by Ainhoa Merzero & Iñigo Ibaibarriaga

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Un lieu verdoyant.

Philippe Leroux
for soprano voice & soprano sax
Hommage à Gérard Grisey
texte de Philippe Leroux d'après les Lamentations
du Prophète Jérémie

Program notes:

This piece has been composed in evidence admiration for Gérard Grisey. To the
average of the voice that loved un instrument for which had written, she speaks of the “no and yes”, of l'anxiety and of l'amargor, like this as of the inner look who prolonga further of the dead.
The lines mélodiques and l'harmony of the piece comes of upward and downward lines who are so much metaphors that of overriding movements of life and of dead.

Philippe Leroux.

Philippe Leroux has tackled almost every musical genre. The pieces he dedicated
to the training of instrumentalists are little stories - myths, miniature legends telling the origin of sounds. His electro-acoustic composition betray an appetite for sonic matter. That would most likely explain where the urge to explore sound came from (3). Few of his contemporary fellow-composers have worked with the voice as he has - we will come back to that later.

Desintegración corporea

Julio D´Escrivan
for soprano voice & tenor sax

Program notes:
The multimedia work is the end result of a creative project on writing: on musical writing, dance, the gestural writing of the musician/dancer and of his own image, in which the sound is the extension of the body and of the thought of the poet. Here, then, is the symbiosis between the essence of the word and the evolution of the Being, presented in the form of a new dramaturgy.

Julio D´Escrivan. Senior Lecturer, Dept. Music and Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin University; Cambridge. Julio d’Escriván is a composer who uses music technology, both for concert music, and in its applications to film, video and newmedia.

His electroacoustic music has been performed at numerous music festivals in countries such as The Netherlands (Gaudeamus), Spain (Centro Reina Sofía), The Basque Country, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, U.S.A. and Venezuela. It continues to be Broadcast in America and Europeand has been heard on BBC Radio 3, VPRO Amsterdam, Radio Nacional
de España, and RAI (Italy) among others.
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Short BIO:

AINHOA MERZERO (Soprano)
She realises his studies of voice in the Superior School of Music of San Sebastián, where she obtains the voice superior title. She receives a scholarship of the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa for the accomplishment of the specialization in France. She combines these studies in Bayonne, Bordeaux and Paris; With professors Pierre Clement, Maryse Castets, Maryse Ghibaudo, Florence Katz and Mercedes Proteau. She receives occasionally lessons of the Contratenor Robert Expert. She has received Skillful lessons of Ana Mª Sánchez, Isabel Penagos, Enedina Lloris, Miguel Zanetti and Robert Expert, realising courses of High Musical Improvement for Singers. She was winner of XIII International Contest of voice of Callosa d´en Sarriá, is Semifinalist in the X International Contest of voice Francisca Cuart of Mallorca. She has realised recitaless like soloist in diverse places; Basque country, Spain, France, South America, Japan and Turkey.
She has acted like soloist with the Orchestra of Camera of Rentería, with the Baroque team and with the Orchestra of the Music School of San Sebastián. In her recitales, the Basque music is specially present, in order to contribute to its popularization and knowledge. At present, she is teacher of voice in the Professional Conservatory of Donostia “Francisco Escudero” and she is preparing the musical doctorate.

IÑIGO IBAIBARRIAGA (saxophones) www.inigoibaibarriaga.com
He studied Flute and Saxophone at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Bilbao, where he obtained the Highest Diploma on Saxophone. He studied four years with Manuel MIJAN and Jean-Marie LONDEIX, and attended classes with eminent teachers such as Pedro ITURRALDE, Daniel DEFFAYET, Claude DELANGLE, Henri BOK, Daniel KIENTZY and Marie-Bernadette CHARRIER. Member of the groups ARCADE, Ensemble KURAIA, actives in Contemporary Music. He is the permanent saxophonist for the Bilbao Symphonic Orchestra. He has recorded in CD and DVD, spanish contemporary music, with KURAIA Ensemble. and KLEM Laboratory of Electronic Music.
He received invitations to play in Festivals of Contemporary Music in Spain, Europa, Sud-America and Asia. He studied his Doctor in Plastic-Music in Basque Country University. He is interest for the fusion Picture-Music has take him o realice his works with Plastic-Artists, Dancers, video-Artist in “Action –Music” and “Performances”. Author of several books for the teaching of the saxophone, published by “Real Musical” Editions. He lectures at the Conservatory –Jesús Guridi- Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is finishing his Doctoral Thesis about the "Sensors Technology for saxophone performancepractice" at the Basque Country University.

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