Pascal Dusapin’s new piece In Vivo for solo violin will be premiered by Carolin Widmann at this year’s Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. The composition has been co-commissioned by the WDR and Konzerthaus Wien and supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Wigmore Hall and André Hoffmann, President of the Hoffmann Group Foundation, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

“In vivo is a Latin phrase which means ‘at the heart of life’. It is also used to qualify research or practical examinations of living organisms.

The music is unlike a lifeless object in the sense that we can hear it, it is alive. A musical form is like an organism brought to life, where each part formulates and develops itself, according to a global dynamic.”

Pascal Dusapin