UMS ´N JIP ::::: voice, recorder & electronics ::::: EIN LIEDERABEND

2019 __ Ein Liederabend

PROGRAM

Paul Clift
Shadow Art, 2017/9, UA der Neufassung
T: Spicer, Kleist, Petrarca

JIP
a-nsw II, 2019, UA
T: Heine

UMS
JRJ-4L, 2019, UA
T: Jimenez

Zach Thomas 
et fermentent de même et les cuirs et les peaux, 2016
T: Queneau, 100000 milliards de poèmes

Ermir Bejo
op.5, 2016/7
T: Marinetti

JIP
a-nsw I, 2019, UA
T: Heine

Stefano Gervasoni 
Romper del dia, 2014/18, arr. UMS
T: Valente

UMS
JvE-4L, 2019, UA
T: Eichendorff

Christophe Schiess
Wiegenlieder, 2019, UA
T: Mistral, Apollinaire, Fontane

PROGRAM SHEET

IDEA

Über 1000 Konzerte haben UMS ´n JIP seit 2007 über alle Kontinente verteilt gespielt, und dabei einzelne Werke – eher einer Rockband ähnlich und daher einmalig in der Neuen Musik – über 100 Mal performt. Im Fokus des Duos stehen neben den Auftragswerken und eigenen Stücken Musiktheater und Intermediales, aber auch Reinterpretationen klassischer Gattungen wie das Kunstlied, welches im ausgehenden 18.Jh. entstand und im frühen 20.Jh. eine letzte Hochblüte erlebte. Raffinesse auf kompositorischer wie textlicher Ebene sowie die Symbiose beider sind eine besondere Herausforderung des Kunstliedes. Eine persönliche Affinität sowie die besondere Anlage des Duos (Stimme, Blockflöten und Elektronik) bieten ein noch kaum ausgeschöpftes Terrain für eine besondere Annäherung an diese Gattung. Zum Zuge kommen in diesem Programm eigene Arbeiten sowie Werke der Schweizer Mathias Steinauer, Christophe Schiess und Paul Clift. Alle sind sie Weggefährten des Ensembles und bestens mit ihrer Arbeit vertraut, so dass sich die neuen Werkaufträge harmonisch in den langjährigen Arbeitsaustausch der Musiker und Komponisten einreihen.

COMPOSERS

Paul Clift (b. 1978) is an US-based Australian composer. His music often attempts to make abstract associations with
a variety of concepts such as linguistics, modernist literature & painting, cognitive phenomena, and extra-European
musical traditions. His compositional outlook is marked by formative studies with George Benjamin, Jean-Luc Hervé,
Fred Lerdahl, Philippe Leroux, Fabien Lévy & Tristan Murail. His works have been featured in festivals such as Agora,
MATA & ISCM, and he has participated in festivals & master-classes including Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Acanthes,
Domaine Forget, IMPULS, June in Buffalo, MATRIX, Internationale Sommerakademie der MDW & Darmstadt Ferienkursen.
Paul obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Columbia University, New York, a Masters of Music at King's College,
London and also completed the IRCAM Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale, culminating in the premiere
of With my limbs in the dark, composed in collaboration with choreographer Alban Richard & Ensemble l'Instant Donné.
In 2013, Le Détour Permet le Retour for string quartet, video & live-electronics was premiered by JACK. In 2016,
Paul was awarded a residency at Villa Sträuli/Sulzberg Foundation in Switzerland. In addition to composing,
Paul is active as a researcher; he has undertaken research-residencies notably at the Paul Sacher Foundation (2014),
Basel and at IRCAM (2014-15). Paul is the Artistic-Director of neuverBand, a new-music chamber ensemble based in Basel.
Paul's music is published online at www.babelscores.com. For more information, visit
www.paulclift.net

Der Bieler Komponist Christophe Schiess (*1974) ist im Berner Jura aufgewachsen. 1998 gewann er den Kompositionspreis der Musikkommission des Kantons Bern für sein Stück J'ai soif. Christophe Schiess studierte zunächst Agronomie und arbeitete auf diesem Bereich. 2004 begann er an der Hochschule für Musik Basel ein Schulmusik- und Chorleitungstudium. Dort studierte er ebenfalls Musiktheorie und hatte Kompositionsunterricht bei Roland Moser und Georg Friedrich Haas. Christophe Schiess unterrichtete von 2007 bis 2018 am Gymnase français de Bienne und unterrichtet seit 2010 zudem an der Hochschule für Musik Basel, wo er heute als Dozent für Gehörbildung tätig ist. Als Komponist arbeitet Christophe Schiess mit verschiedenen Interpreten (u.a. mit dem Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Camerata Variabile und binooculaire). Eine intensive und für ihn fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit pflegt er mit UMS'n JIP, dem seine Once estaciones gewidmet sind. Ab 2015 macht er eine längere Kompositionspause, um mehr Zeit mit seinen jungen Kindern zu verbringen. Die in diesem Programm aufgeführten Wiegenlieder sind in dieser Pause entstanden.
http://www.christopheschiess.ch/

Ermir Bejo
http://ermirbejo.com

Stefano Gervasoni
https://www.stefanogervasoni.net

Zach Thomas
http://zrthomas.com

Mathias Steinauer was born in Basel and studied piano, composition (Robert Suter / Roland Moser) and music theory (Wolfgang Neininger) at Basel Academy of Music. From 1986 until 1988 – composition studies under György Kurtág, Budapest. Since 1986 – teaches music theory and gives courses in new music and composition at Zurich University of the Arts. 2004 – artistic director of the ISCM New World Music Days "trans_it". He has performed and/or lectured at various schools of music, symposia and festivals in many European countries, and in Azerbaijan, China, Brazil, the USA and Japan. Mathias Steinauer lives in Ticino. (NB: Mathias Steinauer, Einfalt, op.33 (2019), 11 Lieder zu Textfragmenten von Du Fu (712-770) und Visuals von John Lavery (1856-1941) für Stimme/Synthesizer & Blockflöte/Projektion wird erst 2020 fertig und zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt uraufgeführt, Du Fu https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu)
http://www.mathiassteinauer.com/

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 at the London Ear Festival Composition Contest in 2016, the 1st Prize at the Walter Ferrato Composition Contest in Savona, Italy in 2017, the 1st Prize at the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für Zeitgenössische Musik Composition Contest in 2017, 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 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.
www.ulrikems.info

Javier Hagen 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 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, Rosemann and Eötvös and leading artists from the worlds of concrete poetry and constructive art. 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, dissonArt, Taller Sonoro, 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 more than 20 awards, among them the prestigious scholarship MusiquePro. Javier Hagen, who speaks 6 languages, also directs the international contemporary music festival Forum Wallis, hosting Stockhausen's famous Helicopter String Quartet with Arditti in 2015. He is called as an expert on experimental music theater for the University of Arts in Bern, 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, Moscow, Adelaide, Thessaloniki, Barcelona, New York, Riga and Hong Kong. He is a jury member at national and international composition and new music competitions (a.o.ISCM World Music Days Young Composers Award, Bohol Int. Choir Competition Philippines) and a member of various committees on behalf 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. In 2017 he has been elected to the Academic Board of the Escuela de Invierno, the FNOBA Contemporary Opera Academy at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
www.javierhagen.ch

PHOTOS