Irène Zandel
Progetto Positano 2024
In 2024, Jack Sheen and Ricardo Eizirik were the two scholarship holders of the Progetto Positano. Both spent four weeks in Positano on the Amalfi Coast and worked on new works. The portrait concert took place on 23 October 2024 in the concrete hall of silent green. ensemble mosaik presented Ricardo Eizirik’s organ/dissolve and Jack Sheen’s Ceremonial Container.
Concert
Many thanks to Ricardo Eizirik, Jack Sheen, Enno Poppe and ensemble mosaik for an inspiring Progetto Positano portrait concert 2024!
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photos: Kai Bienert
Ricardo Eizirik
Ricardo Eizirik in Positano
Ricardo Eizirik (*1985) grew up in Brazil. He initially studied with Antonio C. B. Cunha in Porto Alegre before continuing his studies with Isabel Mundry in Zurich. This biographical aspect, the cultural tension between his country of origin and life in Germany and Switzerland, still characterises his music today. This is expressed in the themes he deals with in his works, such as colonial history, the mechanisation of society or topics such as rubbish, waste and noise. But the field of tension is also visible on the intrinsic level of the work, i.e. in the sound production and the choice of instruments. Eizirik not only works with traditional instruments, but also uses defective everyday objects as sound generators in his works.
As a composer, his oeuvre is broadly based. It ranges from notated music to installation and performance works.
He has received numerous scholarships and prizes and has worked with ensembles and festivals such as ensemble mosaik, ensemble Recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Adapter, Athelas Sinfonietta, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, Ensemble Talea, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, ECLAT, Maerz Musik, KLANG, Archipel, Manifeste, MUSICA, Nordic Music Days and others.
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Jack Sheen (*1993) is both a conductor and a composer. These two sides of his artistic work inspire each other. In addition to works for the classical concert situation, he develops dynamic, cross-artistic projects, also together with other artists. He is at home in modern and contemporary music and uses his compositional understanding in his role as a conductor to interpret older works.
His oeuvre includes concert works for orchestra, ensembles and soloists as well as immersive performance installations in which live musicians, audio, film and dancers perform in spaces such as galleries or warehouses. He has been commissioned by orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Aurora Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata.
Sheen has worked with leading orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Manchester Camerata. Last season he returned to the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the London Sinfonietta and was a guest artist at the Tanglewood Music Centre.
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