Fineberg studied with Tristan Murail in Paris and was selected for the IRCAM/Ensemble InterContemporain course in composition and musical technologies.
Performer Biography
The Arditti Quartet, founded by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974, is renowned for its interpretations of contemporary music and has had hundreds of works written for it.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Fineberg's concept of 'sonic fiction' emerged from his engagement with Vladimir Nabokov's novels, particularly the use of unreliable narrators, while writing his multimedia opera Lolita.
Performer Biography
The Arditti Quartet has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 1999 for 'lifetime achievement' in music, making them the only ensemble ever to receive it.
Composer Biography
Joshua Fineberg is a recipient of numerous national and international prizes and scholarships, and in 2016, he was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et lettres by France.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Joshua Fineberg describes the majority of his compositions since 2005 as 'sonic fictions,' which are acoustic perceptual objects shaped by authorial and interpretive voices.
Compositional Technique
Fineberg's sonic fictions are not programmatic or mimetic of nature, but rather draw on modernist writing that highlights its own fictitiousness, creating layered and multivalent discourse.
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