Once again we come to our annual autumn appointment with New Music. After ten years of this event, Udine has achieved a position of great importance in the Italian music scene, matching the quality of other organisational structures in the area. This is an encouraging result, which is deservingly supported by both public and private institutions.
The event opens with a concert dedicated to the winner of the Sesto Concorso Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea Città di Udine (sixth international competition for contemporary music, city of Udine), which is performed by the instrumental group Interensemble guided by the attentive hand of Bernardino Beggio. Participation in this biennial competition has far exceeded our expectations, with 183 works arriving from all over the world. It is an important achievement, which gives recognition to the large amount of work made available to composers. Participants to the competition can thus find a place to be heard in a period in which there are precious few occasions to promote ones own music.
The collaboration with the Associazione Musicale Tarcentina continues, and they will present a piece of musical theatre with text and music by Erik Satie. The pianist Barbara Rizzi and actress Carla Manzon, together with Ornella Volta, director of the Erik Satie archive and foundation in Paris, will take us on a voyage through sound and words to discover this eclectic artist, who John Cage described as “indispensable”
Electronic music is given a lot of space in this edition of the event through an evening dedicated to its leading lights and with the organisation of a workshop (in collaboration with the University of Udine) held by James Dashow, one of the greatest experts in the field.
The last event, the concluding moment of a project organised by the Udine philharmonic orchestra, is an inclusive event within which a number of young artists from all over the world will offer us a synthesis of the work undertaken in a symposium dedicated to sound art. The unpredictable nature of this evening, balanced between academia and the most extreme experimental contemporary fringe promises intense and unexpected possibilities.
As always, there is a space expressly dedicated to the world of the visual, with a video by Paolo Comuzzi and an installation by Trapper to round off a harmonious event where sound, image and many other things come together in perfect symbiosis.

 

The Artistic Director
Vittorio Vella