GRADIENT

2022-11-17 

20:00h

Arts Printing House (Šiltadaržio g. 6, Vilnius), The Black Hall

Performers: „Klangforum Wien“ – Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola), Gerald Preinfalk (saxophone)

Program: Raimonda Žiūkaitė, Andrius Maslekovas, Goerge Aperghis, Klaus Lang, Gerald Preinfalk

KONTAKTAS is a platform for provocative new music featuring today's most exciting composers and performers. New pieces are presented here, and the creative processes of KONTAKTAS are of particular importance, involving collaborations between composers and performers. Both sides are invited to experiment, explore new ways of expressing instruments, and rethink their creative attitudes.

The second concert of the 2022 season is a performance by the members of one of Europe's most prominent contemporary music ensembles Klangforum Wien, violist Dimitrios Polisoidis and saxophonist Gerald Preinfalk, featuring two compositions by the young generation of Lithuanian composers Raimonda Žiūkaitė and Andrius Maslekovas, written especially for this duo. The programme will be complemented by a work by the famous Greek composer George Aperghis. 

In this concert, the composers and performers will not only seek to reveal the consonances, possibilities and various extended techniques of the two instruments, which have a similar sound range and timbre, but also combine them with electronics and embark on contemporary improvisations.