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Thursday, February 09 | 7:30pm
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St
New York, NY 10023

The unique, “brilliant” (Boston Globe), self-conducted string orchestra A Far Cry joins forces with post-rock powerhouse This Will Destroy You and renowned composer Christopher Tignor, with his band, Slow Six (pictured), for an evening of music that is large-scale in every sense. Tignor will offer his stunning work for string orchestra and electronics, Thunder Lay Down In the Heart, as well as new arrangements for Slow Six, “a compelling voice that supersedes the need for any words” (The Deli) together with A Far Cry. This Will Destroy You, whose “immersive live performances and remarkable composition skills place them at the forefront of pioneering contemporary music” The Austinist), will present string-augmented versions of their atmospheric instrumental pieces, prominently featuring the strings of A Far Cry mixed with their usual layers of effects-laden guitar, keyboards, bass and drums.

Single Tickets: $25
Festival Pass : $175
Flex Subscription: $80
Students: $15, with valid student ID

Box Office: 212 501 3330

Wednesday, February 08 | 7:30pm
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St
New York, NY 10023

A New Sounds® Live Presentation Hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre) and Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott) are joined by yMusic, a “stunning sextet” (WQXR) of players who return to the Ecstatic Music Festival following last year’s collaboration with Shara Worden and Sarah Kirkland Snider. Parry, well-known for his work as part of the Grammy Award-winning Arcade Fire and the chamber collective Bell Orchestre, here takes on the role of composer, presenting a series of works for yMusic and its members utilizing the organic processes of the human body — heartbeats and breathing — to articulate the works’ progress. Son Lux will likewise have his yMusic compositions (from their debut album, Beautiful Mechanical) performed, and will also present new arrangements from his album We Are Rising (“shamefully good,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer), which used yMusic as source material for its electronic compositions. Parry and Lott will also each write new works that incorporate each other into the process, as vocalists, instrumentalists, or even as providers of source material for the new compositions.

Single tickets: $25
Festival Pass: $175
Flex Subscription: $80
Students: $15, with valid student ID

Box Office: 212 501 3330

A performance of Poke by Lawrence Dillon will be given by Low and Lower, cellist Brooks Whitehouse and bassist Paul Sharpe, as part of their concert on Sunday, February 5 – 4:00 PM at Charles Davis Concert Hall on the campus of University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

The composer writes about the piece, “Poke, subtitled a bagatelle on anti-social media, is scored for cello and double bass, with a running (spoken) dialogue between the two musicians as they play, an argument taking place across various social media. Over the course of the piece, the two “text”, “friend” and “like” one another with increasing fury, as their virtual exchanges complete obliterate their real lives in a comic turn on the dark underbelly of our online politesse.”

Visit Low and Lower at http://www.brookswhitehouse.com/schedule.

The February 5 concert is free and open to the public. For more about the event, call 907-474-7555 or visit http://www.uaf.edu/.

Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 – http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644), featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. His other recent, critically-acclaimed CD release, Insects and Paper Airplanes, is on the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/.

Judith Shatin’s Tower of the Eight Winds will be performed by violinist David Sariti and pianist John Mayhood on Sunday, February 5 – 3:30 PM in Old Cabell Hall on the campus of University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This performance is part of the University’s Chamber Music Festival on February 3 and 5 and is presented by the UVA McIntire Department of Music.

Tower of the Eight Winds is named for the Tower of the Winds, still standing below the Acropolis in the ancient Roman agora in Athens. The design included eight friezes, one topping each wall, depicting the eight Greek deities of the wind. The composer chose this topic as her source of inspiration, and the four movements of the piece are named for particular winds.

The piece was commissioned by the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress and Premiered in December 2008 at their Coolidge Auditorium in Washington, DC. Much more about it at http://www.judithshatin.com/detail.php?compid=163.

Other composers on the program are Erwin Schulhoff, Martin Amlin, John Harbison and Robert Schumann.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students, and free for those under 18. UVA students may reserve free tickets in advance. For more information and tickets, contact the Arts Box Office at 434-924-3376 or visit http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/pressreleases/11-12/120203chamber.html.

Visit Judith Shatin at http://www.judithshatin.com.

