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SORROW SONG AND JUBILEE
COMPOSER: LIBBY LARSEN
World Premiere: September 21, 2014 | Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University
World Premiere: September 21, 2014 | Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Inspired by African-American spirituals and the Czech composer Dvořák
Underwriting: HoustonPress MasterMinds award
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Inspired by African-American spirituals and the Czech composer Dvořák
Underwriting: HoustonPress MasterMinds award
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LIBBY LARSEN
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Libby Larsen (b. 24 December 1950, Wilmington, Delaware) is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 500 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over 15 operas. Grammy award-winning and widely recorded, including over 50 CD’s of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.
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As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composer’s Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony, and the Colorado Symphony.
Libby Larsen’s official website: libbylarsen.com
Libby Larsen’s official website: libbylarsen.com
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SPLASH OF INDIGO
COMPOSER: MARTY REGAN
World Premiere: January 11, 2015 | Christ the King Lutheran Church
World Premiere: January 11, 2015 | Christ the King Lutheran Church
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Choreography created and danced by Houston Ballet artists Connor Walsh and
Chae Eun Yang - 2020
Chae Eun Yang - 2020
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: A dynamic musical work that explores the intersections between Japanese folk and French Impressionist music filtered through a distinct American sensibility.
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: A dynamic musical work that explores the intersections between Japanese folk and French Impressionist music filtered through a distinct American sensibility.
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
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MARTY REGAN
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Marty Regan (b. 1972) has composed over 70 works for traditional Japanese instruments and since 2002 has been affiliated with AURA-J, one of Japan’s premiere performance ensembles of contemporary-traditional Japanese music.
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 with a B.M. in Composition and a B.A. in English and East Asian Studies. |
From 2000 to 2002 he studied composition and took applied lessons on traditional Japanese instruments as a Japanese government-sponsored research student at Tokyo College of Music. In 2002, his composition Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds (2001) for shakuhachi and 21-string koto was premiered at the 5th Annual Composition Competition for Traditional Japanese Instruments at the National Theatre of Japan. He completed his Ph.D. in Music with an emphasis in Composition at the University of Hawaii, Manoa in 2006.
Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject and the only resource of its kind available in English, his translation of Minoru Miki’s Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His “Selected Works for Japanese Instruments” compact disc series is released by Navona Records and his music is published by Mother Earth Co., Ltd.
In 2011 he was affiliated as a research scholar at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he took applied lessons on traditional Chinese instruments. One of his largest works, a chamber opera entitled “The Memory Stone,” was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera as part of the HGCOco’s Songs of Houston: East + West initiative and was premiered in April 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University.
Official website: martyregan.com
Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject and the only resource of its kind available in English, his translation of Minoru Miki’s Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His “Selected Works for Japanese Instruments” compact disc series is released by Navona Records and his music is published by Mother Earth Co., Ltd.
In 2011 he was affiliated as a research scholar at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he took applied lessons on traditional Chinese instruments. One of his largest works, a chamber opera entitled “The Memory Stone,” was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera as part of the HGCOco’s Songs of Houston: East + West initiative and was premiered in April 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University.
Official website: martyregan.com
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THRACIAN AIRS OF BESIME SULTAN
COMPOSER: Erberk Eryılmaz
World Premiere: World Premiere: May 1, 2015 | Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University
World Premiere: World Premiere: May 1, 2015 | Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University
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Instrumentation: Clarinet, string quartet, double bass, percussion
Theme: Based on folk music from Turkey, Romania, Greece, and Macedonia
Underwriting: Charlotte Jones
Theme: Based on folk music from Turkey, Romania, Greece, and Macedonia
Underwriting: Charlotte Jones
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Turkish-American composer and performer Erberk Eryılmaz is recognized for bringing the energy of the folk music of his homeland to the concert stage with a creative and dramatic approach. His recent album of chamber works, "Dances of the Yogurt Maker" won a Grammy Award with producer Judith Sherman and received two gold medals at Global Music Awards in 2022.
