Jack Sheen & Ricardo Eizirik
At this portrait concert, ensemble mosaik presents works by two young composers that were created as part of the Progetto Positano scholarship program: Jack Sheen presents a site-specific performance installation. A fragile, teeming ecosystem that stands on a knife-edge between stillness and movement, in which the real-time decisions of the performers, the movement of the audience and the space itself become unpredictable forces on the music. Ricardo Eizirik deals with the physical and social perception of sound and creates an experiential space for experimental sound exploration.
Progetto Positano is a scholarship for young composers that was launched by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in collaboration with ensemble mosaik in 2017: Each year, two scholarship holders are invited to live and work for a month at the Wilhelm Kempff Cultural Foundation's Casa Orfeo in Positano on the Italian Amalfi Coast. Following the residency in Italy, ensemble mosaik will present the works of the scholarship holders as part of a double portrait concert in Berlin. The first scholarship holder in 2017 was Johan Svensson, followed by Óscar Escudero, Andreas Eduardo Frank, Julia Mihály and Manuel Rodríguez-Valenzuela, Liisa Hirsch, Chris Swithinbank, Laura Bowler and Kaj Duncan David. In 2023, Georgia Koumará and Maja Bosnić received the scholarship.
Program
Jack Sheen
Ceremony Container (2023/24) UA
Performance installation for chamber ensemble distributed throughout the space - world premiere
Ricardo Eizirik
organize/dissolve (2023/24) UA
for amplified ensemble and live electronics - world premiere
ensemble mosaik
Enno Poppe - musical director, Kristjana Helgadottir - flute, Simon Strasser - oboe, Christian Vogel - clarinet, Martin Losert - saxophone, Roland Neffe - percussion, Ernst Surberg - piano/keyboard, Sarah Saviet - violin, Chatschatur Kanajan - violin, Karen Lorenz - viola, Mathis Mayr - violoncello, Niklas Seidl - violoncello, Arne Vierck - sound direction
Admission: 12 € / 8 € reduced ->Ticketlink
PROGETTO POSITANO is an initiative of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in collaboration with ensemble mosaik and the Wilhelm Kempff Cultural Foundation
JACK SHEEN (*1993, England)
is a conductor and composer from Manchester. His music ranges from orchestral works to performances and sound installations. He regularly collaborates with leading orchestras, ensembles and artists for concert and opera performances and interdisciplinary projects. As a composer, he has received numerous commissions from orchestras, ensembles and festivals throughout Europe. He has created large-scale site-specific sound and performance installations for galleries, museums and the Biennale di Venezia. He is curator of the London Contemporary Music Festival and co-founder of the LCMF Orchestra.
RICARDO EIZIRIK (*1985, Brazil)
is a composer with a broad artistic spectrum, ranging from notated music to installation and performance works. His work focuses on themes such as body perception, colonial history, banality, the mechanization of society and the by-products of daily life (i.e. garbage, waste, noise, etc.). He also has a keen interest in historical representations of these themes and often appropriates objects, sounds and movements from historical sources for his work. He performs as a DJ and produces beats under the pseudonym "auto_timer".
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