Anne Veinberg in the lead

2020-10-04

After participating in numerous Fokker-organ concerts, pianist Anne Veinberg now takes centre stage for this performance. Anne Veinberg (Moscow, 1986) is well known at the Muziekgebouw as the pianist of Ensemble SCALA, the resident ensemble of the Huygens-Fokker Foundation, where she plays the Carrillo piano and keyboards. Veinberg is an award-winning pianist with a bold approach who embraces the theatrical aspects of music. She is active as a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician and has performed at various festivals both in the Netherlands and internationally. She studied at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music with Ronald Farren-Price, earned her master’s degree with David Kuyken at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and has been conducting doctoral research at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent since 2015. Over the past decade, she has specialised in playing a wide range of pianos, including several toy pianos. Her proficiency on the Fokker organ, however, will come as a surprise to many.
To open the 2020–2021 season, Veinberg will appear as a guest musician in a concert featuring the Fokker organ, the Carrillo piano, and a conventional grand piano. In addition, she will collaborate with the Mexican composer, programmer, and laptop artist Felipe Ignacio Noriega—her partner in the live coding duo Off <>zz—to present several demonstrations of their project ‘CodeKlavier’, a programming language bridging piano and laptop. For this, Veinberg generates computer codes while playing a piano, and for this occasion, she will naturally also apply the system to the Fokker organ. The programme features works by Felipe Ignacio Noriega (using CodeKlavier), Lost Time Triptych by the American composer Christopher Trapani (winner of the 2007 Gaudeamus International Composers Award) for a detuned piano, a sensuous composition by Anthony Leigh Dunstan (arranged for Fokker organ by Anne Veinberg), and improvisations by Veinberg herself. An experience not to be missed!

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Programme

Felipe Ignacio Noriega / Anne Veinberg – The FoCker orCKan premiere
(CodeKlavier on piano ‘live coding’ the Fokker organ)

Christopher Trapani – Lost Time Triptych (2016) piano scordatura, NL premiere
I) Time is a Jet Plane
II) Time is Piling up
III) Time is Beginning to Crawl

Anne Veinberg / Sebestian Pappalardo / Constantijn Huygens – CirCKlavier premiere
(CodeKlavier on the Fokker organ and visuals with Hydra)

Anthony Leigh Dunstan – “as i hear it” (2011) arrangement for piano/Carrillo piano Anne Veinberg (2020)

Felipe Ignacio Noriega / Anne Veinberg – oFfzzOrgel
(improvisation for piano, Carrillo piano and Fokker organ)

NB. The development of CodeKlavier was made possible in part by the Dutch Creative Industries Fund.

CodeKlavier meets Fokker organ
The CodeKlavier is a system with which a pianist can create digital code by playing and is designed and developed by composer Felipe Noriega and pianist Anne Veinberg. In 2017 the Creatives Industries Fund awarded the project a subsidy towards a two-year development trajectory. The project won first prize at the Conlon: Uncaged Toy Piano Composition Competition in Utrecht in 2017 and has been invited for performances in festivals including Gaudeamus Utrecht, Huygens Voorburg, Nacht van Kunst en Kennis Leiden, InSonora Madrid and DA-Z Zurich. Furthermore, there have been performances in New York, Morelia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow and Daegu.
In light of the Fokker organ’s MIDI possibilities, for this concert, the CodeKlavier will be used in two facets. The opening work will show Anne Veinberg live coding the Fokker organ from her playing at the piano. The second work will show Anne playing on the Fokker organ whilst live coding abstract visuals on the Hydra platform.

Christopher Trapani ‘Lost Time Triptych’
Lost Time Triptych is composed in homage to, and borrows its scordatura schema from, Gérard Grisey’s Vortex Temporum. Grisey’s notion of three subjective laters of time — contracted, “real,” and dilated — are reflected in the proportions of the three movements (each of which bears a subtitle borrowed from Bob Dylan). The first blazes by in thirty dense and rhythmically volatile seconds, while the second, lasting about two minutes, stretches out into lines and imitative layers. The third movement, longer than the first two together, shifts the focus to resonance, chords with long durations but rich interior shadings. (text by Christopher Trapani)

Anthony Leigh Dunstan ‘as i hear it’, microtonally arranged by Anne Veinberg
as i hear it is a theatrical performance art piece, inspired by the musicianship, character, and personality of the pianist Anne Veinberg. The piece combines musical phrase and gesture with a visible and highly interactive dramatic element. The performer reacts and interacts with both their instrument and audience in humourously disturbing ways presenting a type of music theatre contained within a single melodic phrase. (text Anthony Leigh Dunstan)

Offzz
Offzz is a laptop and piano/toypiano/fokker organ duo exploring electro-acoustic music via improvisation, live coding, and transformation of our classical-music influences into a more collective experience. Felipe and Anne have been collaborating for several years, from more conventional contemporary music works, to their more recent improvisatory duo Off zz and are unique in their use of keyboard instruments and live-coding music making. Off zz are no strangers to the series with previous performances “Fokk My Offzz” and “Carrilloffzz” in previous seasons.

Support

This programme was made possible with the support of: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Gemeente Amsterdam (stadsdeel Oost).

Also the SNS REAAL Fonds – renamed Fonds 21 (renovation Fokker organ), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (renovation Fokker organ), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and Huygens-Fokker Foundation.

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