Free Admission
Carnegie Hill Concerts presents the music of Christian Dachez.
PERFORMERS:
Stephen Gosling, Piano
Conrad Harris, Violin
Pauline Kim Harris, Violin
Nuiko Wadden, Harp
Christian Dachez confides that he is obsessed with the « note » : the musical and the sensitive can express themselves in restricted areas of the sound space, thus in an economy of words.Only the directional movement that infuses emotion and favors the moments counts. He considers that every work is born from the mutation of the pre-existing elements of the sound matter, referring to Kandisky's Green Tree : his work is only the representation of a single work.
Mainly, as regards to these pieces , my music focuses on a single note or interval variations process but it occurs that I refer to literature and painting in quite a number of other pieces...Each word is music through his color...
Les Bles Brûles for Violin and Piano (2009), World Premiere
"Boried in the wheats, I looked at this piece of morning sky which opened to me.
There is no need to know it took root in my mind...until to this day...like a revelation. A light pure and clear, obstinately limpid but banally blue...I breathed in, I stared wide-eyed... Was it possible?
Something had just got me in trouble flunging in blue sky an urgent desire of writing."
Ups and Downs for Two Violins (2015), Premiere
This piece is an entertainment in my work and add to my soloist and chamber music pieces with violin concerto. It's a break in my compositions, a breathing.
Please, do make playful and mischievous the piece!
Quartz for Violin (2016), Premiere
« In deafness and intoxication of Humans, the stone freezes his perpetual look, his reassuring face and diffuses by his brightness his most rebel indifference ».
This piece is built with A- string out of tone as the nature where there is always something wrong or missing.
So Dreaming for Violin and Harp (2018), Premiere
« I will make you know the most beautiful gardens of the earth »...
A few notes which obsessed my mind ...but so many parasites to remove.
...Dreaming... dreaming...do only dreaming!
Christian Dachez (b. 1951) is a French composer currently living in Normandy (France). He studies trombone in Paris with Raymond Katarzynsky and orchestral conducting with Jean-Claude Hartmann. He graduated with distinction studying the theory of harmony, fugue and counterpoint with the famous Yvonne Desportes. Also, he was a finalist in accordion competition « La coupe du Prédident de la République ».
Christian Dachez is a sought-after film composer (« Destin »> in 1978 at the Festival du Film Fantastique de Paris ) and composes works used in various commercials and advertising. His studies in the U.P.I.C. ( a computerized music system) as well as his focus on the works of György Ligeti - especially on his Requiem - form his compositional language.
His music is performed and commissioned by various performers including the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre Colonne, the Orchestre de Perpignan-Méditerranée. the Orchestre de Flûtes Français, etc. he has also worked with several music festivals in France and abroad, mainly in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and China.
Stephen Gosling earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Juilliard, where he was awarded the Mennin Prize and Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He is a member of New York New Music Ensemble and Talea Ensemble, as well as a pianist at New York City Ballet. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic (most notably as soloist in Messiaen’s Sept Haikaï), Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, American Composers Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among many others.
Violinist Conrad Harris has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and New York's Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra and Ensemble LPR.
He has performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. His recordings of the Lejaren Hiller Violin Sonatas with pianist, Joseph Kubera will be released in 2018 on New World Records. He has also recorded for Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, and Vinyl Retentive Records.
Pauline Kim Harris aka PK or Pauline Kim is a GRAMMY™-nominated violinist and composer. The youngest student to have ever been accepted into the studio of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz, she has appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director. Known for her work with classical avant-punk violin duo, String Noise, she has toured extensively with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and continues to collaborate with leading new music ensembles in New York City. Pauline Kim was the first Music Director for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and has been the featured artist for choreographers David Parker and Pam Tanowitz. Pauline’s debut album, Heroine — a reimagining of the Bach Chaconne and Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias was released on Sono Luminus with worldwide distribution on September 27, 2019.
Nuiko Wadden is the principal harpist of Pittsburgh Opera and Ballet Orchestras as well as the Des Moines Metro Opera. She is also a founding member of the Kassia Ensemble, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
Ms. Wadden has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions, recognized by the Minnesota Orchestra (WAMSO), Ann Adams, ASTA, and American Harp Society. As a soloist she has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Skokie Valley Symphony, the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony, and the Northwest Symphony.
She serves as a substitute harpist for the Minnesota, Houston, Milwaukee and Baltimore Symphonies.
To date, Ms. Wadden has appeared on the New Amsterdam, Cedille, Bridge, New Focus, and North/South recording labels.