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IPEW | BJELOVAR | CROATIA | 2018.
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Dear guests of 15th IPEW!
Welcome to Bjelovar, a city that, at the time of the IPEW, will be
again the world center of percussion art and certainly the liveliest city
in Croatia.
Person most responsible for the festival is prof. Igor Lešnik, artistic
director of the festival, and certainly credit goes to all of the participants.
Our wish is that you feel comfortable and apart from professional
commitments, exchange experiences, gain new friends, and take with
you a lot of beautiful memories.
Sonja Štefanac, prof.

artist director:
IGOR LEŠNIK
organization:
VATROSLAV LISINSKI MUSIC SCHOOL, BJELOVAR
tehnical support:
IVAN MIHAJLOVIĆ
graphic design:
KREŠIMIR IVANČEK
ZLATKO SUBOTIČANEC
contacts:
VATROSLAV LISINSKI MUSIC SCHOOL, BJELOVAR
Sonja Štefanac, director
Vatroslava Lisinskog 1
43000 Bjelovar, CROATIA
tel.: +385 43 244 416
e-mail:
ravnateljica.sonja@gmail.com

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Wednesday, 17 January 2018, Dvorana Muzičke akademije
B.Bersa, Zagreb, 19:30
KONCERT UOČI IPEW18 BJELOVAR - ROĐENDAN UMJETNOSTI EBU
Gudački komorni orkestar MA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger,
SOLISTI: Luis Camacho Montealegre, Rupert Čunko, Ivana Bilić,
Slavko Juraga, Flam-a duo, biNgbang percussion ensemble
CONCERT PROGRAMME
–– Berislav Šipuš: GOAN Concerto for Timpani and Strings
GKOMA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger, Rupert Čunko - timpani
–– Igor Lešnik: WATER SCULPTURE for Marimba, Strings and Piano
GKOMA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger, Luis Camacho Montealegre – marimba,
Krešimir Starčević - klavir
–– Igor Lešnik: DESERT THORN for Vibraphone, Sonic Landscape and Actor
Ivana Bilić / vibraphone, Slavko Juraga / Gilgamesh
–– Ivana Bilić: RAINBOW FACTORY for Marimba Duo, Sounds and Voices
Flamaduo & biNgbang ensemble / babel of voices

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Thursday, 18 January 2018 , Dom kulture Bjelovar
KONCERT OTVARANJA IPEW18 - 19:30
▫▫ Ivana Bilić, Slavko Juraga, Flam-a duo, biNgbang percussion ensemble
▫▫ Gudački komorni orkestar MA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger,
▫▫ solisti: Luis Camacho Montealegre, Rupert Čunko
CONCERT PROGRAMME:
–– Igor Lešnik: DESERT THORN for Vibraphone, Sonic Landscape and Actor
Ivana Bilić / vibraphone, Slavko Juraga / Gilgamesh
–– Ivana Bilić: RAINBOW FACTORY for Marimba Duo, Sounds and Voices
Flamaduo & biNgbang ensemble / babel of voices
–– Igor Lešnik: WATER SCULPTURE for Marimba, Strings and Piano
GKOMA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger, Luis Camacho Montealegre – marimba,
Krešimir Starčević - klavir
–– Berislav Šipuš: GOAN Concerto for Timpani and Strings
GKOMA, dirigent Stjepan Vuger, Rupert Čunko - timpani

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Friday, 19 January 2018, Dom kulture Bjelovar
KONCERT - 19:30
CONCERT PROGRAMME:
Percussionduo -Jessica & Vanessa Porter (Germany)
–– Avner Dorman (Israeli): Udacrep Akubrad
–– Compagnie Kahula (French): Ceci n´est pas une balle
–– Claude Debussy (French): Claire de Lune
–– Robert Marino (American): Eight on 3 and Nine on 2
Marianna Bednarska (Poland) & Krešimir Starčević, piano
–– Jesus Torres (Spain): Proteus
–– Piet Swerts (Belgium): L.A. Concerto (with piano)
–– I Movement: Preludio I, Allegro I, Preludio II, Allegro II
–– II Aria
–– III Scherzo-Finale
DoubleBeats -Ni Fan (China) and Lukas Böhm (Germany)
–– Tomasz Goliński (Poland) - Hikikomori (world premiere)
–– Jean-Philippe Rameau: L’Egyptienne
–– Julius Heise (Germany) - Fremd.Körper (world premiere)
–– Casey Cangelosi (USA) - Toy Ceremony (world premiere)
–– Gene Koshinski (USA) - As One

