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Music
Concert format by Walter Rumer
for the exhibition AHNEN. New portraits 17th century music, improvisation and new contemporary music.
Concert format by Walter Rumer
for the exhibition AHNEN. New portraits 17th century music, improvisation and new contemporary music.
Music from the 17th century, improvisation and new contemporary music by and featuring Anne Marie Dragosits (harpsichord), Claudia Norz (violin), Walter Rumer (double bass), Midori Seiler (violin) and Christian Wegscheider (piano). Concert design: Folkert Uhde.
“Drawing inspiration from Orly Zailer’s work, in my program I use the technique of thematic juxtaposition. Just as in Zailer’s case, Innsbruck—in situ—is the focal point of the action.
Through 17th-century and modern music, the ensemble creates references to Zailer’s work, using its own language to weave multiple types of thread in various ways.
The toccata as a musical form is ideal as a carrier of musical ideas. Thanks to its improvisational character and harmonic audacity, it is an ambassador of modern as well as early music. Unpredictable by nature, the toccata maintains a dialogue with the unknown. As a result, noticeable similarities between the musical images of the past and present become apparent. While modern music can be imitative, with poses, comments and improvisation, in the musical portraits from the early baroque, the affected may in some cases sound imitative, but in other cases there may be charming variations. Images of the beautiful and the simple appear and seek out the similar. Sometimes nimble tirades with impressively virtuoso phrases establish their own independence and are then reproduced in the spirit of the modern Zeitgeist. One can hear the same and the different, with occasional moralising subjective ideas which then— happily—get lost in their counterparts.”
Participants:
Walter Rumer
is a double bassist in Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Academy for Early Music Berlin, short name: Akamus), one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras playing period instruments. He appears regularly with Akamus at major European and international venues (London, New York, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, etc.). He also teaches at Mozarteum University Salzburg and heads the double bass class at the Tyrolean State Conservatory. With a select ensemble of internationally renowned soloists he has created a dialogue of baroque music, contemporary composition and jazz improvisation.
Anne Marie Dragosits
Harpsichordist Anne Marie Dragosits is a native Tyrolean. As soloist and continuo player she is an international performer who plays regularly with ensembles and orchestras such as vivante, Barucco, Barocksolisten München, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, L’Arcadia and Musica Alchemica.
Claudia Norz
studied baroque violin and is a UK-based independent musician. She regularly performs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, La Serenissima and Classical Opera, and is a founding member of the ensemble Klingzeug, with whom she has appeared at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, musik+, Jeunesse Österreich and elsewhere. Since 2014 she has taught historical musicianship at the Tyrolean State Conservatory.
Midori Seiler
is a member of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Akamus). With Akamus and Anima Eterna, the orchestra of the Belgian fortepiano specialist Jos van Immerseel, Seiler has played violin concertos from the baroque and classical repertoire at Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the concert hall of the Viennese Music Association and in many other European cities. She is professor of baroque violin and viola at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.
Christian Wegscheider
studied jazz piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. 1993 recipient of the Austrian State Scholarship for Jazz. He has played in numerous international concerts and featured on dozens of albums as band leader or sideman. Commissioned compositions for Lucerne and Tyrol Symphony Orchestras, Mittelsächsische Philharmonie, Jazzorchester Tirol and others. He teaches jazz piano at Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Folkert Uhde
is a leading international pioneer in new concert design. He is artistic director of the Montforter Zwischentöne event series in Vorarlberg and of the Köthener Bachfesttage (Köthen Bach Days), and also co-founder of Radialsystem Berlin arts centre.
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