06 th IPEW news
12.01.2009
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Ovations of the audience, great atmosphere, smiling musicians and a mixture of world rhythms! Last evening’s concert in Croatian Institute of Music was the closing night of 6th International Percussion Ensemble Week! After three Festival’s days in Bjelovar, Croatian “percussion city”, the artists performed in Zagreb the most attractive pieces from this year’s IPEW. Grupu from Brazil, MOL Percussion Orchestra from Belgium, PerKu-Va from Spain and the host of the Festival, biNg bang ensemble of the Zagreb Academy of Music with soloists Arthur Lipner (USA), Vid Jamnik (SLO) and conductor Igor Lešnik (also artistic director of the Festival), gave the audience a real percussion spectacle. Last night in the Hall of the Institute you couldn’t tell whether the audience or the artists were having more fun.
See You next year at the 7th IPEW!
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11.01.2009
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After three dinamic concert evenings in Bjelovar, today we move to Zagreb!
Koncert starts at 8 pm in Croatian Music Institute.
The concert programme consist of the pieces performed during the Week in Bjelovar.
Ensembles and artist are:
MOL Percussion Orchestra, Belgium
PerKu-Va, Spain
GRUPU, Brazil
biNg bang, Croatia
with soloists:
Arthur LIPNER, USA
Vid JAMNIK, Slovenia
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10.01.2009
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MOL Percussion Orchestra, Belgija
House of culture Bjelovar
7:30 PM
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09.01.2009
9:00 AM
Workshop: Arthur Lipner, USA
Theme: Improvisation
"Lipner belongs to that rare category of master player that includes Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson...who packs his improvisations with cascades and fountains of notes..." The Chronicle Herald
We are very proud that Arthur Lipner, one of the most distinguished jazz marimbist and vibraphonist of the world jazz scene, is the guest of the 6th International Percussion Week!
Born in the cradle of jazz, thrilled at the same time with Brazilian traditional and popular music, this passionate artist until today recorded 6 solo albums. His performances have been recorded at more than 30 different cd's and he gave around 300 workshops at renowded world universities. He is also author of several didactic handbooks. Arthur Lipner regularly tours all over the world so he became one of the leading authorities in the percussion world!
Free entrance.
19:30 PM, Culture home Bjelovar
Concert: PerKu-Va, Spain
Manuel RAMADA BALAGUER, artistic director
At Friday night we take You to Spain with the professional percussion ensemble by the name PerKu-Va. They bring on the stage all kinds of different interesting instruments (traditional, ethnic, homemade…) to play jazz, pop, rock, soul, classical music and entertain the audience endlessly!
Programme: E. Guimerá, M. de Falla&arr. M. Ramada, E. Sejourne, A. Hollo
Ticket price: 20 kn
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08.01.2009
Welcome to 6th IPEW!!!
Culture house in Bjelovar, at 7:30 PM
biNg bang's 10th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Igor LEŠNIK, artistic director
guests
GRUPU & Fernando HASHIMOTO, Brazil
Arthur LIPNER, USA
Vid JAMNIK, Slovenia
Vatroslav Lisinski Music school mixed choir, Bjelovar - Croatia
Ivan MIHAJLOVIĆ, conductor
programme:
O. Bolão, B. Ford, P.Chagas, R. Penaforte, B. Ruviaro,L. Rosa, F. Hashimoto, A.Lipner & J.Wendelboe, I. Lešnik & B. Auguštin
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06.01.2009.
RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD IN BJELOVAR AND ZAGREB!
On Thursday, January 8th, starts IPEW 2009!
For the sixth year in a row, the Week turns this small winter town into the capital of percussionist art and makes it into one of the most appealing musical destinations.
The reason for this are primarily all the distinguished artists from around the world willing to take part in this percussionist adventure. Original, interactive, didactic, authentic, of national colours, jazz or strictly classic, musicians that are carefully selected every year by the artistic director Igor Lešnik, always get the crowded venue of the Cultural House (Dom kulture) on its feet!
The most important event of the Week is its festive opening concert, whose hosts will be the Percussionist Ensemble of the Music Academy in Zagreb, biNg bang, with its artistic director Igor Lešnik, celebrating its tenth year of participation (Dom kulture, January 8th 2009, 7:30 pm). They will introduce their interesting collaboration with the children's choir of the Music School V. Lisinski from Bjelovar and their distinguished guests: the famous jazz vibraphonist and marimba player Arthur Lipner (USA) and the young Slovenian hope Vid Jamnik.
This year, as you can see for yourself if you decide to stop by, Bjelovar will ease the harsh winter with the rhythms of samba, salsa, buleria, the sounds of exotic original percussions, witty musical versions of Latino music. Some of our guests come from the far Brazil, like the university percussion ensemble from Sao Paolo under the leadership of Fernando Hashimoto (Dom kulture, January 8th 2009, 7:30 pm). They will perform an array of works by young Brazilian composers who form their compositions by flirting with their traditional and popular music. The Latino atmosphere will be steamed further more with the versions of works by Manuel de Falla and traditional and popular southern musical fragments by the professional Spanish ensemble PerKu-Va (Dom kulture, January 9th 2009, 7:30 pm).
MOL Percussion Orchestra, another distinguished professional ensemble, coming from Belgium (Dom kulture, January 10th 2009, 7:30 pm), will only seemingly calm the atmosphere down. Simply by taking a look at their programme, we can confirm that Bjelovar is in for another temperamental evening.
On Sunday January 11th, starting at 8:00 pm at the Croatian Musical Institute (Hrvatski glazbeni zavod), Zagreb audience will get the opportunity to witness the high point of the International Percussion Ensemble Week and hear the shorter version of all the Bjelovar concert events.
IPEW is a festival whose programme does not end in Zagreb, but travel to Slovenia (BUMfest - Žalec) and Austria (Night of Percussion - Graz). Also, it is a project that strives to expansion and collaborations with both the usual and new partners.
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On Friday, December 12th, a press conference was held regarding the 6th International Percussion Week Festival – IPEW 2009.
The conference was attended by the artistic director Igor Lešnik, as well as the producers Dina Bušić and Ivana Kostešić.
Igor Lešnik announced the big opening concert for the 10 anniversary of the Zagreb Music Academy Percussion Ensemble - biNg bang, which will be held on Thursday, January 8th, at Dom kulture in Bjelovar, at 7:30 pm. The guests of the concert will be the famous vibraphonist and marimbas player Arthur Lipner, and the young percussion jazz hope, the twelve-year-old virtuoso Vid Jamnik from Slovenia. The GRUPU ensemble from Brazil will join the celebration under the baton of Fernando Hashimoto.
IPEW will feature two other professional ensembles, MOL Percussion Orchestra from Belgium and PerKu-Va from Spain, who will perform and premiere works of contemporary literature that flirts with folklore, popular music and jazz.
The percussionists will also introduce the best of the programme performed in Bjelovar to the Zagreb audience at a concert on Sunday, January 11th at HGZ, starting at 8:00 pm.
This year, for the first time, IPEW is being sponsored by Zagrebačka banka, while the Croatian Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, the City of Bjelovar and the Bjelovar and Bilogora County once again confirmed their sponsorship from previous years.
Media partners are Večernji list, tportal, Bjelovarsko-bilogorski radio and Muzika.hr.
Produced by the company IDentitet and organized by the Music School Vatroslav Lisinski, Bjelovar will welcome this year's IPEW form 8th – 11th January 2009 in Zagreb and Bjelovar.
All the necessary information regarding IPEW 2009 can be found on our website or obtained by contacting us in person.
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