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Saturday, 20 January 2018, Dom kulture Bjelovar
LECTURE - 12:00
Carmen Alfaro: Central American music for marimba and percussion
KONCERT - 19:30
CONCERT PROGRAMME:
Flam-a duo -Francesco Mazzoleni (Italy) &
Luis Camacho Montealegre (Spain)
–– ZHOU, Jiaying (Taiwan): ASTRAL TRIP
–– KOSHINSKI, Gene (USA): AS ONE
–– TER VELDHUIS, Jacob (Netherlands): GOLDRUSH
Teclados Duo -Carmen Alfaro, marimba (Costa Rica) &
William Gomez piano (El Salvador)
–– Mario Alfagüell (Costa Rican): Fantasía Op. 347ª
–– Luis Monge (Costa Rican): Improversation
–– Zequihna Abreu (Brazilian), arr. Luis Monge: Tico Tico
–– Rihards Zalupe (Letonian): Dance
–– Heitor Villalobos (Brazilian): Aria from Bachiana Brasileira No.5
–– Jesús Martínez, (Mexican): La irreparable máquina del tiempo
biNgbang percussion ensemble (HR)
–– L. Bernstein / arr. I. Lešnik: CHA CHA MAMBO

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ABOUT ARTISTS & ENSEMBLES
GUDAČKI KOMORNI ORKESTAR, DIRIGENT: STJEPAN VUGER
Short bio:
The String Chamber Orchestra of the Music Academy of the University
of Zagreb was founded in the autumn of 2006 on the initiative of prof. Jože
Haluza. The purpose of such an ensemble is to enable string band students
to acquire the first experience and the skill of playing together in a larger
ensemble, with the maximum communication between the members as well
as the full creative effort, since the ensemble acts independently, without
a conductor. Through projects such as these students gradually introduce
themselves into a professional way of work that is expected of future musicians.
Every year, the Orchestra has several concerts at the Academy Hall
(F-5), and recently in the new MA building at the B. Bersa Hall, and regularly
performs at the J.Š. Slavenski Memorial in Čakovec (since 2008) as well as in
Zagreb as part of the "Passion Heritage" event. They perform as part of the
Music Cycle "Youth Musicians" at Matica hrvatska in Zagreb, and on several
occasions in the Croatian Music Institute's hall (HGZ). They also performed
on three occasions in Vienna - two times at Peterchkirche (2011 under the
artistic direction of Catherine Mackintosh and again in November 2017 with
conductor and composer Zoran Novačić), and a concert at the Universität für
Musick und Darstellende Kunst (2013) under the guidance of prof. J. Haluza.
They also performed in Porec as part of the annual European Association of
String Pedagogues (ESTA 2012).
Stjepan Vuger was born in 1988 in Zagreb where he completed the XV. a
Natural Science Mathematics Grammar School and a Secondary Music School
(accordion in the class of Professor Faith
Odak, Music Theory) at GU Elly Bašić.
In 2012 he graduated classical
accordion in docent Borut Zagor class and
undergraduate study of Music Pedagogy at
the Music Department of the University
of Pula. As an Erasmus scholarship for the
academic year 2011/2012. he attended the
Music Academy in Gdansk, in the class
of prof. Krzysztof Olczak and assistant
Paweł Zagańczyk.

