Ensemble 365
Eastern Currents: Contemporary Music of Asia
Sunday, May 17, 2015, 3:00pm
Big Secret Theatre, Long Island City, Queens
Ensemble 365 presents “Eastern Currents: Contemporary Music of Asia,” a program featuring chamber and solo works by composers from Azerbaijan (Franghiz Ali-Zadeh), China (Bun-Ching Lam and Bright Sheng), India (Ravi Shankar), Iran (Ramin Heydarbeygi), Japan (Toru Takemitsu), and Taiwan (Ming-Hsiu Yen).
Music to be heard on this afternoon:
Three Watercolors by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Autumn Sounds by Bun-Ching Lam
From far beyond Chrysanthemums and November Fog by Toru Takemitsu
Sonata for cello and piano by Ravi Shankar
Music for Piano by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Three Chinese Love Songs by Bright Sheng
Kuang Tsao by Ming-Hsiu Yen
Aramesh by Ramin Heydarbeygi
Ensemble 365
Ensemble 365 (Marta Bedkowska, cello/ Mary Hubbell, soprano/ Alice Jones, flute/ Mirna Lekić, piano/ Karen Rostron, violin) is a quintet founded in 2012 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Its members, who met as doctoral students at their alma mater, perform regularly in concert halls and festivals in the US and abroad. Collectively they have, as individuals and as collaborators, commissioned, premiered, and recorded over 150 new works by living composers. The ensemble presents themed concerts, combining both new and standard chamber and solo repertoire.
Ensemble 365 is a 2015 QNMF call for proposals winner.
