Peter Eötvös x Wen-pin CHIEN Lecture and Documentary Screening
※The performance have been cancelled . For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
In this conversation with Peter Eötvös and Wen-Pin Chien, the Art Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, the two musicians will discuss the practical dilemma of contemporary music as well as their experiences in performing new pieces from the perspectives of both a creator and an interpreter. In addition, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts supports the cultivation and development of three forms of performing arts with three respective platforms, while the Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation is an incubator of world-renowned contemporary musicians. The directors of both organizations will exchange their views on talent cultivation as well as the different methodology and approach of performance venues and NGO foundations.
★4/11(Sat.) 14:30-17:10 (15 minutes interval)
Peter Eötvös x Wen-pin CHIEN Lecture and Documentary Screening: Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
Hosted and introduction by: Fang-Yi Lin, the Curator
★4/18(Sat.) 14:30 – 16:25 (10 minutes interval)
Documentary Screening of Peter Eötvös: The Seventh Door / Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
★4/26(Sun.) 14:30 – 16:25(10 minutes interval)
Documentary Screening of Peter Eötvös: The Seventh Door / Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
Peter Eötvös
Composer, conductor and teacher: The Hungarian Peter Eötvös combines all three functions in one very high-profile career. Born in Transylvania in 1944, he has long been considered one of the most significant and influential personalities on the music scene as both an internationally recognized conductor and a composer of successful operas, orchestral works and concertos, written for well-known artists from all over the world. |
Eötvös attaches great importance to passing on his extensive knowledge and experience to others. He taught at the music college in Cologne and Karlsruhe. In 1991 he founded the International Eötvös Institute and Foundation, in 2004 the Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation in Budapest for young conductors and composers. He regularly conducts master courses and seminars all over the world, e.g. Paris, Luzern, Basel, Luxemburg, Szombathely, Madrid etc
In addition to his roles listed above, Peter Eötvös is regularly re-invited as guest conductor by the most important orchestras and opera houses.
CHIEN Wen-pin (General and Artistic Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying))
Conductor CHIEN Wen-pin is the General and Artistic Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weuwuying) in Taiwan. He was Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 1996, the first in Asia to hold this position. Other positions he has held included Resident Conductor of Pacific Music Festival in Japan (1998–2004), Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra (NSO, 2001–2007) and Artistic Advisor of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (2014–2016). |
Born in Taipei, CHIEN obtained his master's degree in conducting from National University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was a prizewinner of a number of conducting competitions in Europe, including the only Special Mention in the 1st Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Conducting Competition in 1995. CHIEN was also a recipient of the 18th National Awards of Art, the highest cultural and creative sector honor in Taiwan, in 2014.
The Introduction of the Ducumentaries
Eötvös 75
On January 2, 2019 Péter Eötvös celebrated his 75th birthday. In connection with the anniversary, András Surányi made a portrait film about the composer, although it is not easy to determine the genre of the film. As it is a non-traditional portrait, we do not know from the film Eötvös's entire career from early theater and film music, experimental work to Stockhausen and Boulez to the era of large operas and orchestral compositions. It records where this fascinating career as a composer and conductor is in 2019, and what issues and tasks excite Eötvös at this point in his life. The film features music colleagues (among others Isabelle Faust, György Kurtág Jr. and Miklós Lukács), and of course Péter Eötvös himself tells the story. We could say that we could gain insight into the composer's "witch kitchen" if the film did not make it clear that Eötvös does not consider himself a witch-able wizard (of course, he knows the nature of witchcraft, it turns out). Eötvös's thinking is much more like that of a natural scientist: he is primarily interested in sound relations, formal proportions, and structural issues. Whatever the cathartic emotional impact of his works, his creator is in fact an extraordinarily deep, precise, and infinitely devoted, extraordinary intellect.
The SEVENTH DOOR
The SEVENTH DOOR draws a portrait of composer Péter Eötvös, a prominent champion and exponent of modern music. Using new footage, archival films and photos, Judit Kele provides an iaginative insight into the world of this tireless musician and complex personality whose desire is to "make what is heard visible". This documentary also includes interviews with Pierre Boulez and Kariheinz Stockhausen and shows precious footage of Péter Eötvös rehearsing his opera ”Three Sisters”
Prix SACEM du Meilleur Documentaire Musical de Création, 1999/ Festival international des films sur l'art: Patt & Whitney Canada Grand Prize, 2000/ Mention Spécial du jury-Festival Classique en image, 2000.