Tuesday, February 07 | 7:30pm
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St
New York, NY 10023

The “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) multi-instrumentalist and composer Sxip Shirey (pictured) teams up with Angélica Negrón, composer of “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR) music for an evening of fabulously eclectic and sonically wide-ranging collaboration. In addition to working together, they will be joined by a slate of special guests, including violinist/composer/Ableton master Todd Reynolds, guitar sound-architect Noveller (“simultaneously soothing and mind-wrecking,” NY Press), the wine-glass/guitar marvel Jonny Rodgers (“beautiful, fragile and consistently challenging,” New Haven Register). The teen alt-classical sensations Face the Music (“stunning,” “polished, exuberant,” New York Times) will give the world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s El Gran Caleidoscopio.

Single Tickets: $25
Festival Pass: $175
Flex Subscription: $80
Students: $15, with valid Student ID

Call the Merkin Concert Hall Box Office at 212 501 3330!

We celebrate the life of this influential and beloved Polish composer.
Featured works include Little Fantasia, String Quartet No. 2, Sonata for Piano Op. 6 and Quartettino.
Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts
2344 E. Iliff Ave.,
Denver, CO 80208
Tickets $18 adults, $16 seniors and free with Pioneer card or ANY student ID.
Ticket prices include free parking in Newman Center parking garage and a reception after the concert to greet the artists.
Lamont Concert line (303) 871-6412

Sunday, February 5th, 3pm. St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th St., NYC

PIXELIANCE, for flute, harp, & marimba
PERI MAUER, Composer

Mary Barto, flute
Ashley Jackson, harp
Mike Truesdell, marimba

New York Composers Circle Concert of New Music
Concert info:http://nycomposerscircle.org/events/event/concert-st-mark%E2%80%99s-in-the-bowery/

The exciting superstar violinist, Joshua Bell, will serve as guest artistic director and performer for the 10 Anniversary Season of the Laguna Beach Music Festival, Feb 6 –12, 2012. There will also be a wide range of free educational and outreach programs planned for the Festival week, all in the center of this beautiful seaside town.

Festival concerts range from $35 – $100 and can be purchased by calling 949.553.2422
or by going to www.LagunaBeachMusicFestival.com

Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 pm – Tenth Anniversary Concert
Festival alumni the Calder Quartet and Edgar Meyer collaborate with rising stars the Calidore Quartet in an eclectic afternoon celebrating the Festival’s tenth anniversary. The artists will perform Dvořák | String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77, Terry Riley | Cadenza on the Night Plain and Mendelssohn | Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20

The exciting superstar violinist, Joshua Bell, will serve as guest artistic director and performer for the 10 Anniversary Season of the Laguna Beach Music Festival, Feb 6 –12, 2012. There will also be a wide range of free educational and outreach programs planned for the Festival week, all in the center of this beautiful seaside town.

Festival concerts range from $35 – $100 and can be purchased by calling 949.553.2422
or by going to www.LagunaBeachMusicFestival.com
Thursday, February 9 at 8:00 pm – The Genius of Edgar Meyer
For the February 9 solo recital Edgar Meyer has chosen selections from the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites (which he has arranged, and recorded, for the double bass), and works chosen from among his own phenomenal breadth in classical, jazz, bluegrass and roots music composition.

The Quintet of the Americas will be part of the Music of Now Marathon on Saturday, February 4 during the 8:30 to 9:30 PM and the 9:40 PM to midnight segments of the 8-hour program at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater of Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in Manhattan.

During the 8:30 to 9:30 PM segment The Quintet will perform Neil Rolnick’s Ambos mundos for quintet and computer, Xinyan Li’s Mo Suo’s Burial Ceremony, Yao Chen’s Sfumato and the Premiere of Dylan Glatthorn’s The Stuff of Comets. Members of the group will also perform Richard Wilson’s Gnomics. The segment will also include the Premiere by violinist Madalyn Parnas of Timothy Dunne’s Ribbon.

The 9:40 to midnight segment will feature Intricate Simplicity, composed and played by the Quintet’s oboist Matt Sullivan, in a performance that will also feature painter Ken Cro-Ken. This segment also includes music by Amy Williams, performed by pianist Ursula Oppens, Evan Ziporyn and Kevin Puts, played by the Nouveau Classical Project, Gabriela Ortiz, Bernadette Speech, performed by the composer and violinist Madalyn Parnas, and music of Miles Okazaki, performed by his Duo.

Tickets for the Marathon are $15. For a program schedule and more information about Music of Now, call 212-864-5400 or visit http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6944-the-music-of-now-marathon. For MTA transportation information, visit http://tripplanner.mta.info/_start.aspx.

Visit the Quintet at http://www.quintet.org and become their friend at http://www.facebook.com/groups/325982319921/.