François Houle
clarinet
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"Liquid" a new release from François Houle and Turning Point Ensemble
February 11, 2009, 9:00 pm
TURNING POINT ENSEMBLE RELEASES NEW CD AT OPENING OF RELACHE!
For immediate release, February 6, 2009
To celebrate the release of their new CD Liquid on the ATMA Classique label, The Turning Point Ensemble would like to invite you to purchase tickets to see Relache on Friday, February 13, and attend the CD release reception following the performance. Relache is Erik Satie’s last revolutionary and rarely mounted work, featuring original choreography by Vancouver’s own Simone Orlando for Move: the Company, and incorporating the surrealist film Entr’acte by René Clair, which will be shown complete with live synchronization of Satie’s music. This unique interdisciplinary work is being performed for three shows only: February 13 at 8pm, and February 14 at 2pm and 8pm, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets ($30/$25/$15) are available at www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca> or by phoning 604-280-4444.
Liquid is an exciting new ATMA recording consisting of four substantial new works featuring the solo clarinet of François Houle and Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble under the direction of Owen Underhill. Three of the works are recent commissions by John Korsrud, Yannick Plamondon and Houle himself. The fourth is Giancinto Scelsi’s 1959 Kya.
Liquid is inspired by the multi-dimensional and unique world of the solo clarinet as it merges and collides with that of a large chamber ensemble in ways that are unpredictable.
In all of the diverse musical spheres in which he is active — classical, jazz, new music, improvised music, and world music — clarinettistFrançois Houle has established himself as one of today’s most inventive musicians. A graduate of McGill University, he is Artistic Director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and teaches at the Vancouver Community College School of Music.
Of Concerto, his 2008 work included on this recording, Houle says, “Most of my experience as a composer is in the stylistic arena of experimental jazz, working primarily with musicians who are highly versed in that idiom, and in the practice
of instrumental improvisation. I thought that it would be very challenging to ‘translate’ some concepts from this sound world to a thoroughly written composition for classical and new-music practitioners.”
The Turning Point Ensemble was formed by its musician members in 2002 to present rarely-heard concert music for a large-sized chamber ensemble. The ensemble’s mandate is to increase the understanding and appreciation of music composed during the past hundred years, linking the music of earlier times to the music of today.
Liquid is the ensemble’s third cd release, following Rudolph Komorous: Strange Sphere (Artifact Music 2004) and Disasters of the Sun(Centrediscs 2006).
Media contact: Karen Pledger (604-313-0346)
info@turningpointensemble.ca
www.turningpointensemble.ca <http://www.turningpointensemble.ca>
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