26.
October Seoul Art Centre Recital Hall 20:00
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brass musics composed by korean, japanese and Hong-Kong composers
Organizer : ISCM
Korea Section
Performer
Brass Extreme Tokyo
Kiyonori Sokabe (tp), Jin Ueda (tp), Shinji Kobuna (hn)
Kousei Murata (trb), Mitsuhiro Ozaki (tu)
Program
Christopher Coleman (Hong-Kong) / "Politics, Money, Music"
for Brass Quintet (2005) 7min.
Yoko Oba / "cobweb IV" for Trumpet & Tuba (2006)
14min.
Tomoko Fukui / "Ansatz" crescendi al niente for
Brass Quintet (2006 commissioned by Brass Extreme Tokyo) 10min.
In-Sun Cho / "White Shadow III" for Horn, Trumpet,
Trombone and Tuba (2006) 14min.
Yasunoshin Morita / "mutes meet beats" for Two Trumpets
(2005 revised in 2006) 9min.
Iannis Xenakis / "linaia-agon" for Horn, Trombone
and Tuba (1972) 10min.
Yong-Won Sung / Brass Quintet no.II (2006) 7min.
 
  
  
Program Notes & Profiles
In-Sun Cho / "White Shadow III"
for Horn, Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba (2006)
Not only in the clear and transparent light, an object casts
a reflection.
As there is limpid air in the darkness, there are projected
sounds and paintings from the shadow.
The river putting the sky in it, the clouds above it,, and
the waves,
The prayer song from a monastery, bell sounds...
The wind talks on the lake reflecting the sky and the clouds,
and on the waves sparkling on the river.
On the endless Silk Road, on the river having the sky.
On the tree where the light draws...
The wind fades away as hanging down the white shadow.
Looking at the shining light in our inner side and the white
shadow of our lives, I depict the sparkling sound with the
brass instruments
****
In-Sun Cho
graduated from Seoul National University and the Graduate
School of Seoul National University. She received a diploma
in composition from Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Koeln
and also studied musicology and philosophy at Koeln University
in Germany. She has been invited to the first International
Woman Composer's Conference in Berlin and Die Hoege in Germany
as artist-in-residence. She was awarded for her composition
from Dong-A Music Competition and Mannheim International Competition
in Germany. Her works have been presented at various international
music festivals, such as Festival e Symposium Internazionale
Fiuggi Citta in Italy. Composition's Festival of Asian composer's
League in Mannila and Wellington and Musik aus Ost in Muenster.
Her works have been performed in Seoul, Berlin, Freiburg,
Hamburg, Bonn, Moscow, Budapest, Hoege, and Fiuggi. Currently,
she is professor of composition at Chung-Ang University and
a member of Contemporary Music Society in Seoul, Asian Composer's
league, Korean Society of Woman Composers and ISCM.
Yong-Won Sung / Brass Quintet no.II
(2006)
 I
wrote this piece for the same instrumentation as I did it
six years ago, which is a brass quintet called "Pandragon."
****
Yong-Won Sung
Diplom in Music Theory and Composition at Karlsruhe Music
University, Germany
Diplom in Composition at Duesseldorf Robert Schumann University,
Germany
The Member of ISCM, The Korean society of the 21st Century
Music
Lecturer at Mokwon University and Dongduk Women University
Editorial Committee Member of the Journal of Music magazine.
Tomoko Fukui / "Ansatz" crescendi
al niente for Brass Quintet (2006 commissioned by Brass Extreme
Tokyo)
This piece is the one of the series of <crescendo al niente~for
cl, vn,vc> which was composed 2 years ago. In this series,
I treated only “crescendo” limitedly and thought how to express
various kinds of “crescendo” about every sound. But it is
not only the sonority itself but also the moment of the end
of the sound or just after the sound.
And more I wanted to have an experience to listen to the condition
of just before sound also in this piece.
****
Tomoko Fukui
Born in Kyoto. Won the“Scholarship Prize”of International
Summer Course of New Music in Darmstadt in 1992. “Akiyoshidai
International Composition Prize”in 1994.The Third Prize of
Japan Music Competition in 1999 and some other prizes in Japan.
T
he piece for Arditti String Quartet was performed in Darmstadt
in 1996. This quartet was selected as the Recommended piece
of the Irino International Composition Prize in 1997. Selected
for ISCM World Music Days-Hong Kong 2002, ISCM World Music
Days-Zagreb 2004. Invited by "La Biennale di Venezia
2002", Daegu music festival (2004), Takefu music festival(2005),
International Summer Courseof New Music in Darmstadt(2006),etc.
Organizing the Ensemble "next mushroom promotion"
which plays contemporary music mainly. This Ensemble got Saji-Keizo
prize(Suntory Music foundation) 2005. This prize are given
to the Ensemble which are the most interesting and challenging
concert in a year.Instructor of Osaka College of Music and
Kanseigakuin Univ. Living in Tokyo.