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As a soloist and chamber member he participated in domestic and
international competitions and achieved remarkable results (2nd place -
18th Mlawski festiwal muzyki akoredonowej, Mlawa, Poland; 1st place - 4th
International Competition Fisa... Armonie, Trieste, Italy 2. place (category
duo) - 49 Internationaler Akkordeon Wettbewerb Klingenthal, Germany, 1st
prize and absolute victory - the 46th and 47th Croatian competition of students
of music and dance - chamber ensembles).
He attended seminars with significant pedagogues (F. Lips - Russia,
E. Moser - Germany, V. Semjonov - Russia, R. Sviackevicius - Lithuania,
M. Kern - Germany, J. Djordjevic - Austria). Academic Year 2014/2015.
He studies conducting at the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of prof.
Mladen Tarbuk, he is now a fourth year student. He had a conducting debut
with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra in January 2017. He has collaborated
with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the HRT Symphony Orchestra, the
Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb,
the Academy of Music in Pula.
Igor Lešnik is the author of the “Hereafter
the beginning” project's concept. The founder
of the percussion department of the Zagreb
Music Academy appeared as soloist on five
continets and his compositions are performed
worldvide. Among other distinctions, French
Ministry of Culture honoured him with the
knighthood title “Chevalier de L'Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres” in 2003.
biNgbang - percussion ensemble of the
Zagreb Music Academy has rich history of
awards at home and abroad and traveled
worldvide performing Croatian music for
percussion.
biNgbang musicians: Francesco Mazzoleni,
Luis Camacho Montealegre, Andrea Pedron,
Petar Pranjić, Marin Borščak, Julija Furek, Jaan Štokelj Wu, Šimun Matišić,
Rupert Čunko, Dominik Šabić, Štefan Đurković, Janko Adamek, Mario Čavlek,
Suzana Komazin, Vedran Vujec, Božidar Rebić, Marko Mihajlović, Igor Lešnik.

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Ivana Bilić is an International marimba/
percussion artist and a commissioned author.
Her concert activities include recitals,
crossover projects, stage productions, live tv
shows and appearances with orchestras and
artists in Europe, USA, South America and
Asia, in halls such as the Merkin Hall in New
York, Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City
and Franz Liszt Hall in Budapest. A pupil of
Igor Lešnik, she is currently teaching at the
Zagreb Music Academy.
Slavko Juraga is leading drama
theatre actor of the Croatian National
Theatre in Zagreb. Among numerous
roles and appearances in films he
also guest starred as the Silk King in
“Game of Thrones” TV series. Notably,
he authored play scripts and directed
theatre projects.
Flam-a duo is formed by two
percussion students of the Zagreb
Music Academy: Spaniard Luis
Camacho Montealegre and Italian
Francesco Mazzoleni. They are
laureats of several international
competitions and perform regularly
in Croatia in various chamber groups
and orchestras.

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Program notes:
EN
“Hereafter the beginning, Art's 1.000.055 Anniversary”
Whispered Art History by Robert Filliou (1926-1987) claims: “It all started
on 17th of January one million years ago... Than…on the 17th February 100.000
years ago, man took handful of snow. He held it to his ear. He squeezed the
snow hard. He heard…Try it sometime! Take a bottle of vinegar in your right
hand. In your left hand take a piece of chalk. Let few drops of vinegar fall
on the piece of chalk and see what happens. But perhaps what you see is not
important...”
Like the secret of permanent creation the oldest known reference of
Lycium barbarum - the fruit that became popular in western culture for its
supposed promotion of longevity - may be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh,
the historical Sumerian King of Uruk who ruled arround 2700 BC. The clay
tablet 11 in cuneiform script reads: “There is a plant…like a boxthorn…If your
hands reach that plant you will become a young man again.” However, the
immortality seeker Gilgamesh finds death eventually.
The same plant is mentioned later in the Book of Proverbs as besetting the
paths of the wicked (Proverbs 22:5) but this Biblic reference leads towards
Abrahamic religions, in particular Christianity. Celebrating timelessness on the
occasion of 1.000.055 Art's Birthday, “Hereafter the beginning” project explores
paradigmatic eternalism of trains that have no stops, parabolic symbolism of
languages that babel indefinitelly, pieces of music that continue sounding after
the last page of the score has been performed…

