tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17986647611343024852024-03-15T09:27:30.978-04:00Edge of the CenterThe official blog of UB's Center for 21st Century Music. Visit the Center's website, www.music21c.orgUniversity at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.comBlogger410125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-59743003804137773712024-03-15T09:26:00.001-04:002024-03-15T09:26:57.818-04:00György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Center for 21</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW19544891 BCX0" data-fontsize="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">st</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Century Music w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ill welcome </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the stellar duo of soprano Susan </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Narucki</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and violinist Curtis Macomber to Slee Hall on</span></span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Wednesday, March 27, at 7:30pm</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for a performance of György Kurtág's monumental</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US">Kafka Fragments. </span><span class="EOP SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></p><p><span class="EOP SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMfp5v0Kls1vs3PjfwNBqGsLyWTF-Xi8IToke_ZjGHtugL0BZCNAQXzhAU3NZOLLcWk-3bTLrYJlgAXz3D9xXGpOCSYzppjA2ghi2wlnpQpr4QW_SIIF4i6PmTPCkwsTkFR4xkR_jk-BfPWTZGSabwzmTAMg7Q3ceE4o84gkWxU8XSTLbYAdhSPlm4t9Sy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1335" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMfp5v0Kls1vs3PjfwNBqGsLyWTF-Xi8IToke_ZjGHtugL0BZCNAQXzhAU3NZOLLcWk-3bTLrYJlgAXz3D9xXGpOCSYzppjA2ghi2wlnpQpr4QW_SIIF4i6PmTPCkwsTkFR4xkR_jk-BfPWTZGSabwzmTAMg7Q3ceE4o84gkWxU8XSTLbYAdhSPlm4t9Sy" width="160" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: none; text-align: left;">György Kurtág</span></div>Photo by Christoph Egger</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /></span></div></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW19544891 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{681bbc1d-0b08-4e3e-930c-cdae80dfdeca}{57}" paraid="2036717714" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">György </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Kurtág</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> (b. 1926)</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">came of age during </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">time </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of political unrest in eastern Europe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Born in Romania to Hungarian parents, </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Kurtág</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> spent much of his early li</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">fe as a pianist</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and studying the limited number of scores available under Soviet rule. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">His earliest compositions aesthetically align with the works of Béla Bart</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ó</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">k</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, Anton Webern, and Igor Stravinsky</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, though his style shifted drastically after living in Paris</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in 1957-58</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and taking composition lessons with Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Max Deutsch.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> During this time, </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: none;">Kurtág</span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> experienced severe b</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">outs of depression, compelling him to seek the guidance of art psychologist </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Marianne Stein, whom he cites as being the most influential figure of his time in Paris. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Stein encouraged the composer to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">reimagine his work in smaller units</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, such as connections between individual notes</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">limitation that reoriented his practice and characterized his later works.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW19544891 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW19544891 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{e14269c4-3be5-4dd0-adf1-85c2c96bea92}{230}" paraid="551471909" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Kurtág collected fragments of Kafka’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">diary </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and personal correspondences</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, building a relationship with the author that was both intimate and imaginary.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span>Kurtág<span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> d</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oes not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">attempt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to channel Kafka</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the work</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but reorders Kafka’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">language </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rendering</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a new text entirely. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">There is no singular</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and linear</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> narrative, no</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> overly developed </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">theme</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> or motif</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but rather sets of juxtaposing moods and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">textures </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that take </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hold of the listener without revealing the next locale.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Demanding maximum emotionality and expressivity of the performers, </span>Kurtág<span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">work embodies Kafka’s personal vacillations between extremes as well as the volatility of the sociopolitical landscape </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the writer and composer shared</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">With folk tunes styled with minimalist aesthetics, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">K</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">afka Fragments</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW19544891 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Skidmore</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">acts as Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director to the <a href="https://www.113collective.com/">113 </a></span><a href="https://www.113collective.com/"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Composer’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Collab</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">orative</span></a><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, an organization dedicated to producing concerts, festivals, and guest artist residencies</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> on a global scale</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Drawn to the mystic and arcane, Skidmore finds inspiration in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">literature</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, poetry, and contested historical figures, such as writer Anne Sexton and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">composer Hildegard von </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bingen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></p><p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Oxygen; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p><span class="EOP SCXW43555611 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MticiTB6mLs" width="320" youtube-src-id="MticiTB6mLs"></iframe></div><span face="Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">"The Myth of Psyche and Cupid," overture to <i>the golden ass</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.jefferykylehutchins.com/">Kyle Hutchins</a>, baritone saxophone </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span color="windowtext"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">Cecilia and Martin Gelland of <a href="http://www.duogelland.com/">Duo Gelland</a>, violins</span></span></div><p></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW43555611 BCX0" paraeid="{469d28df-c9f1-4e1e-918b-1d42d3698d11}{61}" paraid="1009654797" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A retelling of Roman poet Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche myth, Patrick Gallagher’s libretto presents a dual conflict: Psyche</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> perceived </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as a potential usurper to Venus, and both women</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> individually resist</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ing </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">against societal pressures rooted in gendered expectations. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Written for a limited orchestra, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the opera boasts </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a dynamic sonic pallet</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> cultivated</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> through extended </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">instrumental </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">techniques </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and poignant vocal lines. As a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> trained </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">singer,</span></span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skidmore is intimately familiar with the voice’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">vast expressive </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">capacity</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> <i>T</i></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">he golden ass </span><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">permits</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> an exploration of vocal timbres and paralinguistic utterances</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> thereby resulting in nuanced delivery of the plot not tied to explicit language. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW43555611 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW43555611 BCX0" paraeid="{469d28df-c9f1-4e1e-918b-1d42d3698d11}{61}" paraid="1009654797" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skidmore and Gallagher’s collaboration presents </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">themes </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,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')); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">centering</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">trauma, intergenerational relationships</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and agency, weaving a narrative that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">emerges</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">from within the music itself rather than</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from the</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">text. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In an interview with the American Composer Forum, Skidmore </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">states </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">work’s </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">universal themes are unfurl </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">“through simple movements, vocalizations, visual projections, and recorded sounds.”</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Though an abstraction of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Apuleis</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">’ original, <i>t</i></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">he golden ass</span><span class="TextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 22.0875px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> offers a compelling portrait of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">woman embroiled in a battle against forces greater than themselves and living with the consequences of their actions through music that is ne</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ither straightforward nor literal, but acutely self-aware. In emphasizing the work's immanent symbolism, Skidmore encourages the audience to engage with the opera and the complexities of myth it depicts through a new orientation. </span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW43555611 BCX0" paraeid="{469d28df-c9f1-4e1e-918b-1d42d3698d11}{61}" paraid="1009654797" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/650fvZdHJ7U" width="320" youtube-src-id="650fvZdHJ7U"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">"Grow Old" from <i>the golden ass</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen; font-size: x-small;">Justin Anthony Spenner, baritone</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Oxygen;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW43555611 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW43555611 BCX0" paraeid="{469d28df-c9f1-4e1e-918b-1d42d3698d11}{177}" paraid="1916466766" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday was an exciting for UB composition students, as the remarkable <a href="https://www.fonemaconsort.com/ensemble"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Fonema Consort</span></a> rehearsed and recorded five new works composed by our graduate students for this opportunity. Fonema’s residency, sponsored by the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music, concludes today with a much-anticipated program of works by Pablo Chin, Graciela Paraskevaídis, and Julio Estrada, our distinguished guest whose masterclass and lecture on Wednesday provided a great deal of inspiration. Fonema’s artistic director and co-founder, <a href="https://www.pablochin.com/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Pablo Chin</span></a><span class="s2" style="text-decoration-line: underline;">,</span> also offers a lecture on his own music, as well as on the music of Julio Estrada, today from 3 to 4 pm in Baird Recital Hall (250 Baird). Tonight’s concert begins at 7:30 pm in Lippes Concert Hall (Slee Hall).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjysENdp4wxKxuZBdhJtU9nWQZJaabjj0_8MEpfIHVQc4yN6vVNO4TP96TyUnkyVSetS5_Kzql_rIgeEoa4Oj1x0zwhJXQmbglb6TIq8iL3gYjuqsza8TV-1Dn3E3l6LBcCUWHRub6STeKgR3DMM0t5gj264a5mUR2uD21E6WSSGitfBapHMpeBFsxAJGhU/s960/1920412_722103577824550_1982752912_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjysENdp4wxKxuZBdhJtU9nWQZJaabjj0_8MEpfIHVQc4yN6vVNO4TP96TyUnkyVSetS5_Kzql_rIgeEoa4Oj1x0zwhJXQmbglb6TIq8iL3gYjuqsza8TV-1Dn3E3l6LBcCUWHRub6STeKgR3DMM0t5gj264a5mUR2uD21E6WSSGitfBapHMpeBFsxAJGhU/s320/1920412_722103577824550_1982752912_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Described by the <i>Chicago Reader’s</i> Peter Margasak as “dazzling“, Fonema Consort’s debut album <i>Pasos en otra calle</i> (New Focus Recordings, 2014) features the music of Costa Rican composers Pablo Chin and Mauricio Pauly. Fonema’s 2017 album <i>FIFTH TABLEAU</i> (Parlour Tapes+) was supported by an Aaron Copland Fund for Music grant and featured new works by five rising American composers. The ensemble looks forward to the release of their third album, <i>Vistas furtivas: the music of Juan Campoverde</i> (New Focus Recordings), in February 2020. They have been broadcasted by WFMT and CAN-TV.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cfPrjsmIjfk" width="320" youtube-src-id="cfPrjsmIjfk"></iframe></div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Bethany Younge's "FEAST OF SELVES"</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><p id="yui_3_17_2_1_1701364095410_157" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fonema Consort is a recipient of a FACE grant (2013), an Aaron Copland Fund for Music grant (2016), two Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation grants (2016 and 2017), and two Amphion Foundation grants (2018 and 2019). They have received significant project support from the Goethe Insitut of Chicago. The ensemble is grateful to the City of Chicago’s DCASE, the Amphion Foundation, the Goethe Institut, and the Mexican Cultural Institute for supporting their 2019-2020 season.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo Chin, whose recent music often draws inspiration from the narratives of film and literature, phonetic structures in text, and the use of idiosyncratic transcription methods that enable imaginative exploration of pre-existent musical sources. His dissertation focused on the work of Mexican composer Julio Estrada.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p id="yui_3_17_2_1_1701364095410_157" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z2ykxJcPY-I" width="320" youtube-src-id="Z2ykxJcPY-I"></iframe></div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Si Chavela met Matta II </i>by Pablo Santiago Chin</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><br /><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week marks the first visit by the Fonema Consort to the Center and to Buffalo. We very much hope to see them back at UB in the near future!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Fonema Consort's Program</b></span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Mictlán</i> by <span style="text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;">Julio Estrada</span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Yuunohui'sa'ehecatl'nahui</i> by <span style="text-align: justify;">Julio Estrada</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Sin ir más lejos</i> by <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Graciela </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Paraskevaís</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>AquAria</i> by Pablo Chin</span></p></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concert Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>🗓 Friday, December 1, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>⏰ 7:30 PM</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>📍Lippes Concert Hall (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: collapse;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: collapse;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>$10 or free with valid UB card</b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #616161; font-family: agenda; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.4px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-21322975760527555102023-11-29T01:33:00.001-05:002023-12-01T13:43:55.145-05:00Events in the week following Thanksgiving - #1 Julio Estrada Residency at University at Buffalo - Masterclass and Composer talk to the public<p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the week following the Thanksgiving holiday</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span> the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music is sponsoring several exciting events in the Department of Music at UB, including a residency by Mexican composer Julio Estrada, a lecture by composer <a href="https://www.pablochin.com/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Pablo Chin</span></a>, and a public concert by <a href="https://www.fonemaconsort.com/ensemble"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Fonema Consort</span></a> (Fonema will offer workshop/masterclass for UB composition students—more information about Pablo Chin/Fonema will be presented in the following Edge of the Center post!).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julio Estrada, Mexican composer, historian, researcher, and pedagogue, was born in Mexico City in 1943. Following his composition training with Julián Orbón in Mexico (1953-65), he studied with a number of the most widely recognized figures in the concert music of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, including Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen in Paris (1965-69), Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany (1968), and György Ligeti (1972). Estrada has served as a researcher in music at the UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and helped design the <i>Música, Sistema Interactivo de Investigación y Composición.</i> He was recognized as a National Researcher by the Mexican Education Ministry (1984) and, with over 100 articles to his name, was the first musical scholar to be honored as a member of the Science Academy of México.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rWzG3FqHdQc" width="320" youtube-src-id="rWzG3FqHdQc"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Julio Estrada - Chamber Music for Strings (Arditti Quartet & Stefano Scodanibbio)</span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div></div><p></p><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Estrada has published on various theoretical topics, including a General Theory of Intervallic Classes, applicable to macro- and micro-intervallic scales of duration and of pitch. Many of his compositions are based on his discontinuum-continuum theory, which has been described as bringing together “...two different situations in the compositional process: continuous transformation of the sound and chronographical method, using strictly defined recording process in order to receive three-dimensional movements of the sound in the topological order.” (Manuel Salas) Estrada has stated, “The techniques and theories I have developed are based on mathematics and acoustics; the more neutral they remain, the better they serve the description of the imaginary : it is my ear---there everything is allowed---that gives birth to my music, which becomes the accurate, almost phonographic representation, of every detail coming from my inner hearing experiences.” His compositions offer new notational concepts which are available for other composers to employ.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span>He is the recipient of the French award <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Ordre des Arts et de Lettres</span></a> (1981, 1986), the Premio Universidad Nacional en Creación Artística (2000) and the <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medalla_de_Oro_al_M%C3%A9rito_en_las_Bellas_Artes"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Medalla Bellas Artes</span></a> (2016). He is professor of composition at the University of Mexico and has held visiting positions at such institutions as Stanford University, University of California, San Diego, Musikwissenschaft Institut, Rostock, the Sorbonne, and Darmstadt Summer Course. Estrada’s music has been presented in numerous festivals on the American continent, in Europe, and in Japan, and performed by leading ensembles and musicians such as Percussions de Strasbourg, Fátima Miranda, Barbara Maurer, Velia Nieto, Stefano Scodanibbio and the Arditti String Quartet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span>Julio Estrada will offer a composition masterclass for our PhD students on November 29, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm at Baird Recital Hall, and then present a composer talk to the public from 2:00 to 3:40 pm in the same venue. These events are open to the University community and the wider public.</span></div><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z9uXehpNDVQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="z9uXehpNDVQ"></iframe></div><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Mictlán by Julio Estrada</span></yt-formatted-string></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">J<u>ulio Estrada </u><span style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline;">Masterclass/ Composer Talk Information: </span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif"><b>🗓 Wednesday, November 29, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif"><b>⏰ 10:30 AM - 01:00 PM - Masterclass</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif"><b> 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM - Composer Talk<br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif"><b style="font-size: 15px;">📍</b><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>Baird Recital Hall</b></span><b style="font-size: 15px;"> (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>Free</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></yt-formatted-string></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-83841874607499066792023-11-13T16:12:00.000-05:002023-11-13T16:12:27.881-05:00Kyle Hutchins Residency at University at Buffalo - Concert and Workshop<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week, the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music is delighted to welcome Kyle Hutchins, back for his second period of residency this semester. Hailed as “epic” (Jazz Times), "formidable" (The Saxophone Symposium), and "gripping" (Star Tribune), <a href="http://www.jefferykylehutchins.com/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">Kyle Hutchins</span></a> is an internationally acclaimed performing artist and improviser. He has performed concerts and taught masterclasses across five continents at major festivals and venues in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Mexico, Scotland, South Korea, and across the United States including Carnegie Hall, The Walker Art Center, World Saxophone Congress, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, International Computer Music Conference, among many others. He has recorded over two dozen albums on labels such as Carrier, Lurker Bias, Klavier, GIA, farpoint, Mother Brain, Noise Pelican, and his work has been recognized by awards and grants from DOWNBEAT, New Music USA, The American Prize, American Protégé International Competition, Music Teachers National Association, Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGmtjkckSUjl5VXyO0TcbIu3W54b-k97I6JG3FzPMlx6pRBbH9M_6a1TrF496QKx1d1lhEzvE8sko3fJr9yra7q1XuHPnr415_TbEpALzTTGSsxb_aA0dbw6icZU1-0NFVf_JzZKQoFI3gREr27u0wvHGdfJrjuTCg4BNtM6Gn_0gC5Kcc-oW3_MYdYEX/s2048/Kyle-25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghGmtjkckSUjl5VXyO0TcbIu3W54b-k97I6JG3FzPMlx6pRBbH9M_6a1TrF496QKx1d1lhEzvE8sko3fJr9yra7q1XuHPnr415_TbEpALzTTGSsxb_aA0dbw6icZU1-0NFVf_JzZKQoFI3gREr27u0wvHGdfJrjuTCg4BNtM6Gn_0gC5Kcc-oW3_MYdYEX/w400-h266/Kyle-25.