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UNIQUE REPERTOIRE
WORLDWIDE ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLES
UMS
'N JIP ['umsnjip] is actually one of the most
innovative and outstanding Swiss contemporary music ensembles.
Founded in 2007 by Ulrike Mayer-Spohn [UMS] and Javier Hagen [JIP]
it is yet, together with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain,
Kronos Quartet and Ensemble Recherche, one of the activest contemporary
music ensembles worldwide performing around 70 concerts and commissioning
around 10-15 works per year. UMS 'N JIP works on both new musical
and scenical settings for voice, recorders and electronics reflecting
live vs. digital performance as well as European vs. non-European
music. Since their studies (composing, audio design & musical
performance) in Holland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, UMS and
JIP have been both invited to prestigious contemporary music and
theatre festivals (Avignon, TKF Zürich, TKF Lausanne, Shanghai,
Donaueschingen, Hong Kong, New York, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Basel,
Bern, Paris, Strasbourg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Adelaide, Riga)
where they premiered as soloists and a duo more than 200 oeuvres
collaborating with world famous composers such as Goebbels, Rihm,
Kagel, Reimann, Eötvös and Guo Wenjing. UMS 'N JIP relates
to emotionally touching as well as technically virtuoso, conceptionally
perfect and sexy performances. UMS 'n JIP is coached by Irvine
Arditti. >>
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09-11
NOV 2011
world premiere 'fL'a&NVs'
by UMS, prize winner Call for Scores L'arsenale 2011, Ensemble
l'Arsenale, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Filippo Perocco
(dir). Treviso/Italy. http://www.larsenale.com/ |
08-18
NOV 2011
The Africa Project
will take its 1st step by collaborating with South African composer
Pierre-Henri Wicomb who will be resident composer
in Switzerland in November 2011. UMS 'n JIP will work on open notation
forms. http://africa.umsnjip.ch/ |
12
NOV 2011
UMS 'n JIP invited at Global
Forum Wallis 2011 Schloss Leuk |
01-18
DEC 2011
The Russia Project will be presented
in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-na-Donu featuring
world premieres by young Russian composers
Bochikhina, Gorlinsky, Khrust, Nadzharov, Svetlichny and Rannev.
The Swiss tour will start in May/June 2012. http://russia.umsnjip.ch/ |
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DEC 2011/10-16 JAN 2012
The China Project II
with Europe premieres by Guo Wenjing,
Phoebus Lee, Samuel Tam, Karry Lee as well as works by
Huang Ruo and Wen Deqing at Kulturtage Binn, ONO Bern, Zeughaus
Brig, Walcheturm Zürich and Imprimerie Basel (Schleifferei).
http://china.umsnjip.ch/
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18
JAN 2012
Contemporary
Swiss music by Max E. Keller, Markus Hofer, Pierre-André
Bovey, Beat Gysin, Maria Porten as well as two new works by UMS
& JIP at Théâtre de Valère Sion. |
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JAN 2012
Dampfzentrale Bern - Shit
& Schein Festival. UMS 'n JIP is selected among 40
ensembles to present excerpts of TWO (electropop
opera based on text of Swiss newspaper '20minuten', http://two.umsnjip.ch/).
http://dampfzentrale.ch/ |
03
FEB 2012
Theater La Poste, Visp, Contemporary
Music Festival Forum Wallis, FOUR, UMS 'n JIP's 4th chamber
opera: A 7-part reflection on the creation and the creative process.
http://four.umsnjip.ch/ |
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FEB 2012
Theater La Poste, Visp, Contemporary
Music Festival Forum Wallis, world premiere 'IvS-E-12,7,22'
for ensemble by UMS, world premiere '3xPG' for
ensemble by JIP, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Jürg Henneberger
(dir), http://forumwallis.ch/ |
11-13
FEB 2012
UMS 'n JIP starts its Arabia Project
with 'The Religion of Love' by Stefan Pohlit, world premiere
11-13 Feb 2012 in VS/Switzerland. http://arabia.umsnjip.ch/,
http://www.ricordi.de/ |
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FEB - 6 MAY 2012
JIP's graphic score 'kreise'
realized in 2003/7 together with visual artist Rolf Schroeter
is a part of Schroeter's big retro-spective solo exhibition entitled
'Contact' at the high renommee museum Haus Konstruktiv
Zürich http://www.hauskonstruktiv.ch/,
http://javierhagen.ch/kreise |
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FEB - 10 MAR 2012
UMS 'n JIP invited to present The
China Project at Adelaide Festival Australia (Garage International),
additional presenting concert and Masterclass at the
Adelaide University (Electronic Music Studio). http://www.artshub.com.au/ |
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MAR
2012
UMS 'n JIP becomes ensemble
in residence at Imprimerie Basel 2012/13 |
MAR
2012
JIP is commissioned new
pieces by Paul Taylor Orchestra with
Eliana Burki and Sanna Kurki-Suonio, by
Basler Vokalsolisten (Sebastian Goll) and
by Capella Nova (Raphaël Immoos).
