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DOSIER >sparks, waves and horizons<
| premiere at Musica Viva
MINAS BORBOUDAKIS 50th BIRTHDAY!!
COMPOSERS PORTRAIT ON BR-KLASSIK 18/4/2024
[10.05-11.00p.m.] BR-KLASSIK
Music journalist Michaela Fridrich conceived the one-hour-lasting composer's portrait on BR-Klassik. She interviewed Minas Borboudakis on his way of composing, on the music behind the notes, and ancient Greek myths and archetypes in arts.
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BIRTHDAY CONCERT
20/7/2024 Schwere Reiter | Munich | Germany
For many decades there has been a deep human and artistic friendship between Minas Borboudakis and the members of the Munich-based ensemble der/gelbe/klang. On the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Minas Borboudakis [...] Download the flyer ⬇️
ON THE AIR
18/4/2024 BR2 Concerto Bavarese
Some of Minas' most important works such as >Askese. Savatores Dei< the piano concerto, >choróchronos I< or >entropic polyphonies< will be presented in two hour braodcast dedicated to his music. Click & listen 🔈
20/7/2024 Schwere Reiter | Munich | Germany
For many decades there has been a deep human and artistic friendship between Minas Borboudakis and the members of the Munich-based ensemble der/gelbe/klang.
On the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Minas Borboudakis the ensemble will perform several works for solo instruments written over the years for the musicians of the ensemble such as
>light & ashes< for clarinet and live electronics, >things happening< für double bass solo [premiere], >le cri
de Marsyas< for baroque oboe and electronics as well as a new work for percussion solo.
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28/4/2024
National Greek Opera | Athens | Greece
Eminent conductor Constantinos Carydis and reknowned pianist Nikolaos Laaris are performing a selection of Greek works for solo piano and two pianos inspired by the relationship between man and
the Divine on the main stage of the Greek National Opera. Constantinos Carydis is
performing Borboudakis' early piano piece >Katharis< written on 2002 which is inspired by the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
17/4/2024 Elisabeth Schneider Stiftung | Freiburg | Germany
19/4/2024 Schwere Reiter | Munich | Germany
20/4/2024 Textiles Museum | Augsburg | Germany
Under the title: Ἑλλάς – Ränder und Zentren [Hellas - Centers and peripheries] the Freiburg-based Ensemble Aventure will be presenting a rich program of greek composers in three cities of southern Germany. >ROAI V< for viola, bass clarinet & prepared piano, as well as >photonic constructions I< for ensemble will be performed between works of the younger generation by composers such as Irini Amargiannaki, Vassiliki Krimitsa, Georgia Koumara and others.
15/4/2024
Rubinstein Saal | Munich | Germany
Long-term collaborator and good friend Andreas Skouras is
performing Minas' early piano piece >1945. Nachklänge der Vergangenheit< (1945. Echoes of the past) in Steinwayhaus Munich among works by various composers related
to the city. The program is a journey about the past and transience, bringing Borboudakis' >echoes<, written in 1995 for the 50th
anniversary of the ending of world war II, in a historical & philosophical context.
30 & 31/5/2024 Berwaldhallen | Stockholm | Sweden
>Z metamorphosis< continues its journey to Sweden after several performances in major European Philharmonic Halls through the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Orchestra Nationale della RAI Torino and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Under the baton of Constantinos Carydis, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the Swedish premiere of >Z metamorphosis<.
The large scaled work, which was premiered in January 2022 with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Carydis' baton, is not only making use of the instrumental reservoir of a full orchestra, but it is also transforming the main musical elements of the homonymous pacifistic opera >Z< in a symphonic form, creating new sonorities out of the already used material.
>Z metamorphosis< is a co-commission by the well known Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, realised with the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.
23/2/2024 Herkulessaal | Munich | Germany
>sparks, waves and horizons< for large orchestra will be premiered by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at musica viva, one of the world’s most famous events for future-oriented and contemporary music based in Munich.
The commissioned work is inspired by the form of the waves which is integrated in several parameters of the music.
Duncan Ward will conduct further works by S. Gubaidulina, C. Ives, and M. Djordjevic´.
15/5/2024
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts | Munich | Germany
The first three parts of the chamber music series ROAI by Minas Borboudakis, based on the Heraclitean phrase πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei/everything flows) will be justexposed to the recent string trio >cinq cartes postales autobiographiques< in the welcoming concert of Minas Borboudakis as a new member in the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. >ROAI I< for piano trio is developing the idea of the horizontal flow in the music, being followed by the second work of the series for Cello and piano, which is dealing with the vertical movement of the sound through time. >ROAI III< for piano, electroacoustic & synthetic sounds focuses on the inability of the instrument to produce a flowing sound (like wind and string instruments are able to do) and expands it's sound through the electronic environments.
24/3/2024 Hochschule für Musik | Munich | Germany
>three sonic miniatures< for flute, violoncello & piano will be performed at the opening concert of Jugend Komponiert Bayern, the annual competition for jung composers, to which Minas Borboudakis is artistic director.
The work was commissioned by Onassis Cultural Center for the European INTERFACES Network. The three short pieces, written for children, are using sonic material and extended techniques on the instruments to describe different situations, in a poetical, groovy, and humoresque way.
Besides Borboudakis' work, the Munich-based ensemble der/ gelbe/klang will perform works by P.M. Schneid and A. Schlünz.
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