CHESNEY PALMER is a pianist, clarinettist and composer with a keen interest in abstraction theories and the links between visual abstract art and music. As a synesthete, he uses his multi-associative experiences to explore abstract art in personal way that emphasises textures, shapes, line and colour in music.
COLOUR SKETCHES is based on Kandinsky' s Composition X (1939) and aims to capture some of the theories regarding colour, shape and musical interpretation. The vibrant colours of Composition X provide a rich tapestry for generating germinal musical material, but Kandinsky's use of the colour black is particularly striking. Dabrowski (1995) discusses Kandinsky’s choice of the colour black in this instance as being an odd one, due to his expressed dislike for the colour.
The inaugural SA Composers’ Competition was launched in 2022/2023 for young composers to develop skills and recognise talent in the local creative music industry. There were 29 entries from a diverse selection of young composers 35 or younger at the time of entering and a panel of judges headed by eminent composer Hendrik Hofmeyr after much, blind, deliberation, chose five to compete for the title. Conrad Asman and his piece Beyond the Atom was chosen by the judges to be the winner and Asman’s prize was a cash prize and commission to compose a piece, Load & Shed, which you will hear tonight. Tonight’s winner will win a cash prize and a trip to Germany to have his/her piece performed by the Junge Nord-Deutsche Philharmonie(jnp) in April in Hamburg.
Louis Heyneman - producer
Shirley Gueller - manager
CAPE TOWN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by Jeremy Silver
The Judges:
Hendrik Hofmeyr (non-voting chairman), Alexander Valentin, Antoni Schonken (convenor), Amy Crankshaw, Arthur Feder, Bernhard Gueller, Clare Loveday, Lise Morrison
MUSICSCAPE Livestream
Marek Pinski - video production and sound recording supervision
Caitlin Mittelmeyer - Live video editing
Tony Mittelmeyer - multiple video camera setup and system coordinator
14 апр 2024
