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MUSICATREIZE

Marseille’s contemporary vocal ensemble

March 2014

Musicatreize performs vocal works by contemporary composers, either a cappella or

with instrumental accompaniment. The highly adaptable ensemble is a seasoned

performer on a wide variety of stages and settings, from the pared down concert to full

musical theatre.

Musicatreize leans particularly towards the Mediterranean, working closely with

composers who express the Southern way of life. Examples include the

French/Moroccan composer Maurice Ohana, who first inspired director Roland

Hayrabedian, and Lebanese Zad Moultaka, whose work they frequently feature.

As well as performing in their own concert room in Marseille, Musicatreize organizes a

biennial Marseille festival “20 Lieux sur la mer” (20 seaside places). The ensemble tours

extensively, performing at top festivals and prestigious concert halls in Southern and

Northern Europe, Asia, Africa and Brazil, and has produced numerous CDs. Critical

acclaim includes the French « Victoire de la Musique Classique » award.

Directed by ROLAND HAYRABEDIAN

The man and musical director

A complex musical personality, Roland

Hayrabedian’s determination drives him to

more and more ambitious projects in

contemporary music. He is an explorer, a

discoverer of new and often improbable

musical territory, with passion and rigorous

standards as his guides.

A formative point in his career came with his introduction to Maurice Ohana.

The singular musical world of the legendary French composer, with its inner magic, its

poetic timbres and rhythms, had a lasting influence on Roland Hayrabedian. He has

continued to perform this extraordinary work, which echoes his own leaning towards

the ritual and the internal in song. It is a paradox that the man who first performed or

commissioned over a hundred vocal works was not really fond of traditional choral

singing. As a young conductor, he drifted into the vocal repertoire with the attitude of a

rebel.

Understanding his work

Characteristic of his conducting are energy and precision. He is always attentive to

phrasing and breathing, promoting the lyricism of a work. Under his baton, works from

different aesthetic worlds and different ages communicate: Bach’s Magnificat with

Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Lizst’s Via Crucis with Ligeti’s Lux aeterna, with

Monteverdi, and Ohana, Lassus, Scarlatti. But at the heart of Roland Hayrabedian’s

work is performing the music of living composers. This involves risks, but once a

relationship is established, it usually leads to a collaboration of trust that can

contribute to the development both of a mature body of musical works and of an

inspirational bond. In such a way, he has promoted the young generation of

international composers: Oscar Strasnoy, Bruno Mantovani, Alexandros Markeas,

Jesper Nordin, Tapio Tuomela, Zad Moultaka, Juan Pablo Carreno, Frédéric Perreten.

He has often initiated cycles of works, like the Temptations, the 7 tales of Musicatreize,

or currently the three-part Detective Cantatas. Above all, Roland Hayrabedian seeks out

work that reveals the individual, where the composer lays himself on the line.

CURRENT WORKS AVAILABLE

Babel after the war Musical Theatre 1 H10

Music: Xavier Dayer / Text: Alberto Manguel

Staging: Lorenzo Malaguerra

Musical Director: Roland Hayrabedian Artistic Director : Victoria Harmandjieva

For 8 voices, 4 instruments, 2 stenographers and 1

conductor

Available: June 2014

Les Cantates Policières The Detective

Cantatas Chamber operas 1H10

Music: Juan Pablo Carreño (1st Cantata),

Text: Sylvain Coher

Staging: Sybille Wilson

For small vocal and instrumental ensemble

Available: October 2015

Dionysos, le vin, le sang

Dionysus in wine and blood 12 voices and electroacoustics 1H10 Music: Alexandros Markeas

For 12 voices and electroacoustic instruments

To complete the programme : ALEXANDROS MARKEAS Wall Street Lullaby

ZAD MOULTAKA Ikhtifa

ZAD MOULTAKA Cadavres exquis

Available : March 2014

Les Trois Contes de l’Honorable Fleur

The Three Tales of the Honourable

Flower Musical Tale 40’

Music: Maurice Ohana

Text: Odile Marcel

Direction : Roland Hayrabedian

For soprano, piano, drums, cello, zither, flute, oboe,

clarinette, bassoon, trumpet, trombone


Antti Puuhaara Musical Tale 1H10 Music: Tapio Tuomela

Text: Erik Soderblom et Tapio Tuomela

Staging: Aurélie Hubeau


Staged or concert version

For 1 actor, 8 singers, violin, alto, cello, clarinette, harp

and accordion


A Wilde Mass &

Incomplete Mass in e-flat 12 voices and organ 1H10

Music: Antonio Chagas Rosa / Leos JANACEK

Text from: De Profundis d’Oscar Wilde

Direction: Roland Hayrabedian Commissioned by Musicatreize For 12 singers and organ : Mathias Lecomte

