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RESIDENCY PROGRAM FOR ARTISTIC RESRARCH IN MUSIC
MENTOR:
Dr. Alastair White (1988) is a Scottish composer and writer. His work is characterised by a lyrical complexity which has been described as “a whole exciting new genre of art” (BBC Radio 3) and an attempt “to challenge long-held assumptions about the material world and to illuminate the performative nature of matter itself” (Opera Today). Notable projects include the fashion-opera cycle of WEAR, ROBE, WOAD and RUNE (“excellent" — BBC Music Magazine, “spellbinding” — Boulezian); a string quartet for the Altius Quartet’s album Quadrants Vol. 3; the documentary opera A Boat in an Endless Blue Sea; The Drowning Shore, a Scots-Yiddish cantata; and #CAPITAL, the first opera to be performed in the metaverse ("an impressive Gesamtkunstwerk [which] shows all that the future will make possible” — Schön Magazine). Recipient of the Tait Memorial Trust Award, and shortlisted twice for a Scottish Award for New Music (in 2019 and 2020) a Creative Edinburgh Award (2019), an Ivan Juritz Prize (2023), and The Stage Awards (2024), his music is available on several full-length releases from Métier and Navona, and his scores are published by UMP. He teaches music at the University of Surrey and holds a PhD in Music from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Classical Music Magazine and publishes and speaks internationally on his research interests, which include the theory of contingency dialectics and its methodological implications in fashion-opera.
https://www.alastairwhite.org
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COORDINATORS:
Urban Megušar (1997) is a Slovenian cellist and composer based in Amsterdam (NL). As a cellist Urban is dedicated to chamber music and the performance of new music. Urban regularly collaborates with living composers and focuses on premiering new compositions for cello. He has performed in various countries at venues and festivals such as Berliner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Wien Modern, Klang Festival, Music Biennale Zagreb, Stift Festival, Festival Ljubljana and .abeceda Festival. As a member of Trio Tempestoso, he is the winner of Boris Pergamenschikow Preis for Contemporary Music 2019 and received Dwight & Ursula Mamlok Prize in 2022. Urban’s teachers include Dré A. Hočevar, Julian Arp, Tanja Orning, Torben Snekkestad and Martin Spangenberg.