As part of the Uni­ver­sity of Manchester’s MANTIS Fest­ival, Maur­icio Pauly and Sam Salem present a col­lab­or­a­tion with Italian vir­tuoso Francesco Dillon in an evening of con­tem­porary music for cello and elec­tronics in the heart of Manchester’s vi­brant Northern Quarter.

Pro­gramme

• New work for cello and dif­fused audio — Maur­icio Pauly and Sam Salem
• Double Con­tour, for cello and com­puter — Ku­miko Omura
• Psalm, for cello and elec­tronics — Juste Jan­ulytė
• Oog, for cello and soundtrack — Michel Van der Aa
• Curve with plat­eaux, solo cello — Jonathan Harvey

Venue

Nexus Art Café
2 Dale Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1JW, UK (View map)

More about the people involved

Italian cel­list Francesco Dillon (Alter Ego, Quar­tetto Pro­meteo) was re­cently fea­tured in the 4^th volume of Giacinto Scelsi works along with Or­chestra Sin­fonica della RAI. He has re­corded for the la­bels Aulos, Dy­namic, Ri­cordi, Stra­di­varius and Touch and he re­cently re­leased the world premiere re­cording of Variazioni for cello and or­chestra by Sal­vatore Sciar­rino on the KAIROS label. You can watch and listen to Francesco playing Britten, Rach­maninoff, Schu­mann and Zem­l­insky with duo partner Emanuele Torquati here.

Born in Costa Rica, com­poser Maur­icio Pauly is cur­rently based in Manchester. He has re­cently been awarded the pres­ti­gious Staubach Hon­or­aria com­mis­sion for a new work to be premiered by Oslo-based en­semble Asamisi­masa at the 45^th In­ter­na­tional Summer Course for New Music in Darm­stadt, Ger­many, in 2010. His new string quartet was premiered in New York by the JACK Quartet on 11 Feb­ruary 2010.

Sam Salem is a mul­ti­media artist and acous­matic com­poser whose music has most re­cently been performed/exhibited in Montreal (ICMC09), New York (NYCEMF), Berlin (SMC 08), Valencia (Di­gital Media 1.0) and around the UK and Scand­inavia (as part of the Wet Sounds ’09 tour).