During the master, students will be guided to compose a piece for recorder/s, with or without electronics. The best scores will be performed by Sylvia Hinz during his international concerts. The same will also be published by Edizioni Diaphonia.
Duration and instrumetation of piece will be agreed with the teacher. The instrumentalist will be present throughout the course to illustrate and test the performance techniques of the various types of recorders.
Part of the lessons will be set apart analysis of the contemporary repertoire.
OFFICE HOURS AND DATES OF MEETINGS
The master will take place in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME), Sicily, from 28 July to 1 August 2015. Lessons will be structured around six hours daily.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Master you can participate as active student or auditor. The maximum number of students is 12, and the auditors unlimited.
Registration fees:
€ 350.00 active participant
€ 50.00 auditor participant
There are conventions for board and lodging. For information contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR PARTICIPATION
• curriculum vitae in pdf format.
• Payment of € 100.00 per active student and € 20.00 per auditor on CC IT41G0200882071000300810189 IBAN, SWIFT BIC UNICRITM1G71 payable to Diaphonia, Unicredit bank, agency Barcelona Pozzo di Gotto, causal: master Maldonado
• Score and eventual registration of one or two pieces for any combination instrumental or vocal chamber or orchestral, with or without electronics.
All materials should be sent by electronic mail (or using services such Yousendit, WeTransfer, or other similar) no later than May 31, 2015 at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Javier Torres Maldonado is a composer and teacher who combines both functions in an international very high-profile career. He is Tenure Professor of electroacoustic composition at the Conservatory of Parma, Italy.
Author of most than fifty works composed for internationally renowned performers specialized in contemporary music, he has received four consecutive times the "Commande d'État" by the French Ministry of Culture and an international array of honours including the prizes "Da Capo" by the Brandenburger Biennale and Brandenburger Symphoniker (2012, Germany), GRAME (Lyon, France, 2006), as well as first prizes at the competitions "Queen Elisabeth" (2004, Brussels), "Alfredo Casella" (2001, Siena), Queen "Maria Jose" (Geneva, 2000), "Ad Referendum II" (1997, Montreal, Canada). He was the recipient of "Prix des Musiciens" by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (1998, Montreal) "Mozart" by Mozarteum in Salzburg (1999 and 2001), "Ibermusicas-Iberescena" (2013). He is the composer nominated for the “Catedra Manuel de Falla”, in Spain.
Javier Torres Maldonado has created different works as composer in residence, collaborating with important European institutes for acoustics and music research as GRAME (National Center for Musical Creation) of Lyon, France, La muse en circuit (National Center for Musical Creation) of Paris, CIRM (National Center for Musical Creation) of Nice, SCRIME of the University of Bordeaux, KERNEL studios of Milan, among others.
He studied composition with José Suárez (a pupil of Domenico Bartolucci, Perpetual Maestro di Cappella at the Sistine Chapel in Rome and of the Italian organist Fernando Germani) at the National Conservatory of Mexico, and with Sandro Gorli and Alessandro Solbiati at the Conservatory of Milan. He is considered as one of the most important pupils of Franco Donatoni. He completed his postgraduate studies with honours with Donatoni and Azio Corghi at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and Accademia Chigiana of Siena, among other institutions. In 2003 he obtained the First Prize in composition at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under the guidance of Ivan Fedele. As active participant in composition seminars he studied with Gyorgy Ligeti and other composers. He studied electroacoustic composition at the Conservatory of Milan (1999-2003) and at IRCAM (computer music course , 2003).
His works are published by Universal Edition (Vienna) and Suvini Zerboni (Milan).
Sylvia Hinz
... studied recorder at the University of Arts Berlin with Gerd Luenenbuerger, experimental music with Dieter Schnebel, chamber music with Nigel North and conducting / ensemble leading at the BAK Trossingen with René Schuh and Wolfgang Ruediger …
... artistic director of projects like „membrana“ with artist Carola Czempik , „Prose
Collection / Vorschläge“ and „die kugel ist a = 442 hz“ ...
... plays solo recitals and concerts with ensembles and orchestras, holds special interest in contemporary music and improvisation, also in unusual instrumental combinations and cooperations with other arts, concert trips to e.g. Argentina, U.K., Mexico, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, France, ...
… was invited to Buenos Aires to Festival SONORIDADES ALTERNATIVAS in 2012 and 2013, gave concerts in La Plata und Chascomús, gave master classes at the Conservatorio de Música Gilardo Gilardi and the Instituto de la Música de la Municipalidad de Avenalleda ...
... grand opening in 2013 of the Festival de Música Antigua y Barroca in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and the concert series TonalÁtonal at the Goethe-Institute in Mexico City in 2014 with her Ensemble UMBRATONO ...
... was invited 2014 with her ensemble XelmYa to Oldenburger Kultursommer and „ensemble in residence“ at Sonic 3.0 festival in Copenhagen, Denmark ...
... was invited to perform at the conference „Compositional Aesthetics And The Political“ in february 2015 at Goldsmiths, London ...
... was invited to perform at „spahlingerfest“ in Chicago, USA with her ensemble XelmYa in march 2015 ....
... was invited to hold a colloquium at the Carl von Ossietzky Hochschule Oldenburg
in october 2015 ...
... founding member of:
XelmYa ( recorder, violin, cello )
the bewitched project ( recorder, percussion / drums )
UMBRATONO ( recorder, bass clarinet and others ) ...
... works with many international composers, e.g.: : Mathias Spahlinger ( DE ), Violeta Dinescu ( RO ), John Strieder ( DE ), Zeynep Gedizlioglu ( TR ), Tania Sikelianou ( GR ), Louis Aguirre ( CU ), Helga Arias Parra ( ES ), Hideki Kozakura ( JP ), Matthias Kaul ( DE ), Luis Mihovilcevic ( AR ), Makiko Nishikaze ( JP ), Javier Torres Maldonado ( MX ), Massimiliano Viel ( IT ), Sergio Luque ( MX ), Mohsen Saghafi ( IR ), Nicoleta Chatzopoulou ( GR ), Edgar Barroso ( MX ), Jieun Jun ( KR ), Gilad Hochman ( IL ), Katia Tchemberdji ( RU ), Eckart Beinke ( DE ), Núria Giménez Comas ( ES ), David Lesser ( UK ), Miguel Farías Vasquez ( CL ), Petra Vermote ( BE ), Nickos Harizanos ( GR ), Anette Schluenz ( DE ), Sergio Sorrentino ( IT ), Gunnar Karel Másson ( IS ), Juan María Solare ( AR ), Susanne Stelzenbach ( DE ), Martin Gaughan ( UK ), Clio Montrey ( CA ), Stefan Lienenkämper ( DE ), Gabriel Iranyi ( RO ), Idin Samimi Mofakham ( IR ), Kristin Thora Haraldsdóttir ( IS ), ...
