Bled Contemporary Music Week

 

June 23 - 27, 2025 

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

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Pre-Festival Event

 

Sunday, June 22, 2025 _ The Church of the Assumption of Mary on Bled Island

 

16.00 — .abeceda [New Music Ensemble]

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

 

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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

Vadim D. Genin — Odysseus Shoots an Arrow and the World Rushes Towards It _ first performance

Marco Wedel — Beziehung _ first performance

Ulyana Saulina — Rein _ first performance

Burçe Karaca — Halmar Sonata _ first performance

Dea Ahma — Lament _ first performance

Harvey Young — Fault Line Eurotreat _ first performance

Massimiliano Vizzini — GAMEPLAY WALKTHROUGH 4K [No commentary] _ first performance

Sara Blanco Gárate — After detonating _ first performance

Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio — there it is _ first performance

Emma Ebmeyer — zwischen Verstehen und Fühlen _ first performance

 

Performed by: Juana Monsalve, voice; Juan Sebastián Ortega, violin; Vigovajk Sagvik, cello; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello; Liam Battle, cello; Ángela Calvo Ríos, oboe and english horn; Guillermo Bocanegra, guitar; Nuria López Garcia, guitar and electric guitar; Elina Agneta Lamberte, kokle; Marcell Csuka, accordion; Bruna Di Virgilio, piano; Flavia Salemme, piano; Alexander Smith, percussion

 

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

Katia Geha — april 7 meditation _ first performance

George Denis Ardelean — Duo for Kokle and Violoncello _ first performance

Peter J. Østergaard — Dragons _ prva izvedba

Julienne K. Tsang — Crossed/Cross/Crossing/Rowed/Row/Rowing _ first performance

Jane Wong — The “Other Monsters” _ first performance

Darren Xu — Like Metal _ first performance

Mateusz Godlewski — Beehive Love _ first performance

Meihui Piao — Wu無-It's Just There _ first performance

Joseph Cilento — Echoes of Life _ first performance

 

Performed by: Juana Monsalve, voice; Juan Sebastián Ortega, violin; Vigovajk Sagvik, cello; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello; Liam Battle, cello; Ángela Calvo Ríos, oboe and english horn; Nuria López Garcia, guitar and electric guitar; Guillermo Bocanegra, guitar; Elina Agneta Lamberte, kokle; Marcell Csuka, accordion; Bruna Di Virgilio, piano; Flavia Salemme, piano; Aldo Chiarulli, percussion; Alexander Smith, percussion

 

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 

Santa Bušs — sensus textilis _ first performance

Sophia Marguerite Boeschoten — Shadow _ first performance

Darlene Neyra Leon — Luz Menguante _ first performance

Matteo Rigotti — di maglie...e un filo interrotto _ first performance

Mattia Aisemberg-Pham — Dunkles zu sagen _ first performance

Alejandro Mata — Tres cuerpos sonoros (y medio) _ first performance

Justyna Tobera — Dream Machine _ first performance

Matteo Bertolina — Sur la gamme _ first performance

Stephen de Filippo — sequences on a fraught _ first performance

Giulio Soldo — Argilla _ first performance

João Ricardo — pretend the world is funny and forever _ first performance

Manuel Valenzuela — Entzauberung _ first performance

Nuria López Garcia — instrucciones para no ser _ first performance

Scott Sanders — Baside _ first performance

Wajdi Abou Diab — Yè ḍawaèl aḍwaa _ first performance

 

Performed by: Juana Monsalve, voice; Juan Sebastián Ortega, violin; Vigovajk Sagvik, cello; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello; Liam Battle, cello; Ángela Calvo Ríos, oboe and english horn; Nuria López Garcia, guitar and electric guitar; Guillermo Bocanegra, guitar; Elina Agneta Lamberte, kokle; Marcell Csuka, accordion; Bruna Di Virgilio, piano; Flavia Salemme, piano; Aldo Chiarulli, percussion; Alexander Smith, percussion

 

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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

Teemu Heinonen — Piano Trio No. 2 "Webs" _ first performance

Aleksandra Naumovski Potisk — Mausoleum of Galla Placidia _ first performance

Ng Yu Hng — The Rood _ first performance

Katie Hoi-ching Tang — Broken Sound _ first performance

Zi Tao Chua — living, breathing — Nature Study No. 2 _ first performance

Yan Liang — Coiled within _ first performance

Filippo Lepre — Tell me something _ first performance

Mustafa Eren Arın — Incidental _ first performance

Luis Miguel Delgado Grande — Los cuerpos del monte _ first performance

Randall Smith — Lucem Ac Tenebras _ first performance

Vigovajk Sagvik — Bleeding Through the Pages _ first performance

 

Performed by: Juana Monsalve, voice; Juan Sebastián Ortega, violin; Vigovajk Sagvik, cello; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello; Liam Battle, cello; Ángela Calvo Ríos, oboe and english horn; Nuria López Garcia, guitar and electric guitar; Guillermo Bocanegra, guitar; Elina Agneta Lamberte, kokle; Marcell Csuka, accordion; Bruna Di Virgilio, piano; Flavia Salemme, piano; Aldo Chiarulli, percussion; Alexander Smith, percussion

 

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

Agustín Castellón Molina — coarse roots _ first performance

Leonardo Mezzalira — Swamps _ first performance

Won Jong — delicate flexion, ligaments in suspension: triptych _ first performance

Yiannis Kouskoufis — Dolanaar _ first performance

Grant Cottier — L'auscultation desire for synchronicity _ first performance

Veronika Reutz Drobnić — Look me in the eyes — rebirth of Medusa _ first performance

Nicole Balsirow — through valleys and over hills _ first performance

Thomaz Barreto — The Quiescence of Concord _ first performance

Mario Marchant — Vivo! _ first performance

João Pinto — sugar rush _ first performance

Niki Zohdi — Flumina _ first performance

 

Performed by: Juana Monsalve, voice; Juan Sebastián Ortega, violin; Vigovajk Sagvik, cello; Robert Feifan Hurley, cello; Liam Battle, cello; Ángela Calvo Ríos, oboe and english horn; Guillermo Bocanegra, guitar; Elina Agneta Lamberte, kokle; Marcell Csuka, accordion; Bruna Di Virgilio, piano; Flavia Salemme, piano; Aldo Chiarulli, percussion; Alexander Smith, percussion

 

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