LAURENT METTRAUX
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ARCHIVES: CONCERTS 2017-2023
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Complainte, for solo violin, M.633 (2003)
Christina Hecher, violin
With works by Halvorsen, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns
Vienna
(Austria), Quo vadis?, Stephansplatz
6 – Monday,
February 27th, 2017, 6.30 pm
Vienna
(Austria), University of Music and Performing Arts – Wednesday,
March 8th, 2017, 6 pm
Soliloque, for solo violin, M.585 (1998)
During the Festival Two Days and Two
Nights of New Music of Odessa
With works for solo violin by Zoltan
Almashi, Boris
Alvarado, Fabian Müller and Karmella Tsepkolenko
Odessa
(Ukraine), foyer of the Philharmonic Hall of Odessa – Saturday,
April 22nd, 2017, 11 pm – programme
Reflets, for violin and
percussion, M.630 (2002-4)
During the Folle Journée de la Musique
Contemporaine
Lausanne,
Utopia 1 Hall (HEMU) – Monday, June
19th, 2017, 6.30 pm – programme
Flute Quartet, M.547 (1996)
During the Swiss Chamber Music Festival of Adelboden
Quatuor Pelleas (Manon Burel,
Justine Ehrensperger, Bastien Ferraris and Camille
Quinton, flutes)
With works by
Kuhlau, Mike Mower, Mozart, Anže Rozman and Florent Schmitt
Frutigen (Switzerland), Tropic
house – Sunday, September 24th,
2017, 11 am –
programme
Mid-Autumn Moon, for soprano, guqin,
pipa, flute, cello and marimba, M.687 (2017)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
after chinese poems
European Chinese Ensemble (Viviane Hasler,
soprano – Marina Tantanozi, flute
–
Alexander
Kionke, cello – Angela Koeck,
marimba, percussion – Yang Jing, pipa, guqin, guzheng)
With, among
other transcriptions, traditional chinese melodies, and works by Yang Jing
Berne,
Yehudi Menuhin Forum, Helvetiaplatz 6 – Tuesday,
October 3rd, 2017, 8 pm
Zurich,
Wasserkirche – Wednesday,
October 4th 2017, 8 pm
Aarburg,
Bärensaal, Städtchen 16 – Saturday,
October 7th, 2017, 8 pm
Complainte, for solo violin, M.633 (2003)
Jakub
Dzialak, violin
With works by Boris
Alvarado, Bohdana Frolyak, Anna Havryletz,
Christian Henking, Triantafyllos Liotis, Fabian
Müller and Prokofiev (with Anna Dzialak Savytska, violin)
Córdoba
(Argentina), Universidad Provincial de Córdoba, Aula
Magna (Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299) – Sunday,
October 8th, 2017, 8 pm – programme
Rio
Tercero (Argentina), Conservatorio
Superior de Música Juan José Castro
– Tuesday,
October 10th, 2017, 7 pm
Valparaíso
(Chile), Pontificia Universidad Católica – Wednesday,
October 11th, 2017, 1 pm
Viña
del Mar (Chile), Foyer of the municipal theater – Friday,
October 13th, 2017, 7
pm
Complainte, for solo violin, M.633 (2003)
as well
as
Fantasia, for solo violin, M.497 (1994-5)
During the Festival Two
Days and Two Nights of
New Music of Odessa
Jakub
Dzialak, violin (Complainte) ; Anna Dzialak Savytska, violin (Fantasia)
With works for solo violin
by Boris Alvarado, Heinz Holliger, Ivan
Karabits, Sergey Pilutikov
and Ludmyla Yurina
Odessa
(Ukraine), foyer of the Philharmonic Hall of Odessa – Saturday,
April 21st, 2018, 10 pm – programme
Danses suisses (Swiss
Dances), version for chamber orchestra, M.635b (2003-4, orch. 2017-8)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
OF THE VERSION FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Fribourg
Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Laurent Gendre
With works by Mendelssohn and Schumann
Fribourg, Équilibre
Hall – Tuesday,
May 22nd, 2018, 8 pm – programme
Trio for Alto Saxophone,
Cello and Piano, M.573 (1998-9)
During the Concerts
intimes « Le Temps Retrouvé »
With works by Kapustin, Martinů (with Sophie Ackermann, violin) and Schulhoff
Herbaimont
(Belgium), “Le fenil aux mille
divans” (1, rue du Hadja, Sainte Ode) – Sunday,
November 18th, 2018, 3 pm
Duo for Flute and Clarinet, M.598 (1999)
During the London New Wind Festival 2020
Simon
Desorgher, flute – Philip Edwards, clarinet
With works by Avril Anderson, Janet Beat, Robert Coleridge,
Giorgio Coslovich, Paul Cowell, Dorothee Eberhardt,
Stephen Gibson, Jane Serter, Hugh Shrapnel, Henryk
Sienkiewicz, David Sutton-Anderson, Kevin Terry and Julia Usher (with Catherine Pluygers,
oboe – Anna Blake, bassoon – Henryk Sienkiewicz, horn – Alan Tomlinson,
trombone – Sasha Valeri Millwood, piano – David Sutton-Anderson, conductor)
London, West Hampstead, Craxton
Studios – Friday,
November 27th, 2020, 7.30 pm – programme
Broadcast
on Youtube – Wednesday,
December 16th, 2020, 7.30 pm – video
C'est
à l'eau du ruisseau qu'on nettoie sa pierre à encre, for solo
pipa, M.661 (2007)
inspired
by a picture of Hongren
FIRST PERFORMANCE
During
the festival Tage
für Musik zwischen den Welten 2021
Yang
Jing, pipa
With works by Daniel Fueter, Henry Purcell, Thomas Osborne and Yang Jing (with
Viviane Hasler, soprano –
Lisa Hofer, cello)
Paraphrase, for solo cello, M.692 (2019)
inspired
by an excerpt of the Sarabande of the 3rd Suite for unaccompanied cello by Bach
FIRST PERFORMANCE
During the festival StradivariFEST Scuol
Maja
Weber, cello
With works by Bach, Alfred
Felder, Martin Jaggi, Cécile Marti and René Wohlhauser
Émergences, for violin and accordion, M.652 (2006)
During the Mirecourt International Violin Festival
Marianne
Piketty, violin – Mélanie Brégant, accordion
With works
by Angelis, Bartók, Bloch, Cavanna, Falla, Finzi, Granados, Hermoso, Kreisler and
Piazzolla
Hennecourt
(Vosges, France), church – Tuesday, November 8th, 2022,
8.30 pm – presentation flyer
Flute Quartet, M.547 (1996)
Nancelot Quartet (Nancy Meier, Eline Gros, Anett Kallai and Camille Quinton,
flutes)
Kriens (canton of Lucerne), concert hall Salquin
– Monday, August 21st, 2023, 6 pm