One young Flemish guitarist (Nico Couck) and three very talked-about composers. Each of them has written a piece for solo acoustic or electric guitar, which will produce an undoubtedly intense musical experience.
Coproduction ChampdAction
Program
Oscar Bianchi, Trevor Bača, Katherine Young
INTRO
Klaas Coulembier, 13:30
Composers
Katherine Young
Composer and bassoonist Katherine
Young creates acoustic and electro-acoustic music that uses curious
timbres, rhythmic pressure, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic
physicality of sound, shifting interpersonal dynamics, and tensions between the
familiar and the strange.
Oscar Bianchi
Energy, virtuosity, mystery and an idiosyncratic use of pulsation feature Oscar Bianchi's music. His skillful manipulation of timbre often creates an acute sense of dramaturgy. He explores everything in between stasis and activity, longing for the depth of these two extremes. From a very refined harmonic awareness, Bianchi dramatizes musical forms through mastery of texture, in its thousand details.
Website Oscar Bianchi
Trevor Bača
Trevor Bača (1975) grew up in Texas. His
concerns as a composer include lost and secret texts; broken and dismembered
systems; sorcery, divination and magic; and the effects, action and beauty of
light. Bača is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at Harvard
University with dissertation advisors Hans Tutschku and Chaya Czernowin.
Performers
Nico Couck
Nico Couck received his Master’s Degree in Guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2013, where he’s now teaching guitar and chamber music himself. Since 2010 he has been awarded several prizes, among which by Radio Klara, Laboratorium and the Logos Foundation. Couck has been invited to play at great concert venues in Europe, Asia, the United States and South America, and has featured at Warschau Autumn, Acht Brücken Köln and Cité de la Musique Paris among others. He’s also shared the stage with ensembles such as ChampdAction, HERMESensemble and Nadar Ensemble. Throughout his career, he’s premiered works by composers such as Oscar Bianchi, Chaya Czernowin, Johannes Kreidler, Stefan Prins, Simon-Steen Andersen and Serge Verstockt.
STUK
Naamsestraat 96
3000
Leuven
Parking
H. Hartkliniek, Naamsestraat 102c
Bus
Lijnen 1 en 2
Halte H. Hartkliniek
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