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EAM Now North American Representative of the Baerenreiter Verlag Catalogue of Contemporary Music

Jan. 08, 2008

We are proud to announce that as of January 1, 2008, EAM is now the exclusive North American agent for the Baerenreiter Verlag contemporary catalogue; the remainder of the Baerenreiter catalogue will continue to be represented by the Baerenreiter Music Corporation. One of Europe's finest publishers of contemporary music, Baerenreiter boasts a distinguished roster of composers including Beat Furrer, Ernst Krenek, Matthias Pintscher, Manfred Trojahn, Charlotte Seither, and Miroslav Srnka among others. As a small sample of what the Baerenreiter roster has to offer, we have included here a selected list of key works in the contemporary catalogue for which you can now come to EAM for all rental, perusal and promotional inquiries.

Beat Furrer (*1954)
Beat Furrer was recently awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his stage work FAMA (2005), a monodrama based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Founder of Klangforum Wien, Furrer recently had the premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at West German Radio, Cologne. As exclusive representatives of both Universal Edition and Baerenreiter, EAM now proudly represents the entire distinguished catalogue of Furrer works.

Fama (2004/05)
monodrama for 8 voices (SSAATTBB) and orchestra
text by Ovid and Arthur Schnitzler
2(1.bfl,cbfl,pic;2.pic)1.2(bcl).tsx.1(cbn)-0220-2perc-pno.acc-str(2.2.2.1)
ca. 50'

Begehren (2001)
music theatre for male and female voice, chorus and orchestra
libretto by Beat Furrer, Christine Huber and Wolfgang Hofer
2(bfl)1.3(2 bcl)tsx(ssx)1(cbn)1110-3perc-pno-str(2.1.1.1)
full evening

Matthias Pintscher (*1971)
A student of Trojahn, Henze, Eötvös, Boulez and Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher served as Composer-in-Residence at The Cleveland Orchestra in 2005. The Cleveland Orchestra recently performed the New York premiere of his Five Orchestral Pieces at Carnegie Hall in October and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs the New York premiere of his Osiris at Carnegie Hall on February 25, 2008.

Thomas Chatterton (1994-98)
opera in two acts
libretto by Claus H. Henneberg and Matthias Pintscher
for 3S, Mz, 3T, 3Bar, B-bar, B, 2 speaking roles
3(2pic;1afl)2(heckelphon)ca.2(eflatcl)bcl.cbcl.2.cbn- 443.cbtub-3perc.timp-hp.cel(harm).pno(cemb)-str(12.10.8.6.5)
full evening

Five Orchestral Pieces (1997)
for orchestra
3(2pic;bfl)2.ca.2(eflatcl;cbcl)bcl.2.cbn-443.cbtub-5perc(timp)-2hp.pno (concertflügel)cel(synth)-str(14.12.10.8.6)
ca. 20'

Osiris (2007)
for orchestra
3(2pic)2.ca.2.bcl(cbcl)2.cbn-432.btb.1-4perc-2hp.pno(cel)-str(14.12.10.8.6)
ca. 20'

Ernst Krenek (19001991)
With an oeuvre of more than 240 works spanning seven decades and diverse compositional styles, Krenek has been characterized as a "one-man history of twentieth-century music." Throughout this vast career Krenek's musical direction shifted between twelve tone technique, serialism, electronic music and modal music as a result of compositional necessity and aesthetic insight. This congruence of musical idea and intellectual analysis remained typical of Krenek's oeuvre.

The Belltower (1955-56)
opera in one act
libretto (English and German) by the composer based on the short story The Belltower by Hermann Melville
for S, 2T, 3Bar, B; chorus
1(pic)1(ca)1(bcl)0-0110-4perc-2pno-str
stage instruments: 2 tp, tb
58'

What Price Confidence (1945)
chamber opera in nine scenes
libretto (English and German) by the composer
S, Mz, T, B and piano
45'

Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae (1941)
for SATB chorus
68'

Manfred Trojahn (*1949)
Manfred Trojahn's aesthetic stands apart from the post war avant-garde with a compositional technique more reminiscent of figures of the fin de siècle and one that has been compared to Britten and Henze. An inductee of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, he was the Composer-in-Residence for the 2004-05 Würzburg Mainfrankentheater. On August 26, 2006 the Salzburg Festival featured the premiere of his Ariosi for soprano, bass clarinet and orchestra, which was also commissioned by the festival. On February 2, 2007 Trojahn's Che fie di me for two sopranos and orchestra, commissioned by Southwest German Radio Stuttgart, was premiered at Stuttgart's ECLAT - Festival. Trojahn is currently completing his new opera La Grande Magia, based on the play Eduardo de Filippo, which is set to premiere on May 10, 2008 at the Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden.

...mit durchscheinender Melancholie (1995)
a Brahms portrait for orchestra
2222-4220-timp-str
8'

Rhapsodie (2001/02)
for clarinet and orchestra
cl solo; 1.afl.1.ca.1.bcl.1.cbn-2220-timp-str(12.6.6.4)
16'

Miroslav Srnka (*1975)
Born in Prague in 1975, Miroslav Srnka was awarded the Gideon Klein Award as well as the Generace Award in 2001 and in 2004 was the recipient of the Leoš Janácek Anniversary Prize. In 2005 his short opera Wall was premiered at the Staatsoper Berlin. In the 2006/07 season he was named "composer for Heidelberg" at the Theater Heidelberg. His works have been performed and premiered internationally by ensembles including the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern and at the Berlin Philharmonic, New Music Days Ostrava, Musica Strasbourg and Avanti! Summer Sounds in Porvoo, Finland.

Kráter Brahms (2007)
for cello and string orchestra
vc solo; 12.10.8.3.3.4
ca. 11'

Les Adieux (2004/07)
for large ensemble
1(pic,bfl)1(ca)1(bcl)111(pictp)10-2perc-pno.hp-str(1.1.1.1)
10'

Charlotte Seither (*1965)
Charlotte Seither's recent commissions have come from the Berlin Senate for the Ars Nova Ensemble, the Tema Ensemble of Milan, and the Berlin Academy of Arts. Numerous honors include first prize in the 1995 Prague Spring International Composition Competition and first prize in the Premi Internacional de Composicio Ciutat de Palma in 2004. The BBC Symphony Orchestra recently performed the world premiere of Seither's Gran Passo on November 16, 2007. Aribert Reimann, speaking during her awarding of the Wilfried Steinbrenner Scholarship, remarked that "her music has a fragile sensitivity... she tries to make silence audible...the quintessence of her music lies precisely in the way it eavesdrops on vibrations beyond the perceptible and intelligible. That is the source of its strength and integrity."

Paires d'alternances (2001)
for orchestra
2(pic,afl)2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-3perc-hp-str(12.10.8.6.6)
ca. 12'

Waters, earth and air (1997)
for woman's voices, bass flute, bass clarinet, piano and 2 percussion
13'

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