Peter Eötvös x Wen-pin CHIEN Lecture and Documentary Screening
※The performance have been cancelled . For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
In this conversation with Peter Eötvös and Wen-Pin Chien, the Art Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, the two musicians will discuss the practical dilemma of contemporary music as well as their experiences in performing new pieces from the perspectives of both a creator and an interpreter. In addition, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts supports the cultivation and development of three forms of performing arts with three respective platforms, while the Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation is an incubator of world-renowned contemporary musicians. The directors of both organizations will exchange their views on talent cultivation as well as the different methodology and approach of performance venues and NGO foundations.
★4/11(Sat.) 14:30-17:10 (15 minutes interval)
Peter Eötvös x Wen-pin CHIEN Lecture and Documentary Screening: Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
Hosted and introduction by: Fang-Yi Lin, the Curator
★4/18(Sat.) 14:30 – 16:25 (10 minutes interval)
Documentary Screening of Peter Eötvös: The Seventh Door / Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
★4/26(Sun.) 14:30 – 16:25(10 minutes interval)
Documentary Screening of Peter Eötvös: The Seventh Door / Eötvös 75
Register Now：https://weiwuying.surveycake.com/s/0DZbN
Location：Lecture Hall
Peter Eötvös
Composer, conductor and teacher: The Hungarian Peter Eötvös combines all three functions in one very high-profile career. Born in Transylvania in 1944, he has long been considered one of the most significant and influential personalities on the music scene as both an internationally recognized conductor and a composer of successful operas, orchestral works and concertos, written for well-known artists from all over the world. |
Eötvös attaches great importance to passing on his extensive knowledge and experience to others. He taught at the music college in Cologne and Karlsruhe. In 1991 he founded the International Eötvös Institute and Foundation, in 2004 the Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation in Budapest for young conductors and composers. He regularly conducts master courses and seminars all over the world, e.g. Paris, Luzern, Basel, Luxemburg, Szombathely, Madrid etc
In addition to his roles listed above, Peter Eötvös is regularly re-invited as guest conductor by the most important orchestras and opera houses.
CHIEN Wen-pin (General and Artistic Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying))
Conductor CHIEN Wen-pin is the General and Artistic Director of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weuwuying) in Taiwan. He was Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 1996, the first in Asia to hold this position. Other positions he has held included Resident Conductor of Pacific Music Festival in Japan (1998–2004), Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra (NSO, 2001–2007) and Artistic Advisor of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (2014–2016). |
Born in Taipei, CHIEN obtained his master's degree in conducting from National University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was a prizewinner of a number of conducting competitions in Europe, including the only Special Mention in the 1st Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Conducting Competition in 1995. CHIEN was also a recipient of the 18th National Awards of Art, the highest cultural and creative sector honor in Taiwan, in 2014.
The Introduction of the Ducumentaries
Eötvös 75
On January 2, 2019 Péter Eötvös celebrated his 75th birthday. In connection with the anniversary, András Surányi made a portrait film about the composer, although it is not easy to determine the genre of the film. As it is a non-traditional portrait, we do not know from the film Eötvös's entire career from early theater and film music, experimental work to Stockhausen and Boulez to the era of large operas and orchestral compositions. It records where this fascinating career as a composer and conductor is in 2019, and what issues and tasks excite Eötvös at this point in his life. The film features music colleagues (among others Isabelle Faust, György Kurtág Jr. and Miklós Lukács), and of course Péter Eötvös himself tells the story. We could say that we could gain insight into the composer's "witch kitchen" if the film did not make it clear that Eötvös does not consider himself a witch-able wizard (of course, he knows the nature of witchcraft, it turns out). Eötvös's thinking is much more like that of a natural scientist: he is primarily interested in sound relations, formal proportions, and structural issues. Whatever the cathartic emotional impact of his works, his creator is in fact an extraordinarily deep, precise, and infinitely devoted, extraordinary intellect.
The SEVENTH DOOR
The SEVENTH DOOR draws a portrait of composer Péter Eötvös, a prominent champion and exponent of modern music. Using new footage, archival films and photos, Judit Kele provides an iaginative insight into the world of this tireless musician and complex personality whose desire is to "make what is heard visible". This documentary also includes interviews with Pierre Boulez and Kariheinz Stockhausen and shows precious footage of Péter Eötvös rehearsing his opera ”Three Sisters”
Prix SACEM du Meilleur Documentaire Musical de Création, 1999/ Festival international des films sur l'art: Patt & Whitney Canada Grand Prize, 2000/ Mention Spécial du jury-Festival Classique en image, 2000.