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MAR 2012
UMS 'n JIP invited at Musikpodium
der Stadt Zürich (Theater Rigiblick) to perform Cage
(lecture on nothing) & Kagel (Atem) |
14-25
MAR 2012
UMS 'n JIP 1st foreigner
contemporary music ensemble ever invited to Latvian New
Music Days. Concerts & masterclasses in Riga and
Ventspils, world premieres by contemporary Latvian
composers Abols, Rise, Gustovska, Klingenberga, Gribinchika,
Herlins. http://latvia.umsnjip.ch/,
http://www.lks.org.lv/ljmd |
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APR 2012
UMS is awarded 'Förderpreis
für Komposition' for her piece 'fk-SZ' for small ensemble,
world premiere performed by Kammer-Solisten Zug during 1.
Zuger Kompositionspreis (1st Zug Composition Contest) at
Theater Casino Zug
Zuger-Kompositionspreis |
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APR - 1 JUL 2012
UMS 'n JIP participates
with a sound collage in the MRAC Avignon
(France) opening exhibition (Musée Rigolo d'Art
Contemporain, Avignon. France), vernissage Apr 1st, http://mrac.com/
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11-16
APR 2012
UMS 'n JIP presents 'silence',
a concert program featuring some of the most distinguished and
influent contemporary classic works by Schnebel, Aperghis,
Berio, Kagel and Cage, including his famous 'lecture on nothing'.
Concerts in Zürich, Basel, Bern, Brig. http://riviu.umsnjip.ch/ |
23-29
APR 2012
South
Russia tour (Rostov, Taganrog, Bataysk) with workshops
and concerts featuring 'silence', Swiss and Russian composers
http://russia.umsnjip.ch/ |
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MAY 2012
UMS selected as a finalist
for the 2013 MATA Festival NYC. MATA received more than
620 applications from around the world, a record number in its
14 year history. http://matafestival.org/ |
18
MAY 2012
world premiere 'baxacpekte'
for 12part choir and tape by JIP, commissioned by Basler
Vokalsolisten, Sebastian Goll (dir), Aarau (CH), Stadtkirche. http://basler-vokalsolisten.ch/ |
16-20
MAY 2012
JIP
participates in 'Swiss Composers meet Europe' at EJCF (European
Youth Choir Festival 2012 Basel). Kammerchor
Winterthur directed by Christoph Bachmann performs 'Vergine Madre',
'Sonett XII' and folksong arrangements by JIP, live recording
by Swiss Radio DRS, composer's talk. http://ejcf.ch/ |
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MAY / 1 & 3 JUN 2012
world premiere 'EINER', featuring
new works by Swiss composer Maria Porten and both UMS and JIP, with
Gian Manuel Rau (stage director). Zürich,
Theater STOK, http://einer.umsnjip.ch/ |
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MAY - 07 JUN 2012
The
Russia Project featuring world and Swiss premieres
by young Russian composers Bochikhina, Gorlinsky, Khrust,
Nadzharov, Svetlichny, Fuchsmann and others. Concerts
in Basel, Zürich, Bern, Brig. http://russia.umsnjip.ch/ |
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JUN - 1 JUL 2012
Roaring Hooves Mongolia 2012,
Int. New Music Festival and Gobi Summer Academy, Ulaanbaatar
and Gobi desert, one of the most important and fascinating contemporary
music events in Central Asia, rated one of the 50 most cultural
events worldwide
http://roaringhooves.com/
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6-28
JUL 2012
UMS 'n JIP returns
to Avignon Festival with 3 programs featuring
works by Gorlinsky, Svetlichny, Huang Ruo, Guo Wenjing, Du Yun,
Wen Deqing, Cage, Kagel, Berio, Aperghis and many others performing
23 concerts in one of Avignon's most famous venues:
Theatre Notre Dame, Salle noire.
http://avignon.umsnjip.ch/ |
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AUG - 12 SEP 2012
reprise & Swiss tour 'EINER',
featuring new works by Swiss composer Maria Porten and
both UMS and JIP, with Gian Manuel Rau (stage director),
Zürich, Bern, Basel, Brig, http://einer.umsnjip.ch/
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OCT
2012
world premiere FIVE - chamber
opera by UMS ´n JIP. UMS 'n JIP's 5th chamber opera
mixes Grimm's tale 'Die Sterntaler' with microtonality, classical
avantgarde music, live electronics and experimental electropop.
Co-produced with Zeughaus Brig-Glis. Text: Gisela-Ethaner Schelble.
Oeil extérieur: Wolfgang Beuschel. Stage: Simon Wunderlich.
http://five.umsnjip.ch/ |
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- 14 NOV 2012
The Swiss Project, new world
premieres by Beat Gysin, Mathias Steinauer, Xavier Dayer, Roland
Dahinden. Zürich, Bern, Basel, Brig. http://switzerland.umsnjip.ch/ |
23
- 30 NOV 2012
5 years UMS 'n JIP at Imprimerie
Basel, permanent concerts and exhibitions with lots of
the artists and composers related to UMS 'n JIP's work. http://www.imprimerie-basel.ch/ |
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DEC 2012
5 years UMS 'n JIP at Zeughaus
Kultur Brig-Glis, permanent concerts and exhibitions with
lots of the artists and composers related to UMS 'n JIP's work.
http://www.zeughauskultur.ch/
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UMS
'n JIP IS SUPPORTED BY MUSIQUEPRO 2011-13
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