Monday 4 November 2024, 7.30pm
Iancu Dumitrescu – 80th anniversary
Electronic music concert and collective improvisation
Iancu Dumitrescu (electronics, conducting) Tim Hodgkinson (bass clarinet) Yoni Silver (bass clarinet) Beibei Wang (percussion)Marian Cîtu (electronics) Octav Avramescu (inside piano)
30 years after the first concerts in London, composer, conductor and founder of Hyperion Ensemble comes to impart his latest musical works, inspired by the slowing down of his live music life.
Iancu Dumitrescu (b. 1944) graduated from composition at the University of Music in Bucharest in 1968 and studied phenomenology and conducting with Sergiu Celibidache, 1978. Founder and conductor of the Hyperion Ensemble, his music is also performed by other soloists and ensembles. He has given lectures, masterclasses, workshops, and founded of the first Electronic Music Studio in Bucharest in 1967, as well as a published music criticism widely in Romania before 1989.
His music is published by Editions Salabert (Paris), Gerig Musikverlage (Cologne), ReR Megacorp (London), Edition RZ (Berlin), l'Escargot - CBS Disques (Paris), ARTGallery (Paris), Generation Unlimited (New-York & Boston), Electrecord and Editura Muzicală (Bucharest), Mego (Austria).
Opera omnia is published on 32 CDs and 2 DVDs by EDITION MODERN (London-Paris)
With compositions featured at international festivals such as Tectonics, Huddersfield, Spectrum XXI, Nordlyd, and Ars Musica, and two sets of works for ensemble out on the Mode label, TIM HODGKINSON also has a powerful commitment to intense and highly energised performance practice. For over fifty years he has placed himself in a series of definitive projects, whether as cofounder of the seminal group Henry Cow, as saxophonist with influential avant-metal band God, or as bass clarinet soloist in the spectral compositions of Iancu Dumitrescu. His lap steel guitar playing remains completely uncategorisable, bringing subdued and not so subdued echoes of rock musics and other ethnicities.
http://www.timhodgkinson.co.uk/
Bass-clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist Yoni Silver’s activities include hyper-spectral adventures with Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble; a bass clarinet and percussion duo with Steve Noble; a bass clarinet/violin and possessed vocals duo with Sharon Gal; Denis D’or with Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley; bass clarinet and drums duo with Crystabel Riley, and solo performances on amplified bass clarinet.
He has appeared on labels such as Creative Sources, Confront Recordings, Wasted Capital, Chocolate Monk and Edition Modern.
Beibei Wang is a uniquely vibrant percussion talent. With a background in both Classical and traditional Chinese percussion, she brings characteristic flair and dynamism to her performances, presenting repertoire as diverse as contemporary classical to free improvisation with equal elegance.
Beibei has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as BBC Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra dell’ Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and lead the BBC Concert Orchestra on their 2018 China tour. She has appeared as soloist on some of the world’s most prestigious stages including the Barbican Centre, Elbphilharmonie, Grafenegg Festival, and Southbank Centre.
http://beibeimusic.com/
Marian Cîtu (b. 1984) is a Romanian composer and sound artist based in London, UK.
Alumnus of TheWRD, member of the Music Producers Guild, The Ivors Academy (BASCA), FAC and PRS for Music.
He signs the soundtracks for multimedia projects, theatre plays, performances, and contemporary dance shows in Europe and the USA.