Seattle Chamber Players presents

Icebreaker: New Music from Russia

a festival of contemporary Russian music

and an

International Conference on Russian Music

Russian Associations for Contemporary Music: Past and Present

Benaroya Recital Hall, Seattle

Friday, February 8-Sunday, February 10, 2002

Special guests:

Lydia Kavina, theremin (Russia)

Elizabeth Wilson, cello (UK-Italy)

Svetlana Savenko, soprano (Russia)

Ivan Sokolov, piano (Russia-Germany)

Henrik Nilsson, French horn (Sweden)

Marian Lee, piano (USA)

David Gompper, conductor (USA)

Leonid Karev, organ (France)

Artistic Director Elena Dubinets

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Thursday, February 7

Cornish College for the Arts

12:00 - Preview of the festival:

Theremin on video. Live performances. 

Music by Victor Ekimovsky and Sergei Zagny.

Friday, February 8

Benaroya Hall Music Center

10:00 - grand opening of the festival.

Welcome and Introductory Remarks.

Opening of the exhibition of the local Russian artists Yuri Degtyar' and his student Anastasia Kouznetsova in the foyer

Benaroya Hall Music Center

10:30 - 11:20 - conference papers: Russian Avant-garde and Post-avant-garde 

Svetlana Savenko New Russian Music and XXth Century: to the Problem of Russian Avant-garde

David Gompper  New Directions or Old Traditions?  The Avant-garde in Contemporary

Russian Music.

12:20 - 11:50 - Composer's seminar: Vladimir Tarnopolski

11:50 - 12:40 - conference papers: Inner Features

Elizabeth Wilson Spirituality (Hidden and Open) in the Music from the Ex-Soviet Union

Margarita Katunjan Ethnomusic: Between Avant-Garde and Post-Avant-Garde

12:40 - 1:10 - Composer's seminar: Alexander Vustin

lunch (own arrangements)

The Soundbridge

2:30 - 3:45 - conference papers: Association of Contemporary Music-I: opera  

Rosamund Bartlet ASM and Opera

Inna Barsova The Fate of a Disappeared Manuscript:  Alexander Mosolov's „Hero“

Ilya Levinson What the Triangles Have Told me: Manifestations of The Schillinger

System of Musical Composition in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

3:45 - 4:15 - Composer's seminar: Dmitry Smirnov

4:15 - 5:30 - conference papers: Association for Contemporary Music-I and Its Influences

Marina Frolova  After ASM: From Modernism to Socialist Realism in Four Years

Elliott Antokoletz   Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: Its Musical Language and the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism

Anton Rovner The Legacy of Microtonal Music from the Beginning to the End of the 20th Century

5:30 - 6:00 - Composer's seminar: Victor Ekimovsky

dinner (own arrangements)

Benaroya Recital Hall

8:00 - concert

Lydia Kavina, theremin (Russia)

Svetlana Savenko, soprano (Russia)

Henrik Nilsson, French horn (Sweden)

Ivan Sokolov, piano (Russia)

Marian Lee, piano (USA)

Part I

Lydia Kavina "The Mirror" and "Transformations" for theremin, flute and cello

Leonid Hrabovsky "Hlas II", obituary for Dmitri Shostakovich for bass clarinet

Lydia Kavina "Monologue" for theremin solo

Sergey Dmitriev “CornDoRF” for French horn and tape

Vladimir Nikolaev "19 peaks" for theremin and string quartet

Part II

Joseph Schillinger "The First Airophonic Suite" for theremin and ensemble

(arranged with commission from the SCP by Dmitry Riabtsev)

Anton Rovner "The Moving in the Air" for theremin and clarinet

Vladimir Tarnopolski “Scenes from the Real Life” for soprano, flute, French horn

and piano

Saturday, February 9

Benaroya Recital Hall

9-11 - concert/lecture: Russian Woman Composers

Lydia Kavina: Theremin in Contemporary Russian Music

To be performed: 

  Olga Raeva “Skizze” (1990) for clarinet and theremin

Jorge Campos Glissandi for 6 theremins  

Marian Lee: The Spiritual Works of Galina Ustvolskaya

To be performed:

  Galina Ustvolskaya Piano Sonatas No. 5 and No. 6

Ricardo Descalzo: Sofia Gubaidulina's Piano Music

  To be performed:

