Fantasia Sertaneja

Bruno Abrantes Basseto's Fantasia Sertaneja for wind quintet is finally available!

Bruno Abrantes Basseto was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Teacher, composer and oboe player, had also worked with electroacoustic music and computer music as a researcher at the University of São Paulo.

Fascinated by the musical gesture and convinced of the existence of a true musical language, he discards the avant-garde conceptualism and devotes himself to the production for traditional vocal and instrumental groups, focusing the communicative aspects of music and its live performance.

His music may be described as deeply evocative and having beautiful and extense melodic lines, with a great care to polyphonic structures. Full of extra-musical meanings, his music makes use of any available compositional technique, with a notorious influence from brazilian popular music and jazz, having Beauty as the unique goal.

You can look to samples on Bruno Abrantes Basseto's page... and you can buy it at the very same place. :-)

Hexagramme

Michel Lysight's «Hexagramme» is available! Six voices (performed by any instrument) build a work with an obsessive rhythmical structure.

Scores for clarinet choir and for string sextet, as well as instrumental parts, are freely downloadable here.

You can listen (and look) to samples on Michel Lysight's page.

The score in C is available for sale at the very same place. :-)

Let's evangelize!

New Consonant Music is daily performed by famous performers and ensembles.

Some of them give our composers a very important place in their concerts and recordings, year after year. They were the first performers to work (sometimes very hard!) in studying new works composed by young composers. They were courageous enough to propose this new music to an audience unfamiliar with contemporary music... or disappointed by modernist experimentations. They demonstrated that contemporary music may bring pleasure and beauty.

They are now the hard core of our brand new Evangelists program.

Henrique de Curitiba

Very sad news... Henrique 'de Curitiba' Morozowicz died Monday 16th February 2008, in Curitiba. He was a great composer a nice person and a friend.

Alain Van Kerckhoven

Duo Gastesi-Bezerra Serbian Tour

Duo Gastesi-Bezerra is pleased to announce our first Serbian tour.

We will be playing on 28 December at the Studentski Kulturni Centar in Belgrade and at Novi Sad’s City Hall on 29 December.

The programs will include twelve Serbian premieres! Among them, works by Dimitri Cervo (Toccata), Carme Fernández-Vidal (Caprici), Charles Griffin (Four movements from From the Faraway Nearby), Piotr Lachert (Risposta a la bella postina and Amalo mio), Terry Winter Owens (Ariadne’s Crown), Justin Rubin (A Rebours), Rodolfo Coelho de Souza (Em Verde e Amarelo), Ricardo Tacuchian (Estruturas Gêmeas), Tim Thompson (seven fleeting moments), and Marlene Woodward-Cooper (Sombras and Deceptions). We also be playing Dual by distinguished Serbian composer Vladimir Tosic.

This is not a Bossa

Michel Lysight's «This is not a Bossa» is available!

This work, written for the famous Brazilian pianist Antonio Eduardo, begins with a rhythm of bossa-nova but alterations of the meter will build a surrealistic atmosphere leading to a brilliant final.

You can listen (and look) to samples on Michel Lysight's page.

You can buy it at the very same place. :-)

A Tribute to Philip K. Dick

Michel Lysight's A Tribute to Philip K. Dick is available.

This work dedicated to the famous SF author shares the instrumentarium of Maurice Ravel's Introduction and Allegro : flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet. It is actually its perfect complement in a concert.

Samples are available on Michel Lysight's page.

Mireille Gleizes plays Gilberto Mendes in Paris

29th November 2007 // 20:00 // L'Entrepôt
(7/9 rue Francis de Pressensé / 75014 Paris / France)

In the New Consonant Music Cycle, Belgian pianist Mireille Gleizes will play a recital dedicated to the Brazilian composer Gilberto Mendes.

- Prelúdios (1945-1953)
- Étude de Synthèse (2004) (*)
- Um estudo? Eisler e Webern caminham nos mares do sul... (1989)
- Henri Oswald : Il Neige!... (1902)
- Il neige... de nouveau (1985)
- Sonatina à la Mozart (1951)
- Recado à Schumann (1983)
- Viva villa ! (1987)
- Simplesmente uma Valsa (2005) (*)
- Estudo magno (1993)
- Três Contos de Cortazar (1985)
(*) creations

Jean Catoire in Paris

11th November 2007 // 18:00 // L'Entrepôt (Paris)

Jean Catoire's works will be performed by Kentaro MORI (clarinet), Daniel NAVIA (piano) and Christine TURELLIER (flute).

This concert belongs to the Parisian cycle "New Consonant Music" orchestred by Dominique Dupraz!

Chronographie VIII

23th October 2007 - 20:15
Académie de Musique - Salle Emile Fabry
Avenue Charles Thielemans 95 - 1150 Brussels - Belgium

For its XXIVth Autumn Concert, the Music school of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Brussels) proposes the fantastic Michel Lysight's Chronographie VIII for cello and piano by Émilie Koang (celllo) and Pierre Brunello (piano).

Ronald Van Spaendonck and Eliane Reyes

14th October 2007 17:00
Atelier Marcel Hastir (Rue du Commerce 51, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)

Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet) and Eliane Reyes (piano) will play the following program.

Francis Poulenc, (1899 - 1963) : Sonate
Allegro tristamente
Romenza
Allegro con fuoco

Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) : West Side Story
Something's coming
Maria
One hand, one heart
Tonight
Somewhere

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) : 3 Préludes
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Andante con moto e poco rubato
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

~ Pause ~

Michel Lysight (°1958) : Palimpsestes (piano seul)

Joseph Horovitz (°1926) : Sonatine
Allegro calmato
Lento, quasi andante
Allegro con brio

Reservation : roland.schmid@pandora.be

Las Vegas, again...

