Tectonics Festival, Glasgow/UK
May 9 – 11, 2014
Tectonics is a new and experimental music festival presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell. The festival takes place at the City Halls in Glasgow on the 9th-11th of May. Over three days, local and international artists and musicians will perform together in a spirit of collaboration and experimentation. This year in its second edition, Tectonics will also be featuring world premieres of BBC commissions from the Austrian composers Georg Friedrich Haas and Klaus Lang. Festival Link: www.tectonicsfestival.com/glasgow
Georg Friedrich Haas
Date: Saturday, May 10 | 5:30 p.m.
Venue: Grand Hall, City Halls
- Saxophone Concerto (UK Premiere)
- Concerto Grosso No.2 for ensemble and orchestra
(BBC Commission, World Premiere)
Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer of spectral music. Haas completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha, participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1980, 1988 and 1990), and the computer music course at IRCAM (1991). He received a fellowship from the Salzburg Festival (1992–93), was awarded the Sandoz Prize (1992) and a music grant from the National Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (1995). Since 2005, he has lectured at the Hochschule in Basel, Switzerland. Since September 2013, Haas has been working as a professor of composition at Columbia University, New York.
Link: www.universaledition.com/georg-friedrich-haas
Klaus Lang
Date: Friday, May 9 | Opening Night Concert (19:30 p.m.)
Venue: St Andrew’s in the Square
- Extract from Ugly House, solo work for harmonium
Date: Sunday, May 11 | 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Grand Hall, City Halls
- the thin letter (BBC Commission, World Premiere)
Klaus Lang (born 1971 in Graz) is an Austrian composer, concert organist and academic teacher. He studied composition, music theory (with H.M. Preßl, B. Furrer and Y. Pagh-Paan) and organ. His opera ‘Die Architektur des Regens’ (The Architecture of Rain) after the Noh play Shiga by Zeami was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008. In 2006 Lang was appointed professor of composition at the Kunstuniversität Graz. In 2010 he was awarded the Styrian Andrezj-Dobrowolski-Prize.
Link: klang.mur.at