© Philippe Stirnweiss
Konstantía Gourzí enriches the Grafenegg Festival, and not only as its first female Composer in Residence. Also an admired conductor, she is a composer who never loses sight of her audience. Gourzí learned piano in her native Athens before studying composition and conducting in Berlin. She has founded many ensembles to promote contemporary music, particularly in Munich, where she also teaches. As a composer she pushes boundaries, bringing disparate traditions together and searching for new performance forms. One can only wonder how she will approach Grafenegg as a site and a space.
COMPOSING ROOM IN GARDEN PAVILION
| 15 August 03.30 P.M. |
OPENING
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| 16, 20 – 23 August 02.30 P.M. – 06.00 P.M. |
open |
KONSTANTÍA GOURZÍ IN GRAFENEGG
| Friday, 14 August 2020 | 07.30 P.M. ∙ Wolkenturm Festival-Opening |
| Saturday, 15 August 2020 | 04.30 P.M. ∙ Schlosshof Prélude «Paharión, the Red Angel in the Garden of las Huelgas» Fifteen dialogues between East and West, concert in movement for Schola Antiqua, Byzantine-style psalm singer, ney, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and lyre |
| Sunday, 16 August 2020 |
04.30 P.M. ∙ Schlosshof Prélude KONSTANTÍA GOURZÍ String Quartet No. 2 «P-ILION, nine fragments of an eternity» op. 33/2 |
| Saturday, 22 August 2020 |
04.30 P.M. ∙ Auditorium INK STILL WET CLOSING CONCERT 06.00 P.M. ∙ Reitschule Artist's talk & Pre-concert talk Participants of the Composer Conductor-Workshop Konstantía Gourzí Alexander Moore moderation 07.30 P.M. ∙ Wolkenturm Abendkonzert KONSTANTÍA GOURZÍ Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. Commissioned by Grafenegg Festival (World Premiere) |
| Sunday, 6 September 2020 |
04.30 P.M. ∙ Schlosshof Prélude Works by Konstantía Gourzí, Bill Douglas and Paul Schoenfield |
