Sunday, May 13, 2012

1:00pm: Todd Reynolds* [Purchase Tickets]

Longtime resident of Sunnyside, Queens, original ETHEL and Bang on a Can violinist Todd Reynolds headlines a set which features the artists of Tactus, Manhattan School of Music’s contemporary performance ensemble, and includes music from his solo CD, Outerborough. – “best of classical 2011″ -(Amazon)

The Tactus Personnel, which will be joining Reynolds are Sarah (Yunji) Moon, Martha Cargo and Jodie Rottle, flute; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet; Kevin Baldwin, saxophones; Stuart Breczinski, oboe, Charlotte Mundy, voice; Tristan McKay, Erika Dohi and Christopher Goddard, piano and toy piano; Yumi Tamashiro, percussion; Leah Asher, violin; and Hannah Levinson, viola.

The program will include:

Michael Lowenstern: Crossroads
Todd Reynolds: Beginner’s Mind
Todd Reynolds: Transamerica
Todd Reynolds, violin

Harrison Birtwistle: Pulse Sampler
Stuart Breczinski, oboe; Yumi Tamashiro, claves

Alex Mincek: Nucleus
Kevin Baldwin, tenor saxophone; Yumi Tamashiro, drumset

Tristan Perich: qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq
Tristan McKay, Erika Dohi and Christopher Goddard, toy piano

Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint
Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet

Meredith Monk: Double Fiesta
Charlotte Mundy, soprano; Erika Dohi and Tristan McKay, piano

Soundpainting
Tactus, with Todd Reynolds, violin and conductor / sound painter
Sarah (Yunji) Moon, Martha Cargo and Jodie Rottle, flute; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet; Kevin Baldwin, saxophones; Stuart Breczinski, oboe, Charlotte Mundy, voice; Tristan McKay, Erika Dohi and Christopher Goddard, piano and toy piano; Yumi Tamashiro, percussion; Leah Asher, violin; Hannah Levinson,viola

TACTUS is Manhattan School of Music’s contemporary performance ensemble dedicated to providing students with opportunities to study and perform works composed during our lifetime. Students from the Contemporary Performance Program (CPP), along with other MSM students interested in new music, work directly with living composers and learn both masterworks and lesser-known pieces of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
A flexible ensemble, TACTUS performs both as a chamber orchestra and as smaller unconducted ensembles. Orchestral performances are conducted by CPP chair and artistic director Jeffrey Milarsky, one of New York’s foremost conductors of new music. Chamber groups are coached by CPP’s distinguished faculty, including Todd Reynolds, CPP associate chair.

3:00pm: The Links* [Purchase Tickets]
There is a reason why, Alexandra Gardner
Quartet, Chuck Krenner – NYC Premiere
High Fructose, Matt Marks - NYC Premiere
The project of collecting clouds, Lisa Bielawa - NYC Premiere
RockBand, Stefan Freund
Tiki alla turca, Evan Hause – World Premiere

United by their commitment to performing music beyond traditional styles, THE LINKS was founded by violinist Yuki Numata, clarinetist Bill Kalinkos, and cellist Joshua Roman. Since their debut concert in 2009 of six world premiere pieces commissioned for the group by Town Hall Seattle, The Links have also championed rarely performed mature works for various combinations of unusual instrumentation. Most recently, The Links performed in several collaborative chamber music recitals in Northern California at the acclaimed Music in the Vineyards Festival. Each member of The Links enjoys individually active musical careers from which they draw inspiration and ideas for future ensemble projects. In particular, The Links forge close relationships with composers who, like them, are interested in the interplay between classical and non-classical genres. As a result, its repertoire is a stunning variety of sound worlds that range from art song to pure rock ‘n roll.

The Links are:

Yuki Numata, violin
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Joshua Roman, cello
Jason Treuting, drums

5:30pm: Parthenia: Night Visions* [Purchase Tickets]
A Flower on the Farther Side/Traces on the Farther Side, Frances White
Night Voices, Max Lifchitz
Variations on La Follia, by Richard Einhorn
Cry Out, Eleonor Sandresky
Old Roads, Nicholas Patterson

Parthenia, hailed by The New Yorker as “one of the brightest lights in New York’s early-music scene,” is a quartet of viols dedicated to the performance of ancient and contemporary repertoires. Parthenia is presented in concerts across America, and produces its own concert series in New York City, collaborating regularly with the world’s foremost early music artists and ensembles, and has been featured on radio and television as well as festivals and series as wide-ranging as Music Before 1800, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Columbia University’s Miller Theatre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Yale Center for British Art, the Harriman-Jewell Series in Kansas City, and the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany. Parthenia is represented by GEMS Live! Artist Management and records for MSR Classics.

*All programs are subject to change.