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2/28/2006
ROULETTE presents
at Location One 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
? Also! Please check out our new ROULETTE BLOG for excerpts of our artists� music, podcasts featuring interviews with the artists and Roulette TV clips, and musical discussion: http://www.roulette.org/blog/index.php
BILLY BANG
MARK CICILIANI & ANNE LA BERGE
Monday, March 13th
Billy Bang (violinist, composer and improviser) has been one of the most prolific and original members of the progressive scene since the 1970s. Having performed with everyone from Sun Ra to Kahil El'Zabar to Don Cherry, Bang�s Roulette performance will showcase the unique improvisational style and unmistakable trademark sound for which he is known.
Anne La Berge (flute and electronics) & Marko Ciciliani (no-input mixer) get the room rumbling and then go from there. Serving up a wall-to-wall mosaic of hum and buzz, patterned noise, powerfully percussive flute techniques, warm distortion and dancing feedback, this duo always finds a way to extract demonically clever melodies and glistening harmonies out of the fray. Check out: www.annelaberge.com & www.ciciliani.com.
TODD NICHOLSON
Tuesday, March 14th
Todd Nicholson (bassist and composer) has performed internationally with fellow improvising giants like Billy Bang, Butch Morris and Frank Lowe. Tonight, he presents the premier of his new extended work, �Angel Island, � which deals with the complex history of the beautiful Californian island that once served as a prison for immigrants. Todd is joined by Gamiel Lyons (flute,) Reut Regev (trombone & flugelhorn,) Andrew Bemkey (piano) & Darrell Greene (drums.) Commissioned by Roulette with support from the Jerome Foundation.
BETH GRIFFITH (performing Feldman & Ashley)
Wednesday, March 15th
Beth Griffith, the stunning, spectacular and tireless contemporary music soprano presents a program that pays tribute to the late, great Morton Feldman. Griffith has collaborated with composers such as Cage, Feldman, Kagel and Stockhausen. Her recording of Feldman's Three Voices won the German Record Critics Prize. Tonight she and dancer/choreographer Peter Schmitz and present a collaborative realization of Three Voices, and composers/performers Bill Hellerman and Rob Voisey perform Morton Feldman Says, by Robert Ashley.
MICHAEL HARRISON
Thursday, March 16th
Composer/pianist Michael Harrison appears, with his special �harmonic piano,� an extensively modified grand piano with the ability to alternate between two different tunings and to play twice as many notes as the conventional keyboard. Tonight, he and the device present the complete 90-minute version of REVELATION, his epic work inspired by his knowledge of ancient principles of harmonic resonance, his years preparing pianos for La Monte Young, and a lifelong study of Western, North Indian and Middle Eastern classical music.
ELLERY ESKELIN
Friday, March 17th
Ellery Eskelin (composer, tenor saxophone) with Andrea Parkins (accordion, piano & sampler) & Jim Black (drums & percussion) After twelve years of obsessing over the composition/improvisation paradigm, Eskelin begins yet another chapter in the band's development with a group of pieces opening new interactive pathways between the musicians and furthering a substantial body of music that has been described as "enjoyably organized madness, which needs to be heard to be believed" (Signal to Noise magazine.)
PHILL NIBLOCK
Saturday, March 18th
Composer/filmmaker/photographer Phill Niblock makes thick, loud drones of microtonal music, which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents his films/videos of people working, or of abstract computer driven images. His materials intersect in unintentional, yet uncanny combinations guaranteed to mess with your head. His work has been shown at venues around the world, including the MOMA, the Kitchen, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London) and the Akademie der Kunste (Berlin.)
NICOLAS COLLINS & PETER CUSACK
EARL HOWARD
Sunday, March 19th
Nicolas Collins (trombone-propelled electronics) & Peter Cusack (guitar, bouzouki and live electronics) present �Music on the Original Instruments,� a happy mashup of buzzing strings and blipping electronics, featuring a bionic bouzouki, bizarrely extended acoustic guitar and rev. 3.1 of trombone-propelled signal processing with a special guest appearance by Jonathan Chen on Stroh violin.
Earl Howard has been active since the 1970s, has expanding the boundaries of the saxophone, experimenting with electronics, and mixing up composition, improvisation and chance in various proportions. For tonight�s show he will perform three solos, all world premiers for Roulette, one on alto sax, another on saxello and finally one on synthesizer. Howard describes the solos as �loud, soft, rhythmic, nonrhythmic, clever, witty, serious, and anything else you could reasonably add to the list.�
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2/28/2006 02:35:00 PM
2/27/2006
CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE: NEW MUSIC IN NEW PLACES
National Capital Composers Party at Popular Pub
Ottawa Chamber Music Society invites one-and-all to raise a glass (and ear) to local composers� music.