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a specialist in experimental performance practice and electroacoustic new music, Kyle has performed well over 200 world premieres of new works for the saxophone. He has worked with some of the leading composers and performers of our time including Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Georges Aperghis, Richard Barrett, Steven Takasugi, Claire Chase, Douglas Ewart, Duo Gelland, and Zeitgeist. Over the past fifteen years, Kyle has built long standing collaborations and championed the music of many close collaborators such as Ted Moore, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Joey Crane, Emily Lau, Elizabeth A. Baker, Charles Nichols, Eric Lyon, and many more wonderful artists and dear friends.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M587LnDDVv0" width="361" youtube-src-id="M587LnDDVv0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Tiffany M. Skidmore - <i>Tharmas the Father/Enion the Mother</i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="302" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FN71qPEhnyo" width="364" youtube-src-id="FN71qPEhnyo"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Ted Moore -<i> S</i></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>accades</i></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> for baritone saxophone, electronics, and video</span></div><div><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Kyle has served on the faculty of </span><a href="https://www.vt.edu/" style="text-align: justify;">Virginia Tech </a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">since 2016 where he is Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of the New Music + Technology Festival at the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier this semester, Kyle gave a terrific presentation in which he shared his professional experiences in experimental performance practice and electroacoustic new music to UB Music’s PhD students in composition. The students learned a good deal about contemporary extended techniques for saxophone, how to notate these techniques, and more generally about the possibilities for saxophone performance in the contemporary context. Next Thursday, <b>November 16</b>, Kyle will offer a concert featuring intriguing recent works for saxophone and electronics, including those by Ted Moore, Leah Reid, Barry Moon, The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, and two world premieres of works by Margaret Schedel and Cort Lippe! Please come join us for this fantastic concert! The following day, <b>November 17</b>, Kyle will offer a composition workshop for PhD students in composition, including conversations with the students and playing demonstrations of current drafts of their pieces.</span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Kyle Hutchins' Program</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>saccades</i><span style="font-style: inherit;"> for saxophone, electronics, tape, and video (2022) by Ted Moore</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Jouer</i><span style="font-style: inherit;"> for soprano saxophone and electronics (2023) by Leah Reid</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>metanoia</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> for saxophone and electronics (2023) by Margaret Schedel </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">(World Premiere)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Duo</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> for tenor saxophone and computer (2023) by Cort Lippe </span><span style="font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-style: inherit;">(World Premiere)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Gonna cut you up</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> for alto saxophone and electronics (2021) by Barry Moon</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br aria-hidden="true" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>ICD-10CM R55</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;"> for saxophone, electronics, and breath (2019) by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">film by Kyle Hutchins</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concert Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>🗓 Thursday, November 16, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>⏰ 19:30 PM</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>📍Baird Recital Hall (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>$10 or free with valid UB card</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Workshop Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>🗓 Friday, </b><b>November 17</b><b>, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>⏰ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>📍Baird Recital Hall (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>Free</b></span></p></div><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-15574843575183424782023-11-06T11:17:00.007-05:002023-11-06T11:17:52.216-05:00Anthony R. Green Residency at University at Buffalo - Masterclass and Open talk to the public<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.anthonyrgreen.com/bio">Anthony R. Green</a>, composer, performer and social justice artist, will be in residence in the Music Department at the University at Buffalo on Friday, November 10, working with our PhD students in composition, as well as giving a composer talk open to the public.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anthony R. Green has multiple roles as an artist, and his artistic output includes musical and visual creations, interpretations of original works or works in the repertoire, collaborations, educational outreach and more. Behind all of his artistic endeavors are the ideals of equality, freedom and warm humanity, which manifest themselves in diverse ways in a composition, a performance, a collaboration, or social justice work.</span><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.3px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxqIgGfflVRtd0c-b0lPYSqvz7VHspEkYga5KmCT5kzXi6iBeT5anT7ySXw4pzw-4afzuFxRHjgxp4bpb0vOGThDTJS_AxdUTpEqW2a7ESE6L0BPzFe8xo5R3nNMgjLE1O_77gLdEfZEQ4QJapavD-okw5lq7b1EyPzyX_UPqgfCGuDdf2YX7oflUTYXy/s3746/Anthony%20green.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3746" data-original-width="2500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAxqIgGfflVRtd0c-b0lPYSqvz7VHspEkYga5KmCT5kzXi6iBeT5anT7ySXw4pzw-4afzuFxRHjgxp4bpb0vOGThDTJS_AxdUTpEqW2a7ESE6L0BPzFe8xo5R3nNMgjLE1O_77gLdEfZEQ4QJapavD-okw5lq7b1EyPzyX_UPqgfCGuDdf2YX7oflUTYXy/w268-h400/Anthony%20green.jpeg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">credit by Anthony R. Green Website</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="sqs-block quote-block sqs-block-quote null" data-block-type="31" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1542301648135_11003" style="clear: both; height: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><figure class="block-animation-none" style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;">“But when our work is blatantly ignored, disrespected, not studied, and not programmed, our voice is all we have.” </span></span><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">— Anthony R. Green, from his article "What the Optics of New Music Say to Black Composers"</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a composer, his works have been presented in over 25 countries across six continents by various internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles, including: vocalists Anthony P. McGlaun, Julian Otis, Anna Elder, and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett; violists Ashleigh Gordon, Gregory Williams, Carrie Frey, and Wendy Richman; pianists Stephen Drury, Kathleen Supové, Jason Hardink, Kimi Kawashima, Lewis Warren Jr., Clare Longendyke, Hayk Melikyan, and Eunmi Ko; cellists Matthieu D’Ordine, Patricia Ryan, and Ifetayo Ali-Landing; percussionists Bill Solomon, Michael Skillern, and Dame Evelyn Glennie; saxophonists Neal Postma, Benjamin Sorrell, and Kendra Williams; and ensembles Tenth Intervention (Hajnal Pivnick – violin, and Adam Tendler – piano), ALEA III (with Gunther Schuller, conductor), the Thalea String Quartet, counter)induction, Ensemble Dal Niente, Dinosaur Annex, andPlay, NorthStar Duo, fivebyfive, Transient Canvas, the McCormick Percussion Group, the Icarus Quartet, Opera Kansas (as winner of the 2018 Zepick Modern Opera Contest), the American Composers Orchestra, the Lowell Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Minnesota Philharmonic, the String Archestra, the Playground Ensemble, Ossia New Music Ensemble, and Alarm Will Sound, to name a few.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jkKisEY5j78" width="320" youtube-src-id="jkKisEY5j78"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Anthony R. Green : a portrait concert, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">presented by Boston University & Castle of</span><span style="font-family: YouTube Sans, Roboto, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">our Skins</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a performer, Green has appeared at important performance venues around the world, and premiered original works and worked with student, emerging, and established composers such as David Liptak, Renée C. Baker, and George Crumb for various performance presentations. Moreover, he has participated in consortium commissions organized by Neal Postma (saxophone), Meraki (clarinet and piano duo), and New Works Project (solo percussion). His music has been performed at Symphony Space (New York), Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall (New York), the DiMenna Center (New York), Jordan Hall (Boston), Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht), Kunstraum (Stuttgart), Cité de la Musique et de la Danse (Strasbourg), the Shoe Factory (Nicosia), the TWA Hotel (New York), the Edward A. Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade (Boston), and the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), amongst many others.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtogYOc0-riysul2ErrQ4YZdmnHgkjG0j4bswD9TCz2IIJZf8kQUZ8SkJ3yMCKt0EvwxPRVwR404xiEPpS-Bo6eNHz3OintIw7QCnhAl-Yj2uwDR8j_W9F1y-92LlsbaMbeqKwVGe0obdIO07jSm5YaKXSsC9z2JD1PoGOt87Onr3jkvS0CDmf2yuCzAam/s1920/Denver+Protest.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtogYOc0-riysul2ErrQ4YZdmnHgkjG0j4bswD9TCz2IIJZf8kQUZ8SkJ3yMCKt0EvwxPRVwR404xiEPpS-Bo6eNHz3OintIw7QCnhAl-Yj2uwDR8j_W9F1y-92LlsbaMbeqKwVGe0obdIO07jSm5YaKXSsC9z2JD1PoGOt87Onr3jkvS0CDmf2yuCzAam/w400-h225/Denver+Protest.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">credit by Anthony R. Green Website</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The core of thought behind his various output is contained in his observations and comments on many issues related to social justice, such as immigration, civil rights, the historical links between slavery and current racial injustice in the US, the contributions of targeted and/or minority groups to humanity, Black queerness/queer racism, and more. His compositional/creative strategies also shape him as a social justice artist. Green’s most important social justice work has been with Castle of our Skins: a concert and education series organization dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anthony R. Green will offer a composition masterclass for our PhD students from 10:30 am to 01:00 pm at B1 Baird, and then present a composer talk to the public from 02:00 to 03:40 pm! Please come join us for this amazing masterclass and talk!</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Masterclass/ Composer Talk Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>🗓 Friday, November 10, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>⏰ 10:30 AM - 01:00 PM - Masterclass</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span> </span><span> 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM - Composer Talk</span><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>📍B1 Baird (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>Free</b></span></p></figure><p style="font-family: proxima-nova; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"></p><figure class="block-animation-none" style="font-family: proxima-nova; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p></p></figure></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1642603228303_8535" style="clear: both; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 15px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.3px; padding: 17px; position: relative;"></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-823395153592843702023-10-15T13:32:00.000-04:002023-10-15T13:32:12.901-04:00Opening Concert of Slee Sinfonietta 2023-24 season: “Pan-Americana”<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <b>Slee Sinfonietta</b> is the professional chamber orchestra in residence at the University at Buffalo and the flagship ensemble of the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music. The Sinfonietta presents a series of concerts each year that feature performances of challenging new works by contemporary composers and lesser-known works from the repertoire, in settings ranging from mid-size chamber orchestra to chamber ensemble and even “Soloists of the Slee Sinfonietta” programs. The season-opening concert on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 17 in Lippes Concert Hall will be led by the brilliant Argentinian conductor/composer <a href="https://www.christianbaldini.info/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>Christian Baldini</b></span></a>, who is one of several composers with ties to UB featured on the program.</span></div></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><div><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4wiolxuQMmz-qEhEfxBZQk34SUpy-NG3p9TIyInELkj_CFeyPHj3dsDemfbXm2I14XguHcC3LorrhF9EMs0ybXA219O54ZJMswL2qH2sXkUmgmdQ1Txvqh0P9hP5wOIg0VqunT1XIm3NjNIIXzDgZcz7g2biJXjHMUKcpFSY9EKoC2q9z984XIElS2AD/s4533/Christian%20Baldini%20by%20Sam%20Zeng%20(UCDSO).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3437" data-original-width="4533" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4wiolxuQMmz-qEhEfxBZQk34SUpy-NG3p9TIyInELkj_CFeyPHj3dsDemfbXm2I14XguHcC3LorrhF9EMs0ybXA219O54ZJMswL2qH2sXkUmgmdQ1Txvqh0P9hP5wOIg0VqunT1XIm3NjNIIXzDgZcz7g2biJXjHMUKcpFSY9EKoC2q9z984XIElS2AD/s320/Christian%20Baldini%20by%20Sam%20Zeng%20(UCDSO).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; text-align: left;">Christian Baldini</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The title of the evening's program, “Pan-Americana,” honors Hispanic Heritage Month with works by composers from throughout the Americas. With that title, we draw reference to the Pan-American Association of Composers (1928-34) and pay tribute to that organization’s inspiring efforts to bring a diverse and challenging mixture of new music composed throughout the Americas to the listening public of its day. The group’s founders were composers Edgar Varése, Carlos Chavez and Henry Cowell, major figures whose music is too seldom heard in the concert hall. Alongside works by Varése and Cowell, we will perform an array of more contemporary works by composers from throughout Latin America (Mexico, Nicaragua/Columbia, Argentina), nearly all still alive and composing. In this way, the Slee Sinfonietta and the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music attempt to continue the forward-looking, even prescient, work of the Pan-American Association of Composers.</span></p></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christian Baldini serves as Professor of Music at UC Davis, and his career as both conductor and composer regularly takes him around the globe, including conducting posts and appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony in London, English National Opera, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina and Portugal, Northwest German Philharmonic, North Netherlands Symphony and Munich Radio Orchestra. He memorably led the Sinfonietta in concert in 2021, and we’re pleased to welcome him back to UB “post-pandemic.” We’re also delighted to be performing <a href="http://noraponte.blogspot.com/p/nora-pontes-short-bio.html"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>Nora Ponte</b></span></a>’s <i>Amarrada al recuerdo</i> 2 (2006). Nora is Professor of Musical Composition at the University of Puerto Rico and, like Christian, received her PhD at UB. Her evocative work for guitar and ensemble features another UB doctoral alum, <a href="https://zanemerritt.bandcamp.com/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><b>Zane Merritt</b></span></a>, as its soloist. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also on Tuesday’s program is Gabriel Bolaños’s <i>Ecosystem</i> (2015), which opens up an intricate world of tone and noise, as well as the space of the concert hall itself. An interview Christian Baldini conducted with Gabriel Bolaños is available <a href="https://christianbaldiniblog.com/2023/05/15/gabriel-bolanos-in-conversation-with-christian-baldini/"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">here</span></a>. The evening concludes with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s <i>Páramo</i> (1999), a virtuosic sextet whose title indicates its close relationship to Mexican author Juan Rulfo’s seminal novel, <i>Pedro Páramo</i>. Zohn-Muldoon served as Visiting Slee Professor in Fall 2020, the first composer to hold the position since the 1970s. We’re thrilled to present his music, something we were unable to do back in 2020 because of the then-ongoing pandemic. Ricardo’s imaginative and intricate music is certainly worth the wait!</span></div><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GglNx0YuNz4" width="421" youtube-src-id="GglNx0YuNz4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4 style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Christian Baldini - <i>folding space</i></span></yt-formatted-string></h4></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xYss36m1aEg" width="419" youtube-src-id="xYss36m1aEg"></iframe></div></span><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Zane Merritt - Burning City</span></yt-formatted-string></h1></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style="" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: times;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><u>Slee Sinfonietta PROGRAM – “Pan-Americana”</u></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Edgar Varése</b>, <i>Density 21.5</i> (1936, rev. 1946)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicole Murray, flute</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Graciela Paraskevaídis</b>, <i>libres en el sonido presos en el sonido </i>(1997) </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Nora Ponte</b>, <i>Amarrada al recuerdo</i> 2 for guitar and ensemble (2006)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Zane Merritt, guitar soloist</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Christian Baldini</b>, <i>Folding space</i> (2008)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><u>Short intermission</u></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #212121;"><br /></span></div><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-indent: 36pt;"><b>Henry Cowell</b>, </span><i style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-indent: 36pt;">Toccanta</i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-indent: 36pt;"> for soprano, flute, cello and piano (1938)</span></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Gabriel Bolaños</b>, <i>Ecosystem</i> (2015)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon</b>, </span><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Páramo </i></span><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(1999)</span></p></span></yt-formatted-string></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">_________________________________________________</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Slee Sinfonietta</span></span></b></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicole Murray, flute</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Michael Tumiel, clarinet</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shannon Reilly, violin </span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jonathan Golove, cello </span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicholas Emmanuel, piano</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eric Huebner, piano</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve Solook, percussion</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zane Merritt, guitar soloist</span></span></p><p style="color: #242424; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 0px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33) !important; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christian Baldini, guest conductor</span></span></p></div></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concert Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>🗓 Tuesday, October 17, 2023 </b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b>⏰ 07:30 PM</b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b style="font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif;">📍</b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Lippes Concert Hall</span></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif;"> (North Campus)</b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>$10 or free with UB card</b></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><br /></span></span></div></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-73511547191029522822023-09-20T16:51:00.000-04:002023-09-20T16:51:42.112-04:00Events in the first week of September<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music was pleased to sponsor some terrific events by guests who were in residence while preparing for the September 7<sup>th</sup> performance of Prof. Tiffany Skidmore’s <i>The William Blake Cycle</i> (Also co-sponsored by the Center). </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The guests included saxophonist, Kyle Hutchins, who gave a workshop on composing for his instruments</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and composer Ted Moore, who offered a masterclass for our PhD students in composition, as well as a composer talk open to the public. Percussionist Annie Stevens, also in town for <i>The William Blake Cycle,</i> gave an excellent workshop for composers, as well.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWJS-Doe1jtbEk5i6wiISoHZmiHU20VrQrLMSIoxrrUks_rl2brJTm72h_A2F4kMdaPJ60S-9ssWN0BswTl72ohtR7hlkS56yUjZvfVae6QeOyQ2tzXEsTZ1l6boBg7T6OuAPVND9dLSRejVZFk1KnytEV8BaKFuH_l2JCKW6XGSQyxrIwOuuBo_Vbsky/s320/photo18_orig.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWJS-Doe1jtbEk5i6wiISoHZmiHU20VrQrLMSIoxrrUks_rl2brJTm72h_A2F4kMdaPJ60S-9ssWN0BswTl72ohtR7hlkS56yUjZvfVae6QeOyQ2tzXEsTZ1l6boBg7T6OuAPVND9dLSRejVZFk1KnytEV8BaKFuH_l2JCKW6XGSQyxrIwOuuBo_Vbsky/s1600/photo18_orig.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kyle Hutchins - credit his Website</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a specialist in experimental performance practice and electroacoustic new music, <b><a href="http://www.jefferykylehutchins.com/">Kyle Hutchins</a> </b>has performed well over 200 world premieres of new works for the saxophone. He has worked with some of the leading composers and performers of our time including Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, etc. In his workshop, Professor Hutchins introduced various experimental techniques on saxophone, showing UB composers some exciting new possibilities for their future projects involving the instrument. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;">PhD student in composition, Lihuen Sirvent commented: It is encouraging to have visiting artists like Kyle Hutchins, who are potentially interested in collaborating with us beyond the reading session experience.</span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span></span></i></p><!--more--><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnh6DOvI7OQpwWTH_xu2RctIPnZrTnJK4qqcGYxdts17aJYxAkE6g_cqBugfKxe8N6TFExxTRh1M8VuZNfOo3FWkkr_eqFJg2FzSFUnmzWb3bsDDE3Z13pg5MgYwsh4AHGq15y7fcHXL5wxDMjxF6N0i5P6mDSW37dlM8XyzTAy67wh5AysnYNx5hJhN71/s320/Ted%20Moore%20-%20credit%20Brian%20Fancher%2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnh6DOvI7OQpwWTH_xu2RctIPnZrTnJK4qqcGYxdts17aJYxAkE6g_cqBugfKxe8N6TFExxTRh1M8VuZNfOo3FWkkr_eqFJg2FzSFUnmzWb3bsDDE3Z13pg5MgYwsh4AHGq15y7fcHXL5wxDMjxF6N0i5P6mDSW37dlM8XyzTAy67wh5AysnYNx5hJhN71/s1600/Ted%20Moore%20-%20credit%20Brian%20Fancher%2003.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ted Moore - credit Brian Fancher</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;"><a href="https://www.tedmooremusic.com/"><b>Ted Moore</b></a></span> is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work fuses sonic, visual, physical, and acoustic elements, often incorporating technology to create immersive, multidimensional experiences. After completing a PhD in Music Composition at the University of Chicago, Ted served as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Creative Coding at the University of Huddersfield as part of the ERC-funded FluCoMa project, where he investigated the creative potential of machine learning algorithms and taught workshops on how artists can use machine learning in their creative music practice. Ted has continued offering workshops around the world on machine learning and creativity including at the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, and Music Hackspace in London. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In his presentation, Professor Moore introduced his own works and shared the highly creative way he thinks about the relationship between music and technology, including machine learning.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span></span></p><!