Available : June 2014

Callara II Voices and small instrumental ensemble 1H Music: Zad Moultaka

16 singers, 2 pianos, 2 drums, 2 harps

To complete the programme :

Swan Song Maurice Ohana (12 voices a capella)


TASTERS AVAILABLE Musicatreize offers “tasters” linked to its musical programmes. Varied in format, they are designed to

meet the needs of different audiences: amateur or professionals musicians, schools and families, other

groups. The tasters offer opportunities for valuable contact between performers and audiences.

MASTER CLASSES by Roland Hayrabedian on choral and orchestral direction

INTRODUCTIONS to vocal and contemporary music

WORKSHOPS in music schools or academies as well as with school groups

PUBLIC REHEARSALS / MEETINGS with composers and artists around new works

Babel after the war (premièred 2014) Musical Theatre

Music: Xavier Dayer

Text: Alberto Manguel

Staging: Lorenzo Malaguerra

Musical Director: Roland Hayrabedian Artistic Director : Victoria Harmandjieva

1 H10

Ensemble Musicatreize

8 voices, 4 instruments, 2 stenographers and 1 conductor Available: June 2014

CO-PRODUCTION ALTEREGO PROJECT – VEVEY ; GRAND THEATRE DE VEVEY ; ENSEMBLE MUSICATREIZE – SALLE MUSICATREIZE MARSEILLE ; CENTRE MUSICAL SYLVIA WADILOVE – VILLENEUVE

Booking: Maxime KAPRIELIAN +33 06.62.28.72.26 / [email protected] Olivier ENGUEHARD +33 04.91.00.91.31 / [email protected]

Victoria Harmandjieva and Roland Hayrabedian

investigate how linguistic borders are being crossed,

geographic distance and ethnic disparity overcome.

But what about those no-man’s lands, those hotbeds

of misunderstanding that can generate the wildest

ambitions, often disembodied and impossible to keep

in check?

In a courtroom scene where prisoners, lawyers and

judges all speak different unknown languages, what is

being transcribed? In the absence of understanding,

the judges can only fall back on foreignness as proof

of guilt.

This operatic work, a new type of musical theatre, is

inspired by the tale of the tower of Babel, the total

breakdown of communication, the eternal quest for

better mutual understanding. How can we hear one

another over the noise of the battle between

individual values and social mechanisms?

mailto:[email protected]

Les Cantates Policières - The Detective Cantatas (premièred 2015)

chamber operas

La Digitale - The Foxglove (1st cantata)

Music: Juan Pablo Carreño (1st Cantata),

Text: Sylvain Coher

Staging: Sybille Wilson

1H10

For small vocal and instrumental ensemble

Available: October 2015

CO-PRODUCTION

OPÉRA DE MARSEILLE, LA MARELLE, ENSEMBLE MUSICATREIZE


Calling all lovers of whodunits and opera, all those

who like to hear what the voice has up its sleeve, all

the keyhole-peepers who can’t wait for the next

chapter, those who always read the end first and

know a trilogy prolongs the suspense……just what

you ordered, three detective cantatas!

Three composers – Philippe Schoeller, Alexandros

Markeas and Juan Pablo Carreno – stir up the music

for three chamber operas each about one hour long.

Of three different musical generations, they share a

taste for the unexpected, forming a plot-thickening

foursome with crime novelist Sylvain Coher.

The three cantatas revolve around three women

(granddaughter, mother and grandmother) and

three toxic plants of the foxglove or deadly

nightshade family, with murderous names: La

Digitale, La Douce-Amère and La Dame d’Onze

Heures. Three aspects of family revenge based on a

common denominator: resentment.

The first cantata, La Digitale, unravels the crimes

committed most recently, by Flore Withering. The

curtain opens on her being interrogated…


Dionysos, le vin, le sang - Dionysus in wine and blood (2010)

for 12 voices and electroacoustic instruments

Music: Alexandros Markeas

Direction: Roland Hayrabedian

35’


12 voices and electroacoustic instruments

To complete the programme : ALEXANDROS MARKEAS Wall Street Lullaby

ZAD MOULTAKA Ikhtifa

ZAD MOULTAKA Cadavres exquis

Performances : March 2013 : Marseille / Foyer de l’Opéra

April 2014 : Perpignan / Auditorium John Cage

May 1014 : Lucca / Italie

June2014 : Marseille / Salle Musicatreize

June 2014 : Bourget du lac / Les voix du Prieuré

CO-PRODUCTION

CNCM – gmem – MARSEILLE

ENSEMBLE MUSICATREIZE

When a French ensemble sings poems on wine,

there’s bound to be a measure of fleshy desire, but

tempered here with reflection on the comic and the

tragic, wisdom and abandon, life and death.

