music through commissions, the dissemination of existing contemporary works and the creation of concerts for this formation. The main focus is the development of new techniques and instruments for percussion, as well as the creation and exploration of new artistic works. These are achieved through close contact with the composers and periods of joint experimentation. These periods of experimentation are catalysts for the genesis and consolidation of the creative process.
Since its formation, it has taken part in festivals such as Cistermúsica, the Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival, the Valongo Biennial and the Harmos Festival. Besides their participation in festivals, RePercussion Trio, has created dedicated concerts, such as:
“Um Quadro”, a show that gives a new relief and vision to the slate with unusual sound explorations, with new applications and new techniques and the construction of new instrument (lytophone) made out of slate. The music is original composition of RePercussion trio.
“Um Retrato” which is is a map of the trip made in August 2021 that illustrates the sound recording of various locations in Sintra. These sounds represented in electronics and percussion are manipulated and rearranged so that the listener feels on a journey through this region.
It has also premiered several works dedicated for them from composers such as Carlos Guedes, Maria Vittoria Agresti, Olívia Silva and Agnelo Marinho and, for the 2025 year it will be premiering four new works dedicated and composed for the formation from Hugo Vasco Reis, Luís Antunes Pena, João Pedro Oliveira and Maurizio Azzan. Furthemore, they will be launching their first CD, recorded in the last trimester of 2024. RePercussion Trio’s main activity is in Portugal and Switzerland.
Ensemble du Bout du Monde
The Ensemble du Bout du Monde (EBM) is an award-winning collective made up of four classically trained saxophonists from Israel, Italy, and the United States. As a contemporary ensemble, they are constantly searching to place art in unexpected and truly unique situations. Through the saxophone quartet, their tool to make art through music, they seek to create a paradigm shift in the contemporary concept of what this already versatile ensemble is.
Interested equally in breaking away from the classic view of a quartet, the ensemble members deem it necessary to collaborate in cross-cultural ways between the arts and other humanities.
Formed, developed, and trained in France, EBM brings four disparate people and cultures together to envision a creative and innovative collective for which there exists no boundaries or limitations. The ensemble began their artistic journey in 2015 and has been invited to various festivals and concert halls to present their work to a wide audience. The ensemble has been invited to the Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens, Greece), the Mallorca Saxophone Festival (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), the Estonian Days Festival (Tallinn, Estonia), the Sound Plasma Festival (Tallinn, Estonia), the Sprengel Museum (Hannover, Germany) and the Kuraia Festival (Bilbao, Spain), among others. Their most recent concerts include the Sax in the City festival (Zurich, Switzerland), Yes we Sax! (Stuttgart, Germany,) Gare du Nord (Basel, Switzerland), HaTeiva Festival (Israel), the Cyprus New Music Festival (Nicosia, Cyprus), the Franci Festival (Siena, Italy), the Unerhörte Musik (Berlin, Germany), Curva Minore Festival (Palermo, Italy) and the Klarafestival (Bruxelles, Belgium)
In the field of contemporary chamber music, the ensemble has received numerous awards for its performances. Among these, the First Prize and the Prix de la Ville at the Concours d’interprétation de la Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt (France), the First Prize at the Hugo Competition organized by the Montforthaus of Feldkirch (Austria), and more recently the 3rd Prize as well as the “Prix de l’Espace 110” at the 21st Illzach Chamber Music Competition (France).
The ensemble regularly collaborates with composers to create new repertoires and bring new music to unexpected places. Their most recent collaborations with the Iranian Composers Association of ACIMC, as well as with composer Paul Clift and composer María-Eugenia Luc have been very successful.
Currently, EBM is working through an Advanced Chamber Music Course at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium with members of the Ictus and Spectra Ensembles. This course bolsters their position in the Belgian music market and continues to train their distinct sound while curating particular programmes for Belgian audiences.
2025 will see the release of the Ensemble’s first album, a record that will feature alongside such literary cornerstones as Iannis Xenakis’s Xas, five pieces written by composers with whom EBM has worked closely in recent years, such as Czernowin, Tzortzis, Biedenbender, Lo Russo, and Clift.
