Pianolab Festival: Inner Time Spaces – Reprise
Anatolian/Armenian roots and music by Paul Motian, Komitas Vardapet, Tigran Mansurian, Anastassis Philippakopoulos
Vahé Hovanesian (ARM) · duduk, Tom Arthurs (GB/D) · trumpet, Christian Thomé (D) · drums, Isambard Khroustaliov (GB) · electronics, Stevko Busch (D/NL) · piano, Keiko Shichijo (JP/NL) · solo piano, Dante Boon (NL) · solo piano
“Stevko Busch brings together music from East and West perfectly.”York Schaffer in Weser Kurier 15.2.2015 (read more…)
Courtesy of Henning Bolte
The current program of Gallery of Tones has as its starting point and orientation the unique playing style and sound world of the American percussionist and jazz legend Paul Motian who was in contact with music from this region through his Armenian parents. Motian, a phenomenal listener with a deep musical memory, created open spaces with his playing in a special way in which deeper layers of the musical memory were addressed and unlocked. As a result, Western, African-American and Eastern sources came together in a unique way.
Komitas
The composer Komitas Vardapet – already 30 years before Béla Bartòk in Hungary – collected the traditional music of Armenia and put it to paper in compositions for piano, orchestra or choir. In her performance of Komitas´s ‘Six Dances for Piano’, the Japanese pianist Keiko Shichijo revives the traditional playing techniques that the composer incorporated into this piece. In the work of contemporary composer Tigran Mansurian, these techniques reappear in a contemporary guise.
“Under her hands, the instrument produced a purity of sound, truly breathtaking. Her entire appearance exudes purity, and so does her intensity while playing” (audience reaction about Keiko Shichijo)
In some of the concerts Dante Boon will also play Komitas´s ‘Six Dances for Piano’, and an interpretation of ‘5 piano pieces 2005-2011’ by Anastassis Philippakopoulos (born 1969).
The pianist Stevko Busch brings together Eastern and Western modes of playing in his group of improvisers. From the point of departure and orientation, the musicians involved explore intersections of Eastern-Western sounds. They interpret and improvise with Eastern and Western coloring, phrasing and timing. Through the possibilities of liquefying, repeating, distorting and moving in space, the live electronics of Isambard Khroustaliov play a central role. The Dutch-Armenian Vahé Hovanesian represents the Eastern side of wind instruments with the Armenian oboe, the dovetail with its penetratingly beautiful sound, and the emerging British trumpeter from Berlin, Tom Arthurs, the Western side. Last but not least, there is the well-known German percussionist Christian Thomé, who, like the electronicist, plays a central role in connecting and lighting disparate sound worlds.
Photo: Paul Motian by Giovanni Piesco
More of the Pianolab concertseries
Daan Vandewalle
Piano
Harry Tavitian
Piano
Pianolab Festival Inner Time Spaces, Reprise 2015
Armenian roots of Paul Motian, Komitas and others
Christian Thomé
Drums
Pianolab Amsterdam at Goethe Institute
Concert Series with the piano as its focal point
Pianolab Inner Time Spaces
TUE 5 MAY 2015 20.30 Loft, Cologne (DE)
Pianolab Inner Time Spaces
FRI 13 FEB 2015 20.00, Sendesaal Bremen (DE)
Pianolab Festival – InnerTimeSpace
SAT 14 DEC 2013, Pianolab Festival Lommerd, Arnhem (NL)
Pianolab Festival – InnerTimeSpace
FRI 13 DEC 2013, Pianolab Festival PARADOX, Tilburg (NL)
Keiko Shichijo – solo, Trio with Jan Bang and Vahé Hovanesian InnerTimeSpace
SUN 13 DEC 2013, Pianolab Festival PARADOX, Tilburg (NL)
Musical Memory Paul Motian and his Armenian Roots
For Pianolab 'InnerTimeSpace' with special thanks to Henning Bolte
Dante Boon – solo InnerTimeSpace
SUN 19 SEP 2013, Pianolab Festival BIMHUIS Amsterdam (NL)
Tom Arthurs, Jan Bang, Stevko Busch, Samuel Rohrer InnerTimeSpace
SUN 19 SEP 2013, Pianolab Festival BIMHUIS Amsterdam (NL)
Harry Tavitian – solo, and duo with Vahé Hovanesian InnerTimeSpace
SUN 19 SEP 2013, Pianolab Festival BIMHUIS Amsterdam (NL)
Pianolab Festival – InnerTimeSpace Premiere
SUN 19 SEP 2013, Pianolab Festival BIMHUIS Amsterdam (NL)
Pianolab Festival 2013 Inner Time Spaces
Armenian roots of Paul Motian, Komitas e.a.
