EINER (electropop opera)
IDEA
EINER -
a contemporary chamber opera, works by composers Maria Porten, Ulrike
Mayer-Spohn (UMS) and Javier Hagen (JIP). Stage directors:
Gian Manuel Rau/UMS 'n JIP. German/French with subtitles (G/F/E),
commissioned by präsent IK Zürich. This
version of EINER has been presented in Zürich, Bern,
Basel, Brig, Riga (Festival deciBels), Valencia (Projecte
Rafel), Avignon (Avignon Festival), Palma de Mallorca
(ME_MMIX), Tokyo (Kunitachi), Cordoba (CePIA UNC).
EINER
- Ein
Musiktheater im Taschenformat mit Musik von Maria Porten,
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (UMS) und Javier Hagen (JIP). Regie: Gian Manuel
Rau/UMS 'n JIP. dt/frz mit Untertitel (d/f/e), im Auftrag
von präsent IK Zürich. Aufführungen
dieser Inszenierung in Zürich, Bern, Basel, Brig, Riga
(Festival deciBels), Valencia (Projecte Rafel), Avignon
(Avignon Festival), Palma de Mallorca (ME_MMIX), Tokyo (Kunitachi), Cordoba
(CePIA UNC).
EINER - Kein wohin, kein woher, nur
Durchgang. Einer ist Passant,
Verbleiber, Suchender, Verweiler, Taster, Riecher,
Schmecker, er taucht auf und geht wieder. Er wird stets
von Ihr begleitet, der Geheimnisvollen, Unnahbaren der
schönen laufmaschigen Vielleichten. (Vielleicht kann man
sie befragen, berühren? Was passiert, wenn sie ihm Unheil
prophezeit?) Wir sind Zeugen eines Pakts ohne erklärbare
Regeln. Einer ist das Kind in uns, das spielt, der
Jähzornige der alles zerstört, der seine wissende
Begleiterin zu verführen versucht, der vor dem
Vollbrachten flüchtet um es aus der Ferne zu betrachten.
Einer kann mit dem Feuer spielen, Einer kann alles flüssig
machen, alles wegatmen, umhäufen. Einer ist König ohne
Land, seinen Besitz trägt er stets mit sich. Einer singt
oft, er singt von vielen Dingen die wir zu kennen und zu
wissen glauben. Einer rappelt, rappt und tanzt. Einer
schwelgt in eigener Traurigkeit, Einer zeigt uns die
„wehs“ und „achs“ des Streunenden ohne darüber zu spotten.
Einer schämt sich nie, ist nur in höchstem Masse erstaunt.
Einer ist ein Plötzlichkeitsphantast, ein Raser, der stets
seine Richtung ändern kann. Einer schläft nie. Was hat die
Gesellschaft vergessen zu tanzen? Einer tanzt. Einer ist
der Derwisch der metaphysischen Obdachlosigkeit. Und Sie? Gian Manuel Rau
EINER 2012 (Schleifferei Basel)
EINER 2018 (CePIA UNC Cordoba)
WORKS
JIP
(Javier Hagen)
modul 1.1 (Mörike) 2011
Maria
Porten
lebelight 2001/2
UMS
(Ulrike Mayer-Spohn)
JvE-InD-RV (Eichendorff) 2011
JIP
emm.O 2012 UA
Maria
Porten
sang et lueurs Nr. 1-4 (Prévert) 2011
UMS
O-M-F 2012 UA
CAST
Einer - Javier Hagen (JIP, voice
& electronics)
Sie - Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (UMS, recorders &
electronics)
music: Maria Porten, UMS, JIP
stage director: Gian Manuel Rau
light design: UMS 'n JIP
sound design: UMS 'n JIP
sound engineering: UMS 'n JIP
production: IK präsent
MeMMix Palma
BIOGRAPHIES
Maria
Porten. Born in
Germany 8.6.1939. After the war soon on normal education
track: schools, studies at the University of Cologne (German
language, musique, philosophy, college of musical
education). For a year, teaching German literature in
Carbondale, Illinois, USA. In Switzerland: Doctoral thesis
„Debussy and his musical genre“. Teaching assignment at a
school for adult education. Private composition studies.
Engaged Projects:
2003 Srebrenica - Behaudin Trakic
2004 Advent of the animals - Karlheinz Röder.
2006 Vontobel Price
Cooperation with contemporary authors, poets, stage
directors and ensembles.
