Chamber music Compositions by Gabriele Proy (Austria)

Türkis

Duo for Flute and Guitar (2011/2012)

Largo – Adagio – Largo – Moderato – Lento


In memory of the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan in 2011.

“The question lingers in the expanse of the landscape. Quakes, walls of water, waves like mountains, mud. Wanting to stop the sudden, wanting to forget the sudden, needing understand too suddenly. Everything is too sudden. Learning to go, learning to understand in the midst of an inexorable fate. In between. The sea reflects turquoise.

The distant sound of the flutes is reminiscent of the sound of the shakuhachi, the crescendo of the guitar arpeggios of the powerful sounds of the Shamisen in the North of Japan.”

Gabriele Proy wrote the duo “Türkis” for flute and guitar in memory of those who died in the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan in March 2011. The work, for which Gabriela Proy received the Composition Prize 2011 from the Austrian Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, was written at the invitation of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik.

“Türkis” is dedicated to the flautist Ulrike Anton and the guitarist Armin Egger and had its premiere on 30 May 2012 when it was performed by Ulrike Anton and Armin Egger at the chamber concert of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik (Austrian Society for Contemporary Music) in the Salvatorsaal in Vienna, Austria.

The composition “Türkis” by Gabriele Proy was performed for the first time in Japan on 15 December 2015 at the distinguished Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (University of the Arts in Tokyo) by Ulrike Anton and Armin Egger.


Concert performances and radio broadcasts of the composition “Türkis” (selection):

07 21 2015 Concert, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Schloss Goldegg, Austria

05 22 2016 Concert, Vera Klug (flute), Manuel de Roo (guitar), oesterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik (Austrian Ensemble for New Music), Salzburg, Austria

05 21 2016 Concert, Vera Klug (flute), Manuel de Roo (guitar), oesterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik (Austrian Ensemble for New Music), Salzburg, Austria

05 20 2016 Concert, Vera Klug (flute), Manuel de Roo (guitar), oesterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik (Austrian Ensemble for New Music), Salzburg, Austria

12 19 2015 Concert, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Presentation by Yuko Nakamura and Gabriele Proy, Tomioka Honten-OPA Hall, Yamagata, Japan

12 15 2015 Japan Premiere of “Türkis”, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Presentation by Keiko Torigoe and Gabriele Proy, Art Liaison Center, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Toyko University of the Arts), Japan

03 13 2015 Radio Stephansdom “Forum Auslandskultur”, Recording of the World Premiere with Ulrike Anton (flute) and Armin Egger (guitar) in 2012, Presentation by Christoph Wellner, Austria

03 08 2015 Radio Stephansdom “Forum Auslandskultur”, Recording of the World Premiere with Ulrike Anton (flute) and Armin Egger (guitar) in 2012, Presentation by Christoph Wellner, Austria

12 04 2013 Concert at the Ceremonial Act “Awards of the City of Vienna 2013”, “Music Award of the City of
Vienna” goes to Gabriele Proy, Armin Egger (guitar), The Vienna City Hall, Austria

11 28 2013 Opening Concert at the “Studio Tonzauber”, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria

03 06 2013 Radio ORF OE1 “Zeit-Ton”, Recording of the World Premiere with Ulrike Anton (flute) and Armin Egger (guitar) in 2012, Presentation by Irene Suchy, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

10 18 2012 Composer’s Portrait featuring Gabriele Proy, Presentation by Annegret Huber, Austrian Society for Music, Vienna, Austria

04 05 2013 Concert, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Exhibition Roland Hille at Leiner-Intuo, Vienna, Austria

05 30 2012 World Premiere of “Türkis”, Ulrike Anton (flute), Armin Egger (guitar), Concert by the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music, Salvatorsaal, Vienna, Austria



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