New Canadian music isn�t just for the concert hall anymore. On March 20th, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society takes over a favourite local haunt to present Ottawa Composers Pub Night! a toast to the growing community of talented music creators living and working in our Nation�s Capital. Some of Ottawa�s best local musicians provide the platform for the public to encounter fresh Canadian works by Roddy Ellias, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Eldon Rathburn, Jan J�rvlepp, Maya Badian, Clifford Ford, and many others. Maxwell�s Pub & Bistro provides the inviting & relaxed atmosphere for everyone to come together for this unique local event.
Ottawa Composers Pub Night! is one of the CMC�s series of national performances called New Music in New Places, designed to bring Canadian contemporary music out of concert halls and into the lives of Canadians.
EVENT DETAILS
WHO:
Composers Music of Roddy Ellias, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Eldon Rathburn, Jan J�rvlepp, Maya Badian, Clifford Ford, and others. Performers Robert Cram (flute), Charles Hamann (oboe), Victor Herbiet (saxophone), Stephen Sitarski (violin), Manuela Milani (violin), Guylaine Lemaire (viola), Julian Armour (cello), John Geggie (double bass), Jean Desmarais (piano).
WHAT:
The Canadian Music Centre�s New Music in New Places festival series, in partnership with the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, presents Ottawa Composer Pub Night! an informal & inviting evening of music by composers living and working in our Nation�s Capital.
WHEN:
Monday March 20, 2006 starting at 8:00 PM
WHERE:
Maxwell�s Pub and Bistro
340 Elgin St.
Ottawa, ON
New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation.
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ABOUT THE CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE
Founded in 1959, the CMC is Canada�s primary place to find scores, parts and recordings of Canadian contemporary music composers. Housing Canada's largest collection of Canadian classical music works, the CMC exists to promote the works of its Associate Composers in Canada and around the world. The Centre makes available on loan more than 16,000 scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary classical music composers through its library.
Visit www.musiccentre.ca
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2/27/2006 02:01:00 PM
On March 2nd and 3rd, 2006 at 8:00PM, Brian Brandt and MODE Records will present two evenings of an electronic music and film masterpiece by the late composer Iannis Xenakis. Tickets are available at the door and are $12.00 general admission. Anthology Film Archive is located at Second Avenue at Second Street--for tickets call (212) 979-1027.
An apocalyptic"multi-media" piece for the opening of the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris in 1978, LA L�GENDE D'EER played for three months and was seen by thousands. Xenakis performed the electroacoustic 7-channel tape in a curvaceous architectural construction of his own design with a visual component including 1,680 lights, 4 lasers and 400 mirrors. The event was captured in over 350 slides by Rastoin � edited into a film that traces the music. This spectacle of light and sound created a rich and unsettling environment, an unforgettable journey. In a historic re-creation of Xenakis' masterpieces his associate Gerard Pape will mix the surround-sound experience live from the original master tapes at this upcoming performance. With over 350 slides being shown during the performance, the audience will be able to transport themselves back to the premiere of this work and understand how forward looking Xenkis' work was in its original performance.
More information on this event at www.moderecords.com
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2/27/2006 12:55:00 PM
2/16/2006
Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
Public Relations Manager
New England Conservatory
617-585-1143
epfeifer@newenglandconservatory.edu
For Immediate Release:February 16, 2006
NEC's Enchanted Circle Concert Series Presents Iannis Xenakis�s Rarely Heard Kraanerg
Stephen Drury Conducts Radical Ballet Score March 7 in NEC�s Jordan Hall
�Imagine, in addition, the reports of dozens of machine guns and the whistle of bullets adding their punctuations to this total disorder. The crowd is then rapidly dispersed, and after sonic and visual hell follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust and death. The statistical laws of these events, separated from their political or moral context, are the same as those of the cicadas or the rain. They are the laws of the passage from complete order to total disorder in a continuous or explosive manner. They are stochastic laws�� --Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music, 1955
New England Conservatory�s Stephen Drury will conduct the Callithumpian Consort in Iannis Xenakis�s rarely heard, evening-length ballet score, Kraanerg, March 7 at 8 p.m. in NEC�s Jordan Hall. The Callithumpian Consort is a loose aggregation of NEC students, alumni, and new music enthusiasts that has performed locally, on the East Coast, and in Europe
Composed in 1969 for the opening of the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada, Kraanerg is an electro-acoustic work for small orchestra and tape (and, originally, dancers). The title means �Youth-Energy� and the work was inspired by the youth rebellions taking place in the late sixties and by Xenakis�s own experiences fighting in guerilla battles against the fascists in Greece.
