acanthes 2005

Wolfgang Rihm was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1952 and studied music at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule; he completed his training under Karlheinz Stockhausen then Klaus Huber and studied musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. He is a prolific composer, with over two hundred works. His stage works include Faust und Yorick (chamber opera, libretto by Jean Tardieu/1976), Jakob Lenz (chamber opera, libretto by Georg Büchner/1977-78), Die Hamletmaschine (chamber opera, libretto by Heiner Müller/1983-86), Œdipus (opera based on texts by Sophocle, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Müller/1986-87), Die Eroberung von Mexico (chamber opera, libretto by Antonin Artaud/1987-91), and Séraphin (music theatre essay/1994).
Wolfgang Rihm has received many prizes and awards, in particular the 2003 Ernst von Siemens Prize.
He teaches in Darmstadt, Karlsruhe and Berlin.

Naïve : disques Wolfgang Rihm

Alessandro Solbiati was born in Busto Arsizio, Italy in 1956 and holds degrees in physics, piano and composition. He also attended Franco Donatoni’s classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna for fours years. He has won a number of Italian and international composition prizes including the Turin composition prize in 1980 and the RAI Rome prize (Paganini Prize) in 1982 with Di luce for violin and orchestra.
Alessandro Solbiati taught composition at the G.B. Martini Conservatoire in Bologna from 1992 to 1995, and at the Centre Acanthes in 1996.
He has taught composition in San Marino since 1997.

Teodoro Anzellotti was born in Candela, Italy in 1959.
He studied accordion at the Karlsruhe and Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany. In 1985 he won first prize in the Hugo Herrmann competition.
As well as performing the classical and especially the baroque repertoire, he has also premiered works by Luciano Berio (Sequenza XIII), James Dillon, Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He is an international soloist and has been invited to perform with a number of major orchestras. He has taught accordion and chamber music at the Berne-Biel Musikhochschule since 1987 and at Darmstadt since 1992.
He gives masterclasses in a number of countries.

Lucas Fels was born in Lörrach, Germany in 1962 and studied the cello with Christoph Henkel (Freiburg-im-Breisgau), Anner Bijlsma (Amsterdam) and Amedeo Baldovino (Fiesole). He was one of the founders in 1985 of the Recherche Ensemble based in Freiburg-im-Breisgau.
In addition to his permanent posts he also performs as a soloist with numerous European orchestras. He teaches at Darmstadt.

Siegfried Mauser born in Straubing, Germany in 1954, studied the piano under Rosl Schmid and Alfons Kontarsky at the Munich Musikhochschule. He also studied musicology, philosophy and history of art at Salzburg and Munich Universities. He has received many awards, notably the "Neues Hören" Prize. Siegfried Mauser has been invited to perform with famous orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among his many recordings particular mention should be made of the complete works of Paul Hindemith, Alexander Zemlinsky and Karl-Amadeus Hartmann.
Siegfried Mauser has taught musicology since 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, of which he has been the director since October 2003.
Since 2002 he has also been the director of the music department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

Founded in 1976 and supported by the City of Metz the Lorraine Regional Council and the Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, comprises seventy-five permanent members. Based in Metz, at the heart of Europe, the orchestra acts as a cultural ambassador for the region. It holds regular concerts at the Arsenal and an opera season at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz. It also works closely with cultural institutions in neighbouring countries, performing in regular concerts at the Musikfestspiele Saar and with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra under prestigious conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Günther Herbig.
The orchestra also gives concerts in other French towns and is invited to perform at major festivals. Its repertoire includes the major classics as well as more recent compositions, in particular by its resident composers Patrick Marcland, Edith Canat de Chizy, Philippe Hurel and more recently Martin Matalon.

The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton was taught by Mstislav Rostropovitch and Natalia Shakhovskaia. Her vast repertoire includes first performances of many works, by Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Ivan Fedele. Many of these works, such as Pascal Dusapin’s cello concerto Celo, are dedicated to her. She regularly performs chamber music with Imogen Cooper, Raphaël Oleg and Françoise Rivalland.
Her latest double CD, Pièces pour violoncelle, has received critical and popular acclaim.

Martin Kaltenecker: radio producer whose programmes include a 2002 portrait of Wolfgang Rihm, prolific translator, musicologist.
He has recently produced an annotated translation of Adorno's "Moments musicaux" (Contrechamps, 2003).

