Ander Tellería - Ancient Doors (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist:

[04:25] 01. Ander Tellería - Batalla Imperial
[07:25] 02. Ander Tellería - Arquitecturas De Espejos
[06:58] 03. Ander Tellería - Tiento De Sexto Tono Sobre La Batalla De Morales
[12:31] 04. Ander Tellería - Trama De Aire Y Sombras
[13:44] 05. Ander Tellería - Trans-It!
[06:22] 06. Ander Tellería - Tiento V De Quinto Tono

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Album Notes
Ancient Doors offers a glimpse into the future from the past, by merging tradition and modernity through the works of two different periods performed by Ander Tellería: the Spanish Renaissance and the present.

In Ancient Doors the meantone accordion provides to the Renaissance works a new sound perspective, inspired in the traditional music, whereas the contemporary works show the most innovative techniques of composition of our times.

After years of research, Ander Tellería has managed to adapt a modern concert accordion and its interpretation to the features of the Spanish Renaissance, opening to the listener new sound ways, harmonies and registers inspired in the past. The process of adaptation of the instrument is explained to us in the next paragraph by the luthier J. Alberdi:

‘In the search for new sound possibilities, we looked into the past to recover a tuning system that will make us go back in time and will provide us with the opportunity to listen in this accordion to that music with the colour of that period. We started with a 415,30 Herz frequency versus the 442 Herz currently established and with irregular divisions within the octave that will create the searched colours by the composers of the 15th century by moving through the harmonies. This effect of great musical richness is practically lost nowadays because of lack of instruments able to reproduce it. This has required to rebuild the sound system of the accordion with reeds adapted to that need and after carying out calculations and research, the instrument was tuned to that pattern’.

The rest of the works that make up the album is composed by contemporary authors and they show the current treatment to the instrument through three authors of reference: Antonio Lauzurika, Agustín Charles and José María Sánchez-Verdú. Each work is written for different formations and considers three languages and facets that are very different from one another: the delicacy of Arquitecturas de espejos, the melodicism of Trama de aire y de sombras, and the energy of Trans-it!.

Ancient Doors is an album that shows the enormous capacity of communication of Ander Tellería as a performer in all his dimension and allows us to discover new sonorities, encouraging a more active listening and open to new expectations.

ANDER TELLERÍA

Internationally acclaimed by critics as an “accordion prodigy”, Ander Tellería is one of the most active accordionists and with better prospects in Spain.The passion he feels for the instrument he plays, the combination of styles and periods in the programmes he plays in his concerts and the importance he always places on the connection between the performer and the public make Tellería an outstanding musician.

On the one hand, his interest in ancient music and his research work on this field have led him to develop new sounds in the accordion and create the mesotonic accordion, an instrument with design and tuning features that make it similar to the sound of the Spanish Renaissance. It has let him collaborate with composers like Snezana Nesic.

On the other hand, his zest for innovation and the search of new ways of expression have led Ander Tellería to work with contemporary composers like José María Sanchez-Verdú, Yu Kuwabara, Markus Stockhausen, Snezana Nesic, Akira Nishimura, Ramón Lazkano, Zuriñe Gerenabarrena, Wen Liu, Stefano Bonilauri, Antonio Lauzurika, Mauricio Sotelo, Agustín Charles, Carlos Trujillo, Naoto Kobayashi, Mikel Urquiza, Aurelio Edler-Copes, Francisco José Ríos and Carlos Perales and to perform numberless premieres of their works.

Besides showing his huge talent as an accordionist in the concerts he regulary gives in countries like Spain, Argentina, Germany, France and Japan and Holland or in prestigious festivals like Brucknerfest Linz in Austria , Ander Tellería is developing a solid career as a soloist, having offered concerts with orchestras like Norddeutsches Philarmonisches Orchester, Ensemble Ciklus and Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española (ORTVE), under the baton of Rafael Payaré or Gil Raveh.

He has performed in venues like Palau de la Música Catalana, Palacio Euskalduna, Teatro Monumental de Madrid, Beethoven Saal of Hannover or Buckerhaus of Linz and has been involved in recordings under the name of Ander Tellería accordió y Acordeón Clásico. His performances have been broadcast on national and international media like Televisión Española, Radio Clásica, Radio Nacional de España, PuntoRadio, Norddeutsche Radio or NDR TV Hannover, to name a few.

The extraordinary quality of his performances has been acknowledged with numerous international awards, highlighted among them John Cage International Prize for New Music Players, First Prize International in the Accordion Competition of Pula (Croatia), First Prize Juventudes Musicales of Spain, Prize Ayuntamiento de Sitges in the International Chamber Music Competition Mirabent i Magrans, Prize for the Best Performance of a Catalan author in the Primer Palau or First Prize in the Concurs Instrumental Saint Anastassi.

Graduated from the Music Conservatory of the Basque Country (Musikene) under the leadership of Iñaki Alberdi and from the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (Germany), where he earned a Master in Music Interpretation under Stefan Hussong, with a grant from the Basque Government. He has completed his training with the most representative teachers of the different accordion schools like Matti Rantannen, Claudio Jacomucci, Geir Draugsvoll, Carlos Iturralde, James Crabb, Jacques Mornet, Nathalie Boucheix, Miren Iñarga, Janne Rattya, Francesco Palazzo, Joseph Maccerolo, Aitor Furundarena or Elsbeth Moser.

Committed to bringing music to the new generations, Ander Tellería currently combines his career as a performer with teaching accordion at the Music Conservatory of Aragón.