Describing the work, online reviewer R. Hutchinson writes: �Over 74 minutes, "Kraanerg" alternates between live orchestral sections and electronic tape sections (of pre-recorded orchestral sounds)�The (live) music features rapid staccato outbursts from trumpets and trombones, woodwinds and strings, and glissandos -- the sound associated with Xenakis ever since his revolutionary Metastaseis. The tape sections utilize various levels of sound alteration -- some passages are slightly distorted, and others leave no trace of the original instruments. This results in a fascinating range of textures -- the mysterious sheets of electronic sounds at times sound like the shimmering aurora borealis. The overall effect of this stochastic, electro-acoustic music, undergoing continuous transformation, is like witnessing the awe-inspiring organic processes of nature majestically unfold.�
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes�thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC�s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of �From the Top,� a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
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posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
2/16/2006 12:02:00 PM
2/14/2006
New York, (FEB 12th, 2006)--- On Saturday and Sunday, February 18 and 19, 2006, at 8:00 pm, the celebrated avant-garde pianist and renowned Cage interpreter, Margaret Leng Tan, will perform at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue at Second Street). Ms. Tan will present the world premieres of Chess Pieces (1944) by John Cage, Chess Serenade (1944) by Vittorio Rieti and Pawn to King Four (2006) by Michael Nyman.
John Cage's and other artists' interest in chess is well documented. Cage contributed his "score-painting", Chess Pieces, to the surrealist The Imagery of Chess exhibition (1944) at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. Purchased after the show, it disappeared into a private collection. Recently rediscovered, Cage�s Chess Pieces as well as Rieti's Chess Serenade from the same show, are currently on view at The Noguchi Museum�s The Imagery of Chess Revisited exhibition.
Nyman's toy piano arrangement of Pawn to King Four, the chess sequence from his opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is specially created for this Anthology Film Archives event.
In addition Ms. Tan will provide live accompaniment to two surrealist film classics: Anemic Cinema (1926, 7 minutes) by Marcel Duchamp and Entr�acte (1924, 21 minutes) by Ren� Clair.
Tickets for both nights are available at the door and are $12.00 general admission. For further information please call (212) 979-1027. The Anthology Film Archives are located at Second Avenue at Second Street.
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2/14/2006 03:41:00 PM
2/13/2006
Looking for something romantic to do around Valentine's Day? Want to impress your date? How about a great concert of American works followed by luscious desserts and sparkling champagne?
Join the American Modern Ensemble for our second concert of the season on Saturday, February 18th entitled Love and Sensuality. The program will consist of a few classics as well as rarely heard gems, including Love Songs by Leonard Bernstein, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by David Del Tredici, the highly erotic Valentine by Jacob Druckman, and the sexy Shiny Kiss by Alex Shapiro. We will also perform the winning work of the American Modern Ensemble's First Annual Composition Competition, The Secret of Your Heart by Karim Al-Zand. World-renown tenor Paul Sperry will sing a selection of wonderful art songs by Daron Hagen, William Bolcolm, Tom Lehrer, Christopher Berg and a few others. Join us after the concert for a special reception featuring gourmet chocolates and desserts, strawberries and champagne. This concert will also be repeated at Sarah Lawrence College on February 15th at 8:00 PM in Reisinger Hall (see website for more information).
American Modern Ensemble
Love and Sensuality
Saturday, February 18th, 8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street
(Between 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York City
Phone: (212) 645-2800
Admission: $15, $10 (Students and Seniors)
TO ORDER TICKETS ONLINE: visit http://www.americanmodernensemble.org.
TO ORDER BY PHONE: please call (800) 838-3006 and ask for "American Modern Ensemble tickets"
NOTE: Tickets also available at the door one hour before the concert, but we recommend ordering early as it will probably be sold out. Please check online or call for availability.
