ALPENGLOW : INTERNATIONAL IMPROVISED MUSIC SUMMIT


alpen glow

FRI 24, SAT 25, SUN 26

September 2010

 

Times : see below

Tickets :
»Early bird festival pass: £12 for all 3 nights
»Friday pass: £5 advance / £7 on the door
»Saturday pass: £5 advance / £7 on the door
»Sunday pass: £5 advance, £7 on the door

 

Alpenglow is an international improvised music summit mixing leading players from Styria in Austria with a wide range of top-draw musicians from the UK. Embracing a true spirit of experimentation, this extended weekend of performance will mix many artists who, until now, have never shared a stage together to create unexpected and unpredictable results. Alpenglow is conceived as a volatile experiment: a meeting of players speaking many musical tongues, some sounding with Apollonian poise, others convulsing in Dionysian ecstasy.
 
British pianist and composer Veryan Weston and Austrian vocalist Annette Giesriegl, two of the leading figures in improvised music in their respective countries, have selected the artists performing over the weekend. The event will bring together 30 players drawn from across the spectrum of current approaches to improvised music performance in small group contexts and a large improvising orchestra led by the celebrated UK musician Steve Beresford.


FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

The Vortex, 7.00pm doors

Elisabeth Harnik, piano
Gail Brand, trombone
Josef Klammer, percussion/electronics

Peter Lackner, piano
Henrik Sande, piano
Hannah Marshall, cello

Café Oto, 9.30pm

Heimo Puschnigg, piano
Manfred Stern, flute
Mark Wastell, tam-tam
Angharad Davies, violin

Seppo Gruendler, guitar/electronics
James Dunn, circuit bending/electronics/tinnitus tester
Jane Dickson, piano


SATURDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

St. Barnabas Church 2:00pm doors

Katherina Klement, strings/electronics
Klaus Lang, organ
Caroline Kraabel, alto sax

Mia Zabelka, violin
Maggie Nicols, voice
John Russell, guitar

Annette Giesriegl, voice
Veryan Weston, organ
Allison Blunt, violin

The Vortex, 7.00pm doors

Andreas Weixler, computer
Se-Lien Chuang, piano/computer
Rowland Sutherland, flutes

Hannah Marshall, cello
Armin Pokorn, guitar
Martin Zrost, reeds
Steve Beresford, piano

Café Oto, 9.30pm

Martin Zrost, reeds
Lee Patterson, field recordings/electronics
Michael Pinter-Koschell, computer
Gernot Tutner, computer/iphone
Hugh Metcalfe, guitar/poetry/drums/cabbagehead


SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER

Café Oto, 7.30pm doors

Full group conducted by Steve Beresford

Throughout the weekend Christian Tschinkel will be providing electroacoustic interludes between performances