HEALING
This piece was created with the intension to let the listener dive into the simplicity and depth of the sound, its beauty and continuity, to let the listener tune him/herself on a beautiful tone. This is the recording from the premiere performance at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam 18.05.2013 in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Blue Note
528Hz ensemble:
Raphaela Danksagmüller – duduk
Thorwald Jørgensen – theremin
Evgeniy Bondarev – trumpet
Evgeniy Novikov – soprano saxophone
Stefan de Wijs – alto saxophone
Michał Gryćko – tenor saxophone
Juan Manuel Dominguez – baritone saxophone
STREETS
It is the streets and canals of Amsterdam in the Autumn. Melancholic tunes of street musicians, atmosphere of loneliness and light nostalgia slowly embracing you while getting lost..
Performed at An Evening of Today in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ by the Nieuw Ensemble on the 14th of January 2014.
Harrie Starreveld, Shakuhachi
Sarah Jeffrey, Paetzold Recorder
Igor Iofe, Piano
Herman Halewijn, Percussion
Tristan Renfrow, Percussion
Hans Wesseling, Mandolin
Helenus de Rijke, Guitar
Ernestine Stoop, Harp
Rob Dirksen, Double Bass
21 GRAM
Played by Ensemble FIVE on 8-5-2014 in the Amstelkerk.
FIVE:
Mascha Van Nieuwkerk
Ragnhild Wesenberg
Renée Timmer
Chieko Donker Duyvis
Anne Korff de Gidts
WILLING TO PRAY
Looptail XXX
Performed in Het Veem, Amsterdam on June 10th, 2012 at the Composers’ Festival 2012
Flute: Klaasje Nieuwhof
Piano: Pascal Meyer
I CAME LIKE WATER AND LIKE WIND I GO..
Movement V
In this piece the newly invented string instruments are playing in combination with flute, soprano voice and piano. The strings are being stretched between the beams of the mezzanine of the building and also hanging from the ceiling beams with heavy weights on them. The hanging strings surround the audience and musicians. A very special building HET VEEM (Van Diemenstraat 410, 1013 CR Amsterdam) – former warehouse, where the piece was premiered, inspired Hans van Koolwijk, Jan van der Sangen and Igor Iofe to create these instruments and this composition. The concert was performed as a part of Toets des Tijds Concerten Series.
MUSICIANS
String players:
Julie Stalder
Frank Diamand
Linda Paulino
Jan van der Sangen
Noam Staal
Reciters:
Frank Diamand
Lara Diamand
Ensemble TRIODUO:
Lara Diamand – soprano/reciter
Erica van den Berg – ( alto ) flute.
Georgina Collington – piano
Lyrics by Omar Khayyam
I CAME LIKE WATER AND LIKE WIND I GO..
version for male choir and string quintet
On rubai by Omar Khayyam:
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d–
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go..”
Live performance at the Museum Werf ‘t Kromhout in Amsterdam on the 27th of June 2014
@ Concert de.fundo am See Amsterdam
With de.fundo am See waters splattered, drops were splashing, bubbling springs and waves crashing!
1st viola – Carolien Roodenburg
2nd viola – Irene Doolaard
1st cello – Moritz Johannes Kellner
2nd cello – Ivo Bles
Contrabass – Daniel de Boer
Conductor – Arild Rohde
THE CRUCIAL POINT
This piece was inspired by and written for Igor’s classmates in conducting class taught by Lucas Vis. It was performed at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam on the 6th of December 2012
Ella van der Woude voice
Jakob Lundbak alto saxophone
Jesper Ankarfeldt tenor saxophone
Eren Önsoy piano, Lennart Altgenug piano
Kristijan Krajnčan cello
Markus Larjomaa trombone
Igor Iofe conductor
Y+Y
This piece was written specially for the Joint Venture Percussion Duo and performed at the Composers’ Festival in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam on the 17th May 2013
Performers: Laurent Warnier and Rachel Xi Zhang
DUO FOR SOINUA
This piece was written specially for the Duo Soinua and premiered in the Amstelkerk on the 6th of April 2014
Duo Soinua:
Francesca Clements – soprano recorder
Erica Roozendaal – accordion
MET ONS
Family Tree Concert by Duoharpverk on the 3rd Dec 2014 @ Hljómskálagarðurinn 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Percussions – Frank Aarnink
Harp – Katie Buckley
THE LAUGHTER
by S.Lakatos & I.Iofe
This is the result of the collaboration with an amazing jazz musician Sandor Lakatos.
Igor Iofe 