Up close / Serynade
Lluïsa Espigolé

 Sunday / 22 Oct / 19:30h
 8€ / 10€
60 minutes
Theatre

After Cage Festival
Xº After Cage International Festival of Musical Experimentation

Lluïsa Espigolé, the great piano soloist specialized in contemporary repertoire, performs a double program with works by composers Juan José Eslava and Helmut Lachenmann.

De cerca - expansion by Juan José Eslava, is the world premiere of a work that approaches the piano as a musical instrument but also as a physical and symbolic object.

The piece is composed from the hybridization of different languages. In addition to the purely instrumental language of the piano, there are also acting, performative, installation and textual languages.

The result is a work developed in complete complicity with the performer, an encounter between body and piano, resonance and song. It involves the development of a new poetics that explores the boundaries between genres usually well defined (written music, performance, dramaturgy).

The program closes with the Serynade by Helmut Lachenmann, who has described his works as instrumental concrete music (after Pierre Schaeffer's Musique Concrète).

ARTISTIC FILE

Lluïsa Espigolé, piano

Musical works by Juan José Eslava and Helmuth Lachenmann

In collaboration with Festival After Cage

BIOGRAPHIES

Lluïsa Espigolé

Essential performer in the current contemporary piano scene. His activity is focused on the performance and premiere of new works as soloist, chamber music, ensembles, as well as collaborating with interdisciplinary projects and free improvisation.

She has been professor of contemporary chamber music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen (Germany) and coordinator of the Donaueschinger OFF Festival until 2011. She currently teaches chamber music and contemporary piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (CSMA), where she founded the contemporary piano project Piano Activities.