Program
Coming Together - Derek Bermel
Shiny Kiss** - Alex Shapiro
Love Songs - Leonard Bernstein
The Secret of Your Heart** - Karim Al-Zand*
Valentine - Jacob Druckman
Love in the Dictionary - Celius Dougherty
Holy Thursday - Daron Hagen
Nocturne - Ethelbert Nevin
Euthanasia - George Chadwick
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - David Del Tredici
Poem - Christopher Berg
Nevermore Will the Wind - William Bolcom
I Hold Your Hand in Mine - Tom Lehrer
No One to Love - Stephen Foster arr: Warren Swenson
I Rise when You Enter - Theodore Chanler
*Winner of AME's First Annual Composition Competition
**NYC Premieres
Artists
Anna Tonna, mezzo-soprano
Paul Sperry, tenor
Erin Lesser, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Dave Eggar, cello
Sean McClowry, double bass
Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
Please join us for a dessert and champagne reception to follow.
Special AME door prizes! AME Valentine Teddy Bears, thongs, boxers and more...
We hope to see you there!
Victoria Paterson, Managing Director
American Modern Ensemble
This fall, AME was featured in a NY Times Arts section cover story and review on the two pianists from our first concert of the season, Powerhouse Pianists. Please visit http://www.americanmodernensemble.org to read the reviews...
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2/13/2006 06:51:00 PM
Goliard Southeastern Music Festival 2006
The Tour Concert: "Music of the Heart and the Soul"
Goliard's principal players present a stunning array of chamber works of the Renaissance, the Romantic Era, the 1920's and the present day. This concert kicks off our annual tour of the Southeastern U.S.
Performers:
Amy Synatzske, Soprano
Scott Gerhardt, Clarinet
Sarah Kim, Violin
Lawrence Zoernig, Cello
Arielle Levioff, Piano
Paul Brantley, Composer in Residence
Program:
World premier of "Looks of Love" by Paul Brantley.
Madrigals of Purcell & Monteverdi
Ravel Violin Sontata
Brahms Clarinet Trio in A Minor
Puccini: La canzone di Doretta from La Rondine
Date/Location: Steinway Reformed Church
41st Street & Ditmars Blvd.
Astoria, NY
Saturday February 18th7:30pm
Tickets:
$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students
Directions from Manhattan:
Take N train to Ditmars Blvd (last stop in Queens). Go down LEFT stairway (where the apartment rental bulletin board is) to street and walk to Ditmars, turn right and walk 10 blocks (or take bus) to 41st Street. Or, take M60 bus to Steinway Street (2nd stop in Queens) and walk 5 blocks to Ditmars, turn right and go one block to 41st. The trip takes about 45 minutes from midtown and Upper West Side.
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2/13/2006 02:10:00 PM
2/10/2006
FROMM PLAYERS AT HARVARD: e l e c t r o n I c s
FREE CONCERTS Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 10-12 at 8:00 pm
CAMBRIDGE, MA: The Fromm Foundation and the Harvard University Music Department are proud to present this year's Fromm Festival March 10, 11, 12, 2006 in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Curated by composer Hans Tutschku, the concerts are part of an impetus to program work that wouldn't otherwise be seen in the Boston area. This year's theme is
"e l e c t r o n I c s," and the weekend will feature three different concerts of cutting edge work.
Friday night's concert features an international cadre of electronic composers: Pierre Boulez, Milton Babbitt, Earle Brown, �rjan Sandred, Luigi Nono, Jacopo Baboni, and Alvin Lucier, who will give a pre-concert talk at 7:15pm. Saturday night's program introduces American audiences to Ensemble f�r Intuitive Musik Weimar (Germany), who will perform pieces by Cage and Stockhausen. On Sunday, the finalists of the 2006 live electronic competition will perform their works joined by an impressive roster of guest soloists, alongside Boston's finest new music players. This competition-the first of its kind at Harvard-aims to encourage the creation of new instrumental pieces with live-electronics. Four composers have been chosen from numerous applicants to participate in a week long workshop and rehearsal period to work with instrumentalists on the creation and performance of their work. A final prize winner will be announced after Sunday's concert.
John Knowles Paine Hall is located on the Harvard University campus directly behind the Science Center, and is wheelchair accessible. The Hall is a short walk from the Harvard Square red line stop. Free parking for this event is available after 7pm at the Everett Street Garage.