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HR
“Beskraj početka, 1.000.055 obljetnica umjetnosti”
U “Šaptanoj povijesti umjetnosti” Robert Filliou (1926-1987) tvrdi: “Sve je
započelo sedamnaestog siječnja prije milijun godina... Onda... sedamnaestog
veljače prije sto tisuća godina čovjek uze šaku snijega. Prinese je uhu. Stisnu
snažno. I začu… Iskušajte to jednom! Uzmite bocu octa u desnu ruku. U lijevu
ruku uzmite komad krede. Pustite nekoliko kapi octa neka padnu na komad
krede i vidite što će se dogoditi. Ali možda to što vidite nije važno…”
Poput tajne postojanog stvaranja, u Epu o Gilgamešu - povijesnom
sumerskom kralju Uruka koji je vladao oko 2700 godine prije Krista - nalazimo
najstariju poznatu referencu o plodu Lycium barbarum, kojem zapadna kultura
pripisuje sposobnost podmlađivanja. Klinastim pismom na jedanestaoj glinenoj
pločici spjeva napisano je između ostalog: “Postoji biljka…nalik na pustinjski
trn…dosegni…i postat ćeš ponovno mlad.” Međutim, u potrazi za besmrtnošću
Gilgameš na kraju pronalazi smrt.
Istu biljku spominju kasnije Mudre izreke (22,5) da “…je na putu varalicama…”
ali ova starozavjetna referenca vodi u smjeru abrahamskih religija, posebice
kršćanstva. Slaveći bezvremenost povodom obilježavanja 1.000.055 rođendana
umjetnosti, projekt “Beskraj početka” istražuje paradigmatski eternalizam
vlakova bez stanica, alegorijsku simboliku jezika koji neprestano brbljaju,
glazbenih komada koji nastavljaju zvučati i nakon što se odsvira posljednja
stranica partiture…

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PERCUSSIONDUO JESSICA & VANESSA PORTER
Short bio:
The sisters Jessica and Vanessa porter gave their duo debut in 2009 during
the renowned national youth competition Jugend Musiziert. Their partnership
was very successful and already made national waves so they decided this was
to be the way forward and launched themselves as a professional duo.
Jessica and Vanessa moved together to Stuttgart were Vanessa is currently
studying on her master degree at the Conservatory with Prof. Marta Klimasara
and Prof. Jürgen Spitschka. Jessica finished her master´s degree in the summer
of 2016.
The duo regulary perform at high profile festivals and they have toured
extensively in Europeas well as Asia. The Duo is scholarship holder of the
Bruno-Frey and the Karl Jegg Foundation. In 2016 they made the 1st Prize at
the internaional PercussiveArtWebContest of Percussive Arts Society.

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Program notes:
Udacrep Akubrad
Avner Dorman is one of Israel's most successful and renowned composers.
At the age of 25, he became the youngest composer to win Israel's prestigious
Prime Minister's Award. Currently, he is a C.V. Starr fellow in the Doctoral
program of the Julliard School of Music, where he studies with acclaimed
composer John Corigliano. In Israel he studied with former Soviet composer
Yossef Bardanashvili.
Avner Dorman on Udacrep Akubrad
"What determines the special character of a piece of music written for
percussion is the very large choice of instruments. With percussion the
possibilities are infinite. The variety and richness of possible combinations
allow the composer to embark on a special creative journey. In Udacrep Akubrad
(Percadu Darbuka reversed), written for and dedicated to Percadu in 2001, I
have chosen a similar set of percussion instruments for each of the players:
a marimba, two darbukas, tom-tom and a bass drum. This piece draws its
inspiration from the music of our region, extending the "eastern" boundaries
as far as the Indian subcontinent. Its two main elements are: the scales and
rhythms emanating from the traditional classical music of the peoples of the
Mediterranean on the one hand, and on the other: a repetitive minimalism,
prevailing also in the music tradition of the Middle East, but in this piece
depending on a technique that has been developed during the last thirty years."
Ceci n´est pas une balle
Ceci n´est pas une balle is a piece for bodypercussion, theatre and mime.
This work is an excerpt of the percussion theatre work "Black Box" which
premiered in january 7, 2012. Octabones Adi Morag, percussionist, composer
and teacher, was born in Israel 1976. In 1996 he established PercaDu, a world
class percussion duo together with Tomer Yariv. As a composer Morag, wrote
and published several percussion duo works. The marimba duo "Octabones"
won the Percussive Arts Society Composition Competition in 1999, and became
a part of the standard repertoire for marimba duo.

