Clement Power

Clement Power (born 20 August 1980 in London) is a British conductor.

Education

After studies of piano, violin and composition, Power read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London.

Career

After a year (2005–06) as assistant conductor to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Power was named assistant conductor (2006–08) of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris, where he worked with Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki and Peter Eötvös. He has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,[1] Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestre de Bretagne, the Philharmonia,[2] and returned to the Ensemble Intercontemporain[3] and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[4][5] 2009 saw his debuts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Suntory Hall, Tokyo (conducting Stockhausen's Gruppen),[6] the Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona,[7] and the Philharmonie, Luxembourg, and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Radio France and OE1. Recent engagements include the London Philharmonic Orchestra (in collaboration with composer/performer Tristan Murail,[8] Birmingham Contemporary Music Group,[9][10] Philharmonia,[11] Ensemble Intercontemporain,[12] National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia, ensemble BCN216[13] and Klangforum Wien.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Engagements in the 2012–13 season include debuts with the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (Finland),[22] Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva), and Musikfabrik (Cologne), and conducting the opening concert of the 2012 Wien Modern festival.[23][24][25][26] Following an invitation to conduct de Falla, El retablo de maese Pedro at the Lucerne Festival,[27][28] he stepped in at short notice for an indisposed Pierre Boulez and the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in the Lucerne KKL and Salle Pleyel, Paris.[29][30]

Discography

Hèctor Parra, Hypermusic Prologue – Ensemble intercontemporain – KAIROS 0013042KAI, 2010[31][32]

Gerald Resch, Collection Serti — Klangforum Wien – KAIROS 0013282KAI, 2012[33]

Marko Nikodijevic, dark/rooms — Ensemble musikFabrik – Col Legno 40408, 2013[34][35]

Agata Zubel, Not I — Klangforum Wien — KAIROS 0013362KAI, 2014[36]

References

  1. ↑ http://living.scotsman.com/music/Still-in-tune--Nigel.4530745.jp
  2. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalconcertreviews/7749592/Philharmonia-Orchestra-Festival-Hall-review.html
  3. ↑ "...the Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by an inspired Clement Power" http://elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=666031&idseccio_PK=1013&h= César López Rosell, El Periódico, 29 November 2009
  4. ↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/classical/article7129887.ece
  5. ↑ http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=5802
  6. ↑ http://www.universaledition.com/Karlheinz-Stockhausen/composers-and-works/composer/698/work/2695
  7. ↑ "A final word for conductor Clement Power – meticulous, brilliant" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cataluna/dimension/oculta/opera/elpepiespcat/20091128elpcat_22/Tes Agustí Fancelli, "La dimensión oculta de la ópera", El País, 28 November 2009
  8. ↑ "All four pieces benefitted from evidently sympathetic performances under the perceptive direction of Clement Power" http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=10254
  9. ↑ "Conductor Clement Power shaped its huge, Mahlerian paragraphs with unerring judgment and a touching reverence" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalconcertreviews/9066408/Birmingham-Contemporary-Music-Group-CBSO-centre-Birmingham-review.html Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, 8 February 2012
  10. ↑ "This rare performance of a Gérard Grisey masterpiece instantly evoked the composer's expressive power" http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/05/bcmg-power-review?newsfeed=true Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 5 February 2012
  11. ↑ http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=9071
  12. ↑ http://www.anaclase.com/chroniques/solistes-de-l%E2%80%99ensemble-intercontemporain
  13. ↑ http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/11/14/catalunya/1384457996_058524.html
  14. ↑ "Mit seinen die weichen, fliehenden Klang unterstützenden Bewegungen erweiterte Clement Power die Musik wunderbar um ein optisches Pendant." http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=1&id=380
  15. ↑ "Under Power’s direction, [Klangforum Wien] could go from serious to whimsical in a heartbeat; on both sides of the podium, the control was masterful" http://pragueculture.blogspot.com/2010/11/contempuls_14.html
  16. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1317019754180/Grazer-Musikprotokoll-Sound-der-Schneeflocken
  17. ↑ http://winter.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/2849978/grenzen-freiheit.story
  18. ↑ http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/contemporary-music-festival-in-belgrade
  19. ↑ http://www.polskamuza.eu/wywiady.php?id=636
  20. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/3136199/crescendo-unter-lupe.story
  21. ↑ http://dr000276.host.inode.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6519:lichtmusik-im-dunkeln&catid=32:meldungen-kritiken&Itemid=41
  22. ↑ http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/konsertti/artikkeli/Harveyn+s%C3%A4velfantasia++on+maagista+ja+v%C3%A4rik%C3%A4st%C3%A4/HS20120701SI1KU04bzr
  23. ↑ http://kurier.at/kultur/buehne/kloing-klaus-klatsch-bei-wien-modern/824.967
  24. ↑ http://www.european-cultural-news.com/wien-modern-eroffnungsabend-es-darf-gelacht-werden/6222/
  25. ↑ http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/klassik/1304660/Mensch-gegen-Maschine_Eroeffnung-von-Wien-Modern?_vl_backlink=/home/kultur/klassik/index.do
  26. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1350259171730/Wien-Modern-und-Musikverein-Verzerrung-und-Vergangenheitssattheit
  27. ↑ "...Angefangen mit der quirligen neoklassizistischen Musik, die vom Ensemble under Leitung von Clement Power höchst akkurat und farbenreich gespielt wird..." Sigfried Schibli, Basler Zeitung, 3 September 2012
  28. ↑ http://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/conductors/clement_power/
  29. ↑ "An seine Stelle trat mit Clement Power ein 32-jähriger Engländer, der nicht nur anspruchsvollste Werke von Jonathan Harvey und Philippe Manoury in aller Präzision meisterte, sondern auch, und trotz sehr kurzfristiger Übernahme des Mandats, die heikle "Erwartung" von Arnold Schönberg mit Deborah Polaski bewältigte. Da hat einer seine Chance erkannt.", Peter Hagmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 September 2012 http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/feuilleton/uebersicht/sechs-wochen-musik-mit-akzenten-und-perspektiven-1.17608299
  30. ↑ "...le jeune Clement Power, a certes reçu en héritage un geste clair, une grande sûreté dans l’art de détailler les plans sonores, une réelle aisance à se mouvoir dans des partitions saturées de pièges et de complexités, une forme de perfection « objective » dans ses conceptions interprétatives." http://www.forumopera.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=4112&cntnt01detailtemplate=gabarit_detail_breves&cntnt01dateformat=%25d-%25m-%25Y&cntnt01lang=fr_FR&cntnt01returnid=64 Clément Taillia, Forum Opera, 9 September 2012
  31. ↑ http://www.kairos-music.com/Startseite/startFR.html
  32. ↑ "The performance is consummately elegant, each detail finely etched, while never losing sight of the whole acoustic spectrum", Fabrice Fitch, Gramophone, September 2010
  33. ↑ http://shop.kairos-music.com/en/R/01-GERALD-RESCH-Collection-Serti-kairos.html
  34. ↑ http://magazin.klassik.com/reviews/reviews.cfm?task=record&RECID=24966&REID=14570
  35. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1358305674570/Siemens-Foerderpreis-fuer-Hefti-Moussa-und-Nikodijevic
  36. ↑ http://www.kairos-music.com/home.php?il=682&l=deu

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