FROMM PLAYERS AT HARVARD
FROMM CONCERTS 2006
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
All concerts at 8:00 p.m. FREE
Friday, March 10
Pre-concert talk with Alvin Lucier, 7:15pm
Milton Babbitt: Phonemena for soprano and tape
Judith Bettina, soprano
Pierre Boulez: Anth�mes 2 for violin and live electronics
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Earle Brown: Octet 1 - composition for 8 speakers
�rjan Sandred: Amazuele Voices - for violoncello and electronics
David Russell, cello
Alvin Lucier: Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators
Stephen Drury, piano
Luigi Nono: A Pierre for double bass flute, double bass clarinet, and electronics
Patti Monson, flute
Evan Ziporyn, clarinet
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: Concubia nocte for soprano and electronics
Jennifer Ashe, soprano
Saturday March 11
Ensemble f�r Intuitive Musik Weimar (Germany)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Vorahnung_
John Cage: Variations II_
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Innerhalb _
John Cage: Cartridge music_
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Intensit�t
Sunday March 12
Finalists of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition
LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPETITION 2006
Edgar Barroso: Searching your Synesthesia
Stephen Drury, conductor
Patti Monson, flute
Gary Gorczyca, Clarinet
David Russell, cello
Yukiko Takagi, piano
Francisco Colasanto: Duo
Patti Monson, flute
Gary Gorczyca, Clarinet
Harald Muenz: Dissieme
Patti Monson, flute
Gary Gorczyca, Clarinet
Gabriela Diaz, violin
David Russell, cello
Andrea Vigani: Cinque frammenti
Patti Monson, flute
Gary Gorczyca, Clarinet
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2/10/2006 09:34:00 AM
2/9/2006
On Thursday February 23rd at 8:00, for the first time in 35 years, a new work of Karlheinz Stockhausen will be premiered in New York City. The New York Miniaturist Ensemble will present the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen�s First Natural Durations in a concert at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan. The concert will also include works by J.S. Bach, Matthew Barber, Mario Diaz de Leon, D. Edward Davis, David Drexler, Dai Fujikura, Giorgio Taccani, and Manu Vimalassery. Tickets will be $10 at the door.
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble�s is dedicated to performing works composed of 100 notes or fewer. Since its formation in 2004, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble has performed music by over 80 living composers from around the globe and has premiered over 100 new works.
First Natural Durations is the first section of the Third Hour of Stockhausen�s cycle KLANG: The Hours of the Day. The First Hour of KLANG premiered at the Duomo in Milan last May for a crowd of 2,500.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is on the corner of 65th St and Central Park West. Please visit http://nyme.org for more information, or contact Erik Carlson at erik@nyme.org
New York Miniaturist Ensemble members:
Erik Carlson, violin
Michael Caterisano, percussion
Philip Fisher, piano
Sarah Frisof, flute
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Tawnya Popoff, viola
Yonah Zur, violin
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2/09/2006 06:37:00 PM
2/7/2006
NEW @ NEW MUSIC CONCERTS
All Premiere Performances
Sunday, February 26 at 8PM � Glenn Gould Studio
Toronto, February 6, 2006: On Sunday, February 26, creativity and innovation take centre stage at Toronto�s Glenn Gould Studio as New Music Concerts presents New @ New Music � a concert comprised of premiere performances. Flutist and NMC artistic director Robert Aitken teams up with piano vituoso and long-time collaborator James Avery for the Canadian premiere of Charles Wuorinen�s Duo Sonata. The work was written especially for them by the celebrated American composer, whose music was featured on NMC�s series with a Portrait Concert back in 2001. Aitken and Avery will also be the featured soloists in ensemble works by three Canadian composers: Concertino D.A. o.a.U.D. P.b.i.o.T (Discrete Approximation of an Underwater Dream, Preceded by its own Theory) a Canada Council commissioned concerto for amplified flute and ensemble with electronics, by the Quebecer Andr� Ristic, whose L�ger Prize winning work was presented on the New Music Concerts series back in 2002 at Massey Hall; Drift, drop - an intriguing new work for piano, piccolo/alto flute and two ensembles commissioned with the support of the Ontario Arts Council by New Zealand-born composer Juliet Kiri Palmer; and Donnant-donnant for solo piano and ensemble from Denis Dion, funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu�bec.
Charles Wuorinen has had a forceful presence on the American music scene for more than four decades. Born in New York in 1938, Wuorinen has been composing since he was five. The Pulitzer Prize (he became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1970) and the MacArthur Fellowship are just two among many awards, fellowships and other honors to have come his way. A prolific creator, he has written more than 200 compositions to date. Wuorinen has also been active as performer, an excellent pianist and a distinguished conductor of his own works as well as other twentieth century repertoire. Though The New York Times referred to Wuorinen as "the brainy serialist and Columbia professor", his music is not typically serialist in that it combines the tonal language of Arnold Sch�nberg with the rhythmic vitality of Stravinsky.
