Date / Place I
04 November 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
05 November 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
PhoenixTitle
Swissness?Program
Erik Oña (1961–2019) “Alles Nahe werde fern” for 8 instruments (2001) – 7’ Sebastian Meyer (*1994) “inmitten” in memoriam Erik Oña for ensemble and electronics (2023, WP, commission EPhB) – 15’ André Meier (*1974) “Threads” for trumpet and ensemble (2020/rev. 2023, WP, commission EPhB) – 11’ Jean-Jacques Dünki (*1948) “Concertino” for cello and 8 instruments (2022/23, WP, commission EPhB) – 17’Musicians
- Pierre Strauch
- cello solo
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet solo
- Jürg Henneberger
- conductor
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, alto flute, bass flute
- Antje Thierbach
- oboe, English horn
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
- Raphael Camenisch
- alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Donatien Bachmann
- bassoon
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet
- Michael Büttler
- trombone, bass trumpet
- Daniel Stalder
- percussion
- Kirill Zvegintsov
- piano
- Friedemann Treiber
- violin
- David Sontòn Caflisch
- violin
- Petra Ackermann
- viola
- Martin Jaggi
- cello
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
Program description
Is there a “Swissness” in terms of composing? Instead of an answer to this question, we confront the audience with three new works by Swiss composers from three generations, flanked by a work by our friend Erik Oña, who died much too early.
The youngest – Sebastian Meyer – is, like his teacher Erik Oña, in constant search of the best sound with reduced material, be it in terms of choice of instruments or compositional means.
Trumpet player, composer and improviser André Meier – also a former composition student of Erik Oña – deals in his compositional work mainly with algorithmic or machine processes, sonifications, modular and open forms.
The pianist and composer Jean-Jacques Dünki is also active as a musicologist, dealing with both historical performance practice (fortepiano and clavichord) and the composers of the New Viennese School and contemporary music. As a composer he is largely self-taught. He is writing a “Concertino” for cello and ensemble for the French cellist Pierre Strauch and us.