Electroacoustic Music Festival - The concerts

• Electronic Music and Live Electronics
  Teachers and Students of the under-graduate and graduate program
  
  Sunday May 31st, 21:00
  Ιonian Academy



• Electronic Music and Live Electronics
  
  ESTHER LAMNECK, clarinet και tárogató
  CORT LIPPE, computer, live electronics
  
  Monday June 1st, 21:00
  Ιonian Academy

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Esther Lamneck - clarinet and Tárogató

The New York Times calls Esther Lamneck "an astonishing virtuoso". Winner of the prestigious Pro Musicis Award, she has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras, with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, and with renowned chamber music artists throughout the world. A versatile performer and an advocate of contemporary music, she is known for her work with electronic media including interactive arts, movement, dance and improvisation. Ms. Lamneck makes frequent solo appearances at music festivals worldwide and maintains an active solo career performing and presenting Master Classes in Universities and Conservatories throughout the United States and Europe. An artist who is sought after by the leading composers of our times, her collaborations have led to hundreds of new compositions in many genres for the clarinet and the tárogató.

Esther Lamneck is one of the few performers who plays the Hungarian Tárogató, a single reed woodwind instrument with a hauntingly beautiful sound. New compositions written for the instrument explore facets of new music performance such as improvisation, electronics and interactive computer programs and are available on CD.

Awarded the Naumburg Scholarship, Ms. Lamneck received her B.M., M.M. and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School of Music. She currently serves as Director of Instrumental Studies and the Graduate Music and Dance Program in Italy for New York University. Artistic director of the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble, the group maintains its residence at the University during the season and in Italy during the summers. Ms. Lamneck has worked together with choreographer Douglas Dunn for numerous years creating multimedia productions for Festivals in Italy. Her work in the area of Interactive Technology includes research with Antonio Camurri's Program, "Eyesweb" which allows for gestural control of live sound and video processing. Ms. Lamneck has appeared on major television and radio programs both here and abroad and is an internationally renowned recording artist.

Cort Lippe – computer, live electronics

Studies: Larry Austin, USA; G.M. Koenig, P. Berg, Institute of Sonology, Netherlands; I. Xenakis, University of Paris. Seminars: Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen. Employment: 1983-86, CEMAMu, taught courses, assisted development of real-time UPIC system; 1986-94, IRCAM, developed real-time applications, taught courses on new technology in composition; since 1994, associate professor of composition, and director, The Hiller Computer Music Studios, University at Buffalo, New York. Guest professorships: 1999-2006, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo; 1999-2001, Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Denmark; 2007, New York University; 2009, Fulbright Award at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Composition prizes: (1st prizes) Irino Prize, Japan; Bourges Prize, France; El Callejon Del Ruido Algorithmic Music Competition, Mexico; USA League-ISCM Competition, Leonie Rothschild Prize, USA; (2nd prize) Music Today Prize, Japan; (3rd prize) Newcomp Electronic Music Competition, USA; (honorable mentions) Prix Ars Electronica 1993, 1995, Austria; Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, USA; Sonavera International Tape Music Competition, USA; Luigi Russolo Competition, Italy. Commissions: International Computer Music Association, Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, Festival El Callejon del Ruido, Mexico, Dutch Ministry of Culture, and Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Germany, etc. Performances: International Computer Music Conference, ISCM World Music Days, Gaudeamus, Tokyo Music Today, Bourges, Huddersfield, Sonorities, etc. Recordings: ADDA, ALM, Apollon, Big Orbit, CBS-Sony, Centaur, Classico, CMJ, EMF, Hungaroton Classic, Harmonia Mundi, ICMC2000, ICMC2003, IKG Editions, Innova, MIT Press, Neuma, Salabert, SEAMUS, and Sirr Records.