NEWS

ROUNDHOUSE
Collaboration with young video artists

Katia and Marielle return to the Roundhouse – the venue where they made their UK debut – on Sunday 31 January as part of Reverb Roundhouse Concerts, a series which explores the many sides of music. As part of the concert, the Labèque sisters will collaborate with young video artists from the pioneering Roundhouse Studios on a new film.

Aspiring video artists, aged 17-25, will be working with SDNA, the leading creative digital agency, on a project which explores myriad ways to create visual imagery and video content for music. The film will be developed in a series of intensive creative sessions in advance of the concert, using the music by Satie, Debussy and Stravinsky that Katia and Marielle will perform at the Roundhouse. Live footage of the concert itself will also be integrated into the final work, with the film shown as part of the concert on 31 January.

The Roundhouse is one of London’s leading performing arts venues and, as a charity, it helps thousands of young people every year.

www.roundhouse.org.uk

World premiere 'Fantasy sobre La Pasion segun San Marcos'
Orchestre de Paris: Josep Pons

Wednesday January 27 , 2010 at 8:00 pm

Salle Pleyel - 252 rue du faubourg Saint-Honore

Katia and Marièle Labèque join the Orchestre de Paris and conductor Josep Pons in one of the most original concerts of the season for the world premiere of Golijov/Grau 'Fantasy sobre la Pasion segun San Marcos'

Conductor Josep Pons began his musical life as a singer, and he has a unique talent for bringing the lyricism of vocal music to instrumental music.

Composer and arranger Gonzalo Grau comes from a very strong musical legacy. He began his musical studies at the age of five in Caracas, developing skills in many instruments from the viola da gamba to the flamenco cajón and many keys in between. He has recorded over fifty CDs and on a diversity of styles and instruments, performing, producing, and composing, Gonzalo Grau bridges both classical and popular music worlds.

In 1995, Gonzalo was awarded with a scholarship at Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 1998 with the mention Summa Cum Laude as a Piano Performance Major. Since then he has collaborated with many projects and ensembles in traditional and contemporary Latin styles. But Gonzalo not only performs, he also produces and arranges for a variety of national and international artists such as Sally Potter Films, Mango Blue, Edwin Pabón, Brass Roots, Saxomanía, and leads his own band named La Clave Secreta (formerly known as 'La Timba Loca').

He has also been part of vanguard Venezuelan projects like Maroa, Aquiles Baez Group and the Gonzalo Grau Quintet as well as the US based Maria Schneider Orchestra (Grammy Winner 2005) and Timbalaye on the Latin jazz front.

In the last ten years, Gonzalo made his way into flamenco as a multi-instrumentalist on percussion, cello and piano. He has worked with renowned artists from Spain and the US such as Antonio Granjero, La Tania, La Conja, Pedro Cortés, Jesus Montoya, Edwin Aparicio, Chuscales, Omayra Amaya, and Alejandro Granados.
Wearing his classical hat Gonzalo has collaborated with Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov in the writing of 'La Pasión Según San Marcos' (2001 Grammy Award nominee), the 'Ainadamar' opera (2007 Grammy Award winner) and in 2005 he composed and orchestrated for the Albuquerque Symphonic Orchestra, commissioned by the National Institute of Flamenco.

His contributions to film include an arrangement of “El Carretero” for Sally Potter’s 2004 Yes and in the theatrical realm he composed and musically directed 'Landscapes and Impressions' by Craig Strong and Robert Castro and produced by the Santa Fe Opera.

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Composer of the Year

Louis Andriessen is recognized internationally as Holland's most influential and revered composer. He has been the subject of festivals at Lincoln Center and the Southbank Centre, has taught at Princeton, and been commissioned by the Netherlands Opera four times. This season he will occupy the Composer Chair at Carnegie Hall. At 70, he remains a rebel with a very large cause—a prolific composer of unfailing creativity and challenge. He has been mentor to young composers, and his music is in demand by boisterous alternative new-music groups everywhere. Simply stated, his time has come.