Kevin Volans - Biography Biography, reviews, notes, links.Category Arts Music Composition Composers V Volans, KevinHome Composers Kevin volans kevin Volans. updated 23 July 2001 KevinVolans has lived in Ireland since 1986 and is an Irish citizen. http://www.schirmer.com/composers/volans/bio.html
Extractions: Many hundreds of concerts and broadcasts of his work have been given worldwide. Performances of the last few years include the Berliner Festwoche, the Salzburg Festival, Lincoln Center (NYC), Next Wave Festival (New York), New Music America (Miami), Interlink Festival (Tokyo), World Music Days (Bonn), Belfast Festival, Adelaide Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the QEH, ICA etc (London), the Turin Opera House and the Vienna State Opera. In 1996 he was the featured composer in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's New Year's Day live television broadcast from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Some 20+ dance companies worldwide have featured his music, including the White Oak Dance Company, Daniel Ezralow and Judith Marcuse (USA); Shobana Jeyasingh, Jonathan Burrows, Rambert Dance Company and Siobhan Davies (London); The Vienna State Opera (Zanella); Roberto Costello (Italy); and Ballet North (Australia). Recent commissions include music for 'Sound on Film' for BBC2; a piece for the Swedish percussionist Jonny Axelsson; a cello concerto for Bayerischer Rundfunk; a new dance piece for the Frankfurt Ballet (choreographer: Jonathan Burrows); a two-piano piece for Double Edge (New York); a piano concerto for Peter Donohoe and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble (which received its UK premiere at the 1996 BBC Proms) and music for 'Blue Yellow' - a short dance film for Sylvie Guillem. Current projects include dance works for Siobhan Davies and Shobana Jeyasingh and a series of six
EMORY UNIVERSITY: 20th-Century Music: Kevin Volans KEVIN VOLANS (b. Student project contributed by Brett Pyper Kevin Volans was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1949. http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/ARNOLD/volans.html
KEVIN VOLANS Kevin Volans is an internationally acclaimed composer of contemporary music living in Dublin. http://www.kevinvolans.com/
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Extractions: Many hundreds of concerts and broadcasts of his work have been given worldwide. Performances of the last few years include the Berliner Festwoche, the Salzburg Festival, Lincoln Center (NYC), Next Wave Festival (New York), New Music America (Miami), Interlink Festival (Tokyo), World Music Days (Bonn), Belfast Festival, Adelaide Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the QEH, ICA etc (London), the Turin Opera House and the Vienna State Opera. In 1996 he was the featured composer in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's New Year's Day live television broadcast from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Some 20+ dance companies worldwide have featured his music, including the White Oak Dance Company, Daniel Ezralow and Judith Marcuse (USA); Shobana Jeyasingh, Jonathan Burrows, Rambert Dance Company and Siobhan Davies (London); The Vienna State Opera (Zanella); Roberto Costello (Italy); and Ballet North (Australia). Latterly he has turned his attention to writing for orchestra as well as collaborating with visual artists. He has recently completed a theatre piece with South African artist William Kentridge, for singers, actor, shadow puppets and string quartet, commissioned by the Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art. Other recent commissions have included a double string quartet for the Duke Quartet, a Concerto for Double Orchestra for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a work for percussion for the Norwegian percussion group Sisu.
KEVIN VOLANS Kevin Volans is an internationally acclaimed composerof contemporary music living in Dublin. http://kevinvolans.com/
EMORY UNIVERSITY 20th-Century Music KEVIN VOLANS KEVIN VOLANS (b. 1949) Student project contributed by Brett Pyper. Life.Kevin Volans was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1949. http://www.emory.edu/MUSIC/ARNOLD/volans_content.html
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Extractions: of Zeno Kaaitheater Kevin Volans was born in South Africa. From 1973 to 1981 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, later becoming his teaching assistant. He is now an Irish citizen and lives in Dublin. In the late 1970s, following several field recording trips to Africa, he embarked on a series of pieces based on African compositional techniques which quickly established Volans as a distinctive voice on the European new music circuit. Since the mid-80's his work has been extensively performed and broadcast worldwide. Sixteen compact disks which feature his music are currently available, two of which, performed by Kronos have reached the top of the classical charts.
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TEKSTOVI IZ RADIO EMISIJA Volans Kevin Koncert Za Klavir I volans kevin Koncert za klavir i gudace / CHANDOS; 9563 Kevin Volans porodenju je Junoafrikanac a po mjestu ivljenja naturalizirani Irac. http://www.hi-fi.hr/klub/mihalyi/koncert.htm
Extractions: Njegova zadnja kompaktna ploèa s kraja godine 1997. demonstrira sve spomenute znaèajke Volansova idioma skupa s upuæenim prigovorima. To su: ritmièka jedinstvenost plesni karakter djela, snena melodioznost, ingeniozna orkestracija uz spomenuto proèiæavanje idioma. Ipak, ostaje dojam hinjenog rearaniranja uspjelih suzvuèja ili uzoraka bez èvræeg uoblièivanja a, prema minimalistièkom principu, popunjavanjem odreðenog vremena; svaka od skladbi mogla je biti i dua ali i kraæa. Volansova ideja kako dobra skladateljska tehnika omoguæava instinktivni pravi pokret-pomak u reduciranoj glazbenoj graði kredo je ove kompaktne ploèe, koji ponajvie dolazi do izraaja u skladbi "Untitled (In memoriam G.H.V.)" iz godine 1996. Spomenimo da u intervjuima Volans istièe dobru proðu nosaèa zvuka s njegovom glazbom i to da preko dvadeset plesnih grupa trenutno koreografira i plee njegova djela.
