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First Half: poetry & silence

music of Ned McGowan, Vanessa Lann, George Crumb, & Guy Livingston

"Ik wil terug naar het verloren moment

naar de vergeten lach

naar de tuin en de vijgenboom."

—Nafiss Nia, uit esfahan mijn hoopstee

Ned McGowan is a flutist and contemporary classical music composer, born in the United States, living in the Netherlands. Known for rhythmical vitality and technical virtuosity, his music has won awards and been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw and other halls and festivals around the world by many orchestras, ensembles and soloists. As a flutist he plays classical, contemporary and improvisation concerts internationally and he has a special love for the contrabass flute. Ned is a professor of composition, ensembles and Advanced Rhythm and Pulse at the Utrecht Conservatory and lecturer of Artistic Research at both the Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam and the Fontys School of Performing Arts Tilburg. In September 2016, Ned started an artistic research PhD about speed, frame and time in music at the Leiden University and the DocARTES program in Ghent.

Nafiss Nia is dichter, (scenario)schrijver, Filmmaker, cultureel ondernemer en public speaker. Nafiss is tevens directeur/Hoofdprogrammeur van Stichting Granate in Amsterdam en programmeert in die hoedanigheid festivals als Granate Festival, Duizendenéén Film&Poëzie, Televisieprogramma 1001 Gezichten en het project Poëzie op de stoep. Gedichten en andere werk van Nafiss zijn opgenomen in meer dan veertig verzamelbundels, bloemlezingen en (literaire) tijdschriften. oa ‘Blauw goud’ samengesteld door Patrick Riubroeks en Thomas Mölmann en ‘Ik weet niet welke weg je neemt’, samengesteld door Arie Boomsma en in Tirade, Meander, Liegende konijn, Balustrade, NRC next, Trouw, Volkskrant, Groene Amsterdammer en Deus ex Machina. Ze draagt regelmatig haar gedichten voor op literaire podia.

Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston enraptured audiences and enraged critics with his Sixty Seconds Project. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and he was featured on NPR, in The New York Times, Le Monde, Sports Illustrated, and the CD was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the ‘party record of the year.’ Livingston is based in The Hague and travels widely as a pianist and radio host. He has recorded three solo CDs for the Wergo label, and appeared as soloist with the Orchestre Nationale de France and the Chicago Symphony. Major productions include the Nuit de John Cage, the Antheil Centennial Festival, and the William Bolcom in Paris Festival. He won the Silver medal for best international music documentary at the New York Radio Festival Awards in June 2019.

second half: Future silences with Noah Hassler Forest, Max Boeijinga, Madelief Lammers, Finya Verhoef, & Maya Willemse

guest artists: performers from the Musician 3.0 program of the Utrecht Conservatory. This program was developed by these innovative artists working in collaboration with Guy Livingston and Ned McGowan.

A Festival of Music Silence is curated by Guy Livingston, and sponsored by the Fonds voor de Podiumkunst. Special thanks to the Maarten Luther Kerk.

Featured performers in the Festival: Saskia Lankhoorn, Nafiss Nia, Ned McGowan, Aletta Becker, Guy Livingston; and artists from the Musician 3.0 program at HKU.