Date / Place I

01 June 2024 Gare du Nord, Basel

Date / Place II

02 June 2024 Gare du Nord, Basel

Series

Phoenix

Title

Noriko Hisada Portrait

Program

Noriko Hisada (*1963) “Prognostication” for 5 instruments (1990) – 15’ “Led by the Yellow Bricks” for piano and 5 instruments (2015) – 55’

Musicians

Jürg Henneberger
piano solo
Malte Laue
narrator
Sebastian Gottschick
conductor
Christoph Bösch
flute, piccolo
Toshiko Sakakibara
clarinet
Daniel Stalder
percussion
Jürg Henneberger
piano, celesta
Friedemann Treiber
violin
Daniel Hauptmann
violin
Martin Jaggi
cello
Rebecca Lawrence
double bass

Program description

The Japanese composer Noriko Hisada is a quite extraordinary voice of Japan, whose music is unjustly performed far too rarely. The “ensemble für neue musik zürich” has been promoted the music of this composer, who was still unknown in Europe at the time, for over 30 years and premiered her quintet “Prognostication” in Boswil in 1991 with Jürg Henneberger at the piano. EPhB now presents this work together with the seven-part ensemble piece “Led by the Yellow Bricks”, written 25 years later and inspired by Lyman Frank Baum’s children’s book “The Wizard of Oz”.