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Info Concert 05/04/2014 @Paris

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YProject "1-Voice" 05/04/2014 20:00- The Scots Kirk Paris - 17, rue Bayard 75008 Paris http://www.scotskirkparis.com Guest musician : Kazuko Matsumoto, soprano &  YProject  :  Yusuke Ishii, piano - Yumiko Yokoi, composition Le premier projet de mon duo avec Yusuke Ishii, YProject "1-Voice" aura lieu à Paris, le samedi 5 avril. Nous invitons une excellente chanteuse japonaise cette fois-ci, Kazuko Matsumoto, pour découvrir le répertoire autour de "voix+piano", y compris mes deux créations. Venez nombreux !! ### ピアニスト・石井佑輔とのデュオ YProject 第一弾を、2014年4月5日にパリにて開催します。 ずいぶん前から準備をして来たような、あっという間だったような、実はまだ先のような、いろんな気持ちになっておりますが、間違いなく今週の土曜です。 とりあえず曲はできているので(本番5日前にできてなかったらちょっと問題です…しかし「ありえない!」と断言できないのがつらいところ)どちらかというと裏方仕事的なことをやっています。何はともあれ、電子音響パートがない本番はストレスが段違いに少ないです。 さて、内容について。 記念すべき初回は、 題して"1-Voice" 。ピアノ+声のレパートリーを掘り下げてみようという企画で、フランス在住のソプラノ歌手・松本和子さんをお招きします。 つい先日、パリで和子さんと打ち合わせの際に新作『恋歌Ⅱ』を少し聴かせてもらったのですが、譜面に書ききれなかったところまで読み取って

MEMORIUM III

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Buy this score on BabelScores (EN) Instrumental Music - Orchestral Music Description :  Title   MEMORIUM III for Orchestra   Instrumentation   3Fl (III doubling Picc), 2Ob, EH, 2Cl, B.Cl, 3Fg(III doubling C.Fg), 4Hn, 3Trp, 3Trb, Tba, Timp, 3Perc, Hrp, Pno, Strings (Vn I, Vn II, Va, Vc, Cb)   Date   2012-2013 Duration   10'00 World Premiere   2013/04/09 @ONDIF (Alfortville, France)  Orchestre National de France Ankush Kumar Bahl, Cond N.B.   Commissioned by Radio France for Alla breve , radio program of France Musique Diffusion schedule : April 29 - May 3 2013 :16h55-17h00, 22h25-22h30, 1h00-1h05  May 6 2013 : 0h40-1h00 Integral version Technical requirements :  Program note :  About « MEMORIUM III » : How we remember things and how we forget them? What is memory? What is the relationship between time and memory? In music, can we always find the basic elements under different conditions? Where is the limit of a change/deformation s

actV

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Buy this score on BabelScores (EN) Instrumental Music - Chamber Music Description :  Title    actV Instrumentation    A.Sax, Pno Date   2011-12 Duration   12'00 World Premiere   2013/02/12 @National Conservatory of Music (Lima, Peru) Duo Azar : Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach, A.Sax Wenjiao Wang, Pno N.B.  Commission of the Duo Azar Technical requirements :  Program note :  « act V » is composed of 12 sections, and each has a length of 1 minute precisely. They are naturally chained to one another using metric modulation technique. The piece shows the passage of transformation from “dynamic to static”. And throughout the entire process, the same materials are used, fed back into these cells of 1 minute. 1. Motion - mechanical / on-going 2. Motion - mechanical / on-and-off 3. Motion - cascading 4. - heavy, as in Deep-sea 5. Motion - nervous, like a thin thread taut 6. Motion - in dry, in low 7. - in certain resonance 8. - Smooth and fluid 9.

Le Pied de Fumiko

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(EN) Instrumental Music - Ensemble Description :  Title   Le Pied de Fumiko Instrumentation   Hrp, Vn, Va, Vc, Db & Perc   Date   2012 Duration   23'00 World Premiere   2012/11/23 @La Fonderie - Usine Kugler (Geneva, Switzerland)  Ensemble Matka Elena Schwarz, Cond Miyuki Warabiuchi, Dance Joanna Szpak, Video projection N.B.   Commission of the Ensemble Matka, for their residence "Matka à Kugler"  Technical requirements :  Program note :  (Available in French) ---- (FR) Musique instrumentale - Ensemble Description :  Titre   Le Pied de Fumiko Effectif   Hrp, Vn, Alt, Vc, Cb & Perc Date   2012 Durée   23'00 Création Mondiale   2012/11/23 @La Fonderie - Usine Kugler (Genève, Suisse)  Ensemble Matka Elena Schwarz, Cond Miyuki Warabiuchi, Danse Joanna Szpak, Projection vidéo N.B.   Commande de l'ensemble Matka, dans le cadre de la résidence "Matka à Kugler" Conditions tech

Lynx Hunt

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(EN) Instrumental Music - Solo Instrument Description :  Title     Lynx Hunt Instrumentation    Va Date   2011-2012 Duration   10'00 World Premiere   2012/09/08 @Echizen-shi Bunka Center (Fukui-ken, Japan) Yoshiko Hannya, Va N.B.  Nominated piece for the Takefu Composition Award 2012   Technical requirements :  Program note :  About « Gauche the Celliste » : a short story by the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933), that made me inspired to compose this piece. - Synopsis - Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor. Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing. The first night, a tortoiseshell cat came to Gauche and asked him to play Schumann's "Träumerei." Gauche was irritated, so he berated the cat and