	Acanthes 2005 July, 3rd to 19th, 2005 METZ
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.
COMPOSERS Pascal Dusapin Wolfgang Rihm Hilda Paredes Alessandro Solbiati Jörg Widmann	PERFORMERS Teodoro Anzellotti Quatuor Arditti Lucas Fels Sylvio Gualda Siegfried Mauser Jacques Mercier l’Orchestre National de Lorraine Ian Pace Sonia Wieder-Atherton	MUSICOLOGISTS Eric Denut Martin Kaltenecker
© Marthe Lemelle	Pascal Dusapin was born in Nancy in 1955 and has a degree from the Sorbonne in plastic arts, the science of art and aesthetics. He attended Iannis Xenaxis’ seminars from 1974 to 1978. He has composed almost eighty works, for ensemble, solo works or orchestra. He has also written four operas: Romeo and Juliette (1989, Montpellier), Medeamaterial (1992, Brussels), To be sung (1994, Nanterre) and Perelà - Uomo di fumo (2003, Paris - Syndicat de la Critique Prize 2003). The complete cycle of his Sept études for piano and his piano concerto Á quia were premiered at the end of 2002 by Ian Pace and the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Udo Zimmermann conducted the first performance of his Solo n°5 for orchestra, Exeo, on 7 November 2003 in Munich. Naïve : disques Pascal Dusapin
Wolfgang Rihm was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1952 and studied music at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule; he completed his training under Karlheinz Stockhausen then Klaus Huber and studied musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. He is a prolific composer, with over two hundred works. His stage works include Faust und Yorick (chamber opera, libretto by Jean Tardieu/1976), Jakob Lenz (chamber opera, libretto by Georg Büchner/1977-78), Die Hamletmaschine (chamber opera, libretto by Heiner Müller/1983-86), Œdipus (opera based on texts by Sophocle, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Müller/1986-87), Die Eroberung von Mexico (chamber opera, libretto by Antonin Artaud/1987-91), and Séraphin (music theatre essay/1994). Wolfgang Rihm has received many prizes and awards, in particular the 2003 Ernst von Siemens Prize. He teaches in Darmstadt, Karlsruhe and Berlin. Naïve : disques Wolfgang Rihm		© Universal Edition / Eric Marinitsch
©Robyn D'amore	Hilda Paredes was born in Tehuacan Puebla, Mexico in 1957. She received her MA from City University in London and her doctorate from Manchester University where she studied under John Casken. She won the Arts Council Music for Dance Award in 1988 for El Prestidigitador. She has been awarded numerous bursaries in Britain, the United States and Mexico, and recently received an artistic creation award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her first chamber opera The Seven Seed was written for Garden Venture Opera (Dartington). Her second chamber opera, El Palacio Imaginado (a commission for Musik der Jahrhunderte, the New Haven Arts and Ideas Festival and English National Opera), was premiered at the New Haven Arts and Ideas Festival by the Stuttgart Neue Vokalsolisten and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in June 2003. Hilda Paredes currently lives in London.
Alessandro Solbiati was born in Busto Arsizio, Italy in 1956 and holds degrees in physics, piano and composition. He also attended Franco Donatoni’s classes at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna for fours years. He has won a number of Italian and international composition prizes including the Turin composition prize in 1980 and the RAI Rome prize (Paganini Prize) in 1982 with Di luce for violin and orchestra. Alessandro Solbiati taught composition at the G.B. Martini Conservatoire in Bologna from 1992 to 1995, and at the Centre Acanthes in 1996. He has taught composition in San Marino since 1997.		Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - SugarMusic S.p.A., Milano
	Jörg Widmann was born in Munich in 1973. He started studying the clarinet aged seven and composition aged eleven. He holds clarinet diplomas from the Munich Musikhochschule and the Juilliard School in New York. He is a regular guest at international music festivals and works with prestigious orchestras, in particular the Deutsches Sinphonie-Orchester Berlin, where he is artist in residence for the 2003/2004 season. He premiered Wolfgand Rihm’s Clarinet Concerto in 1999 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sylvain Cambreling. Jörg Widmann has taught clarinet at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Freiburg since 2001. Alongside his studies of the clarinet, Jörg Widmann also studied composition with Hans Werner Henze, Wilfried Hiller, Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm. He has received numerous awards including the Ernst von Siemens Prize (2003). His first opera, Das Gesicht im Spiegel, was first performed at the opening of the 2003 Munich Opera festival. His cycle of six pieces for five soloists and orchestra Lichtstudie was recently premiered by the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will be the resident composer at the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra in 2005/2006 and the Dortmund Konzerthaus in 2005.
Teodoro Anzellotti was born in Candela, Italy in 1959. He studied accordion at the Karlsruhe and Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany. In 1985 he won first prize in the Hugo Herrmann competition. As well as performing the classical and especially the baroque repertoire, he has also premiered works by Luciano Berio (Sequenza XIII), James Dillon, Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He is an international soloist and has been invited to perform with a number of major orchestras. He has taught accordion and chamber music at the Berne-Biel Musikhochschule since 1987 and at Darmstadt since 1992. He gives masterclasses in a number of countries.
