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Music Director and Composer for Oedipus Rex, University of Cambridge's three yearly production performed entirely in classical Greek. Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11th - 16th October 2004; featuring a distinguished production team including Director Anne Castledine and National Theatre's Designer Stephen Brimson-Lewis.
His other music for the theatre in recent years included Aristophanes' Lysistrata, The Birds and The Frogs; Euripides' The Trojan Women; Sophocles' Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus; Plautus' The Rope; Molière's The Miser; Shakespeare's Pericles; Claudel's Partage de Midi |
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SYMPHONY No. 4 'Algorithm of Obsession' completed, April 2003, performance preparations in progress. |
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THREE SEA EPIGRAMS for SATB choir has now been recorded and awaiting release in late 2004. |
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SYMPHONY No. 2 featured at the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, June 2002. Following the Rostrum receives broadcasts in many countries, including Iceland, Czech Republic, Turkey and Yugoslavia. |
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BRITISH ACADEMY OF COMPOSERS AND SONGWRITERS
elect Savaskan to Executive Committee membership, October 2002. |
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He has been one of the Judges for The British Composer Awards since its inception in 2002. |
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BBC RADIO 3 "BETWEEN THE EARS" PROGRAMME FEATURED SINAN SAVASKAN AND HIS SYMPHONY No. 3 'LA ROSA ENFLORENCE AND THE ENGLISH CADENCE'
broadcast on Sunday, 19 May 2002 in a programme entitled "The Rise and Fall of The English Cadence" presented by Jeremy Summerly and produced by Antony Pitts. Listen to it at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 |
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He is the musical director of a film-in-production on the life of the Renaissance composer GESUALDO, directed by Bernardo Bertolluci, produced by Jeremy Thomas with a screenplay by the Oscar winning writer Mark Peploe. |
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'UNIQUE STRANDS, CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS & PORTOFINO' new version with piano premiered in Japan by Ensemble Contemporary, Tokyo on 11 DECEMBER 2001. The following year, the work was a feature of the Asian Composers' League Conference on 6th May 2002 in Seol, Korea. |
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'UNIQUE STRANDS, CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS & PORTOFINO' FOR 14 PLAYERS, PREMIERED ON 17 DECEMBER 2000
by THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS ENSEMBLE/LONDON conducted by the virtuoso conductor Zsolt Nagy during the second event of acoustICA series at the ICA, London.
Click here to see reviews: The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times |
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SINAN SAVASKAN RECEIVES 'THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ARTS AWARD'
Each year. the Foundation invites distinguished artists and arts professionals to propose on a confidential basis exceptional individuals, performing groups, and artists' collectives whom they feel deserve and would benefit at this point in their careers from an unrestricted grant in support of their work.
In year 2000, the Directors of the Foundation voted to award S. Savaskan a grant of $25 000 |
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SAVASKAN'S 'THE LAND OF THE THREE FIRES' IS PREMIERED AT THE YORK CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL
The work, commissioned by the YCAF, performed by THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS ENSEMBLE/LONDON (directed by the composer) was the final item in this five-day long festival on 17th June 1999. See linked pages for reviews etc. |
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SYMPHONY No. 3 'LA ROSA ENFLORENCE AND THE ENGLISH CADENCE' (SEM ENSEMBLE/ N.Y. COMMISSION) PREMIERED IN NEW YORK ON 21 JUNE 1998, BY THE SEM ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY PETER KOTIK |
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SYMPHONY No. 2 'THE AGE OF ANALYSIS' (BBC SO COMMISSION) PREMIERED BY THE BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED BY MARTYN BRABBINS AND BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 3 IN FEBRUARY 1999 |
Sinan
Savaskan is currently working on the music of Oedipus Rex, University
of Cambridge's three yearly production performed entirely in classical
Greek.
Performances at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 11th - 16th October
2004.
His other music for the theatre in recent years included Aristophanes'
Lysistrata, The Birds and The Frogs; Euripides' The Trojan Women;
Sophocles' Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus; Plautus' The Rope;
Molière's The Miser; Shakespeare's Pericles; Claudel's Partage
de Midi.
SYMPHONY
No. 4 'Algorithm of Obsession' completed, April 2003; performance
preparations in progress.
THREE
SEA EPIGRAMS for SATB choir has now been recorded and awaiting release
in late 2004.
SYMPHONY
No. 2 featured at the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, June
2002. Following the Rostrum receives broadcasts in many countries,
including Iceland, Czech Republic, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
BRITISH
ACADEMY OF COMPOSERS AND SONGWRITERS
elect Savaskan to Executive Committee membership, October 2002.
