Pieces by Leo Svirsky and Teodora Stepančić 

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Winter Music
by Leo Svirsky

New work commissioned by Modelo62.

Leo Svirsky (1988) is an American composer and pianist born in Knoxville, TN and currently residing in The Hague, Nederlands.  His music explores the instability of listening and the disorientation of memory and affect while remaining grounded in history and symbol, song and story. His 2019 Unseen Worlds album, River Without Banks, drew the attention of choreographer Kyle Abraham, who is now developing a new work for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. 

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that chord
by Teodora Stepančić

“I write music to create situations for people to play and be together. I combine textures, spaces and practices to open windows into overlapping perspectives on experience and distorted sense of place and time, parallel realities. Soft and slow. That way I can hear more. I ask myself: How much do I need to add to everything that I hear?”

Composer, pianist and curator Teodora Stepančić grew up in Belgrade, lived in The Hague for a decade, and currently lives in Brooklyn where since 2017 she organizes Piano+ concert series and leads LCollective. Teodora has played with Modelo62 since 2006, is a part of Canadian duo Teo Dora An Drea (with Andrea Young) and Stepančić.Gidron duo. Her work was released on Another Timbre, Other Minds, Infrequent Seams, Dumpf, Indexical, Cloudchamber Recordings and her label Love Records.

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Line-up:
Gemma Tripiana Muñoz – flute
Jorge López García – clarinets
Chloë Abbott – trumpet
Klára Van de Ketterij – percussion
Teodora Stepančić – piano
Elliot Simpson – guitar
Ezequiel Menalled – guitar (that chord), conductor 
Iulia Andreea Smeu – violin
Wilma de Bruijn – cello
Ilya Ziblat Shay – double bass 

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Sound or Not is made possible with the generous support of Fonds Podiumkunsten NL, Gemeente Den Haag and Konrad Boehmer Foundation