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outHEAR New Music Week
Together with Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) students, members of Klangforum Wien attend the outHEAR New Music Week – an international symposium and masterclass for composition in Larissa, where they share their knowledge of New Music with a young generation of musicians and composers in workshops and instrumental courses.
The outHEAR New Music Week, is an international symposium and master class for composition, featuring Ensemble Klangforum Wien in collaboration with four members of Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) ensemble. It is organized by the Mayoralty of Culture and Sciences of the City of Larissa (Panos Sapkas, deputy mayor) and it is taking place from April 1st – April 10th, 2022 at the Municipal Conservatory of Larissa.
The outHear New Music Week was initiated by Christos Lenoutsos, pianist, and is co-organized by the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It is supported by the Austrian Embassy in Athens, Greece.
The outHEAR Symposium and Master Class in composition is an intensive curriculum in composition. Composers work closely with members of Klangforum Wien and distinguished faculty, Franck Bedrossian, Dimitri Papageorgiou, and Orestis Toufektsis, in one-on-one lessons and mentoring, masterclasses, coaching, rehearsals, discussions, and performances.
During the first three days, composer fellows and faculty will also present their artistic research at the Symposium, an opportunity for all participants to share with each other their unique perspective on composition, techniques, and innovations. During the week, the performers of the Ensemble Klangforum will offer workshops on extended instrumental techniques.
The 3rd Edition of the outHEAR New Music Week is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Ensemble in Residence
Klangforum Wien
This year’s outHEAR New Music Week will be attended by four members of Klangforum Wien, who will give workshops on new music instrumental techniques in the course of the symposium.
Performance Practice Contemporary Music (PPCM) Ensemble, KUG
Gregory Chalier, flute
Gregory began to play the flute at the age of 8 in Catherine Stutz’s class in the Conservatoire de musique of Geneva.
When he was 16 years old, Gregory took part in the preprofessional section of the Conservatoire de Musique of Geneva and played as first flute in several youth Orchestra.
At 19 years Gregory entered Michel Bellavance’s class in the Haute Ecole de Musique of Geneva. During five years, Gregory worked with Michel Bellavance and had the chance to play in Masterclasses for great flutists like Patrick Gallois, Emmanuel Pahud, Paolo Taballione and Andrea Lieberknecht. Gregory finished successfully his Master degree in June 2016 and studied since september 2019 with Adam Walker. Since spring 2021, he is a member of the PPCM with the Klangforum Wien and studies with Vera Fischer.
Gregory is also very active as a chamber musician in a lot of different formations as a member of the Ensemble Hegoa. He played with musicians such as Adam Walker, Nora Cismondi, Raphael Christ, Fredrik Ekdahl and Dimitrios Polisoidis and in major European festivals such as Wien Modern, Impuls Festival or Festival Musica sull’Acqua.
Elena Arbonies, clarinet
Elena Arbonies comes from Durango, a town from the Basque Country, in the north of Spain. There she began her music and clarinet studies when she was 10: first as a hobby, and later as a passion. When she was 16, she had the opportunity to perform in a young orchestra, the reason why she decided to dedicate her life to music.
She did her Bachelor clarinet studies in Musikene – San Sebastián (Spain) with José Luis Estellés, Anthony Pay and bass clarinet with Henri Bok. After that, she went to Codarts – Rotterdam to continue with the Master studies under the guidance of Nancy Braithwaite. Now she is enrolled in the Master PPCM in Graz.
Elena has performed in both young and professional orchestras and has offered clarinet recitals in Spain and the Netherlands. She has been awarded with the “7th Young Basque Musicians Competition”, the Scholarship for young musicians of Vizcaya (Spain), and has reached the final of the Grachtenfestival Conservatorium Concours and Prix D’Harmonie Competition Rotterdam.
She is currently interested in the connection between music and theater, and is involved in a music and theater project for children in the Basque Country (Spain), having performed in the music & arts festivals Loraldia from Bilbao (Spain) and Quincena Musical de San Sebastián (Spain).
Lea Moullet, violin
Léa Moullet is a violinist from Fribourg, at the French part of Switzerland.
As a classical musician and teacher, she completed her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts at the class of Ulrich Gröner and Sergey Malov. There, she had the chance to discover contemporary music, Under the guidance of lecturers such as Lars Mlekusch, Martina Schucan and Rahel Cunz. Besides her studies, Léa has always done a lot of music improvisation. Besides her studies, Léa has always done a lot of music improvisation. As a student of Lucas Niggli, she gave master classes in free improvisation in Bangkok and Singapore as his assistant. She is a member of the Insub Meta Orchestra, the European orchestra for experimental and electroacoustic music, based in Switzerland.
Passionate about art in all its forms, Léa has directed several transdisciplinary projects. One of the last projects was the film “Le Son du Béton”, which was filmed for the Le Corbusier Pavilion in Zurich.
In October 2020, Léa Moullet will start studying “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” under the guidance of Klangforum Wien in Graz. Léa has worked with many composers, conductors and teachers, such as Matthias Pintscher, Helmut Lachenmann, Mark André, José Maria Sànchez-Verdù, William Blank, Simeon Pironkoff, Peter Rundel, Ernst Kovacic, Clemens Merkel, Rahel Cunz, and many others.
Leo Morello, cello
Leo Morello, born 1994 in Italy, studies Performance Practice in Contemporary Music with Klangforum Wien at the Kunstuniversität Graz. He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, where he studied cello with Enrico Bronzi. In 2017 he studied in the class of Stephan Forck at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. Very important for his formation were also the encounters with Antonio Meneses, Andreas Lindenbaum, Francesco Dillon, Marino Formenti, Reinhard Goebel.
He is a founding member of the New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg, with whom he regularly performs in Europe. He also performed as a member of Klangforum Wien, Oenm Austrian Ensemble for New Music, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Maurice Quartet, Alter Ego Ensemble, International Ensemble Modern Academy, EUYO, Villa Musica Mainz and as principal cellist of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
His interest towards contemporary music led him to numerous collaborations with renowned composers like Enno Poppe, Georg Friedrich Haas, Bernhard Gander, Simon Steen-Andersen, Gerd Kühr, Achim Bornhöft, Reinhard Febel, Matteo Franceschini, Jose Maria Sanchez Verdu, Jorge Sanchez Chiong, Klaus Lang, Marco Stroppa.
He performed at Abu Dhabi Festival, Sydney Opera House, Klangspuren Schwaz, Megaron Thessaloniki, aDevangarde Festival, Daegu Contemporary Music Festival, Philarmony St. Petersburg, Impuls Festival Graz..
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