Yasunoshin Morita / "mutes meet beats" for Two Trumpets
(2005 revised in 2006)
 A
trumpet mute is used to change the tone of the instrument,
but what if the act of attaching and detaching it became part
of the music?This piece is one of my experiments with this
fascinating idea. As the work progresses, the attachment and
detachment of the mutes will gradually synchronize with the
beat. artistic and study curriculum:
****
Yasunoshin Morita
Studied composition under Yori-aki Matsudaira and Hisayoshi
Ando. Won the first prize in the composition competition of
JSCM (Japan Society for Contemporary Music), in the Valentino
Bucchi International Composition Competition, and the Excellency
Award in the Composition Competition of Japan Symphony Foundation
in 2003, and in the 5th Henri Dutilleux competition in 2004.
Now working with the ensemble “next mushroom promotion” in
Kyoto and Osaka.
Yoko Oba / "cobweb IV" for
Trumpet & Tuba (2006)
I had been imagining the huge cobweb in a land encircled by
mountains, while I composed this piece.
First of all, one thread is spun between the tops of the
mountains, and several threads are spun radially from its
center.
And moreover, the new threads are spun spirally.
We, living things that is caught by the huge cobweb live on
that, and emit each sound(voice).
And their sounds are mixed little by little, they will become
'one music in the mountains' in the end.
I wanted to compose such a music.
****
Yoko Oba
Born in 1975. Received her master's degree from the Graduate
School at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Awarded prizes including the First Prize and Yasuda Award
in the 67th Japan Music Competition (Orchestral Section) in
1998, an award in the 4th Tokyo International Competition
for Chamber Music Composition in 1999, the Composition Award
in the 4th Japanese Music Exhibition in 2000, the Second Prize
in the Japan Federation of Composers Composition Award (chamber
orchestra) in 2003, etc. Participated in the Royaumont Seminar
as an exchange composer from the Takefu International Music
Festival 2005. Her works have also been performed in international
music festivals such as the PAN Music Festival in Korea, the
Takefu International Music Festival in Japan and the Odessa
festival "Two Days and Two Nights" in Ukraine.
Her recent interest in combination of dissimilar instruments
made her organize and compose for concerts "Yoi Yoi Kaikyou
(with tabla, marimba and Thai Gong) in 2004 and "Ayanari
(with violin, flute, 25-string koto, and gamelan)" in
2005. Plans to participate as a composer in the "Synchronization
of Sound and Color (Tokyo & Paris)", an event made
up by artists and pianists in 2006 _ 2007.
Christopher Coleman / "Politics,
Money, Music" for Brass Quintet (2005)
 It
has often been my habit to composer works in pairs, putting
similar materials and techniques to contrasting gestures.
Having just completed a large work for symphonic band that
in spite of its title, A Jazz Funeral, is an optimistic celebration
of life, I turned to this commission for Extreme Brass Tokyo
from the Hong Kong Composers' Guild. Inspired by the group's
name, I took the jazzy rhythms and inflections from the previous
work and put them to darker and quite a bit more virtuostic
use. Frustrated and angered by what I perceive as broken promises,
outright lies, and other evil machinations by my government
in the US, the government here in Hong Kong and China where
I now reside, and even within my profession and university;
I gave vent to my feelings in this, my darkest and most sardonic
work yet. Politics, Money, Music develops a twisting chromatic
figure throughout its nine-minute length, obsessively reordering
the pitches repeatedly in static melodic statements that suddenly
burst into movement, only to be cut short by stabbing syncopations.
The central section expands the compressed chromatic idea
into a sarcastic blues, which in turn works its way to a quieter
but still unsettled conclusion. Shortly after the piece was
completed, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United
States. In sympathy with those who have suffered from its
passage and from the subsequent governmental ineptitude I
have dedicated this piece to its victims.
Politics, Money, Music was premiered October 3, 2005, by Brass
Extreme Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan.
****
Christopher Coleman (b. 1958, Atlanta, GA)
composer, conductor, trombonist, is currently Composition
Coordinator of the Hong Kong Baptist University Department
of Music and Fine Arts. He has also taught at the University
of Chicago, DePaul University, Columbia College, and in the
Interlochen Center for the Arts summer program. He earned
his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago where he studied
composition with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran. While at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the M.A. in composition,
he studied with George Crumb, George Rochberg, and Richard
Wernick. While most of Coleman's works are scored for traditional
forces, recent efforts at Hong Kong Baptist University have
resulted in two large scale multimedia/improvisation pieces:
September Variations and Prophecies for a New Millennium .
He has received commissions from the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia,
the Hong Kong Bach Choir and Orchestra, the Hong Kong Composers'
Guild, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago-area chapter
of the American String Teachers' Association, and the University
of Georgia Trombone Choir, among others. He has been awarded
first place in the Percussive Arts Society Percussion Ensemble
Composition Contest and the ASUC/SESAC Composition Contest.
His music is published by Theodore Presser, Ensemble Publications,
C. Alan Publications and Crown Music Press.
Iannis Xenakis / "linaia-agon"
for Horn, Trombone and Tuba (1972)
 According
to the legend, Linos, the celebrated musician, provokes Apollo,who
strikes him down. Here the legend is incarnated by a musical
game between two adversaries Linos=the trombone, Apollo=the
French horn or the tuba. Contrary to the legend, this game
gives a chance to extricate himself. This actual chance is
mathematically provided by decision matrices. To throw the
gauntlet to the gods is not blasphemy but to surpass them
by surpassing oneself.
****
Iannis Xenakis
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