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His compositions have been performed at some of the world’s most important concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Eryılmaz was selected to participate in the Moon Arts Project which will include his work, "Was her face the moon or sunlight?", expected to be sent to the Moon in 2023. This project will bring the first music to the Moon and the work received its premiere at NASA, next to Saturn V, history’s largest rocket.
His compositions and performances have been featured multiple times on Turkish State Radio and American Public Media's Performance Today and have received praise by Fanfare Magazine, Andante, CNN Turk, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Sanattan Yansımalar, as well as the Washington Post, which describes his music as a “dervish-like explosion.” He has been featured on records released by MSR Classics, Naxos, Albany Records, Innova Recordings, Wirripang, and Parma Recordings.
As a composer, pianist, conductor, and folk percussionist, he has collaborated with many important ensembles including the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey, Houston Symphony, European Union Chamber Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Fairfax Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Austin Camerata, Apollo Chamber Players, and Carpe Diem, Tesla and Del Sol String Quartets, ZOFO Duet, as well as the Bowen McCauley Dance Company.
Eryılmaz has received numerous awards including BNY Mellon Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Sallie Shepherd Perkins Prize for Best Achievement at Rice University, the Diemente Prize at the Hartt School and top prizes at the Van Rooy Competition for Musical Excellence, Silberman Chamber Music Competition, Carnegie Mellon University's Harry G. Archer Orchestra Composition Competition and String Quartet Composition Competition.
In 2015, Erberk Eryılmaz and his wife Laura Krentzman established Hoppa Project with aims to promote music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East by performing the music of the region with a wide range of styles from folk to newly commissioned contemporary music. Hoppa Project has collaborated with varied artists such as Ismail Lumanovski, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Shawn Conley, Beth Bahia Cohen, Ayşe Göknur Şanal, Önder Özkoç, Yiğit Kolat, Özkan Manav, and Kamran İnce.
Eryılmaz received his education at Samsun Municipality Conservatory, Ankara State Conservatory, the Hartt School (Bachelor of Music), Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Music and Artist Diploma), and Rice University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He is teaching composition at the Ankara Music and Fine Arts University.
For more information please visit erberkeryilmaz.com
His compositions and performances have been featured multiple times on Turkish State Radio and American Public Media's Performance Today and have received praise by Fanfare Magazine, Andante, CNN Turk, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Sanattan Yansımalar, as well as the Washington Post, which describes his music as a “dervish-like explosion.” He has been featured on records released by MSR Classics, Naxos, Albany Records, Innova Recordings, Wirripang, and Parma Recordings.
As a composer, pianist, conductor, and folk percussionist, he has collaborated with many important ensembles including the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey, Houston Symphony, European Union Chamber Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Fairfax Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Austin Camerata, Apollo Chamber Players, and Carpe Diem, Tesla and Del Sol String Quartets, ZOFO Duet, as well as the Bowen McCauley Dance Company.
Eryılmaz has received numerous awards including BNY Mellon Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Sallie Shepherd Perkins Prize for Best Achievement at Rice University, the Diemente Prize at the Hartt School and top prizes at the Van Rooy Competition for Musical Excellence, Silberman Chamber Music Competition, Carnegie Mellon University's Harry G. Archer Orchestra Composition Competition and String Quartet Composition Competition.
In 2015, Erberk Eryılmaz and his wife Laura Krentzman established Hoppa Project with aims to promote music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East by performing the music of the region with a wide range of styles from folk to newly commissioned contemporary music. Hoppa Project has collaborated with varied artists such as Ismail Lumanovski, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, Shawn Conley, Beth Bahia Cohen, Ayşe Göknur Şanal, Önder Özkoç, Yiğit Kolat, Özkan Manav, and Kamran İnce.
Eryılmaz received his education at Samsun Municipality Conservatory, Ankara State Conservatory, the Hartt School (Bachelor of Music), Carnegie Mellon University (Master of Music and Artist Diploma), and Rice University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He is teaching composition at the Ankara Music and Fine Arts University.
For more information please visit erberkeryilmaz.com
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THRee goat blues
COMPOSER: Gilad Cohen
World Premiere: World Premiere: October 4, 2015 | MATCH in Midtown
World Premiere: World Premiere: October 4, 2015 | MATCH in Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Fusion of Jewish Provençale folk with American jazz/blues.
