Gwyn Pritchard: Features and Formations

Featuring

Francesc Prat
Manfred Spitaler
Asia Ahmetjanova
David Sontòn Caflisch
Ensemble ö!
Gwyn Pritchard

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Composer Biography

Gwyn Pritchard (b. 1948) was largely self-taught as a composer, beginning his musical experiments after his family inherited a piano.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pritchard's music is driven by questions of form and organization, and the relationship between an objectively structured environment and a subjective navigation through it.

Performer Biography

Asia Ahmetjanova (b. 1992), the pianist on this album, works across various fields including solo performance, interactive chamber music, and music theatre, and has performed at Carnegie Hall.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The algorithm provides Gwyn Pritchard with raw 'clay' rather than music, offering problems whose solutions drive his compositional process bar-by-bar.

Compositional Technique

Since 1999, Gwyn Pritchard has used an algorithmic sequence generator to determine pitches, durations, and the form of his works, aiming for diversity while limiting accidental patterns.

Performer Biography

Ensemble ö!, founded in 2002 by violinist David Sontòn Caflisch, focuses on contemporary music and has established a biennial festival called 'tuns contemporans' in Switzerland.