The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Biennale di Venezia will be awarded to French-Greek composer Georges Aperghis. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 10 at the Teatro alle Tese, and will feature a performance of Aperghis’ composition Machinations for 4 female voices, electronics and video.

On October 23, Wild Romance for soprano and ensemble will be premiered in Leuven at the TRANSIT Festival by the Talea Ensemble conducted by Alex Lipowski.

“In this piece the instrumental ensemble plays a revelatory role; it echoes the memory of a [the sound of someone’s] voice. It thus uncovers fragments of a buried memory - a memory that is painful, without a doubt, if we are to believe the heightened tension it causes between the singer and the ensemble. There is no obvious story, only scraps of lost memories. We imagine that something very violent happened in the past, something that everyone was eager to forget. Throughout the piece we witness the gradual appearance of acoustic images that aim to reconstruct the puzzle of memory, and that gradually disappear again into silence.”
Georges Aperghis


Link to the score:
Durand Salabert Eschig