Designed to challenge and explore what it means to be a chamber ensemble in the 21st century, this course will help ensembles develop their contemporary performance practice, meet other ambitious ensembles and receive coaching and masterclasses from some of the world’s most experienced contemporary chamber musicians. In addition to support with existing repertoire, every ensemble will receive a new 5 minute work specially commissioned from a BPYAP alumni composer which will be workshopped and performed during the week. This course is for existing ensembles comprising of strings, wind, piano, percussion and brass and minimum 3 and maximum 6 musicians, that have been formed for at least 2 years with interest in new music.

Four in one - the Quatuor Bozzini is a single instrument that vibrates, breathes, and deploys a sound palette sometimes similar to that of a huge accordion, and which is sure to leave its mark on the imagination. For this particular program, we propose three works that explore the liminal potential of sound. An evening filled with the distorted, elusive sounds of Alexandre David’s Quatuor à cordes no 1; the spacious, open harmonies of Alissa Cheung’s Du nord - inspired by the powerful beauty of migratory birds and the works of Jean Paul Riopelle; and the borderline sounds of Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release), in which the string quartet splits into two and also becomes a quartet of harmonicas. As with every Quatuor Bozzini concert, this performance promises to open up a space for sharing, where strange but beautiful sounds are played with an overwhelming intensity of interpretation.

Copresented with Le Vivier.