Event

SALT New Music Festival and Symposium

Victoria - The SALT New Music Festival and Symposium is a one week event, occurring from May 25 to June 2, taking place at Open Space and the University of Victoria School of Music.

At the University of Victoria School of Music you can find a week's worth of free lectures, colloquia, and masterclasses. At Open Space, three stunning concerts will take place. The event's hosts, The Tsilumos Ensemble, have selected various innovators and experts in contemporary and electronic music to join them in Victoria to give audiences a fresh way to examine these genres.

The concerts will consist of local musicians such as Max Murray, a tuba soloist, alongside many esteemed international performers such as the Quasar Saxophone Quartet (Montreal, QC), the award-winning ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago, USA), and Experimentalstudio (Freiburg, Germany).

This iteration of the SALT New Music Festival and Symposium will premiere three new compositions by Wolf Edwards (Victoria, BC), Steven Takasugi (Cambridge, USA), and Gianluca Ulivelli (Florence, Italy), made possible by a grant from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music.

Students of music from around the world have been invited to this program and offered reading sessions, workshops, and lessons in composition and contemporary music interpretation, hopefully to invigorate the study, research, and performance of contemporary and electronic music. Come and join them in this exploration of the cutting edge of new music.

Concert Line Up

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Quasar
Saturday, June 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Ensemble Dal Niente and Experimental Studio
Sunday, June 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Tsilumos Ensemble and Max Murray

Information about Free events can be found at http://finearts.uvic.ca/music/ensembles/tsilumos/ or by contacting saltfestival2013@gmail.com