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The Moon of the Floating World by American Composer Charles Griffin to be Performed in Riga, Latvia on June 16 by Putni Female Vocal Ensemble
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Friday, February 10, 2006
Electronics: Fromm Players at Harvard March 10-12, 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, Örjan 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 für 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: Anthèmes 2 for violin and live electronics
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Earle Brown: Octet 1 - composition for 8 speakers
Örjan 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 für Intuitive Musik Weimar (Germany)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Vorahnung_
John Cage: Variations II_
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Innerhalb _
John Cage: Cartridge music_
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Intensität
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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Thursday, February 09, 2006
New York Miniaturist Ensemble premieres Stockhausen on February 23rd
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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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
February 26, 2006 New @ New Music Concerts
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 André Ristic, whose Léger 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 Québec.
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 Schönberg 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.
André 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-Léger 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. André Ristic also studied basic sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal (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 “à la mère”, for orchestra and electronic equipment. He served as composer-in-residence with the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières from 2002 to 2004.
Charles Wuorinen (USA 1938) Duo Sonata*** (2004) for flute and piano
André 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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