BachSpace Tamar Halperin, Etienne Abelin and Tomek Kolczynski

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Constellation Vintage Moon:
• 1Prelude BWV 846 with Excerpt from Adagio BWV 100502:30
• 2PERLE03:33
• 3ADA04:31
• 4Adagio from Sonata in C Major for Solo Violin BWV 100504:06
• Constellation Electric Rain:
• 5Largo from Sonata in G Major for Violin and Keyboard BWV 101901:28
• 6LAGO06:31
• 7Excerpt from 1st Movement of Sonata in E Major for Violin and Keyboard BWV 101601:04
• Constellation Hiraeth:
• 8Adagio from Sonata in B Minor for Violin and Keyboard BWV 101404:11
• 9VOODOO04:17
• 10Adagio ma non tanto from Sonata in E Major for Violin and Keyboard BWV 101604:11
• 11NANNA02:18
• Constellation 999:
• 12999 after BWV 999 & BWV 101806:47
• Total Runtime45:27

Info for BachSpace

Was passiert, wenn sich drei Musiker Johann Sebastian Bach vornehmen und gleichermaßen mutig wie gekonnt weiterentwickeln? Dann können daraus Constellations entstehen. Vintage Moon, Electric Rain, Hiraeth und 999 heißen die vier hybriden Stücke auf der Debut-CD des Ensembles BachSpace an der Schnittstelle von Barockmusik und Electronica. Mit ihrer grenzüberschreitenden Musik spielten sie unter anderem an verschiedenen Bachfestivals und beim Montreux Jazz Festival 2017.

Die Pianistin Tamar Halperin, Gewinnerin des Hessischen Kulturpreises 2016 und musikalische Partnerin von Michael Wollny und Andreas Scholl, die 2016 mit ihrem erfolgreichen SATIE Album ihr Debüt bei Neue Meister feierte, und der Geiger Etienne Abelin, langjähriges Mitglied im Lucerne Festival Orchester, haben für diese CD verschiedene Werke Bachs im Studio eingespielt. Der Audiodesigner Tomek Kolczynski, der sich mit Soundtracks für Theater und Film einen Namen gemacht hat, extrahiert aus den Piano- und Violinspuren charakteristische Fragmente und transformiert diese digital. Aus vielschichtigen Klangketten, Loops und Ostinati formt er eigene Stücke mit langen Spannungsbögen.

Gemeinsam verweben die drei Musiker die Bach’schen Originale mit diesen elektronischen Kompositionen zu neuen Sinneinheiten - eine Technik, die man in der Renaissance und im Barock „Pasticcio“ nannte. Diese Geflechte, Constellations, geben der Dichte und Emotionalität in Bachs Musik neuen Raum. Johann Sebastian Bach, mutiert durch geschickte Dramaturgie und Rekomposition zu einer eigenen zeitgenössischen Klangwelt: BachSpace.

Tamar Halperin, Klavier
Etienne Abelin, Violine
Tomek Kolczynski, Elektronik

Tamar Halperin
has a PhD form the Juilliard School, New York. She performs extensively as a soloist and as a chamber musician, both on the piano and the harpsichord and has a repertoire that ranges from the early Baroque to contemporary classical compositions.

She won the Eisen-Picard Performing Arts Award (2006-7); the Presser Doctoral Award (2005); the REC Music award (2005); an honorary prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Bruges (2004), and was the recipient of the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. Tamar Halperin holds a Bachelor's degree with high distinction from Tel-Aviv University, and a Master's degree from the Juilliard School in New York, where she also worked as a teaching assistant.

Currently, she is researching music at the facility of Renaissance and Baroque Musical Practices at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland.

Etienne Abelin
is a conductor, violinist and curator with a passion for new directions in classical music. He is the founder of classYcal, a start-up dedicated to innovations in classical music including the Ynight club nights ("Best of 2013" Züritipp, "Exactly what was missing in the Swiss concert landscape" Tagesanzeiger Zurich) and the Apples&Olives Indie Classical Festival Zurich. With the music visualization approach Music:Eyes, he has toured worldwide and held two TEDx talks/performances. With his ensemble bachSpace - Bach & Electronics, he gave his Concertgebouw Amsterdam debut in 2014.

A member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and from 2004 - 2011 principal second violin of the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, both founded by Claudio Abbado, he was also an Artist-in-Residence and music curator at the Festspielhaus St.Pölten, Austria and served in the jury of the Classical:NEXT conference and the "Junge Ohren Preis".

As a conductor, he has performed with the Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and numerous other ensembles.

Etienne initiated Superar Suisse, a start-up that brings music to socially disadvantaged children, is helping to build the “Sistema Europe” network inspired by El Sistema Venezuela and is a founding member of the Impact Hub Zurich. He's a co-founder of the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO) which he conducted together with the Youth Orchestra of Caracas at La Scala Milano in summer 2015.

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