2006 Once there was a paradise - Portrait CD VDE-Gallo
2007 Ferne Schritte. Nähe - Switzerland meets
Japan
2010 Frauenzauberfrauen - Walter Studer - commissioned by
Gesellschaft Rezital Zürich
2011 Sargnääl möt Köpp - Ludwig Soumagne (Kölsch, Cologne
dialect)
2013 Hexenzauber - Ariane Braml
2013 Lorelay (Melodrama) - Clemens Brentano
2016 Warten - Walter Studer - from : Wege und Warten,
coproduced with Werner Bärtschi
2017 Haschen nach Wind - for the 100. anniversary of
Gerhard Meier, famous Swiss author, commissioned by
Musikpodium der Stadt Zürich, broadcasted by Swiss Radio SF2
Kultur
Sang et Lueurs (setting poems by Jacques Prévert) and
lebelight (setting poems by Ivar Breitenmoser, from „Zürich
tanzt Bolero“) have been performed by UMS 'n JIP in
Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Japan, China, Berlin,
Wien, Avignon, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Cairo and New
York. Both works, staged within "EINER" as a contemporary
opera by Pablo Maritano and Eugenio Szwarcer, have been
given at the Centro de Experimentation del Teatro colon in
Buenos Aires. Most recent work: „Olive Trees“ and „Virgen
del Mar“ are chapters from the literary work „Walls of
Paradise“, in which Jeanine Osborne relocates the biblical
legend of paradise into a village callled Val Paraiso in
Andalusia, Spain.
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (musician).
Extraordinary diversity describes the composer and
multi-instrumentalist Ulrike Mayer-Spohn who plays the
recorder (with a focus on contemporary music), as well as
historical string instruments (fiddle and baroque violin).
She studied composition and audio design with Erik Oña at
the Studio of Electronic Music, Academy of Music, Basel,
beginning to compose in 2007, and receiving commissions from
the festival Forum Valais and the international New Music
Days, Shanghai. Her work has been performed by the Stuttgart
Vocal soloists, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Vertigo, DissonArt,
L'Arsenale, cool a cappella (1st Prize world choir games
2008) and her own ensemble Ums' n Jip in Switzerland,
France, Greece, Italy, Russia, Australia, the USA and China,
premiered under the baton of Beat Furrer, Mark Foster, Tsung
Yeh, Jürg Henneberger and Filippo Perocco and broadcast by
the Swiss radio. She was awarded the 1st Prize in the Walter
Ferrato composition contest in Savona 2017, the 1st Prize in
the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für Zeitgenössische Musik
composition contest 2017, the 1st Prize in the London Ear
Festival composition contest 2016, the 2nd Prize in the
composition competition Culturescapes 2010, 2nd Prize in the
composition competition at the Bern music festival 2011, the
Scholarship Award for 2011 at the Music Village Mount Pelion
in Greece and the Call for Scores Award L'Arsenale Treviso,
Italy 2011. In the ensemble Ums' n Jip she has undertaken
research in the field of musical theater (chamber operas
One, Two, Three, Four, Five), live electronic music and
sound spacialization. She studied recorder with Ulrike
Mauerhofer at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, with Conrad
Steinmann and Corina Marti at the Schola Cantorum Basel
before specializing in contemporary music and studying with
Dorothea Winter at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. From
2009-11 she studied for a specialized master's degree in
contemporary performance at the HSM in Basel supervised by
Jürg Henneberger, Marcus Weiss and Mike Svoboda and has
taken masterclasses with Marion Verbruggen, Peter van
Heyghen, Sebastien Marq and Gerd Lünenbürger. She studied
baroque violin and viola with Martina Graulich and David
Plantier and fiddle with Randal Cook in Basel. Ulrike
Mayer-Spohn works with internationally leading composers and
annually plays more than 20 world premieres dedicated to
her, which she has recorded for the radio as well as VDE
Gallo and col legno on CD. Together with the Swiss composer
and singer Javier Hagen, she established the experimental
new music duo Ums `N Jip for voice, recorder and
electronics, which, alongside the Ensemble Modern,
Intercontemporain and Kronos is one of the most active
ensembles worldwide and in 2011 won the prestigious
MusiquePro scholarship. Since 1999, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn has
also performed as a recorder player, violinist, violist and
fiddle player in specialized early music ensembles such as
the Amsterdam Barok Compagnie, Freitagsakademie, Collegium
Musicum Stuttgart, La Chapelle Ancienne, Musica Poetica,
Muscadin and La Morra and has performed in Germany, China,
the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland.
