Recording residency for Ratzfatz, a work by Birke Berstelmeier for plucked string trio, for David Christoffel's Métaclassique program.
C Barré was invited to produce a portrait of his ensemble for David Christoffel's program Metaclassique broadcast on Euradio.
She will present the Ensemble through the prism of its emblematic plucked-string trio (mandolin, guitar and harp), which is regularly a gateway to a composer's first commission.
Today, the trio has its own repertoire, including works by Frédéric Pattar, Mikel Urquiza and Birke Bertelsmeier. These pieces will be featured on this program.
Co-commission
l'Ensemble C Barré ; le Festival Musique sur Ciel
Partnership
l'Ensemble C Barré ; Euradio
Birke Bertelsmeier
Composer
Birke Bertelsmeier (Germany, b. 1981) studied piano with Pavel Gililov at the Musikhochschule in Cologne and composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe.
Her compositions have been performed by the Arditi Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Christoph Eschenbach (with the Bamberger Symphoniker) and the Ensemble Modern.
She is a guest at festivals such as the Munich Biennale, the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik and the Printemps de Heidelberg. In 2012, she was awarded the Schneider-Schott Prize and a scholarship to the Ensemble Modern International Academy.
In 2013, she was a resident at the Villa Massimo in Rome, where she wrote an opera based on Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest, which premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in June 2014. In 2015, she won the Ernst von Siemens Composition Prize. Birke is currently a resident at Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
Natalia Korsak
mandolin
Thomas Keck
guitar
Eva Debonne
harp
MUSIC PROGRAM
Birke Berstelmeier (1981)
Ratzfatz (2019 - 12min.)
for mandolin, guitar and harp
Co-commissioned by ensemble C Barré and festival Musique sur Ciel
