MUSICAL PROGRAMME
MUSIQUES POUR UN VISAGE
• Luca Antignani : …ed il mare rispose in eco
for solo voice, choir and orchestra - Traditional Italian songs
• Luca Antignani : Là et ailleurs
for choir and orchestra - World Premiere
• Edith Canat de Chizy : Berceuse et Ame en peine
for solo voice, choir and orchestra - Traditional Algerian songs
• Edith Canat de Chizy : Nedjma
for orchestra - World Premiere
• Maurice Ravel : Ma mère l’Oye
ballet, for orchestra

For their 2003 programme the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra under their conductor Roland Hayrabedian have chosen to evoke an impression of Algeria through new works inspired by the writings of the Algerian novelist, poet, and playwright Kateb Yacine (1929-1989). Works have been commissioned from composers Edith Canat de Chizy and Luca Antignani. Folk music is given pride of place in these orchestrations of traditional Algerian and Italian songs as revisited and reworked by the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra. This Musiques pour un visage (Music for a Face) programme is completed by a 20th century work by Maurice Ravel.

MUSICAL DIRECTION Roland Hayrabedian ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR Orchestra : 44 musicians 8 violins I, 6 violins II, 5 violas, 5 cellos, 2 double-basses, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones 2 percussionnists, harp, celesta Choir : 23 chorus-singers and soloists 8 sopranos, 6 mezzo-sopranos, 5 tenors, 4 basses Soloist Fadhila Chebab, soprano Countries represented Albania, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Morocco, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Croatia, Malta

COMPOSERS
Edith Canat de Chizy
Born in 1950, she has lived since 1970 in Paris where she studied music at the CNSM. She was a pupil of Ivo Malec and Maurice Ohana, and in 1990 she received the International Tribune of Composers' Prize, as well as several other composition prizes. The study of electroacoustic music, and her training as a violonist have given her a particular sense of timbre and sound material. As well as being a composer, she has been director of the Conservatory of the XVe arrondissement of Paris since 1986.
Luca Antignani
Born in Italy in 1976, he studied piano composition, orchestral direction and electronic music. He is currently studying composition and musical data-processing at the Paris Ircam. He was commissioned by Luciano Berio to write a score for the 2004/2005 season of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He was selected to represent Europe at the Forum 2002 in Montreal and Radio France entrusted him with a commission for chamber orchestra. He has won many international prizes and his compositions have been performed at many contemporary music festivals in Italy.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Maurice Ravel is the most classical of all the french modern composers. Attracted by symphonic music (La Valse, Boléro, Daphnis et Chloé) he also wrote for the piano (Jeux d’eau, Gaspard de la nuit, Concerto pour la main gauche), and composed cycles of melodies (Shéhérazade) and, for the stage, the lyrical fantasy L'Enfant et les sortilèges. His work is remarkable for the precision of the melodic line and the brilliance of its orchestration.

TRAINING SESSION
Montecatini (Italy) from June 30th to July 13th.
Teaching staff
Roland Hayrabedian, musical director
Edith Canat de Chizy, composer
Luca Antignani, composer
Ivan-Pierre Domzalski, master of choir in Marseilles Cnipal
Bujar Sykja, violonist soloist and professor in Tirana Faculty of Music
Vito Paternoster, solo celloist and teacher in Bari’s State Conservatory (Italy)
Claude Crousier, clarinettist soloist and professor at the CNR of Marseilles
Eric Sombret, horn player soloist and professor at the ENM of Avignon
George Van Gucht, soloist and professor at the ENM of Toulon and at the Lyon CNSM

INTERNATIONAL TOUR
July 13th to 22th
Italy
Florence, Santo Stefano al Ponte’s Church - International Festival of European Youth Orchestras
Arezzo, San Domenico’s Place - Festival of Orchestras
Montecatini, Thermal Baths of Tettuccio - International Festival of European Youth Orchestras
Lucca, San Giovanni’s Church
Modena, Ducal Park
France
Istres, Pavilion of Grignan - Istres Summer-Fest
Digne, Notre-Dame-du-Bourg Cathedral
Marseilles, Hôtel de Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

PARTNERS OF THE SESSION
The 2003 session profited from the support from :
Regione Toscana Porto Franco - Des pays suivants : Egypte, Albanie, Grèce, Croatie, Malte - Djazaïr, une année de l’Algérie en France - Accademia San Felice, Florence - Régie culturelle régionale Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur - Agence pour le patrimoine antique Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
and from:
Musique nouvelle en liberté - Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Sacem) - Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes-interprètes de la musique et de la danse (Spedidam)