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Claire de lune
It is difficult to hear Claire de lune (Moonlight) with new ears, so familiar
did it become, in various arrangements, even in Debussy´s lifetime. Poetic and
evocative, it suggests the nostalgic world conjured up by Verlaine in his Fetes
galantes and formed part of Debussy´s Suite bergamasque written between
1890 and 1905.
Eight on 3 and Nine on 2
Eight on 3 and Nine on 2 is a multipercussion duet like no other. This piece
tests percussionists' abilities to split rhythms. Two players perform the piece
facing each other, sharing instruments just as they share in playing almost
every rhythm in the piece. The listener is engaged aurally and visually as both
performers sound like one in an exciting and captivating percussive showcase.

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MARIANNA BEDNARSKA
Short Bio:
Marianna Bednarska is a young Polish percussionist. After graduating with
highest mark from Marta Klimasara at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, she is now studying Solo Music Performance
under Philippe Spiesser at Geneva University of Music (Switzerland).
She has won 21 first
prizes in national and
international percussion
competitions, among others:
2nd Prize and the Special
Prize ‘Best Performance
of a Belgian Composition’
at the Universal Marimba
Competition of the Belgian
Queen (Belgium 2017),
1st Prize and the Special
Pize at the International
Percussion Competition
at Northwestern (Chicago,
USA 2016), 1st Prize and
the Special Prize of the
Bayerischer Rundfunk at
the International Marimba
Competition in Bamberg
(Germany 2016), 1st Prize at
the International Marimba
Competition in Paris
(France 2009), 1st Prize at
the International Marimba Competition in Fermo (Italy 2008) and 1st Prize
and the Special Prize at the International Percussion Competition in Plovdiv
(Bulgaria 2007). She was a finalist in the National Eurovision Competition
“Young Musician of the Year 2009”.
As a soloist, Marianna Bednarska has played concerts in many prestigious
concert halls in Poland and abroad (Poland, Danemark, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, Bularia, Italy, Ukraine and USA). She is also

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an active musician, both as ensemble and orchestra player (from 2017 Intern
in the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Switzerland).
In 2013 she was awarded with the ‘Polish-Danish Friendship Prize’ for her
close connection with Danish musical life, culminating in the CD recording
of Anders Koppel’s four Marimba Concertos (DACAPO Records, 2014) which
got extremely positive reviews, both in Poland and abroad (The New York
Times, Gramophone, Deutschlandfunk, Fanfare Magazine). In 2017 Marianna
Bednarska was nominated for Debut of the year in the prestigious polish award
‘Koryfeusz Muzyki Polskiej’.
Program notes:
Jesus Torres - Proteus
Jesús Torres (*1965) was born in Saragossa into a family with a long
musical tradition and lives in Madrid, where he started received his academic
background. His catalogue is around one hundred compositions and includes
a multipercussion piece 'Proteus'. Freely treated formal structure of the
composition combines not only an instrumental playing, but also body
percussion and voice parts, which is an interpretative challenge for the
performer and also determines the attractiveness of the work.
Piet Swerts – L.A.Concerto
Piet Swerts (*1960) was born in Tongeren. He is a piano, analysis and
composition teacher and jury member at composition contests. Swerts wrote
many compositions for various instruments, among others ‘L.A. Concerto’ for
marimba and strings - the compulsory piece for the final round of Universal
Marimba Competition 2015 in Belgium, dedicated to Ludwig Albert. The scale
of performance difficulties is an artistic challenge at the world level.