--more--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKTvaV2GdpSPHGMCmP7icQZIf_hx2NDGOKGBjDbRBR_Y81QY6nDkSYy-AZb60FMD4_bZLGm_uiOraPVCg0H3p4mUxVl6k_VA5IC-yvQ9k53Kd0IjJqVB-iFeQm6tO3yHEhx0_7JMEE27FD0vZr2xWQeRzwYyvdUXTLI0nk0OfubQ3hUBuQz5cqPB01c_P/s320/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="320" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKTvaV2GdpSPHGMCmP7icQZIf_hx2NDGOKGBjDbRBR_Y81QY6nDkSYy-AZb60FMD4_bZLGm_uiOraPVCg0H3p4mUxVl6k_VA5IC-yvQ9k53Kd0IjJqVB-iFeQm6tO3yHEhx0_7JMEE27FD0vZr2xWQeRzwYyvdUXTLI0nk0OfubQ3hUBuQz5cqPB01c_P/s1600/image.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Annie Stevens - credit Virginia tech Website</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://sopa.vt.edu/faculty_staff/music-faculty/percussion-faculty/annie-stevens.html"><b>Annie Stevens</b></a>, an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and internationally, is the Associate Professor of Percussion at Virginia Tech. She has performed internationally at music conservatories in England, Spain, China, France, Germany, and Trinidad. In 2017, she was invited as a fellow to attend <i>Ensemble Evolution, </i>a performance seminar hosted by the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. Nationally, she has collaborated with New York’s Ensemble Signal and the Grammy nominated Metropolis Ensemble, as well as performed and lectured at over 35 universities, at four international conferences, and featured on NPR’s "Performance Today." </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During her workshop, Professor Stevens gave an introduction to the compositional possibilities of mallet percussion instruments, and also wor<span style="color: #242424;">ked on</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a chamber piece by UB composer, William Brobston.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stevens offered effective suggestions on writing and notation, while demonstrating some detailed 4-mallet techniques.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span></span></p><!--more--><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Mus<span style="font-family: inherit;">ic and the UB De</span>partment of Music have many exciting upcoming events! Please stay tuned on our Blog!</span></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-81117556889659572132023-09-15T17:43:00.001-04:002023-09-15T17:43:20.497-04:00Duo Gelland Residency at University at BUffalo - Workshop and Concert<p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.duogelland.com/">Duo Gelland Violin Duo</a> </span><span style="background-color: white;">will be in residence at </span><span style="background-color: white;">the University at Buffalo from Monday, September 18 through Tuesday, September 19 for a composition workshop and concert. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">Additionally, Duo Gelland and UB composers will meet with the students </span><span style="background-color: white;">of <a href="https://www.buffalostringworks.org/">Buffalo String Works</a> for a new project! </span><span style="background-color: white;">Duo Gelland </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; text-indent: 48px;">was founded in 1994 by the violinists Cecilia and Martin Gelland who met in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and started exploring the duo repertoire together. T</span><span style="background-color: white;">he</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span>eminent European ensemble turned an 18th century concept into the driving force of contemporary exploration. Their passionate, profound and playful interpretations earned them the Annual German Record Critics' Award 2008, Swedish Nutida Sound 2011, Fanfare Yearbook 2001. They revive forgotten gems with historically inspired insight, and in close collaboration with composers they bring new scores to life - so far nearly 200. Duo Gelland premiered and performed duos and double concerti in Berliner Philharmonie both halls, Konzertverein Wien, Grünewaldsalen Stockholm, Tonhalle Zürich.</span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaMXPHKjjWCKLopxhvvKci1QLI7JauGV5Bcu_P9ctBFy1n-CW45YdJbsKjtQ44xB3JAKG-2EGs5s5F2Kkwte91OfUt73V3AS_fZsj4x4sZw0qX0q6Cs9K_Xlr5bRcw2SoqKQifpSlrHLdR5UC2IMUoukrzvIbOMrAGKzlZEVCkVwkW5Bhc7tQJIo1SQgm/s1200/dg15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1200" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaMXPHKjjWCKLopxhvvKci1QLI7JauGV5Bcu_P9ctBFy1n-CW45YdJbsKjtQ44xB3JAKG-2EGs5s5F2Kkwte91OfUt73V3AS_fZsj4x4sZw0qX0q6Cs9K_Xlr5bRcw2SoqKQifpSlrHLdR5UC2IMUoukrzvIbOMrAGKzlZEVCkVwkW5Bhc7tQJIo1SQgm/w461-h436/dg15.jpg" width="461" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Duo Gelland<br /><br /><br /></span></span><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: left;">.. with scintillating virtuosity... the fantastic sound worlds of the remarkable Gelland Duo.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" /><span class="p-obl" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The Strad Magazine</span><span style="text-align: left;">, May 2008</span></span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">In a new project, they are going to collaborate with UB composers and Buffalo String Works for the premiere of a new double concerto for Duo Gelland and the Buffalo String Works student string orchestra. A special aspect of the double concerto score is that it uses graphic notation, rather than conventional staff notation. A second work will be created for the Buffalo String Works student orchestra alone.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">Duo Gelland will feature works by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">Arnold Schönberg, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><a href="https://www.tiffanymskidmore.com/">Tiffany M Skidmore</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><a href="https://kvast.org/forare-erika/">Erika Förare</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><a href="https://www.mikaelforsman.com/biography.html">Mikael Forsman</a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Birgitte Alsted</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"> Zweigeigen, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Hans-Joachim Hespos in the concert on September 19. Among them, German composer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">Hans-Joachim Hespos's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><i>aglaja - dem engel "katastroph" zum angedenken (2019) </i>will be world premiere!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Workshop Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">🗓 Monday, September 18, 2023 </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">⏰ 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">📍Baird Recital Hall (North Campus)</span></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">💰</span><b>Free</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html" style="color: #940f04;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Concert Information: </span></a></b></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">🗓 Tuesday, September 19, 2023 </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">⏰ 19:30 PM</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">📍Baird Recital Hall (North Campus)</span></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="position: relative;"></em></span></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">💰<b>$10 or free with UB card</b></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="height: 0px; 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University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-81143778868454501222023-09-07T20:05:00.001-04:002023-09-07T20:05:36.661-04:00The William Blake Cycle: Unseen, Unbodièd, Unknown by Tiffany M. Skidmore<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;">The Center for 21</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;">st</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;"> Century Music is pleased to announce our season-opening performance of Tiffany Skidmore’s William Blake Cycle. Tiffany is a Visiting Associate Professor in the UB Music Department, and we are very excited to hear these intriguing works, which blend instruments, above all Kyle Hutchins’ saxophones, and electronic sounds in a multimedia theatrical vision.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;">Since 2015, composer </span><a href="https://www.tiffanymskidmore.com/" style="font-size: 16px;">Tiffany M. Skidmore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;"> and saxophonist </span><a href="http://www.jefferykylehutchins.com/" style="font-size: 16px;">Kyle Hutchins</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;"> have been collaborating on a cycle of electroacoustic instrumental chamber pieces centered around the saxophone that considers text and characters created by William Blake. Each movement explores relationships between mythological characters in the Blake universe, nonbinary gender identity, sexual politics, and gender stereotypes.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhy5-Dy_bcRvY4_9zx1nyhSI6WuNQBQ9X7ehrBBQuey4o8hFaepipt3jyluaTFVO6tHLI4S5WclaKje5-4r0IjJ9UYUKzN1lHzhQxZw7CNSI9Bkemeu7Iku0Am54m1lu_XJpqWcVSBKJwxQDvxTlCxGSmFKlXByJuXgNrpWXG4vbn31ZAgAqmpNyAtDGC0/s636/Tiffany%20photo.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="636" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhy5-Dy_bcRvY4_9zx1nyhSI6WuNQBQ9X7ehrBBQuey4o8hFaepipt3jyluaTFVO6tHLI4S5WclaKje5-4r0IjJ9UYUKzN1lHzhQxZw7CNSI9Bkemeu7Iku0Am54m1lu_XJpqWcVSBKJwxQDvxTlCxGSmFKlXByJuXgNrpWXG4vbn31ZAgAqmpNyAtDGC0/w640-h493/Tiffany%20photo.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Kyle Hutchins Website)</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><strong>The Book of Ahania</strong></em><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;"> acts as a refrain throughout the cycle. Ahania, the female emanation of Urizen, is his soul. Urizen becomes jealous and ashamed of his own feminine emanation–he sees her as “sinful” and hides her away until she becomes an unembodied shadow that wanders the earth, becoming “the mother of Pestilence.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br /></span></div><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The focus of Blake’s characterization of the first female, Enitharmon, represents “female domination and sexual restraints that limit the artistic imagination.” <em style="position: relative;"><strong>The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy</strong></em> reinterprets Blake’s poem, conceiving of it as a commentary on sexual oppression/suppression using restrictive pitch/rhythmic materials. Musically, the foundational vocal melody can never develop. Live instrumental lines begin to sprout from above and below the foundation, always forced to loop back due to musical constraints. Electronic snippets of a romantic underlying melody and poetic text emerge periodically from the textures, while a prolonged electronic whisper eventually envelops all other musical elements.</div></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;">In </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><strong>Vala/Luvah</strong></em><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-size: 16px;">, Vala and Luvah are feminine and masculine emanations of a single entity. Vala/Luvah loves and hates him/her/themself with a fiery, apocalyptic intensity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br /></span></div><em style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em style="position: relative;"><strong>Tharmas the father/Enion the mother</strong></em> explores Tharmas’s masculine persona at multiple simultaneous “ages” — he is both a bearded old man and a young man with wings. At the same time, the ecstatic, wailing music of Enion, this being’s feminine persona, gradually fades away, disappearing over the course of the piece.</div></em><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br /></span></div><em style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em style="position: relative;"><strong>The Spectre of Urthona</strong></em> depicts the erotic encounter that gives birth to a world full of lush flowers and poisonous fruit.</div></em><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br /></span></div><em style="background-color: white; position: relative;"><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><em style="position: relative;"><strong>The Book of Urizen</strong></em> is focused on the character Urizen, who features prominently in Blake’s Europe: A Prophecy. In Blake’s universe, Urizen represents the first living entity. He is intensely destructive, yet simultaneously “the embodiment of conventional reason and law." This piece explores Urizen’s multifaceted character and story through a complex, wordless setting of passages from Blake’s poem.</div><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHzFItlnkWvoYl64BdRo42KRjtTacx8WJzZBRKL-zxk7J2h-Ug3qoP8mrRXVe7YKTcUzMNCvQNLIjMKmHk0nRPLZ9NNeitJ5y4f5BplY9TxcakGftuqDH37VX2Zab0Qwwe17hz7GFDZmjQLzCf0stQtzpMvXrs8KCq2ISnSA3BcKrSUJl6ExsDyU5NYII/s300/Urizen_Plate_9_William_Blake.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="220" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHzFItlnkWvoYl64BdRo42KRjtTacx8WJzZBRKL-zxk7J2h-Ug3qoP8mrRXVe7YKTcUzMNCvQNLIjMKmHk0nRPLZ9NNeitJ5y4f5BplY9TxcakGftuqDH37VX2Zab0Qwwe17hz7GFDZmjQLzCf0stQtzpMvXrs8KCq2ISnSA3BcKrSUJl6ExsDyU5NYII/s1600/Urizen_Plate_9_William_Blake.jpeg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(The Book of Urizen)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></em><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><b><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/concert-calendar.html">Concert Information: </a></b></u></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>🗓 Friday, September 07, 2023 </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>⏰ 07:30PM - 09:00PM</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Quattrocento Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>📍 Slee Hall - Lippes Concert Hall (North Campus)</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">💰 <b>$10 or free with UB card</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><em style="background-color: white; position: relative;"></em></p><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; position: relative;"><br /></em></div><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; position: relative;">Performers:</em></div><div style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><em style="background-color: white; position: relative;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Soloist Kyle Hutchins, saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">with</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Dalia Chin, flute</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Rebeccah Parker Downs, cello</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Sheldon Johnson, saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Katherine Kennedy, soprano</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Jeffrey Siegfried, saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Derek Shapiro, conductor</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Justin Anthony Spenner, baritone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Annie Stevens, percussion</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Shannon Wettstein, piano</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Tiffany M. Skidmore, video and electronics</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Ted Moore, Technical Director</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Amanda Nelson, Theatrical Director</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Artem Bank, Documentation</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">The Book of Ahania</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for bass flute and baritone saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">The Night of Enitharmon's Joy</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for flute, tenor saxophone, and electronics</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">Vala/Luvah</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for saxophone trio (AAT) and electronics</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">Tharmas the father/Enion the mother</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for solo sopranino saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">The Spectre of Urthona</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for two soprano saxophones, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">The Book of Ahania</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for bass flute and baritone saxophone</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><em style="position: relative; text-align: left;">The Book of Urizen</em><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;"> for alto saxophone and piano</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Text and Images by William Blake</span><br style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Adaptation by Tiffany M. Skidmore</span></em></div><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-23984038649088027252023-05-29T13:09:00.008-04:002023-05-29T13:18:22.073-04:00June in Buffalo 2023: Arditti Quartet<p><b><u><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday, June 9</span></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Arditti Quartet<span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan, violin<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ralf Ehlers, viola<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Lucas Fels, cello<br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">4pm, Baird Recital Hall (Room 250, Baird Hall)</span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in;">This workshop program will feature works for string quartet by
distinguished June in Buffalo student participants.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Saturday, June 10<br />
</span></u></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Arditti Quartet<br />
</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan, violin<br />
Ralf Ehlers, viola<br />
Lucas Fels, cello<br />
7:30pm, Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></div><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAkD0bbvXy-MStluyT1pFL0XVtocGTK51_rq-vmeSrl5rNTIAHyoOXgJoufVySTpZImK3IALPp3G10RWNilUTQ2I-zeezhycWsFliV9CRz1_IXwQb_5uyB9kgr0jiEmwN8pNGakeoRejUrlzwoFGRLKF-xQAaLDVnbx_zbeGGAP05Vm9ndZb7C2oOew/s1200/ArdittiQuartet-Alexandre-Delmar-Casa-da-Msica_website.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1200" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAkD0bbvXy-MStluyT1pFL0XVtocGTK51_rq-vmeSrl5rNTIAHyoOXgJoufVySTpZImK3IALPp3G10RWNilUTQ2I-zeezhycWsFliV9CRz1_IXwQb_5uyB9kgr0jiEmwN8pNGakeoRejUrlzwoFGRLKF-xQAaLDVnbx_zbeGGAP05Vm9ndZb7C2oOew/w625-h303/ArdittiQuartet-Alexandre-Delmar-Casa-da-Msica_website.jpg" width="625" /></a></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(Source:
</span><a href="https://www.realarts.eu/Arditti-Quartet"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.realarts.eu/Arditti-Quartet</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
)</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">June
in Buffalo is delighted to welcome back the fabulous Arditti Quartet in 2023. <span style="background: white;">On Friday, June 9<sup>th</sup>, at 4:00
p.m., the Arditti Quartet will present a workshop program in the Baird Recital
Hall featuring works for string quartet by June in Buffalo participant composers.
On Saturday, June 10<sup>th</sup>, at 7:30 p. m. in Lippes Concert Hall, the
Quartet will performs music by senior composers, including </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Ann Cleare’s <i>Moil </i>and Robert
H.P. Platz’s<i> Strings (Echo VII). </i>The evening also features </span><span style="background: white;">Artistic Director <i>emeritus</i> </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">David Felder’s <i>Netivot </i>for
string quartet and electronics<i>.</i> The evening concludes with a performance
of Wolfgang Rihm’s <i>Epilog, </i>for which the Ardittis will be joined by
cellist and June in Buffalo Director Jonathan Golove.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Irvine
Arditti and the Arditti Quartet have long been closely connected to UB, the
Center for 21st Century Music and the June in Buffalo festival. The Center’s previous
artistic director, SUNY Distinguished Professor David Felder, wrote all three
of his string quartets for the group (the first one dates from 1987-88), who
went on to play them at prominent new music festivals worldwide. His latest
string quartet, Netivot, written for both the Arditti and JACK Quartets, was
premiered by the Ardittis at June in Buffalo 2016. Thanks to the Center’s
support, both Irvine Arditti and his quartet have been able to visit June in
Buffalo with greatly increased frequency—the quartet was resident ensemble in
2007, 2010, 2016, 2022 and now in 2023, while Irvine Arditti was guest soloist
in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Arditti Quartet enjoys a worldwide reputation for their spirited and
technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century
music. Many hundreds of string quartets and other chamber works have been
written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti
in 1974. Many of these works have left a permanent mark on 20th century
repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history.
World premieres of quartets by composers such as Abrahamsen, Ades, Andriessen,
Aperghis, Birtwistle, Britten, Cage, Carter, Denisov, Dillon, Dufourt, Dusapin,
Fedele, Ferneyhough, Francesconi, Gubaidulina, Guerrero, Harvey, Hosokawa,
Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Maderna, Manoury, Nancarrow, Reynolds, Rihm,
Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen and Xenakis and hundreds more show the wide
range of music in the Arditti Quartet’s repertoire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the
process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to work with every
composer it plays.The players’ commitment to educational work is indicated by
their masterclasses and workshops for young performers and composers all over
the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Over
the past 30 years, the ensemble has received many prizes for its work. They
have won the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis several times and the Gramophone
Award for the best recording of contemporary music in 1999 (Elliott Carter) in
2002 (Harrison Birtwistle) and in 2018 (Pascal Dusapin). In 2004 they were
awarded the ‘Coup de Coeur’ prize by the Academie Charles Cros in France for
their exceptional contribution to the dissemination of contemporary music. The
prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to them in 1999 for
‘lifetime achievement’ in music. They remain to this day, the only ensemble
ever to receive it.<br />
The complete archive of the Arditti quartet is housed in the Sacher Foundation
in Basle, Switzerland.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">(Source:
</span><a href="https://ardittiquartet.com/arditti-quartet"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://ardittiquartet.com/arditti-quartet</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280895701&color=%2300aabb&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/david-felder" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="David Felder">David Felder</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/david-felder/netivot" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Netivot">Netivot</a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">David Felder: Netivot (2016)</span></span><span style="color: #424242; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Follow us on Facebook:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Robert-and-Carol-Morris-Center-for-21st-Century-Music/100063220118883/"> https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Robert-and-Carol-Morris-Center-for-21st-Century-Music/100063220118883/</a></div><br /><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-49473993123611498822023-05-29T13:02:00.002-04:002023-05-29T13:02:40.649-04:00June in Buffalo 2023: Talujon Percussion<p> <b><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Thursday, June 8<br /></span></u></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><b>Talujon Percussion<br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">7:30pm, Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">Talujon Percussion performs works by senior composers and June in Buffalo faculty composer.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Golove: </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Here and There</i></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with Tiffany DuMouchelle, soprano</span></li><li><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mathew Rosenblum: </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-weight: inherit;">We Lived Happily During the W</span><b>a</b></i></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>r</i></b></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with Jamie Jordan, soprano</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Saturday, June 10</span></u></b><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><b>Talujon Percussion</b></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;">
</p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">4pm, Baird Recital Hall (Room 250, Baird Hall)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit; padding: 0in;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Program will include percussion works by June in Buffalo participant composers.</span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_1N4LrhMLSnkwISjnGuglkY8NVBJHNBbps_whoc43pb0ZqtW8ZjKqX0j-wgjW3JjUVNlT2IyNQQzx490kdMlAgyoYuvF1BOzE7BbZZ3FVTyqSxbRkb9M4RcAGs_sHiMDWOj8oDtkyCvzX8h3v4fYsDVFpTCNrCk50yK1ReTVnrzf7vBxpAra3LLZGvQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="450" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_1N4LrhMLSnkwISjnGuglkY8NVBJHNBbps_whoc43pb0ZqtW8ZjKqX0j-wgjW3JjUVNlT2IyNQQzx490kdMlAgyoYuvF1BOzE7BbZZ3FVTyqSxbRkb9M4RcAGs_sHiMDWOj8oDtkyCvzX8h3v4fYsDVFpTCNrCk50yK1ReTVnrzf7vBxpAra3LLZGvQ=w298-h441" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The June in Buffalo festival is looking forward
to hosting repeat visitors of the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music, <a href="https://www.talujon.org/">Talujon.</a> On Thursday, June 8<sup>th</sup>, at 7:30 p.m., Talujon will present music
for percussion and voice in Lippes Concert Hall. The program features Mathew
Rosenblum’s <i>We Lived Happily After The War</i> with Jamie Jordan, soprano
and Jonathan Golove’s <i>Here and There</i> with Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano.