Underwriting: Houston Arts Alliance (HAA)
Theme: Fusion of Jewish Provençale folk with American jazz/blues.
Underwriting: Houston Arts Alliance (HAA)
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Praised by the 2010 Israeli Prime Minister Award Committee for “creating a personal language fusion that has a unique dimension” in music that is “fascinating, vibrant and drawing the ear as well as the heart,” Gilad Cohen is an active composer, performer, and theorist in various musical genres including concert music, rock, and music for theater.
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His music adapts features from a wide range of musical realms and explores intersections among them, bringing to his creative table the persistent textures of rock, the painstaking orchestration of impressionism, the gloomy harmonies of grunge and metal, the jubilant rhythms of klezmer, the motionless landscapes of psychedelic rock, the agile melodies and scales of Arabic music, and the striking dissonances of 20th-century avant-garde.
Gilad has received commissions from Barlow Endowment, ASCAP, Chamber Music America, Concert Artists Guild, Parlance Chamber Concerts, Houston Arts Alliance, Tre Voci (Kim Kashkashian, Marina Piccinini and Sivan Magen), and Jerusalem Music Center, among others. His music was performed in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East and released on Albany Records, Naxos/Delos, and Navona Records. He is known for his compositions for harp (including Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello and Ruminating Harp, Firefly Elegy, Doaa and Masa, and Trailheads), which are regularly performed around the world. Gilad’s notable awards include the Barlow Prize, the Israeli Prime Minister Award for Composers, and prizes from the American Liszt Society, Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation (China), Franz Josef Reinl Foundation (Austria), and Lycia Guitar Days (Turkey), among others. His music for the stage includes the monodrama Dragon Mother for soprano and orchestra, the one-act musical Healthy Start, and music for various productions in the US and Israel including Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan, and Nissim Aloni’s Napoleon – Dead or Alive!. Current engagements include a harp concerto for Sivan Magen and a piece about black singer/activist Paul Robeson for rapper and large ensemble, co-written with lyricist Ronvé O’Daniel.
Gilad has played piano, bass guitar and guitar with various ensembles at venues in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Israel including New York’s Merkin Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space. His research about the music of Pink Floyd has resulted in publications in books and academic journals, lectures in the US and Israel, and the first-ever academic conference devoted to the band that he produced in 2014 at Princeton University together with composer Dave Molk. An Associate Professor of Music at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Gilad holds a Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University and is a graduate of Mannes School of Music, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop. His principal teachers include Robert Cuckson, Steven Mackey, Paul Lansky, and Michael Wolpe.
Learn more at giladcohen.com
Gilad has received commissions from Barlow Endowment, ASCAP, Chamber Music America, Concert Artists Guild, Parlance Chamber Concerts, Houston Arts Alliance, Tre Voci (Kim Kashkashian, Marina Piccinini and Sivan Magen), and Jerusalem Music Center, among others. His music was performed in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East and released on Albany Records, Naxos/Delos, and Navona Records. He is known for his compositions for harp (including Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello and Ruminating Harp, Firefly Elegy, Doaa and Masa, and Trailheads), which are regularly performed around the world. Gilad’s notable awards include the Barlow Prize, the Israeli Prime Minister Award for Composers, and prizes from the American Liszt Society, Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation (China), Franz Josef Reinl Foundation (Austria), and Lycia Guitar Days (Turkey), among others. His music for the stage includes the monodrama Dragon Mother for soprano and orchestra, the one-act musical Healthy Start, and music for various productions in the US and Israel including Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan, and Nissim Aloni’s Napoleon – Dead or Alive!. Current engagements include a harp concerto for Sivan Magen and a piece about black singer/activist Paul Robeson for rapper and large ensemble, co-written with lyricist Ronvé O’Daniel.