The poems chosen (Anacreon, Aeschylus, Euripides,

Li Pô, Omar Khayyam, Molière) weave their way

through these oppositions, following drunkenness

on a journey from the joys of moderate indulgence

to the descent into madness. At the dark end lie the

Bacchantes of Euripides, the tragedy exploring

collective folly, the cruelty of sacred rites, the

rejection of the outsider.

The electroacoustic music provides the appropriate

libertine atmosphere, at times setting the intense

rhythm required for these highly charged poems.

Reviews:

“Dionysos, le vin, le sang”: a bacchanalian work,

learned and melodic, that touches on drunken

madness while exploiting the voice’s multiple forms

of expression. LA MARSEILLAISE

“Dionysos, le vin, le sang” explores the whole panoply

of bacchanalian literature in a series of sketches.

Using highly evocative electro and concrete

recordings, with digital voice treatment, Roland

Hayrabedian is a master of vocal colour.” ZIBELINE

Dionysos, le vin, le sang - Dionysus in wine and blood (2010)

for 12 voices and electroacoustics


Cadavre exquis

For 12 voices and electroacoustics

Constructed in layers, with each sung section recorded

and superimposed over the subsequent sections, the

piece evokes the workings of memories, reflections,

shadows and echoes. The effect is startling, an inner

labyrinth where the listener’s path is lit by fragments of

words and phrases, by certain sustained notes.

Ikhtifa

For 12 voices a cappella

Ikhtifa, meaning “disappearance” in Arabic, sets a 10th

century text by Arab poet and philosopher Abu Al Maari

to music that explores the composer’s favourite themes

of the interplay between collective and individual

expression, the break-up of the group. The two

movements, inspired by two paintings, reflect density

and fragmentation.

Wall Street Lullaby

For 12 voices a cappella

This lullaby of lies compares the sleep-inducing world of

finance that manipulates us into closing our eyes, with

the false of promise of a better future that a Greek

mother uses to rock her child to sleep. It alternates

whispers with a crescendo of shouts.



Les Trois Contes de l’Honorable Fleur

The Three Tales of the Honourable Flower (1977)

Musical Tale

Music: Maurice Ohana

Text: Odile Marcel


Time: 40’

Ensemble MUSICATREIZE

soprano, piano, drums, cello, zither,

flute, oboe, clarinette, bassoon, trumpet, trombone CO-PRODUCTION Musicatreize, La Marelle, Opéra de Marseille

Performances: November 2013 : Marseille / Salle Musicatreize December 2013 : Tours / Grand Théâtre February 2014 : Hambourg / Festival Arabesques


With this score, French composer Maurice Ohana

embarked on a deeper, more radical exploration of

musical theatre. The determining influence of Japanese

opera on his approach shines through in this work,

commissioned by national radio station France-Culture

for the 31st Theatre Festival of Avignon.

“When I wrote a Japanese opera, The three tales of the

honourable flower, Japanese composers even said ‘That’s

what we wanted to write!’ – but beyond this imagined

Japan, it was only myself that I was wholeheartedly

expressing.’ Maurice Ohana édition Jobert

This was Ohana’s fifth operatic work, and he asked

philosopher and novelist Odile Marcel to write a

dramatization of medieval Japanese tales, which he

subsequently transformed, retaining only the opening

and closing. The dramatization of the plot relies on

instrumental timbres and the phonemes sung by the

soprano. Typical of Ohana’s own tone, the work is also

clearly influenced by the delicacy and the instrumental

approach of Japanese Noh theatre.

