Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities at Festival d’Aix

Por Pwyll ap Sion, 14 julio 2019

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Crítica hecha desde Conservatoire Darius Milhaud: Auditorium Campra, Aix-en-Provence el 13 julio 2019

van der Aa, Blank out (création française)

Klaas Stok, Dirección

Michel van der Aa, Dirección de escena

Miah Persson, Soprano

Roderick Williams, Barítono

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Pwyll ap Sion

A composer and musicologist, Pwyll studied music at Oxford and is currently Professor of Music at Bangor University in Wales. He has published several books and articles on the music of Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and Philip Glass and is considered an authority on minimalist and postminimalist music. He writes regularly for Gramophone and Strad magazines, has given talks on Glass and Louis Andriessen for the Barbican’s ‘Total Immersion’ concert series, has been interviewed on BBC Radios 3 and 4, and contributed composer profiles and articles for the BBC Proms.

Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities: Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out at Festival d’Aix