TPICC COMPOSER 2021 - Wang Jing
Jing Wang is a composer and new music improviser. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in composition at Central Conservatory of Music under Guo-ping JIA, Xin-min, LUO and Jian-ping TANG, and Master Degree in composition at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln under Johannes Schöllhorn. She's currently conducting her PhD research of composition at University of Hong Kong under Hing-yan CHAN.
Her composition includes chamber music, orchestra and stage works in a variety of themes, such as Time, Space, Nature, Game, Kung-Fu, etc. Her work Free fireflies has achieved the Honorable Mention of 2012 BICW New Music Award and it has been premiered by E-MEX Ensemble. After that, her works started to be performed in China, Germany, Italy, Netherland, US, Canada, etc. She has participated in numerous music festivals in Europe and Asia, and worked closely with many performers and ensembles. Recently in 2020, her work Beiss mich! has been published by Breitkopf & Härtel, and her work Yan has been performed on several occasions by Ensemble Musikfabrik.
In the aspect of improvisation, she has performed new music as a pianist with improvisers and sound artists in Germany, Italy, and Canada. She also has conducted salons of new music and improvisation in China.
The Flow
This piece is composed for Chinese foldable fan. Three percussionists will respectively hold one foldable fan to build a sound-theatre applying various techniques, such as opening, rubbing, scratching, beating, blowing, blowing the fan in different rhythms and strengths during the performance. The core content of music is to express the cosmogony by Chinese philosophy and the inner force of Tai-Ji Kung-Fu.
TPICC COMPOSER 2021 - Man Ho yan,
Winfred
MAN Ho-yan Winfred is a Hong Kong composer. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music in 2020 from Hong Kong Baptist University, where he studied composition under the guidance of Dr. Camilo MENDEZ, Dr. Matthew SCHREIBEIS and Dr. Christopher COLEMAN. During his time at HKBU, he also studied violin with the well-known violinist in Hong Kong, Mr. LUNG Leung-fai Jensen. Winfred was a member of the Hong Kong Baptist University Symphony Orchestra. Winfred is currently interested in using geographical space and visual elements as the extra-musical stimuli for writing music.
codembarco
When I selected the comb as the instrument for this percussion trio, the shape of the comb reminded me of barcodes. So, I decided to explore how I can translate the idea of barcodes into music. I generated three different types of barcodes for the word “COMB”. The barcodes later became the fundamentals of the structure of this work. In this work, I am exploring the sense of musicality between the stripes of the barcodes, and presenting it through the sound of combs.
TPICC COMPOSER 2021 -
Orestis Papaioannou
Orestis Papaioannou began his early studies in music theory and clarinet at the Edessa Music School, and Thessaloniki State Conservatory. He continued with studies in Composition at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Class of Christos Samaras), Masters and Concert exams at the Lübeck University of Music (class of Dieter Mack). He is now a Ph.D. candidate at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, doing artistic research on hybrid voice techniques in the contemporary music theatre.
He won the1st Prize at several composition competitions, such as the “Kr. Penderecki” in Krakow, “Spring days of contemporary Music” in Weimar, “Antonin Dvorak” in Prague, Brahms Festival in Lübeck, George Sisilianos in Athens and he was Finalist at the “Toolbox Percussion International Composition Competition 2020 (TPICC 2020)” in Hong Kong, “TONALi” in Hamburg, and “Citta Di Udine”. His music has been performed in many European countries from prominent ensembles, including the National Orchestra of Athens, Hamburger Symphoni- ker, Ensemble Handwerk, Lux:NM, Quasars, Pre-Art, and Moto-Contrario. His music has been broadcasted from the National Radio and Television in Germany and Greece.
His new opera 'The Fall of the House of Commons', on the libretto by Alexandros Loutzis and Orpheus Apergis will premiere in 2022 in Hamburg.
He is active in the field of performance art, having masterclasses with Anna Clementi and participating at the Alwynne Pritchard LAB at the 2019 Donaueschingen Next Generation. Performances of his include Alexander Schubert’s Control at Ultima Festival in Oslo and Irini Aravidou’s Hands, which won the First Possehl Prize for contemporary music and performative concepts (Lübeck 2019). In September 2020 he was artist in residence in Petersburg art centre in Berlin, working on his interactive installation project “CUBICLE”.
One-two-three...GO!
Three percussionists, three kitchen objects, three timbres: Bottles, cans, plates. The different material of the objects (glass, tin, ceramic) contributes to timbral variations between them. The piece starts with a canonic exposition of three different rhythms that flow simultaneously and follow a process of condensation. The polyrhythm is constructed in the philosophy of a more abstract “interlock- ing” technique and derives as a result of my experience at the Balinese Gamelan orchestra of the Musikhochschule Lübeck. Rhythmical patterns interact, grow, and fade, leading from almost silence to a very dense, dancing-like fanfare.