Conductors: Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram & Special guest Stephen O’Malley.

With: Maya Dunietz, Tim Hodgkinson, Yoni Silver, Raul Suarez, Ioan Marius Lacraru, Andrei Kivu, Adam Sheflan, Shmil Frankel, Haggai Fershtman, Clotilde Lacroix, Vasile Comsa, Eran Sachs.

Hyperion was founded in 1976 by the composer Iancu Dumitrescu. As a starting point, Hyperion explored possible connections between the most archaic Romanian music – Byzantine music, folk music collected by Bartok, etc. – and today’s avant-garde music. It is a tradition of performance, of interpreting each new score as a provocation of the spirit, and a quest for new domains of sound. Aesthetically, at the heart of this work is the notion of spectrality as it developed in the work of Dumitrescu, Avram and other Romanian composers – that is: a specifically transformational spectrality, as opposed to the structural spectrality of the French Itinéraire group. Hyperion has performed all over Europe, Israel and in United States, and recorded numerous LPs and 28 compact discs. (from Mode Records- New York)