presentation: Ictus and Music Fund in Israel and Palestine

I am preparing our next workvisit to the Middle East which will be taking place from 30th April until 8th May. I invite you to visit the websites of the music ensemble Ictus and the organisation Music Fund to find out more about it all. The musicians of Ictus have been doing already 12 such workshopperiods since October 2002 and Music Fund came in January this year for the first time with a truck with 303 music instruments for music schools in Gaza, Nazareth, Ramallah and Nablus, and is now sending its experts to start teaching basic repair and tuning techniques of instruments in a workshop in Ramallah in May. Last January we also brought 4 young French teachers (3 musicians and 1 actress/visual artist) who during a period of four months are teaching music and music theatre and performance in schools in Nazareth as well as in Nablus. All these projects are somehow related and form an interesting patchwork and synergy of initiatives which are being developed with a long term perspective of collaborating with people developing music projects in Israel as well as in the West Bank and Gaza. I will keep you informed via this 'blog' about how this latest workvisit will be developing on a day-to-day basis. TWO PROGRAMMES GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME: 1. Workshop-programme of soloists of the music ensembles Ictus (http://www.ictus.be) and Het Collectief (http://www.hetcollectief.be): 30.4, 3 pm: arrival all at Tel Aviv airport 30.4, 4.30 to 6.30 pm: rehearsals for concert at Tel Aviv University 30.4, 8 pm: concert-lecture at Music Academy of Tel Aviv University programme of concert - Morton Feldman, Durations 2 for cello and piano - Georges Aperghis, Alter face for 2 pianos - Morton Feldman, Two pianos - Wolfgang Rihm, Chiffre IV for bass clarinet, cello and piano - Morton Feldman, Intermission 6 for one or 2 pianos Olivier Messiaen - Amen de la Création for 2 pianos (Visions de l'Amen N°1) - Abîme des oiseaux for clarinet (Quatuor pour la fin du temps N°3) - Amen du Désir for 2 pianos (Visions de l'Amen N°4) - Amen de la Consommation for 2 pianos (Visions de l'Amen N°7) 1.5, morning and early afternoon: Tel Aviv, 2 worksessions with students at Music Academy of Tel Aviv University: (1) masterclass between 10.15 and 11.45: on works prepared and performed by students of the Academy at the masterclass are György Ligeti's last 2 of the Three Pieces for 2 pianos and Morton Feldman's "Mme. Press died last week at 90" for ensemble and (2) a conference by pianist-composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps on his own compositions in the afternoon 2.5, morning: travel from Tel Aviv to Nablus (4 musicians + cello) 2.5, 1 to 4 pm: Nablus, workshop for students at Al Najah University (Fine Arts Department, Music School) 2.5, 4.30 pm: Nablus, performance of “Moumkine”, performance with children at Balata 3.5, morning: Nablus, worksession to be determined 3.5, 2.30 to 5.30 pm: Nablus, 2 musicians work with children at Nablus the Culture 3.5, 2.30 to 5.30 pm: Nablus, 2 musicians work with children at Balata on their performance “Moumkine”, which they will perform again on 4.5 in Nablus and on 21st June together with children from Nazareth at Opéra de Lille (F) 4.5, morning: Nablus, worksession to be determined 4.5, afternoon: Nablus, rehearsals for evening concert at Al Najah University 4.5, evening: Nablus, concert at new concert hall of Al Najah University – programme: Brahms, Bruch, Rihm, Feldman 4.5, after the concert: Nablus, party at Centre Culturel Français 5.5, morning: travel from Nablus to Nazareth 5.5, afternoon: Nazareth, worksessions at El Mutran School (Orpheus) • Ictus pianists with young pianists (individual) • Benjamin (clarinetist Het Collectief) with flutists • François with Haydn trio, 2nd mouvement 6.5: Nazareth, worksessions at El Mutran School (Orpheus) - morning : • François teaching Mozart 4tet • other musicians: collective workshop - early afternoon : • Ictus pianists with young pianists (individual) • Benjamin with flute, cello and piano trio. • François with members of