[concert] Konus Quartett & Tomas Korber

Date: Thursday, 18th April 2019
Open / Start : 7pm
Venue : PARADISE AIR
Act : Konus Quartett & Tomas Korber
Admission : 1,000 JPY（inc. 1-Drink）

Konus Quartett & Tomas Korber – «ANSCHLUSSFEHLER» Asian Tour 2019
After «Musik für ein Feld» 2014, the quartet will present a new work with the composer Tomas Korber.
World Premier «ANSCHLUSSFEHLER» for saxophone quartet and electronics (2019)

Konus Quartett & Tomas Korber; composition and electronics
Christian Kobi; saxophone
Fabio Oehrli; saxophone
Jonas Tschanz; saxophone
Stefan Rolli; saxophone

Konusquartett.ch | tomaskorber.com

Tour dates:
Saturday 13. Beijing > miji concert Jan Yun atelier
Sunday 14. Beijing> Workshop and concert at CCOM http://www.ccom.edu.cn/
Monday 15. Beijing > Central Academy of Fine Arts http://cafa.admissions.cn/
Tuesday 16. Beijing > fruityspace https://www.thebeijinger.com/directory/fruityspace
Wednesday 17. Tokyo > ftarri http://www.ftarri.com/suidobashi/index-e.html
Thrursday 18. Tokyo > PARADISE AIR https://admin.paradiseair.info/about
Friday 19. Tokyo > OTOOTO
Saturday 20. Osaka > Bar Kitty (Tetsuya Snoo Doghase & Kaori Yoshikawa)

Profile:

Konus Quartett
As a chamber music ensemble whose instrumentation changes frequently, the Konus Quartet engages its audience with highly expressive and idiosyncratic sounds. Contemporary original compositions are interpreted predominantly by the quartet, but these are also contrasted with pieces from past centuries and arrangements for saxophone instrumentation. The radical nature of its concert programmes has seen the quartet become established over the past 10+ years as an important voice for new contemporary and experimental music.
Composition commissions are awarded regularly to well-known artists by the quartet; to date such artists have included Barry Guy, Urs Peter Schneider, Tomas Korber, Phill Niblock, Makiko Nishikaze and Jürg Frey.
Three musical highlights serve to showcase the remarkable range of the Konus Quartet: In 2006, “La bocca, i piedi, il suono”, a composition by Salvatore Sciarrino for four soloists and a hundred saxophonists, was performed in the French Church in Bern (Release 2006, Cubus Records).
A collaboration with the filmmaker and composer Phill Niblock gave rise to the composition entitled “To Two Tea Roses” which was premiered in 2013 in Switzerland in the presence of the composer.
The piece “Music für ein Feld” (Music for a Field) was the result of a composition commission awarded to the Zurich-based musician Tomas Korber (Release 2014, Cubus Records).

Tomas Korber
Tomas Korber lives and works in Zurich. He studied psychology at the University of Zurich with a focus on methodology and computer science, holds a Master of Science degree, and wrote his master thesis on audio design and cognition. Today he works as a composer, producer and improvising musician and is mainly active in the field of experimental electroacoustic music, film music, and sound design.

In addition to his work as a solo artist and composer, he has collaborated with numerous internationally renowned musicians, including Tim Barnes, Olivia Block, Dieb13, Hans Koch, eRikm, Sachiko M, Butch Morris, Norbert Möslang, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Gert-Jan Prins, Keith Rowe, Mark Wastell, Christian Weber, Ralf Wehowsky, Christian Wolfarth and many more.

Tomas Korber has been involved in the production of over twenty album releases throughout his career, has composed the soundtrack to several feature films and has appeared at major festivals around the world touring Europe, the United States, and Asia extensively. He was awarded the Artist in Residence Scholarship (New York) of the City of Zurich and received a composition commission from the Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia.