Debussy Etudes and Ligeti Etudes-MSM Lecture-recital by D.M.A.contemporary pianist Jenny Q Chai, coached by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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Mar
19
2010
Debussy Etudes and Ligeti Etudes-MSM Lecture-recital by D.M.A.contemporary pianist Jenny Q Chai, coached by Pierre-Laurent AimardPosted by s21concerts in Concert AnnouncementLecture-recital on the Interpretations on 2 Debussy Etudes “Pour les quartes,” “Pour huit doigts” and 2 Ligeti Etudes NO.1 “Desodre”and No. 2 “Cordes a vide.”
This lecture-recital mainly focuses on the interpretation and performance practice of the etudes.
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Mar
19
2010
Solo Piano and Vocal Music of Joelle Wallach in Mexico and Alaska on March 21Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Pianist Ana Cervantes (http://www.cervantespiano.com/) will present the Mexican Premiere of Ms. Wallach’s Voices of the Iron Harp for solo piano as part of De Tripas Corazon: Creación de mujeres (From Guts, Heart: Women’s Creation) on March 21 – 1 PM at Casa Museo Gene Byron, located at Calle Real de Marfil in Marfil, Guanajato, Mexico. Voices of the Iron Harp is a love song, almost a farewell to the piano. It uses an open-ended variation form as well as the heroic poetic gestures of 19th and 20th century piano literature to explore and evoke the variety and gradations of mood and sound available through the keyboard from the heart of the iron harp inside. More about it at http://www.joellewallach.com/Voices_Iron_Harp.html. For more about the concert, call 52-473-733-10-29 or visit http://www.museogenebyron.org/. Soprano Connie Oba will perform Ms. Wallach’s She Walks in Beauty and Pussycat Love Song as part of A Concert for the Animals, also on March 21 – 6 PM at Pioneer Park Centennial Theater in Fairbanks, Alaska. The concert will benefit the Fairbanks Animal Shelter Fund. Both songs were inspired by the composer’s cats and are from her Meow Mix song cycle. More about it at http://www.joellewallach.com/meowmix.html. For more about this event, call 907-456-1144 or visit http://fairbankschoralsociety.org/. Read The Dream of Now, Joelle Wallach’s newsletter at http://jamesarts.com/releases/dec09/JW_nws_1209.pdf. Much more about her at http://www.joellewallach.com/.
Mar
17
2010
Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon Performed in Durham, North Carolina on March 20 and Los Angeles on March 21Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Saturday, March 20 – 7 PM – Bacchus Chaconne for violin and viola will be presented as part of the Mallarme Chamber Players gala concert in Durham, North Carolina. More about the event at http://www.mallarmemusic.org/. Bacchus Chaconne can be seen on YouTube, performed by violinist Danielle Belen and violist Juan Miguel Hernandez at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWzXqG6rIo. It can be downloaded from the new Music of Lawrence Dillon CD (Naxos 8.559644) at http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644. Sunday, March 21 – 3 PM – Danielle Belen will present Façade for violin and piano as part of her faculty recital at Thayer Recital Hall of The Colburn School, 200 South Grand Street in Los Angeles, California. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, visit The Colburn School at http://www.colburnschool.edu/. Ms. Belen has recorded the work as part of the new Music of Lawrence Dillon Naxos CD. She will also perform works by Bach, Sarasate and Brahms. Visit her at http://www.belenviolin.com/. Lawrence Dillon’s latest digital CD release is on Naxos (8.559644) – http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644. Albany Music has also issued Appendage and Other Stories – http://www.albanyrecords.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY1170&Category_Code=CMN&Product_Count=59. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.
Mar
17
2010
Chamber Music of Barbara Harbach Presented on March 20 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Festival of Women ComposersPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Pioneer Women: From Skagway to White Mountain is a collection of four portraits of American women who helped to settle the wilds of Alaska, with texts taken from their diaries, letters, monographs and journals. It has been recorded for MSR Classics – MS1256 – http://www.msrcd.com/1256/1256.html. The piece will be performed at the Festival by Christine Buckstead, soprano, Eleanor Elkins, piano, Timothy Bonenfant, clarinet on a program that also includes music by Elizabeth Bell, Deborah Kavasch, and Stella Sung. The program was previously performed by the trio on March 2 at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. For information about this and other Ninth Festival of Women Composers events, visit http://www.iup.edu/music/fwc/default.aspx. Visit http://www.umsl.edu/services/creative/assets/pdfs/messenger/harbach_fanfare.pdf to read an article about Harbach’s music in the January-February issue of Fanfare magazine. Her website is at www.barbaraharbach.com/.
