In January 2011, the Israeli public will have the opportunity to enjoy the music composed by the Romanian musicians Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv and in cooperation with the musician Ilan Volkov and the music clubs Hateiva, Levontin 7 and Uganda. The public in Jaffa, Jerusalem Tel Aviv will meet the two legends of the avant-garde music.
Iancu Dumitrescu, a prominent Romanian Composer, conductor and musicologist, is considered as one of the most important representatives of the spectral music in the world. He is, undoubtably, one of the major composers of the XXth Century avant-garde of music, as the author of music ahead of its time, hyper-spectralist music and computer assisted music. Ana-Maria Avram is also an important composer, pianist and conductor of the avant-garde music. Ana-Maria Avram initiated, together with Iancu Dumitrescu, several international festivals dedicated to the electronic and spectral music, in Romania and Europe: "Acousmania" - Bucharest, National Radio House (6 editions), "Musica Nova" at Ploiești (4 editions), SPECTRUM XXI in Paris, Geneva, Londra, Bruxelles - 3 editions until now.
There are three concerts scheduled for the tour:
January 19, 21:00 hrs., Club Hateiva (Jaffa). Before the concert, the two musicians will deliver a lecture on their music, at 19:30. The concert will be prepared and performed together with several Israeli musicians: two members of Meitar Ensemble (clarinet and piano): Yonatan Hadas and Amit Dolberg; Maya Dunietz (piano); Assaf Talmudi (accordeon); Eran Sachs (no input mixer); Alex Yunovich (electronics and vocals); Ilan Volkov (violin); Yoni Silver (bass clarinet); Dani Felsteiner (double bass); Ram Gabai (percussion). Special guest: Stephen O´Malley (USA).
Tickets: http://www.hateiva.com/
January 21, 13:00 hrs., Club Uganda (Jerusalem). Improvisation concert with guest Israeli musicians Maya Dunietz, Ram Gabai and others. Tickets: http://www.uganda.co.il/
January 22, 20:00 hrs., Levontin 7 (Tel Aviv). Special guest: Stephen O´Malley (USA).
Tickets: http://www.levontin7.com/
"Seems like these Romanians are engaged in a similar kind of sonic research to that which resulted in the masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio Morricone: collective endeavour, genuine 'deep listening'. The results are similarly overpowering a million miles from the tootling inconsequence of most of what passes for New Music in the classical world."
BEN WATSON - The WIRE, LONDON, May 1995
"Dumitrescu's acousmatic compositions are restless, detailed forays into the aesthetic of noise, dramatically penetrating the very fabric of instruments and articulating entirely new sounds - by turns violent, reflective, impassioned and eerily disarming."
London. Royal Festival Hall, New Aura Series, LMC-BBC 3
"Both Avram and Dumitrescu are convinced that if they have been able to open new doors in music, it is because they have made or found precisely those connections between musical activity and inner life that remain unarticulated in conventional musical training. This is not, however, simply a matter of their philosophy and motivation as artists. The psychological reality in their music is directly grounded in a conception of the acoustic reality of sound."
Tim HODGKINSON, Musicworks No 71, TORONTO, Summer 1998
"For a music that uncompromisingly addresses the future, opening us to an entirely new and unheard universe of sound, Iancu Dumitrescu's art is nonetheless grounded in tradition, and nourished on the fertile resources of the Romanian land. He exemplarily embodies a school, unique in the world, which has found in its own ancestral roots the means to go forwards in the spirit of the utmost adventure…"
Harry HALBREICH, (Editions Salabert)
Comunicat de presă (limba română) Comunicat de presă (limba engleză) Opinii critice (limba engleză) Broşura anuală Hateiva, ediţia octombrie 2010 - septembrie 2011
