maniFEST

We invite you to the closing concert of the year celebrating the tenth anniversary of Hashtag Ensemble! We celebrate 10 years of the ensemble — join us for the maniFEST!

If we are going to cel­e­brate joy­ful­ly, then bring on the pop­corn and paper par­ty hats — so we will stay most­ly in the cir­cle of Amer­i­can com­posers.
We open with David Lang and Sweet Air, where we will play with rhyth­mic, almost infan­tile count­ing rhymes writ­ten on laugh­ing gas. Con­tem­po­rary music can, after all, be open­ly cheer­ful and pleas­ant to the ear, and com­pli­cat­ed con­cepts can some­times be tucked away in a drawer.

Ted Hearne’s Furtive Move­ments will show us the strength of close col­lab­o­ra­tions and the pow­er of syn­er­gy, where many years of shared musi­cal expe­ri­ence yield a per­fect and unre­peat­able under­stand­ing. A cel­lo and per­cus­sion duo will take the stage and offer a study in details and the small­est, some­times hid­den ges­tures. The sec­ond duo of the evening will be vio­la and clar­inet, in Guil­laume Con­nes­son’s Dis­co-Toc­ca­ta.

When we found­ed Hash­tag Ensem­ble 10 years ago in East­ern Europe, in a post-social­ist coun­try renowned for com­plain­ing, we dreamed of cre­at­ing a space for ease, authen­tic­i­ty and the ener­gy of the leg­endary Amer­i­can group Bang on a Can — so this evening can­not go with­out Tod Reynolds, and we will per­form his Sev­en Sun­days.

On such an impor­tant occa­sion, a con­cert with­out the par­tic­i­pa­tion of female com­posers was out of the ques­tion. For the grand finale we will there­fore joy­ful­ly per­form Hol­ly Har­ri­son and her Bend/Boogie/Break. May this piece — seduc­tive­ly ener­getic and tech­ni­cal­ly fero­cious — lead us, almost with­out detours, into a wild afterparty.

Pro­gramme:

David Lang Sweet Air (2001)
Ted Hearne Furtive Move­ments (2014)
Tod Reynolds Sev­en Sun­days (2015)
Guil­laume Con­nes­son Dis­co-Toc­ca­ta (2003)
Hol­ly Har­ri­son Bend / Boo­gie / Break (2018)
…and a surprise.

Per­form­ers:

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute
Adam Eljasińs­ki clar­inet
Oli­wier Andruszczenko clar­inet
Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin
Agniesz­ka Guz-Tarnows­ka vio­lin
Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka vio­la
Dominik Pło­cińs­ki cel­lo

Michał Bień* cel­lo
Mateusz Los­ka dou­ble bass
Krzysztof Kozłows­ki piano, key­board
Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk elec­tric gui­tar
Mag­dale­na Kordy­lasińs­ka-Pękala per­cus­sion
Lil­ian­na Krych con­duc­tor
Kos­ma Standera sound direc­tion

*Akademia PRO Hash­tag Ensemble

Pro­duc­tion:

pro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka
pro­gramme con­cept: Ania Kar­pow­icz in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Mateusz Los­ka, Mar­ta Piórkows­ka and Alek­san­dra Demowska-Madejska;

text: Ania Kar­pow­icz
visu­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

Co-financed from the funds of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund with­in the “Music” pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance.

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw.
The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL.

Tickets

40 PLN