Program
Andreas Moustoukis (b. 1971)
“Liturgy of St. Leontius” for mixed choir (2021)
Im Äther for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot (2023, world premiere)
performers:
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra Soloists
Conductor Vitaly Polonsky
MusicAeterna resident composer Andreas Moustoukis presents the result of his two-year work at Dom Radio. Together with the “Liturgy of St. Leontius”, fragments of which have been repeatedly heard in the concerts by the musicAeterna Choir, on June 6, the world premiere of his new composition – IM ÄTHER (“In Ether”) for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot will take place. This is a micropolyphonic work based on the poems by Paul Celan interspersed with quotations from world cinema.
The author explains the essence of the new work as follows: “Im Äther (στον αιθέρα) is the need to breath out in the stratosphere were the gravitation is low and all the time is becoming one and a single moment of a crystal silence. The past, the present and the future stop to exist between then and now in a violent and compensating ‘why’, they just exist timelessly in the cosmic black as if they were small red shining dots of love, the tears of eternity.”
Photo: Selena Zhigulskaya
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Andreas Moustoukis is a composer in residence of Dom Radio and musicAeterna. He graduated from the Composition Department of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, the class of Boris Tishchenko. Since 2003, he has been teaching composition and instrumentation at the Arte Music Academy (Cyprus). Among his more than 60 works there are compositions for symphony orchestra, choir, concertos for violin, piano and orchestra, two operas, electronic music, music for theatre and cinema. The works of Andreas Moustoukis were performed under the direction of such conductors as Teodor Currentzis, Sir Neville Marriner, Miltos Logiadis, and others. He collaborated with Yuri Bashmet, Ermis Theodorakis, the chamber orchestra “Academy of St. Martin in the Fields” (London), the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the National Opera of Greece, ensembles “The Soloists of Pharos”, “Phaos”, “Tana Quantor”, “DissonArt”, “Chronos”, “Noise Ensemble”, “Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart”, “A-Tro”, MCME, etc. Since 2011 he has been the Vice-President of the Cyprus Composers’ Centre.