Remix Ensemble Casa da Música
WNMD 2025 · CONCERT NO. 6
01-06-2025 · 18h00
Casa da Música - Sala Suggia, Porto
BILHETEIRA CDM
REMIX ENSEMBLE CASA DA MÚSICA
Ilan Volkov · conductor
Digitópia · electronics
JANA KMIT’OVÁ (Slovakia, 1976)
Sie fuhr in die nacht (2023), 15’
Music Centre Slovakia submission
JUG MARKOVIC (Serbia, 1987)
Gramatik (2024–2025), 15’ WP
Winner of the 2019 ISCM Young Composers Award
OLGA NEUWIRTH (Austria, 1968)
Vampyrotheone (1995), 14’
OMRI ABRAM (Israel, 1986)
Time passes Time (2019), 11’
ISCM Israeli Section submission
PEDRO LIMA (Portugal, 1994) YCA
New Work (2024–2025), 15’
WP · world premiere
YCA · Young Composers Award candidate
[ENG]
The Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, conducted by Ilan Volkov, with the participation of Digitopia, a digital music platform based at Casa da Música, brings together, in this programme, works by renowned figures, such as the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, and pieces by composers of succeeding generations from Slovakia, Serbia, Israel and Portugal. The programme includes a new composition by the 2019 Young Composers Award winner, the Serbian composer Jug Marković, and a world-premiere piece by the Portuguese composer Pedro Lima.
[PT]
O Remix Ensemble Casa da Música, sob a direcção de Ilan Volkov, com a participação da Digitópia, plataforma de música digital sediada na Casa da Música, junta neste programa obras de figuras consagradas, como é o caso da compositora austríaca Olga Neuwirth, e peças de compositores de gerações seguintes da Eslováquia, da Sérvia, de Israel e de Portugal, incluindo uma composição nova do vencedor do Young Composers Award de 2019, o sérvio Jug Marković, e ainda uma estreia do compositor português Pedro Lima.
PROGRAMME NOTES
JANA KMIT’OVÁ (Slovakia, 1976)
Sie fuhr in die nacht (2023), for 11 instruments
Music Centre Slovakia submission
The composition sie fuhr in die nacht was written in 2023 as a commission by the Viennese Ensemble XXI. Jahrhundert, to which it is also dedicated. Its creation was also supported by the Austrian Ministry of Culture.
The piece was inspired by a poem with the same title written by the Spanish poet José Birés. The composition uses the human breath in many ways. At the same time, the “colour of the ensemble” is extended by adding instruments such as chimes, recorder’s head joints, metal spirals, and church/altar bells.
The first performance of the piece took place on September 18, 2023, in the Vienna Konzerthaus under the baton of Peter Burwik.
OMRI ABRAM (Israel, 1986)
Time passes Time (2019), for 14 instruments
ISCM Israeli Section submission
Time passes Time is an examination of movement and stasis. Can the two coexist at the same time? What musical textures does this entail? The title of the piece is taken from a poem by Anne Carson, in her tantalizing book red doc. Here are a few lines: “Time Passes Time does not pass. Time all but passes. Time usually passes. Time passing and gazing. Time has no gaze. Time as perseverance. Time as hunger. Time in a natural way...”