	Arditti Quartet Irvine Arditti, Græme Jennings (violins), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Rohan de Saram (cello) Since its founding in 1974 by the Briton Irvine Arditti, the Arditti Quartet has earned a worldwide reputation for its interpretation of contemporary and early 20th century music. Amongst the distinguished composers whose works have benefited from performance by the Arditti Quartet are Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, Pascal Dusapin, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Wolfgang Rihm, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, etc. The members of the Arditti Quartet believe that working alongside the composer is essential for the performance of new music, a principle which they regularly put into practice. The Arditti Quartet also devotes considerable time to its regular masterclasses at the Centre Acanthes. The Quartet has received numerous awards, notably the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Prize in 1999. To date, it has published more than one hundred recordings.
Lucas Fels was born in Lörrach, Germany in 1962 and studied the cello with Christoph Henkel (Freiburg-im-Breisgau), Anner Bijlsma (Amsterdam) and Amedeo Baldovino (Fiesole). He was one of the founders in 1985 of the Recherche Ensemble based in Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In addition to his permanent posts he also performs as a soloist with numerous European orchestras. He teaches at Darmstadt.
	Sylvio Gualda born in Algiers in 1939, is one of the most active musicians in the field of musical creation. He has always worked to broaden the possibilities of percussion instruments. In 1968 he became first solo timpanist of the Paris Opera Orchestra. Many major composers have been interested in his work and have composed for him, notably Iannis Xenakis. As well as being a percussionist and a teacher he is also a conductor. He conducted the first performance in 1994 of Nguyen-Thien Dao’s opera-oratorio Les Enfants d'Izieu at the Centre Acanthes, where he has been a regular participant.
Siegfried Mauser born in Straubing, Germany in 1954, studied the piano under Rosl Schmid and Alfons Kontarsky at the Munich Musikhochschule. He also studied musicology, philosophy and history of art at Salzburg and Munich Universities. He has received many awards, notably the "Neues Hören" Prize. Siegfried Mauser has been invited to perform with famous orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Among his many recordings particular mention should be made of the complete works of Paul Hindemith, Alexander Zemlinsky and Karl-Amadeus Hartmann. Siegfried Mauser has taught musicology since 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, of which he has been the director since October 2003. Since 2002 he has also been the director of the music department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
	Jacques Mercier, born in Metz in 1945, rapidly achieved international success. He has performed at the Salzburg Festival, and in Bucharest, Helsinski, and Madrid where the critics described him as "one of the best French and European conductors of his generation". Between 1982 and 2002 Jacques Mercier was artistic director and permanent conductor of the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France. He developed a demanding and ambitious artistic programme which earned the orchestra the reputation it holds today as a leading orchestra. Jacques Mercier was also permanent conductor of the Turku Philharmonic in Finland for seven years. He was elected “musical personality of the year 2002” by the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique Dramatique et Musicale. This year he was appointed permanent conductor and musical director of the Orchestre National de Lorraine.
Founded in 1976 and supported by the City of Metz the Lorraine Regional Council and the Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, comprises seventy-five permanent members. Based in Metz, at the heart of Europe, the orchestra acts as a cultural ambassador for the region. It holds regular concerts at the Arsenal and an opera season at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz. It also works closely with cultural institutions in neighbouring countries, performing in regular concerts at the Musikfestspiele Saar and with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra under prestigious conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Günther Herbig. The orchestra also gives concerts in other French towns and is invited to perform at major festivals. Its repertoire includes the major classics as well as more recent compositions, in particular by its resident composers Patrick Marcland, Edith Canat de Chizy, Philippe Hurel and more recently Martin Matalon.
	Ian Pace was born in Hartlepool, England in 1968, studied at Chetham's School of Music, Queen's College Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. Contemporary music plays a large part in his active international career. He plays regularly with other musicians, in particular the Arditti Quartet. He has premiered numerous piano works including by pieces by Brian Ferneyhough, James Dillon, Richard Barrett and Pascal Dusapin. He recently premiered and recorded Pascal Dusapin’s Piano Concerto, Á Quia, with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. He is also a teacher and musicologist, writing for a number of music journals.
The Franco-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton was taught by Mstislav Rostropovitch and Natalia Shakhovskaia. Her vast repertoire includes first performances of many works, by Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Ivan Fedele. Many of these works, such as Pascal Dusapin’s cello concerto Celo, are dedicated to her. She regularly performs chamber music with Imogen Cooper, Raphaël Oleg and Françoise Rivalland. Her latest double CD, Pièces pour violoncelle, has received critical and popular acclaim.		© Sabine Lancelin
	Eric Denut: musicologist, consultant in musical programming and production, music critic for various journals. His essay on musical dramaturgy in the opera of the 1920's will be published shortly.
Martin Kaltenecker: radio producer whose programmes include a 2002 portrait of Wolfgang Rihm, prolific translator, musicologist. He has recently produced an annotated translation of Adorno's "Moments musicaux" (Contrechamps, 2003).



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