Mar
17
2010
High Voltage Opera @ Galapagos Art Space 4.8.10Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
  ALPHABET SOUP PRODUCTIONS presents HIGH VOLTAGE OPERA a night of electroacoustic opera at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn – 4.8.10 @ 8pm $20 admission www.alphabetsoupproductions.org  High Voltage Opera is a night of fresh, electro-acoustic chamber operas that stretch the boundaries of a classic genre by adding electronics to the mix of powerful singers, old and new music, and classic stories. Sappho in the Mix Marie Incontrera, composer with Monica Harte as Sappho & Jenny Greene as Aphrodite “With a solid electroacoustic track – structurally conceived, as well as in mood – but with gritty, industrial-leaning feel… I can feel the presence of the poet, Sappho, even if she lived several thousand years ago.†–Mark Greenfest, New Music Connoisseur  Opera Electric Traditonal Opera with an Electric Twist  Wonderland [world premiere] Camila Cano, composer with Jenny Greene as Alice, Mary Hubbell as Rebecca, & others   Â
Mar
17
2010
Genre-Busting Pianist Supové Plays Brooklyn Heights March 26Posted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
This series, curated by Wil Smith (composer who also serves as organist at First Presbyterian), occurs monthly, featuring one performer or ensemble per evening. Smith describes Music at First as “a diverse mix of New York City’s best new music ensembles and performers, accessible to a wide audience of both community members and seasoned new music listeners.†Future performances include cellist/vocalist Jody Redhage and Fire in July on April 16 and flute/percussionist duo Conor Nelson and Ayano Kataoka on May 28 (CD release). The series began in February 19th, 2010 with a performance by Threefifty Duo. Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what it means to be a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today’s world. After winning top prizes in the Gaudeamus International Competition for Interpretation of Contemporary Music, Ms. Supové has annually presented a series of solo concerts entitled THE EXPLODING PIANO. In this series, she has performed and premiered works by such established composers as Louis Andriessen, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, and Morton Subotnick, as well as emerging composers from varied backgrounds such as David Lang, Randall Woolf, Carolyn Yarnell, Eve Beglarian, Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, Michael Gatonska, the composer/performance artist Corey Dargel, and Gameboy composer Bubblyfish, just to name a few. In recent seasons, she has developed THE EXPLODING PIANO into a multimedia experience by using electronics, theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Visit supove.com and myspace.com/supove. The Program will feature signature works by composers with whom Supové has had close musical associations: American Alvin Curran; iconoclast East Hartford composer Michael Gatonska; Dutch master Louis Andriessen’s intensely virtuosic seldom-performed work “Trepidus”; and “The Body Of Your Dreams”, an audience favorite by current Dutch sensation Jacob TV, based on an American infomercial for the AB-TRONIC stomach-reducing machine. THE MEMORY OF ROSES (1992) by Louis Andriessen for Piano, Toy Piano, and Rose A SHAKING OF THE PUMPKIN (2007) by Michael Gatonska for Piano, Mallet, and Optional Bass Drum TREPIDUS (1983) by Louis Andriessen for Piano INNER CITIES by Alvin Curran for Piano THE BODY OF YOUR DREAMS (2004) by Jacob TV (Ter Veldhuis) for Piano and Soundtrack
Mar
16
2010
Mary Halvorson, Tom Swafford, Childrens Concert, Michael Evans + LaDonna SmithPosted by s21concerts in Concert AnnouncementROULETTE presents 20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242 Mary Halvorson Quintet Tom Swafford: The Real (?) Me Childrens Concert with David Grollman $5 Deviant Shakti: LaDonna Smith & Michael Evans thereminist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. As well as being a drum set player, his work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics. His work with the theremin varies the quality of its sound through set-up and technique. LaDonna Smith and Michael Evans, present their joyful collaboration, DEVIANT SHAKTI.
Mar
15
2010
Michael Kudirka with Formalist QuartetPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: chamber concertGuitarist and lutenist Michael Kudirka has established a stellar reputation as an exciting artist performing both recent music and much older repertoire, often on the same program. Kudirka joins the Formalist Quartet, with violist Melinda Rice, for this profound program of extraordinary variety. The repertoire features music for guitar and lute and string ensemble to create an intimately touching and sensitively enlivening musical experience. Program includes Dusan Bogdanovich’s Sevdalinka. Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00pm Center For The Arts, 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock Ticket Information: Call (323) 259-3011 or log on to www.scorchestra.org
Mar
15
2010
Chamber Music of Richard Brooks Performed by No Borders Quintet on March 16 in Rome, ItalyPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement
Circular Motions was written in 2005 and consists of three movements – I. Maelstrom, II. In the Eye of the Storm and III. Whirlwind. It has been recorded for the Innova label by flutist Keith Underwood, clarinetist Esther Lamneck and pianist Martha Locker. For a sample of the score and recording, visit http://www.richardbrooksmusic.com/multimedia/maelstrom/maelstrom.html. Performers for the Brooks work will be flutist Andrea Biagini, clarinetist Guido Arbonelli and pianist Alessandro Roselletti. They will be joined by other ensemble members to also present works by Astor Piazzolla, Dana D. Richardson, Dan Lis, Mauro Porro, Linda Marcel, Dinu Ghezzo, Carlos Delgado, Josh Hummel and Nino Rota. Read Richard Brooks’ Set Piece newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/nov09/RB_nws_1109.pdf. Visit him online at http://www.richardbrooksmusic.com/index.html.
Mar
14
2010
“Music For a Recession” – March, 19th & 20th @ 8PMPosted by s21concerts in Concert Announcement, tags: IKTUS Percussion Quartet |