Spring Festival featuring Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

 

We are quickly approaching a not-to-be-missed visit from Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart starting on Wednesday, April 1^st. This visit will mark the opening of our Spring Festival: The Expanded Musical Canon, a series of four concerts and one lecture. The festival’s concerts will include music from the early Renaissance to our current day.  

As of this writing, UB's Birge-Cary Professor of Composition, Ming Tsao, is in Stuttgart, Germany meeting with Neue Vocalsolisten for a performance similar to the one they will give in Buffalo. The next time Neue Vocalsolisten and Ming Tsao are together will be in our own Lippes concert hall for the April 1^st concert featuring his Das wassergewordene Kanonbuch (2016-17) and Immaterial (2021) by Chaya Czernowin. The concert will also feature the UB Chamber Choir under the direction of Claudia Brown performing Johannes Ockeghem’s Missa Prolationum (late 15th-Century) and Ludovico da Viadana’s Exsultate Justi (early 17th-Century), adding a visit from the Renaissance to the concert experience.

This opening of the Spring Festival will be followed on Thursday the 2^nd with an afternoon lecture on the music of Helmut Lachenmann given by our PhD student composers, and then an evening concert by Neue Vocalsolisten performing works from these same UB composers. Will Brobston, Francisco Corthey, Chi-Yen Huang, Jackson Roush, and Maria Lihuen Sirvent have been working with Neue Vocalsolisten for months now preparing the pieces which you will hear at this concert. It is a phenomenal opportunity for our young composers to work with a world-class ensemble and is sure to be an exciting and ground-breaking concert experience.

Barret Ham

The festival continues on Friday the 3^rd with two more concerts featuring a trio of musicians. The reader will be familiar with the brilliant pianist and UB Professor of Music Eric Huebner, and he is joined by cellist Christopher Gross and clarinetist Barret Ham. Gross has been praised by the New York Times for his “lustrous tone”, and is highly active in the New York contemporary music scene – he is a founding member of the prominent Talea Ensemble. Ham is a Lecturer at Boston University and member of the New York Philharmonic. These three musicians will perform Lachenmann, Tsao, and Brahms (yes, Johannes Brahms) over the two concerts on the 3^rd.

Christopher Gross

 

Below you’ll find a complete listing of the events of the festival.

Wednesday April 1
Event: Concert #1
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lippes Concert Hall
Program: Neue Vocalsolisten & UB Chamber Choir
Missa Prolationum (excerpts) - Ockeghem
Das wassergewordene Kanonbuch - Tsao
Immaterial (excerpt) - Chaya Czernowin

Thursday April 2
Event: Perspectives on Helmut Lachenmann's Allegro Sostenuto
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Baird Recital Hall

Program:

PhD composition students present Lachenmann's Allegro Sostenuto (1988).  

Event: Concert #2 

Time: 7:30PM

Location: Lippes Concert Hall

Program: Neue Vocalsolisten performs UB PhD Student Composers

ah neehat - Jackson Roush

the breath fails, reaching the screaming beneath the rubble - Chi-Yen Huang

Cosas calladas - Francisco Corthey

Imitaciones - Maria Lihuen Sirvent

TERNION - Will Brobston 

Friday, April 3 

Event: Concert #3
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Baird Recital Hall
Program: Christopher Gross, Barret Hall
Pression - Lachenmann
Dal Niente - Lachenmann
Canon - Tsao

Event: Concert #4
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Lippes Concert Hall
Program: Christopher Gross, Barret Hall, Eric Huebner
Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Opus 114 - Brahms
Allegro Sostenuto - Lachenmann