As a special live event, the German-Icelandic Ensemble Adapter and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble will connect film and music via a fixed high speed internet line: In Berlin and Hong Kong, on 1/2 April a concert installation will take place: two ensembles, two locations, two stages – at the same time.
A production by Ensemble Adapter and Dreher&Schmidt in cooperation with Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Goethe Institut Hong Kong. In collaboration with Take Off Productions and MaerzMusik | Berliner Festspiele. Supported by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Performer:
Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (Vicky Shin, Conductor)
Ensemble Adapter Berlin (Manuel Nawri, Conductor)
Composition: Paul Friedrich Frick | Lam Lai
Video Director: Aron Kitzig
Technical Director: Felix Dreher
Production Director: Michael Karl Schmidt
Performance venues:
In Germany: DOCK 11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin
In Hong Kong: Osage Atelier, 4/F, Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong
Performance times in Hong Kong:
1.4.2011 (Fri) 8:00pm
2.4.2011 (Sat) 2:00am & 8:00pm
3.4.2011 (Sun) 2:00am
Ticket: $FREE (Donations welcome)
**Limited to 50 tickets only per performance. Registrations necessary at www.hknme.org/synchronizing.html on a first-come-first-served basis.
ABOUT THE COMPOSERS
PAUL FRICK
Paul Frick was born in Berlin. He started to play the piano at the age of seven and took composition classes since the age of twelve. From 2000 to 2008 he studied composition with Friedrich Goldmann at Universität der Künste Berlin. Paul Frick has written and performed music in various contexts and styles: pieces for orchestra, chamber music, a short opera, theatre music, music for radio plays, experimental improvisation. On his way to house music, he played guitar in a heavy metal band, tried to be a rapper, played the keys in jazz, r'n'b, hiphop and salsa bands and produced two hiphop albums. Lately his EPs on Kalk Pets, The Gym and 30porumalinha as well as remixes on Mothership, MBF and Spontan have gained him some attention in the electronic music scene.
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LAM LAI
Born in Hong Kong, LAM Lai is studying her Master Degree in The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in composition and electronic music. She is studying with LAW Wing-fai and Clarence Mak. She composes different musical genres including orchestral work, traditional chamber, mixed chinese and western ensembles, electronic music, multimedia productions. They were performed in public. In 2008, she received The Lions & Joseph Koo Music Foundation Scholarship and went for the exchange trip in Taiwan. She visited numbers of universities and presented her compositions in seminars. In 2009 and 2010, She received Scholarships for her study. In 2010 May, her work “Mao’s Song” for live electronics and video was performed in “HKAPA Exchange Concert with National Taiwan Normal University” at HKAPA Concert Hall. In 2010 September, her mixed chamber work “She Said” was performed in the concert “2010 Interchange Concert of Taiwan and Hong Kong Composers” at Taipei Recital Hall, Taiwan. In 2010 November, She was invited to perform her multimedia work “Virtual Metropolis II” for live electronic Music and video, in “the GET IT GREEN Youth Summit” of “An International Conference On Climate Change 2010 Hong Kong” at HKAPA Amphitheatre. Apart from presenting her compositions in concerts, LAM also composed film music for YMCA’s Foundation of Youth Self-Realization Scheme. She is active in promoting contemporary music to public. In 2009 July, She produced a contemporary music concert “Words in...” at HKAPA Recital Hall. In 2010 February, her commissioned work of the Creator of Music Performance Organization (COMPO) “The Neon Lantern” was performed in foyer of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
THE HONG KONG NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble is a chamber ensemble, formed in 2008. The HKNME presents the best new music in Hong Kong by local Hong Kong composers, Asian composers and also by important international figures. It intends to foster interesting interdisciplinary collaborations, and to present the highest quality contemporary music to Hong Kong audiences on a regular basis.
In October 2008 members of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble were resident at the Shanghai Conservatory. Since 2009 the HKNME has presented regular concerts in Hong Kong, with tours Mainland China, Malaysia (to the Malaysian Contemporary Music Festival) and Singapore. The HKNME will be featured at the 2010 New Vision Arts Festival and in 2011 will tour to Australia, Taiwan, Singapore and Cambodia.
Please visit www.hknme.org for more information.
ENSEMBLE ADAPTER (BERLIN)
Ensemble Adapter is a quintet for New Music consisting of Kristjana Helgadóttir (flute), Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (clarinet), Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir (harp), Marc Tritschler (piano) and Matthias Engler (percussion). The five instrumentalists from Iceland and Germany are based in Berlin. In international concerts and in the studio Adapter plays music by composers of the meantime and the recent past. In cooperations the ensemble acts as a producing or co-producing unit, testing chances and limits of transmedial approaches in different kinds of settings. In workshops the group transfers knowledge of how to write, study and perform contemporary music to composers, instrumentalist and creatives worldwide. Adapter stays in touch with the latest developments in the differing scenes of contemporary creation, maintaining a progressive, authentic and powerful style.
ABOUT THE VENUE SPONSOR (OSAGE)
Osage Gallery is an international gallery group devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary visual arts, operating major spaces in Hong Kong and Beijing. Osage Gallery’s network of spaces across Asia functions synergistically to explore the diverse and complex artistic relationships between the different regions of Asia, and beyond that, of the artistic relationships between Asia and other parts of the world. The spaces provide an Asian-wide platform for the artists represented by the gallery, who are some of the most exciting and significant in the region. The gallery also works closely with international critics and curators to present exhibitions and projects that address themes and issues relevant to our times.
In addition to organising major group and thematic exhibitions, Osage Gallery has organised solo exhibitions by some of the most significant artists in Asia, such as Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Shen Shaomin and Jiang Zhi from China, as well as other Asian artists such as Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand) and Charwei Tsai (Taiwan).
Organized by: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Sponsored by: Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble Limited, Take Off Productions (Berlin) and MaerzMusik | Berliner Festspiele, Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Germany). Venue support from Osage.
