Vassos Nicolaou, compositeur, présente ses travaux de recherche musicale 45:26
Séminaire / Conférence
- Set Séminaires Recherche & Création
- Séminaires "Recherche et création" - 2011-10-10 - 2012-05-21 > Vassos Nicolaou
- April 2, 2012
- Ircam, Paris
Participants
- Vassos Nicolaou (conférencier)
r é s u m é
Computer aided orchestration in IDEX (2010/11), commissioned by the Witten Festival and premiered by the Ensemble Modern) for 12 musicians and Timeshift (2011, commissioned by the Fond Experimentelles Musiktheater and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for the Münster Opera) for soloists, choir, orchestra and electronics. Harmonic systems and relations with Orchidée and compositional process based on a sequence of target sounds.
b i o g r a p h i e
Born in Cyprus in 1971, composer Vassos Nicolaou studied at the Academies of Music in Cologne and Frankfurt, the Paris Conservatory and at Ircam, working with York Höller, Marco Stroppa, Marc-André Dalbavie, Philippe Leroux and Beat Furrer.
Vassos Nicolaou has been the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships from institutions such as the International Ensemble Modern Academy, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, the Weimar Academy of Music – (Franz Lizst Scholarship) and the Cité des Arts in Paris. In 2005 he was awarded the “Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize” from the City of Cologne. In 2007 a jury which included Pierre Boulez and Wolfgang Rihm selected Nicolaou for the prestigious “Giga-Hertz-Special-Award for Electronic Music” and for the following two seasons he was a composing fellow at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karslruhe. In 2008 he was awarded the Tremplin commission by the reading panel of Ircam and Ensemble intercontemporain. In 2009, he was an associate composer at the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music (Ircam) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and creator-in-residence at Tokyo Wonder Site.
He has collaborated among others with the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble musikFabrik, London Sinfonietta, New World Symphony Percussion Consort, International Contemporary Ensemble, Münster Opera, Peter Eötvös, Beat Furrer, Johannes Kalitzke, Diego Masson, Jean Deroyer, Michael Linville, Jonathan Stockhammer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich, Daniel Ciampolini and Johannes Schwarz.
He lives in Cologne, Germany.