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2012 |
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 Founded
in autumn 2008 by internationally renowned soloists who for many years
have championed the interpretation and promotion of contemporary music,
Berlin PianoPercussion is an ensemble characterized by the individual
and complementary personalities of its members. During the Festival of
„Centre Acanthes“ 2008 in Metz, pianists Prodromos
Symeonidis and Ya-ou Xie gave a series of concerts with works for two
pianists and two percussionists under the direction of Sylvio Gualda,
the reception of which led them to launch a new piano-percussion
ensemble. Back in Berlin, having been convinced by the enormous
possibilities of such a formation and fulfilled by the wish to promote
and broaden the existing repertoire, they proceeded with the creation
of Berlin PianoPercussion.Photo: Harald Kahn | Kahn Photodesign Since its founding, the ensemble has commissioned over twenty new works by renowned composers, like Hugues Dufourt, Georg Katzer, Oliver Schneller and Charlotte Seither, and premiered twelve of them. It has received funds from the Senate of Berlin, the Deutscher Musikrat, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the German-French Fund for Contemporary Music, the Initiative Neue Musik Berlin and the Pearl River Piano Group. Since 2010, it has a cooperation with the Konzerthaus Berlin, where it gives concerts regularly. Further performances took place in numerous concert halls and music festivals, like the Sendesaal Bremen, Berliner Festspiele / MaerzMusik, Philharmonie Essen, Intersonanzen Potsdam and Festival Dimitria Thessaloniki. Besides concert activity, there have been two CD-productions in cooperation with the german label telos music. Ya-ou Xie - conductor, piano Prodromos Symeonidis - piano Sawami Kiyoshi - piano Friedemann Werzlau - percussion Adam Weisman - percussion Matthias Buchheim - percussion artistic director: Prodromos Symeonidis |