program:
CD 1 Nicholas Seidl (* 1983) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Yuri Khvostov, oboe Myunghoon Park (* 1980) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Carolin Kabuss, horn Lisa Streich (* 1985) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk and the City of Cologne Erik Asgiersson, solo cello george katzer (* 1935) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Jennifer Seubel, piccolo flute Julian Quintero Silva (* 1983) Work commissioned by the City of Cologne Sally Beck / Magda Sarnicki, flutes
CD 2 Hirofumi Matsuzawa (* 1973) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Sally Beck / Magda Sarnicki, flutes Atli Ingolfsson (* 1962) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk and Cologne University of Music and Dance Yumi Kanzaki, violin Daniel Cueto (* 1986) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Edwin Reinhard, flute Younghi Pagh Paan (* 1945) Version by David Smeyers Joaquin Saez Belmonte, soprano saxophone Samir Odeh Tamimi (* 1970) World Premiere: April 09, 2016 Cologne University of Music and Dance, Great Hall Andranik Fatalov, voice Damian Scholl (* 1988) Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Vytenis Gurstis, flute
group 20/21 |
Press:
# 1_2019
As a student formation from the Cologne University of Music and Dance, the ensemble 20/21 is a good example of what is possible in an academic context when it comes to the cultivation and communication of contemporary composition. […] Back to the Future honors this artistically fruitful cooperation with a comprehensive review of outstanding world premieres from the festival years 2010-2016. […] Niklas Seidl (born 1983) for example, who with knolle “Like in old times: Here you can still pay in DM!” (2009) has written a wonderfully undomesticated grotesque whose broken traditional reflexes and snippets of popular music not only gleefully shred Wagner through the shredder. Moments of burlesque also repeatedly thwart the percussive networks and halting movements of Myunghoon Parks (born 1980) jam (2011), while the Ecuadorian composer Julián Quintero Silva (born 1983) in que su paso installed un paisaje imantado y vertical (2013) on the topic of “post-colonialism” questions the placelessness and disorientation of global existence in diffuse color layers and shimmering sound contours. One of the most impressive posts here: Grata Lisa Streich, born in 1985. […] The Ensemble 20/21 delivers an impressively energetic and differentiated calling card, whereby a sympathetic feeling for the weird and the grotesque cannot be dismissed out of hand.
Dirk Wieschollek
December 2018
As a study group at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, the Ensemble 20/21 is a wonderful example of what is possible in an academic context when it comes to intensive engagement with contemporary music. (…) The level at which the performance is played is extremely remarkable, and there are a number of discoveries to be made in the variety of what is presented: Niklas Seidl (*1983), for example (…) Lisa Streich's “Grata” (2011), a very impressive one Noisy “Angel Hymn” with fragile, weightless textures, haunted by massive organ and trombone blocks, was created on the theme of “Composing as a Dialogue with God”. Also very strong is Damian Scholl's (*1988) mystical sound swarm in “Of Wind Colors and Quiet Births” (…)
Dirk Wieschollek