Alexandre
Lunsqui, Composer
Email: ARL91@columbia.edu
Alexandre
Lunsqui was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He studied at Campinas University,
University of Iowa, and Columbia University. His main teachers were Tristan
Murail, Jeremy Dale-Roberts and Fred Lerdahl. In 2003, he took part on the
year-long course in composition and computer music at IRCAM, where he worked
with composers Brian Ferneyhough, François Bayle, and Jonhathan Harvey. In
Brazil, he co-founded the In Sanum Ensemble, a group devoted to creating chamber
music, multimedia works, and improvised music ranging from jazz to contemporary
improvisation. He has participated in festivals such as Darmstadt, Musica Nova, Creative Music Festival, Music at the Anthology, Are you Brave(?), Boston Contemporary Music Week, Yellow Barn, and Resonances.
Recent awards include the first prize in the 2002 Brazilian Chapter Percussive
Arts Society
composition competition and the 2003 Virtuoso Scholarship Award given by the Brazilian ministry of
culture. Recent commissions include works for the Due East, Duo Continuo (Freiburg), Columbia Sinfonietta, and a new work for six berimbaus
commissioned by percussionist Greg Beyer. Recent performances include the English première of “…tornando-se…”
for solo piano, the
French première of “Carretéis”
for ensemble, the American premières of “Contours…Distances” for piano, Orbit-Giro for nine instruments, and Entresons for six percussions, plus
performances with the Ensemble CounterInduction and Due East. He has been invited to participate in the Western Illinois
University New Music Festival in March, 2006.
Performances in 2005:
*After Frottage, January 28, Ensemble
CounterInduction, Benjamin Fingland (cl), Sumire(vlc), New York City
*Ligare, Northern Illinois University,
February 16, Due East (Greg Beyer, percussions; ErinLesser, flute)
*Ligare, Greenwich Hall, NYC, Due East,
February 18
*Ligare, NYC, Due East, February 20
*Entresons, for percussion sextet, GRUPU,
International Music Festival, Campinas, Brazil, February 20
*Carreteis, for ensemble, Bourdeaux,
France, Direction: Pedro Bittencourt and Marc Williams, with members of the
Bourdeaux Orchestra and Bourdeaux Conservatory of Music, April 02
*Contours…distances, NYC, Jenny Lin, April 11, Serial
Underground Project.
*Brouhaha for ensemble and Tempo Irreal for cello and electronics, Sao
Paulo/Rio de Janeiro, April 28th to September 11th (music excerpts used in the
theater production “Um Circo de Rins e Figados” by Gerald Thomas)
*Entresons, Pennsylvania, GRUPU, July14
*Ligare, Yellowbarn Festival, Due East,
August 02
*After Frottage, Rockefeller University, NYC,
Ensemble CounterInduction September 08
*After Frottage, Tenri Hall, NYC, Ensemble
CounterInduction September 09
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*Orbit-Giros, for ten instruments, Music at the
Anthology Festival, NYC, October 01
*After Frottage, Contemporary Music Week, Boston
Conservatory, Ensemble CounterInduction, November 14
http://www.ashmontrecords.com/releases/conservatory_release_102505.pdf
*Tornando-se, Royal Academy, London, Thalia
Myers, piano. First performance and launch of the CD and book with a collection
of pieces for piano written by several composers around the world, November 21.
Performances scheduled
for 2006:
* Spira Mondana for 13 instruments February 13,
Merkin Hall NYC 67th
* Orbit-Giros
for 10 instruments
March 26th , Merkin Hall NYC
* Ligare, March 06th, New Music
Festival, WIU.
* Piece for 6
percussionists April
14th, NIU, Illinois,
* Ruptura(s), date/place to be determined
* Contours...distances, date/place TBD.
List of works and first
performances:
· 2005
Orbit-Giros (10 instruments) - MATA
festival, October 1st, 2005, NYC;
Piece for 7 instruments
(work in progress) - date/place
to be scheduled;
Piece for 6 berimbaus (work in progress) – April 14th
2006
• 2004
Tempi Intermedi (fl, cl, tromb, guitar, vln, vlc) –
14/04/2004 Merkin Hall;
Ruptura(s) (piano/percussion);
Spira Mondana – May 3rd 2006;
After Frottage (clarinet and cello) – January 28th,
New York City. Ensemble Counter)Induction.
