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Pantelis Lykoudis / Mislav Režić

Program:
Monday 17 February 2025 | 21:00
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Saxophonist Pantelis Lykoudis and guitarist Mislav Režić invite us to a musical evening dedicated to contemporary music creation, where the sounds of saxophone and guitar acquire new dimensions.

Pantelis Lykoudis, saxophonist, educator and improviser from Athens, brings to the fore three contemporary works that highlight the multi-dimensional nature of the saxophone. Having studied at HKU Utrechts Conservatorium, Kunstuniversität Graz and UMass Amherst, and having worked with renowned composers and soloists, Pantelis has performed at leading festivals and conferences such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the Noto Musica Festival. The works he presents – “Micrographia” by Samuel Andreyev, “Asphyxia” by Aaron Cassidy and “Komposition für Altsaxophon in Es und Tonband” by Isabel Mundry – explore the possibilities of the instrument through innovative techniques and multi-layered sound narratives.

Mislav Režić, one of the most distinguished Croatian guitarists, presents the project “IN LOOP (Music for a Film)”, where he combines his rich experience in contemporary music and film composition. With an international career as a soloist and chamber musician, founder of ensembles such as Ensemble Machetes and Tetttix, and artistic director of the festival “Glazbene večeri kod sv. Jeronima”, Mislav incorporates new work commissions, first performances and groundbreaking recordings such as the award-winning AUBURN into his artistic career.

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Notes on the three works performed by Pantelis Lykoudis:

Micrographia” (2010, 7’) by Samuel Andreyev

Samuel Andreyev is a Canadian-French composer based in Strasbourg. His orchestral, chamber and vocal compositions are performed, broadcast and recorded throughout the world. Also highly in demand as a lecturer, public speaker and teacher, his work often focuses on highly atypical instrumental combinations, always searching for the greatest possible expressive intensity. For “Micrographia”, his first work for the instrument, he writes: “The title of the work refers to a pioneering book published in the 17th century containing sketches of various miniature objects, greatly enlarged and rendered in a considerable degree of detail. The word is also used to describe a rare condition in which the handwriting becomes excessively dense and small.”

Asphyxia” (2000, 10’) by Aaron Cassidy

This early work by the American composer Aaron Cassidy introduced unprecedented and influential notational innovations for the saxophone, where the mouth and fingers are written in separate pentagrams. The composer experiments with what he calls the polyphonicity of performative elements, which results in the production of ‘acoustic by-products’ through the interaction of disconnected layers. Thus, many of the elements of the score are often almost impossible to hear. The inherent physicality of the work ultimately creates a visual correspondence between sound that can be heard and action that cannot be heard.

Komposition für Altsaxophon in Es und Tonband” (1992, 10’) by Isabel Mundry / Diffusion: Giorgos Mizithras

The German composer Isabel Mundry constantly explores through her work the relationships between space, time and perception. She is the first guest composer of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and her composition for saxophone and tape was premiered by Johannes Ernst. Organ sounds, closing doors, city noises and numerical sequences are just some of the elements that appear on the tape in concrete form, not to hint anecdotally at extramusical things, but to mirror in their procedural development the paths that the live saxophone with its own tonal means will also follow. Thus, all tonal elements, whether played by the saxophone or produced by the tape, form part of a pattern that fundamentally moves, changes or destroys its structures.