Gilad has played piano, bass guitar and guitar with various ensembles at venues in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Israel including New York’s Merkin Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space. His research about the music of Pink Floyd has resulted in publications in books and academic journals, lectures in the US and Israel, and the first-ever academic conference devoted to the band that he produced in 2014 at Princeton University together with composer Dave Molk. An Associate Professor of Music at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Gilad holds a Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University and is a graduate of Mannes School of Music, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop. His principal teachers include Robert Cuckson, Steven Mackey, Paul Lansky, and Michael Wolpe.
Learn more at giladcohen.com
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Texas
COMPOSER: Arthur Hernandez
World Premiere: January 8, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: January 8, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Explores indigenous Texas and Mexican folk music
Theme: Explores indigenous Texas and Mexican folk music
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Arthur Hernandez is an American composer whose works have been performed by such esteemed music groups and soloists as The Cleveland Orchestra, guitarist Jason Vieaux, The Cavani String Quartet, Apollo Chamber Players, The Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony, The Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO), The Hoppa Project, e-cellist Jeffrey Krieger, percussionist Bill Solomon, pianist/conductor Magnus Martensson, The Alturas Duo and flutist Minta White to name a few.
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His music has been described by critics as, “visionary,” “adventurous and daring,” “electrically charged,” “assured of lyric line,” “tender, exuberant,” and even, “defiantly weird.” The American composer David Felder said of Hernandez’s music, “his works display formal invention, a strong lyrical gift, and have behind them a tremendous force of energy.” His music is recorded on Capstone and ABLAZE Records.
Hernandez has been commissioned by, among others, The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo Chamber Players for their 20×2020 project, e-cellist Jeffrey Krieger, conductor/composer/pianist Erberk Eryilmaz, percussionist Bill Solomon, The Alturas Duo, The Fortnightly Musical Club, The Cleveland Music School Settlement’s Youth Orchestra, Turn On The Music, and The Torrington High School Concert Band. He has studied composition with Donald Erb, Barney Childs, Robert Carl, Steven Gryc, Frank Wiley, Joseph Packales, and Margaret Brouwer. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition, cum laude, from the Hartt School where he won the prestigious Graduate Regents Award, a Master’s Degree in Composition, cum laude, from the University of Redlands, and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Theory and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso.
His website can be found at arthurhernandezmusic.com
Hernandez has been commissioned by, among others, The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo Chamber Players for their 20×2020 project, e-cellist Jeffrey Krieger, conductor/composer/pianist Erberk Eryilmaz, percussionist Bill Solomon, The Alturas Duo, The Fortnightly Musical Club, The Cleveland Music School Settlement’s Youth Orchestra, Turn On The Music, and The Torrington High School Concert Band. He has studied composition with Donald Erb, Barney Childs, Robert Carl, Steven Gryc, Frank Wiley, Joseph Packales, and Margaret Brouwer. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition, cum laude, from the Hartt School where he won the prestigious Graduate Regents Award, a Master’s Degree in Composition, cum laude, from the University of Redlands, and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Theory and Composition from the University of Texas at El Paso.
His website can be found at arthurhernandezmusic.com
OBALA MORE
COMPOSER: Alexandra du Bois
World Premiere: April 3, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: April 3, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Inspired by Croatian and Yugoslav folk music.
Underwriting: Frederic Attermeier
Theme: Inspired by Croatian and Yugoslav folk music.
Underwriting: Frederic Attermeier
ALEXANDRA DU BOIS
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Described as “an intense, luminous American composer” (Los Angeles Times), as “a painter who knows exactly where her picture will be hung,” (New York Times), and as “offering an extraordinary interface between the traditional and avant-garde,” (New Zealand Herald),the music of Alexandra du Bois is often propelled by issues of indifference and inequality throughout the United States and the world. Alexandra du Bois is a Manhattan-based composer and violinist whose musical imagery has continually attracted commisions created to honor
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or mourn world events both historical and contemporary. Her music has been heard in concert halls across five continents—her travels connecting her tangibly to the countries that inform and inspire her work.
Kronos Quartet founder and first violinist, David Harrington, described the music of du Bois in 2003 as having “found a voice when many people were speechless” and “attempts to be a conscience in a time of oblivion. She dared, in ‘An Eye for an Eye’, to counter abuses of moral authority with an internal, personal sound using the string quartet as a witness, a reminder, that music and creativity are part of a continuing web of responsibility” (Strings Magazine).
