Slide Ensemble wins in Salzburg
The Slide Ensemble wins 1st prize in the improvisation competition at the XIX Annual Congress of the Society for Music Theory at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Ensemble Aspirateur Spatial wins 2nd prize.
The Slide Ensemble is a quartet for new music based in Zurich. It deals "with contemporary music as well as improvisation and collective musical practices".
The Slide Ensemble consists of Diego Alberto Kohn (violin/viola), Ferran Gorrea i Muñoz (saxophone), Gemma Galeano Ballestar (saxophone) and Marina Mello Andrade (harp), all of whom have been internationally active in contemporary music and free improvisation for many years.
The Society for Music Theory (GMTH) was founded in Berlin in the summer of 2000. As an interest group for German-speaking music theory, it advocates the political strengthening of music theory as an independent university discipline and is aimed at people who represent the subject of music theory in research and teaching or who are generally interested in music theory topics.
