M.E.C.
  • 2019/20 Season
    • 7/29/19 - MUSIC AS EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE
    • 9/28/19: STEVE REICH: 'DRUMMING'
    • 11/11/19 - MORTON FELDMAN: 'FOR PHILIP GUSTON'
    • 11/25/19 - XENAKIS / PARMEGIANI: ASTRONOMIE SONORE
    • 1/13/20 - NEW VOICES V: (HARMONY)
    • 2/9/20 - CAGE / KLEIN: ARIA & RECITATIVE
    • 4/6/20 - PÄRT / RADIGUE: TABULA RASA
    • 4/7/20-4/9/20 - ÉLIANE RADIGUE: INTO THE VOID
    • 4/13/20 - DAVÓNE TINES: 'RECITAL No. 1'
    • 5/18/20 - ANNE CARSON, SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GLASS
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  • About MEC
    • History
    • Historical Testimonials
    • Artistic Director - Jonathan Hepfer
    • MEC Production Team >
      • Associate Producer - Brandon Lincoln Snyder
      • Grants Manager - Erika Bell
      • Photographer in Residence - Anneliese Varaldiev
    • MEC Gallery - Anneliese Varaldiev, photographer
    • Board of Directors
    • Venues
    • Videos: Performances, Interviews
    • MEC Archive: Programs 2006-2017 >
      • 2018/19 SEASON >
        • SEASON OVERVIEW
        • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
        • Oct. 5, 2018: AN ODYSSEY
        • Dec. 17, 2018 : HOW SMALL A THOUGHT IT TAKES
        • Jan. 14, 2019 : GAY GUERRILLA / CONTRALTO
        • Feb. 11 / Feb. 8-14, 2019: MARINO FORMENTI 'MA MORT' / 'ONE TO ONE'
        • Mar. 25, 2019 : A DREAM WHICH HAUNTS YOU STILL
        • May 20, 2019 : BRUTAL ELEGANCE
      • 2017/18 SEASON >
        • Director's Statement
        • The Concerts
        • December 4, 2017: Billone / Hildegard
        • January 8, 2018: Yarn / Wire
        • March 26, 2018: Nicolas Hodges
        • April 16, 2018: Sciarrino / Mundry
        • May 21, 2018: Monk / Eastman
        • May 23, 2018: *Radigue Portrait*
      • 2016/17 SEASON >
        • The Concerts
        • Season Trailer
        • Season Description
        • December 10, 2016 - Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
        • January 23, 2017 - Julius Eastman Portrait
        • March 6, 2017 - Michael Pisaro / Guillaume de Machaut
        • March 27, 2017 - New Voices III: Sorcery, Perhaps
        • April 24, 2017 - Georges Aperghis: Happy End
        • Season Bibliography
      • 2015/16 SEASON >
        • 2015 / 16 Season at a glance
        • December 7, 2015 - Talea Ensemble
        • January 11, 2016 - Songs for Crossing the Threshold
        • [SUNDAY, February 7, 2016] - FUNDRAISER AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
        • February 29, 2016 - Alexei Lubimov: Homage à Maria Yudina
        • March 28, 2016 - Séverine Ballon: Solitude
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Georges APERGHIS 


Georges Aperghis was born in Athens in 1945. He lives and writes in Paris since 1963. His work is notably characterized by a questioning about languages and the meaning. His compositions, wether instrumental, vocal or for stage, explore the borders of the intelligible, he likes to create twisted tracks which allow him to keep active the listener (stories emerge but are suddenly refuted).
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Aperghis’ music is not strictly linked to any dominant musical aesthetics of the contemporary musical creation but follows on his century by a dialogue with other forms of art and an extreme open-mindedness to intellectual, scientific and social fields.

