The winners of the 2023 Erste Bank Composition Award, Alessandro Baticci and Rafał Zalech, operate as duo Nimikry at the intersection of music and technology, blurring the boundaries between instrumental music and technological innovation. The focus of their creativity combines artistic research with the search for new qualities in art.
The prize-winning work will be accompanied by a world premiere of the Concerto for trumpet by Vladimir Pantchev. His compositions unfold an artistic process that takes Bulgarian folklore and musical citations as a starting point to further develop them with contemporary compositional strategies. In addition, Seltene Erde: alchimia communicationis by Chaya Czernowin is again on the programme after its premiere in Zagreb (April). With its continually and swiftly changing form, the piece explores the many (tragic) dimensions that go hand in hand with the exploitation of rare earths – those precious minerals which are put to ubiquitous use in today’s communication technologies.
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