Program:

Dániel Péter Biró: Lizkor Velishkoach (To Remember and to Forget) 2000/2019
Dániel Péter Biró: Salvim (Quails) 2013 /2023
Dániel Péter Biró: T'shuvah (Return) 2022-2023 (World Premiere)

The Arditti Quartet will also hold an open workshop with students and alumni at the Grieg Academy, 23. May. See facebook-event for more information.

The Arditti Quartet
The Arditti Quartet enjoys a global reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history.

The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to collaborate with every composer whose works it plays.

Dániel Péter Biró
Dániel Péter Biró is Professor for Composition at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. He studied in Hungary, Germany, Switzerland and Austria before receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004.

From 2004-2009 he was Assistant Professor and from 2009-2018 Associate Professor for Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria. In 2011 he was Visiting Professor, Utrecht University and in 2014-2015 Research Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He leads the project Sounding Philosophy as part of the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (2021-2025).
 

The concert is supported by Bergesenstiftelsen, NyMusikk, KMD and UiB. The composition comission for the composition T'shuvah is supported by the Det norske komponistfond / Musikkfondene.