ULYSSES JOURNEYS FOR PERFORMERS – IMPULS
ULYSSES Journeys offer young composers and performers the opportunity to take part in courses, workshops and residencies, but also to have concrete working experiences, through commissions and concerts.
Every second year, impuls hosts young promising composers and performers including conductors and singers in the framework of their ULYSSES Journeys and actively involves them both in the impuls Academy and the impuls Festival. In 2023, young conductor Fernando Palomeque will join impuls, alongside Fei Nie (keyboards), Kalle Hakosalo (percussion) and Lorenzo Colombo (percussion) from the ensemble NEKO3.
For the impuls Academy and Festival 2023, impuls hosted a Call for the Danish ensemble NEKO3 inviting composers, sound and multimedia artists, performers, individual musicians, actors, dancers, instrument designers, and any other creators regardless of discipline, to apply.
NEKO3 consists of three performers who have a classical training as two percussionists and a pianist, but nowadays who work without regard to medium – ideas come first! Their core repertoire features both electronic music, performance art, cross-genre art (such as installations or sound art) and contemporary classical music. Accordingly the call was open for ideas and styles of almost any kind, the applicant could propose anything from small musical ideas to longer works, as scores or as conceptual thoughts in text format. Rather than finding complete works to be presented in a concert, the ensemble offered to act as a development lab for the applicants’ raw ideas, and to get to know the creators as artists and people through working with and collaboratively developing ideas with them. NEKO3 would then present the final results of the working phase with the selected artists.
Date and venue: 1 Aug 2023, KUG . Brandhof 21 . Aula, Brandhofgasse 21, 8010 Graz
Programme:
Fei Nie keys, performer
Kalle Hakosalo percussion, performer
Lorenzo Colombo percussion, performer
Presentation of the open call with selected impuls Academy participants John Aulich, Shasha Chen, Severin Dornier, Daiwei Lu, Gioele Onida, Liepa Vozgirdaitė, Ni Zheng
Severin Dornier +++
John Aulich Cuticles
Shasha Chen Respiratory mask ensemble
Daiwei Lu (new work)
Gioele Onida The inner sea
Liepa Vozgirdaitė ▓▒░(°◡°)░▒▓
Ni Zheng The nakedness of our naked laceration
NEKO3 Ensemble. Photo: neko3cph.com
Also on August 1, young conductor Fernando Palomeque accompanies established conductors Ernst Kovacic, Beat Furrer and Johannes Kalitzke during the Academy and Festival, profiting from their lifelong experience as conductors and composers, and observing the rehearsals and performances of amongst others of Klangforum Wien and the young ensembles of the Academy. Furthermore, he gets the opportunity to join Johannes Kalitzke in Vienna prior to the festival, for the final rehearsals of four impuls commissions to be premiered at impuls in Graz.
Date and venue: 1 August 2023, TiP Theater im Palais, Leonhardstraße 19, 8010 Graz
Programme:
Clara Giner Franco flutes | Mikołaj Rytowski percussion | Dmitry Batalov piano | Miriam Paschetta harp | Manca Dornik accordion | Pietro Elia Barcellona double bass
Fernando Palomeque conductor*
Michele Selvaggi Pale hum, and threads left behind, for flutes, percussion, piano, harp, accordion, double bass (2023, world premiere)*
Arda Bayram Eros therefore Psyche (or not an Oriental rug), for bass flute, accordion, double bass (2023, Austrian premiere)
Kevin Kay flux cycles, for bass flute, percussion, piano, harp, accordion, double bass (2023, world premiere)
Franck Bedrossian Edges, for percussion, piano (2010)
The Argentinian conductor Fernando Palomeque. Photo: Jordi Batallé