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KREŠIMIR STARČEVIĆ
Short bio:
Croatian pianist Krešimir Starčević
(Zagreb, 1988.) started to play piano
only at the age of 12. He finished
Franjo Lučić Art School in his home
town Velika Gorica in the class of
Andreja Markulin. In 2007 he enrolled
to Zagreb Music Academy in the class
of Đorđe Stanetti. He has spent the
academic year 2012/2013 at University
of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
as a part of Erasmus program, in the
class of renowned Austrian pianist
Stefan Vladar. He graduated in Zagreb
in 2013, receiving Dean's Award.
He has got many prizes in
national and international piano
competitions. The most significant
of those are second prize at the
Zlatko Grgošević Competition, first
and second prizes at the Croatian national competition of music students,
the award of the City of Samobor at the Ferdo Livadić Competition
and third prize at the competition of Dino Škrapić Foundation.
In 2017 he received Award for the best artistic collaboration at the Darko
Lukić Competition in Zagreb, for playing with cellist Latica Anić, who won
the competition. Apart from Latica, he works with other successful Croatian
musicians such as saxophonist Lovro Merčep, violinists Marco Graziani and
Marin Maras, trumpet player Vedran Kocelj and clarinetist Mihael Paar.
From 2014 he performs regularly with many percussionists, among
them Pei-Ching Wu, Hyeji Bak and Filip Merčep. He works as an artistic
collaborator of International Percussion Ensemble Week in Bjelovar and in
2017 was official pianist of International Universal Marimba Competition
in Belgium. He played on various music festivals and performed as a
soloist with Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radiotelevision
Symphony Orchestra and Zagreb Music Academy’s Symphony Orchestra
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He was attending masterclasses of pianists and pedagogues such as K.-H.
Kämmerling, E. Indjić, N. Flores, R. Dalibaltayan, P. Paleczny, N. Grubert,
G. Gruzman i E. Hubert. He is an on-going associate of Croatian Radio’s
Educational Program. Also, he is active as an organizer and promoter of
classical music concerts. Since 2009 till 2014 he was one of the organizers
of Virtuoso student concert cycle in Zagreb. In 2014 and 2015 he was the
Artistic Director of Zagreb Summer Evenings Festival. In 2016 he co-founded
CristoforiumArt company for artist management, production and organization
of cultural events.

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DOUBLEBEATS
Short Bio:
The percussion duo „DoubleBeats“ was founded in 2012 by Ni Fan (China)
and Lukas Böhm (Germany) during their studies at the 'Hanns Eisler' Academy
of Music Berlin. Currently, as part of their postgraduate studies, the duo is
artistically supervised by prof. Li Biao, prof. Franz Schindlbeck, prof. Rainer
Seegers and pianist prof. Jonathan Aner – as the first percussion ensemble in
chamber music worldwide.
DoubleBeats made their national debut performing the Goldrush-Concerto
by Jacob ter Veldhuis for two percussion soloists and orchestra under the
conductor Sean Edwards at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Internationally they
debuted at the 'International Percussion Ensemble Week' in Croatia.
At the 'International Mercedes-Benz Music Festival China', the duo was
presented as „Young Artist of the Year 2012“. Since then, they regularly perform
at considerable festivals in Europe and Asia.
DoubleBeats interprets both early and contemporary music. Their repertoire
reaches from Bach via Piazolla up to Bartók and contains numerous adaptions
and commissionary compositions for traditional as well as modern instruments.

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With the release of their debut album 'Fascination of Percussion', produced
with the multiple Grammy and Echo award winner Jakob Händel at the Berlin
Philharmony, DoubleBeats presents essential chamber music for percussion
duo, brilliant arrangements of classical music and two ensemble pieces with
percussionists of the Berlin Philharmonics.
In 2017, DoubleBeats' new album will be presented by the Label 'Naxos'.
DoubleBeats is scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin 'Live Music Now'
Assiciation and endorser of Sabian Cymbals. For „outstanding achievements
in the field of interpretation“, the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung rewarded the
duo with the ‚ Ritter-Preis' and are 1. Prize winner of the Universal Marimba
Competition in Belgium 2017.

