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The teaching activities and public concerts of last July’s Centre Acanthes, the first to be held in Metz, confirmed the achievements of over a quarter of a century of intense activity. The various workshops have been further enhanced for 2005 to meet the expectations of the participants, both instrumentalists and composers; the concert series at the Arsenal will also be extended, for the benefit of audiences ready for new adventures in Metz, in the region as a whole and across the border.

The guest composers for this year’s session will be Wolfgang Rihm and Pascal Dusapin, two major figures in contemporary music. They will present their own music, oversee the instrumental workshops, supervise the composition workshops and take a major role in the events open to the public. They will be at the centre of a large team of “associate composers”, instrumentalists and lecturers, supported for the entire duration of the Centre Acanthes by the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Arditti Quartet. All these many contributors will be there to help the young professional musicians for whom the Centre Acanthes is intended to be an enriching and thought-provoking experience.

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