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William Blank
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The composer and conductor William Blank was born in Montreux in 1957. He is currently responsible for contemporary music at the Music Academy HEMU in western Switzerland, where he directs the Ensemble Contemporain and teaches composition and analysis. Blank’s works are performed throughout Europe and in the USA and Japan, in prestigious concert halls such as the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the KKL in Lucerne, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Zaal Koningin Elisabeth in Antwerp, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in Oxford, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Festpielhaus and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. His music has been performed by conductors such as Armin Jordan, Antony Wit, Fabio Luisi, Pinchas Steinberg, Kasuyoshi Akiyama, Zsolt Nagy, Jean Deroyer, Dennis Russell Davies and Heinz Holliger. He has collaborated in particular with the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Collegium Novum Zürich, the Ensemble Paul Klee and the Ensemble Arc en Ciel as well as with numerous internationally renowned artists such as the Quatuor Sine Nomine, the Amar Quartet, the pianist David Lively, the cellist Jan Vogler, the trumpeter Alison Balsom, the violist Tomoko Akasaka, the singers Rosemary Hardy and Natalia Zagorinskaja, the MDR Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Swiss Chamber Soloists. In 2001, Blank was awarded the Prize of the Cantonal Bank of Canton Vaud for his life’s work hitherto. Then, as part
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Grammont Portrait: William Blank
Blank: Reflecting Black
William Blank: Einklang
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William Blank: Flow, Ophrys, Refrain II & (A)round
Reflecting Black
William Blank
Flow ∙ OPHRYS ∙ Refrain II ∙ (a)round
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William Blank: Chamber Works
Grammont Sélection 2
Grammont Sélection 1: Portrait - Uraufführungen aus dem Jahr 2007
Charrière, Thomas, d'Alvimare, Debussy & Blank: Pieces for Harp Duo
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William Blank: Monologues