Creative Dialogue
Creative Dialogue
Acequia Madre House, Santa Fe, NM
Kallio-Kuninkala, Finland
NEWS! CREATIVE DIALOGUE XI in FInland, August 16-25 2019.
This year Creative Dialogue will again take place at Kallio-Kuninkala in Finland. 4 composers, 4 singers and 6 string players will work together with Kaija Saariaho, Anssi Karttunen and Daniel Belcher.
Anssi Karttunen, Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg conceived Creative Dialogue together with Sibelius-Academy in
2008. The idea behind the Creative Dialogue is to inspire young performers and composers to engage in a dialogue that benefits not only the two parties but the music life in general. Performers and composers often study in the same institutions, but are seldom encouraged to find out how much they can to learn from each other. Apart from the immediate personal relations that result from such a dialogue, it will lead to a deeper understanding of how composer-performer friendships have affected the history of music.
The Sibelius Academy, the music university of Finland invites many of the most prestigious Universities and Conservatories in North America and Europe to send students to the Creative Dialogue. The first 6 Creative Dialogues were held at Acequia Madre House, the former Santa Fe, NM home of the Curtin-Paloheimo family. The family founded the living history museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas and is related to the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. In 2015 the workshop was held in FInland, at the Paloheimo family's residence in Kallio-Kuninkala, Järvenpää, Finland, which is a campus of the Sibelius Academy. Creative Dialogue is now held on alternate years in Santa Fe and in Finland..
Creative Dialogue X took place July 17-26 2018 in Santa Fe, NM. The faculty was Anssi Karttunen, cello, Magnus Lindberg, composition and David Poissonnier, sound design. The focus of the workshop was on compositions for strings and live electronics.
The final concert of this 10th anniversary Creative Dialogue was part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and took place at the St. Francis Auditorium on July 26th at 6pm.
Creative Dialogue IX took place in Kallio-Kuninkala, Finland from 28th of August to 5th of September 2017. This time the faculty was Kaija Saariaho, Anssi Karttunen and the French sound engineer David Poissonnier. The focus of this years workshop was music for string instruments and electronics. The 5 participating composers wrote pieces for various string ensembles and electronics for the 3 violinists, 2 viola players and 3 cellists attending. The String players each prepared a work by Kaija Saariaho with electronics. The final concert took place at the Black Box of the Music Centre in Helsinki on the 5th of September at 3pm.
Creative Dialogue VIII took place 19th-28th June 2016 in Santa Fe, NM. Magnus Lindberg and Anssi Karttunen were joined on the faculty by the Led Zeppelin legend, multi-instrumentalist and composer John Paul Jones. The final concert was held at the St. Francis Auditorium, Santa Fe on the 28th of June. The composer participants wrote pieces for different combinations of low string instruments (3 cellos, 2 double bass and 2 electric bass). The cellists and double bass players shared Magnus's Partia for solo cello, The double bass players transcribed together with Magnus Coranto and Boria. Magnus's Etude I was also be played in a new version by Anssi Karttunen for 5 cellos and 2 double basses. Listen to the concert
Improvisation workshops were also an important part of Creative Dialogue this time, instrumentalists and composers improvised together during the week and in the concert.
Creative Dialogue VII was held January 31st to February 7th, 2015 in Kallio-Kuninkala, Tuusula, Finland. Kaija Saariaho was again on the faculty together with Anssi Karttunen and the Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila. The participants were invited from many of the top European and US conservatories. The young composers wrote pieces for piano and strings. The final concert was at the Music Centre in Helsinki on the 7th of February as part of the festival Musica nova Helsinki and included the student compositions as well as some of Kaija Saariaho's most recent works for strings and piano.
Creative Dialogue VI in 2014 was led by Magnus Lindberg and Anssi Karttunen with the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan. The workshop took place 3rd-11th July, with a concert at the St. Francis Auditorium on July 11th. The participating composers wrote pieces for voices and string instruments and the performers worked on Magnus Lindberg's pieces and pieces for voice and strings by Kaija Saariaho, Peter Lieberson and Harrison Birtwistle.