Goldammer Laubrock, Arthurs, Stawarz, Busch
SUN 25 NOV 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Dante Boon Solo – own work
SUN 28 OCT 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Burton Greene – Solo
SUN 11 NOV 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Kris Davis – Solo and Pedro Costa (Cleen Feed Rec.)
SUN 27 OCT 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Keiko Shichijo plays Mozart on Fortepiano
SUN 24 JUN 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Lisa Cay Miller Q
SUN 20 MAY 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Keiko Shichijo plays Tom Johnson
SUN 6 MAY 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Philipp Rüttgers Impro on Bela Bartok
SUN 22 APR 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Köppen & Jörgensmann – reunited ‘Professor Unrat’.
SUN 25 MAR 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Lisa Cay Miller – Solo
SUN 18 MAR 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Walter Lampe – Solo
SUN 19 FEB 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Sylvie Courvoisier – solo
SUN 29 JAN 2012, Pianolab Goethe Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Shichijo en Boon play Morton Feldman
SUN 22 JAN 2012, Pianolab Goethe Institute Amsterdam (NL)
Pianolab Festival 2011
SAT 3 DEC 2011 20.30, BIMHUIS, Amsterdam (NL)
Veenendaal, Purves, Dudek, vd Broeck, Haurand
SUN 4 APR 2011 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Alfred Zimmerlin (CH) Composer, Improvisor, Journalist
FRI 14 OCT 2011 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Uri Caine Solo
FRI 30 SEP 2011 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Fred Van Hove
Piano
Pianolab Festival 2011
The second festival in the spirit of the series. Compositions, Jazz and Impro
Double concert Keiko Shichijo, Michael Wollny
FRI 24 JUN 2011 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Alexander von Schlippenbach & Frank Paul Schubert
FRI 15 APR 2011 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Crack the Chamber Stawarz, Jessen, Hubweber, Busch
VR 11 FEB 2011 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Cor Fuhler
Prepared piano, electronica
Peter Jacquemyn
Bass, Performance
Tatsuya Nakatani
Percussion
Wilbert de Joode
Double bass
Ohlmeier, Perkin, Fischerlehner, Busch
SUN 20 JUN 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Kaja Draksler; Laja Genc
FRI 18 JUN 2010, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
John Cage – Song Books (1970)
SUN 20 JUN 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Italy, Berlin, Amsterdam
SUN 21 MAY 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
India meets classic Marion von Tilzer
SUN 7 MAY 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Recital Dante Boon
FRI 16 APR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
DNK Guest curator Koen Nutters
SUN 4 APR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Double concert by Helena Basilova and Franz von Chossy
FRI 19 MAR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Young Masters Ligeti Academy
TODAY 7 MAR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)
Tetzepi electrumpet; Provan/Lampe Duo
FRI 26 MAR 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
YPF award winner Anne Guus Teerhuis
SUN 28 FEB 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Pianolab Festival 2010
Four sets in the spirit of the series at the Goethe Institute.
Pianolab Festival 2010
WED 24 FEB 2010, BIMHUIS, Amsterdam (NL)
Kaufmann, Klare, Kneer
SUN 7 FEB 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Baars, Janssen, Van Veen
FRI 22 JAN 2010 20.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Solo Piano Dante Boon
SUN 10 JAN 2010 15.00, Pianolab Goethe Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Pianolab 2007-2009
Concert Series at the Goethe Institute, Amsterdam (NL)