14 ottobre
ore 21.00
Teatro San Giorgio - Udine

Slowind

Aleš Kacjan, flauto
Matej Šarc, oboe
Jurij Jenko, clarinetto
Metod Tomac, corno
Paolo Calligaris, fagotto

Andrea Rucli, pianoforte

In collaborazione con l’Associazione Musicale Sergio Gaggia

Nina Šenk
Kontrasti

Alfred Huber
Quintet Op. 6

Aurel Stroe
Quintandre (Hommage à Edgard Varèse)

Alfred Huber
Cognition II
per piano e quintetto a fiati

Francis Poulenc
Sextet
per piano e quintetto a fiati
I - Allegro vivace - Très vite et emporté
II - Divertissement - Andantino
III - Finale - Prestissimo

Slowind is made up of soloists of the Slovene Philharmonic, an orchestra with a rich musical tradition since its beginnings more than 300 years ago in 1701, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In its long history, the orchestra’s conductors have included Gustav Mahler, Vaclav Talich, Fritz Reiner and Carlos Kleiber. The quintet’s repertoire includes some compositions from the classical and romantic periods, but most of the ensemble’s attention is focused on works of the 20th century and new works, which it presents at important festivals at home and abroad. A number of prominent Slovene composers have dedicated works to Slowind, including Larisa Vrhunc, Nina Šenk and others. New works have recently been created for Slowind quintet by Slovenian composers: Vinko Globokar, Lojze Lebi?, Božidar Kos, Igor Majcen, Bor Turel, Uroš Rojko; and international composers: Volker Staub, Ivo Nilsson, Martin Smolka, Alfred Huber and others. For their work to date, Slowind have received the Župan?i? Prize, in 1999, and the Prešeren Prize, in 2003. In the past few years, the Slowind Ensemble has performed extraordinary concerts with Heinz Holliger, Alexander Lonquich, Muriel Cantoreggi, Garth Knox, Matthias Würsch, Robert Aitken, Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg i. Br.), Ensemble Accroche Note (Strasbourg), Ensemble Aleph (Paris), Divertimento Ensemble (Milano) and others.

The pianist Andrea Rucli has performed for over twenty five years, both as a soloist and in various chamber orchestra groups, working with the leading figures in concert music. He has performed at important chamber music festivals, including the festival in Portogruaro, the Settimana Musicale at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Kuhmo in Finland (where he will appear for the seventh time in 2011), the chamber music society at the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Sound Jerusalem in Israel, the Pontino Festival, the Cantiere di Montepulciano etc. He has released a CD with two Robert Schumann sonatas and the Clara Wieck romances together with the violinist Lucio Degani, and another with the repertoire of Dvorak for four hands together with a Konstantin Bogino. He is currently preparing a new CD - which will be released by Dynamic - which will be the first ever recording of the piano and chamber music works of the Russian composer Ella Adaiewsky. These works were re-discovered thanks to the help of the Associazione Sergio Gaggia, which was featured in a 40 minute section on Radio 3 Suite last September. He has recently performed for the “Concerti del Quirinale”, broadcast live on RAI, the Italian national network, and he is also on Euro Radio with another production by Gaggia, “La Pantomima Rinata”, a reconstruction of the Pantomime k446 by W.A.Mozart.