The young Danish composer Simon Løffler has been on the Transit wish list for a while now. Although his titles are no-nonsense (the titles of the works in this concert are a, b and d), some quite radical and imaginative ideas are lurking behind them – for example, the main musical instruments in b are three neon lights (!).
Berlin’s Ensemble Adapter combines these breakthrough works with a premiere by Sarah Nemtsov, in which (we think anyway) they will be allowed to play their familiar instruments.
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Supported by SNYK national centre for contemporary, experimental music and sound art in Denmark.
Composers
Sarah Nemtsov
Sarah Nemtsov studied composition and oboe at the Hanover Hochschule for Music and Theatre. For Sarah Nemtsov, literature (Edmond Jabès, Jacques Derrida, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, W.G. Sebald, Mirko Bonné or Ron Winkler ) plays an important role as a source of inspiration; it serves her in terms of content as well as formally, in her compositional technique as a conceptual stimulation for her own constant innovation. Often in the combination and contrast of audio and visual moments, at the borders of music theater, she explores new forms of musical presence.
Simon Løffler
Simon Løffler studied composition at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. He won several prizes like the Stipendium prize at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 2014 and the 3-year working stipendium by the Danish Arts Council. He is co-founder of the composers collective DYGONG. Their main objective is to treat the span of a whole concert as one single composition.
Performers
Ensemble Adapter
Ensemble Adapter is a German-Icelandic ensemble for contemporary music based in Berlin. Its core consists of a quartet: flute, clarinet, harp and percussion. Adapter plays world premieres and other works of the recent past. The ensemble is also interested in exploring interdisciplinarity and trans-mediality.
Ensemble Adapter stays in touch with the latest developments in the different scenes of contemporary creation - maintaining a progressive, authentic and powerful style.
Website Ensemble Adapter
STUK
Naamsestraat 96
3000
Leuven
Parking
H. Hartkliniek, Naamsestraat 102c
Bus
Lijnen 1 en 2
Halte H. Hartkliniek
Not on time?
Late-comers will not be admitted to the concert.