Carillon Concert with Electronics
  as part of the International Competition for Carillonneurs in Berlin

July 7, 1991 at 3 p.m.

Jeffrey Bossin, Carillonneur, Berlin

Program

Vox Veterrima (1988)     Ricardo Mandolini
Jeffrey Bossin, carillonneur; Jeffrey Burns, midi-keyboard; electronics: Folkmar Hein, Electronic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin

Farbwolkentrio (1991) World premiere     Friedemann Graef
Jeffrey Bossin, carillonneur; Friedemann Graef, saxophone; Albrecht Riermeier, percussion

Organized by the Werkstatt Berlin 1988 e.V. with the support of the Senator for Cultural Affairs

Jeffrey Burns was born in 1950 in Los Angeles, California and studied music at the University of California. In 1968 he won a gold medal at the international piano competition "Viotti" in Vercelli, Italy. In 1972 he was awarded a DAAD-stipendium to come to Germany. From 1977 to 1983 he taught piano at the University of Münster. In 1983 Burns moved to Berlin, where he became a leading exponent of contemporary piano music and premiered many works by leading composers such as György Ligeti and Frank Zappa. From 1983 to 1986 he directed the Chamber Music Ensemble Berlin and organized the music program of the Berlin Jewish Cultural Festival from 1985 to 1991. Starting in 1994 he gave an international master class for new piano music at the Music Academy Rheinsberg, starting 1997 he gave concerts on "The Piano of Light", which combined a grand piano, computer animation and a illuminated dome made of sixty coloured spotlights.

Friedemann Graef was born in 1949 in Berlin and is a saxophonist and composer. In his youth he was a gitarrist in rock bands. During his studies in chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin he took private flute and saxophone lessons and studied composing with Earle Brown and Eberhard Blum. Since 1975 he has worked as a saxophonist specializing in improvisation, has performed with his own jazz ensembles in France, Schweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the USA, India, Brazil and East Germany, and recorded 20 CDs together with such musicians as John Tchicai, Albrecht Riermeier, Ray Anderson, Harry Beckett, Kamalesh Maitra and Heiner Goebbels. Starting in 1980 he played the dulcian for a time with the Musicalischen Compagney ensemble for old music. He has always been interested in the origins of European music. In addition to his own projects Graef has as a member of the Berlin Saxophone Quartet recorded new works of contemporary music as well as classical compositions and pieces by other composers such as Michael Sell. Graef has written works choral and orchestral works, organ music and chamber music, an a large volume of sacred music. He has received prizes for both his compositions and his work as a performing musician, for example from the Union of German Jazz Musicians.

Farbwolkentrio (Colourful Clouds Trio) was composed for carillon, saxophone and percussion (marimbaphone, xylophone, temple blocks, gongs, and various drums) in 1991. The piece lasts 22 minutes and is made of various motives, figures, chords and tremolandos, which are sometimes grouped in repeated sections and which the three performers use to create a jazz type of free dialogue.