Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2025 · 19:00 Uhr
echoraum, Sechshauserstrasse 66, 1150 Wien
https://echoraum.at/programm/
das kleine 3 x 2
mit Maya Bennardo solo (Violine) · Julia Brüssel solo (Violine) · Frantz Loriot solo (Viola)
das kleine 3×2 ist eine neue Reihe, die die Kunst des Solospiels unterstreichen will. Um den Variantenreichtum eines Instrumentariums zu beleuchten, laden wir jeweils drei Protagonist:innen derselben Instrumentengruppe ein.
Eine dreifache Zweierbeziehung.
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Maya Bennardo (she/her) is an active performer and composer living in Stockholm, Sweden. Maya is interested in opening the dialogue and blurring the boundaries between composers and performers, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay, described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration.” She performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist Karl Larson in their Bennardo-Larson Duo, and was a member of the internationally renowned Mivos Quartet. Maya recently released her first solo record, ‘four strings’ with music by Eva-Maria Houben and Kristofer Svensson which was released on the kuyin label, September 2022 (named as one of The Best of Contemporary Classical 2022 on Bandcamp and one of Steve Smith’s 22 for ‘22). The album is a continuation of Bennardo’s work exploring sonic fragility and temporal stasis on the violin. Maya is a sought-after chamber musician and soloist, and recent highlights include recording residencies at Electronic Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY and at the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden and performances at Darmstadt International Music Institute (DE), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Wien Modern (AT), Sound of Stockholm (SE), at the Library of Congress on the “Betts” Stradivarius violin (Washington D.C.), Walt Disney Hall on Noon to Midnight (Los Angeles, CA), Lucerne Festival Academy with Saul Williams (Lucerne, CH), North Sea Jazz Festival with Ambrose Akinmusire (Rotterdam, NE), June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), and Lincoln Center Festival (NYC). She has had releases on Deutsche Grammophon, Kairos, Another Timbre, kuyin, Nonesuch Records, New Focus Recordings, New World Records, Thanatosis, and others. Maya’s compositions are characterized by slow, unfolding timbral movements–exploring the co-existence of pitch and noise. Her compositions have grown naturally out of her improvisational practice on the violin, and the two continue to inform each other. Recently, Maya has composed new works for NoExit + andPlay, Lamnth, Alkemie + Amanda Gookin, Bennardo-Larson Duo, and a new long-form solo work for violin, and this season she is writing a new work for solo cello for Thea Mesirow, solo bandoneón for James Parker, and a piano, bass, percussion trio for NYC-based Bearthoven. www.mayabennardo.com
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Julia Brüssel is a London-based German violinist, composer, and producer with a passion for exploring a wide range of musical genres, from avant-garde and experimental music to jazz influences and electronic sounds. Her diverse body of work includes solo performances, both acoustic and with live electronics, as well as compositions and home-produced projects. She studied Jazz Violin at the Musikhochschule in Köln and has led several of her own projects, including the experimental string ensemble Liasemble and the Julia Brüssel Quartet. She is also a founding member of the song-improvisation band Hilde and the violinist of the Ghanian London based Band „Okailey“ and the London Improvisers Orchestra. Dedicated to musical collaboration, Julia Brüssel regularly performs at international festivals and works frequently with artists and groups, performing across various contemporary music scenes in Europe and beyond.
In her solo program, violinist Julia Brüssel combines traditional and extended playing techniques within partially or entirely improvised concepts, which she develops through two approaches: unplugged and ununplugged. While exploring the pure sound production of her instrument, she also delves into its sonic extension and the interplay between the acoustic and electric sound worlds. Effect pedals and synthesizers come into play, with abstracted sounds, drones, and elements from ambient and noise integrating into the soundscape. Improvisation serves as the overarching medium, bridging the gap between concept, composition, and playing in the moment.
https://umlandcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/toc https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/julia-brussel/
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French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot (1980) performs as a soloist and is active in several international ensembles, working mainly through improvised music practices. He regularly contributes to interdisciplinary projects involving dance, theater, image, poetry and space. Over the years, Loriot has developed a unique and radically personal musical language. He breaks with tradition and constantly seeks to push himself and his music towards ever-wider horizons. His constant development prompts him to reflect on the relationship between his own practice and philosophical and political theories. Loriot performs regularly throughout the world (Europe, USA, South America, Japan and the Middle East) and has been invited as artist-in-residence by various festivals, venues and ensembles. Loriot is one of the organizers of the Zwei Tage Zeit, a festival dedicated to various practices of improvised music in Zurich and launched Recordedness, an online writing project centered on the nature of recordings in music. After living in Paris and New York, Frantz Loriot has been based in Zürich (Switzerland) since 2013.
https://www.frantzloriot.com/
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