In addition, they will perform </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">percussion works by June in Buffalo
participant composers on Saturday, June 10<sup>th</sup>, at 4:00 p.m. in Baird
Recital Hall.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Described by the New York Times as possessing an "</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">edgy,
unflagging energy</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">", Talujon has committed itself to the growth of
contemporary percussion music through diverse performance, commissioning,
educational, and outreach activities.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Highlights of Talujon’s recent engagements include
appearances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a
Can Marathon, Carnegie Hall, ISSUE Project Room, Miller Theatre, and New York
Historical Society. International performances include Taipei’s Lantern Festival
and Italy’s Sound Res Festival. In addition to its diverse performance
schedule, Talujon has conducted residencies, clinics, and master classes at
institutions across the US. Collaborators include Dewa Alit, Nick Brooke, Chien
Yin Chen, Alvin Lucier, Eric Moe, Steve Ricks, Ralph Shapey, Henry Threadgill,
Ushio Torikai, and Julia Wolfe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Talujon partners with New York City Public Schools and the
Midori and Friends organization to produce educational programming across New
York City’s five boroughs. The ensemble’s playing can be heard on the
Cantaloupe, Tzadik, Unseen Worlds, New World, Bridge, Albany, and Capstone
record labels.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.talujon.org/about"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">https://www.talujon.org/about</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">)</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vfsdrZnYiEU" width="433" youtube-src-id="vfsdrZnYiEU"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Talujon performing Julia Wolfe's Dark Full Ride</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5DxTWUoJnbcihsczHMyjv1?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Petr
Kotik, The Plains at Gordium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Performed
by Talujon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p></div><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><br /><br /></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-76260384618970370672023-05-28T11:25:00.005-04:002023-05-29T11:59:08.194-04:00June in Buffalo 2023: Slee Sinfonietta<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="text-align: center;">The
Slee Sinfonietta is the professional chamber orchestra in residence at the
University at Buffalo and the flagship ensemble of the Robert and Carol Morris
Center for 21st Century Music. The Sinfonietta presents a series of concerts
each year that feature performances of challenging new works by contemporary
composers and lesser-known works from the chamber orchestra repertoire. Founded
in 1997 by composer David Felder and comprised of a core group including UB
faculty performance artists, visiting artists, national and regional
professionals and advanced performance students, the group is conducted by
leading conductors and composers. This ensemble has produced world-class
performances of important repertoire for over 25 years, and its activities
include touring, professionally produced recordings, and unique concert
experiences for listeners of all levels of experience.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Slee Sinfonietta is an ensemble of flexible size. For June in Buffalo 2023, the
Slee Sinfonietta presents four programs mixing solo works, chamber music, and larger
groupings, led by guest conductor Daniel Brottman.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAvC1N1w2yxwJYS6nFH9KErprI2uq8bdIQcrfPxUmO5ZEEbVV66079lnd-M-LJadVvHtgnFeQftp-nDCwsqSlnZmUBktfiMxIPM-WFBrFWNfJgpR4WnQy18cEBTFTZHhDObkEGfXx_UK-k48VtLlBqfuDJn_aFOK0Jl-WhtnrJdsta04c_ctzX5edDA/s667/Headshot+-+Daniel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="500" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAvC1N1w2yxwJYS6nFH9KErprI2uq8bdIQcrfPxUmO5ZEEbVV66079lnd-M-LJadVvHtgnFeQftp-nDCwsqSlnZmUBktfiMxIPM-WFBrFWNfJgpR4WnQy18cEBTFTZHhDObkEGfXx_UK-k48VtLlBqfuDJn_aFOK0Jl-WhtnrJdsta04c_ctzX5edDA/w359-h479/Headshot+-+Daniel.jpg" width="359" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Photo of Daniel Brottman</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Source:<a href="https://www.earspace.org/"> </a></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.earspace.org/">https://www.earspace.org/</a>)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">Tuesday,
June 6</span></u></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Soloists of the</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> <b>Slee Sinfonietta<br /></b></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4pm, Baird Recital Hall (Room
250 Baird Hall)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Music by June in Buffalo
participant composers, as well as selected piano works by Péter Eötvös, György
Kurtág, Béla Bartók and</span></span></span><span> Tomasz Sikorski,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with pianists Nicholas Emmanuel and Haeyeun Jeun.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wednesday,
June 7<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Slee Sinfonietta, with members
of the Arditti Quartet</span></span></b></div><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel Brottman, conductor</span></div></span><p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7:30pm, Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">Larger ensemble works by several </span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">June in Buffalo participant composers, in an evening
combining works by senior composers and featuring members of the Arditti
Quartet. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The program includes the world premiere of <i>vl2</i> for violin duo by Robert HP Platz, as well as his <i>Maro</i> for solo violin, played by Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Thursday,
June 8</span></u></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chamber musicians of Slee
Sinfonietta</span></span></b></div><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Daniel Brottman, conductor</span></div></span><p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">4pm, Baird Recital Hall (Room
250, Baird Hall)</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Chamber music by June in
Buffalo participant composers.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;"><b>Sunday,
June 11</b><br /></span></u></span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Closing Concert: Slee
Sinfonietta</span></span></b></p><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Daniel Brottman, conductor<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tiffany Du Mouchelle, soprano</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2pm, Lippes Concert Hall in
Slee Hall<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">Slee Sinfonietta performs works by June in Buffalo senior
composers. </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">Jonathan
Golove: <i>Imaginary Songs</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">for
soprano, alto flute and cello</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">Robert
H.P. Platz: <i>Wunderblock</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">for alto
flute (solo), bass clarinet and percussion (duo), and violin, viola, cello (trio),
performed individually and as a sextet</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: left; text-indent: 3pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">Melinda
Wagner: <i>Four Settings</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-color-alt: windowtext; padding: 0in;">for
soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-indent: 3pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><br /><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-85886862478942426302023-05-28T11:13:00.001-04:002023-05-28T11:14:02.999-04:00June in Buffalo 2023: [Switch~ Ensemble<p><b><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday, June 9</span></span></u></b></p><p><a name="_Hlk135835383" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>[</b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">Switch~ Ensemble</b><a name="_Hlk135835389" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;">]</a><b style="background-color: white;"> with special
guest Jamie Jordan and Wooden
Cities<br /></b></span>7:30pm, Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall</p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Alexander “Sasha” Ishov, flutes<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Madison Greenstone, clarinets<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Dannel Espinoza, saxophones<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Lilit Hartunian, violin<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Cori Trenczer, cello<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Amy Garapic, percussion<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Andrew Zhou, piano<br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Jason Thorpe Buchanan, electronics<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Jeff Means, conductor<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit; padding: 0in;">with </span><a href="https://www.jamiejordansings.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Jamie Jordan</span></a><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit; padding: 0in;">, soprano<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: inherit; padding: 0in;">and members of </span><a href="https://www.woodencities.org/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Wooden Cities</span></a></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;">The June in Buffalo festival<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> is thrilled to welcome back the </span><a href="https://www.switchensemble.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #940f04;">[Switch~ Ensemble]</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, who have been regular performers in the Festival and at the Center. They last visited the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music for a terrific residency from February 27<sup> </sup>to March 2, 2023. For June in Buffalo 2023, they will be performing senior composer </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Melinda Wagner’s <i>unsung cordata</i></span><i>,</i> <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Ann Cleare’s <i>luna (the eye that opens the other eye),</i> and <i>93 million miles away,</i></span> and, with soprano Jamie Jordan, <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Mathew Rosenblum’s <i>Falling. </i>They will be joined by members of Wooden Cities in a tribute performance of </span><a href="http://edgeofthecenter.blogspot.com/2023/04/chamber-musicians-of-slee-sinfonietta.html"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Robert Phillips’</span></a><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> <i>O Haupt Voller Blut und Wunden.</i></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz_LlonawSt0vDp23tqzLiKVlf0Tw-Yc1Onm0pTS55mkzeINkVGwTdZtVbmNrx8FzR6eA-wHyVy8Pgnyn6Z5279mNxiq1i7xT-nb4U7ri5ofl6MgmGBFlMVrYBjhdkD0mtBlvFsPijWnzIO1GFQDRVtsaPTRbz9OWdqL-CwXK2tqE-_HEI_RNGY6_GZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="975" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz_LlonawSt0vDp23tqzLiKVlf0Tw-Yc1Onm0pTS55mkzeINkVGwTdZtVbmNrx8FzR6eA-wHyVy8Pgnyn6Z5279mNxiq1i7xT-nb4U7ri5ofl6MgmGBFlMVrYBjhdkD0mtBlvFsPijWnzIO1GFQDRVtsaPTRbz9OWdqL-CwXK2tqE-_HEI_RNGY6_GZA=w525-h295" width="525" /></a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><p align="center" style="text-align: center;">A new music ensemble for the 21st
Century, the [Switch~ Ensemble] is dedicated to the creation of new works for
chamber ensemble: they bring bold new acoustic, electroacoustic, and multimedia
projects to life. At the core of each performance is their commitment to the
total integration of technology and live musicians. They strive for compelling
artistry achieved through the seamless creation, production, and execution of
new music, and believe that working directly with composers—in a medium where
the score is a point of departure rather than a finish line—allows for new and
thrilling musical possibilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;">[Switch~] contributes to the future
of the genre by strongly advocating for and commissioning the music of a new
generation of emerging young composers. They have enjoyed fruitful
collaborations with both emerging and established composers, with commissions
and premieres of works by composers including Anna-Louise Walton, Alican Çamci,
Igor Santos, Katherine Young, Stefano Gervasoni, Stefan Prins, Wojtek Blecharz,
Anthony Vine, Rand Steiger, Philippe Leroux, Timothy McCormack, Tonia Ko, James
Bean, Matt Sargent, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Esaias Järnegard, Sivan
Eldar, Julio Zúñiga, Zeynep Toraman, Alexander Schubert, Adrien Trybucki,
Elvira Garifzyanova, Santiago Diez-Fischer, Lisa Streich, Anthony Pateras, and
many others.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;">Founded in 2012 at the Eastman School
of Music, the [Switch~ Ensemble] looks toward the future of contemporary music.
They are dedicated to performing high-level chamber music integrated with
cutting-edge technology and supporting emerging and early career composers.
They are passionate about helping to build a diverse canon of 21st century
works that leaves space for all voices—especially those that have historically
been excluded from our field.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[Switch~]
plays Up Close (2019) by Katharina Rosenberger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Wooden
Cities - Ribble Bobble Pimlico<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-51616046892719701662023-05-26T12:10:00.004-04:002023-05-26T12:18:30.707-04:00June in Buffalo 2023: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra<p> <b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Tuesday,
June 6</span></u></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #242424;">Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra</span></b><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;">7:30pm, UB Center for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">Fernanda
Lastra, conductor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">June in Buffalo welcomes back the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, who will perform the first evening concert of
the 2023 Festival with an exciting program of works by the JiB’s senior composers
and its long-time Artistic Director, David Felder. The program includes Mathew </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Rosenblum’s <i>Eliza Furnace </i>and
Melinda Wagner’s <i>Proceed</i>, <i>Moon</i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">along
with </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">David Felder’s <i>Die
Dämmerungen</i>: movements 1-3. </span><span style="color: #242424;">The BPO will
be led by Maestra Fernanda Lastra. Ms. Lastra is the BPO’s Conductor Diversity
Fellow, a post she assumed in September 2022.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGENxEehsf8t4acOQz7Ykm9DEjkyXV-xByXFDZQi8YnHP8QfuX66guBAtW4zTkoo0EQQs3yGcAtJaUUCOdC7bFgfG-ampckCwiJmyGO6Auqcjz0gJsCr0hs4ZQfqpLVoOOI7RxqQXwBR8ZAw10QSqit-rigLYC6piYTEaLC1gla-CmWtQI9FO2zZnKw/s1640/Untitled%20design%20(1)-min.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1640" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGENxEehsf8t4acOQz7Ykm9DEjkyXV-xByXFDZQi8YnHP8QfuX66guBAtW4zTkoo0EQQs3yGcAtJaUUCOdC7bFgfG-ampckCwiJmyGO6Auqcjz0gJsCr0hs4ZQfqpLVoOOI7RxqQXwBR8ZAw10QSqit-rigLYC6piYTEaLC1gla-CmWtQI9FO2zZnKw/w648-h364/Untitled%20design%20(1)-min.jpg" width="648" /></a></div><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Times",serif;">(Source:
</span><a href="https://www.fernandalastra.com/gallery"><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">https://www.fernandalastra.com/gallery</span></a><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Times",serif;"> )</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424; font-family: "Times",serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.fernandalastra.com/about">Fernanda Lastra</a><span style="color: #242424;"> was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. As a passionate
and creative conductor, she is interested in a wide variety of repertoire,
including symphonic, contemporary, and operatic works. In 2022, Fernanda is
appointed </span><a href="https://bpo.org/buffalo-philharmonic-orchestra-announces-new-conductor-diversity-fellow-beginning-september-2022/">Conductor
Diversity Fellow at the Buffalo Philharmonic</a><span style="color: #242424;">
under the mentorship of JoAnn Falletta. In this role Fernanda serves as
assistant conductor, cover conductor, and main conductor for the BPO Family
Kids series and Music for Youth concerts. Fernanda also serves as a member of
the BPO’s artistic team, the BPO's music education committee and the BPO’s
Diversity Council, among other responsibilities.</span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">As guest conductor Fernanda has led professional and
youth orchestras in the United States, Argentina, and Brazil. Some of her
previous engagements include conducting the National Orchestra of Argentine
Music "Juan de Dios Filiberto" at the CCK National Auditorium in
Buenos Aires, and the production of Missy Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar
in collaboration with Demaskus Theatre and Kassia Ensemble in Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">Fernanda Lastra is a passionate advocate for Latin
American composers, especially those from Argentina. In 2020, Fernanda created
Compositores.AR, a cycle of interviews of Argentinian composers in
collaboration with MúsicaClasicaBA in Buenos Aires.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">From 2021-2022 Fernanda Lastra served as Director of
Orchestras at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, where she led the Symphony
and Chamber orchestras. She also served as Assistant conductor for the
University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra from 2018-2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">More about the history of Buffalo’s remarkable and
innovative BPO, including its various connections to the Music Department at
the University at Buffalo. <br /></span><a href="http://edgeofthecenter.blogspot.com/2017/06/">http://edgeofthecenter.blogspot.com/2017/06/</a></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1140780619&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/david-felder" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="David Felder">David Felder</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/david-felder/die-dammerungen-mvt-1-excerpt" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Die Dammerungen Mvt 1 Excerpt">Die Dammerungen Mvt 1 Excerpt</a></div><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;">
</p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #242424;">David Felder’s </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">Die Dämmerungen </i>was commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and premiered by the Orchestra in 2019. Here is a sample</p></div><p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /><br /></span></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-52814271277464111322023-05-25T21:13:00.004-04:002023-05-26T11:43:10.418-04:00June in Buffalo 2023 Senior Composer: Melinda Wagner<p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We are honored to that </span><span style="color: #242424;">Melinda
Wagner will join us at </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">June
in Buffalo this year as a senior composer, and we’re quite excited to hear the </span><a href="https://bpo.org/mission-and-history/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> perform her
magnificent <i>Proceed, Moon: Fantasy for Orchestra</i> on the first evening
concert of the Festival.</span></p><p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUWc1Lr-01aFMwSBhfF3OM8vW2zeUN7LTnEyuLIXRMYcvCCnR7aeRfa1yUrtRmD-PzUtSBtLYroe9cuTLSqepoO1Wuu1K42cg3TZEQ6HMfCR-A_y5I7kf-fL2SFUvWBmwImMdsZzTTs4pZyEekLKCYaMaQHLbUimKWBiLqCkX1YaBvHlAmkbTQA5xAQw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="469" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUWc1Lr-01aFMwSBhfF3OM8vW2zeUN7LTnEyuLIXRMYcvCCnR7aeRfa1yUrtRmD-PzUtSBtLYroe9cuTLSqepoO1Wuu1K42cg3TZEQ6HMfCR-A_y5I7kf-fL2SFUvWBmwImMdsZzTTs4pZyEekLKCYaMaQHLbUimKWBiLqCkX1YaBvHlAmkbTQA5xAQw=w335-h405" width="335" /></a><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/">https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/</a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">Celebrated as an “...eloquent, poetic
voice in contemporary music...” [American Record Guide], Melinda Wagner’s
esteemed catalog of works embodies music of exceptional beauty, power, and
intelligence. Wagner received widespread attention when her colorful Concerto
for Flute, Strings and Percussion earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. Since
then, major works have included Concerto for Trombone, for Joseph Alessi and
the New York Philharmonic, a piano concerto, Extremity of Sky, commissioned by
the Chicago Symphony for Emanuel Ax, and Little Moonhead, composed for the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as part of its popular “New Brandenburgs” project.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Noted for its “...prismatic colors
and...lithe sense of mystery...” [Washington Post], Extremity of Sky has been
performed by Emanuel Ax with the National Symphony (on tour), the Toronto and
Kansas City Symphonies, and the Staatskapelle Berlin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Championed early on by Daniel Barenboim,
Wagner has received three commissions from the Chicago Symphony; the most
recent of these, Proceed, Moon, was premiered under the baton of Susanna Mälkki
in 2017. Other recent performances have come from the Philadelphia Orchestra,
the American Composers Orchestra, the United States Marine Band, BMOP, the
American Brass Quintet, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Among honors Wagner has received is a
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and awards from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and ASCAP. Wagner was given an honorary doctorate from Hamilton
