Plugged!!!

Panayiotis Kokoras (b. 1974)
“Breakwater”
for piano and tape

Jonathan Harvey (b. 1939)
“Tombeau de Messiaen”
for piano and tape

Minas Borboudakis (b. 1974)
«Ροαί III» (“Dataflow”)
for piano, synthetic and electro-acoustic sounds

Intermission

Terry Riley (b. 1935)
“In C”
for piano and loop machine

Born in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, in 1974, Minas Borboudakis studied piano and composition at academies in Munich and Hamburg. In 2007, he presented his first opera, commissioned by the Munich Opera for its summer festival artistic directed by Kent Nagano. Central to his music are microtonal elements, complex rhythms, timbral structures, and the use of electronic sounds. He is mainly inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, myth and literature, as well as contemporary cosmological and metaphysical theory.

Felix Dreher was born in 1978 in Emmendingen, a small town north of Frankfurt in Germany. He studied sound recording and electronic music, and was awarded a scholarship to study sound direction at the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Since 2006, he has worked as a producer at the Studio05 Medienproduktion recording company, undertaking recordings for such companies as Wergo, Neos, Ars Musici, Naxos, and Brilliant Classics. In recent years, he has worked as a sound director with such leading ensembles and institutions as Musikfabrik, Oper Frankfurt, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Hamburger Klangwerktage, and Ultraschall Berlin. He is a long-term collaborator of Ensemble Modern.