Talea Ensemble Residency

The internationally-renowned Talea Ensemble made their anticipated second trip to Buffalo and are preparing to premiere six works by UB graduate student composers Andres Bonilla-Garcia, Lihuen Sirvent, Jackson Roush, Francisco Corthey, Sohwa Lee, and Chi-Yen Huang. Each composer participated in a recorded workshop during the ensemble’s fall residency, and embarked on edits, revisions, and in a few cases complete rewrites of their drafted pieces. The pieces are extremely diverse in terms of instrumentation (from trio to full ensemble), use of electronics, use of contemporary or extended techniques, and they includes sonic material similar to that found during Beethoven’s time, Korean folk tunes, noise, and everything in between. This concert is FREE and open to the public.

Location: Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall

Date: March 14, 2025 

Time: 3:00PM

 

About Talea Ensemble

Heralded as “a crucial part of the New York cultural ecosphere” by the New York Times, the Talea Ensemble is comprised of nineteen of New York City’s finest classically-trained musicians, with a mission to champion musical creativity, cultivate curious listeners, and bring visionary new works to life with vibrant performances that remain in the audience’s imagination long after a concert.

Recipients of the 2014 Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Talea has brought to life more than 30 commissions of major new works since it was founded in 2008. Partnering with institutions like the Austrian Cultural Forum or the French American Cultural Exchange, Talea has helped introduce NYC audiences to important works of such esteemed composers as Pierre Boulez, Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, or Georges Aperghis.

Praised for their “verve and immaculate virtuosity” by the Washington Post, the Talea Ensemble is sought after both in the U.S. and Europe for its range, precision, risk-taking, and superior performance quality. Recent festival engagements include performances at Lincoln Center Festival, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, the Fromm Concerts at Harvard University, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Wien Modern, Chicago’s Contempo series, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Vancouver New Music, and many others. Talea’s recordings have been distributed worldwide on the Wergo, Gravina Musica, Tzadik, Innova, and New World Records labels, and been radio-broadcast on ORF (Austria), HRF (Germany), and WQXR’s Q2.

Talea assumes an ongoing role in supporting a new generation of composers, and has undertaken residencies in music departments at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, New York University, and many others.