College, and a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pennsylvania
in 2003. Melinda Wagner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A passionate and inspiring teacher,
Melinda Wagner has given master classes at many fine institutions across the
United States, including Harvard, Yale, Eastman, Juilliard, and UC Davis. She
has held faculty positions at Brandeis University and Smith College and has
served as a mentor at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Atlantic Music
Festival, and Yellow Barn. Ms. Wagner currently serves on the faculty of the
Juilliard School of Music.<br /></span><span style="color: #242424;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/">https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/</a><span style="color: #242424;"> )</span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><br />
<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283380175&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/melinda-wagner-876898488" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Melinda Wagner">Melinda Wagner</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/melinda-wagner-876898488/four-settingsi-last-poem-excerpts" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Four Settings/I. Last Poem (excerpts)">Four Settings/I. Last Poem (excerpts)</a></div><i>
Four Settings: I. Last Poem</i> by Melinda Wagner<o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/283380083&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/melinda-wagner-876898488" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Melinda Wagner">Melinda Wagner</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/melinda-wagner-876898488/four-settings-ii-the-wings-excerpts" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Four Settings/ II. The Wings (excerpts)">Four Settings/ II. The Wings (excerpts)</a></div>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><i>Four
Settings: II. The Wings</i> by Melinda Wagner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The complete <i>Four Settings</i> will be performed by the
Slee Sinfonietta and soprano Tiffany DuMouchelle on Sunday, June 11<sup>th</sup>
2:00 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall. <br />
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<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;">Melinda Wagner’s work can be
found here: </span><a href="https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/">https://www.melindawagnermusic.com/</a><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /><br /></span></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-49976034069438374802023-05-25T20:38:00.011-04:002023-05-26T11:40:41.292-04:00June in Buffalo 2023 Senior Composer: Robert HP Platz<p><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">This year marks the first “in person”
v</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">isit by composer and conductor </span><span style="color: #242424;">Robert HP
Platz to June in Buffalo </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">as a
JiB senior composer. Robert was a virtual member of our faculty of senior
composers in 2020, and it’s a great pleasure to be able to welcome him to
campus and to Buffalo.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIgtziKXKtG2nnyWTIJzx1sAyx2_AWgyMdOLVFQMHyMm5Z_ktFl1vGbdfCjioucPUBntBxwrh2rRlAefhUefHpy8VEb6iXS7IxCKV8PHAJby8L1RC3PMJbPc6FHjFIT2ohqi_hqE8K8iuiJtTDm6p0knRCs5dLSej9hxx55XzbA-ivHFy5LMpXi4nJQ/s3976/Platz-c-Ricordi_Harald-Hoffmann_04_Willkommen-min.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3976" data-original-width="2652" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIgtziKXKtG2nnyWTIJzx1sAyx2_AWgyMdOLVFQMHyMm5Z_ktFl1vGbdfCjioucPUBntBxwrh2rRlAefhUefHpy8VEb6iXS7IxCKV8PHAJby8L1RC3PMJbPc6FHjFIT2ohqi_hqE8K8iuiJtTDm6p0knRCs5dLSej9hxx55XzbA-ivHFy5LMpXi4nJQ/w312-h470/Platz-c-Ricordi_Harald-Hoffmann_04_Willkommen-min.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.rhpp.de/index.cfm?id=4419&willkommen=1"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">https://www.rhpp.de/index.cfm?id=4419&willkommen=1</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">)</span></div><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Born in Baden-Baden in 1951, Robert HP
Platz studied music theory, piano, and conducting in Freiburg im Breisgau with
Wolfgang Fortner, musicology with Elmar Budde, and for some time,
parapsychology with Hans Bender. He then moved to Cologne to study with Karlheinz
Stockhausen and completed training in conducting with Francis Travis in 1977 in
Freiburg. He lives and works in Cologne.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Since 1989, Platz’s compositions have
formed parts of a diary-like collection that consists of associative leaps in
which individual works stand for themselves but are closely connected
structurally and can be to some extent played simultaneously. For this
“polyphony of forms,” performers are spread around the room in such a way as to
allow the individual works to polyphonically percolate and overarch one
another.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Robert HP Platz has received commissions
from SWR, WDR, Saarländischer Rundfunk, the Sinfonieorchester Aachen,
Staatstheater Cottbus, Klangforum Wien, the E-MEX-Ensemble, the Adritti
Quartet, Ensemble Alternance, and many others as well as festivals including
the Donaueschingen Festival, ECLAT, Wien Modern, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and
ACHT BRÜCKEN.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In 1978 and 1979 he received a scholarship
from Südwestfunk’s Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung and lived for a long time
afterwards in the USA and Paris, where he worked at IRCAM. Platz lived at the
Künstlerhof Schreyahn in 1989-1990 and was composer in residence at Villa
Serbelloni in 1990 on invitation from the Rockefeller Foundation. Two years
later he had a long and formative stay in Japan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">From 1980-2001 Platz directed the Ensemble
Köln, commissioning compositions from many renowned colleagues. Platz has
worked with a number of ensembles and orchestras as a guest conductor,
including Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, the Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the orchestras of SWR, SR, and NDR, Orchestre
Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Bamberg Symphony, and Bayerische Staatsoper,
as well as at international festivals in Salzburg, Helsinki, Donaueschingen, and
Strasbourg. Platz’s conducting has been documented on numerous CDs. His
portrait CD on Mauro Lanza with the Ensemble Alternance received an award from
the Académie Charles Cros, and his first Hosokawa CD on NEOS received a Clef
d’Or as the “CD of the Year 2009.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lecturing and teaching has brought Platz
to many European countries, as well as the USA, Mexico, Israel, Indonesia,
South Korea, and Japan; he has also been a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer
Course on a number of occasions. Between 2000 and 2007, Platz was artistic
director of the Schreyahner Herbst festival. Pfau Verlag published the volumes <i>“TOP:</i>
<i>Skizzentagebuch”</i> and <i>“…weil die Welt und wir mit ihr so sin</i>d“
(Texte zur Musik 1972–2014). In 2013 Bärenreiter Verlag published “<i>Technik
des Violinspiels”</i> (with Irvine Arditti). Another publication about Robert
HP Platz is in the works for 2021 (Pfau Verlag, ed. Gordon Kampe). Since 2016,
piano maker Steingraeber has been building the first ever MIDI grand with permanently
installed transducers according to the composer’s specifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Platz has been a member of the Bureau du
Directeur of the Henri Pousseur Electronic Studios, Liège, since 2005, and has
been Professor of Composition and Ensemble Direction for New Music at the
Musikhochschule Würzburg since 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Platz was working on the ensemble cycle <i>6
Welten: Container</i>, that premiered at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2022, as
well as on the (chamber) musical theatre piece <i>Anderswo</i>, and a work for
solo violin and chamber orchestra.<br /></span><span style="color: #242424;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/Composers/P/Platz-Robert-HP.aspx">https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/Composers/P/Platz-Robert-HP.aspx</a><span style="color: #242424;"> )</span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="388" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7JBwdtL4RQE" width="466" youtube-src-id="7JBwdtL4RQE"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;">Robert HP Platz - Anderswo: <i>Wand für
Kammerorchester</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
<iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="352" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2xVKYooCUsXV6ll0SsGB0R?utm_source=generator&theme=0" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe><br /><i><br />Broken Book Skizze (1999)</i> for flute, violin, viola and Violoncello by Robert HP Platz</p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">June in Buffalo is pleased to present the world premiere of <i>vl2 </i>for
violin duo performed by Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan of the Arditti
Quartet on the Wednesday, June 7<sup>th</sup>, 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert
Hall. Also featured on this program Platz’s <i>Maro</i> for solo violin played
by Irvine Arditti.</p><p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;">Robert HP Platz’s work can be found here: </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xHXyGK8JBdyrvQL9m33lj">https://open.spotify.com/artist/3xHXyGK8JBdyrvQL9m33lj</a><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
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welcome </span><span style="color: #242424; line-height: 107%;">Mathew Rosenblum back to
June in Buffalo </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">as a senior composer this year. Mathew has visited UB
on multiple occasions, including as a JiB senior composer in 2009. We’re
especially pleased to present a major recent work for soprano and six
percussionists, <i>We Lived Happily During the War</i> (2021), based on a poem
by Ilya Kaminsky and performed by soprano </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.jamiejordansings.com/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jamie
Jordan</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> and </span><a href="https://www.talujon.org/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Talujon</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, for whom the work was commissioned by
the Fromm Foundation.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXYe0vwYwzxXJxBczeDC26eC9ztDWf-N7SqgwgutYVQAg7vYmyxg17Cb0q9YcgSrtJobQNVbmAaDvvK5EqgRUiicJDU5fc7cRM81kLZNRoRdyNyRsLiAQsuDbo4HTxV2kkDpHFNe2_LoseR1T-kl-EPauBbO4u7UPoW2B6b7Esb_sxtgeNTtVzTX_1A/s5996/DSC_2352-2%20(1)-min.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3373" data-original-width="5996" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXYe0vwYwzxXJxBczeDC26eC9ztDWf-N7SqgwgutYVQAg7vYmyxg17Cb0q9YcgSrtJobQNVbmAaDvvK5EqgRUiicJDU5fc7cRM81kLZNRoRdyNyRsLiAQsuDbo4HTxV2kkDpHFNe2_LoseR1T-kl-EPauBbO4u7UPoW2B6b7Esb_sxtgeNTtVzTX_1A/w505-h284/DSC_2352-2%20(1)-min.jpg" width="505" /></a><br /><span style="color: #242424;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=134">https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=134</a><span style="color: #242424;"> )</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424;">With diverse musical elements derived from classical,
jazz, rock, and world music traditions, Mathew Rosenblum’s compositions offer
“an ear-buzzing flood of sound, rich in unusual overtones” (The Boston Globe),
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette proclaimed that his work Mobius Loop was “richly
layered… and that it “shimmered with vibrancy.” A wide array of groups have
commissioned, performed, and recorded his music such as the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig, the
Harry Partch Institute, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Mantra
Percussion, Music from China as well as many others. Using a variety of tuning
systems, his work does not live within traditional boundaries, creating a
compellingly fresh landscape.</span></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">Rosenblum spearheaded the highly successful Beyond:
Microtonal Music Festival at The Andy Warhol Museum where his new work, Last
Round (ostatnia runda) composed for FLUX Quartet and Mantra Percussion was
premiered. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called it “impressive,” “visceral” and
“tribal.” The New York Times said of the N.Y. premiere of Rosenblum’s work,
Falling, that it “overshadowed” everything else on the program, it was “rapt,
fretful, eerily suspended.” George Grella of New York Classical Review stated:
“Falling blends electronics, spoken word, and live music more effectively than
most other such efforts. The piece compresses foreground and background into a
rich, floating mass… the path into the heart of the piece is both clear and
infinite.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">His works have been performed throughout the North America,
Europe, and Asia including at the ISCM World Music Days in Oslo, the Gewandhaus
in Leipzig, the China-ASEAN Music Week in Nanning, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf,
the Bing Theater in LA, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Sala Nezahualcóyotl in
Mexico City, and at the Sonic Boom Festival, the Kitchen, Merkin Hall, Symphony
Space, the Guggenheim Museum, and Miller Theatre in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">In July of 2015 he was a featured composer at the
Thailand International Composition Festival. In 2009 he was a Senior Faculty
Composer at the June in Buffalo Festival. Other honors include a Guggenheim
Fellowship, four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Music Fellowship Grants, a
Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award, three Fromm Foundation Commissions, a
National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant, a Barlow Endowment
Commission, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship Grant. He
has also received awards and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on
the Arts, the Institute of Contemporary American Music, the Rockefeller
Foundation, BMI, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Foundation, the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center, and Yaddo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">He received degrees in composition from the New England
Conservatory of Music and Princeton University and is currently Professor of
Music and former Chair of the Department of Music at the University of
Pittsburgh where he also co-directs the Music on the Edge new music series. His
works appear on the MODE, New World Records, Albany, New Focus Recordings,
BMOP/sound, Capstone, Opus One, Blue Griffin, and CRI Emergency Music labels
and is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and Plurabelle Music (distributed
by Subito Music Corporation).<br /></span><span style="color: #242424;">(Source: </span><a href="https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=159">https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=159</a><span style="color: #242424;">)</span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="420" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sra581VGOd0" width="506" youtube-src-id="sra581VGOd0"></iframe></div><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #242424;"><i>Falling </i>by Mathew Rosenblum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Soprano Jamie Jordan will be coming
to Buffalo to perform two of Mathew’s works:<i> Falling w</i>ith [Switch~
Ensemble] on Friday, June 9<sup>th</sup> at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall,
and <i>We Lived Happily During the War</i> with Talujon on Thursday, June 8<sup>th</sup>
at 7:30 p.m., also in Lippes.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;">Mathew Rosenblum’s work can be found here: </span><a href="https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=58">https://www.mathewrosenblum.com/?page_id=58</a><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: #242424;"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-74774437317535042972023-05-25T20:15:00.002-04:002023-05-25T20:16:19.732-04:00June in Buffalo 2023 Senior Composer: Ann Cleare<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">We are extremely pleased to welcome Ann Cleare as one
of five senior composers working with the participant composers at the 2023
edition of June in Buffalo. Ann will be joining us at UB for the first time,
and we’re delighted to have her voice and perspective at the Festival this
year!</span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL0M0Yq7D6avK9ydKzacVtzkoZZ-fvS0AD83dtzrQ6v8F3K71uuG4WlEkHsI0vfwdXyvI8jD4rQpdC2fhd5XglCgl7zBPpBFVueVL431sEHg9bRSZpYAmb_FTh8EZhLaX9NP_A4qAIouCzlsrvTf_kbYDscbiRtzw2UNDX2Au2OA7nnqb8EbFRDqxX1g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="975" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL0M0Yq7D6avK9ydKzacVtzkoZZ-fvS0AD83dtzrQ6v8F3K71uuG4WlEkHsI0vfwdXyvI8jD4rQpdC2fhd5XglCgl7zBPpBFVueVL431sEHg9bRSZpYAmb_FTh8EZhLaX9NP_A4qAIouCzlsrvTf_kbYDscbiRtzw2UNDX2Au2OA7nnqb8EbFRDqxX1g=w440-h293" width="440" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: inherit;">(Source: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://annclearecomposer.com/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">https://annclearecomposer.com/</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">)</span></span></div>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;">Ann Cleare is an Irish artist
working in the areas of concert music, opera, extended sonic environments, and
hybrid instrumental design. Described as “an altogether different artform that
draws from musical traditions, but pushes against and beyond them, articulating
something that is at once about sound, but that is equally concerned with
energy, motion, space, and the world itself”, her work explores the static and
sculptural nature of sound, probing the extremities of timbre, texture, colour,
and form. Exploring poetries of communication, transformation, and perception,
she creates highly psychological and corporeal sonic spaces that encourage a
listener to contemplate the complexity of the lives we exist within and “to
hear the world differently”.</span><span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A recipient of a 2019 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize,
her work has been commissioned and presented by major broadcasters such as the
BBC, NPR, ORF, RTÉ, SWR, WDR for festivals such as Gaudeamus Week, The
Wittenertage fur Neue Kammermusik, International Music Institute Darmstadt,
Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, IMATRONIC Festival of Electronic Music at
ZKM, MATA Festival, Taschenopernfestival, Sound Reasons Festival in India,
Shanghai New Music Week, Transit Belgium, GAIDA, Totally Huge New Music in
Perth, Trattorie Parma, Rainy Days in Luxembourg, Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival, and Ultraschall. Through working with some of the most
progressive musicians of our time, she has established a reputation for
creating innovative forms of music, both in its presentation, and within the
music itself. She has worked with groups such as Ensemble SurPlus, 175 East,
The Crash Ensemble, The Callithumpian Consort, Quatuor Diotima, The
International Contemporary Ensemble, The Chiara String Quartet, Collegium Novum
Zürich, ELISION, The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Divertimento
Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Apparat, Ensemble Nikel, The Curious Chamber
Players, Yarn/Wire, ensemble mosaik, The Experimental Ensemble of the SWR
Studios, Talea Ensemble, österreichisches ensemble für neue music, The BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ensemble recherche, TAK, Vertixe Sonore, Ensemble
Garage, Argento Chamber Ensemble, The Fidelio Trio, oh ton-ensemble,
Distractfold, Longleash Trio, Riot Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Vortex
Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemblekollektiv, WasteLAnd, and soloists
such as Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, Heather Roche, Bill Schimmel, Benjamin
Marks, Patrick Stadler, Carlos Cordeiro, Ryan Muncy, Richard Haynes, William
Lang, Laura Cocks, Lina Andonovska, Samuel Stoll, and Callum G’Froerer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recent projects have focused on creating experiential
environments where sound is given a visual as well as sonic dimension, such
works include eyam i-v, a series of five attacca pieces, centred around clarinet
and flute writing in various solo, ensemble, electronic, and orchestral
settings, spanning just over two hours of music that is continuously
transformed in shape, time, and motion around the listener; rinn, a time travel
chamber opera involving a multichannel sonic sculpture that the singers and
actors wear, interact with, and are amplified by; spatially choreographed
chamber pieces such as I should live in wires for leaving you behind, anchor me
to the land, and on magnetic fields; a newly-designed instrument that a
musician simultaneously wears and plays in eöl; surface stations, multi-layered
theatre involving the staging of extended brass instruments, vocal ensemble,
and visuals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Current and future projects include a chamber piece &
curated concert with Musikfabrik for the National Concert Hall of Ireland’s
Beethoven 2022 celebrations, a solo flute work for Claire Chase, an opera for
Munich Biennale 2022, a large scale work for soloists, chorus, orchestra, and
electronics for New Music Dublin 2023, a DVD of filmed works released by
Kairos, and the creation of outdoor sonic sculptures with Lay of the Land,
Crash Ensemble, and Fionnuala Conway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #242424;">Ann studied at University College
Cork, IRCAM, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In October 2019, she
received an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Ireland for her
contribution to music. Her scores are published by Project Schott New York and
she is represented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland (CMC). She is
Assistant Professor of Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin
and is one of the first 40 members of the Young Academy Ireland (YAI) network.
