Peter Eötvös, guest composer for Acanthes’ 25th anniversary, will preside over a special arrangement: three workshops with two musical ensembles, meeting the needs of the composers, the conductors and the composers whose pieces will be selected for performance.

The musical workshops will be based around the piano, flute and cello.

Acanthes 2001 will also be celebrating the Hungarian musical tradition. This is the “Year of Hungary in France”, so the Acanthes lectures and workshops will form part of official events. They will highlight the rich tradition represented by Peter Eötvös alongside Béla Bartók, György Ligeti and György Kurtág, continued today in the works of a new generation, which will be present in its diverse forms at the Chartreuse of Villeneuve-lez-Avignon

charmed magnolia, for wind-instruments sextet and a percussion player
The piece has been composed in May,2001. The piece consists of 5 sections and used 6woodwind instriments, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Bass Clarinet. One percussion player plays 4 Chinese-instruments: Chinese Tom-tom, 5 Temple-block, 2 Chinese Tang Drum in small size and Tam-tam. Instead of those Chinese percussion instruments, they could be replaced by Bass drum, 5 Wood-block, small drum and tenor drum (or 2 Bongo drums). A conductor should be necessary for this Sextet, since it's rhythm should be explained clearly, some of the special notations for performance have noticed in the score.
It is presented to all the pure persons with the composer's compliments.

Joyce Bee Tuan Koh is borned in Singapore in 1968. She received B.Mus (hons) and M.Mus in Music at King's College London and Doctor of Philosophy in Composition at University of York in 1997. Her principal teachers are David Lumsdaine and Nicola LeFanu. She was awarded bursaries and fellowships to attend international summer courses, notably at Centre Acanthes, France (2001 Peter Eötvös), Tanglewood, United States (1995 Henri Dutilleux), Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Italy (1997 Franco Donatoni) and Royaumont Foundation, France (1997 Brian Ferneyhough). As a recipient of the Nadia Boulanger International Foundation Scholarship (France), she studied with Tristan Murail in 1996-97. The following year, she was selected for the course in Composition and Musical Computing at the Institute for the Research and Co-ordination in Acoustic and Music, IRCAM (Paris). In the same year, she was awarded the Young Artist Award 1998 by the Singapore National Arts Council. Her work, la pierre magenta for solo piano is published by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (UK) for Spectrum Series III. She has collaborated with international musicians and ensembles, notably, the Nash Ensemble (UK), Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), De Ereprijs (Netherlands), Court-Circuit (France), Alea III (USA), Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Her works have been featured at major festivals: Singapore Arts Festival 2001, 2000 and 1998, Apeldoorn Concert Series 2000 in the Netherlands, Royaumont Foundation Concert Series 1997 in France, ISCM World Music Days 1997 in Seoul, Gaudeamus Music Week 1996 in the Netherlands, New York Focus Festival 1996, London Spitalfields Festival 1996, Sir Henry Wood Pre-Promenade Concerts 1996, and received broadcasts on Singapore Arts Radio Station, BBC Radio 3, Radio France Culture and Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation. Currently, she lives and works in Paris

les pierres magenta (VII.2001), for nine instruments
The origin of les pierres magenta is the piano solo miniature la pierre magenta (1’08”, ABRSM 2000 edition Spectrum 3). The piece consists of five variations of the original piano solo. In the course of the variations, layer after layer is chipped away and edges are cut off, exposing a core music. Like the piano piece, les pierres magenta is dedicated to Per Magnus Lindborg.

Valerio Sannicandro is born in Italy on 16th January, 1971. Studies Viola and composition and in 1995 after his Viola-degree moves to Germany where he turns his attention more and more to contemporary music; gets a post-graduate degree in Viola at the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen (with G.O.Roth) and attends masterclasses with B.Maurer and Garth Knox that inspire strongly his future work as new music performer. Begins a career as free lance violist, in his solo-recitals plays contemporary works by Sciarrino, Grisey, Maderna, etc. Studies composition in Cologne with York Höller (dissertation: “Komposition als semiotischer Prozess”), in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and Computer Music in Essen with Dirk Reith. Receives important influences by composers like Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmuth Lachenmann, Jonathan Harvey, and Peter Eötvös, with whom moves his first steps as conductor, in Cologne (Triennale Köln) and Avignon (Acanthes). Winner of several composition competitions in Germany and Italy, as well as the KRANICHSTEINER MUSIKPREIS 2000 of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Invited for conferences and workshops in Prague (Music Academy) and Berlin (Humboldt-Universitäat). His compositions have been played among others by Ensemble Modern, Musikfabrik NRW, Ensemble Köln, Ensemble Aleph conducted by R.Rivolta, P. Hirsch, J. Avery, J. Stockhammer; recorded by the HR, MDR, Radio Bremen and broadcasted by Radio Prague 3 ; his works have been performed during the GNM-Nachwuchsforum, 13. Dresdner Tage der Zeitgenössische Musik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, World Music Days 2000 Luxembourg, in Gewandhaus Leipzig and recorded on CDs.

profili del grido (2001)
The scream, the one that emerges, voiceless, from a deeper abyss of human experience: this one seems to have an own shape, a weight, a life. To this kind of inner state, we can even think in terms of those materials that are able to transmit panic: cold metal, unreal glass, timeless stone.