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27-Oct-2023
by Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions
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 Heidi Luosujärvi (picture left) performed the World Premiere of “Unfold” by Gerald Resch, at the Musikverein Concert Hall in Vienna, on October 24th, 2023.Heidi Luosujärvi was born in Rovaniemi, northern Finland, and studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Matti Rantanen and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Mie Miki. She has won prizes in international music competitions in Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg and Japan. Her concert activity as a soloist and chamber musician has taken the artist all over the world. She premiered numerous works and collaborated with many composers. Since October 2022 she has been professor of accordion at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Gerald Resch was appointed Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2022. For his work, Resch received, among other awards, the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition in 2003 and 2017 as well as the City of Vienna Promotion Prize in 2011. The work for accordion and string orchestra, entitled “Unfold”, was created in 2022/23. The composer described the title, its meaning and the basic concept of the work as follows: “The title Unfold means unfolding. On the one hand, in the very direct sense that describes the essence of an accordion: its bellows fill with air, which brushes past the metal reeds of the instrument and causes them to sound. The air is then released again in the opposite direction - as when exhaling - and stimulates the tongues to vibrate again. On the other hand, metaphorically as the unfolding of a predefined musical material, which is sampled differently in 5 contrasting movements. This creates continuity (for example, harmonically through the repeated appearance of certain “favorite sounds”) despite the diverse developments of the musical material on a large and small scale”. This development in five movements always revolves around rhythmic and dance elements. The individual movement titles refer to this: 1) Canon alla Rumba – 2) Ostinato – 3) Corrente – 4) Filter: Cadenza – 5) Double: Quasi Tango. Picture below: Gerald Resch & Heidi Luosujärvi |
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