ONE × 2

3:00pm, 14 July 2001
Nickson Room, Department of Music
University of Queensland

ELISION Ensemble
Robert CASTEELS conductor

Jean-Baptiste DEVILLERS Via Ultima (1995)

mandolin, guitar, harp, soprano, contrasbass, percussion, flute/alto/piccolo, oboe/cor anglais, trumpet, violin, viola, violoncello WORLD PREMIERE

Pascal DUSAPIN Inside (1986)

Erkki VELTHEIM solo viola AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Discussion

A public discussion involving conductor, composer, selected musicians, and audience

Jean-Baptiste DEVILLERS Via Ultima (1995)

In this new aspect of ELISION Ensemble programming the ensemble will premiere a new work, followed by a public discussion with the conductor, composer, and selected musicians of the ensemble and the audience. The work is then played for a second time, without interval.

The intention is to enable ELISION to develop a platform to premiere and focus attention upon major international commissions, to build a relationship and familiarity with the audience for the hearing of `new´ music, and to enable the ensemble to present a historical context and appropriate background for the commissioned new work.

For future years the selected composer will pursue a research element defined by taking in one or more of the following criteria: the use of new technologies in sound, cultural hybridity, temporal aspects of audience perception, new instrumental techniques, adapation to or alteration and degradation of existing instrumental technology with a view to producing new sonic outcomes, a process or way of interaction between the musicians of the ensemble, or the very adaptation of the performance space itself.

From 2002 the featured work will be a minimum of twenty minutes in length, or it will be supplemented either by an earlier work by the same composer, or another international work that throws the new piece into some kind of historical perspective.

In 2001 the presented work is Via Ultima by French composer Jean-Baptiste DEVILLERS with Singapore-based conductor Robert CASTEELS. It is a commission supported by the Hors Villa Medicis. Additionally, ELISION violist Erkki VELTHEIM will give the Australian premiere of Pascal DUSAPIN's Inside for solo viola.

ONE × 2 is presented by ELISION Ensemble with the assistance of Arts Queensland and The University of Queensland. ELISION, Australia's national new music ensemble, gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the The University of Queensland through the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Professor John HAY