Jean-Baptiste Barrière was born in Paris in 1958. His studies included music, art history, mathematical logic and philosophy (Doctorat at Sorbonne). In 1998, he joined IRCAM in Paris, directing successively Musical Research, Education, and Production; and left in 1998 to concentrate on personal projects focusing on the interaction between music and image. His piece Chréode (1983) won the Prix de la Musique Numérique of the Concours International of Bourges in 1983 (CD Wergo). He composed the music of several multimedia shows, including 100 Objects to Represent the World by Peter Greenaway, which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1997. Barrière has also composed the music of several virtual reality and interactive installations by Maurice Benayoun, including Worldskin (Prix Ars Electronica 1998). He developed Reality Checks, a cycle of installations and performances questioning the concept of identity in the digital age. He directed the CD-ROM, Prisma: The Musical Universe of Kaija Saariaho (Grand Prix Multimédia Charles Cros 2000), and regularly realizes visual concerts of Saariaho’s music, including her opera L’Amour de loin, performed in Berlin and Paris in 2006 by Kent Nagano and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He directed visuals for concert versions of operas such as Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise with Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts of Montréal), and with Myung Whun Chung and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France in 2008; and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia of London in 2009. During the 2011–2012 academic year, he was Visiting Professor in the Music Department of Columbia University. Latest major US performances include a portrait concert at the Miller Theatre in 2014, video for The Tempest Songbook multimedia show at the Metropolitan Museum with the Martha Graham Dance Company and The Gotham Chamber Opera in February 2015, and a large interactive installation with George Lewis and Carrol Blue at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston.
Multimedia Art: A Sacred Unity - an article about Jean Baptiste Barrière by Aleksi Barrière
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Flutist Camilla Hoitenga travels extensively, performing solo repertoire of music ranging from pre- Bach to post-Stockhausen in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the Kremlin in Moscow, or Tongyeong, Korea. She has performed concertos writ- ten for her by composers Kaija Saariaho, Pèter Köszeghy, KenIchiro Kobayashi, and others with orchestras such as the Lon- don Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic of Stockholm, and with the radio orchestras of Helsinki, Paris, and Berlin. She also specialized in the work of Japanese composers. Her re- cordings, in particular with Saariaho, have won awards in France, Great Britain, and in North America. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Camilla Hoitenga now lives in Cologne, Germany
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Praised internationally for his performances of the modern cello concerto Jakob Kullberg is one of the most active and diverse young Danish instrumentalists.Jakob studied in a.o. Amsterdam, London, Zagreb, Vienna and Copenhagen, with Harro Ruijsenaars, Dmitri Ferschtman, Valter Despalj, Mats Lidström, Morten Zeuthen and Anner Bylsma.Top prize winner at international solo and chamber music competitions, twice winner of the Danish Grammy, most recently in 2013 for his concerto CD ’Momentum’ which was also nominated for the coveted Gramophone Award in London and chosen for ’Album of the Week’ with Q2 Music, New York.In 2011 he was awarded the ’Gladsaxe Music Prize’ and has been artist in residence for, amongst others, the Tivoli Garden Concert Hall, the International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition and New Music Orchestra, Poland. Jakob’s recent debut with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London as well as with Ensemble Intercontemporain at one of their inter-sessions in Paris received excellent reviews, and he looks forward to concerto debuts with the Bergen Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. He is scheduled to record Per Nørgård’s Remembering Child with Sinfonia Varsovia in December 2014. In the 2016/17 seasons he will embark on a two-CD recording project with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds comprising concertos by Saariaho and Nørgård as well as the two cello concertos by Shostakovich.
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