Ann is an artist-in-residence with Crash Ensemble.<br />
(Source: </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://annclearecomposer.com/about-2/">https://annclearecomposer.com/about-2/</a></span></span><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="406" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VT6Bs8RMlnU" width="489" youtube-src-id="VT6Bs8RMlnU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #242424;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: inherit;">93 million miles away</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Ann Cleare</span></div></span><p></p><p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">We will hear [Switch~ Ensemble] perform Ann Cleare’s </span><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">93 million miles away, </span></i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; padding: 0in;">along with her
alto saxophone solo,</span><span style="color: #242424;"> </span><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">luna (the eye that opens the other eye), </span></i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">on Friday, June 9<sup>th</sup> at 7:30 p.m. in Lippes Concert
Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #242424;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Ann Cleare’s work can be found here: </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://annclearecomposer.com/works/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://annclearecomposer.com/works/</span></a></span><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #242424;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-88795774871153679302023-05-23T22:04:00.012-04:002023-05-24T11:46:43.666-04:00June in Buffalo 2023 Director and Senior Composer: Jonathan Golove<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>In
December, the Cen</span><span>ter announced the retirement of David Felder, who restarted June in Buffalo in 1986 and led the festival for a truly astounding 37
consecutive seasons. We also announced David’s successor in the twin posts of
Center and June in Buffalo director, cellist/composer Jonathan Golove. In the
lead-up to Dr. Golove’s first year in the role of Festival Director, we’re
pleased to introduce him in the first of a series of the Edge of the Center posts on
the senior composers and resident ensembles of June in Buffalo 2023.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Jonathan
is by no means a newcomer to JiB! His first year as a performer and participant
composer was 1994, and he has been active at the festival in various capacities
nearly every June since then. In 2001, he served as senior composer, and in
2013 and 2015, as artist faculty for the June in Buffalo Performance Institute,
which ran concurrently with the main festival. He has appeared as a soloist
with the Buffalo Philharmonic (Morton Feldman’s <i>Cello and Orchestra</i>), as
a member of the </span><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/ensembles/slee-sinfonietta.html"><span>Slee Sinfonietta</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ncP0pivNTetHE1KVhgMC0NgRxBl0WWxc0"><span>Baird Trio</span></a><span>, among other ensembles, and as a
solo performer. Among his original works heard at June in Buffalo are </span><a href="https://youtu.be/OMOtFgV9MaA"><i><span>E.Q.</span></i></a><span> for electric string quartet, <i>Closely
Related Fungi</i> for saxophone quartet, and </span><a href="https://youtu.be/py3dSNq33ew"><i><span>(Max’s
24 Hours) Pray-O-Mat</span></i></a><span>
for two cellos and IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5AK2DuAOo8Ao_1xAcxmTsFdVQ1_HWDpNtLKJFvSk_uImKj_JCBheYPMFmaXMWFudUQv0_o_fKKQDulWmb91Sfy_DLji2P8CL6vyiXee7uWqeOsWXpcQHxGjRWiKWGfVd9FNy_DRAR0I7aFqm_cCv2ZasBCrfl38RS7AJXgNq6Gl_pkT35u75befvHJA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5AK2DuAOo8Ao_1xAcxmTsFdVQ1_HWDpNtLKJFvSk_uImKj_JCBheYPMFmaXMWFudUQv0_o_fKKQDulWmb91Sfy_DLji2P8CL6vyiXee7uWqeOsWXpcQHxGjRWiKWGfVd9FNy_DRAR0I7aFqm_cCv2ZasBCrfl38RS7AJXgNq6Gl_pkT35u75befvHJA=w314-h408" width="314" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Golove’s compositional
interests are broad, with special areas of focus on the relational dynamics of
chamber music, work with text and voice, including opera, and the expansion of
the performing instrumentalist’s affective and timbral palette through electronic
instruments and modifications. Jonathan began composing as an undergraduate at
U.C. Berkeley, where his first composer mentor was John Swackhammer
(1923-2006), himself a student of Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions. <o:p></o:p></span>He earned an M.M. degree in composition with Donald Erb (1927-2008) at The Cleveland Institute of music, and his Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo in 1998, with David Felder as his principal teacher and dissertation advisor. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span>Mr. Golove’s original compositions have been
performed at venues including the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., Venice
Biennale, Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II,
Encuentro Internacional de Jazz y Música Viva (Monterrey, Mexico), Centre Court
Festival (Cologne, Germany) and the Kitchen. He has received awards and grants
for his work from organizations including ASCAP, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for
New Music, and Meet the Compose</span><span>r</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">.</span></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFvTQBHamtr-tfI-cS1F9uAPTF4h3n3LJCMpxuli2p_lxxxSaGe_Ma-Dws9qUci-tJrenAtxg1jVADFUUrMmdEqWtTnSyfKDZnpipNiK8gSWQZzgmVMWcUARicmYxMdOGsCke6c2RObPEhdB-yev5uH6EhCQeCa3puqBDEnLt7J-AOwc8kIj7fIkD8Yw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="648" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFvTQBHamtr-tfI-cS1F9uAPTF4h3n3LJCMpxuli2p_lxxxSaGe_Ma-Dws9qUci-tJrenAtxg1jVADFUUrMmdEqWtTnSyfKDZnpipNiK8gSWQZzgmVMWcUARicmYxMdOGsCke6c2RObPEhdB-yev5uH6EhCQeCa3puqBDEnLt7J-AOwc8kIj7fIkD8Yw=w443-h340" width="443" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Photo: Irene Haupt</div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Golove</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> dedicates his cellistic energy to the performance of both new and traditional
works, as well as of improvised music. His definition of “cellist” has expanded
to include both the electric and theremin cellos, along with a plethora of
means of modifying the sounds they produce. He has performed as a soloist and
chamber musician throughout North America and Europe at venues including Weill
Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), Zipper Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and London’s
Southbank Centre. His summer appearances include numerous festivals devoted to
new works, including the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Festival d’Automne
(Paris), Lincoln Center Festival, June in Buffalo, and the Festival del Centro
Histórico (Mexico City).</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of
only a handful of players of the theremin cello, Golove has appeared as soloist
with the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, and International
Contemporary Ensemble, and he is a member of the 1. Deutsche Stromorchester. As
an electric cellist, he is particularly active in the fields of creative
improvised music and avant-garde jazz. He has performed and recorded with jazz groups
including the Michael Vlatkovich Tryyo and Quartet, Ubudis Quartet, and Vinny
Golia’s Large Ensemble, and made appearances at the Vancouver Jazz Festival,
the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival (Oakland), and the International Meeting of Jazz
and New Music (Monterrey, Mexico). He has recorded for the Albany, Centaur,
FMR, pfMENTUM, and Nine Winds labels, and his performances and interviews have
been heard in broadcasts by numerous National Public Radio stations, as well as
on Radio Nuevo León, West German Radio, CBC, and Radio France.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Jonathan
is an Associate Professor in UB’s Department of Music and served as department
chair for the past six years. He looks forward to welcoming an inspiring group
of participant composers to June in Buffalo 2023! He is also excited to work
with performer colleagues from JiB’s resident ensembles to present a trio of his
original works spanning several decades. Golove is honored to be joined by Arditti
Quartet cellist (and founding member of Ensemble Recherche) Lucas Fels<i> </i>in
<i>Some Road Signs in Southern France</i> (1988/89) for cello duo, a set of
miniatures he composed during a year studying in Cologne. </span><a href="https://www.talujon.org/"><span>Talujon</span></a><span> will partner with soprano </span><a href="https://tiffanydumouchelle.com/"><span>Tiffany
DuMouchelle</span></a><span> to
perform <i>Here and There</i> (1993) for soprano and percussion ensemble, with
text by the award-winning </span><a href="https://susanlewis.net/"><span>poet Susan Lewis</span></a><span>. Tiffany will also sing <i>Imaginary
Songs II</i> (2004), a second collaboration between Golove and Lewis, in the
company of flutist Nicole Murray and cellist Katie Weissman of the Slee
Sinfonietta.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UOTKMR0vN6Q" width="387" youtube-src-id="UOTKMR0vN6Q"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;">Jonathan Golove,</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;"> Mental Radio</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #242424; text-align: start;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><p></p></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-22799209309598578662023-05-10T18:38:00.005-04:002023-05-10T20:42:51.495-04:00May 11: UB Composition Concert <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, times, "time roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May 11: UB's Graduate Composition Students</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Composition concert
by the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #242424; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">current graduate composition students of the UB Music Department </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">(May 11, 7:30 pm, Slee Hall)</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html" style="background-color: white; color: #940f04; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Center for 21st Century</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> is excited to announce the upcoming composition concert by the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #242424;">current graduate composition students of the UB Music Department </span>on the 11th of May, 7:30 pm in Slee Hall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8O6U5FWn-_INz4zlWMmcv4y_qbbSoJ_hrcBOdHozZWCtoaccbyy-SS5vPumBGo5ouFaT9v3JtRgQcY1RVWrgMZXvtjZybvaxlq8D-uLiSe4Uye4Gy95wQCiQyhJHmd-SY_aaYDCWKhCluHKlXsuXHXXCQF0s6k7yeSGErnggHz1ZC9Iw5Re40T95Rmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8O6U5FWn-_INz4zlWMmcv4y_qbbSoJ_hrcBOdHozZWCtoaccbyy-SS5vPumBGo5ouFaT9v3JtRgQcY1RVWrgMZXvtjZybvaxlq8D-uLiSe4Uye4Gy95wQCiQyhJHmd-SY_aaYDCWKhCluHKlXsuXHXXCQF0s6k7yeSGErnggHz1ZC9Iw5Re40T95Rmg=w327-h424" width="327" /></a></div><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">With the support of the Center for 21</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: left;">st</sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> Century Music, the graduate composition students will be presenting a concert of new works by Emily Barger, Will Brobston, Alex Buehler, Brian Caswell, Francisco Corthey, James Falzone, Thomas Little, Jonathan Rainous, and Lihuen Sirvent, featuring performances by Tiffany Dumouchelle, Nicholas Emmanuel, </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Kolor, Megan Kyle, Nicole Murray, John Smigielski, Steve Solook, </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Michael Tumiel, and many others. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32px;"><b><u>Concert Program</u></b></span></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><u><br /></u></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 106%; margin: 0.9pt 5.75pt 0.0001pt 5.95pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">Brian<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>Boru<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;">
</span>Watches<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>Spider<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;">
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</span>Cell<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">(2023) Brian
Patrick <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Caswell<br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;">for Percussion &<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>Bugles*</span></div>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 57.5pt; margin-right: 56.35pt; margin-top: 3.05pt; margin: 3.05pt 56.35pt 0in 57.5pt; text-align: center;">Percussion:<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Brian<span style="letter-spacing: -1pt;">
</span>Patrick<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Caswell,<span style="letter-spacing: -1pt;"> </span>Dalton<span style="letter-spacing: -1pt;">
</span>Doolittle,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Franklin<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Feng,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;">
</span>Jess<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Tolve; Bugle:<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>Alex<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>Buehler,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;">
</span>Teressa-Jo<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>Izzo,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>Joel<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;">
</span>Kirk,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>Thomas<span style="letter-spacing: -1.25pt;"> </span>Scully;<o:p></o:p></p>
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Kolor, Conductor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 110.6pt; margin-right: 109.45pt; margin-top: 4.0pt; margin: 4pt 109.45pt 0in 110.6pt; text-align: center;">Soprano: Rosa Vu, Alexis
Tuccio, Emelia Bottoms; Alto: Chloe Nugent, Emily Barger, Matt Reimer; Baritone:
Tiffany DuMouchelle;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 57.4pt; margin-right: 56.35pt; margin-top: .15pt; margin: 0.15pt 56.35pt 0in 57.4pt; text-align: center;">Nicholas
Emmanuel, Piano; Tom Kolor, Conductor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.35pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.35pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- </span>Intermission <span style="font-size: 12pt;">-</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.2pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 128%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 6.0pt; margin-right: 5.55pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 5.55pt 0in 6pt; tab-stops: 407.6pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-font-width: 95%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">Broad<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;"> </span>Age<span style="letter-spacing: -1.85pt;"> </span>Noon<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;"> </span></span></i>(2023)<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>Oboe<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -1.7pt;"> </span>Organ* James<span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Falzone </span>Megan Kyle, Oboe; James Falzone,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>Organ<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .8pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 11.5pt; margin: 11.5pt 0in 0in 0.8pt; tab-stops: 408.1pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-font-width: 95%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">hear<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span></span></i>(2023)<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>SSAA<span style="letter-spacing: -1.5pt;"> </span>Choir* Emily<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Barger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 88.9pt; margin-right: 87.85pt; margin-top: 4.0pt; margin: 4pt 87.85pt 0in 88.9pt; text-align: center;">Soprano:<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>Rosa<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>Vu,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>Alexis<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;">
</span>Tuccio,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>Emelia<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>Bottoms,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;">
</span>Emily<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>Barger; Mezzo-Soprano:
Chloe Nugent, Matt Reimer, Sam Kessler; Baritone: Kevin<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>Bassler;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 57.5pt; margin-right: 56.5pt; margin-top: .15pt; margin: 0.15pt 56.5pt 0in 57.5pt; text-align: center;">Tom Kolor,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>Conductor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.3pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 113%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.95pt; margin-right: 5.2pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 5.2pt 0in 5.95pt; tab-stops: 413.25pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">Exhale<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>Tellurium<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>Abimelech<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;">
</span></span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">(2022)<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>A</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">b<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Sopranino<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>Clarinet<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;">
</span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>Live<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>Electronics* Alex<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Buehler </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 113%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Michael Tumiel, Sopranino<span style="letter-spacing: -1.45pt;"> </span>Clarinet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.45pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 128%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.95pt; margin-right: 7.4pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 7.4pt 0in 5.95pt; tab-stops: 385.65pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-font-width: 90%; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">ABRA<span style="letter-spacing: -0.9pt;"> </span></span></i>(2022)<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Mezzo-Soprano,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Piano,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;">
</span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Percussion Francisco<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Corthey
</span>Tiffany<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>DuMouchelle,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>Voice<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;">
</span>Percussion;<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>Nicholas<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>Emmanuel,<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>Piano<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>&<span style="letter-spacing: -1.4pt;"> </span>Percussion;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 10.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 57.5pt; margin-right: 56.5pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 56.5pt 0in 57.5pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center;">Steve Solook, Percussion; Tom
Kolor, Conductor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This event is supported by the Center for 21<sup>st</sup>
Century Music and UB's Music Department. We would like to thank Phil Rehard,
Concert Manager, and Chris Jacobs, Director of Music Technology, for their
support of this program.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>*World Premier </span></div><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-60622400498785505572023-05-08T11:22:00.002-04:002023-05-08T11:23:07.960-04:00<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">April
26: Sky Macklay</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
(Asst. Prof. of Composition, Johns Hopkins/Peabody Institute) <br />Masterclass and composer presentation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html" name="_Hlk128150777"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
Center for 21st Century Music</span></a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">was delighted to welcome</span><a name="_Hlk128150777"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.skymacklay.com/" name="_Hlk128150777"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sky Macklay</span></a> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">who
presented a composition masterclass on April 26. We are very thankful for her insightful and thought-provoking reactions to the student work presented in her masterclass.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk128150777"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128150777;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7vIMaU-Gx9NDHWZJMF2A9BrvgxYM-sNVaT04u_ImpaM22qZwBbm9ADUC6aLTJf_jDSBgloBHjCvpHO2yFNNogqDPNY_dhSjRzscsyjrRjLxYUx-veWjWzw4DqZ34OVk6O88vXVx4RhS7yv2zwX_RuxW3dtltNGM5yqxJXfEp7t01UvX5Hce6i58kkg/s500/Sky-Macklay-500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ7vIMaU-Gx9NDHWZJMF2A9BrvgxYM-sNVaT04u_ImpaM22qZwBbm9ADUC6aLTJf_jDSBgloBHjCvpHO2yFNNogqDPNY_dhSjRzscsyjrRjLxYUx-veWjWzw4DqZ34OVk6O88vXVx4RhS7yv2zwX_RuxW3dtltNGM5yqxJXfEp7t01UvX5Hce6i58kkg/s320/Sky-Macklay-500x500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by: Aleksandr Karjaka</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128150777;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk128150777;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Some background about Macklay from
her website:</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The music of
Baltimore-based composer, oboist, and installation artist Sky Macklay (b. 1988)
is conceptual yet expressive, exploring extreme contrasts, surreal tonality,
audible processes, humor, and the physicality of sound. Some of her pieces
incorporate intermedia and extramusical narratives, addressing topics ranging
from commuting times to the side effects of contraceptive and assisted
reproductive technology. As a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, her next project is a
chamber music album that will synthesize her work as a composer and her
raucous, multiphonic-rich oboe performance practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sky has been
commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Music America (with
Splinter Reeds and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble), the Fromm Foundation at
Harvard University (with Ensemble Dal Niente), the Barlow Endowment (with
andPlay), the Jerome Fund for New Music (with ICE saxophonist Ryan Muncy), and
Kronos Quartet’s 50 for the Future project. Upcoming commissions include new
works for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Klangforum Wien. As a Fellow at
the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, she is also
collaborating with French ensemble 2e2m.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sky’s music has been
recognized with awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and
Letters, Civitella Ranieri, and ASCAP, and has been featured at international
festivals such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The BBC Scottish Symphony’s Tectonics
Festival, and the ISCM World New Music Days. Since being recorded on Spektral
Quartet’s GRAMMY-nominated album in 2017, her iconic string quartet Many Many Cadences
has been performed around the world by ten different quartets and is studied in
dozens of university composition and theory classes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As an installation
artist, Sky has created and built a unique series of interactive
harmonica-playing inflatable sculpture environments, which were supported by a
New Music USA Project Grant and won the Ruth Anderson Prize from the
International Alliance for Women in Music.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">As an oboist, Sky has
performed at Roulette, MATA, SPLICE Festival, the University of Louisville New
Music Festival, and the Line Upon Line Winter Composer Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Originally from
Minnesota, Sky completed her DMA in composition at Columbia University where
she studied with George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Fred Lerdahl. She also
holds degrees from The University of Memphis (MM) and Luther College (BA). From
2018 to 2020 she was Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University, and
she is currently on the composition faculty of the Peabody Institute of the
Johns Hopkins University. Her music published by Edition Peters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Source: </span><a href="https://www.skymacklay.com/about"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">https://www.skymacklay.com/about</span></a></p>
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Many Cadences</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div>
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to Robert Phillips (1981-2023)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeLMu5YP0mGsUvLNyyQf1pqcdPI5rWIK-iPFXUCa8UxUgUR9AsKeVW26mpYJds3YNreuRHnb54eqZIDLs7CvjIz_43Ga0k936nxxWlOZKRyCoe7UgkMsQO9WW4EdrmDYw4LEHCZtBJs91vEzhiHC3xhKJFYnwEPn2KiyC3Mcrv3SYziyUbeuW36SoJ0w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="244" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeLMu5YP0mGsUvLNyyQf1pqcdPI5rWIK-iPFXUCa8UxUgUR9AsKeVW26mpYJds3YNreuRHnb54eqZIDLs7CvjIz_43Ga0k936nxxWlOZKRyCoe7UgkMsQO9WW4EdrmDYw4LEHCZtBJs91vEzhiHC3xhKJFYnwEPn2KiyC3Mcrv3SYziyUbeuW36SoJ0w=w234-h319" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Photo by Megan Metté</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On May 2, 2023 the Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century
Music’s flagship ensemble, the Slee Sinfonietta, will pay tribute to Robert
Phillips, who left us far too soon on February 11 of this year. In 2017 Rob
returned to Buffalo from Berlin, where he had spent several years working as a
composer, to take on the post of Managing Director of the Center. Rob was an
extraordinary composer, performer, and musical administrator who made an
indelible impact of our extended community in myriad ways, reflecting both his
multi-faceted talents and career trajectory and his personal warmth,
graciousness, and dignity. His tragic and premature passing left us stunned and
bereft, yet it is his music and life that we celebrate with a program that he
helped plan. Our concert will feature two of Rob’s works performed by musicians
who had the opportunity to play them in his presence. <i>Rutaceae</i> for bass
clarinet and fixed media (2015) will be performed by UB clarinet professor
Michael Tumiel, and <i>Larghetto Rubato </i>for bassoon, guitar and cello
(2010) by bassoonist Jessica Wooldridge King, UB guitar professor Sungmin Shin,
and Center Artistic Director and UB cello professor Jonathan Golove. The presence
of Rob’s music in a site where he contributed so much, played by musicians with
whom he worked closely, means a great deal to the many who have known and loved
him since he arrived at UB as a PhD student in 2004. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/rphillips-1">https://soundcloud.com/rphillips-1</a></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9L60flGsVnyiCn1dshJPbXJIxGIYW5iSwlMBVU4Ooj43RamQz4zF1_U7FQQHIeUStePAjLdmzJi8V1fCHoub2A5a5NIi_4U-GjBsVw6eFv94dqoXOHawS8Glh2IxH3z_SmoG8uons4wmA8M7xHSUFYXr0jmtKtrqe_srU-zXQFKDOd_HpzdPSA_xKQ/s1024/image0%20(5).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9L60flGsVnyiCn1dshJPbXJIxGIYW5iSwlMBVU4Ooj43RamQz4zF1_U7FQQHIeUStePAjLdmzJi8V1fCHoub2A5a5NIi_4U-GjBsVw6eFv94dqoXOHawS8Glh2IxH3z_SmoG8uons4wmA8M7xHSUFYXr0jmtKtrqe_srU-zXQFKDOd_HpzdPSA_xKQ/w259-h345/image0%20(5).jpeg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Photo by Hanae Utamura<br /> Design by Megan Mette & Hanae Utamura</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvfXOrJ0aaUAMfx_U9aydFeM1VE0CJVvIIQgseyE5yTH7KxinJ9hKTp3xGUCMjg0_lsy8aVles6nmJ7D5tHTjhehtg3V-Le6SO3XMoH5lWDSp3q0udrq88wqRjekk_SADOmVnhJBmWaJv_x0s37slrdvA03_WxreOI2_VrkOwae0VXP_i8Zkintf0nmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvfXOrJ0aaUAMfx_U9aydFeM1VE0CJVvIIQgseyE5yTH7KxinJ9hKTp3xGUCMjg0_lsy8aVles6nmJ7D5tHTjhehtg3V-Le6SO3XMoH5lWDSp3q0udrq88wqRjekk_SADOmVnhJBmWaJv_x0s37slrdvA03_WxreOI2_VrkOwae0VXP_i8Zkintf0nmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="975" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvfXOrJ0aaUAMfx_U9aydFeM1VE0CJVvIIQgseyE5yTH7KxinJ9hKTp3xGUCMjg0_lsy8aVles6nmJ7D5tHTjhehtg3V-Le6SO3XMoH5lWDSp3q0udrq88wqRjekk_SADOmVnhJBmWaJv_x0s37slrdvA03_WxreOI2_VrkOwae0VXP_i8Zkintf0nmg=w272-h361" width="272" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> Photo by Hanae Utamura </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background: white; color: black;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><b>The Slee
Sinfonietta</b> is the professional chamber orchestra in residence at the
University at Buffalo and the flagship ensemble of the Robert and Carol Morris
Center for 21st Century Music. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">The May 2</span><sup style="background-color: transparent;">nd</sup><span style="background-color: transparent;"> program was conceived
to feature the Chamber Musicians of the Slee Sinfonietta in works by several of
the recent holders of UB’s Visiting Slee Professorship. Thus, we will hear Eric
</span><i style="background-color: transparent;">Moe’s What Instruments We Have Agree </i><span style="background-color: transparent;">(2015), Robert Carl’s Piano Quartet
“Just Listen,” (2018) and a portion of Paula Matthusen’s </span><i style="background-color: transparent;">between the smell
of dust and moonlight</i><span style="background-color: transparent;"> (2016). Matthusen is the current Visiting Slee
Professor, and Moe and Carl were our Slee Professors for Spring 2022 and Fall
2022, respectively. We will hear remarks from all three composers over the
course of the evening. Tickets are $10 at the box office and may be purchased
in advance </span><a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/center-for-21st-century-music-slee-buffalo-new-york-05-02-2023/event/00005D08EA115B48" style="background-color: transparent;">here</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">;
UB students with valid ID receive one free ticket (Complete ticket information
is available </span><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music/events/performances.html" style="background-color: transparent;">here</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">).
