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Benjamin Attahir at the heart of creation and his performers
Benjamin Attahir knows how to please the greatest musicians of our time with scores immediately recognised as timeless masterpieces. As proof and a preview before a series of premieres this month, our exclusive interview with Jean-Guihen Queyras, memorable performer of Al Icha, the cello concerto whose premiere deeply impressed its first public.
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February 2022
Oscar Bianchi - Plenty for two
For trombone, double-bass & ensemble
World premiere: February 2nd 2022 - Eclat-Festival Stuttgart
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Bruce Collings, trombone
Florentin Ginot, double-bass
Célment Power, conductor
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Hèctor Parra - Avant la fin...vers où ?
for large orchestra
French premiere: February 3rd, 2022 - Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle (Lille)
February 4th, 2022 - Le phénix (Valencienne)
February 5th, 2022 - Lys Arena (Comines)
Orchestre National de Lille
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
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Sivan Eldar - Like flesh
opera
February 10th, 11th & 13th, 2022 - Opéra Comédie - Montpellier
Cordelia Lynn, libretto
Silvia Costa, staging and scenography
Augustin Muller, computer music production
Ensemble Le Balcon
Maxime Pascal, conductor
Helena Rasker, The Woman / The Tree
William Dazeley, The Forester
Juliette Allen, The Student
Adèle Carlier, Hélène Fauchère, Guilhem Terrail, Sean Clayton, René Ramos Premier, Florent Baffi, The Forest
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Benjamin Attahir - Ô pescador e a lua
For soprano & orchestra
World premiere: February 11th 2022 - Philharmonie de Paris (Cité de la Musique)
Orchestre de Picardie
Raquel Camarinha, soprano
Michaël Cousteau, conductor
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Roque Rivas - Quodlibet
For ensemble of 16 instruments
World premiere: February 13rd 2022 - Studio 104 - Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (Festival Présences 2022)
Ensemble L'Itinéraire
Léo Margue, conductor
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Martin Matalon - Metropolis Rebooted
"musique pour le film de Fritz Lang"
for orchestra & electronic device
German premiere: February 16th, 2022 - Kölner Philharmonie
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Thomas Goepfer, computer music production Ircam
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
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Benjamin Attahir - La Femme fendue
For voice & violin
German premiere: February 17th 2022 - Boulez saal (Berlin)
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Martina Gedeck, voice
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Alex Nante - O Nata Lux
Forstrings orchestra
World premiere: February 19th 2022 - Auditorium Bolzano (Italy) & February 20th 2022 - Auditorium Trento (Italy)
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento
Kent Nagano,conductor
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Benjamin Attahir - Khatoun wahidoun
Piano concerto
World premiere: February 26th 2022 - Halles aux grains (Toulouse)
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Thomas Guggeis, conductor
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Oscar Bianchi - 6db
Concerto for six double basses & orchestra
Russian premiere : February 27th 2022 - Sochie (Russia)
Closing Gala Concert of the XIV WIAFS
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ANNIVERSARY
On 10 February, the Philharmonie de Paris and its Music Museum will launch the Xenakis centenary with a grand inauguration of the Révolutions Xenakis exhibition.
The joint organisation of the exhibition by Mâkhi Xenakis and Thierry Maniguet will offer a unique opportunity to better understand the fundamental questions surrounding the composer-architect, who would have celebrated this year his 100th birthday.
Conceived using the Xenakis family’s personal archives, the exhibition will invite visitors into the heart of the artist's studio and his research and immerse them in a veritable visual, light and sound experience.
A chronological journey, multimedia and interactive devices, and a radical experience of sound and light, all to better understand a fundamental milestone in the history of music!
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DIGITAL BROADCAST
Thanks to the efforts of all our partners, concert halls, festivals, orchestras and musicians, the works of our published composers find, for the most of them, the way of your homes and of your screens. Keep in touch!
Documentary about the premiere of Intérieur by Joan Magrané Figuera at Théâtre du Châtelet on October 22, 2021
Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds
Kolberg Percussion (Germany)
Adélaïde Ferrière, percussionist
Éric Tanguy - In Between
Théâtre de l'Alliance Française (Paris)
Benedict Kloeckner, cello
Pictures
Benjamin Attahir © Julian Hargreaves
Sivan Eldar © Laura Stevens
Roque Rivas © Luc Hossepied
Martin Matalon © Didier Olivré
Oscar Bianchi © Hanna Boussouar
Alex Nante © DR
Hèctor Parra © Amandine Lauriol
Iannis Xenakis © M.Daniele