Saturday, May 12, 2012
1:00pm: A Big Idea for One Man to Handle* [Purchase Tickets]
EMvibe Etudes, N. Cameron Britt – World Premiere
The Exchange, Andrea Mazzariello
Big Idea for One Man to Handle, Christopher Tignor - World Premiere
N. Cameron Britt (b. 1974) is a composer, percussionist, and electronic musician. He began his career in music as a percussionist and it was his work as a performer and improviser that ultimately led him down the dark path of composition. His current life situation finds him combining, permuting and juggling his various musical endeavors on a daily basis: He is teaching percussion and music theory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while completing his PhD in Composition at Princeton University.
Andrea Mazzariello (b. 1978) is a composer, performer, writer, and artist. His creative output is diverse, from concert music to rock songs, memoir to scholarship. Especially interested in the ways that composers and performers negotiate issues of physicality and push their bodies to develop new approaches to music making, he often devises novel instrumental configurations on which he performs or asks others to perform. He holds a Ph.D and an M.F.A. in Composition from Princeton University, an M.M. from the University of Michigan in Composition, and a B.A. with Highest Honors in Music from Williams College. Currently, Andrea is on the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program, in which he teaches a freshman seminar called Music and Power.
Christopher Tignor was born in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1976. He studied violin beginning at age three and picked up numerous other instruments over his years as a classical and rock performer. While a student at Bard College, he became interested in computers through their musical possibilities and began building live audio processing software for his early mentor, Richard Teitelbaum. He subsequently went on to study computer science with Edmond Schoenberg at New York University and then music composition with Paul Lansky in Princeton University’s doctoral program, his first formal introduction to composition. He is best known for his compositions for the avant-rock bands Slow Six and Wires Under Tension, available from the Western Vinyl and New Albion record labels.
3:00: Lost Dog: Poétique* [Purchase Tickets]
Mynah Games, Philippe Bodin
Dancer on a Tightrope, Sofia Gubaidulina
Rain Dance, Mark Phillips
Poétique des Fluides, Philippe Bodin
Founded in 1995 by conductor Silas Huff, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble has performed in New York, California,
Texas, Spain, and Germany. The Lost Dog ensemble is comprised of flute (Christine Perea), clarinet (Thomas Piercy), piano (Laura Barger), violin (Miranda Cuckson) and ’cello (Emily Brausa), with occasional guest artists, and is led by Artistic Director Garth Edwin Sunderland (composer). Lost Dog presents 3-4 programs every season, performing in both Manhattan and Queens. Lost Dog is the only new music ensemble operating in the borough of Queens, and regularly reaches audiences that have no other exposure to contemporary music. In 2003 Lost Dog became a resident ensemble of the Astoria Music Society.
5:00: Quintet of the Americas: The Cosmos–Nature and Spirit* [Purchase Tickets]
The Stuff of Comets, Dylan Glatthorn
Winter Music, Adam Schoenberg
Espacial for woodwind quintet, bandoneon and piano, Daniel Binelli – World Premiere
Sfumato, Yao Chen
Ambos mundos for woodwind quintet and computer, Neil Rolnick
Mo Suo’s Burial Ceremony, Xinyan Li
Kum-Ba-Ya Marcus (based on text by Marcus Garvey for quintet and narrator), Carl MaultsBy
Short Winds, Sean Friar
MultipleOness, Matt Sullivan (a piece for electronically processed oboe and quintet improvisations while cameras are focused on Ken Cro-Ken’s real time painting)
Members of Quintet of the Americas are Karla Moe, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogotá, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet has specialized in bringing new music from the Western hemisphere to audiences in the United States since its arrival in New York in 1979. The group has enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe. Visit their website at http://www.quintet.org.
8:00: Kate Dillingham: Since 2000: New Works for Cello* [Purchase Tickets]
Somerville Sonata, David Fetherolf
New Work, Wang Jie
New Work, Ralph Farris
Duo for Cello and Electric Guitar, Andrew McKenna Lee
New Work, Hannah Lash
New Work, Augusta Read Thomas
Kate Dillingham enjoys an active career in the United States and abroad. She has performed as a soloist with The St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra, The Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared numerous times at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, and Symphony Space in New York. She has performed at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA and has been presented twice at the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Ms. Dillingham has recorded three CDs; Haydn’s Cello Concertos and music of Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, and Gabriel Faure for Connoisseur Society Records, and works of Witold Lutoslawski, Victor Herbert, Antonin Dvorak, and Jennifer Higdon.
*All programs are subject to change.
