New Consonant Music in Las Vegas!

What about a trip to Las Vegas next month?

The 2006 International New Music Festival will welcome the famous piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra with, on 23th September, the following program :

• Tošic : Dual ;
• Thompson : Seven Fleeting Moments ;
• Rubin : Broken crystal...falling gently, falling silently ;
• Coelho de Souza : Em Verde e Amarelo ;
• Lysight : Ripple Marks ;
• Devreese : Mobile ;
• Lachert : Risposta a la Bella Postina.

Here is the Duo Gastesi-Bezerra website.

Piano Brasileiro Contemporanêo III

Tribute to São Paulo’s 450th birthday, this new album features pieces by Sergio Igor Chnee, Gilberto Mendes, Aylton Escobar, Edson Zampronha, Paulo Gazzaneo and Pedro Caldas. The album is a delicious banquet of sounds with the most perfected and refined delicacies.

Free samples are downloadable on Sergio's brand new site.

Cycle NCM : Trio

28th September 2006 - 19:30 - L'entrepôt (Paris)

Works : Dupraz, Lysight, Hovhaness, Harisson, Cowell

Performers : Sarah Mouradoglou (percussions), Elisabeth Deletaille (violin), Leonardo Anglani (piano)

Enigma

The Polish recording company Dux has just released Enigma, a great monographic CD [DUX0531A14979] devoted to Michel Lysight's works for clarinet(s) and piano :

• Septentrion for clarinet and piano ;
• Enigma for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano ;
• Labyrinthes for clarinet ;
• An Awakening for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano ;
• Palimpsestes for piano ;
• Trois Croquis for clarinet and piano ;
• Samarkand for clarinet and piano ;
• Homage to Fibonacci for 2 clarinets ;
• Soleil bleu for clarinet and piano.

The performers are Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet), Jean-Marc Fessard (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Éliane Reyes (piano) and, as usual, they did a wonderful job!

Ronald Van Spaendonck in Norway

4th August 2006 // 19:00 // Elverum Festival (Norway)

Works : String quartet opus 18 nr. 3 i D-dur by Beethoven // Labyrinthes for solo clarinet by Michel Lysight // Sonate for piano opus 2 nr. 2 i A-Dur by Beethoven // Messagesquisse for solo cello and 6 celli by Boulez

Performers : Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet) // Paul Lewis (keyboard) // Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) // Vertavo Strykekvartett // Cellister fra Ungdomssymfonikerne (Rosamund Brown, Einar Halle, Pål Bakken Johansen, Sarah Høigilt, Hanne Kyllingstad, Roar Bye Blåsmo)