Extractions: Sluam i pratim svu ozbiljnu glazbu a posebice baroknu i suvremenu. Ako imate kakvih pitanja i informacija iz oblasti suvremene glazbe a koja su utemeljena u sluanju, doivljenom i saznatom; znaèi bez mudroslovlja jalovih teoretika kojima glazba nije dnevna habitusna intriga za gonetanjem - javite se! aleksandar.mihalyi@zg.tel.hr U nastavku slijede moji tekstovi (uz neminovna prilagoðenja) koji su èitani na Treæem programu Radio Zagreba u emisiji "Veæ sutra", a koja je na rasporedu svakoga èetvrtka u ponoæ. Ovi se tekstove pojavljuju radi interesa za "skidanje" teksta o Philipu Glassu (koji se sastoji od desetak èitanih u istim emisijama) i radi promoviranja novog u suvremenoj ozbiljnoj glazbi te samih emisija. Temeljne odrednice emisija dala je urednica ciklusa, pri redakciji ozbiljne glazbe, gospoða Iva Lovrec tefanoviæ
Irish Composers: Kevin Volans Biography, selected works list.Category Arts Music Composition Composers V volans, kevin kevin volans (b. 1949). kevin volans' music is published by Chester Music andBlack Sheep Edition. He is represented by Van Walsum Management, London. http://www.cmc.ie/composers/volans.html
Extractions: Photo: Keith Gemerek 'In the sense that modernism is not a style, but a tenet - nothing is given and there is no received language - I consider myself a committed modernist.' EVIN VOLANS was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. From 1973 to 1981 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, later becoming Stockhausens teaching assistant. He is now an Irish citizen and lives in Dublin. In Germany during the mid-1970s, his work became known as part of the New Simplicity. Later, following several field recording trips to Africa, he embarked on a series of pieces based on African compositional techniques which quickly established him as a distinctive voice on the European new music circuit. Since the mid-1980s his work has been extensively performed at venues including the Lincoln Center, New York; the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the Vienna State Opera; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; and the Royal Albert Hall, London for the BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. Seventeen CDs featuring his music have been released to date. Kevin Volans' music is published by Chester Music and Black Sheep Edition. He is represented by Van Walsum Management, London.
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Extractions: (lecturer of psychology and contemporary music) After studying with STOCKHAUSEN, Kevin VOLANS broke from the composer and attempted to stake out new musical territory. FUJISHIMA Yutaka discusses his meeting with Volans, and shares some thoughts on his electronic sounds. The delicacy one senses in his compositions is not merely an attempt to pursue self-identity, but arises from Volans' desire for perfection in his work. In the fourth part of this series, the author deals with Volans as the composer who completely changed his conception of electronic music. I first heard Stockhausen's live electronic music at Expo '70 in Osaka; the German pavilion was built especially for it. At the time, Stockhausen, the composer of numerous live electronic and multi-channel compositions, had advocated the construction of halls for electronic music. The spherical pavilion at the Expo was the result of this. When I entered the building, I found Stockhausen seated in front of a mixing board positioned higher than the audience. I no longer remember in detail the music he played, but what impressed me was the way the sound moved in space, the voice of the soprano coming from such a high place ( ), and Stockhausen and the players bowing to the audience from an even higher position.
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Extractions: Bruce Chatwin and I began collaborating on this opera in early 1987. It is the last of Bruce Chatwin's projects to be completed. It was conceived of as an extension of some of the ideas outlined in his book The Songlines , principally the idea that the natural state of man is nomadic. The main body of the opera is set in the Ethiopian desert and is like The Songlines , "an imaginary conversation on an imaginary journey." Roger Clarke's libretto draws on Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell," which, to some extent seems to prefigure Rimbaud's wanderings in Africa, like a kind of 'songline.' For me, the most interesting aspect of Rimbaud's life was his ceasing to write at the height of his powers, and spending the rest of his life travelling, (presumably in search of a fortune). This 'move to silence' made him a paradigm of modernism. I placed his death at the beginning of the opera as a symbol of his move to silence, and in the last act there are long sections where the singers do not sing, or where they take on more 'instrumental' roles, singing without words. In this age of intrusion of the media in our lives and homes, and the scramble for popularity, I think it is up to us to insist on the arts as a life-affirming force (rather than an up-market consumer product), even if it means withdrawing to silence altogether.
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KEVIN VOLANS Reviews. A selection of quotes from reviews of the work of kevin volans kevinvolans sixth quartet is an altogether different animal. http://kevinvolans.com/kv_revi.shtml
Extractions: "It is a piece for double quartet, or for one quartet with a prerecorded tape. Volans describes it as an attempt at “emptiness”, the musical equivalent of a blank canvas – a work without gesture or historical reference. What he has achieved is very striking, a piece of slowly meshing, slowly changing chords, absolutely lacking in rhetoric, and that draws the listener into its 26 minutes with total assurance."
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