Xanthos Ensemble: Music of Alejandro Viñao
Posted by sequenza21 in Concert AnnouncementThe Xanthos Ensemble
Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts
School of Music Department of Composition and Theory
Music of Alejandro Viñao
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Boston University
Morse Auditorium (please note venue)
602 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Suggested donation is $15, $10 for students and seniors, and the event is free to Boston University faculty, staff, and students.
The complete program:
Khan Variations • solo marimba
Tumblers • electric violin, marimba, and computer
Cuaderno del Ritmo • for nine players
Xanthos Ensemble Performers
Sarah Brady, flute
Chi-Ju Juliet Lai, clarinet
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Eunyoung Kim, piano
George Nickson, percussion
Jeffrey Means, conductor
Please join us with special guests
Oana Lacatus, violin
Ashleigh Gordon, viola
Brandon Brooks, cello
Akiko Kikuchi, double bass
The Xanthos Ensemble has joined in a collaboration at Boston University, presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music Department of Composition and Theory for their 2008-2009 season. Their concert on April 8th, 2009 will feature chamber works of noted composer Alejandro Viñao. Viñao has received a number of international prizes and awards including the ‘Golden Nica’ Prix Ars Electronica (1992), 1st Prize at The International Rostrum at the Unesco World Music Council (1984) and many others. Viñao’s music has been played and broadcast throughout Europe and the U.S.A and has been featured in international festivals such as the Tanglewood Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the London PROMS. He has received commissions from various performing groups and institutions around the world such as I.R.C.A.M, in France, MIT in the USA, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Kronos quartet. His appearance in Boston is a part of his presentation on the Darwin Opera Project, Children of Fire, an opera based on the encounter between the people of Tiera del Fuego and Charles Darwin.
Steve Smith of the New York Times has raved about the “virtuoso players” of the ensemble as “copiously skilled and confident” in the face of “undeniably challenging music.” Bruce Hodges of musicweb-international.com recounted their recent New York City performance of Charles Wuorinen’s New York Notes, noting “the ease with which these musicians played this blockbuster was instructive” and “Xanthos seemed to only gain in momentum as the evening progressed.”
Through a combination of internationally recognized repertoire and world premieres of works dedicated to the ensemble, the major focus of the ensemble’s mission is to bring new music to life, written for the ensemble in collaboration with living composers, and to that aim they have premiered dozens of works and have had several newly composed works dedicated to them since the group’s inception in 2005. From 2006 to 2008, they served as Ensemble in Residence at Boston Conservatory.
The Xanthos Ensemble is a non-profit tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization, and all contributions to the organization are fully deductible to the extent allowed by law.
http://www.xanthosensemble.com
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