SAT 21.06
Day of the Composer
* LIMBURGISH COMPOSITIONS During the Day of the Composer we present a program where current compositions, historical echoes and literary depth come together. Compositions created by Limburgisch Composers; a program full of contrasts.
String Quartet No.3 (2018) by Anna Backarra.
Reflections of three scenes from the opera Ulrike Meinhof. Completed in 2009, the opera is about the Rote Armee Fraktion, which terrorized Germany in the 1970s. It will be performed by the Eurasia Quartet: Asia Czaj (violin 1), Egle Kaunietyte (violin 2), Ekaterina Degtyareva (viola) and Stanislav Degtyarev (cello). Anna Backerra, after studying theoretical physics, studied composition later in life in Enschede with David Rowland. She won the second prize of the Flutonicon competition in 2000 as a student with a trio for two flutes and piano (later adapted for flute, clarinet and piano).
Nocturnes Op.194 by Rob Peters.
Rob Peters (1969) studied composition, music theory and church music at the Maastricht Academy of Music with Willem Kersters, John Slangen, Claude Ledoux and Alphons Kurris. In 2006 he completed his main subject organ studies at the Brabant Conservatory, with Bram Beekman. He is currently conductor/organist at the deanery of St. Lambert Church in Kerkrade.
Premiere Onderweg by Arno Dieteren.
Els Boonen (spoken voice), Arno Dieteren (piano), Beppie Paquay (clarinet), Paulien Dieteren (bass clarinet), Guus Ghijsen (viola). Based on a text by Frans Budé.
Filigree by John Slangen.
John Slangen was a well-known Limburg composer who unfortunately passed away recently.
Program:
13.50-14.05 Premiere String Quartet No.3 by Anna Backarra
14.05-14.20 6 Nocturnes Op.194 by Rob Peters
14.20-14.35 Premiere Onderweg by Arno Dieteren
14.35-14.45 Filigram by John Slangen