MUSICAL PROGRAMME
20th SEASON
• Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231
Symphonic movement - for orchestra
• Philippe Gouttenoire - Phorkys
For orchestra - World Premiere
On a text about Ithaca from Homer's Odyssey
A Mediterranean Youth Orchestra commission
• Jean-Christophe Marti - Oïkouménê
For mezzo-soprano and orchestra - World Premiere
Based on traditional music from islands of the Mediterranean
A Musique nouvelle en liberté commission for the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
• Modest Mussorgsky - Tableaux d’une exposition
For orchestra - orchestration by Maurice Ravel (1922)

During this 20th season Roland Hayrabedian will conduct the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra in a programme that evokes a dream journey. The noises of Honegger's infernal machine take us to the coast of Ithaca and the port of Phorkys where Philippe Gouttenoire found inspiration in a text from Homer's Odyssey. Jean-Christophe Marti takes a fresh look at folk music and women's songs from the Mediterranean islands. Our imaginary journey continues with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in which the composer plumbs the depths of his own nature.

MUSICAL DIRECTION Roland Hayrabedian ORCHESTRA Soloist : Angelica Cathariou, mezzo-soprano Orchestra : 70 musicians 10 violins I, 10 violins II, 8 violas, 8 cellos, 4 double-basses, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 1 alto saxophone, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 3 percussionnists, 2 harps, 1 celesta Countries represented : Albania, Croatia, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kosovo (former Yugoslavia), Macedonia, Morocco, Portugal, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey.

COMPOSERS
Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer who met Poulenc and Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris and founded Les Six in 1920. Despite rejecting all the accepted systems, tradition remained important to him and he was an unashamed admirer of J.S. Bach. His music, which combines vigorous lyricism with wonderful melodic freedom, uses complex polyphony and driving rhythms. Arthur Honegger is as far removed from aesthetes such as Cocteau and Satie as from the abstract compositions of Schoenberg, his aim as an artist in the true sense of the word being to write music that was both accessible to non-specialists and of interest to musicians.
Philippe Gouttenoire
The French composer Philippe Gouttenoire was born in 1962. He studied cello and composition and was a student of Gilbert Amy at the CNSM in Lyon. In 1992 he won the France-Quebec Office for Youth composition prize for his Ramure for large orchestra. Many vocal and instrumental works have since been commissioned from him by the French State, public bodies and musical ensembles. As well as his composition work he has taught since 1985 and in 1990 was appointed professor of musical analysis at the CNSM in Lyon.
Jean-Christophe Marti
Jean-Christophe Marti received his musical training at the Conservatoire National de Région (CNR) in Boulogne-Billancourt and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) in Paris while studying conducting under Jean-Claude Hartemann. He then devoted himself to composing and his love of great literary works have led him to compose many vocal and stage-based works including : Démeture sur démeture and The Last Words Virginia Woolf Wrote premiered by Musicatreize, Bar Iona premiered by the Jeune Chœur de Paris and Timsongs/Timshimmy, the premiere of which was given at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. He also works with several stage directors and runs workshops with actors, amateur musicians and children. He is a prizewinner of the Natexis-Banques Populaires and Beaumarchais Foundations and has been a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science in Paris since 2001.
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
The essentially self-taught Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was a member of the "Mighty Five" who contributed to the revival of Russian music. As well as his masterpiece, the opera Boris Godunov, his Pictures at an Exhibition, originally written for piano, have become celebrated in the brilliant orchestration by Ravel. In spite of his marked Russian nationalism, Mussorgsky was one of the most original and influential composers of the 19th century.

TRAINING COURSE
Santa-Maria Di Lota, near Bastia (Corsica), from 5 to 21 july
Teaching staff
Roland Hayrabedian, musical director
Philippe Gouttenoire, composer
Jean-Christophe Marti, composer
Sarah Nemtanu, violin soloist / Orchestre National de France
Bujar Sykja, violin soloist / Academy of Arts, Tirana (Albany)
Raymond Glatard, viola soloist / Orchestre National de France / CNSMD, Paris
François Adloff, cellist / Orchestre Régional de Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur / ENM, Mouans-Sartoux
Claude Crousier, clarinet soloist / CNR, Marseille
Carlo Colombo, bassoon soloist / Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon / CNSMD, Lyon
Éric Sombret, horn soloist / Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon Provence / ENM, Avignon
Jacques Mauger, trombone soloist / Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris/CNR / guest professor in Rome and Tokyo
Georges Van Gucht, percussion soloist / ENM, Toulon and CNSMD, Lyon

INTERNATIONAL TOUR
from 20 to 26 july
France
Bastia, Sainte-Marie Cathedral
Ajaccio, Conference Centre
Marseille, islands of Frioul as part of the Nuits Caroline Festival
Italy
San Galgano, Abbey, Festival di Chiusdino
Santa Fiora, International Festival Santa Fiora in Musica

CD RECORDING SESSION
28, 29 and 30 july
The programme was recorded at the Montévidéo studios in Marseille

PARTNERS OF THE SEASON
20th season, patron Henri Dutilleux,
under the aegis of UNESCO
The 2004 season is supported by :
The French embassies and cultural institutes in the participating countries - Ministries of the arts in the participating countries - Collectivité Territoriale de Corse (Corsican local authorities) - Jeunesses musicales de Méditerranée, Corsica - Municipality of Bastia - Municipality of Ajaccio - Accademia San Felice, Firenze - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional authority for the arts
and :
Hippocrène Foundation - Musique nouvelle en liberté - Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers), SACEM - France 3 Méditerranée (regional television channel)