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The Aventa Ensemble Performs Boulez’s Dérive II on Canadian Tour

Jan. 11, 2011

The Aventa Ensemble, based in Victoria, British Columbia, recently completed a Canadian tour featuring Pierre Boulez’s Dérive II, among other works. The tour took them through Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, and Calgary in early January. Robert Everett-Green of Toronto’s Globe and Mail wrote:

I can hardly give enough praise to the 13 players of Victoria’s Aventa Ensemble and conductor Bill Linwood, who tackled all this difficult music with skill, passion and dedication. How lucky for all of us that this band is able to tour the country, for the second time in less than a year.

Dérive II was composed in 1988 and revised in 2006, and recently had its US premiere in a brillliant performance by the Talea Ensemble in December, 2010 at a portrait concert dedicated to the music of Pierre Boulez at Miller Theater of Columbia University. About Talea's performance, Allan Kozinn in the New York Times wrote, "the Talea players' achievement, particularly in the shorter works on the first half, was to cruise through the difficulties of Mr. Boulez's music and to find the magic in it."

Dérive II, dedicated to Elliott Carter on his 80th birthday, was the result of “research into periodicity” as Boulez writes, “When I reflected on some of Ligeti’s compositions... I felt the desire to dedicate myself to some almost theoretical research into periodicity in order to systematically examine its overlays, its shifts and its exchange.”

For more information on this work, visit www.universaledition.com.

For details about the Aventa Ensemble, visit www.aventa.ca.

Pierre Boulez
Dérive 2 (1988/2006)
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