This otherness is combined with innovation when he includes electronics, video, machines, automatons or robots to his performances. Aperghis works closely with group of interpreters who are entirely part of the creative process. They are comedians (Edith Scob, Michael Lonsdale, Valérie Dréville, Jos Houben), instrumentalists (Jean-Pierre Drouet, Richard Dubelski, Geneviève Strosser, Nicolas Hodges, Uli Fussenegger) or vocalists (Martine Viard, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Lionel Peintre). From the 90’s he shared new artistic collaborations with danse (Johanne Saunier, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) and visual arts (Daniel Lévy, Kurt D’Haeseleer, Hans Op de Beeck). The main european contemporary music ensembles have developed a working relationship with Aperghis through settled commissions that are now part of their repertory (Ictus, Klangforum Wien, Remix,  Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Intercontemporain, Vocalsolisten, the SWR choir).

Recently Georges Aperghis received the Mauricio Kagel Prize in 2011 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement - Venise Biennale Musica 2015. The BBVA Foundation Award « Frontiers of Knowledge » goes to Georges Aperghis in 2016  (category contemporary music).
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Georges Aperghis, photo: Guy Vivien
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Excerpt from score to Aperghis' 'Récitations'
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  • 2019/20 Season
    • 7/29/19 - MUSIC AS EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE
    • 9/28/19: STEVE REICH: 'DRUMMING'
    • 11/11/19 - MORTON FELDMAN: 'FOR PHILIP GUSTON'
    • 11/25/19 - XENAKIS / PARMEGIANI: ASTRONOMIE SONORE
    • 1/13/20 - NEW VOICES V: (HARMONY)
    • 2/9/20 - CAGE / KLEIN: ARIA & RECITATIVE
    • 4/6/20 - PÄRT / RADIGUE: TABULA RASA
    • 4/7/20-4/9/20 - ÉLIANE RADIGUE: INTO THE VOID
    • 4/13/20 - DAVÓNE TINES: 'RECITAL No. 1'
    • 5/18/20 - ANNE CARSON, SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GLASS
  • UP NEXT FOR MEC
  • About MEC
    • History
    • Historical Testimonials
    • Artistic Director - Jonathan Hepfer
    • MEC Production Team >
      • Associate Producer - Brandon Lincoln Snyder
      • Grants Manager - Erika Bell
      • Photographer in Residence - Anneliese Varaldiev
    • MEC Gallery - Anneliese Varaldiev, photographer
    • Board of Directors
    • Venues
    • Videos: Performances, Interviews
    • MEC Archive: Programs 2006-2017 >
      • 2018/19 SEASON >
        • SEASON OVERVIEW
        • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
        • Oct. 5, 2018: AN ODYSSEY
        • Dec. 17, 2018 : HOW SMALL A THOUGHT IT TAKES
        • Jan. 14, 2019 : GAY GUERRILLA / CONTRALTO
        • Feb. 11 / Feb. 8-14, 2019: MARINO FORMENTI 'MA MORT' / 'ONE TO ONE'
        • Mar. 25, 2019 : A DREAM WHICH HAUNTS YOU STILL
        • May 20, 2019 : BRUTAL ELEGANCE
      • 2017/18 SEASON >
        • Director's Statement
        • The Concerts
        • December 4, 2017: Billone / Hildegard
        • January 8, 2018: Yarn / Wire
        • March 26, 2018: Nicolas Hodges
        • April 16, 2018: Sciarrino / Mundry
        • May 21, 2018: Monk / Eastman
        • May 23, 2018: *Radigue Portrait*
      • 2016/17 SEASON >
        • The Concerts
        • Season Trailer
        • Season Description
        • December 10, 2016 - Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
        • January 23, 2017 - Julius Eastman Portrait
        • March 6, 2017 - Michael Pisaro / Guillaume de Machaut
        • March 27, 2017 - New Voices III: Sorcery, Perhaps
        • April 24, 2017 - Georges Aperghis: Happy End
        • Season Bibliography
      • 2015/16 SEASON >
        • 2015 / 16 Season at a glance
        • December 7, 2015 - Talea Ensemble
        • January 11, 2016 - Songs for Crossing the Threshold
        • [SUNDAY, February 7, 2016] - FUNDRAISER AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
        • February 29, 2016 - Alexei Lubimov: Homage à Maria Yudina
        • March 28, 2016 - Séverine Ballon: Solitude
      • PROGRAMS 2006-2015
    • Press
    • Partners and Supporters
  • Buy Tickets
  • Support MEC
  • Join Email List
  • Contact