Bled Contemporary Music Week

 

June 23 - 27, 2025 

Bled Festival Hall, Bled Castle [Bled, Slovenia, EU]

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, June 23, 2025 _ Bled Festival Hall

 

14.00 — [Studio for Contemporary Composition] — lectures

Claudia Sofía Alvarez Cuba – Composition of time

Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk – The influence of "couluer local" on the example of composing the compositions The Wall of Dying Poetry and Seven Microludes after Van Gogh 

Victor Arul – Considering Directionality, Dialectics, and Interaction in Composition

 

17.00 — works by the participants of the ‘precept.concept.percept XII.’ program

 

18.30 — [Verso Doxa] — pre-concert gathering

Guests: Alastair White, Kacper Madejek, Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, Urška Rihtaršič

Moderator: Brina Kren

 

19.00 —  .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]

Jordan Kuspa – Triptych

Gísli Magnússon – Cielo Stellato _ first performance

Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk – Sedem mikroludijev po Van Goghu, op.27 _ first performance

Jack Langdon – You Expect _ first performance

Kaija Saariaho – Fall

Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio – Migrations Vb

 

Performed by: Urška Rihtaršič, harp; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Sae Lee, piano; Lovorka Nemeš Dular, piano

 

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Jelani N. Surpis – from total darkness

Kacper Madejek – The Grimoire _ first performance

Max Vinetz – Fleabane 

Simon Kravos – Zvenzene

 

Performed by: .abeceda [String Quartet] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Anja Kralj, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello

 

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Darcy Copeland – CHIMERA _ first performance

Victor Arul – Foresight on buried commotions _ first performance

Alastair White – Seven Tales From Granton Breakwater _ first performance

Michael Magán Palomino – Chacana _ first performance

Claudia Sofía Alvarez Cuba – Ednina, dvojina, množina _ first performance

 

Performed by: .abeceda [New Music Ensemble] – Jules Monnier, viola; Neža Zupanc, flute; Weronika Partyka, saxophone; Urška Rihtaršič, harp; Nejc Grm, accordion; Lovorka Nemeš Dular, piano; Aljoša Marko, percussion; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Oskar Longyka, conductor

 

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025 _ Bled Festival Hall

 

14.00 — [Studio for Contemporary Composition] — lectures

Jack Herscowitz – Ghost[s] in the[se] Machine[s]: Techno-Horror and Haunting as Narrative/Compositional Framing 

Fernando Egido – Self-referential Generative systems based on Self-evaluation

James Pecore – Developing a Distinct Musical Identity in a World of “Brands” — or — Navigating Art as (an Escape from) Product

 

17.00 — works by the participants of the ‘precept.concept.percept XII.’ program

 

18.30 — [Verso Doxa] — pre-concert gathering

Guests: Julius von Lorentz, Max Vinetz, James Pecore, Fernando Egido

Moderator: Brina Kren

 

19.00 — .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]

Fernando Egido – Collective embodiment 

Anna Maria Huszcza – Zorya

Jacek Sotomski – Life 2

Lulu West – Relic of a Right Hand

Max Vinetz – Allemande 

Jack Herscowitz – god's dentures _ first performance

Julius von Lorentz – remixing myself _ first performance

 

Performed by: Weronika Partyka, saxophone; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Urban Megušar, cello

 

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Aditya Ryan Bhat – From the forces it manifests _ first performance

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela – Rosemary chicken and potatoes for dinner

James Pecore – “Naked Filament” _ first performance

Wendolyne Guerra – Alboral 

Eduardo Ariel Nuñez Cosco – Impresiones cuartales _ first performance

 

Performed by: .abeceda [String Quartet] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Anja Kralj, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello

 

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Esther Wu – DUET

Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk – Zid zamirajoče poezije op.26 _ first performance

Jordan Kuspa – Metronome _ first performance

Jack Langdon – fish laying egg in a circle _ first performance

Gísli Magnússon – Fylgjur

Jack Herscowitz – seedling _ first performance

Julius von Lorentz – dieses kleine leben _ first performance

 

Performed by: .abeceda [New Music Ensemble] – Jules Monnier, viola; Neža Zupanc, flute; Weronika Partyka, saxophone; Urška Rihtaršič, harp; Nejc Grm, accordion; Lovorka Nemeš Dular, piano; Nina Prešiček, piano; Aljoša Marko, percussion; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Oskar Longyka, conductor

 

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Wednesday, June 25,  2025 _ Bled Castle and Bled Festival Hall

 

9.00 — workshop ‘Sound Voyage’ _ Bled Festival Hall 

 

10.00 — .codex _ Bled Castle

.abeceda [Youth New Music Ensemble]  

.abeceda [Youth String Quartet]

 

11.30 – [Verso Doxa] — pre-concert gathering _ Bled Castle

Guests: Sean Quinn, Urban Megušar, Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Nejc Grm

Moderator: Brina Kren

 

12.00 – .abeceda [New Music Ensemble] _ Bled Castle

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela – Árbol

Sean Quinn – ergo, therefore i am

Gerard Grisey – Prologue

Atli Ingolfsson – elves' other self

Sofia Gubaidulina – De profundis

Alastair White – Scottish Black _ first performance

 

