NewMusic Indaba 2007 @ UNISA 10-13 Oct
Composers, music fundi’s and junkies, get to the NewMusic Indaba 2007 at Unisa’s musicology department from the 10th – 13th October 2007 in Tshwane:
NewMusicSA (South African Section of the ISCM) proudly announces its forthcoming New Music Indaba festival. The New Music Indaba has relocated from Grahamstown (in the winter) to Tshwane (in the spring) and the 8th edition of this experimental and innovative festival will take place from 10-13 October 2007 at the University of South Africa (Sunnyside Campus) and the University of Pretoria’s Musaion.
The New Music Indaba will consist of four days of masterclasses and workshops for composers, with international artists in residence The Schubert Ensemble of London and South African pianist Jill Richards, and guest composer Stefans Grové. Plus concerts of new works and improvisation, installations and videos, and a mini-conference on composition.
Day 1
Wednesday 10 October
FORUM: SOUTH AFRICA’S INSTRUMENTAL VOICES
10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins
Chair: Chris Walton (University of Pretoria)
OPENING OF AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION
14h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 45 mins
Aryan Kaganof & Michael Blake
Reverie (2003)
World Première
Gerhard Marx & Clare Loveday
The Collision Project (2006)
COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 1
15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs
OPENING CONCERT: SONGS OF AFRICA
18h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 1 hr
Max de Vries marimba
Peter Klatzow
Song for Stephanie
Martin Scherzinger
Chorale: Afrika
South African Première
Day 2
Thursday 11 October
COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 1
10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins
Schubert Ensemble
COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 2
15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs
Day 3
Friday 12 October
COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 2
10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins
Schubert Ensemble
PIANO RECITAL: STEFANS GROVÉ 85TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
13h00 | Musaion, University of Pretoria | 1 hr
Jill Richards piano
Stefans Grové
Five Glimpses
Robert Fokkens
New Work
South African Première
COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 3
14h30 | Musaion, University of Pretoria | 2 hrs 30 mins
Jill Richards and Stefans Grové
SOUNDPAINTING
18h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 1 hr
Ensemble directed by Marc Duby
Day 4
Saturday 13 October
OPEN REHEARSALS
10h00 | Sunnyside Concert Hall, Unisa | 2 hrs
Schubert Ensemble and Selected Composers
CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL
13h00 | Sunnyside Concert Hall, Unisa | 1 hr
Schubert Ensemble
Programme includes works by participants in the Composers Masterclasses
World Première
COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 3
15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs
PLEASE NOTE:
EVENT: OPENING OF NEWMUSIC INDABA AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION
VENUE: ART HISTORY, VISUAL ARTS AND MUSICOLOGY DEPT, UNISA
DATES: 10 OCTOBER 2007, 14h00
ENQUIRIES: CAMERON HARRIS 076 529 4601
This year’s NewMusic Indaba includes an audiovisual installation of two collaborative works: Reverie by composer Michael Blake and artist/filmmaker Aryan Kaganof, and The Collision Project by composer Clare Loveday and artist/director/scenographer Gerhard Marx. The installation will open on Wednesday 10 October at 14h00 at the Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology Department on UNISA’s Sunnyside Campus.
The creators of Reverie and The Collision Project will give short introductions to the works before the screenings. The audiovisual installation that will run until Friday 12 October.
Entrance is free.
For further information, contact Dr Cameron Harris on 076 529-4601/ harricl@unisa.ac.za, or Dr Michael Blake on (012) 429 6782 / blakem@unisa.ac.za
