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International composition competition
Città di Udine
Tenth edition - Electro-acoustic music section
1 John Nichols III (USA) - GATES
2 Marie-Hélène Breault (Canada) Martin Bédard (Canada) - Replica
3 Gianluca Deserti (Italy) - Tierra II
4 Marcin A. Steczkowski (Poland) - MmliXx
5 Paul Fretwell (UK) - King?s Cross
6 Roeland Luyten (Belgium) - Helena
7 Kuei-Fan Lin (Taiwan) - lnvisible Jungle
8 Stelios Manousakis (Greece) - Involuntary Cognition Faction
Martin Bédard - He graduated in instrumental composition from the University Laval (Quebec, Canada). Following a course of five years with the composer Yves Daoust and André Fecteau, he graduated with the high distinction from the Conservatory of Music of Montreal in electroacoustic composition. He recently completed a PhD in electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal with the composer Robert Normandeau. His works have been presented in more than 60 national and international events and festivals. He is the winner or finalist of twelve international competitions including an “Award of distinctions” at the 2010 Ars Electronica competition. He is a member of the artistic committee of RÉSEAUX. Besides his activities as a composer, he teaches aural perception, composition and analysis of electroacoustic music at the Music Conservatory of Montreal and electroacoustic composition at the University of Montreal as a lecturer.
Marie-Hélène Breault - Very active in the interpretation of contemporary music, flutist Marie-Hélène Breault occurred with the Contemporary Music Society of Quebec (SMCQ), the Ensemble contemporain de Montreal (ECM) and in the many events of Innovations en concert, codes d’accès and Jeunesses musicales du Canada. She has given concerts abroad and has participated in several creations of Canadian and international composers. Since September 2008 she is the artistic director of Error Type 27 (E27), an organization dedicated to contemporary art in the region of Quebec (Canada). She has received grants from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des letters du Quebec and received first prize for her interpretation of Kathinkas Gesang als Luzifers Requiem during the Stockhausen-Kurse Kürten 2006. Alongside her career in interpretation, she pursued doctoral studies in musicology at the University of Montreal under the direction of Michel Duchesneau and Caroline Traube.
Gianluca Deserti obtained a piano, choral music and composition diploma, and then continued his composer’s studies, under the tuition of Franco Donatoni at various higher education institutes. He has been working as a composer since 1990 and his pieces have been performed in Italy and abroad by groups such as the Dedalo Ensemble conducted by Vittorio Parisi, the Uroboros Ensemble conducted by Gwyn Pritchard, the Nuovi Orizzonti Sonori Ensemble, the Octandre Ensemble, the Bateau-Lavoir Ensemble the New Made Ensemble as well as by soloists such as Rocco Parisi and Guido Arbonelli among others. Noteable among the numerous prizes he has received in national and international competitions are the ”Valentino Bucchi di Roma Capitale” prize, the G.E.R.M.I award, in addition to first prizes at the International composition competition and the “Citta’ di Pavia” International Composers Competition and the “A.Manoni” competition in Senigallia. He has written pieces for the “Valentino Bucchi” Foundation, of Rome, for AGENDA Editrice of Bologna, BERBEN of Ancona. His musical pieces have been played on Rai Radio3, on important foreign radio stations, web radio and have been recorded onto discs, with pieces put on MPS music and video, ALIAMUSICA, AUDIOGLOBE and AGENDA records. Following a keen interest which has developed over a long period of time, he has recently produced electro-acoustic music thanks to studies undertaken at the Conservatory of Parma with Javier Torres Maldonado. His first work in this field has already received notable recognition and has been performed in the sphere of shows and events such as “Il Suono Occulto” which took place at the Casa del Suono of Parma and the Festival of the Conservatory of Latina, namely “Le Forme del Suono”. One of his instrumental and electronic pieces was selected at the third Festival Comunitario delle Arti Sonore “Di_stanze 2013” and one of his acousmatic pieces was chosen at the EMUfest 2014 and presented at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory Festival.
Dr Paul Fretwell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is a composer of both instrumental and electronic music, and has produced music for a solo performers, ensembles and full orchestra, as well as electro-acoustic compositions, live laptop performances, sound installations and interactive works. His first major acousmatic work, Asklepion (1999), was awarded an honourable mention in the final of the III Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica, São Paul, Brazil, a work which went on to receive other international performances and broadcasts. Subsequently, he has received many commissions and performances of his work nationally and internationally. His collaborative work with Dr Ambrose Field (York University) has been heard at the ICMC2006 (New Orleans) and ICMC2007 (Copenhagen), as well as around the UK. This project culminated in Northern Loop (2013), which has recently been released on the Sargasso label.
