Concert, Sunday 21 October 2012, 12:30-13:15
Location: Haitinkzaal, Amsterdam Conservatory

Antonio Politano and Prime Recorder Ensemble (Marion Baur, Dario Benigno, Eva Gemeinhardt, Sarah Jeffery, Anja Kaufmann, Lorenzo Lio, Marco Magalhaes, Ute Metzkes, Stefanie Pritzlaff, Simone Schmid, Francesca Thompson, Thibault Viviani). Simone Conforti (Sound Engineer).

Programme:

Giorgio Netti (*1963) - Qui (2010) for sopranino recorder

Nicola Evangelisti (*1972) - Reflexus II (2009/10) for recorder ensemble & Paetzold recorder ensemble

Violeta Cruz (*1986) - Miel (2012) for ensemble & live electronics

Francesco La Licata (*1957) - Errance (2011/12) for amplified ensemble

Marco Lena (*1960) - Squares (2012) for ensemble & live electronics

Pasquale Corrado (*1979) - Spray (2010) for ensemble & live electronics

Presentation new CD by Prime Recorder Ensemble 'SPRAY', released by Kees Boeke's label Olive Music

The PRIME RECORDER ENSEMBLE was founded in 2008 by Antonio Politano, with the aim of creating new works for large recorder ensemble, with an emphasis on developing repertoire for Paetzold recorders and live electronics. The ensemble has a history of working closely with composers and composition students in order to realize their goal; and the players themselves come from all over Europe (Austria, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland).

Since 2008, PRIME has performed in Weimar, Leipzig, Berlin, Den Haag, Geneva, Lausanne (SMC Lausanne), Zürich, Köln and Venice (Fondazione Cini), supported by amongst others the Schweizerischen Nationalfonds. The ensemble has also recorded for Swiss and German radio (Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2/WDR3 Tonart), and will release their first CD (with Olive Music - Kees Boeke) in late 2011.

http://www.primerecorderensemble.com/

ANTONIO POLITANO was born in Catania (Sicily) in 1969.
Since 1997 he is professor for recorder and chamber music in the « Haute Ecole de Musique-Lausanne » - Switzerland. He gave lectures and master classes in Berlin (Universitat der Kunste), Leipzig (Hochschule F. Mendelssohn), Paris (Ircam), Urbino (International early music courses).
He collaborated as soloist with Ictus Ensemble (Bruxelles), Ensemble L’Itinéraire (Paris), Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg), Chamber Orchestra of Potsdam. He gave the first performances of solo pieces by Oscar Bianchi, Emanuele Casale, Pasquale Corrado, Agostino Di Scipio, Franco Donatoni, Aaron Einbond, Nicola Evangelisti, Ivan Fedele, Stefano Gervasoni, Adriano Guarnieri, Francesco La Licata, Junghae Lee, Gabriele Manca, Giorgio Netti, Francois Paris, Paolo Perezzani, Maurizio Pisati, Fausto Romitelli, Horacio Vaggione, most of which are dedicated to him.
He played in Berlin (Konzerthaus), Bonn (Beethoven Saal), Bourges (Festival Synthese), Bruxelles (Ars Musica), Darmstadt (Ferienkursen), Paris (Ircam, Cité de la Musique), Helsinki (Sibelius Akademie), Rome (Villa Medici), Siena (Accademia Chigiana), Venice (Biennale Musica) etc.

In 1993, together with Kees Boeke, he created DUIX, a duo specializing in contemporary music for bass recorders and electronics. In 2006, with the basson player Sergio Azzolini, he did the world premiere of the double concerto « Les microbes de dieu-Conduites d’approche IV » by Gabriele Manca. In 2008 he created the PRIME Recorder Ensemble. Together with the violin player Haesung Choe, he formed the duo OCTOPUS.
His recordings are released by RCA-BMG Ariola, Stradivarius, Nuova Era, Edipan, Olive Music, Ricordi-BMG.

http://www.politanorecorder.com/