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FLAM-A DUO
Short Bio:
Flam-a Duo is made by Luis Camacho Montealegre (Spain) and Francesco
Mazzoleni (Italy), both graduating students at the Music Academy of the
University of Zagreb. The Duo was formed in early 2016 under the mentorship
of Igor Lešnik and Ivana Kuljerić Bilić.
Although it is only a year old, Flam-a Duo is attending many European
festivals: IBMW (Samobor), Salotto Musicale (Treviso, Italy), Virtuoso Cycle
(Zagreb, Croatia), Percute (Valencia, Spain), IPEW (Bjelovar), Percussion Camp
(Tenerife, Spain).
They won the 2nd Prize at the Percute Chamber Music Competition
in Valencia (Spain) in 2016 and the 2nd Prize at the Universal Marimba
Competition in Sint-Truiden (Belgium) in 2017.
Program notes:
World premiere of Astral Trip

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TECLADOS DUO
Short Bio:
The Teclados duo is conformed by Costa Rican percussionist Carmen Alfaro
Méndez and the Salvadoran pianist William Gómez Rodríguez. In July 2017
they participated in the worldrenowned Universal Marimba Competition, held
in Sint Truiden, Belgium, obtaining two prizes: the Originality Award, and
the Igor Lesnik Performing Prize.
Carmen Alfaro Méndez, first Costa Rican percussionist obtaining master
degrees in Europe, graduated from the Superior School of Music in Stuttgart,
Germany, where she obtained a master degree in percussion under the tutelage
of the international percussion soloist Marta Klimasara. She is currently a
percussion professor at the School of Music of the National University of
Costa Rica and the coordinator of the percussion and drums area of the ACUA,
Academy Foundation for Learning and Artistic Culture. Carmen is one of the
most active costarican percussionists from her generation. She promotes and
includes in her soloist and chamber music repertoire works for percussion
from costarican and latinamerican composers.
In 2017 she was invited to participate as marimba soloist at TEdx Pura
Vida, also played at the 1st Women in Music Symposium, and was invited
as solo drummer at the Drumfest 2017, realized in San José, Costa Rica. She
was creator of the international Percussion Festival “Repercusiones en Costa
Rica”, 2007 and 2009.

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William Gómez Rodríguez is one of the most outstanding musicians from
El Salvador. He is a piano graduate from the School of Music of the National
University of Costa Rica, one of the most important piano faculties in the
latinamerican region. Later he studied at the Reina Sofía Conservatory in
Madrid, Spain where he received his training with the internationally known
pianist Dimitri Bashkirov.
Both musicians have played as soloists with various orchestras in Costa
Rica, El Salvador and abroad. They obtained multiple prizes, including those at
Carnegie Hall: American Protégé Romantic Music Competition 2010, American
Talent Competition 2011. Their students had also won prizes at Carnegie Hall
among others.
Program notes:
The piano and the marimba are instruments that have been developed in
different historical periods and latitudes. While the piano developed in the
European continent during the 18th century, the marimba emerged in Central
America and dates back to the Mayan civilization, and to this date, it remains
as the most representative instrument of the region.
One can find it in all kind of village celebrations from southern Mexico,
till southern Costa Rica, played by numberous families that learned the art
of marimba playing through oral tradition. However, percussionists learn to
play marimba in music schools, universities and other institutions of academic
context. This learning often happens leaving no room for Central or Latin
American repertoire for marimba, dismissing the enormous heritage this
instrument brings to the region.
The challenge for professional marimba players and composers in Central
America is to build bridges between the oral tradition and empiric way of
playing marimba, and the artistic form of interpreting and conceiving music
for this millennial instrument.
In Costa Rica, the marimba was proclaimed national instrument in 2017
through an executive order from the President of the Republic.
What characterizes the Teclados duo is its diverse repertoire, that includes
primarily Central American and Latin American compositions. Several of the
interpreted works have been written specifically for this ensemble.

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The Fantasía Opus 347a uses the tambito, one of the most representative
rhythms from the Central American Son. We find also in this work, a “tempo di
rumba” indication. Improversation explores different latinamerican rhythms,
on a jazz based composition. La irreparable máquina del tiempo develop a
minimalistic style inspire in the “3 against 2” mexican traditional music.
The combination of both instruments materializes the fusion of two different
keyboard instruments, that cover great lengths of time and cultural diversities.

NOTES / BILJEŠKE

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