Program and tickets: http://www.tectonicsfestival.com/.
Participants at TECTONICS Tel Aviv 2014: Ilan Volkov, Maya Dunietz, Yoni Silver, Tim Hodgkinson, Tiberiu Cenușer, Andrei Kivu, Chris Cutler, Haggai Fershtman, Alex Drool, Eran Sachs, Guillaume Ollendorff, Adam Scheflan, Shmil Frankel, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, Hyperion Ensemble, Wax Magnetic, Ofir Bachmutsky, Crank Sturgeon, Vialka, Stale Solberg, Daniel Sarid, Nadav Masel, Ido Bukelman, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Stale Solberg, Assif Tsahar trio, Kristin Haraldsdottir, Yair Reshsef, Zohar Shafir, Yoav Beirach, Crank Sturgeon, Rejoicer, YUDKO, Meira Asher, Ohad Fishof, Fred Lonberg-Holm and others.
Ilan Volkov, curator of Tectonics music festival, made his debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2003 and took on the post of Music Director and Chief Conductor in September 2011. He began his career as Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, and was Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2009. Since then he has been the orchestra’s principal guest conductor. He is a frequent guest conductor with orchestras around the world, including City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Nationale de Lyon, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Ensemble Modern, and his recordings have won critical acclaim as well as prestigious awards. In January 2011, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra named Volkov as its 9th chief conductor and music director.Iancu Dumitrescu – Romanian composer, conductor and musicologist, is one of the leading representatives of the spectral music trend at a worldwide level, proposing a new aesthetic in today’s music, hyper-spectral, based on the radiant power of sound, within its microcosmic complexity – which is questioned, analyzed, re-composed from a spectral perspective. He is one of the must important representatives of the XXth Century avangarde music. His work is edited by Salabert (Paris), Editura Musicala (Bucharest) Gerig Musikverlage-Schott-Schöne (Köln). The LPs and Cds of his music are published by Edition RZ (Berlin), Generation Unlimited (United States), Escargot-Harmonia Mundi (France), Electrecord (Bucharest), Artgallery (Paris), ReR Megacorp (London), Bananafish (Los Angeles) Edition Modern (London-Bucharest). Ana-Maria Avram is an important avangarde composer, pianist and conductor. In 1994 she was awarded the Grand Prize in Composition from the Romanian Academy. Ana-Maria Avram initiated and organized, together with Iancu Dumitrescu, several international festivals of electronic and spectral music, in Romania and Europe: "Acousmania" – Bucharest, National Radio Broadcast, "Musica Nova" in Ploiești, SPECTRUM XXI in Paris, Genevea, London, Bruxelles.Tiberiu Cenușer is a trombone player, soloist of the Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He plays in Hyperion Enseble since 1990, and has collaborated with many other Romanian chamber music ensembles.Andrei Kivu is a cello player specialized in new music, composer and improviser. He studied cello and music in general with Marc Coppey, George Lewis, Iancu Dumitrescu and David Hykes. With a wide orchestral experience (he played as prime cello in many prestigious orchestras worldwide) he also teached (at New York University, Givat Ram – Israel, Minnesota University). He received several international prizes as The Interational Consortium of New Music (NYC-2003), the Excellence Prize of the Actualitatea Muzicala review (Bucharest, 2004) the Uchimura Prize (Unesco, 2003).
The Romanian musicians will perform on stage as follows: 29 October, 20:30 hrs. – Hateiva and 30 October, 20:00 hrs. – Levontin 7. Participating musicians: Ilan Volkov (violin), Maya Dunietz (flute, piano), Yoni Silver (bass clarinet, violin), Tim Hodgkinson (bass clarinet), Tiberiu Cenușer (trombone), Andrei Kivu (cello, trumpet, tuba), Chris Cutler (percussion), Haggai Fershtman (percussion), Alex Drool (percussion), Eran Sachs (no-input mixer), Guillaume Ollendorff (e-guitar), Adam Scheflan (double bass), Shmil Frankel (double bass), conductors Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram.
The above mentioned concerts are part of the project "Spectrum XXI Sonic TransFusions Spectral Music Festival", organized by CREMAC (Romanian Community of Electro-Acoustic and Computer Assisted Music) under the coordination of Romanian musicians Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, presented this year in Bucharest (29 september and 8 October) and scheduled in Berlin on 2-6 November.
