Chamber Music Concert IV: Electronic Nature

Oulu Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Musicians are glad to present their last chamber music season’s program, Electronic Nature, with two concerts at the Tulindberg Hall on May 14th at 15.00 and on May 15th at 18.00 at the Botanical Garden of the University of Oulu. Among the protagonists of this program: Prokofiev, Copland, Kanding, Bimstein and Skoryk.

Electronic Nature is designed as an experience of reconnection, a journey throughout music written during the last century by composers of different backgrounds, yet in many ways intertwined and able to coexist and “speak” to each other.

Besides a reflection about the intersect of humanity and natural environment and the relationship between acoustic and electronic sound worlds, we are reminded that music mirrors the composers’ lives but, at the same time, its messages and contents contribute to our whole world’s collective experience, aesthetics and culture and serve as ground for most fruitful civic engagement and development.

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953):
Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola and Double Bass, Op.39 (1924)
I Moderato
II Andante energico
III Allegro sostenuto, ma con brio
IV Adagio pesante
V Allegro precipitato, ma non troppo presto
VI Andantino

Antti Turtiainen oboe
Michal Konopinski clarinet
Nadya Pugacheva violin
Helinä Nissi viola
Antoine Greuzard double bass

Aaron Copland (1900–1990):
Two Pieces for String Quartet (1928)
I Lento molto
II Rondino

Heidi Ilmolahti violin
Aino Liikanen violin
Johanna Tuikka viola
Arto Alikoski cello

Ejnar Kanding (1965)
Arild, for Double Bass and Live Electronics (2003)

Antoine Greuzard double bass
Sebastian Dumitrescu and Tapio Lappalainen live electronics

Phillip Bimstein (1947–):
Dark Winds Rising for String Quartet + Tape (1992)
I The Last Jake
II Walking Barefooted
III With The Earth
IV Among All People

Heidi Ilmolahti violin
Aino Liikanen violin
Johanna Tuikka viola
Arto Alikoski cello
Sebastian Dumitrescu and Tapio Lappalainen live electronics

Myroslav Skoryk (1938–2020)
Melody in A minor (1982)

Heidi Ilmolahti violin
Aino Liikanen violin
Johanna Tuikka viola
Arto Alikoski cello
Antoine Greuzard double bass

Duration about 65 min, no intermission

Free admission.