Another Timbre presents UNspellable #5
with Klaus Lang, Angharad Davies and Anton Lukoszevieze
The three will be working on Lang’s new scores over two days.
open 19:00 – / starts 19:30 –
@ ame Dai Hall, 29/30 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield HD1 2RS
£5 / £3 concession
BIO:
Klaus Lang (born 26 April 1971 in Graz) is an Austrian composer, concert organist, improviser, and academic teacher.
His opera Die Architektur des Regens (The Architecture of Rain) after the Noh play Shiga by Zeami was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008.[1]
In 2006 Lang was appointed Professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Preis of the Steiermark.[2]
He was commissioned by Katharina Wagner to write an opera, The Vanished Wedding, to be premiered at Bayreuth, although not at the Festspielhaus and not part of the Bayreuth Festival. It is claimed to be the first world premiere at Bayreuth since the premiere of Wagner’s Parsifal in 1882.[3] The Vanished Wedding was premiered at the Reichshof, a disused Bayreuth cinema, on 23 July 2018, the day before the start of the 2018 Bayreuth Festival.
Anton Lukoszevieze has, as a cellist, commissioned over 80 new works and performed concerti with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is the subject of 8 films by the renowned artist filmmaker Jayne Parker, commissioned by the Arts Council of England. He is also notable for his use of the curved bow (BACH-Bogen), which he is using to develop new repertoire. He is also the founder and director of the group Apartment House one of the World’s leading ensembles for the performance of contemporary and experimental music. In 2012 he received a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chamber Music and Song, for his group Apartment House. He featured as a performer, actor and composer in the awarding winning film Crippled Symmetries, by the artist Beatrice Gibson.
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation. Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Apartment House, Cranc, Common Objects, Richard Dawson’s band and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Laura Cannell, Jack McNamara, Eliane Radigue, Juliet Stephenson and J.G.Thirlwell. She has released records on Absinth Records, Another Timbre, Potlatch and Confrontrecords. Her album Ffansion | Fancies was voted in the top 12 albums for Radio 3’s Late Junction.
