2009 IMPROVISATION [1]

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I M P R O V I S A T I O N

 

 

 

From 2008 till 2011 Orgelpark Research took the art of improvisation as its main theme. The results are documented in Orgelpark Research Report #3, available for free elsewhere on this site. The project's final activity was the 2013 International Orgelpark Symposium.

 

A quote from the invitation to the symposium: 'Organ improvisation, or, to be less specific, improvisation involving the organ, has come to be recognized as an artistic discipline in itself during the last few decades. No longer related to religion per se, it increasingly reflects developments in a variety of different contemporary music scenes and, hence, musicological areas. At the same time, musicological interest in improvisation in general is growing, both as regards western and non-western music. Our symposium presents some of the leading researchers in this field, as well as the researchers of the Orgelpark Research Team, which forms the basis of our Improvisation Project.'

 

 

 

Wednesday 13 May

Music: improvisations

Klaus-Peter Riemer (flute) and Torsten Laux (organs) [Düsseldorf]

 

Welcome

Hans Fidom

 

Lecture: Organ Improvisation / Historical Notes

Prof Peter Planyavsky [Vienna]

 

Opening Concert: improvisations

Prof Peter Planyavsky [Vienna]

Ensemble Super Librum [Groningen]

 

 

Thursday 14 May

Music: improvisations on recorder

Hester Groenleer [Orgelpark Research Team Amsterdam]

 

Lecture: Creation at the moment of performance: Willem Mengelberg's improvisando as demonstrated by his recordings

Emile Wennekes [Utrecht University]

 

Lecture: Professional learning in contemporary organ improvisation:

from experts to competence nomads?

Karin Johansson [Lund University / Malmø Academy of Music]

 

Lecture: The International Improvisation Competition, Haarlem

Olga de Kort-Koulikova [Orgelpark Research Team]

 

Workshop: Socratic Discussion: Is Improvisation instant Composition?

Erik Heijerman [International School for Philosophy Leusden]

 

Lecture: Improvisation as a practice-based research project – activities, methods and aims of the 'Forschungsgruppe Basel für Improvisation (FBI)

Markus Schwenkreis [Forschungsgruppe Basel für Improvisation]

 

Concert/lecture: Compositional inspirations for improvising on German

Romantic organs

Gijs Boelen [Research Team]

 

National Improvisation Competition (part I) 

Jury: Henco de Berg, Hayo Boerema, Bert van den Brink, Jan Raas

Competitors: Wouter van der Wilt, Bastiaan Jan van Vliet, Gerben Budding

 

Concert

TRIO 7090, with Nora Mulder (piano), Bas Wiegers (violin), Koen Kaptijn (trombone) [Xenakis, Finnissy and ensemble improvisations]

 

 

Friday 15 May

Music: improvisations on organ and trumpet

Anemos Ensemble: Kirstin Gramlich (organ) [Orgelpark Research Team

Amsterdam] and Christoph Barth (trumpet)

 

Workshop & Concert: Historic Improvisation

Rudolf Lutz [Forschungsgruppe Basel für Improvisation]

 

Lecture: Improvisation - between skill and creativity

Jan Raas [Utrecht]

 

Lecture: To be a Dancer on the Organ (part I)

Jacob Lekkerkerker [Orgelpark Research Team Amsterdam]

 

Lecture & Live Music: The Field of Musical Improvisation

Marcel Cobussen [Leiden University / Orgelpark Research Team]

 

Lecture: Improvisational Musicking

Hans Fidom [Orgelpark Research]

 

Concert/lecture: The Art of Parisian Improvisation (part I)

Ansgar Wallenhorst, Béatrice Piertot, Giampaolo di Rosa, Hampus

Lindwall [Parisian division of the Orgelpark Research Team]

 

Concert: The Art of Parisian Improvisation (part II)

Thierry Escaich [Paris], Ansgar Wallenhorst and Giampaolo di Rosa

 

 

Saturday 16 May

Masterclass Improvisation: The Art of Parisian Improvisation (part III)

Thierry Escaich [Paris]

 

National Improvisation Competition (part II [part I: Thursday 14/5, 20.15])

Jury: Henco de Berg, Hayo Boerema, Bert van den Brink, Arie Keijzer

Competitors: Wouter van der Wilt, Bastiaan Jan van Vliet, Gerben Budding

 

Concert/lecture: Improvisation and the Audience

Hester Groenleer: [Orgelpark Research Team Amsterdam]

 

Lecture: Improvisation Ensembles with Organ: Overview

Kirstin Gramlich [Orgelpark Research Team Amsterdam]

 

Concert: To be a Dancer on the Organ (part II)

Jacob Lekkerkerker & Friends

 

Final Concert, part I: improvisations

Gerben Mourik (winner of the International Improvisation Competition Haarlem 2008)

 

Final Concert, part II: improvisations and songs

Lavalu & special guest: Jeroen van Vliet