Ramon Lazkano is one of the best world-wide known contemporary composers. At the age of 26 his piano concerto won the Prince Pierre de Monaco Foundation Prize, and many more followed, granting him numerous composition requests. His music is being played regularly by the most renowned orchestras and ensembles. Now he is professor of orchestration at the Higher Academy of Music of the Basque Country Musikene.
“What is happening in the small, the smallest, the individual events? And how individual event, each articulation, each breath, each brush, each instrumentalist’s touch beyond what he or she is doing with the instrument itself, contributes towards our experience of sound, contributes towards our experience of music, to how we listen to it, whether it's a Beethoven Symphony or a piece by Lachenmann. It is how we end up perceiving that period of sound, the duration of that sound, which is what we will impregnate in us, and seize, shall we say, the artistic experience of music.”
02 October 2023, 18:00
mustMEET Composers
talks and mini-concert
| Ramon Lazkano
Host Gergely Fazekas, music historian
Program
• Ramon Lazkano: Lur-Itzalak (2003) for violin and cello
• Ramon Lazkano: Ibaiadar (2013) for cello
Featuring OszkárVarga (violin),Tamás Zétényi (violoncello)
Ramon Lazkano will highlight his musical vision and talk about his composition process. The public can also hear live music and some recordings of the Spanish composer who is coming to Budapest following the personal invitation of Peter Eötvös.
Language of the talks English
Ramon Lazkano – Canal Europa interview
Photo: Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2018
Spotlight on Ramon Lazkano
closing concert of an International masterclass
Host
GregoryVajda, Program Director of the Peter Eötvös Foundation
Featuring Danubia Orchestra Óbuda
Conductors
GabrielHollander(conductormentee),youngconductorsofthe masterclass
Program
• Balázs Horváth: Unisono
• Ramon Lazkano: Egan 4 (2011) – Hungarian Premiere
• Ramon Lazkano: Erlantz (2015) – Hungarian Premiere
• Sebastian Black (mentored composer): Like The Nighingale –World Premiere
• Görgy Ligeti: Kammerkonzert
Ramon Lazkano will work with young conductors and composers during a five-day workshop alongside Péter Eötvös, Gergely Vajda and Balázs Horváth. The course aims to develop the students’musical language and expression, and to refine their conducting technique. Works by Lazkano, Horváth and Ligeti, as well as a new piece by Sebastian Black, and composed for the instrumentation of Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert, will be performed by the Foundation’s regular partner, the Danubia Orchestra. Hungarian audiences may already be familiar with Balázs Horváth’s Unisono, premiered in 2022 at the Transparent Sound New Music Festival, but Lazkano’s pieces will be performed as Hungarian premieres.
