8TH INTERNATIONAL PHAROS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
LECTURE
Marianne Pousseur: Vocal Techniques in
New Music
THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 2016 / 11:00AM
THE SHOE FACTORY, NICOSIA
Following her
performance in Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire on Wednesday 5 October, 20:30,
at The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, as part of the 8th International Pharos
Contemporary Music Festival, the iconic contemporary singer Marianne
Pousseur will give a lecture on the vocal techniques developed and used in
new music. The Lecture will be followed by a workshop with the participation
of young professional Cypriot singers.
MARIANNE POUSSEUR
One of the most iconic and celebrated
performers of contemporary music, Marianne Pousseur appears frequently with
ensembles such as the Schoenberg Ensemble (direction Reinbert de Leeuw),
Remix Porto, Die Reihe Vienna, and she has appeared numerous times with the
Ensemble InterContemporain, particularly under the direction of Pierre
Boulez. The stage version of Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg, with
Ensemble Musique Oblique conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, has been released
on film as well as a CD for the label Harmonia Mundi France. Her immense
theatrical experience has allowed Marianne to be the actress reciting in
symphonic works such as Psyche by César Franck and Peer Gynt by Grieg,
conducted by Kurt Masur with the Orchestra National de France and the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Sciarrino’s Lohengrin the recording of
which won the 2009 MIDEM Classical Awards in Cannes. For her, in 2004,
George Aperghis composed Dark Side for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, created
in Athens with the Ensemble InterContemporain. Subsequently, in 2008, they
collaborated again on Yannis Ritsos’ poem Ismene which was set into an opera
for solo voice. The performance won the 2009 Belgian critics Award and it
has since been performed in several international festivals. Marianne’s
artistic research on Yannis Ritsos, led her to compose and perform the music
theatre Phedre, based on Ritsos’ poem, and the triptych was completed in
2015 with Ajax.
INFORMATION & TICKETS:
Information: Pharos Arts Foundation Tel. (+357) 22-663871 /
www.pharosartsfoundation.org
Tickets: €10
for the concerts. All other events are
Free Entrance.
Box Office: Directly from the Foundation’s website
www.pharosartsfoundation.org or Tel. 9666-9003 (Monday-Friday
10:00am-3:00pm)
Educational Activities: The Festival will host a great number of educational
activities, some of them in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and
Culture, which will be open to the public. For more information about these
activities please contact the Pharos Arts Foundation.