the orchestra, reading Mozarts Symphony 29 in preparation of Jerusalem July concert - late afternoon (4pm latest) : rehearsal for concert. - evening: concert in Nazareth at El Mutran School programme of the concert: The concert programme has the clarinet as a central instrument, and the second part is articulated around the Brahms Adagio; Max Bruch was a pupil of Brahms and one can feel the immediate influence. The "missing link" is Schönberg who influenced Berg and Webern inside the 2nd Vienese School. Therefore we have the Stravinsky pieces, the anti-Brahms contemporaneous of Schönberg. The Tom Johnson "Bed time stories" are a very pleasant moment of British humor (although Johnson is an American living in Paris). - Igor Stravinsky, 3 pieces for clarinet - Tom Johnson, Bed time stories for clarinet and speaker - Alban Berg, 4 pieces for clarinet and piano - Johannes Brahms, Adagio from the trio op. 114 for clarinet, cello and piano - Anton Webern, 3 pieces op. 11 for cello and piano - Max Bruch, 2 pieces op. 83 for clarinet, cello and piano 7.5: workshops for music students at El Mutran School /or/ possibly day of and visit of the old town of Jerusalem 8.5: travel from Nazareth /or/ Jerusalem to Tel Aviv + from Tel Aviv to Brussels (departure 3.40 pm) soloists involved: François Deppe (cello, Ictus), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (piano, Ictus), Jean-Luc Plouvier (piano, artistic direction of Ictus) and Benjamin Dieltjens (clarinet, Het Collectief) 2. Workshop-programme of expert-instrumentbuilders of Music Fund (http://www.musicfund.be): from 2 to 7th May: two initiation workshops on repair and tuning of musical instruments given by experts working for Music Fund organised at the music school Al Kamandjati in Ramallah for participants coming from Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza one workshop on repair and tuning of pianos and one on repair of string instruments experts teaching: Gert Schrijvers (string instruments) and Aurèle Hardy (pianos) The participation of Aurèle Hardy is made possible thanks to the sponsoring of Pianomobil, Pol De Winter's piano-repair workshop in Antwerp (pianomobil@pandora.be). 2.5, 3.50 am: arrival of Aurèle Hardy and Gert Schrijvers at Tel Aviv airport (pick-up by taxi Al Kamandjati and Lukas and travel together to Ramallah) 2.5, morning: arrival in Ramallah, then long rest and first worksession string instruments from 4 to 7 pm 3 until 7.5: 2 worksessions piano + string instruments per day at Al Kamandjati, Ramallah (10 am to 1 pm and 3 to 6 pm) 8.5: travel from Ramallah to Tel Aviv + from Tel Aviv to Brussels (departure 3.40 pm) 3. Schedule of Lukas Pairon: 30.4, 3 pm: arrival at Tel Aviv airport 30.4: stay in Tel Aviv, assist concert Ictus at Tel Aviv University and overnight in Tel Aviv 1.5: meetings in Tel Aviv 2.5, 3.50 am: pick-up of Aurèle Hardy and Gert Schrijvers at Tel Aviv airport and travel to Ramallah 3.5, afternoon: travel from Ramallah to Nablus 4.5: in Nablus 5.5, morning: with musicians from Nablus to Nazareth 6.5: in Nazareth 7.5: (together with François Deppe) travel from Nazareth to Ramallah to attend last day of Music Fund workshops 8.5: travel from Ramallah to Tel Aviv + from Tel Aviv to Brussels (departure 3.40 pm) 4. During our days in Nablus and Nazareth, the three musicians Sarah Clénet, Françoise Pelherbe, and Cécile Jamme, and actress / visual artist Fabienne Laumonier join the musicians of Ictus and Het Collectief and on 8th May they come back to Europe with us, after having spent four months teaching music and music theatre to children in Nablus and Nazareth, where we brought them at our last visit to the region last January. To find out about their project, you can read their blog on: http://www.holyland.canalblog.com/ They present a performance called ‘Moumkine’ with children from Nablus at the Balata (Nablus) at 4.30 pm on 2nd and on 4th May (artistic direction of this performance: Sarah Clénet, Fabienne Laumonier and Françoise Pelherbe - with the support and advice of composer Georges Aperghis and musicians of Ictus)

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