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Apartment House
Apartment House was created by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze in 1995. Since then its original and innovative programming has gained Apartment House the reputation as one of the most exciting contemporary music groups in Europe.
Apartment House's performances have included world premières of music by a wide variety of composers. Notable portrait events have featured Christian Wolff, Jerry Hunt, Luc Ferrari, Dieter Schnebel, Christopher Fox, Laurence Crane, Helmut Oehring, James Clarke, Philip Corner and Richard Ayres. Titled with reference to the Cage work Apartment House 1776, the group is of flexible instrumentation, allowing for a vast range of performance possibilities. Apartment House has made numerous broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 as well as Danish Radio, Swedish Radio 2, WDR Cologne, Deutschlandfunk, Berlin and ORF Austria. |
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The ensemble enjoys a close relationship with Irish composer Jennifer Walshe, whose much talked about 'Barbie' opera, XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS has so far been performed in Dresden, Vienna, Oxford, Stuttgart, Bruges, Rome and Oslo. For further information on this work, which projects live-size images of the dolls onto video screens, click on the following link:
XXX LIVE NUDE GIRLS
Another large-scale project was Die Schachtel, an environment for musicians, performers, space, video installation, lighting and electronics based on the music by Franco Evangelisti and the scenario by Franco Nonnis. In collaboration with "labor für musik:theater" Apartment House performed this work at Sophiensaele in Berlin as part of the Ultraschall Festival in January 2006.
In 2008 Apartment House performed at the ISCM World Music Days in Vilnius and took part in a full performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den Sieben Tagen for BBC Radio 3/Cut and Splice Festival at Wiltons Music Hall, London. They also recreated the 1958 Carnegie Hall John Cage retrospective concert directed by Philip Thomas at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with BBC commissioned works from Philip Corner, Alvin Curran, Claudia Molitor, Hans W. Koch and Zbigniew Karkowski. Highlights of 2009 included performing Jennifer Walshe’s XXX Live_Nude_Girls at the Ultima Festival and an Anthony Braxton project at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and November Music, in the Netherlands.
Apartment House’s website, featuring sounds, visuals and a performance diary, is at www.apartmenthouse.co.uk
For further information on the Apartment House or their availability, please send an e-mail to Julia Haferkorn at: info@haferkornassociates.com