   Sofia Gubaidulina Piano Sonata

11-12:00 - round table discussion - keynote speakers: R. Taruskin, E. Wilson, M. Frolova-Walker, E. Antokoletz, D. Oukhov, E. Dubinets

lunch (reception organized by "Pirozhki" in the lobby)

During lunch time in the lobby of the Benaroya Recital Hall there will be a showing of the Russian animated cartoons with music by the ASM-II composers (A. Schnittke, S. Gubaidulina, V. Ekimovsky, A. Raskatov, Martynov)

2:00 -  concert

Composers-pianists Ivan Sokolov, Vladimir Martynov, Sergei Zagny

Svetlana Savenko, soprano (Russia)

Part I

Victor Ekimovsky "Birioulki", written especially for the Seattle Chamber Players (world premiere)

Nikolai Korndorf "Yarilo" for piano and tape

Ivan Sokolov Piano trio

Vladimir Martynov “People's Dance” for piano

Part II

Yuri Kasparov "Magic Violin" for mezzo soprano and tape

Elena Firsova "Vernal Equinox" for violin and piano

Dmitry Smirnov “Opus 111” for clarinet, cello and piano in 2 movements

Sergei Zagny “Magic Stars” for piano

7:00 - concert in memory of Nikolai Korndorf

University Lutheran Church

N. Korndorf "Continuum" for organ and tape

Leonid Karev, organ

Sunday, February 10

Benaroya Hall Music Center

9:00 - 9:50 - conference papers: Contemporaries

Andrey Kasparov Quotations, Words, and Pitch Organization in Andrey Kasparov's Perestroika for Symphony Orchestra

Ludmilla Leibman Olga Petrova:  A Portrait of a Contemporary Russian Composer	

9:50 - 10:20 - Composer's seminar: Sergei Zagny 

10:20 - 11:10 - conference papers: Association for Contemporary Music-II: Older Generation

Victoria  Adamenko A Tribute to Edison Denisov: the Neo-Mythological Elements in his Requiem.

Tatyana Frumkis A romanticist of Avantgarde: About Early Art of Valentin Sylvestrov

11:10 - 11:40 - Composer's seminar: Igor Kefalidi

11:40 - 12:30 - conference papers: Tribute to Nikolai Korndorf

Brent Lee Timbral and Textural Progressions in Nikolai Korndorf's The Smile of Maud Lewis

Elena Dubinets Nikolai Korndorf and Instrumental Theatre

12:30 - 1:00 - Composer's seminar: Vladimir Nikolaev

lunch (own arrangements)

The Soundbridge

2:30 - 3:40 - conference papers:  Association for Contemporary Music-II: Dissemination

  Dushan Mihalek Yugoslavian Connection

Dmitry Oukhov The Association of Contemporary Music II at the “Alternativa” Festival.

Dushan Mihalek The Echo of Russian Music Vanguard in Israel

3:40 - 4:10 - Composer's seminar: Ivan Sokolov

4:10 - 5:00 - conference papers: Association for Contemporary Music-II: New Operas

Tara Wilson Sound Worlds and Wonderlands: Allusion and Existentialistic Evolvement in Alexander Knaifel's 'Alice'.

Michael Baumgartner You Only Live Twice: The Female Body Representation in Dimitri Smirnov's third opera The Bride in Her Grave

5:00 - 5:30 - Composer's seminar: Vladimir Martynov

dinner (own arrangements)

Benaroya Recital  Hall

7:00  -  concert

Elizabeth Wilson, cello (UK-Italy)

Svetlana Savenko, soprano (Russia)

Ivan Sokolov, piano (Russia-Germany)

Part I

Alexander Knaifel "To the Comforter" for 9 cellos

"Day" for soprano and chimes

"Bliss" for soprano, piano and crotales

Alexander Raskatov “Path” for 2 cellos and harpsichord

Vladislav Shoot' "Sonata Breve" for flute solo

Alexander Vustin Trio for vno, vc and piano

Part II

Igor Kefalidi “Percato molto” for percussion and electronic sounds

Alfred Schnittke “Sonorous Letters” for cello solo

Nikolai Korndorf "Get out!!!" for any 4 or more instruments

(arranged with commission from the SCP by Dmitry Riabtsev)

Concert tickets: $25 general/ $19 student

One day's admission to all events $40 general/ $25 student

Full 3 day series package $100 general/ $65 student

Symposium only $25 general/$15 student per day