Chamber music Archives · Ofer Pelz - Composer | Improviser

New piece commission of ur.werk for a premiere in Hannover, Germany

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“Départs… entanglements” (“Departures… Unleashes”) is a concert series with a total of 8 concerts (4 double concerts) within the framework of the ensemble friendship between two Hanoverian ensembles and two Canadian ensembles from Montréal. The Flex Ensemble and Ensemble ur.werk, the string quartet Bozzini and the saxophone quartet Quasar will present with two premieres each …

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Tracé – ensemble Cairn

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Piece commissioned by ensemble Cairn for the festival Ensemble[s] in Paris. For Violin, Cello, Accordion, and Piano. My work often begins with the search for a sound image. In Tracé, this image is constructed by granular points, which, by their proximity to each other, form a body. This body repeats and transforms itself constantly, keeping …

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Trinité – album – Ofer Pelz and Meitar Ensemble

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New Focus Recordings catalogue – Trinité “Brilliantly inventive music is achieved through a seeking, inquisitive mind; the music of Ofer Pelz is to be celebrated. “ – Colin Clarke – American Record Guide – The album presents five of my works, composed between 2010 and 2017, and all performed by the Meitar …

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Gamification project in CEME 2020

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Gamification in CEME Festival 2020 – Tel-Aviv. This project highlights a uniqueness in live performance—interactive music-making—by means of Game Pieces. Game pieces are musical compositions whose course is not predetermined like most pieces in classical music, but is determined in real-time according to rules, chance operations and competitive strifes between performing opponents toward a goal, …

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Chinese Whispers

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For flute clarinet, violin cello and piano. 11″ Meitar ensemble: Roy Amotz – flutes Gilad Harel – clarinets Moshe Aharonov – violin Jonathan Gotlibovitch – cello Amit Dolberg – piano Guy Feder – conductor In a complex joining of events, simple repetition directs the listener towards new elements and insights. Each reappearance of a given …

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Shift

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For Three Tables, Percussion and Amplification Architek Percussion: Ben Duinker, Mark Morton, Ben Reimer, Alessandro Valiante. Performed and recorded at Live@CIRMMT 13th of February 2014, MMR, Mcgill University, Montreal. Montreal 2014, 7′ Ca A Shift applies to change, transformation, rotation, and movement which all exist in music and are applied by parameters such as time, structure, order, …

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marchons, marchons

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fl. cl. pno. vln. & vncFor Sentiari Selvaggi, Feeding the music Festival, Expo, Milano. Revision and new performance – Meitar ensemble, conducted by Pierre-André Valade, Manifeste Festival, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Paris Montreal 2016, 11’ Ca Initially marchons, marchons was written for Expo Milano 2015, whose theme was “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”. It was while thinking of this notion …

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I need to hear it first – Quasar saxophone

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I need to hear it first was commissioned by Quasar Saxophone. The work was created on May the 30th 2018, as part of the concert Territoires sonores. The work was revised later and was played by the quartet in many opportunities. My work often begins with research, the appropriation of an image in sound. In “I need …

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Equilibrium

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Violoncello, electronics and 9 Instruments.Solo Violoncello David Zur, Conducted by Karin Ben-Josef . Premiere, April 2008, Jerusalem’s Music Center. Revision, October 2008, Israel Music Festival, Jerusalem’s Theatre. Jerusalem 2008, 19′ Ca Equilibrium is a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces or influences. Energy must be created for changing this balanced situation. This …

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Crossing Borders

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Examining the term BORDERS and some of its manifestations in means of music and art is the subject of a new piece initiated by the Israeli Meitar Ensemble in co-production with the celebrated German ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten. Two composers join forces to create the musical world for this piece, another Israeli-German partnership, Ofer Pelz and …

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