Ensemble Phœnix Basel

With “Octandre” Edgard Varèse wrote an epoch-making work for a large chamber music ensemble and at the same time founded a new genre: Four woodwinds and three brass instruments are supplemented by a double bass to form an octet – with the complete omission of keyboard instruments and percussion. In our competition for young musicians “Phoenix Satellite” we have set the task to compose a new work in this instrumentation, which in some way refers to “Octandre” and circles this work like a satellite. The two prize winners will present their new “Satellite” compositions together with “Octandre” by Edgard Varèse at the end of this workshop.

The work “Monolith” by the German composer Thomas Bruttger was commissioned by the “Ensemble Aventure” (Freiburg i. Br.) in 1991.

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