The concert will also be </span><a href="https://youtube.com/live/Ixi2E-NtXYA?feature=share" style="background-color: transparent;">live streamed</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> on
the Center’s YouTube channel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div></span><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PROGRAM NOTES</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Robert Phillips</span></b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, <b>Rutaceae</b></span></i><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (2015)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Rutaceae</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, for bass clarinet and fixed media, commissioned by and written for Heather Roche, features audio material comprised of hundreds of samples from a recording of her interpretation of Martin Iddon’s <i>Ptelea</i>, on May 9, 2014, in Leeds, UK. Though Iddon’s <i>Ptelea </i>is named after a tree nymph who bonded to an elm tree, the word also describes a genus of plants in the citrus family – the latin family name of the genus being Rutaceae.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This plant family name, Rutaceae, is also known as Rue, and is associated with remorse and regret, as in Shakespeare’s <i>Richard II</i>, “Here did she fall a tear, here in this place, I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace." Rue is also a verb that has fallen into disuse: to feel sorrow over, repent of, regret bitterly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To rue contrasts strongly with the dark flavor of guilt – rather, it is to have a soft awakening to our complete past and present, to recognize hurt, to gently plant a seed with our tear. Like a knock at the door of the psyche’s growth, repentance is an invitation to forfeit the struggle to deny the pain we have caused ourselves and others, and an overture to exhale into relief, without shame, and gaze upon the flower of remorse as it blooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Robert Phillips </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eric Moe, <i>What Instruments We Have Agree </i></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(2015)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What instruments we have agree</span></i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The day of his death was a dark cold day.</span></i></div></i><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">W. H. Auden, <i>In Memory of W.B. Yeats</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These lines from Auden’s elegy for Yeats came to me when I heard about the death of my friend Lee Hyla. They (along with the rest of that wonderful poem) kept running through my head as I was composing the piece. Similarly pervasive was a wailing bass clarinet riff from Lee’s <i>House of Flowers </i>which insinuated itself into my piece. I have drawn considerable comfort in this time of grief from Lee’s extraordinarily vivid, profound, inspiring music.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What Instruments We Have Agree </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">was written for the superb musicians of counter)induction and was completed in April 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">– Eric Moe </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Robert Phillips</span></b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,<b> Larghetto Rubato</b> </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2010)</span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Larghetto Rubato</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, for bassoon, guitar, and cello, was originally composed for Pascal Gallois, Magnus Andersson, and Rohan de Saram when they visited the University at Buffalo in 2010 to perform works by University at Buffalo graduate composers and present their own program. Since then, the trio has toured the piece many times in Scandanavia, including at the most recent Kalvfestivalen in Sweden.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Larghetto Rubato</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> plays with the relationship between the small spontaneous variations in tempi, the “rubato” which robs from the beats and rhythms around it, and the glissandi drifting of the melody. Each sonic element rises and falls, increases and decreases, and coordinates its movements like a net floating on water, loosening and tightening with the passing of each wave, as each wave gently distorts the temporal and harmonic surface.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">– Robert Phillips </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal;"> </span></em></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Paula Matthusen,</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> between the smell of dust and moonlight</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (2016)</span></span><em style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><em style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">between the smell of dust and moonlight</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">engages with the idea of the gradual evolution of space and the multiple roles it may serve. Commissioned by the Metropolis Ensemble in 2016 specifically for the Phillips Collection, the piece draws on its present incarnation as renowned art museum as well as the traces of its domestic past, as evidenced by it unique doorways and fireplaces.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For the premiere performance, the multi-movement work was dispersed through multiple rooms of the Phillips Museum, with three separate trios staged in different areas. Additionally, the Metropolis Ensemble navigates the museum as part of the piece, which doubles in part as a sound installation, with recordings placed in the multiple fireplaces of the space. The musicians use their instruments to interact with the space and archival recordings from the time period of the museum’s founding, as well as recent field recordings. The performers perform on a wide variety of recording formats as well, from early 78s played back on DIY phonographs, to dictaphones, and to transducers resonating through percussion instruments. The audience, beginning in the Music Room, was encouraged to follow the musicians on their various paths and to listen in on different spaces, before returning to the Music Room for the final trio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The separate movements of between the smell of dust and moonlight have been excerpted for separate performance. The most recent of these was the final trio, which was rerecorded and reorchestrated with video for the online performance organized by Metropolis Ensemble entitled Free Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The title is drawn from Don Hertzfeldt’s film</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It’s Such a Beautiful Day</span></em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Special thanks to Andrew Cyr, Nestor Prieto for his technical and research assistance, as well as to Erik DeLuca for his experiments with early recording technologies.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">– Paula Matthusen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Robert Carl, Piano Quartet “Just Listen”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My colleague and friend David Macbride died suddenly in his sleep on September 7, 2018, at the very start of classes at the Hartt School, where we both taught. We had known each other since Fall 1984, the date we both arrived as novice faculty members. No one expected this. David was a strong, often quiet presence that grounded our community with his devotion to students, the sacrament of performance, and the mandate to write music that demanded attention because of its sincerity, craft, and essential economy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This work was written in a rush of energy and disorienting despair in fall 2018. The first movement channels that state, as well as being an evocation of being suddenly whisked from life before one would be properly aware of it. The middle movement was written first, then the fragmentary movements bordering it were added to build outwards from either end. In the fifth and final movement, the work folds in on itself in a shadow play of memory and stasis. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[The piece reflects on David's creative persona in several ways: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">--David loved the music of Cage. Thus the second and fourth movements are each extremely spare, surrounded by silence. Their timings, 43" and 33" bear a reference to the seminal 4'33". A percussive sound in the fourth also makes a subtle reference to David's love and mastery of percussion writing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">--He also loved Morton Feldman (I do too), and this influence is clear throughout the piece, but especially in the third movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">--And he played the viola. A cadenza for the instrument is featured in the center of the third movement.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Above all, David was a musician who believed in his ear and his gut. I think that I, one who often loves to explore architectures that to me feel mystical, probably amused him with what he might have felt was incipient grandiosity. In respect to his values, this piece was written with almost none of the advance planning and exploration that usually prepares a work of mine. Instead, I allowed David to look over my shoulder and at times gently correct me if I got out of hand. He was saying: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just listen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">–Robert Carl</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">COMPOSER
BIOGRAPHIES</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Robert Carl’s</b> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">music is
performed regularly throughout the US and abroad. It concentrates on solo
piano, chamber, orchestral, choral, and electroacoustic media. Its aim is to
create an experience of space that provides the listener with a sense of
freedom and openness. He has received awards from the National Endowment for
the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters
(the 1998 Charles Ives Fellowship as well as a 2106 Arts & Letters Award).
Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, UCross, Djerassi, Millay, Bogliasco,
Camargo, Copland House, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Bellagio. He lived in Japan for
three months as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow in 2007. New World Records has
released three CDs his works (music for strings; electroacoustic pieces
inspired by Japan; and large ensemble/orchestral). In 2021 an
all-orchestral CD was released by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project;
and <i>Harmony</i>, an opera based on the meeting of Charles Ives and Mark
Twain, with libretto by Russell Banks, was premiered in August 2021.</span></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
He writes regularly on new music in a variety of forums and magazines, and is
the author of <i>Terry Riley’s In C</i> (Oxford University Press). In
2016 Bloomsbury Press released Jonathan Kramer’s posthumous text <i>Postmodern
Music, Postmodern Listening</i>, which Mr. Carl edited. In fall 2020 Bloomsbury
also published a book of his essays titled <i>Music Composition in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century:
A Practical Guide to the New Common Practice.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
He was chair of Composition at the Hartt School, University of Hartford until
Spring 2022. In Fall 2022 he was Slee Professor of Music at the University at
Buffalo.</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBfl95AfHWZE5lEzWHYZ7SinTeXkqDNdx9z2hEZEQ-m9f9tGNcdZScmr44cGRckQ0SXEeq1sjW-TNRdnk_6MwN9v7W1nI2nPbwHCC39BMiIt7KUHQ6S-o-UaV3p7Z4xFxenbGTEsMNOkYJ58sgnOluNSj1QtLjrABUmE16h6yCHXawnLM-_9ZPRxcERg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBfl95AfHWZE5lEzWHYZ7SinTeXkqDNdx9z2hEZEQ-m9f9tGNcdZScmr44cGRckQ0SXEeq1sjW-TNRdnk_6MwN9v7W1nI2nPbwHCC39BMiIt7KUHQ6S-o-UaV3p7Z4xFxenbGTEsMNOkYJ58sgnOluNSj1QtLjrABUmE16h6yCHXawnLM-_9ZPRxcERg" width="295" /></a><br />(Source: https://musicguy247.typepad.com/my-blog/robert-carl-composereducator-hartt-school/)</div></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Paula
Matthusen</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is a composer
who writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound
installations. In addition to writing for a variety of different ensembles, she
also collaborates with choreographers and theater companies. She has written
for diverse instrumentations, such as “run-on sentence of the pavement” for
piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The New Yorker</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">noted as being “entrancing”. Her work
often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 9pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Her music
has been performed by Dither, Mantra Percussion, the Bang On A Can All-Stars,
Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), orchest de
ereprijs, The Glass Farm Ensemble, the Estonian National Ballet, James Moore,
Kathryn Woodard, Todd Reynolds, Kathleen Supové, Margaret Lancaster and Jody
Redhage. Her work has been performed at numerous venues and festivals in
America and Europe, including the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music,
the MusicNOW Series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ecstatic Music
Festival, Other Minds, the MATA Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, the Aspen Music
Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, the Gaudeamus
New Music Week, SEAMUS, International Computer Music Conference and Dither’s
Invisible Dog Extravaganza. She performs frequently with Object Collection, and
through the theater company Kinderdeutsch Projekts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composers’ Awards, First Prize in the Young Composers’ Meeting Composition
Competition, the MacCracken and Langley Ryan Fellowship, the “New Genre Prize”
from the IAWM Search for New Music, and recently the 2014 Elliott Carter Rome
Prize. Matthusen has also held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo,
create@iEar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, STEIM, and the Atlantic Center
for the Arts. Matthusen completed her Ph.D. at New York University – GSAS. She
was Director of Music Technology at Florida International University for four
years, where she founded the FLEA Laptop Ensemble. Matthusen is currently
Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, where she teaches
experimental music, composition, and music technology, and she is the current
holder of the Visiting Slee Professorship at UB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.35pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.25pt 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRvYDQ8ovqfbH65ZZ5XNBqUmZShgpzClJidnsFeztUubitgSLg4gRVr3J9afF3bICjyIw5fBfqQnNqJC66aLSYRP0tc2HhuawHJ7uO8Kup9-rNGVyXdCkJjdwqfj0y1k0KaoRMgpqdRJ7OomhOZ0G3NSiGIXhB4LPnxaIbqpjbLe7-3MWIsdyemli8-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRvYDQ8ovqfbH65ZZ5XNBqUmZShgpzClJidnsFeztUubitgSLg4gRVr3J9afF3bICjyIw5fBfqQnNqJC66aLSYRP0tc2HhuawHJ7uO8Kup9-rNGVyXdCkJjdwqfj0y1k0KaoRMgpqdRJ7OomhOZ0G3NSiGIXhB4LPnxaIbqpjbLe7-3MWIsdyemli8-Q=w345-h230" width="345" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Source: https://www.paulamatthusen.com/about/)</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.35pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.25pt 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.35pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.25pt 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eric Moe</span></b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
composer of what the NY Times has called “music of winning exuberance,” and
recently described by his physician as a “pleasant male in no acute distress”,
has received significant recognition for his work, including awards from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Foundation; multiple
commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, the Barlow Endowment,
Meet-the-Composer USA, and New Music USA; fellowships from the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts; and residencies at MacDowell, Montalvo Arts Center, Yaddo,
Bellagio, Camargo, VCCA, UCross, Aaron Copland House, Ragdale, Hambidge, the
Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Avaloch Farms, and the
American Dance Festival, among others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.85pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="text-indent: -0.5pt;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tri-Stan,</span></i><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"> his one-woman opera on a text by David
Foster Wallace, was hailed by the New York Times as “a tour de force” that
“subversively inscribes classical music into pop culture.” A recording is
available from Koch International Classics. One review of his latest CD, <i>Uncanny
Affable Machines </i>(New Focus Recordings), finishes up with “Killer
stuff that feels like thinking man’s music”. <i>Strange Exclaiming
Music </i>(Naxos) was described in Fanfare as “wonderfully inventive,
often joyful, occasionally melancholy, highly rhythmic, frequently irreverent,
absolutely eclectic, and always high-octane music.” <i>Kick & Ride</i> (bmop/sound)
was a WQXR album of the week: “…it’s completely easy to succumb to the beats
and rhythms that come out of Moe’s fantastical imaginarium, a headspace that
ties together the free-flowing atonality of Alban Berg with the guttural
rumblings of Samuel Barber’s Medea, adding in a healthy dose of superhuman
strength.” Other portrait CDs include <i>Meanwhile Back At The Ranch </i>(New
World Records), <i>Of Color Braided All Desire, Kicking and Screaming, Up
& At ‘Em, Siren Songs </i>(Albany Records)<i>,</i> and <i>On
the Tip of My Tongue</i> (Centaur)<i>.</i> <i> </i> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.85pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;">Moe founded and currently co-directs Pittsburgh’s Music on the
Edge new music concert series. He studied at Princeton University and U.C.
Berkeley. He</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"> is currently the Andrew
W. Mellon Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh
and has held visiting professorships at Princeton University and the University
of Pennsylvania, in addition to </span><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;">the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;">Visiting Slee Professorship at UB for the spring
semester of 2022.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.85pt; margin-left: 0.25pt; text-align: center;"><span style="text-indent: -0.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd5WUGa9-3ydu7Yx-tOeqTkMu71tBAPzYowC2QdkBmaHsgOo-cC745D5G9AwM76acMDIN0VmI1gd-hZEgk1LI7gCqe8V6mlpg7MjabFZeKIzLyJq5iCbe6vcZdNuV95htYNKopL-I8tVwV1iSILwAmPgXlVS1DFhx-PKmSsexbVAyJ2Wz6fI9iifmNdQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1713" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd5WUGa9-3ydu7Yx-tOeqTkMu71tBAPzYowC2QdkBmaHsgOo-cC745D5G9AwM76acMDIN0VmI1gd-hZEgk1LI7gCqe8V6mlpg7MjabFZeKIzLyJq5iCbe6vcZdNuV95htYNKopL-I8tVwV1iSILwAmPgXlVS1DFhx-PKmSsexbVAyJ2Wz6fI9iifmNdQ=w210-h313" width="210" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Source: (</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">https://www.ericmoe.net/)</span><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #343336; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Robert
Phillips</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #343336; font-size: 11pt;"> (</span><strong><span style="color: #343336; font-size: 11pt;">1981-2023) </span></strong><span style="background: white; color: #343336; font-size: 11pt;">was an American chamber and
electroacoustic music composer whose work integrates a diverse vocabulary of
sound samples, multimedia tools, and interrogative approaches to musical style.
