Fourth International "Sound Ways" Festival of Contemporary Music

30 Nevsky Prospect (312-45-85)

Friday, November 17, 7 pm
Piano Forum II
Otwin Stuermer (Germany) plays Wohlhauser's "Paginetta, Adagio. Deployment;" Flammer's Piano Piece V; Messiaen's "Premiere Communion de la Vierge;" Sharman's Three Opera Transcriptions and Dillon's "Spleen."
Peter Waters (Switzerland) plays Takemitsu's "Rain Tree Sketch;" Korolyov's "North Wind;" Ligeti's 6 Etudes and Adams' "Phrygian Gates."

Saturday, November 18, 7 pm
Sigune von Osten (soprano), Pi-hsien Chen (piano) -- Messiaen's "Chants de Terres et de Ciel" and "Poemes pour Mi."

Monday, November 20, 7 pm
Portrait of Mauricio
"L'art our l'art" (Germany) -- Kagel's "Con voce," "Recitativaria," "Acustice," "Phantasiestueck," and "Serenade."

Tuesday, November 21, 7 pm
Postscriptum: Hindemith and New German Music
Alexander Bildau (Germany) plays Niemoeller's "Scenes of a Matrimony (A Never-Ending Story)" and Rihm's Piano Piece 7; Sigune von Osten (soprano) and Pi-hsien Chen (piano) perform Hindemith's "Das Marienleben."

THE COMPOSERS' UNION

Tuesday, November 14, 8 pm
Projekt "RHETIKUS" Ensemble "While You Wait" (Austria).

Wednesday, November 15, 7 pm
Yelena Domasheva (Ukraine) and Mark Pogolski (St Petersburg), prize-winners of the International "Virtuosi of the Year 2000" Festival lead the Young St Petersburg Ensemble of Contemporary Music and the Sound Ways Ensemble in performing works by Rowland, Heinio, Webern, Matveyev, Lavrova, and Shmulevich.

Thursday, November 16, 7 pm
Piano Forum I
Pi-hsien Chen (Germany) -- Schoenbergs', Suite Op 25 and Piano pieces Op 33/a & b; Berio's "The Water-Piano" and "The Earth-Piano;" Boulez's Sonata No 3, Tsangaris' "Shellbum-Album;" Stockhausen's Piano Piece VI.

Sunday, November 19
(CONCERT MARATHON)

3 pm
Piano Forum III
Jutta Eigen (Germany) -- Cage's "Variations 3," Sonatas and Interludes, "One," Suite for toy piano, and "Fontana Mix;" Alexander Bildau (Germany) -- Antheil's "The 100 Headless Women."

6 pm
Music For Two
Alexandra Savina, Lydia Kovalenko (violin), Arkadi Tsypin (flute), Galina Sandovskaya, Alexander Radvilovich, and Natalia Bibik (piano) play Bibik's "Sorrowful Music;" Boulez' Flute Sonatina and Feldman's "Spring of Chosroes."

7 pm
Piano Forum IV
Oleg Marlov, Ortwin Stuermer, Victor Vysotsky, Peter Waters, Veronika Lobanova and Igor Drukch play Sielicky's "Glenn Gould in memoriam;" Smietanin's "Stroke;" Ligeti's 8 Etudes; Drukch's Variations; Mansurian's Sonata; Arnaoudov's "Ritual II;" Tsepkolenko's "Evening Patience" and Rzewsky's Piano Piece 4.

9 pm
Night Studies
Sound Ways Ensemble plays Popov's "Moira;" Hummel's "Sonata"; Radvilovich's "Two, One, Three;" Crumb's "Vox balaenae"
Sigune von Osten (soprano) and Pi-hsien Chen (piano) play Szegny's "Story;" Nono's "La fabbrica Illuminata" and Boucoureshliev's "Trois Extraits du Nom d'Oedipe."