Annual Report from Argentina, Terzian

FUNDACION ENCUENTROS INTERNACIONALES DE MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA - SIMC

International Encounters for Contemporary Music Foundation – ISCM

Artistic Director: Alicia Terzian

eimc@aliciaterzian.com.ar

2000 CONCERTS SEASON

Encuentros Foundation, ISCM official representative in Argentina, realized two important concerts series in 2000: Encuentros with the Piano and Encuentros with the Chamber Music.

The following pianists performed for Encuentros with the Piano: Michiko Tsuda (Japan), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (France), Myriam Conti (USA) and Argentinian Marcela Fiorillo, Claudio Espector, Valentín Surif, Federico Jusid  and Grupo Drangosch members: J. Silas Basa, Abel Ghelman, Guillermo Cárdenas, Estela Telerman, Ricardo Campodónico, Blas Gonzalez, Gabriela Bernasconi and Ezequiel Sarubbi.

The participants of Encuentros with the Chamber Music were: the French duet Thierry Miroglio-Anacuza Aprodu, Aedon Trio (Italy), the Copenhagen Electroacoustic Music Ensemble (Denmark), Grupo Encuentros (Argentina), and Faculty of Music Choir of the Catholic Argentine University conducted by Néstor Andrenacci.

Many of the artists gave lectures and seminars: Gwyn Williams, choir conductor (UK) about “Avantgardist music in the United Kingdom”,  Jean- Pierre Armengaud, pianist (France) about “The surrealism and the avantgardist Russian music”, Miroglio-Aprodu Duet about “Duet for percusion and piano” and the members of the Denmark group Fritz Berthelsen-Ejnar Kanding gave courses on composition, electronics, technics for clarinetists.

Encuentros Foundation organized the TRINAC 2000 (National Tribune of Composers) whose jury of 8 composers selected works to submitt to the International Rostrum of Composers (IMC-UNESCO, Paris) and  the World Music Days (ISCM), and the Electroacoustic Music Tribune.

Young Argentine composers won international contests: Pedro Ochoa, Daniel Judkovsky, Julieta Szewach, Mariano Fernández and José Halac.

Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, Argentine composer winner of the  1985 International Rostrum of Composers was invited to give a Seminar on composition in Cuba (March 2000) and Jordan (September 2000).

Encuentros Foundation broadcast contemporary music on FM Radio Nacional

The concerts of the 2000 season were realized at the National Museum of Fine Arts and Foro Gandhi.

2001 CONCERTS SEASON

This concerts season is scheduled at the National Museum of Fine Arts. The concerts are:Youth National Choir conducted by French Florent Stroesser, Irving Valley College Choral (USA), Arauco Yepes (percusion), pianists Alejandro Cremaschi (USA), Elena Riú (UK), Marcel Worms (Holland), Michael Blake (South Africa) and Argentine Paula Pelusso and Dora Castro,  Intervalles Ensemble (France), Trio Encuentros, Marta Blanco (mezzo)-Valentin Surif (piano) duet,  and Grupo Encuentros.

Contemporary composers from France, Norway, Finland, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Ecuador, USA, Russia, Cuba, Bolivia, Switzerland, Spain, Lithuania, UK, Venezuela, South Africa, are interpreted in the 12 concerts from June 17^th to October 7.

Likewise an Organ Series was scheduled in many churches of Buenos Aires city. The interpreters are: Adelma Gomez (Argentina), Enrico Zanovello (Italy), Maurice Clerc (France) and Roman Perucki (Poland).

The guests  musicians give master classes previous to their concerts at the National Conservatory of Music.

The Grupo Encuentros (Marta Blanco, Claudio Espector, Gabriel Sorin, Eduardo Ihidoype, Sergio Polizzi, Carlos Nozzi) conducted by Alicia Terzian offered a programme of avantgardist Argentine and Latin American music and other devoted to the Tango, in 4 concerts tournees in Europe, Paraguay, South Africa and Armenia. The Grupo also made a special recording for a TV cable channel – Canal (á) of Buenos Aires that was broadcast in Argentina and Latin America.

Contemporary music was broadcast by Radio Nacional FM Clásica during weekly auditions from May to July.

Many Argentine composers’ works were awarded in the Tribunes organized by Encuentros Foundation: National Tribune of Composers, Electroacoustic Music Trinbue and Argentine Music Tribune.

The 2001 concerts season included 20 Argentine composers’ works, among them 9 world premieres: José Luis Campana, Guillermo Silveira, Marcelo Koc, Salvador Ranieri, Ricardo Mandolini, Elsa Justel, Jorge Arandia Navarro, Silvano Picchi and René Vargas Vera. There were also two homages to Argentine composers Roberto García Morillo and Carlos Suffern.