Master Composition – Creative Practice – Contemporary Jazz

The final concerts of the Master in Composition 2023 reflect the aesthetic diversity at work in our program of study. We will travel between instrumental written music, quasi-improvised structures, contemporary jazz discoveries, electronic sounds and musical theater with digital contours.

In addition, current themes such as ecology with Alpensinfonie 2079 or artificial intelligence as in ID[entità] will accompany this fascinating journey.

All concerts are open to the public and are intended to be a true culmination of the study program in composition. We want these projects to be a kind of calling card for the composers to represent their originality and personality.

Xavier Dayer Head of Master Composition

Di, 19. Sep 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Christian Henking

Performers: Aleksandra Jopek, Marta Lucjan, Daniel Torres, Szymon Zieliński

Do, 21. Sep 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Xavier Dayer

Performers: José Avellanal, Hekmat Homsi, Marco Abisso, Aline Müller, Natalie Trautmann, Lukas Stubenrauch, Sarah Delacrétaz, Ezequiel Cappellano

Szymon Zieliński MRSZ

MRSZ is a syncretic attempt to create an element combining acoustic and electronic music. It is the culmination of a process of searching and forging new instrumental possibilities. The concert consists of a collection of pieces composed for both traditional and new instrumental designs.

Ezequiel Cappellano

Twin sparks

Twin sparks is a concert composed by three pieces that explores the potential and limitations of the recontextualisation of acoustic instruments coming from European and non-European traditions in the digital age, as well as the mixture of a wide range of styles of everywhere and any time (rock, Indian and European classical music, tango, jazz, electronic music, progressive metal and world music among others).

1) Der Koloss (15′), for electric guitar, bass guitar, tabla, accordion and baritone saxophone

2) Espejismos (15′), for oud, classical guitar and live electronics

3) Imor (15′), for tenor, string quartet and tape

Di, 26. Sep 18 Uhr

HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern

Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen

Performers: David von Maydell, Andrea Zamengo, Severin Rush, Bernat Pont Anglada, Rebecca Minten, Christopher Mui

Arda Yurdusev C-AML

C-AML is a music theater piece that focuses on the sensitive topic of cancer, especially the infamous blood cancer: leukaemia. The piece features a lead actor as a patient that goes through the multiple stages of leukaemia throughout the scenes. The protagonist is supported by a cast of three percussionists that will play the roles of doctor, assistant doctor and nurse. The cast has proper costumes for their roles while the stage features multiple set designs with props that serve the dramaturgy. In the end, C-AML portrays the life cycle of a leukaemia patient from diagnosis to the late stages and bases the dramaturgy on the selected real life patients’ stories.

Mi, 27. Sep 19.30 Uhr

Hodler-Saal, Swiss Alpine Museum, Helvetiaplatz 4, 3005 Bern

Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen

Performers: Mara Maria Möritz, Sonie Loenne, José del Avellanal, Aline Sarah Müller, Violeta García, Erwin Fonseca, David Inniger