Creative Dialogue V took place 17-24th July 2012, it was led jointly by Anssi Karttunen, Magnus Lindberg and the Israeli clarinetist Chen Halevi. The instrumentalists played solo and chamber pieces by Magnus Lindberg (with the composer on the piano) and the composers were invited to write pieces for cellos and clarinets, which were all prepared for a concert at the St. Francis Auditorium, this time once again part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Creative Dialogue IV was a workshop for cellists. This time Anssi Karttunen worked with six cellists on a special project, the Mystery Variations, a series of pieces by 31 composer-friends of Karttunen, written for his 50th birthday. Each participant played 3-6 of the pieces among which were 21 US premieres. The very well attended and enthusiastically received concert took place again at the St. Francis Auditorium.
In the 2010 Creative Dialogue III, Anssi Karttunen and the Finnish Guitarist Timo Korhonen led a group of 5 cellists and 3 guitar players in a workshop of new solo and chamber pieces and improvisation. The repertoire was centered on composers Karttunen and Korhonen have personally worked with, one of the highlights of the final concert was a group improvisation of all the students.
Creative Dialogue II, in 2009, was led by Anssi Karttunen and the participants were 7 cellists who worked on a repertoire of new solo cello pieces and pieces for cello ensembles. Parts of the repertoire were worked with composers, the late Peter Lieberson was present; Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg and Pablo Ortiz worked with the players via the internet.
Creative Dialogue I in 2008 was a workshop for composers and string players. The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and cellist Anssi Karttunen led the workshop. The string players - 2 violinists, 2 violists and 3 cellists - also worked on solo pieces by Kaija Saariaho. The composers wrote pieces specially for the ensembles of string players available, pieces were rehearsed and revised every afternoon and performed in the final concert, which was organised in collaboration with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
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ALUMNI 2008-2018:
1.Matthew Barnson, composer, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
2.Ben Hackbarth, composer, University of California San Diego
3.Jouni Hirvelä, composer, Sibelius Academy
4.Pasi Lyytikäinen, composer, Sibelius Academy
5.Schuyler Tsuda, composer, University of Minnesota School of Music
6.Andrew Bergmann, composition, University of Minnesota School of Music
7.Bryan Jacobs, composition. Columbia University
8.Yoshiaki Onishi, composition, Columbia University
9.Yuan Peiying, composition, Cornell University
10.Zosha Di Castri, composer, Columbia University
11.Loren Loiacano, composer, Cornell University
12.Taylor Brook, composer, Columbia University
13.Juhani Vesikkala, composer, Sibelius Academy
14.Cecile Marti. composer, Guildhall School of Music
15.Artur Akshelyan, composer, Conservatoire de Geneve
16.Nina Young, composer, Columbia University
17.Walter Sallinen, composer, Sibelius Academy
18.Jacob Landau, composer, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
19.Gonzalo Bustos, composer, Geneva Conservatory
20.Joseph Howard, composer, Royal Academy of Music, London
21.Mioko Yokoyama, composer Sibeius-Academy, Helsinki
22.Ashkan Behzadi, composer, Columbia University
23.Nuño Fernández, composer, Sibelius Academy
24.David Bird, composer, Columbia University, New Tork
25.Sophya Polevaya, composer, Royal Academy of Music, London
26.Jonas Skaarud, composer, Norwegian Music University, Oslo
27.Kaspar Querfurth, composer, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
28.Conor Brown, composer, University of Colorado/Boulder
29.Heidi Hassinen, composer, Sibelius Academy
30.Grant Luhmann, composer, Yale School of Music
31.Onur Yildirim, composer, Columbia University
32.Meeri Pulakka. soprano, Sibelius Academy
33.Sinead White, soprano, McGill University
34.Will Bryan, baritone, Florida State University
35.Eirik Fosstveit, piano, Norges Musikhøgskola
36.Auroora Lahti-Hintsala, piano, Sibelius Academy
37.Antoine Ouvrard, piano, Conservatoire de Paris
38.Tiffany Valvo Lopez, clarinet
39.Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet
40.Shi-Wen Fan, clarinet
41.Veera Myllyniemi, clarinet, Sibelius Academy