Javier Hagen (singer) is one of the most astonishing classical singers of his generation: new music, performance art and Swiss folk music rank equally in his repertoire alongside opera and early music. Hagen was born as Javier-Ignacio Palau-Ribes (JIP) in 1971 in Barcelona and raised between 6 languages on the Mediterranean and in the Valais Alps. He studied classical singing (both tenor and countertenor) in Germany, Italy and Switzerland with Roland Hermann, Alain Billard and Nicolai Gedda, and composition with Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm. He studied Lied with Irwin Gage, Hartmut Höll and Ernst Haefliger and early music with Karel van Steenhoven and Kees Boeke. He has a four-octave vocal range. Hagen has worked with world-class composers such as Reimann, Kagel, Rosenmann and Eötvös and leading artists from the worlds of concrete poetry and constructive art such as Eugen Gomringer, Uecker and Rolf Schroeter. Guest appearances have taken him to the modern music festivals in Donaueschingen, Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, Karlsruhe, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Bologna, Milan, Prague, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Adelaide, Riga, Avignon and Berlin. Alongside operatic roles such as Handel's Giulio Cesare, Zsupan (Kalman), Dardanus (Rameau), Stanislaus (Zeller), Bruno (Roesler), Toni (Kalman) and Pappacoda (Strauss), Javier Hagen has premiered more than 200 works, including operas 'à l'air en verre' by Daniel Mouthon 'eismeer' by Christoph Schiller, 'poem ohne held' by Regina Irman, 'esther de racine' by Boris Yoffe, 'The Madman's Diary' by Guo Wenjing, 'Marienglas' by Beat Gysin, 'Les Musiciens de Brème' by Wen Deqing, 'Keyner nit' by Mathias Steinauer, 'Ushba et Tetnuld' by Nicolas Vérin and almost all vocal works by Maria Porten. He has made more than 50 recordings and broadcasts for Swiss, German, French, Czech, Chinese, Mongolian, Spanish, Egyptian, Italian and Latvian radio and television. He won prizes at international contemporary music and composition competitions in 2001, 2004 and 2008 in Basel, Lausanne and Dusseldorf. In 2003, his distorted folk song arrangements "s´sch mr alles 1 Ding" were released on CD on the Swiss label "musiques suisses". His compositions, in particular the vocal works, are performed throughout Europe, Israel, China, Korea, Russia, Australia, North and Central America, by ensembles and conductors including Titus Engel, Ensemble Phoenix, Basler Madrigalisten, Schweizer Jugendchor, Männerstimmen Basel, Philip Bride, Eliana Burki, Amar Quartet. In 2012, a selection of his graphic scores was shown at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art ‘haus konstruktiv’ in Zurich. At the European Youth Choir Festival 2012, Javier Hagen represented German-speaking Switzerland in the context of 'Swiss Composers meet Europe'. With Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, Hagen formed the experimental new music duo UMS 'N JIP, which, with over 100 concerts annually is one of the most active and prolific contemporary music ensembles around the world and winner of the prestigious scholarship MusiquePro. Javier Hagen also directs the international contemporary music festival Forum Wallis, hosting Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet with André Richard and the Arditti String Quartet in 2015. He is called as an expert on experimental music theater for the University of Arts in Bern, he is the President of the Swiss Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM Switzerland), of IGNM-VS, as well as a board member of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music ECPNM, Swiss Music Edition and Swissfestivals. He presents guest lectures at universities in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Moscow, Istanbul, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Adelaide, New York, Thessaloniki, Barcelona, Riga and is member of the academic board of the Contemporary Opera Academy at the Festival de Nueva Opera de Buenos Aires (FNOBA) related to the Teatro Colon. He is a jury member at national and international composition and new music competitions (a.o. ISCM World Music Days Young Composers Award, Bohol Philippines Int. Choir Competition) and a member of various committees on behalf of the canton of Valais as well as for the inventory of the cultural heritage on behalf of UNESCO. In 2007 he was nominated for "Walliser of the Year." In 2013 he was awarded the Prix Culturel de l'Etat du Valais.
UMS 'n JIP are a Swiss contemporary music duo, consisting of Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (UMS) on recorders & electronics and Javier Hagen (JIP), voice & electronics. One of the most experienced and distinguished contemporary music laboratories of our times, they work as performers, composers and organizers within a global network of composers, visual artists, stage directors, researchers, universities and festivals. Their special interest in long term collaboration, with its exchange of knowledge and awareness, brings context to new creations and results in an outstanding increase of artistic content. In this manner, UMS 'n JIP explore new settings for voice, recorders and electronics, ranging from live to digital performance in concert, scenic or installative formats and often integrate European as well as non-European music. UMS `n JIP have been invited to perform at prestigious contemporary music festivals around the world including Zürich, Lucerne, Donaueschingen, Stuttgart, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Athens, Istanbul, Moscow, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and New York. They have premiered hundreds of works, collaborating with both world famous and aspiring young composers such as Heiner Goebbels, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel, Jennifer Walshe, Wolfgang Mitterer, Erik Oña, Luis Codera Puzo, Chikashi Miyama, Huang Ruo and Guo Wenjing. They can look back on more than 900 concerts since their debut in 2007 and are one of the most active contemporary music ensembles worldwide, bringing both young and established works not only to famous venues but also to audiences who do not have easy access to live performances of top quality contemporary music. Both individually and as a duo UMS and JIP have received numerous commissions and awards and have been invited to share their knowledge in renowned universities in Europe, America and Asia. JIP is also the director of the Swiss Contemporary Music Festival Forum Wallis and the current president of ISCM Switzerland, as well as a board member of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music ECPNM, the Swiss Music Edition, and of the UNESCO Commission for the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Canton of Valais. Since 2013 UMS has been pioneering two new research projects: Recorder Map and Recorderology, and the duo has been invited to act as experts in the European Union's FP7 i-Treasures project.
Projecte Rafel Valencia
Avignon Festival
Schleifferei Basel
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