• 2003
Tempi Alienati (ensemble) – March 2004. Knitting Factory, NYC;
Tempo Irreal para cello e eletrônica – (Alexis Descharmes october/22/03
IRCAM, Paris);
Em linhas…reflexos
(arquitextura)
– for
orchestra
• 2002
Contours…Distances – piano solo (Jenny Lin,
11/april/05);
…tornando-se…- miniatura for piano solo
(october/2005, London);
Entresons – for 6 percussionists(30/august/00,
Grupo de Percussao de Tatui, Universidade de Campinas, Brasil);
Ligare (Rev. 2004) – flute and percussion
(February 18th 2005, NYC)
Cor à deriva (miniatura for piano solo);
Carretéis – flute, clarinet, percussion, harp,
violin, cello. (19/04/02 – Ergo Ensemble, New York City).
• 2001
Topografia de Um Caminho
Andado - flauta baixo solo (11/11/01. Ulla
Suokko, New York City).
IRIS – berimbau solo (19/03/02, Greg
Beyer, Manhattan School of Music, NY City);
Mutuus – flute, trumpet, pno, perc, voice,
vln, cello.
• 2000
Tempo Absurdo -
piano solo (23/05/01, Thalia Myers, Londres);
Dikkhatemenein – tape;
Carta para Vincent – two trombones (30/10/00, New York
City);
Georg – for piano solo;
La Fète d’Opêt – trumpet, horn and trombone
(27/11/00, Mannes College of Music, NYCity);
Physiognomy – saxophone alto (09/04/00, The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA);
Gregor – violin, cello and double bass
(09/04/00, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City).
• 1999
Otto/Refratio – orchestra;
Arte Combinada - trombone baixo and tape
(30/10/99 – Michigan University, Ann Arbor, USA);
Circus – flute, ensemble and two
dancers. (04/04/00 – The University of Iowa, EUA).
• 1998
Brouhaha – fl, cl, pno, vl, vla and cello
(07/11/98, The University of Iowa);
Noom – soprano, fl, cl, tpt, tbn, pno,
perc, vla (19/04/98, Iowa City);
Tarkov II – tape (19/04/99, Iowa City);
Improvisation Practice 100 – alto sax and piano (27/09/98, Iowa
City);
This – tenor and piano (18/abril/98, Iowa
City).
• 1997
Ekhon II – two flutes (08/02/98, The University
of Iowa);
Eixos – fl, cl, trompa, vl, cello.
Eixos para In Sanum – vl,violao, pno, cbx e tape (Radio
USP, 15/09/97).
• 1996
Tarkov I – pno, percussion, violin and
live-electronics;
Odradek – fl, cl, ob, bsn, 2perc,
pno, vl, vla, vlc, dbass.
Ekhon III – cl, trompa, vlc. (14/09/97,
Ensemble Contrechamps, Geneva, Suiça).
• 1995
Architector XII – fl, cl, ob, trpa, trbne, 2 perc,
pno, vl, vla, vlc, cbx. (30/10/99, Contemporary Directions, Michigan
University, Ann Arbor);
Quarteto III - vl, perc, pno and dbass. (05/09/95,
Festival Musica Nova, Campinas).
Frottage – bass clarinet. (9/04/01, Columbia
University, NYCity).
• 1994
Quarteto II – vl, perc, pno, cbx.
(23/11/94, Instituto de Artes, Unicamp, Campinas);
Peca para 11 instrumentos;
• 1993
Sayen – violin solo (08/09/93, Alvaro
Peterlevitz, Teatro de Americana, SP);
Três peças para piano e
contrabaixo*
(11/10/93, Instituto de Artes, Unicamp, Campinas).
• 1992
Reflexus* – pno, cbx e dancarino (14/10/92,
Livraria Papirus, Campinas);
Improvisações Sampaku* – two keyboards, dbass and tape
(05/04/92, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Campinas);
Organum II* – two keyboards, double-bass
live electronics, 2 dancers and 3 painters (28/10/92, Instituto de Artes da
Unicamp).
• 1991
Quarteto I – vl, bassoon, pno, cbx
(Festival de Musica Criativa, Londrina, Brazil, July/22)
Organum* – fl, cl, ob, bassoon, perc, pno,
vl, vla, vlc, dbass.
Silêncio e Indiferenciação
das Espécies*
– pno and dbass. (13/04/91, VII Semana de Musica Contemporânea de Campinas).
De 1991; Estudo 3.4 - two studies of brazilian music and
jazz for piano.
• 1990
Impromptu 1 a 4* – for piano and dbass (7/11/90,
Instituto de Artes da Unicamp, Campinas).
*Works composed with Ignacio de
Campos, co-founder of the In Sanum Ensemble.
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