Performed by: Domen Kužnar, viola; Nejc Grm, accordion

 

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Opus III. _ composition for infra.norma.meta [Dré A. Hočevar, 2025] _ first performance

Lojze Lebič – Godalni kvartet

 

Performed by: .abeceda [String Quartet] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Anja Kralj, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello

 

15.00 — [Studio for Contemporary Composition] — lectures _ Bled Festival Hall 

Jaka Škapin – Vocal Improvisation as Ecosystemic Performance

Roberta Lazo Valenzuela – The Materiality of Sound

Sean Quinn – Accumulating Around the Body

 

19.00 — works by the participants of the ‘precept.concept.percept XII.’ programe _ Bled Festival Hall 

 

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Thursday, June 25, 2025 _Bled Festival Hall

 

9.00 — workshop ‘Sound Voyage’

 

12.00 – works by the participants of the ‘precept.concept.percept XII.’ program

 

14.00 — [Studio for Contemporary Composition] — lectures

Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio – ​​Composing for Sound’s Spatial Potential

Lulu West – Embodied Memory through Improvised Noise Music

Julius Von Lorentz – Shifting Sonic Identities: On Perceived Artificiality of Meta-Instruments

 

17.00 – .codex

.abeceda [Recorder Ensemble]

.abeceda [Accordion Sextet]

 

18.30 —  [Verso Doxa] — pre-concert gathering

Guests: Jack Herscowitz, Lulu West, Weronika Partyka

Moderator: Brina Kren

 

19.00 — .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]

José Eduardo Guillén Álvarez – Encuentro V

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga – Ostrzeżenie _ first performance

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga, Anja Kralj – Sinfonia

Claudia Sofía Alvarez Cuba – M.A.N.-T.R.A. 0.1. _ first performance

Lojze. Lebič – Aprilske vinjete (chalumeau III)

Jason Carl Rosenberg – Negentropy

Alastair White – The snake that eats the world

 

Performed by: Anja Kralj, violin; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga, electronics; Neža Zupanc, flute

 

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Lulu West – Call You Back Tomorrow _ first performance

Jack Langdon – Travels to The House of Invention _ first performance

Jordan Kuspa – Star Sapphire (Movement II from String Quartet No. 3)

Victor Arul – The Total Institution

Esther Wu – Bridge Over

Julius von Lorentz – Verformungen, bis zu einem gewissen Grade tanzbar

 

Performed by: .abeceda [String Quartet] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Anja Kralj, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello and Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics

 

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Roberta Lazo Valenzuela – Tango 

Sean Quinn – to save the people you love _ first performance

Daniel Weitz – You May You May You

Aditya Ryan Bhat – The violence of translation _ first performance

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga – Trenza _ first performance

 

Performed by: .abeceda [New Music Ensemble] – Jules Monnier, viola; Neža Zupanc, flute; Weronika Partyka, saxophone; Urška Rihtaršič, harp; Nejc Grm, accordion; Lovorka Nemeš Dular, piano; Aljoša Marko, percussion; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Oskar Longyka, conductor

 

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Friday, June 27,  2025 _ Bled Festival Hall

 

9.00 — workshop ‘Sound Voyage’

 

10.00 — Concert for Children

 

12.00 – works by the participants of the ‘precept.concept.percept XII.’ program

 

 

14.00 —  [Studio for Contemporary Composition] — lectures

Isaac Roth Blumfield – Meaning, identity, form: questions in my recent work

Agustín Castellón Molina – SONIC CARTOGRAPHY; traces, remnants / presence, absence

Darcy Copeland – Music and World(ing): on the possibility of life and a resonant theory of music

 

17.00 – .codex

.abeceda [Disciplinary Improvisation Ensemble]

.abeceda [Vocal Ensemble]

.abeceda [Composer’s Forum]

 

18.30 —  [Verso Doxa] — pre-concert gathering

Guests: Claudia Sofía Alvarez Cuba, Victor Arul, Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga

Moderator: Brina Kren

 

19.00 — .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]

Isaac Roth Blumfield – You hold the present as if it were a memory

Agustín Castellón Molina – Miradas... ensoñaciones _ first performance

Victor Arul – Disconcerts of large structures

Urban Megušar – Impromptus No. 1 - 12 _ first performance

 

Performed by: Lola Mlačnik, percussion; Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio, electronics; Urban Megušar, cello

 

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Sean Quinn – trace the lines to my centre

Claudia Sofía Alvarez Cuba – Estudios sobre el tiempos II _ first performance

Alastair White – Spanish Black _ first performance

Darcy Copeland – echoes within me (I am a haunted vessel) _ first performance

Maximiliano A. Soto Mayorga – Tell all the Truth but… _ first performance

 

Performed by: .abeceda [String Quartet] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Anja Kralj, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello and Weronika Partyka, saxophone

 

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Opus II. _ composition for infra.norma.meta [Dré A. Hočevar, 2025]

 

Performed by: .abeceda [New Music Ensemble] – Oskar Longyka, violin; Domen Kužnar, viola; Urban Megušar, cello; Neža Zupanc, flute; Brina Kren, saxophone; Jan Kopač, guitar