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Maierhof in Concert
Michael Maierhof, Paulo Alvares, Alex Waterman, Ensemble Noamnesia
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Listen to a 6 minute recording, or download the file
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Rose Recital Hall, University of Pennsylvania
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Slought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music with Hamburg based composer Michael Maierhof on October 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM. Please note that this concert will take place in Rose Recital Hall (Fisher-Bennett Hall, 4th Floor) at 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. After years of work in relative isolation, composer Michael Maierhof has gained great recognition recently as one of the most important new voices in contemporary music. Working mostly with acoustic instruments, Maierhof achieves unparalleled sound textures that fascinate us as both bizarre and seductively beautiful. Maierhof's music will be performed by guest artists including the Brazilian musician Paulo Alvares, pianist of the West German Radio Orchestra, cellist Alex Waterman, and Philadelphia's Ensemble Noamnesia. This concert is part of the 2008-2009 Soundfield @ Slought series.
Please note that excerpts from "Zonen II" (mp3, 5:25 minutes) a recording by Michael Maierhof, has been made available for preview above.
Michael Maierhof (b. 1956, Fulda) is a self-taught German composer of mostly chamber, vocal and multimedia works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America. He studied mathematics and music in Kassel and art history and philosophy in Hamburg. He has earned awards from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and his works have been selected by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik three times (1998–2000). He won First Prize in the Neue Musik für Schülerorchester competition in Stuttgart (2005, for MINUS 1). His music has been performed in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakstan, Luxembourg, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA, including twice at Darmstadt (1998, 2000). He was an invited lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin and the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart in 2001–02 and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the California Institute of the Arts, the Centre for Contemporary Music in Dublin, and the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, all in 2003.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of Goethe Institute New York, Sound Field NFP and grants from the Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music and the Philadelphia Music Project, a program of The Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts, with additional media support from Bowerbird.
 
Organized by
Gene Coleman
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Michael Maierhof, et al. "Maierhof in Concert." Slought Foundation Online Content. [18 October 2008;
Accessed 8 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11410/>.
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