The culmination of a multi-year project sees Joseph Petric (accordion) and Martin Carpentier (clarinet) perform new duo works developed by an international roster of composers. New relationships, formed in the creation of each piece, serve to refract and re-imagine their instruments, their role, function, contexts and interpretive possibilities. The programme will hint at ambiguity, vulnerability, and fresh artistic perspectives offered by the confounding of expectation.

Both Petric and Carpentier have pursued careers as champions of process, challenging orthodoxies while embracing the nexus of memory, aesthetics, and understanding achieved through their performance practice.

Here reimagining is a renewal of process, embedded within each new creation.

Concert Programme

Transonique, Gabriel Mălăncioiu - ROM
Gabriel Mălăncioiu (ROM)  offers an Eastern European perspective of the clarinet and accordion tinged with Stravinskian impulses;

Biarc, Kathryn Knowles - CAD
Kathryn Knowles (CAD) offers a work which confounds expectation with episodic excursions;

fox-red, Daryl Jamieson - CAD/JAP
Daryl Jamieson (JAP-CAD) delivers a transparent and ethereal work that triggers internalized and ritualized spaces

más tranquila (for pauline), D. Edward Davis - USA
D. Edward Davis draws on the Conjunto accordion tradition with warmth and episodic declarations, tinged by (and dedicated to) Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening traditions;

Kinamulátan, Juro Kim Feliz - PP/CAD
Juro Kim Feliz (PP-CAD) offers a traditional, almost modernist rigour in the writing, yet confounds expectation with lyricism, and warm textural soundscapes;

Performers
Joseph Petric, accordion
Martin Carpentier, clarinet

Technical Personnel
Audio recording, Peter Lutek
Graphics, Nigel Baines

Hear Joseph Petric and Martin Carpentier in conversation with Matthew Fava 

Biarc by Kathryn Knowles