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Salzburg Biennale
As the President of the Board, Reinhart von Gutzeit, put it, the aim of Salzburg's new festival for New Music was to radiate far beyond the boundaries of Salzburg and to lend a new aspect to Salzburg's image as a town of music. This was achieved thanks to the idea, conceived by the Biennale's mentor Hans Landesmann, of inviting influential contemporary composers with their "elective affinities", from the very first concert: Beat Furrer with Spanish flamenco, Steve Reich with gamelan music, Toshio Hosokawa with traditional music from Japan, and Klaus Huber with Arabic music. All of them were well received by open-minded, enthusiastic audiences. Managing director Wolfgang Laublichler is pleased with the attendance figures: the audience totalled 7,800 for the 27 concerts, giving an average of 290 per concert. Nine concerts were sold out, and 78% cpacity was reached.
Performers included the oenm (Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University, and the Ensemble Contrechamps, with conductors Beat Furrer, Johannes Kalitzke, Toshio Hosokawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Jorge Rotter and Arturo Tamayo. The festival also featured the Stadler Quartet, the Diotima Quartet, the ensembles "vocal arts" (Stuttgart), Ictus, Synergy Vocals, Al Kindi, Taruna Mekar from Bali, and Yusei from Japan.
The third weekend, with Toshio Hosokawa, was organised and produced in collaboration with the Mozarteum Foundation's "Dialogues" festival. Artistic director Stephan Pauly declared the Biennale delighted at the collaboration with the International Mozarteum Foundation, which also took over the ticket sales for the entire festival.
A selection of the concerts, recorded live by Austrian Broadcasting and NEOS, will appear under the NEOS label in a "Salzburg Biennale" DVD edition in summer 2009.
Contributions to the overall budget of 1,060.000 euros came from the Town and the Province of Salzburg, the Salzburg Old Town Tourist Association, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, and private sponsors and patrons. Principal sponsor was the Vontobel Bank.
Great interest was shown the exhibition "Fuentes - Non-European influences on contemporary artists" in the Salzburg Galerie Thaddeus Ropac. This exhibition will be on show in the Paris Galerie Thaddeus Ropac from 2 April.
The exhibition on "New Music in Salzburg, 1922-2009" (including "Sound Actions"), mounted by the Austrian Organisation of Composers in the foyer of the Mozarteum University, attracted wide interest.
The Intercultural Dialogue in Pictures, a series of films shown in DAS KINO during the Biennale, was greatly appreciated by insider audiences, particularly at the Sunday matinees.
The youth projects were a further successful aspect of the Biennale. On all four weekends, the results of workshops held on relevant topics were presented in dance performances, sound scenes and an exhibition.
Journalists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Japan, England and the USA reported on the Salzburg Biennale. Radio and television reports were broadcast in Austrian Broadcasting, Salzburg TV, Bavarian and North German radio stations, Deutsche Welle and the private Salzburg radio station Arabella. 37 journalists and 6 photographers were accredited.
At the final concert of the first Salzburg Biennale, on 29 March, in which the Salzburg Mozart Orchestra and the oenm were conducted by Arturo Tamayo, with soloists Frank Stadler and Nicolas Hodges, David Brenner (Head of the Arts Department of the Provincial Government) presented the 2008 Salzburg Music Prize of 100,000 euros to Klaus Huber and the sponsorship prizewinner Franck Christoph Yeznikian.
A retrospective in pictures is available as a free download at http://sbs.oenm.at/downloads/Biennale/Pressekonferenz310309/
Performers included the oenm (Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music), Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University, and the Ensemble Contrechamps, with conductors Beat Furrer, Johannes Kalitzke, Toshio Hosokawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Jorge Rotter and Arturo Tamayo. The festival also featured the Stadler Quartet, the Diotima Quartet, the ensembles "vocal arts" (Stuttgart), Ictus, Synergy Vocals, Al Kindi, Taruna Mekar from Bali, and Yusei from Japan.
The third weekend, with Toshio Hosokawa, was organised and produced in collaboration with the Mozarteum Foundation's "Dialogues" festival. Artistic director Stephan Pauly declared the Biennale delighted at the collaboration with the International Mozarteum Foundation, which also took over the ticket sales for the entire festival.
A selection of the concerts, recorded live by Austrian Broadcasting and NEOS, will appear under the NEOS label in a "Salzburg Biennale" DVD edition in summer 2009.
Contributions to the overall budget of 1,060.000 euros came from the Town and the Province of Salzburg, the Salzburg Old Town Tourist Association, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, and private sponsors and patrons. Principal sponsor was the Vontobel Bank.
Great interest was shown the exhibition "Fuentes - Non-European influences on contemporary artists" in the Salzburg Galerie Thaddeus Ropac. This exhibition will be on show in the Paris Galerie Thaddeus Ropac from 2 April.
The exhibition on "New Music in Salzburg, 1922-2009" (including "Sound Actions"), mounted by the Austrian Organisation of Composers in the foyer of the Mozarteum University, attracted wide interest.
The Intercultural Dialogue in Pictures, a series of films shown in DAS KINO during the Biennale, was greatly appreciated by insider audiences, particularly at the Sunday matinees.
The youth projects were a further successful aspect of the Biennale. On all four weekends, the results of workshops held on relevant topics were presented in dance performances, sound scenes and an exhibition.
Journalists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Japan, England and the USA reported on the Salzburg Biennale. Radio and television reports were broadcast in Austrian Broadcasting, Salzburg TV, Bavarian and North German radio stations, Deutsche Welle and the private Salzburg radio station Arabella. 37 journalists and 6 photographers were accredited.
At the final concert of the first Salzburg Biennale, on 29 March, in which the Salzburg Mozart Orchestra and the oenm were conducted by Arturo Tamayo, with soloists Frank Stadler and Nicolas Hodges, David Brenner (Head of the Arts Department of the Provincial Government) presented the 2008 Salzburg Music Prize of 100,000 euros to Klaus Huber and the sponsorship prizewinner Franck Christoph Yeznikian.
A retrospective in pictures is available as a free download at http://sbs.oenm.at/downloads/Biennale/Pressekonferenz310309/
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