A range of microtonal techniques and notation strategies are employed to
inflect glissandi and vibrati variations within signature harmonic networks,
and explore a broad, hyper-expressionist palette, superscribed over a diverse
array of materials and samples from a variety of forms and genres.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #343336; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background: white; color: #343336; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11pt;">His music has been featured at Internationale
Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Toronto Electroacoustic
Symposium, June in Buffalo, Opéra de Lille, Stuttgart American Days, Buffalo
Fringe Festival, and others. His works </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;">have
been performed by such ensembles and soloists as the Ictus Ensemble, Arditti
and JACK Quartets, Ensemble SurPlus, Ear Massage Percussion Quartet,
Distractfold Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Formalist Quartet, Curious Chamber
Players, Ensemble Chronophonie, New York New Music Ensemble, Pascal Gallois,
Rohan de Saram, Magnus Andersson, and Heather Roche. His collaboration with the
Ictus Ensemble, <i>Der Hunger von Spiegeln</i>, was premiered at the Opéra de
Lille in April of 2015. <i>O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden</i> was commissioned by
Ensemble SurPlus for their 20th anniversary concert at the E-Werk, Freiburg. <i>Aur</i>,
for string quartet and electronics, was recorded by the JACK Quartet at Slee
Studios through a grant from the Mark Diamond Research Foundation, and <i>Shindō
no su</i>, for Talea Ensemble, was recorded and performed at the Harvard
University Summer Composition Institute. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Phillips has held residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stiftung
Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, and PACT Zollverein.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #343336; font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #343336; font-size: 11pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">He received his B.A. degree in music from the
University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Chaya Czernowin and
Steve Takasugi, and his Ph.D. in music composition from the University at
Buffalo, SUNY, where he studied with David Felder. He lived and worked in
Berlin for several years before returning to Buffalo in 2017 to assume the
position of Managing Director of the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21</span><sup>st</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">
Century Music, a post he held until his untimely passing in February of this
year. His scores are published by Edition Gravis.</span></div>
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.35pt; margin-bottom: 0.25pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5pt;"><span style="color: #212121; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeLMu5YP0mGsUvLNyyQf1pqcdPI5rWIK-iPFXUCa8UxUgUR9AsKeVW26mpYJds3YNreuRHnb54eqZIDLs7CvjIz_43Ga0k936nxxWlOZKRyCoe7UgkMsQO9WW4EdrmDYw4LEHCZtBJs91vEzhiHC3xhKJFYnwEPn2KiyC3Mcrv3SYziyUbeuW36SoJ0w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="244" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeLMu5YP0mGsUvLNyyQf1pqcdPI5rWIK-iPFXUCa8UxUgUR9AsKeVW26mpYJds3YNreuRHnb54eqZIDLs7CvjIz_43Ga0k936nxxWlOZKRyCoe7UgkMsQO9WW4EdrmDYw4LEHCZtBJs91vEzhiHC3xhKJFYnwEPn2KiyC3Mcrv3SYziyUbeuW36SoJ0w=w234-h319" width="234" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Photo by Megan Metté</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">MEET THE ARTISTS</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Brian Patrick Caswell </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is a composer and organist. His diverse performance experience includes serving as a church organist in Phoenix, NY and Watertown, NY, as well as playing keyboards in jazz, rock, and funk bands in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo and New York City. Brian is currently a Ph.D. student in composition at SUNY University at Buffalo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Violist <b>Leanne Darling</b> reaches across many genres to create a powerful new voice for the viola. Leanne holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music and has held principal and assistant principal positions in the Florida West Coast Symphony and the Missouri Chamber Orchestra. Specializing in Classical Arabic music as well as Jazz and European classical music, she combines styles to create repertoire for solo viola and loops generating layers of sound that simulates a whole room full of musicians. During her time as a freelancer in New York City she collaborated with oudist Simon Shaheen in Carnegie Hall, with poets Robert Bly and Clarissa Pinkola-Estes at the Omega Institute, and with the Cedar Lake Ensemble's premiere performance in Chelsea. As a composer, Ms. Darling’s work earned many Meet the Composer grants and earned her the New York Innovative Theater Award for best original music in 2007. Leanne currently teaches viola and chamber music at the University at Buffalo and leads improvisation workshops in the Buffalo area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span class="xcontentpasted0"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Nicholas Emmanuel</span></b></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> holds a PhD in historical musicology and a masters’ degree in piano performance from the University at Buffalo.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> He has studied piano under Eric Huebner, Natalie Phillips, Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe, Oksana Lutsyshyn, and Lee Jordan Anders. He is active as a performer and educator in the Western New York area, where he strives to promote new music and the work of young composers. Emmanuel’s academic research focuses on Central European music and politics in the 20<sup>th</sup></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span class="xcontentpasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">century, modernist aesthetics, transcription, and the work of György Ligeti. He spent last year conducting archival and field research in Budapest, Hungary, with support from the U.S. Fulbright Commission and the Liszt Academy of Music.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James Peter Falzone</span></b><span style="color: #212121; font-size: 11pt;"> was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1986. Active as a composer-performer, he is trained as a pianist, organist, and percussionist. Falzone is a founding member of both The Providence Research Ensemble and of Ordinary Affects, a new music collective, which has commissioned works by such composers as Christian Wolff, Jürg Frey, and Eva-Maria Houben. A double-album featuring compositions by Falzone and violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Chordioid</i>, was released by Another Timbre in 2020. Falzone is currently a PhD student in music composition here at UB.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cellist-composer <b>Jonathan Golove</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a dedicated performer of both new and traditional works, as well as of improvised music. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe at venues including Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), Zipper Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and London’s Southbank Centre. He has been featured as cello soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Slee Sinfonietta, and New York Virtuoso Singers. One of only a handful of performers on the theremin cello, Golove has appeared as soloist with the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, and International Contemporary Ensemble, and he is a member of the 1. Deutsche Stromorchester. He is also active as an electric cellist, particularly in the field of creative improvised music. He has performed and recorded with jazz groups including the Michael Vlatkovich Tryyo and Quartet, Ubudis Quartet, and Vinny Golia’s Large Ensemble, and made appearances at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival (Oakland), and the International Meeting of Jazz and New Music (Monterrey, Mexico). He has recorded for the Albany, Centaur, FMR, pfMENTUM, and Nine Winds labels, and his performances and interviews have been heard in broadcasts by numerous National Public Radio stations, as well as on Radio Nuevo León, West German Radio, CBC, and Radio France. His summer appearances include numerous festivals devoted to new works, including the Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Lincoln Center Festival, June in Buffalo, and the Festival del Centro Histórico (Mexico City). Mr. Golove’s original compositions have been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., Venice Biennale, Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II, and the Kitchen, and he has received awards and grants for his work from organizations including ASCAP, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, and Meet the Composer. He is an Associate Professor in UB’s Department of Music, and he has recently been announced as the Director of UB’s Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Music and June in Buffalo festival.</span></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jessica King</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> plays bassoon and contrabassoon for Symphoria, Syracuse's musician-run professional orchestra. She has premiered solo and chamber works in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Richmond, VA, at the New Music on the Point festival in Vermont, and with Eastman Broadband at Carnegie Hall. She helped found an improvising double reed trio called New Leaf Ensemble and facilitates improvisation among musicians of all ages and experience levels through Music for People.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jessica holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Eastman School of Music. Her teachers include John Hunt at Eastman, and Lynn Hileman at West Virginia University. She has had the honor of playing in masterclasses for Pascal Gallois, Christopher Millard, and Gilbert Audin. She has held positions teaching bassoon and world music at several colleges and currently serves on the faculty of Hamilton College.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shannon Reilly</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> specializes in the study and performance of contemporary music. As founder and violinist of Duo Purla with guitarist Tom Torrisi, Shannon has performed for the 2022 21st Century Guitar Conference, Black House Collective’s 2023 New Music Workshop in LA, Liminal Space Ensemble, and as the 2021 zFestival Ensemble in Residence. A dedicated collaborator, Shannon has played numerous world premieres for her colleagues at Bang on a Can, the Eastman School of Music, June in Buffalo, and the Keybank Rochester Fringe Festival, and spent 4 years at University at Buffalo as violin professor. She regularly plays with the Buffalo Philharmonic and can be heard on recordings by Anna Heflin, Connor D’Netto, and Duo Purla. Shannon holds a MM in violin performance from Eastman, where she studied with Reneé Jolles. She teaches at Buffalo Suzuki Strings and is reading Dune by Frank Herbert.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Korean-born American musician </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sungmin Shin</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> maintains a vigorous schedule seamlessly navigating the unpredictable musical landscape of the 21st century. Sungmin is an artist-teacher, arts leadership advocate, composer, consultant, engineer-producer, ensemble director, entrepreneur, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist, and scholar. Redefining what it means to be genre-bending, Sungmin balances his serious classical training with his deep roots in diverse musical cultures to seek new modes of expression through performance, improvisation, and composition. He is frequently invited to adjudicate, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt;">compose, perform, speak, and teach at major international competitions, events, and festivals including the Guitar Foundation of America International Convention & Competition, Iserlohn International Guitar Festival (Germany), Rochester International Jazz Festival, June in Buffalo and many more. A frequent collaborator with various musicians, he is a member of the internationally acclaimed guitar ensemble Tantalus Quartet and 8-piece rock band Lauren and the Good Souls.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An advocate for performing music of living composers, Sungmin has collaborated with notable musicians and ensembles in the new music scene including Emi Ferguson (flute), Alex Greffin-Klein (violin), Yuki Numata Resnick (violin), fivebyfive, Ensemble Signal and Slee Sinfonietta. He has worked with leading composers and conductors in new music including David Felder, Yuanyuan (Kay) He, Edie Hill, Jerry Hou, Julien LeRoy, David Liptak, Brad Lubman, Andrea Mazzariello, Alan Pierson, Steve Reich, <span class="xcontentpasted7">Kamala Sankaram, </span>Frank Ticheli, Melinda Wagner, and more. During his graduate studies at Eastman, he frequently worked with Rochester based contemporary music ensembles Musica Nova, Ossia, and Rest Is Noise. <span class="xcontentpasted8"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Also, he studied with guitarist-composers Dusan Bogdanovic and Roland Dyens on performing their music during his time at the University of Southern California. </span></span>Committed to sharing his music with diverse audiences, he regularly engages in outreach performances throughout the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Shin is a devoted educator that believes high quality music education should be available and accessible to all students and shares his passion for music with students of all ages and levels. He is Associate Professor of Practice at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York where he directs the guitar program and guitar ensembles. He has presented concerts and masterclasses at top level university music programs including at the Eastman School of Music, Seoul National University of Education (South Korea), Shenandoah Conservatory, University of Louisville, University of South Carolina, and more. Former students of Dr. Shin have gained admission to top music schools such as Belmont, Berklee, Eastman, Northwestern and many more at the undergraduate and graduate levels with scholarships and are currently working as professional musicians in the Western New York region and beyond . Dr. Shin is the Director of the Penfield Guitar School and serves on the faculty of Guitar Workshop Plus in Toronto during the summers.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sungmin plays and endorses D’Addario Strings. For full bio and more information, please visit - </span><a href="http://sungguitar.com/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://sungguitar.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Michael Tumiel</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt;"> presents a diverse repertoire as a soloist, collaborator and freelancer. He has been featured with the Slee Sinfonietta performing David Felder’s <i>Coleccion Nocturna</i> and with the Amherst Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet. Mr. Tumiel has played principal clarinet with the Slee Sinfonietta, Buffalo Opera Unlimited Orchestra, and the Finger Lakes Symphony, among others. At home performing music new and old, he has given numerous premieres at the prestigious June in Buffalo festival hosted by the Center for 21st Century Music and has recorded two CDs with the period instrument ensemble Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band on the MSR Classics label.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mr. Tumiel joined the faculty of SUNY Buffalo in 2019, teaching clarinet, chamber music, and On the Edge performance seminar. Prior to his appointment, he was the assistant to Jean Kopperud while earning his Master of Music and Advanced Certificate in Contemporary Music at Buffalo. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Kenneth Grant. His primary teachers have been John Fullam, Kenneth Grant, and Jean Kopperud.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Katie Weissman </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">began playing the cello at the age of three at Buffalo Suzuki Strings after seeing Yo-Yo Ma appear on Sesame Street. She holds a Bachelors of Music in Cello Performance from Boston University, and her principal teachers include Nancy Anderson, Feng Hew, Michael Reynolds, Amanda Truelove and Roman Mekinulov. When at home in Buffalo, Katie is cellist and backup singer in the Little Cake Cover Band and is a substitute for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She also plays with contemporary music ensemble Wooden Cities, the composition think-tank Evolution of the Arm, free jazz group Root Cellar, folkrock bands TEOA and Birddog, and various other chamber music outfits in the Western New York area. She has toured at home and abroad, and has lent her playing to many recording projects in the studio, including multiple albums and stage performances by Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls. She teaches privately in her own studio, and currently lives in Williamsville with her dogs, rabbits and parakeet.</span></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-86607282122246384812023-04-18T16:11:00.003-04:002023-04-18T16:12:14.121-04:00<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">April 18: A visit with composer and pianist, Amy Williams</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> </span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;"> </span> <b> Composer presentation, 12-2pm, and
performance, 7:30pm in Baird Recital Hal</b>l.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html">TheCenter for 21st Century Music</a> is excited to welcome the upcoming composer
presentation by <a href="http://amywilliamsmusic.com/works/">Amy Williams</a> (Professor, University Pittsburgh), followed by a performance
on the Department of Music’s faculty recital series with soprano Tiffany Du
Mouchelle on April 18, 7:30 pm at Baird Recital Hall. The program will feature
original works by Ms. Williams, as well as songs by legendary UB
piano/composition faculty member Yvar Mikhashoff.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuY7CKvIFOGtVGknftSoJD8yB29a9k7mozZ1osuXeyc-O3P87e7WWaIFT0DgpaG3p3sQHBaqHcRaJrspU3DMwXOD_Q0zgYCEF1-tFMKY8Gm6Oji2sVUPsrM9WWUDJRigWBRyIxwDtVGThsLjg10iMRvVOdP5jFrcr4mu3t9CaQHtLrGOPw4BlI5fLAg/s552/Amy%20Williams.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuY7CKvIFOGtVGknftSoJD8yB29a9k7mozZ1osuXeyc-O3P87e7WWaIFT0DgpaG3p3sQHBaqHcRaJrspU3DMwXOD_Q0zgYCEF1-tFMKY8Gm6Oji2sVUPsrM9WWUDJRigWBRyIxwDtVGThsLjg10iMRvVOdP5jFrcr4mu3t9CaQHtLrGOPw4BlI5fLAg/s320/Amy%20Williams.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><o:p>(Source: </o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">http://amywilliamsmusic.com/photos/)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Some
background about Amy Williams from her website:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Amy Williams was born
in Buffalo, NY in 1969, the daughter of Diane, now retired violist with the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Jan, percussionist and Professor Emeritus
at the University at Buffalo. She started playing the piano at the age of four
and took up the flute a few years later (her first teacher was the legendary
Robert Dick, so she could soon play “Chopsticks” in multiphonics…). She grew up
in the heyday of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, hearing all
the latest contemporary music and meeting composers who would later become
influential to her: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, Elliott Carter,
Julius Eastman and many others. She went to Bennington College and, while
there, decided to devote her life to performing and composing contemporary
music. After a fellowship year in Denmark, she returned to Buffalo to complete
her Master’s degree in piano performance at the University at Buffalo with
pianist-composer Yvar Mikhashoff and her Ph.D. in composition, working with David
Felder, Charles Wuorinen and Nils Vigeland. She returned to Bennington in 1998
as a member of the music faculty and she then moved on to a faculty position at
Northwestern University in 2000. Since 2005, she has been teaching composition
and theory at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a Full Professor. She
was a 2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar at the University College Cork, Ireland and a
Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Pennsylvania in spring
2019.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Amy’s compositions have
been presented at renowned contemporary music venues in the United States,
Asia, Australia, and Europe, including Ars Musica (Belgium), Gaudeamus Music
Week (Netherlands), Dresden New Music Days (Germany), Festival Aspekte
(Austria), Festival Musica Nova (Brazil), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland),
Thailand International Composition Festival, Music Gallery (Canada), LA County
Museum of Art, Piano Spheres (Los Angeles), Lincoln Center, Roulette,
Bargemusic (NYC) and Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music. Her works have
been performed by leading soloists and ensembles, including the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orpheus, JACK Quartet,
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Surplus, Dal Niente, Wet Ink, Talujon,
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), H2 Saxophone Quartet, Bent
Frequency, Grossman Ensemble, pianist Ursula Oppens and bassist Robert Black.
Amy’s pieces appear on the Parma, VDM (Italy), Centaur, Blue Griffin, New Focus
and New Ariel labels, in addition to two portrait CDs of solo and chamber works
on Albany Records: “Crossings: Music for Piano and Strings” (2013) and
“Cineshape and Duos” (2017).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Amy formed the
Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with Helena Bugallo, while both were graduate
students at the University at Buffalo. The Duo has been featured at important
contemporary music festivals and series throughout Europe and the Americas,
including the Ojai Festival, CAL Performances (California), Miller Theatre (New
York), Ciclo de Música Contemporánea (Buenos Aires), Festival Attacca
(Stuttgart), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Warsaw Autumn Festival,
Cologne Triennale, and Wittener Täge für Neue Kammermusik. The Duo’s debut CD
of Conlon Nancarrow’s complete music for solo piano and piano duet (Wergo,
2004) garnered much critical acclaim. Subsequent Duo CDs on Wergo include,
Stravinsky transcriptions (2007), Morton Feldman/Edgard Varèse (2009), György
Kurtág (2015) and a second volume of Stravinsky transcriptions (2018), as well
as the original version of Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion in a
recently published facsimile. Amy has performed John Cage’s masterpiece, The
Sonatas and Interludes, all over the country and often includes new interludes
written for her by over a dozen composers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Amy has received
fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Goddard Lieberson
Fellowship), American-Scandinavian Foundation, Howard Foundation, John S.
Guggenheim Foundation and MacDowell. She received a Fromm Music Foundation
Commission to write Richter Textures for the JACK Quartet and a Koussevitsky
Foundation commission for soprano Tony Arnold and the JACK Quartet. An avid
proponent of contemporary music, she served as Assistant Director of June In
Buffalo, Director of New Music Northwestern, and is currently on the artistic
boards of the Pittsburgh-based concert series, Music on the Edge, the Amphion
Foundation and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yvar Mikhashoff Trust
for New Music. She has been the Artistic Director of the New Music On The Point
festival in Vermont since 2015.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">She recently completed
a piano trio for the Junction Trio, a co-commission from the Denver Friends of
Chamber Music, the Celebrity Series (Boston) and Chamber Music | OC (Orange
County), as well as a commission for the Pennsylvania Music Teachers
Association.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(Source: </span><a href="http://amywilliamsmusic.com/biography/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">http://amywilliamsmusic.com/biography/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7iSq0v58oXY" width="320" youtube-src-id="7iSq0v58oXY"></iframe></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /><b>Amy Williams, Cineshape 4 (2015)</b></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eQBX3szjqOA" width="320" youtube-src-id="eQBX3szjqOA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Amy Williams, Richter Textures (JACK
Quartet)</b></div></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9P6SoQRGP8c" width="320" youtube-src-id="9P6SoQRGP8c"></iframe></div><o:p> </o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Amy Williams, Telephone (The
Grossman Ensemble)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>University at Buffalohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04504406836131768566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798664761134302485.post-19109340232798035872023-04-13T17:33:00.001-04:002023-04-13T17:33:52.042-04:00<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">March
31-April 1: Ben Leeds Carson</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">
<b>(Assoc. Prof. of Composition, UC Santa Cruz)</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Masterclass
and composer presentation, in conjunction with performances of several of his piano
works, including one world premiere, by Prof. Eric Huebner (April 1, Lippes
Concert Hall</span>)</b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.benleedscarson.com/">Ben Leeds Carson</a>, an Associate Professor of Composition from University at California San
Cruz, visited the <a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html">Center for 21</a></span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html">st</a></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/music21c.html"> Century Music</a>, working with UB
composition students on March 31. We are very thankful for his visit and for
the great discussions he inspired.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzU0oElJea-mjdzNGMiAKUjQWKj4DaJ2Xo6Fl-EBaY_2tGFkviBDbPGd-sPEDa5nkG-HEksYSfVxT0Q-lSfeGQmGXsJOS9Aez9qo70gLRd-PuR5sTvI0oHGUvk4V0o2YBHv4-7mrRc2ar2rLbxU930ch4i6f0uQbUO3cBvU3MHTNYT_dZIWsR13xLoA/s640/Ben%20Leeds%20Carson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzU0oElJea-mjdzNGMiAKUjQWKj4DaJ2Xo6Fl-EBaY_2tGFkviBDbPGd-sPEDa5nkG-HEksYSfVxT0Q-lSfeGQmGXsJOS9Aez9qo70gLRd-PuR5sTvI0oHGUvk4V0o2YBHv4-7mrRc2ar2rLbxU930ch4i6f0uQbUO3cBvU3MHTNYT_dZIWsR13xLoA/w341-h256/Ben%20Leeds%20Carson.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">(Source: <a href="https://music.ucsc.edu/people/ben-leeds-carson">https://music.ucsc.edu/people/ben-leeds-carson</a><span style="text-align: left;">)</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">One
participant commented on the event as follows:</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> “In his talk and following
discussion, Ben Leeds Carson led a thorough examination about the perception of
fine gradations of non-pulsed rhythm. To this discussion he brought his
extensive experience of perceptual testing and software modeling to identify
specific rhythmic relationships that hinder hierarchical perception of steady
pulse which the composer believes to enact a rejection of forced hegemony.”</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 310.0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Brian Caswell, UB doctoral Candidate
in composition</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Some
background about him from UC Santa Cruz’s website:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Ben Leeds
Carson's work as a composer and improviser is supported by a variety of
research, including empirical studies in perception, theory of mind, and theory
of musical form. Dr. Carson offers courses in theory and analysis, perception
studies, and popular culture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Born in
North Carolina, Ben spent a good part of his first 8 years in the trailer
parks, highway rest areas, and rural campgrounds of 47 different US states,
following parents who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, while
bird-watching and fossil-hunting their way back and forth across the country.
Later, in Walla Walla Washington, he was led to music by Argentine composer
José Rambaldi (d. 1989) and comedian-singer Bradley Hunt (d. 1988), whose lives
were cut short by AIDS while Ben was still a teen. Ben went on to study music
and theater at Willamette University, and then composition at the University of
Washington and the University of California at San Diego; fortunate for the
mentorship of John Peel, John Rahn, Roger Reynolds, Jann Pasler, Brian
Ferneyhough, Harvey Sollberger, Jerry Balzano, George Lewis, and many others.
His dissertation under Reynolds' mentorship at UCSD—a large collection of works
for orchestra and for solo piano—explored "the establishment and erosion
of musical boundaries, the evolution/devolution of melody, and the use of
silence as a structural component" (Robert Schulslaper, Fanfare Magazine
July/August 2012); in the same music, the critic Christopher Williams has
described tonal tension between small-scale and large-scale harmonic
progressions, producing a paradox, in which "each element in a false
dichotomy defines and becomes the other", allowing us "the
opportunity and responsibility to navigate our [own] uniquely useful
paths" ("On the Piano Music of Ben Carson", in The Open Space
Magazine, Issue 5, December 2005, pp. 246-247).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carson's music is available on Centaur
Records, Albany Records, and on San Diego's "Soundcheck" series, and
has been performed throughout the U.S. and at international festivals,
including Aspen, "June in Buffalo," Gerngesehen (Köln), and New
England Conservatory's Summer Institute for the Contemporary Piano.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Source: </span><a href="https://music.ucsc.edu/people/ben-leeds-carson"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://music.ucsc.edu/people/ben-leeds-carson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You can
read more about his works here: </span><a href="https://www.benleedscarson.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">https://www.benleedscarson.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_1smfOoAh4" width="320" youtube-src-id="L_1smfOoAh4"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">"Sea
and Beneath" for Percussion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_QE5QdYP-GY" width="320" youtube-src-id="_QE5QdYP-GY"></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Pieces,
Threaded<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">℗ 2011
Centaur Records, Inc</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
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