PLANET TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Contemporary Music and Arts in London
THE 2023 (10TH) FESTIVAL - Music and Light
featuring
The centenary of composer Jean Catoire (1923-2005)
and a 3 day light installation.
Music by composers Lawrence Ball, Keith Barnard, John Cage, Jean Catoire, James DAngelo,
Giusto DiLallo, Philip Glass, Alan Hovhaness, Arvo Part and 16 other composers.
UK debuts of pianist Nicolas Horvath and cellist Rosa Bugarin.
Light sculpture installation (at Colet House only),
at Rosa Bugarin’s and Nicolas Horvath’s concerts.
Synthaesis will present, at these concerts, an interactive light sculpture
affected by four audience members’ breathing.
Installation - Light sculptures
Friday Oct 13th – Sunday Oct 15th
from 6pm each day
Colet House
Synthaesis will present Breathing Space, an interactive light sculpture which accompanies a series of live contemporary performances by pianist Nicolas Horvath and cellist Rosa Bugarin. Around the room, liquid shapes and light projections are shaped directly by the breathing patterns of a quartet of audience members.
A number of audience members will take turn to sit in deckchairs, and their breathing will affect the colour and movement of the light projected on each of many screens. In this way we will hear music and see an orchestra of breathing responses across the space. As we listen to the music, we watch as its effect on the audience fills the space.
Rosa Bugarin - solo cello
Fri Oct 13th 7.30pm:
Colet House
Rosa Bugarin is a French-German cellist. She attended at the Jacques Thibaud Conservatory in Bordeaux, receiving a DEM and Baccalaureate specializing in cello music in 2019. She studied with Raphael Pidoux, Matias de Oliveira Pinto, Hans Rabus and Wolfgang Böttcher.
She has received18 UK gold medals and first prize in New York , and 2 platinum UK medals in the last six months. She plays regularly on Radio France Musique with her trio. She will be performing the following works:
Solo String Suite 5 by Lawrence Ball
Mystical Prelude (World Premiere) by Keith Barnard
Solo String Suite 10 (World Premiere) by Lawrence Ball
Bunraku by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Sonata for solo cello op200 by Jean Catoire
Seven Tunes Heard in China by Bright Sheng
@RosaBugarinCello
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/713703445217?aff=oddtdtcreator
Nicolas Horvath - part 1
Sat Oct 14th 6pm-9.30pm
Colet House
solo piano
London debut of acclaimed and unconventional artist Nicolas Horvath. Having studied in Monaco under a number of distinguished international pianists, he is a leading interpreter of Liszt and holds a number of awards, including First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions.
Horvath has become noted for the organisation of concerts of unusual length, sometimes lasting over twelve hours, such as the performance of the complete piano music of Philip Glass at the Paris Philharmonie before a cumulative audience of 14,000 people, or the complete piano music for Erik Satie and his Vexations.
Nicolas has produced twenty albums unanimously praised by the press. Nicolas is also a Steinway Artist and an electroacoustic composer.
Nicolas will be performing:
Glass Ball by Lawrence Ball
Piano Suite 9 by Lawrence Ball
Piano Suite 8 by Lawrence Ball
Op 322 by Jean Catoire
Op 410 by Jean Catoire
Op 504 ter by Jean Catoire
@Nicolaspaulhorvath
Tickets:
Nicolas Horvath - part 2
sunday Oct 15th 6pm-10pm
Colet House
solo piano
London debut of acclaimed and unconventional artist Nicolas Horvath. Having studied in Monaco under a number of distinguished international pianists, he is a leading interpreter of Liszt and holds a number of awards, including First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions.
Horvath has become noted for the organisation of concerts of unusual length, sometimes lasting over twelve hours, such as the performance of the complete piano music of Philip Glass at the Paris Philharmonie before a cumulative audience of 14,000 people, or the complete piano music for Erik Satie and his Vexations.
Nicolas has produced twenty albums unanimously praised by the press. Nicolas is also a Steinway Artist and an electroacoustic composer.
