CONCEPTS AND IMPROVIZATIONS: DAHINDEN-HANOUSEK-OPRŠÁL-CREMASCHI

CONCEPTS AND IMPROVISATIONS
PROGRAM:
Radim Hanousek: Canon
(world premiere)
Peter Graham: Just tones
(world premiere)
Radim Hanousek - bass clarinet, saxophone
Michal Hrubý - bass clarinet, clarinet
PMP Ensemble
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Concepts and improvisation
Roland Dahinden - trombone
Radim Hanousek - bass clarinet, saxophone
Martin Opršál - vibraphone
George Cremaschi - double bass
+ guests
Didrik Ingvaldsen - trumpet
Peter Graham - piano
Martin Opršál and Radim Hanousek have for many years focused on the sound connection of marimba and saxophone or bass clarinet and the search for new sound possibilities, extreme positions. Both have also been collaborating since 2013 in the Dust in the Groove project, which mixes contemporary music, jazz and free improvisation in a completely free, natural and communicative way. In addition to a number of joint concerts, improvisations and friendly gatherings, Radim Hanousek shares an interest in Anthony Braxton's music with the Swiss composer and trombonist Roland Dahinden. Together they organized three performances of Braxton's compositions for large ensembles, the last in 2021, when Dahinden, as a pupil, teammate and friend of Anthony Braxton, conducted a concert of Braxton's music at the Prague Music Performance Festival in the presence of the author.
The three met for the first time in 2021 at the Exposition of New Music festival, where Dust in the Groove performed Dahinden's composition Charlie Chat under the direction of the author. A spontaneous decision introduced this trio into the studio. The album, which was released in April 2022 and recorded in two days by the three improvisers, represents their sharing of sound ingenuity, playfulness and the joy of perceiving intertwining, shooting and circling musical and non-musical ideas. A trio of prominent personalities will join them at the concert - Norwegian trumpet player Didrik Ingvaldsen, Hanousek's longtime teammate from the NOCZ quartet and Didrik Ingvaldsen Orchestra, American double bass player and founder of the Prague Improvisation Orchestra George Cremaschi and Brno composer and pianist Peter Graham.
Peter Graham currently teaches at the Department of Composition and Conducting, Faculty of Music, Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, and until recently he prepared the international festival of contemporary music in Brno (Exposition of New Music) every year. Graham's main domain is composition, which has a wide range of styles and genres, although intimately tuned chamber works with a strong search impulse predominate. His compositions regularly appear at contemporary music concerts in Prague, Brno, Ostrava and other cities and meet with great acclaim abroad (Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Romania, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, USA and others). Earth). For his chamber cantata Der Erste, he won third prize in the international competition of compositions for texts by Franz Kafka as part of the 1993 Musica Iudaica festival in Prague.
The interdisciplinary supra-genre PMP Ensemble focuses on various forms of controlled improvisation, combining classical notation with graphic scores, written, aleatoric and completely improvised passages.