Thomas Lehn
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Open Family
Alessandra Rombolà • flute | Tiziana Bertoncini • violin
Ingar Zach • percussion, electronics | Thomas Lehn • analogue synthesizer
about | biographies | dates
Alessandra Rombolà • flute | Tiziana Bertoncini • violin
Ingar Zach • percussion, electronics | Thomas Lehn • analogue synthesizer
about | biographies | dates
top left © Laki Sideris, right © Nazzareno Suriano
bottom © Cristina Marx/photomusix
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about
What happens when people from different countries and cultures get together and form a family? A friction between familiar and stranger, a relativisation of the principles, the identities, the reference points; an opening to the different.
Families (like all groups) are often a symbol for closeness, protection, nest and comfort. A warm comfort, which can rotten, because it lacks of fresh air and doesn't nourish itself with the "stranger".
Therefore, in this project we want to support the idea of an open family: a place where each member feels a home, can interact with each other on the basis of love, respect and mutual acceptance.
The four musicians are not only two mixed couples in life, but they also play and master four musical instruments from four different families, covering the whole spectrum: flute, violin, percussion and analogue synthesizer. This makes the sound palette extremely rich and colorful.
They are all deeply rooted in contemporary written and improvised music and in the profound listening of the sound.
We could say that contemporary free improvisation is itself the best example of open family. Therefore this particular improvisation project wants to celebrate the openness and the listening, the invisible thread, which is at the basis of all musical and human encounters/relationships.
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biographies
Alessandra Rombolà
Italian flutist Alessanda Rombolà works internationally as a dynamic performer in the fields of contemporary experimental music and free improvisation. Throughout her career, she has pursued an increasingly open, individual, and additive approach to music-making that transcends and expands the possibilities of the flute. Classically trained, she established herself first as an interpreter of contemporary music as soloist and chamber collaborator and next pursued specialities in open score interpretation and free improvisation, performing throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Middle-East. Her pursuit of links between improvisation and interpretation laid the foundation for her many ongoing collaborations with composers—inquiries into how to both subvert the idioms of her instrument and define a personal, ever-changing musical language. Rombolà’s recordings of solo and collaborative work—lately, a compendium of Kúrtag’s flute works, as well as five electroacoustic collaborations—appear on labels that include Stradivarius, SOFA, Another Timbre, Al Maslakh, and have received features and plaudits from Revue & Corrigée, BBC Radio 3, Bandcamp’s “Best Contemporary Classical,” Scherzo, and many other media outlets.
www.alessandrarombola.com
Tiziana Bertoncini
Tiziana Bertoncini graduated in violin at the Siena Conservatory and in painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Carrara. After being playing in orchestras and chamber music ensembles, she focused on contemporary music, written and improvised. She has been performing in many international festivals and venues and has been part of numerous dance, theatre, video and multi-media projects, contributing the musical part of them. Her solo work includes composition, performance and installation. In 2011 her electro-acoustic piece “Nur Sand” was awarded at the competition Ferrari (r)écouté announced by hr2-kultur, ZKM Karlsruhe. From 1996 to 2001 she was guest artist-lecturer during the New York University summer courses in Italy, leading master classes of improvisation. She was artist in residence at the “Bridge guard – Residential Art/Science Centre” in Stúrovo, Slovakia, at the AIR Krems, Austria, at the Künstlerhaus Otte1 and at the GEDOK Lübeck, Germany.
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Ingar Zach
Ingar Zach is known for his deep research in the expanded possibilities in contemporary percussion. During his career he has developed a unique style using the Gran Cassa as the main source of sound exploration, using various objects and electronics to make the drum vibrate. He is dedicated to contemporary music and is regularly touring worldwide and recording with his fixed ensembles; Dans les arbres, Huntsville, Mural, O3 and in various ad-hoc projects with international artists. As a creator he is active in his regular ensembles, and he is continuously working with developing his solo work. In recent years he has created works for ensembles like Ensemble Musikfabrik, Quatuor Bozzini, Speak Percussion and Ludus Gravis.
His solo work is used across different fields such as film, dance, and art performances.
www.ingarzach.com
Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn studied sound engineering and piano at the music academies in Detmold and Cologne. As a pianist in various ensembles - currently the ensemble]h[iatus - he has given numerous (premiere) performances of musical, music-theatrical and multimedia works. Since 1989 he has been working in the field of live electronic music generated with analogue synthesizer systems. In addition to his own electronic works realized in real time, he has also been active as a synthesizer interpreter for many years, including performances of compositions by Élaine Radigue, Bogusław Schaeffer, Zbigniew Karkowski, Anthony Pateras, Peter Jakober and Jürg Frey. His studio realizations of works by Schaeffer, Pateras, Jakober and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati have been released on CD. International festival guest appearances and concert tours - as a soloist and as a member of a large number of internationally active ensembles - have taken him throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Japan and East Asia, as well as repeatedly to North America. His work is documented on around 100 recordings.
www.thomaslehn.com
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dates
Sun. November 17, Vienna @ Alte Schmiede / Wien Modern (tbc)
world premiere performance
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updated on May 5, 2024