Nicolas will be performing:
Opening from Glassworks, Mad Rush , Metamorphosis 1 & 2 , Etudes n° 2, 9, 6 by Philip Glass
Für Alina by Arvo PART
en abyme by Melaine DALIBERT
14 Haiku – 1 Genesis (to Nicolas Horvath) by Ehsan SABOOHI
Three piano pieces 2021-23 by Anastassis PHILIPPAKOPOULOS
Nov. (2) by Dante BOON
Miniature in Five Parts by Jurg Frey
Crépuscule sans fin by Kyle GANN
Winter Sun by Terry JENNINGS
Quiet Rythm – Prologue 1 & 2 by William SUSMAN
Arteeman 8 & 9 by Morteza SHIRKOOHI
De temps en temps – Séquence 33 & 47 Dominique LAWALRÉE
Piece for Erik Satie by Carlos Peron CANO
Je me souviens de do dièse majeur dans un prélude en do majeur de Jean-Sébastien Bach by Frédéric LAGNAU
Sunless by Michael John FINK
Ending in C by Tõnu KÕRVITZ
NewYork Skyline by Paul WEHAGE
Pasticcio per meno è più by Michael Vincent WALLER
Une barque sur le Niger by Denis LEVAILLANT
For Cornelius by Alvin CURRAN
@Nicolaspaulhorvath
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/713718319707?aff=oddtdtcreator
Giusto DiLallo - Mystical Dreamscapes
Tuesday Oct 17th 7.30pm
St Cuthberts Church
solo piano
Giusto Di Lallo is an eclectic pianist, composer and sound designer. He started his music studies at the age of 4 and from 1994 to 2012 he studied at the Conservatorio “Lorenzo Perosi” in Campobasso (IT), achieving Master’s degrees in Piano (2003) and Composition (2012).
His professional career started in 1996 and to date he has performed publicly on over 1800 occasions, both as solo pianist and accompanist in numerous projects ranging from classical music to experimental contemporary music.
Besides the concerts, he composes music for visual media, dance and theatre, he is the director of different multimedia shows, and he provides live soundtracks for art galleries and other environments, both urban and natural.
Giusto will be performing the following works:
Arvo Part – Fur Alina
Alan Hovhaness – Mystic Flute
Lawrence Ball – Piano Suite 18 (Extract)
Giusto Di Lallo – Surreal Moment I
Alan Hovhaness – 12 Armenian Folk Songs (Extract)
Giusto Di Lallo – Surreal Moment II
John Cage – Dream
Alan Hovhaness – Sonata Mt. Katahdin (op. 405)
Arvo Part – Variations for the healing of Arinushka
Lawrence Ball – Piano Suite 14
Arvo Part – Fur Alina (reprise)
@giustodilallo
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/713734979537?aff=oddtdtcreator
Jean Catoire (1923-2005)
Centenary
Wednesday Oct 18th 7.30pm
St Cuthberts Church
Jean Catoire stands as a unique figure in twentieth century music. Working in isolation and without recognition for most of his creative life, producing giant pieces of music that are deeply meditative.
If anything in music can be described as ‘archetypal’, it is Catoire’s works. Inherent in its structure is a profound sacred geometry as the music unfolds in its permutations of the basic materials.
Stephen Bennett clarinet
James D’Angelo piano
Benjamin Frost organ, piano
Naomi Wright cello
Jean Catoire:
Piano Sonata 9 op.204
(James D’Angelo)
Nenies for cello & piano op.273
(Naomi Wright/Benjamin Frost)
James D’Angelo:
I. Euterpe II. Posta III. Neptune for cello (Naomi Wright)
Jean Catoire:
Organ Sonata 5 op.241
(Benjamin Frost)
interval
Jean Catoire:
Sonata 4 for Clarinet & piano op.446 (Stephen Bennett/James D’Angelo)
Organ Sonata 3 op.191.(Benjamin Frost)
Sonata 2 for cello & piano op.276 (Naomi Wright/Benjamin Frost)
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/713748018537?aff=oddtdtcreator
Venues
Friday Oct 13th to Sunday 15th at
Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road, London W14 9DA
(Barons Court tube)
Tuesday Oct 17th and Wednesday Oct 18th at
St Cuthberts Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5 9EB (Earls Court tube)
