The piece, for tenor saxophone, cello and piano was commissioned by the Galician ensemble Vertixe Sonora. It’s premiere performance on November 29th 2011 was recently reviewed on mundoclasico.com. Pablo Coello, sax – Thomas Piel, cello – David Durán, piano.
Here’s a recording of the first 3 minutes:
I was in Chicago the 1st week of November for the first phase of rehearsals of the Ensemble Composition Workshop with Ensemble Dal Niente - the sessions were led by Lucas Fels (Arditti Quartet) and Hans Thomalla. The second phase of rehearsals and the premiere of the piece will be in Darmstadt in July of 2012 at the 46th Darmstadt Ferienkurse.
Eunoia Ensemble has commissioned me to write a new work for performances in Basel, Luxembourg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, London and Manchester during March of 2012. I will add in specific details about the concerts shortly.
Eunoia is: Johanna Greulich – soprano, Ellen Fallowfield – cello, Stephen Menotti – trombone,
Clemens Hund-Goeschel – piano, Louisa Marxen – percussion
The piece (Working title: Dust Unsettled) will feature a text by Gabriel Montagné titled Hombres que se caen del caballo / Men who fall off horses.
The Galician ensemble, Vertixe Sonora, has commissioned me to write a new work for saxophone, cello and piano. The piece will be premiered at the Galician Centre for Contemporary Arts in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on November 29th 2011.
Distractfold Ensemble: A film by Angela Guyton from Distractfold on Vimeo.
Angela Guyton’s mini-documentary following the birth of the Distractfold Ensemble.
Some surprising news from Costa Rica. Last week I was given the national award for composition. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there but my family picked up the award and sent me a snapshot of the imprint. Below are excerpts of a couple of newspaper articles (in Spanish) published after the event.
La Nación 31/05/2011: “Desbancó Mauricio Pauly a los nombres consolidados en el campo de la música académica, como lo son Alejandro Cardona y Eddie Mora, al llevarse el premio de compositor/autor del año música formal/académica por su obra Cuarteto de Cuerdas N.° 2.
Así Pauly, cuyo referente era mayormente para la escena que había sido un miembro de Bruno Porter, demostró cuán bien ha caminado, y camina, en muchas músicas. Ya se le conocía su veta aún más experimental con proyectos como Leche Vaqera (sic), pero el galardón a sus posibilidades dentro de lo formal/académico le dibujó de otra manera para muchos.” (Ana María Parra, full article)
Red Cultura 03/06/2011 : “En el ámbito de la música clásica, Mauricio Pauly se impuso ante dos pesos pesados del género en el país: Alejandro Cardona y Eddie Mora. Pauly vive en Inglaterra por lo que no estuvo en la premiación, pero su padre agradeció el premio: “Me alegra que ahora tenga uno de su propio país”, en alusión a los otros premios que ha ganado en el extranjero.” (Natalia Rodríguez Mata, full article)
at North Tea Power – 36 Tib Street
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1st, 2011
20.00 doors / 20.30 start
an evening of recent chamber music, multi-speaker diffused sound and video projection in the Northern Quarter.
> Richard Craig – flutes
> Rocío Bolaños – clarinet
> Linda Jankowska – violin
> Emma Richards – viola
> Alice Purton – cello
> Mauricio Pauly – composer
> Sam Salem – composer
Program:
‘Druckabfall’ for tape solo by Dominic Thibault
‘To what depths of dark pigment’ for cello, diffused audio, and video by Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem
‘Streamforms’ for flute by Dominik Karski
‘Champs de fouilles’ for tape solo by Martin Bédard
‘Waggle Dances’ for viola and cello by Nina Whiteman
Also works by Giacinto Scelsi and Stefano Gervasoni
Clinamen clinamen clinamen, for violin, viola, mandolin and accordion will be performed by L’Arsenale and ACME Ensemble at the 2011 MATA Festival, on May 10th at (le) Poisson Rouge, in New York City.
A new version of Clinamen clinamen clinamen (Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes) this time for electric guitar and string quartet, was performed by Elvis Penava and the SONG Quartet at the 2010 International Society for Contemporary Music – World New Music Days in Zagreb on April 13th, 2011.
Pages of my string quartet Every new volition a mercurial swerve, written in 2009 for the JACK Quartet, will be in display concurrently at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London and at the Museo El Barrio in New York. The first is as part of the Notation and Interpretation Visual Library curated by Lucy Railton (of Kammer Klang). The second is curated by Angélica Negrón as part of the Composers Now series and will also include a sample of the JACK’s premiere performance.