A native of Taiwan, Kuei-Fan Lin received her Master of Musical Arts in Composition and Theory from National Taipei University of Education (2008), where she studied with Yu-Chung Tseng. She has recently completed her doctoral degree in composition at the University of Arizona in August, 2014, under the tutelage of Craig Walsh. She has received numerous prizes, among them: Second Prize for the 8th Musicacoustica (2011), Third Prize for the 6th Taiwan Computer Music Competition (2010), Third Prize and Mention Award for the 4th Musicacoustica (2007), and Mention Award for National On-line Arts Creativity Composition (2007). Her pieces have also been selected from the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2014, 2013), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference (2014, 2012), the 6th International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-music of the Foundation Destellos (2013), Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) (2012), and the 3rd Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Electronic Music Week (2011). Her pieces were the finalists of the 8th &10th International Composition Competition “Città di Udine”, and have been selected to be included in the CD of the competition dedicated to electro-acoustic compositions (8th &10th Editions).
Roeland Luyten (Leuven, Belgium, 1977). By watching science-fiction and horror movies as a young boy he comes for the first time in contact with electroacoustic sounds. At the age of 8 he starts to study flute at the music academy in Louvain. During high school, he learns to play the electric guitar as an autodidact and starts to experiment with effects pedals. During his study of classical flute at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, he finds his real passion in the study for composition of electroacoustic music with Joris de Laet. Since then Roeland composes regularly new pieces and works as a composer and sound engineer along with various theatre and dance productions in Belgium and abroad. His music is played and has received prizes throughout the whole world. (www.decyclage.com)
Stelios Manousakis (Crete, Greece, 1980) is a composer, performer, sound artist, and researcher. He operates across the convergence zones of art, science, and engineering / composition, performance, and installation / the rich tradition of western sonic art and ‘digital folk’ idioms. His work is visceral yet cerebral, communicating through pure, raw experience while being complex and multilayered. His output extends from music performance – most often with live electronics – to intermedia and sound art installations, to fixed medium pieces and film music. Many of these works merge algorithmic finesse with the expressiveness of improvisation, or the immediacy of audience participation. They are often designed as emergent (eco)systems or organisms, unearthing rich and organic worlds through artistic reinventions of models from complexity science, cybernetics and biology. Manousakis’ work has been shown in various festivals, venues, and centers across Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Besides his solo work, he has co-founded several music ensembles, multimedia groups, and most recently the intermedial ‘Modern Body Festival’. Manousakis studied music and linguistics in Greece, Sonology in the Netherlands, and is currently finishing a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle, USA).
John Nichols III’s compositions intrigue listeners with a diverse collection or timbres, shapes, sensations, and surprises that have been melded together into a coherent form. His works have been selected for performance at numerous national and international events such as the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, International Computer Music Conference, and Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States –among others. Some of his awards include the Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus (2013, Netherlands), Second Prize in the Foundation Destellos Sixth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual Music (2013, Acousmatic Music Category, Argentina), Second Prize in the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology 2012 International Electroacoustic Music Young Composers Awards (Taiwan), and a Special Mention in the 2012 Metamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition (Belgium). His works have been selected for publication on SEAMUS, ABLAZE Records, Musiques & Recherches, and Monochromevision. A native of Chicago, Nichols is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Composition at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he won the Fourteenth Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Competition.
Marcin A. Steczkowski (b. 1980). Music creator and instrumentalist, most frequently playing the cornet and upright piano. He runs his own music production company. After landing stints at quite a few choirs, unsuccessfully attempting to master the violin, falling head over heels for the trumpet and even starting to check the teeth of a three-legged giant whale, Marcin got down to serious studying of composition, music education and jazz piano. Lured by the meanders of contemporary and alternative music, he joined the ranks of the Polish avant-garde/jazz/thrash ensemble going by the name of Orange The Juice. Inspired by alternative music, he brought to life The Transgress – the only Polish act signed to the American music label Ropeadope, known for publishing Medeski, Martin & Wood, Jazzanova, Critters Buggin’, Sex Mob or Tin Hat Trio. Together with his Orange The Juice band mate – Dawid Lewandowski – Steczkowski started Minimatikon, whose main focus is making illustrative music and writing silent movie scores for Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Zwenigora, Ukrazija, Topor – Tango at the Museum of Atrocities, Mr. Jowialski. Marcin A. Steczkowski also cooperates as a sound designer with the Warsaw, Poland – based Lunapark Motion Arts Collective. This year he won the audience award at an electroacoustic miniatures contest at Świętokrzyska Philharmonic, whose theme was the sounds of the Kielce Voivodship. The awarded composition was Sal Ikosyw. In June 2014 Marcin A. Steczkowski’s MMIIXX was showcased at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.