The Ensemble du Bout du Monde is an endorsed artist ensemble with the Henri Selmer Paris Company. They proudly perform on Henri Selmer Paris saxophones and mouthpieces, exclusively
CONCERT PROGRAM
Iannis Xenakis – XAS
Maria-Eugenia Luc – Zeruan
David Biedenbender – You’ve been talking in your sleep
CONCERT PROGRAM
J.M.Sánchez-Verdú – Dhamar
C.Camarero – Trayecto Líquido
A. Charles – Trans-it
Duo Nacktê
The duo Naktê is a formation composed of Víctor Orts Langa and Julen Murga Olabegoya, two passionate musicians with a common goal: to renew the traditional language of chamber music and contribute to the development of contemporary music. This group originated in Zaragoza, based at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (CSMA), under the direction of Manuel Fernández, Ferdinando Trematore, and Andrés Gomis, actively seeking the blend and connection through a unique and attractive combination of instruments: saxophone and accordion.
In their short trajectory, they have received masterclasses from prominent chamber musicians such as saxophonist Marcus Weiss and clarinetist Jakub Drygas. Furthermore, they maintain relationships with composers such as J. María Sánchez-Verdú and César Camerero, collaborating with the composition department of CSMAragón and premiering several works, both individually and collectively. Among these, the work ‘Bañarse en chapapote’ by composer Luis Trigueros stands out, under the direction of Nacho de Paz.” In addition, they have participated in competitions and offered concerts in various locations in Aragon, as well as recitals in concert halls such as the CAI Foundation in Zaragoza.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Ira-Arca – B. Furrer
Own Pace (amnesia 3) – S. Borzelli
Blaurenz Duo
Rebecca Lawrence and Rebecca Blau, together as Blaurenz Duo, are using double bass and flute to
build a common body of sound. They met as participants in the International Ensemble Modern
Academy Frankfurt 2021̺2022, and with not only the same name but also the same birthday, built a
deep connection across the ensemble. Since 2023 they have been working as Blaurenz Duo, where
they are developing new repertoire for this instrument combination. In summer 2023 they received an
honorable mention for the Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, and
proceeded with a commissioning project culminating in two world premieres for flute, double bass and
electronics in the summer of 2024. In 2024 they won the first prize in the Reate Festival Competition
for Contemporary Music, sponsored by Fondazione Flavio Vespiani.
Frankfurt am Main based Rebecca Lawrence ͅ*1995͆ is recognized for her collaboration as a double bassist for contemporary and early music in Europe and the USA. Most at home in creative small ensemble environments, Rebecca is passionate about working with living composers. She is constantly looking to invent new possibilities for the double bass in different contexts. Since graduating from the International Ensemble Modern Academy ͅIEMA͆, Rebecca is a frequent guest with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Scope, ensemble mosaik, ensemblekollektiv Berlin and Matter of Facts Studio and has played at many European music festivals, including ManiFeste, MaerzMuzik, achtbruecken, Gaudeamus Muziekweek and Time of Music. At the same time, Rebecca is studying historical double bass and viola da gamba at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt. She combines her interest in contemporary and baroque music with individual projects for improvisation on old instruments.
Flutist Rebecca Blau lives in Lucerne, is a member of various chamber music formations and is particularly interested in contemporary music. She had her first experiences with new music in the Thuringian State Youth Ensemble for New Music, which works closely with the composers͖ association Via Nova e.V. Since then she has played with various ensembles such as Basel Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Scope and others at renowned festivals such as the Ruhrtriennale, Festival Warschauer Herbst, Rainy Days Luxembourg and Festival de La Habana de Música Contemporánea in Cuba, the Berlin Festival and the Mixtur Festival Barcelona. In the 21̺22 season Rebecca Blau was a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy Frankfurt, with whom she gave concerts at Manifeste Paris, Lucerne Festival, Time of Music Finland, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Utrecht and 180͠ Festival Sofia. Together with cellist Charlotte Lorenz, Rebecca Blau is co̽founder of the Lucerne Dissolution Ensemble, which, in addition to its own innovative concerts, works closely with the composition class at the Lucerne University of Music..
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