13-13 December 2023

Nournimity

Tickets: €18 / €16
Show Time: 7pm

Performed by Lina Andonovska (flutes and performance) and Ria Rehfuß (dance and performance)

World Premiere

for flutes, performance and electronics

Immerse yourself in a world of play, where perception and points of view meet. Drop into sounds and feel them viscerally in your body. Experience multi-sensory stimuli, enchanting your senses and conjuring your imagination.

Prepare yourself for a multidisciplinary experience, intersecting contemporary music, movement and theatre. Join the journey through music, body and light to where memory and imagination merge, through a new performance experience for composer, flautist and performance artist.

Lucia Kilger (concept, composition, electronics), Lina Andonovska (flutes and performance) and Ria Rehfuß (performance and dance), three artists with different backgrounds, combine their common passion to create new worlds in a unique project that speaks its own language.

Accessibility

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Credits

Concept, composition, electronics: Lucia Kilger

Flutes/performance: Lina Andonovska

Dance/performance: Ria Rehfuß

Sound Engineer: Adrian Hart

Lighting Design: Sebastian Pizzaro

Lighting Technician: Avram Rosewood

Biographies

Lina Andonovska – flautist

Curiosity, fearlessness and versatility carry Lina Andonovska’s artistry around the globe. Andonovska is a rare breed in the flute world; a name that you’ll discover on both the pages of Rolling Stone and the Australian Chamber Orchestra roster, she has not only cultivated partnerships with leading composers including Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy and flautist Claire Chase, but also deep community ties from Timor-Leste to Tokyo’s incubator Wonder Site.

She is flautist of 4 time Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird. She has collaborated with some of the most important ensembles of today including Crash Ensemble, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, and stargaze. She is critically acclaimed for her interpretation of new music; Rolling Stone Magazine hailed her performance at Bang On A Can Summer Festival as “superbly played, (ranging) from sustained ‘somebody-please-get-that-tea-kettle’ squeaks to the flit and flutter of its beautifully lilting trills…”

As an orchestral player she has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia and most of Australia’s symphony orchestras. She currently performs as Principal Flute with Irish National Opera Orchestra. As concerto soloist she has performed with Deutsches Kammerorchester, Cinncinati Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Southbank Sinfonia.

Recent performance credits include a solo performance at the Melbourne International Arts Festival that was noted as “re-defining the act of going solo “ (​The Age)​, Brett Dean’s flute concerto ‘Siduri Dances’ with Deutsches Kammerorchester, Tokyo Experimental Festival Grand Prize, appearances with stargaze at the Edinburgh International Festival, Berlin’s acclaimed ​Unerhörte Musik series and a solo recital at Musica Nova Helsinki​.​ Lina released her debut solo album with Diatribe Records label in early 2020.

In 2023, she is a Trotter Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Oregon and Artist in Residence at the prestigious Australian National Academy of Music of where she is an alumna. Passionate about mentorship and coaching, she has appeared as Guest Teaching Artist at Yale University, Louisiana State University, University of Alabama, Rowan University, De Pauw University, University of Arkansas, Clemson University, University of Queensland and has been Artist in Residence at the University of Western Australia.

Lina performs on a Contrabass Flute by innovative flute maker Eva Kingma purchased through Music Network’s Music Capital Scheme, funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. Music Network is funded by The Arts Council. Lina is a Powell Flutes Artist.

Lucia Kilger – composer

Lucia Kilger is a composer, sound director and media artist living in Cologne. Her work focuses on intermedial, cross-disciplinary projects in collaboration with other artists as well as unusual concert formats. She has composed for renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Recherche and Decoder Ensemble, and has created audiowalks, videowalks and entirely digital formats.

Her works have been performed at festivals such as the Munich Biennale, Next Level Festival For Games and Ruhrtriennale – Festival der Künste. After several internships in sound studios and theaters, an IHK vocational training with distinction as a media designer for video and sound as well as activities as a video and sound technician in TV live broadcasting, she studied music design at the HfM Trossingen. She completed her practical semester at EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of SWR, her Master’s degree in Sound Direction at the HfMDK Frankfurt with Norbert Ommer as part of her scholarship to the International Ensemble Modern Academy, her Master’s degree in Electronic Composition with Michael Beil, and her concert exam in Composition with Brigitta Muntendorf at the HfMT Cologne.

Alongside conductor Friederike Scheunchen and composer Clemens K. Thomas, she is the artistic director of the ensemble s c o p e. Furthermore, she is the artistic director of the Cologne based festival Frau* Musica Nova. She is professor for composition and sound design at the HfM Detmold.

Ria Rehfuß – movement

Ria Rehfuß is a dancer, juggler, musician, choreographer and dance teacher based in Germany. She studied “Rhythmik / Music & Movement” as well as “Master Rhythmik Performance” at the Music University Trossingen in Germany and Contemporary Dance at Amaitopisto, Outokumpu in Finland. Since 2010 she teaches regular classes in contemporary dance, contact-improvisation, movement research, improvisation and applied anatomy in Trossingen.

You can also find her at several international festivals teaching contact-improvisation.

Conceptually, her dance is always strongly connected to music. That’s why she’s often working closely with musicians or composers like Lucia Kilger, Ensemble Scope, Zacharias Faßhauer or The Interstring Project to name a few. She also performs in various dance- and circus companies such as Cie ARMO Jérome Thomas, HeadFeedHands and Ancalima.

In her solo works, she writes own lyrics and music as well as choreography.

Press

“Redefining the art of going solo…(Andonovska’s) stage ability is something to behold…Andonovska does not simply ask for your attention, she demands it. a holistically excellent performer at the helm.” ★★★★ The Age, Melbourne International Arts Festival review

“Andonovska’s control of her instrument is immediately applaudable and the cyclonic energy of her playing commands an intensity of listening that is rare to encounter. Equally strong as an artist and a technician, it is the former that shines through and defines Andonovska as one of Australia’s leading artists, collaborators and curators.” – Music Trust Australia, Album Review of A Way A Lone A Last

“Aussie flautist wows with technique, invention and style…” – ★★★★ Limelight Magazine, Album Review of A Way A Lone A Last

Funding

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

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