42.Rolf Haas, violin, University of Minnesota School of Music
43.Tuuli Talvitie, violin, Sibelius Academy
44.Lisa Romain, violin, Mannes College of Music
45.Grace Youn, violin, Butler School of Music
46.Miguel Colom, violin, University of the Arts, Berlin
47.Yoonhee Lee, violin, Amsterdam Conservatory
48.Wendy Toh, violin, Eastman School of Music, Rochester
49.Danielle Daoukayeva, violin, Royal Conservatory, Hague
50.Onni Toikka, violin, Taideyliopiston Sibelius Akatemia
51.Holly Workman, violin, Eastman School of Music
52.Chandler Yu, violin, Colburn School of Music
53.Ester Forsberg, viola, Copenhagen Conservatory
54.Tim Hansson, viola, Sibelius Academy
55.Molly Goldman, viola, Eastman School of Music
56.David Medine, viola, University of California San Diego
57.Olga Reskalenko, viola, Sibelius Academy
58.Danika Paskvan, viola, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
59.Zane Sturme, viola, Det Konglige Danske Musikkonservatorium
60.Julien Altmann, viola, McGill University
61.Katie McKay, viola, Manhattan School of Music
62.Hannah Collins, cello, Yale School of Music
63.Jacqueline Ludwig, cello, New England Conservatory
64.Ashley Walters cello, University of California San Diego
65.Ramiro Alvarez, cello, University of Michigan
66.Yotam Baruch, cello, Indiana University
67.Kacy Clopton, cello, New England Conservatory
68.Anton Kukkonen, cello, Sibelius Academy
69.Mariel Roberts, cello, Eastman School of Music
70.Caroline Stinson, cello, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
71.Laura Usiskin, cello, Yale School of Music
72.Hye-Yoon Choi, cello, New England Conservatory
73.Shannon Hayden, cello, Yale School of Music
74.Francesco Mastromatteo, cello, The Butler School of Music
75.Aleisha Verner, cello, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
76.Joel Salvo, cello, Minnesota School of Music
77.Hannah Addario-Berry, cello, Friends of Sibelius Academy grant
78.Nathan Harrenstein, cello, The Butler School of Music (Univ. of Texas)
79.Jaani Helander, cello, Sibelius Academy
80.Jonathan Lo, cello, Eastman School of Music
81.Mo Mo, cello, Yale School of Music
82.Oleksa Mucyk, cello, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
83.Patrick McGuire, cello, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
84.Markus Hallikainen, cello, Sibelius Academy
85.Joann Whang, cello, Yale University
86.Khari Joyner, cello, Juilliard School of Music
87.Henry Meyer, cello, Northwestern University
88.Cameron Crozman, cello, Paris Conservatory
89.Oskari Holopainen, cello, Sibelius Academy
90.Anna Litvinenko, cello, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
91.Benjamin Baker, cello, Eastman School of Music
92.Berber Heerema, cello, Royal Conservatory, The Hague
93.Sebastian Baverstam, cello, New England Conservatory
94.Juan Sebastian Delgado, cello, McGill University, Montreal
95.Ayano Kanimura, cello, Hochschule für Musik, Basel
96.Laura Martin, cello, Sibelius Academy
97.Aaron Wolff, cello, Juilliard School of Music and Drama
98.Sirja Nironen, cello, The Sibelius Academy
99.Frederik Blikeng, Double Bass, Royal Conservatory, Oslo
100. Fredrick Speer, Double Bass, McGill University, Montreal
101. Brett Armstrong, Double Bass, University of Colorado/Boulder
102. Mark Appling, guitar, Eastman School of Music
103. Jakob Van Cauwenberghe, guitar, Manhattan School of Music
104. Aleksi Rajala, guitar, Sibelius Academy
105. Logan Kane, Electric Bass, UC Thornton, Los Angeles
106. Janne Tuovinen, Electric Bass, Sibelius-Academy
Participating Universities
Sibelius-Academy
Guildhall School of Music
Conservatoire de Paris CNSM
Conservatoire de Geneve
Amsterdam Conservatory
Oslo Conservatory
Colburn School of Music
Copenhagen Conservatory
Columbia University
Cornell University
Butler School of Music, Univ. of Texas
Eastman School of Music
Indiana University
Juilliard School of Music and Drama
McGill University
Mannes College of Music
Manhattan School of Music
New England Conservatory
Northwestern University
Royal Academy of Music (London)
Royal Conservatory, The Hague
Yale School of Music
University of California San Diego
University of Minnesota School of Music
FACULTY 2008-2017:
Anssi Karttunen, 2008 - 2012, 2014 - 2018
Kaija Saariaho, 2008, 2015, 2017
Magnus Lindberg, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018
Timo Korhonen, 2011
Chen Halevi, 2012
Barbara Hannigan, 2014
Tuija Hakkila, 2015
John Paul Jones, 2016
David Poissonnier, 2017, 2018