Alexej Gerasimez and friends

World-class percussionist Alexej Gerassimez, a longtime companion of Heidelberger Frühling, is on the trail of nature's elemental forces in his current project, along with three percussionist friends and his brother Nicolai on piano. His own "Suite of Elements" brings water, wood, stone, metal and fur to sound one after the other. A meditation on the eternal cycle of becoming and passing away is formed in between by the "Canto Ostinato" by Simeon ten Holt, one of the most popular works of minimal music from the Netherlands. Originally written for an unspecified number of keyboard instruments, this ostinato chant is here sung by four mallet instruments, also called mallet instruments, and piano.
Followed by artist talk with Anselm Cybinski in the Festivalzentrum
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Alexej Gerasimez
Direction and percussion
Lukas Böhm
Percussion
Emil Kuyumcuyan
Percussion
Sergey Mikhaylenko
Percussion
Nicolai Gerassimez
Piano
Alexej Gerasimez
Soul of Bottle (water)
Echtonan (wood)
Stonewave (stone)
Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood (for stones arr. A. Gerassimez)
Alexej Gerasimez
Piazonore (metal)
Asventuras (fur)
Mátyás Wettl
Nocturne for 16 light switches and lamps (2015)
Alexej Gerassimez (*1987)
Suite of Elements: Water
Simeon ten Holt (1923 - 2012)
Canto Ostinato I (1976)
Alexej Gerasimez
Suite of Elements: Wood
Simeon ten Holt
Canto Ostinato II
Alexej Gerasimez
Suite of Elements: Stone
Simeon ten Holt
Canto Ostinato III
Alexej Gerasimez
Suite of Elements: Metal
Simeon ten Holt
Canto Ostinato IV
Alexej Gerasimez
Suite of Elements: Skin
Simeon ten Holt
Canto Ostinato V

For multi-percussionist Alexei Gerassimez, every performance is like climbing a mountain: "You have to climb the whole mountain step by step". When you get to the top, it makes a difference whether you have hiked up or taken the gondola. On his acoustic way home, Alexei talks about the difference between the artist personality and Gerasssimez the person and what real success means to him.
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