Juliet Kiri Palmer is a composer and sound artist based in Toronto. Moving from New Zealand to New York in 1990 to work with composer-performer Meredith Monk, Palmer completed her PhD in composition at Princeton University in 1999. Her teachers and mentors include Louis Andriessen, Jack Body, Michael Gordon, Brian Ferneyhough, Paul Lansky, Annea Lockwood, Steve Mackey and Julia Wolfe. Palmer's music has been described as "a genre-bending, groove-laden universe of humour and iconoclasm". Working in diverse media, her output ranges from chamber music to multimedia installations, dance, music theatre, opera and symphonic works. Upcoming projects include an atomic clown opera for Tapestry New Opera Works (with writer Julie Salverson) and a solo percussion work for Morris Palter. Palmer is a member of the interdisciplinary collective urbanvessel whose first site-specific project SLIP will be performed in September at Toronto�s Harrison Street Baths. Juliet Palmer is guest curator for Continuum Contemporary Music�s 2005-2007 seasons and serves on the board of the Canadian Music Centre.
Andr� Ristic was born in Quebec City. He studied in Quebec City, Montreal, New York and Paris. He has been active as a pianist, in particular as a member of the Trio Fibonacci. He has won the Jules-L�ger Prize for new chamber music as well as a Prix OPUS as composer of the year. His music has been recorded on the SNE, ATMA and NISAPA labels. Andr� Ristic also studied basic sciences at the Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al (applied mathematics) and is interested in acoustics and the musical applications of logic and geometry. His compositions are developed around paradoxes, combining complexity, popular music, systematism and interpretive freedom.
Born in Quebec, Denis Dion completed a Master�s degree in composition at Laval University in 1983 and a doctorate at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in 1987. Recipient of several distinctions in Canada, the United States and Europe, he has written on commission many works for Canadian and foreign orchestras as well as film soundtracks. He has composed both instrumental and electroacoustic works. Denis Dion won the 2000-2001 Prix Opus in the �Composition of the year� category for his work �� la m�re�, for orchestra and electronic equipment. He served as composer-in-residence with the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivi�res from 2002 to 2004.
Charles Wuorinen (USA 1938) Duo Sonata*** (2004) for flute and piano
Andr� Ristic (Canada 1972) � *Concertino D.A. o.a.U.D. P.b.i.o.T.**
(Discrete Approximation of an Underwater Dream, Preceded by its own Theory) (2005) for amplified flute and ensemble, with electronics
Denis Dion (Canada 1957) - *Donnant-donnant** (2005) for solo piano and ensemble
Juliet Kiri Palmer (NZ/Canada 1967) - *Drift, drop** (2005) for piano, flute and two ensembles
*Canadian work; **World premiere; ***Canadian premiere
February 26, 2006 � New at New Music
7:15 PM Illuminating Introduction / 8:00 PM Concert
James Avery, piano; Robert Aitken, solo flute and direction
New Music Concerts Ensemble
Glenn Gould Studio (CBC Broadcast Centre): 250 Front St. West
Box Office: 416 205-5555
Individual Tickets: $25 regular | $15 seniors |$5 students (Cheapseats)
New Music Concerts: 416 961-9594
www.newmusicconcerts.com
MUSIC SPEAKS!
New Music Concerts and the Royal Conservatory of Music Community School present
Robert Aitken & James Avery in Recital (Free Admission)
Sunday February 19 at 11:30AM at the Royal Conservatory of Music Concert Hall
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) Honeyreves (1961)
Curtis Curtis-Smith (b.1941) Rhapsodies (1973) for solo piano
I. "...a swift pure cry..."
II. "But Wait! Low in dark middle earth. Embedded Ore."
III. "Listen! The spiked and winding cold seahorn."
Robert Aitken (b.1939) Plainsong (1977) for solo flute
Theobald Boehm (arr.) (1794-1881) Two Lieder by Franz Schubert
I. Gute Nacht
II. Die Taubenpost
Daniel Linton-France (b.1973) Fantasy on "Du Bist die Ruh" (2003)
Max Meyer-Olbersleben (1850-1927) Fantasie-Sonate (c.1900)
Royal Conservatory of Music Concert Hall: 90 Croatia Street
Admission is Free - Call 416 961-9594 for further information
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2/07/2006 11:59:00 AM
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