The ULYSSES Network does not commission compositions to be performed one time only: our support to young creation includes finding ways to rerun new works in events hosted by different ULYSSES partners. After the premiere by Schallfeld Ensemble in June 2022 during the KLANG – Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival (DK), young musicians from the IEMA Ensemble perform again Elena Rykova’s In the Presence of Absence during IRCAM ManiFeste Festival, before another performance by Schallfeld in October 2022 in Barcelona, during Mixtur. Besides the rerun of Elena Rykova’s piece, the concert introduces the World premiere of a collaborative work by composer Sebastian Hilli and animation artist Jenny Jokela entitled Hibernation, to be presented again at Time of Music in July.

Hibernation deals with themes such as isolation, loneliness, depression, anxiety, shame and escapism as it follows its protagonist go on a personal journey of dreaming, sleeping and longing, gradually escalating deeper and deeper into hibernation. The dramaturgy of the piece is built on the duality and alternation between dreams and reality.

Sebastian Hilli © Sara Kokko

Concert 1: Thursday, June 30, 2022, 20h30 in Centre Pompidou

Programme:

• Sebastian Hilli / Jenny Jokela: Hibernation, for ensemble, animation and electronics, ULYSSES-commission by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Time of Music, IEMA and Gaudeamus), world premiere
• Elena Rykova: In the Presence of Absence for clarinet, violin, cello, accordion, piano and electronics,  ULYSSES co-commission by IEMA and Mixtur, French premiere
• Kaija Saariaho: Solar, for ensemble and electronics
• Øyvind Torvund: Plans, French Premiere

Performers: IEMA Ensemble 2021/2022

Rebecca Blau, flute
Vicente Moronta, oboe
Jieun Lee, clarinet
Haruka Yoshida, bassoon
Sze Fong Yeong, horn
Caique Sant’anna, trumpet
Christine Wu, piano
Fumika Namba, percussion
Federico Ceppetelli, violin
Adam Woodward, violin
Jacobo Diaz Robledillo, viola
Elena Cappelletti, cello
Rebecca Lawrence, doublebass

Alexander Sinan Binder, conductor

Manuel Poletti, IRCAM electronics

Coproduction IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou.

IEMA Ensemble 2021/2022 @Barbara Fahle

Concert 2: Thursday, July 7th, 2022, 20h30 in Viitasaari, at Time of Music