Review:

“The music is rich: tempos, nuances, timbres (Saharan

drum, temple block, hanging Chinese cymbals). Soprano

Kyodo Okada is ethereal, her chiseled high notes

suggesting sometimes dreamlike, sometimes more rugged

scenes.” ZIBELINE


Antti Puuhaara (2010) Musical Tale

Music: Tapio Tuomela

Text: Erik Soderblom et Tapio Tuomela

Staging: Aurélie Hubeau


Time: 1H10

Staged or concert version

Cast : Ensemble MUSICATREIZE

1 actor, 8 singers, violin, alto, cello, clarinette, harp

and accordeon

Performances : June 2010 : Bourget du Lac /Eglise Saint Laurent Concert version June 2010 : Marseille ABD Gaston Defferre Concert version November 2010 : Marseille Théâtre du Gymnase first staged performance November 2010 : Kremlin-Bicêtre / ECAM November 2010 : Nogent-sur-Marne Scène Watteau (10 performances) November 2010 : Nice Festival MANCA November 2011 :St Martin de Crau / Etang des Aulnes December 2011 : Paris / Opéra Bastille (5 performances) March 2012 : Paris Musée d’Orsay (2 performances)


Nightfall, and the Finnish forest is losing its warm, gold-

speckled sunlight to become a dark, shadowy world,

patently haunted. Antti Puuhaara has a mission that he

needs to cross the forest once to accomplish – and again

to get back home. This folk tale journey through the

mysterious and disturbing forest is recounted by the forest

itself, its giants, witches and other unearthly beings. Its

moral is the Finnish saying “You will find ahead of you

what you left behind you.”

The deeply personal and expressive music of Finnish

composer Tapio Tuomela mixes choral cycle with

melodrama; spoken dialogues and narration in French

but sung lyrics in Finnish. Highly colourful, the

orchestral accompaniment by an unusual grouping of

instruments creates the effect of a full orchestra. The

staged version uses marionettes and shadow puppets to

create an atmosphere of poetic fantasy and suspense.

Reviews

“An infinitely poetic rite of passage.” LA TERRASSE

“Throughout his peregrinations and adventures, Antti

Puuhaara never loses his original innocence.” LA

MARSEILLAISE

CO-PRODUCTION

Scène Watteau, Conseil Général du Val de Marne, Musicatreize,

Actes Sud, avec la participation de l’Institut Finlandais, le

soutien de la Fondation Orange et du Centre Départemental de

Créations en Résidence – Conseil Général des Bouches-du-

Rhône.


Programme for 12 voices and organ

A Wilde Mass by Antonio Chagas Rosa (première 2014)

&

Incomplete Mass in e-flat by Leos JANACEK

Music: Antonio Chagas Rosa

Text from: De Profundis Oscar Wilde

Direction: Roland Hayrabedian Commissioned by Musicatreize

1H10


12 singers and organ : Mathias Lecomte

Available : june 2014

Performances : 30 June 2014 Marseille concerts July 2014 Festival d’Avignon


A Wilde Mass sets extracts from Oscar Wilde’s

major work De Profundis for solo voices and organ

in a variation on the theme of the profane mass.

Structured like a traditional Catholic mass, the

work paints Christ as the greatest poet of all times,

through a series of six visions or exaltations. The

visions follow Jesus on an earthly and celestial

journey that is illustrated from Wilde’s moving

essay on spirituality, written when he was in prison

and in the depths of despair.

The Mass in e-flat for mixed choir and organ was

discovered by one of Leos Janacek’s pupils fifteen

years after his death. The piece was never

completed and dates from a period long after

Janacek had ceased to write Latin religious music.

Yet he continually told his pupils “Write Latin but

think Czech.” This is what he was doing in the

fragmentary Mass in e-flat, possibly intended as a

lesson in composition, where the vocal score

resembles those produced at the time for the grand

male choirs.


Callara II (2013)

For voices and small instrumental ensemble

Zad Moultaka

Music: Zad Moultaka

16 singers, 2 pianos, 2 drums, 2 harps

Time: 17’


Swan Song Maurice Ohana (12 voices a capella)

Commissioned by Radio France, for Festival Présences 2013

Performances : January 2013 : Festival Présences – Radio France / Aix en Provence

September 2013 : Villa Méditerranée – 20 Lieux sur la Mer / Marseille

Translated from Spanish, callara means “he/she

will keep quiet”. Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka

sets ancient prophetic Mayan texts to a music

exploring the failure to hear prophecy. The work is

part of a cycle of callara that began with

Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera’s Cantata

para América Mâgica.

The prophecy announces the end of the world, by

burial. The voices struggle against being stilled by

the terrible noise all around, which threatens to blot

them out. It is the rich instrumental score that links

furious heavens and the world of the singers, who

move from barely audible scraps of sound to a

powerful crescendo.

Review:

“Beginning with silence, Callara II searches the guts

of the pianos, the fluted grain of the harps, the drums

and voices, extracting sounds that little by little

blend, growing into a striking ritual ceremony.”

ZIBELINE



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