BBC
RADIO 3 "BETWEEN THE EARS" PROGRAMME FEATURED SINAN SAVASKAN
AND HIS SYMPHONY No. 3 'LA ROSA ENFLORENCE AND THE ENGLISH CADENCE'
broadcast on Sunday, 19 May 2002 in a programme entitled "The
Rise and Fall of The English Cadence" presented by Jeremy Summerly
and produced by Antony Pitts. Listen to it at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
'UNIQUE
STRANDS, CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS & PORTOFINO' new version with piano
premiered in Japan by Ensemble Contemporary, Tokyo on 11 DECEMBER
2001. The following year, the work was a feature of the Asian Composers'
League Conference on 6th May 2002 in Seol, Korea.
'UNIQUE
STRANDS, CIRCULAR FUNCTIONS & PORTOFINO' FOR 14 PLAYERS, PREMIERED
ON 17 DECEMBER 2000
by THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS ENSEMBLE/LONDON conducted by the virtuoso
conductor Zsolt Nagy during the second event of acoustICA series at
the ICA, London.
SAVASKAN'S
'THE LAND OF THE THREE FIRES' IS PREMIERED AT THE YORK CONTEMPORARY
ARTS FESTIVAL
The work, commissioned by the YCAF, performed by THE CONTEMPORARY
ARTS ENSEMBLE/LONDON (directed by the composer) was the final item
in this five-day long festival on 17th June 1999. See linked pages
for reviews etc.
SYMPHONY
No. 3 'LA ROSA ENFLORENCE AND THE ENGLISH CADENCE' (SEM ENSEMBLE/
N.Y. COMMISSION) PREMIERED IN NEW YORK ON 21 JUNE 1998, BY THE SEM
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY PETER KOTIK
American
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award
for
SINAN SAVASKAN
Each year, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts invites
distinguished artists and arts professionals to propose on a confidential
basis exceptional individuals, performing groups, and artists' collectives
whom they feel deserve and would benefit at this point in their careers
from an unrestricted grant in support of their work.
In year 2000, the Directors of the Foundation have voted to award
S. Savaskan a grant of $25 000.
The Award will enable Savaskan to further his work on his Method
of Convergent Harmony 'Circular Functions'. He has now launched
onto a large number of compositional projects utilising the tonal,
contrapuntal, harmonic, temporal, timbral, melodic, and formal generative
power of this system (Further information on this Method of global
parametric integration, circular functions, nodal organisation,
and related composition techniques is available through the composer).
Since 1978, he has produced over 20 works which make use of this methodology.
He has given lecture/demonstration/concerts on the pieces and the
techniques at the University of York, Royal College of Music -London,
University of Surrey, Morley College, Middlesex University, London
Musicians Collective, Sweelinck Conservatoire -Amsterdam, Darmstadt
Summer School -Germany, Romania, Russia and Azerbaijan. For bookings
for similar events see contacts pages.)
He
is the musical director of a film-in-production on the life of the
Renaissance composer GESUALDO, directed by Bernardo Bertolluci, produced
by Jeremy Thomas with a screenplay by the Oscar winning writer Mark
Peploe.
His
SYMPHONY NO 3 'La Rosa Enflorece and the English Cadence', commissioned
by the SEM Orchestra / Petr Kotik had its premiere in New York on
21 June 1998.
A
BBC Symphony Orchestra commission, The SYMPHONY NO 2 'THE AGE OF ANALYSIS'
had its first performance on 12 December 1997 conducted by Martyn
Brabbins, followed by a broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1998.
His
'THREE DANCES' FOR ORCHESTRA Op 31 (1996) (three dance interludes
from the work-in-progress 'VENOM', an opera) was selected as the featured
work for the Manchester Composers' Forum. It was performed as the
final work of the event on 26 October 1997 by the RNCM Orchestra under
Malcolm Layfield. A repeat performance took place two days later in
the same hall in a concert for general public. The work was received
extremely enthusiastically by this audience of clasical music lovers
with very little experience of contemporary music. -the rest of the
programme contained works by Mozart and Schubert.
BBC Symphony Orchestra News
A
collection of his works for string instruments is due for release
on CD in late 2005.
AcoustICA
a series of four Sunday contemporary music events at the ICA, London
with
Contemporary Arts Ensemble/London
Artistic Directors: Sinan Savaskan and Robin Haller
BBC Radio 3, "Hear and Now" programme on 5 January 2001 featured the SEM ENSEMBLE, New York, in a programme of works by Petr Kotik and Morton Feldman
"Hear and Now" on Friday 2 February 2001 featured The Contemporary Arts Ensemble/London with Zsolt Nagy, in a programme of music by Wolpe, Savaskan, Stockhausen and Vivier
Produced by Philip Tagney and Presented by Verity Sharp and Sarah Walker
Next series in preparation for early 2005
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