Gaudeamus director, Henk Heuvelmans, is currently in New York to visit the Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York. Through this blog he will keep you posted.

The second concert at Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York was filled with electronics. The new Issue Project Room space is perfect for the very well balanced spatial sounds of Wouter Snoei. The new space at Livingstone street 110 (see the photo: this gigantic building is really beautiful, but not entirely owned by Issue (yet?)) has a rather big acoustic because of the marble floor. Wouter Snoei was interviewed by programmer Zach Layton before the concert started and he explained his involvement in the Wave Field Synthesis 192 loudspeaker project and therefore was asked to advize Issue PR when they start building in their multi speaker sound system in the coming months. Wouter performed 2 of his works, including "Pulse" in which he uses his intreguing homebuilt electronic wheels. Next came Matthew Ostrowski; he ended his first set with a loud bang, concluding that "that's why this is called experimental music". His electronic gloves in the second work held their strength until the very end: loud cheers from the audience! After the intermission Ted Hearne introduced his duo with Philip White's live-electronics as: "We are R We Who R We" which was sound poetry already before their performance started: a range of short works in which all possibilities of the voice came along: shouting, singing, speaking, rapping, and all that with such great energy and passion, supported by Philip's electronics made a good ending to this night.
Earlier today I had a meeting with Erwin Maas of the Dutch Consulate in New York. Erwin was really essential in realizing this Gaudeamus NY festival and also supports the upcoming reception on Saturday. On my way to that meeting I passed through Times Square (photo) and noticed there are still some square meters empty: perhaps our advertisement there next year? (donators are very welcome!).
Meanwhile even the door-to-door newspapers in the hotel have nice articles about Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY. So, we expect even more audience tomorrow!

More pictures will be posted on our Flickr page in the upcoming days.

Gaudeamus director, Henk Heuvelmans, is currently in New York to visit the Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York. Through this blog he will keep you posted.

A packed house at the opening concert of the Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York witnessed the american premiere of Gaudeamus Prize 2011 winner Yoshi Onishi's "Depart dans..." by the Wet Ink Ensemble, conducted by the composer himself. I arrived in New York Wednesday afternoon, just on time to see a dress rehearsal at the new Issue Project Room at Livingstone street 110. It's a great place, which in the months to come will be turned into one of the hottest art venues of Brooklyn. Walking over there from my hotel I bumped into Yoshi, who was standing on the pavement next to a harp: this looked really very funny, as if he was promoting his concert on the street. In any case, it worked: the hall was as good as sold out. And in that audience there were a great number of Gaudeamus Prize winners: Yoshi Onishi, Christopher Trapani, Ted Hearne, Oscar Bianchi (all on the picture), Yannis Kyriakides, Sampo Haapamaki, but also Wei-chi Lin and Hugo Morales (who both received honorable mentions) were there. So, Gaudeamus Muziekweek has really landed in New York. Issue's director Ed Patuto proudly opened the festival, the first big event in the new premises of Issue Project Room.
The Wet Ink Ensemble performed in various instrumentations works by Onishi, Trapani, Hearne and also Richard Barrett (who won Gaudeamus Prize in 1987) next to very interesting works by young members of the ensemble Kate Soper and Alex Mincek.
Tomorrow's concert features Wouter Snoei and more live electronics.

More pictures will be posted on our Flickr page in the upcoming days.

De New Yorkse editie van de Gaudeamus Muziekweek staat ook aangekondigd in The New York Times! Klik hier voor het artikel.

Afgelopen september beleefde de Gaudeamus Muziekweek nog haar eerste Utrechtse editie en nu is een tweede mijlpaal binnen handbereik. Van wo 25 t/m za 28 januari 2012 zal de eerste New Yorkse editie van de Gaudeamus Muziekweek plaatsvinden. Een festival in het teken van een aantal van de buitengewone talenten die de Gaudeamus Muziekweek heeft voortgebracht. Partner in de organisatie van deze Amerikaanse editie is het New Yorkse podium The ISSUE Project Room. Dit podium fungeert net als de Gaudeamus Muziekweek als platform en aanjager voor ontwikkeling in de hedendaagse muziek. Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York presenteert een mengeling van Nederlandse en Amerikaanse ensembles en componisten, zoals Yannis Kyriakides, Michel van der Aa, ensemble MAE and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

Klik hier voor meer informatie over Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York.


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Gaudeamus New York wordt mogelijk gemaakt door Muziek Centrum Nederland, The Neherland America Foundation, Buma Cultuur en het Nederlands Consulaat te New York.

Programma Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York:

wo 25 januari
Wet Ink ensemble
Yoshiaki Onishi – Depart dans… (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 2011)
Ted Hearne – Vessels (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 2009)
En werken van:
Richard Barrett (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 1989)
Christopher Trapani (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 2007)
Alex Mincek
Kate Soper

do 26 januari
elektronische muziek van en door
Wouter Snoei en Matthew Ostrowski
R WE WHO R WE: composer-performers Ted Hearne (voice) en Philip White (electronics)

vr 27 januari
Ensemble MAE
Portret van Yannis Kyriakides (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 2000)
-Covertures (electronica)
-Paramyth (viool, klarinet, piano, electronica)
-As They Step (viola, contrabas, electronica)
-The Arrest (viool, klarinet, piano, contrabas, video, soundtrack)
ICE International Contemporary Ensemble
Peter Adriaansz – Structure VII
Michel van der Aa – Oog (winnaar Gaudeamus Prijs 1999)
Michel van der Aa – Quadrivial
Yannis Kyriakides – Hyperamplified

za 28 januari
Iktus Percussion
Michel van der Aa – Between
Ron Ford – Shift
Hugo Morales – Solo for amplified triangle (honorable mention Gaudeamus MW 2009)
György Ligeti – Poème Symphonique (for 100 metronomes)
Ensemble MAE
Robert Ashley - in Memoriam Esteban Gomez (kwartet) 
Luiz Yudo - El Camino  (ensemble en video score)  
Silvia Borzelli - Own Pace (amnesia 3b) (contrabas solo)
Claudio Baroni - Abstract Terror (elektrisch kwartet and video)

De inschrijving voor de Gaudeamus Prijs 2012 is gestart! Componisten van alle nationaliteiten, geboren na 9 september 1981 kunnen tot 31 januari 2012 hun composities inzenden. De composities mogen reeds uitgevoerd en maximaal 3 jaar oud zijn. Begin februari worden ze voorgelegd aan een internationale jury (die dit jaar bestaat uit Martijn Padding (NL), Annie Gosfield (USA) en Christopher Butterfield (CAN) ). De geselecteerde werken dingen mee naar de Gaudeamus prijs: €4.550 in de vorm van een compositie-opdracht voor de Muziekweek 2013. Alle geselecteerde werken zullen worden uitgevoerd tijdens de Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2012 die van 2 tot en met 9 september plaatsvindt in Utrecht. Aan het eind van die week kiest de jury de winnende compositie.  

Klik hier voor meer details over de voorwaarden en hier om je in te schrijven voor de Gaudeamus Prijs 2012!

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