SALT Festival 2012
Program, P.2184
- Identifier
- P.2184
- Type
- Music performances
- Category
- Festivals
- Date
- March 2 – 3, 2012
- Description
- Bringing together Canadian and international artists, SALT is an exciting and innovative two-day festival of contemporary music. In its second year, the festival features Victoria’s new music ensemble, Tsilumos (tsil meaning “sound” in Hebrew and lumos is Latin for “light”), the University of Victoria Orchestra, as well as several renowned international guests. The festival will commence on Friday, March 2 at the University of Victoria with the UVic Orchestra and Ensemble Nikel. Under the direction of Ajtony Csaba, the orchestra will present the world premiere of Lovely Monster Reloaded by Bernhard Gander and the North American premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s Zohar Iver (Blind Radiance) – a concerto for Ensemble Nikel (saxophone, electric guitar, piano and percussion) and orchestra. Czernowin will be in Victoria for the festival and will take part in a pre-performance talk. On Saturday, March 3, the SALT Festival – PART 2 will feature Tsilumos Ensemble (Joanna Hood, Ajtony Csaba, Dániel Péter Biró and Kris Covlin), Ensemble Nikel (Vincent Daoud, Yaron Deutsch, Tom De Cock, and Reto Staub), celebrated Victoria pianist, Tzenka Dianova, and Olaf Tzschoppe (Germany), member of Les Percussions de Strassburg and one of the greatest percussionists in the world. Taking place at Open Space, the Tsilumos Ensemble will present world premieres of new works by Chaya Czernowin (Professor of Composition at Harvard University) and Israeli composer Ruben Seroussi.