As you might have noticed, we’re currently mostly speaking about our new CD , cause of course this release is a big step in Linea’s career. We’re currently fully engaged in the CD promotion campaign, and the first feedbacks are quite positive. We’ll keep on talking about that but actually our new CD is not the only highlights of the year in Linea’s activity, even if it will echo to several events we are taking part to.

 
Among others, Belgium based Ars Musica Festival where we play on 29th of march. We perform  there “Sonata Per Sei “ from the CD, one other Eötvös work, completed with compositions by Bartok and Ligeti : a programme, given at the Brussels Royal Conservatory , which considers Péter Eötvös in his Hungarian musical context.

Beside Belgium, Linea continue to export his art outside the French boundaries. In june we cross the ocean to experience the American world of new music. First we join our new Yorker  “brothers in arms” of the Talea Ensemble for a common concert in New York City, introduced by a debate focusing on the aesthetic differences between French and American way of composing new music…Then we go upward to the northwest of the New York State, for a one week residency at the June in Buffalo festival, powered by the Music Department of the Buffalo University . In there, we gonna work with the composition students during several master classes and workshops, and give a concert aswell. In both New York and Buffalo, the main motto is "French and american dialogue in music" as concerts programmes feature a blend of works composed on both sides of the Atlantic. An exciting project that we summarize by using the concept of “Overseas” which is the “code name” of this Linea’s US tour.

Here in France, Linea is back already in august in Royaumont , near Paris, where we are “ensemble in residence”, for a new cyclus of workshops and performances. Programme, to be completed, includes a summer seminary for professional musicians, devoted to Xenakis , which is also part of the programme of the concert we give in September in Royaumont.

Back to our hometown Strasbourg, we are – for the second year – included in the cultural season of the city theater “TAPS ” where we perform in may our “Cosmos” programme …an exploration of the universe, with Eötvös (“Kosmos”), Stockhausen (“Tierkreis”) and many other composers as space guides.

Also in Strasbourg, Linea comes back to famous local festival “Musica ” with a programme related with Royaumont, as we gonna perform works by composers who attended to composition sessions those last years.

Some other rendez-vous are on the way, like Zurich, probably in autumn. A rich and fruitful year for Linea !