Anton Lukoszevieze (born 1965) is a

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- Lithuanian cellist, composer and visual artist. He is the director of the ensemble Apartment House, who are known for their advocacy of experimental and avant-garde music and frequent international performances. He is an alumnus of the

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. Lukoszevieze has premiered and commissioned new works for cello by many contemporary composers, including Christian Wolff, Christopher Fox, Gerhard Stäbler, Amnon Wolman,

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, Claudia Molitor, Arturas Bumšteinas, Ričardis Kabelis,

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, James Saunders, Alwynne Pritchard,

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and

Zbigniew Karkowski Zbigniew Karkowski (born 14 March 1958 – 12 December 2013) was a Polish experimental musician and composer. Karkowski was born on 14 March 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, ae ...

Apartment House

Lukoszevieze founded Apartment House in 1995. The ensemble's name is taken from John Cage's piece ''

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''. The group has a flexible line-up, changing according to the repertoire being performed. Lukoszevieze is the only constant member, although other musicians have been regular members since the ensemble's formation, such as the pianists Philip Thomas & Kerry Yong, violinists Gordon MacKay, Mira Benjamin, viola player Bridget Carey, clarinettist Heather Roche and percussionist Simon Limbrick . The ensemble has commissioned over one hundred new works by international composers, given the UK premiere of over one hundred further works, and performed at venues and festivals including Café Oto, the Serpentine Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall,

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MaerzMusik MaerzMusik is a festival of the Berliner Festspiele and has been held annually since 2002 in March at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and other venues. It is the successor festival to the Musik-Biennale Berlin and is considered one of the most im ...

Wien Modern Wien Modern is a modern music festival in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Claudio Abbado in 1988. It was created with the intent of revitalizing the traditional music scene of Vienna. Friedrich Cerha, Johannes Maria Staud, Mark Andre, Wolfgan ...

, Ultima, and Witten New Music Days. Apartment House were awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for outstanding contribution to chamber music in 2012. In 2015, 20th anniversary celebrations for the ensemble included a broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and concerts at the

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Since its foundation in 1978, it has feature ...

and London's

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, with commissions from composers Egidija Medekšaite, Leo Chadburn, Martin Arnold, Jobina Tinnemans, Vitalija Glovackyte and

Cassandra Miller Cassandra Miller (born Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada, 1976) is a Canadian experimental composer currently based in London, England. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of Transcription (music), transcription of a variety of ...

. In 2020 they were appointed as an Associate Ensemble of the Wigmore Hall, London. The ensemble has recorded many albums for the label Another Timbre, including discs of music by

Linda Catlin Smith Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a Canadian composer based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Smith studied composition and theory with All ...

, Cassandra Miller, John Cage, Ryoko Akama, Georgia Rodgers, John Lely, Tim Parkinson, Luiz Henrique Yudo, James Saunders and Julius Eastman, besides albums of music by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Michael Parsons, James Weeks and

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for labels such as Matchless, Metier and Setola di Maiale.

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* – official site * – official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Lukoszeviezel, Anton Living people 1965 births Lithuanian musicians Alumni of the Royal College of Music British cellists