The Manca Festival: Contemporary music returns for the 37th year.

Each year in November, the CIRM organizes the MANCA Festival in Nice and its region.

From recitals to grand orchestra concerts, a wide repertoire of works, with or without electronics, is presented. Contemporary music actors can be found there.

Openings to other forms of artistic expression (dance, cinema, or visual arts, …) are also included in the program.

After the symphonic concert at the Opera that inaugurated the 2017 edition, the Manca Festival continues its programming with appointments throughout the week.

This Tuesday, December 5 at 8 PM at the Marc Chagall National Museum, auditorium

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
Quatuor Diotima
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928, Cze) String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923) 15′
György Ligeti (1923, Rom – 2006, Aut) String Quartet No. 2 (1968) 20′
György Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 “Metamorphoses nocturnes” (1954) 10′
Leoš Janáček String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” (1928) 30′

Wednesday, December 6 at 6:30 PM at the Nice Conservatory

STUDENT FORUM
Instrumental pieces with or without electronics – coordination by Michel Pascal
Francis Dhomont, Mario Rodrigue, Daniel Arango Prada, Sheng Yang, Arthur Arsenne, and Hans Tutschku

Thursday, December 7 at 6:30 PM at the Nice Conservatory

KOSMA CONCERT

CircaCello
Michel Pascal (1958, Fr) “Sinueuses” CREATION, for 2 cellos and electronics, creation dedicated to the Audibert/Lagarde duo
Michel Pascal “CircaCello” CREATION Production CIRM, for cello and electronics
Arvo Pärt (1935, Estonia) “Fratres,” arrangement for cello quartet (1977)
Jean-Michel Giannelli (Fr) “Quattru ritratti per viuluncellu” (2005 – 2017)
Thierry Muller (1964, Fr) “Tango Balade,” for cello quartet (2000)

Thursday, December 7 at 8:30 PM at Théâtre Francis Gag

OPERA FOR SOLO VOICE

Ajax by Yannis Ritsos / Show by the Khroma Company (2015) 65′
Marianne Pousseur music and performance
Enrico Bagnoli staging, scenography, and lighting

Friday, December 8 at Palais Lascaris

at 12 PM – MUSICAL CONFERENCE “The Viola, or the Impossible Compromise” by Christophe Desjardins

7 PM – SOLO VIOLA RECITAL Christophe Desjardins violist

Edith Canat de Chizy “Lament” 8′
Alberto Posadas (1967, Esp) “Tombeau et Double” (2014)
Patrick Marcland (1944, Fr) “Alto solo 2” and electronics
Katherine Balch (1991, USA) “Off hesperus” CREATION Production CIRM, for viola and electronics
Pierre Boulez (1925 – 2016, Fr) “Messagessquisse,” for viola and tape

Saturday, December 9 at Auditorium Jean-Etienne Marie (MAMAC)

DAY ART & SCIENCES UCA

10 AM / 11 AM – PERFORMED CONFERENCE “Devices: towards a resizing of the stage”
11 AM / 1 PM – PROJECTION – ROUND TABLE on the “Challenges of Musical Creation Today”
3 PM / 4:30 PM – ART & SCIENCES CAFE “How music influences our brain, emotions, and health”
6:30 PM – PERFORMANCE SHOW “Golem” by Bertrand Heidelein composition and musical computing
Elodie Tisserand soprano – Frank Lalou calligrapher

Sunday, December 10 at 3:30 PM at Eglise Saint-Pierre-d’Arène

SONGS OF LOVE

Ensemble Musicatreize
Roland Hayrabedian, direction
François-Bernard Mâche “Invocations,” for 6 voices and two percussion
François-Bernard Mâche (1935, Fr) “Danaé,” for 12 voices and one percussion
François Paris (1961, Fr) “Elements of vocabulary to say perhaps something simple and sweet,” for 12 mixed voices (2008)
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998, Fr) “The songs of love,” for 12 voices and tape