PASCAL GALLOIS

Internationally leading bassoon player Pascal Gallois (Ensemble InterContemporain) plays 20th and 21st century music for solo bassoon, by great composers including Kurtág, Berio and Boulez.

Pascal Gallois is a member of the Ensemble InterContemporain and one of the most prominent bassoon players in the world. Many major composers have written bassoon music with Gallois’ unparalleled control and expression in mind, György Kurtág among them. At this concert, Gallois will play two of his works. Festival focus composer Olga Neuwirth has also written a piece dedicated to Gallois, Torsion: transparent variation, an exquisite composition for bassoon and CD, which will be performed for the first time in the Netherlands. The programme’s pièce de résistance is Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XII (1995), an exuberant work which was dedicated to Gallois and world premiered by him.

PROGRAM

György Kurtág (1926)
Gérard de Nerval for solo bassoon (1986)

György Kurtág (1926)
György Króo in memoriam for solo bassoon (1997)

Olga Neuwirth (1968)
Torsion: transparent variation for solo bassoon and CD (2003-2005)
Dutch premiere

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sequenza XII per fagotto (1995)

Johannes Maria Staud (1974)
Celluloid for solo bassoon (2011)
Dutch premiere
interval

Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Dialogue de l’ombre double pour basson et dispositif électronique (1995)
Dutch premiere

The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.00 till 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).