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2022 Contemporary Music highlights with BEN LUNN
BBC NOW The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing in Trelew, Argentina [Gobierno de Chubut/CC]

TILEN LEBAR is a Slovenian composer, whose music is raw, beautiful and austere. A young man with a great sense of humour, who greeted me: “Ah! Tovariscz Ben!” His work won him the RKST21 Commissie prize, and he is a composer to keep an eye out for.

Zeno Baldi is a canny composer from Italy. My work featured alongside his in the Ensemble Proton Bern’s ProtonWerk project.

His piece Copia Carbone (not to be confused with a pasta dish) means carbon copy, the principle from which the work is built.

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