September 28-30, 2007
Las Vegas 6th International New Music Festival
North Las Vegas, NV

The Piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra will be performing at the College of Southern Nevada’s 6th International New Music Festival in Las Vegas! Their recital will take place at the Cheyenne Campus on Saturday, Sep. 29 at 4:00 p.m.
On the program, works by Charles Griffin, Symeon Waseen, Piotr Lachert, Justin Rubin, Carme Fernández-Vidal, and Marlene Woodward-Cooper. On Sep. 28 they will be featured at the Festival’s Grand Opening Gala performing music by Marlene Woodward-Cooper.

Lysight in the Fine Arts Museum of Brussels

23th January 2008 // 12:40 // Concerts de Midi - Middagconcerten (Brussels)

Eliane Reyes (piano) and Sébastien Wainier (cello) will play works of Michel Lysight and Rachmaninov in the prestigious Fine Arts Museum. The performance will take place in the Auditorium Carel & Dora van Creveld.

Address : Fine Arts museum // Rue de la Régence 3 // 1000 Brussels // Belgium

Information : mid.concert@skynet.be

Sit down and listen on iTunes

This was the first recital album of Mireille Gleizes.

The Belgian pianist performs works by Boudewijn Buckinx, Krzysztof Knittel, Piotr Lachert, Michel Lysight, Gilberto Mendes, Henrique Morozowicz and Georgs Pelecis.

This emblematic album of New Consonant Music is now downloadable on iTunes :


... but not only!
If you prefer, have a look on the following music sites :

- eMusic ;
- Rhapsody online ;
- Yottamusic.

International Contemporary Music Festival "Contrasts"

The 28^th September 2007, at Lviv (Ukraine)

- Gugel's "Music for Piano"
- Piano recital of postmodern music by young Ukrainian pianist Oleg Bezborodko

Festival Contrasts

Myriam

Klangspuren festival (Tirol, Austria)

Sunday the 16^th September


10:45 am

Latvian Radio Choir
Gavin Bryars – Glorious Hill
Jack Body - Carol to Saint Stephen


08:00 pm

Dom St. Jakob, Innsbruck
[Ö1 live Mitschnitt]
Pilgerstation VI
Final Pilgrimage Concert 'Die Hilmmische Stadt (The Celestial City)'
Windkraft - Band for Neue Musik
Latvian Radio Choir
Music School Innsbruck Youth Choir
Conductor - Kasper de Roo
Sofia Gubaidulina - Jetzt immer Schnee for choir and ensemble
Evis Sammoutis - Kyrie World Premiere
Arvo Pärt - Fratres
Thomas Daniel Schlee - Quia tu es Deus fortitudo mea


www.klangspuren.at

Myriam

The International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007

Gaudeamus presents : ”The International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007” in the ‘Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ’, Paradiso, Felix Meritis and the Bimhuis

From September 3^rd through 9^th, Amsterdam will be populated with composers and musicians from all over the world. To this city they will bring along the latest developments in contemporary music; you can witness this by going to the concerts during the Gaudeamus Music Week 2007.

www.gaudeamus.nl

Myriam

Hoogfeest van de Sacrale Muziek

Wednesday the 15th Augusts at 08:30 pm

Arvo Pärt

Kanon Pokajanen
Boetekanon

Musica Sacra Castore
Sint-Martinuskerk
Bever

Summer is the time of festivals :
Aquarius and the organizer Johan Vriens from the Musica Sacra Castore from Bever (Flemish brabant) invite you for the fourth time at the extraordinary implementation of the Boetekanon of Arvo Pärt.

Bever, the place where you have to be the 15th Augusts!

www.rosario.be

Myriam

Mikhail Kugel plays Shostakovich.

With Maastricht Conservatoire Orchestra

Kalidisc

By the way, do you already know the Belgian label Kalidisc?

Contemporary Brazilian music in Paris (2)

"SAO PAULO - PARIS/BRUSSELS"

Thursday, November 29^th at 8 p.m. - L'Entrepôt

Mireille GLEIZES piano

Works of Gilberto MENDES

Contemporary Brazilian music in Paris (1)

"SAO PAULO - PARIS/BRUSSELS"

Thursday, October 18^th at 8 p.m. - L'Entrepôt

Antonio EDUARDO piano

Works of Almeida PRADO - Michel LYSIGHT - Dominique DUPRAZ

Buono appetito, Signore Lachert!

The hunger strike is over : a meeting is finally fixed between Mr. Luciano D'Alfonso (Mayor of Common of Pescara) and PORTO Association.

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New Consonant Music Calendar

The New Consonant Music Calendar is ready!

On this calendar will be posted announcements for concerts, festivals, CD and other events. You can easily subscribe to smoothly integrate these events to your own calendar or feed reader. Each entry will be linked to our blog or website for more details.

The configuration panel gives you numerous options : sync the events with your PDA or cellular, get notifications by mail or SMS, filter the events by type (CD, concert...), promote announced concerts on your own blog etc.

Resistance is futile : you will be assimilated! ;-)

The 3rd annual Cortona Contemporary Music Festival

The 3^rd annual Cortona Contemporary Music Festival (Tuscany) will be held July 13-22, 2007.

For information, visit www.cortonafestival.com.