Alexandra du Bois’ connection to chamber music began at an early age through her connection to the violin and is often inspired by the sea and her childhood spent at the seaside. Before she was described as “one of America’s most promising young composers,” (LA Times) du Bois had been commissioned by Kronos Quartet—at that time the youngest composer ever to be commissioned by the quartet at age twenty-one years old. The ensemble subsequently commissioned her first, third and fifth string quartets and released the first commercial recording of first quartet, Oculus (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind). Du Bois is also the youngest composer ever commissioned by legendary pianist Menahem Pressler with the Beaux Arts Trio who premiered her first piano at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam when du Bois was twenty-three years old.
Alexandra du Bois’ music has been performed across the United States and throughout France, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Austria, Armenia, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Her works and arrangements have been released on Harmonia Mundi, Kronos Quartet and Perspectives Recordings labels with several releases planned for the 2017-18 season. Alexandra du Bois has lived in Manhattan since 2005 and is a member of BMI.
Official website: alexandradubois.com
Kronos Quartet founder and first violinist, David Harrington, described the music of du Bois in 2003 as having “found a voice when many people were speechless” and “attempts to be a conscience in a time of oblivion. She dared, in ‘An Eye for an Eye’, to counter abuses of moral authority with an internal, personal sound using the string quartet as a witness, a reminder, that music and creativity are part of a continuing web of responsibility” (Strings Magazine).
Alexandra du Bois’ connection to chamber music began at an early age through her connection to the violin and is often inspired by the sea and her childhood spent at the seaside. Before she was described as “one of America’s most promising young composers,” (LA Times) du Bois had been commissioned by Kronos Quartet—at that time the youngest composer ever to be commissioned by the quartet at age twenty-one years old. The ensemble subsequently commissioned her first, third and fifth string quartets and released the first commercial recording of first quartet, Oculus (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind). Du Bois is also the youngest composer ever commissioned by legendary pianist Menahem Pressler with the Beaux Arts Trio who premiered her first piano at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam when du Bois was twenty-three years old.
Alexandra du Bois’ music has been performed across the United States and throughout France, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Austria, Armenia, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Her works and arrangements have been released on Harmonia Mundi, Kronos Quartet and Perspectives Recordings labels with several releases planned for the 2017-18 season. Alexandra du Bois has lived in Manhattan since 2005 and is a member of BMI.
Official website: alexandradubois.com
imagenes de cuba
COMPOSER: ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK
World Premiere: May 22, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: May 22, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Based on folk songs and rhythms of Cuba
Underwriting: Richard Jimenez and Adan Medrano
Theme: Based on folk songs and rhythms of Cuba
Underwriting: Richard Jimenez and Adan Medrano
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Arthur Gottschalk attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition, a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition and English Literature, and his Doctorate in Music Composition, studying with William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. He is currently a professor at Rice University's Shepherd School of
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Music, where he served as Chair of the Department of Music Theory and Composition until 2009. He founded the university’s electronic and computer music laboratories, and was its Director until 2002.
“Rapturous, argumentative, and prickly” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), composer Arthur Gottschalk accepted an invitation as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016, and The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with its Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor for a non-graduate of Rice University. Among many other awards, his Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds won First Prize in the XXV Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Italy), and in 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for further work in Italy. Other awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2014 Gold Medal for his Sonata for Cello: In Memoriam and the 2015 Gold Medal, Best of Show, and Recording of the Year from the Global Music Awards for his Requiem: For The Living. Residencies include the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.Official website: arthurgottschalk.com
“Rapturous, argumentative, and prickly” (Gramophone Magazine), and “fascinatingly strange” (BBC Music Magazine), composer Arthur Gottschalk accepted an invitation as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016, and The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with its Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor for a non-graduate of Rice University. Among many other awards, his Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds won First Prize in the XXV Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Italy), and in 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for further work in Italy. Other awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2014 Gold Medal for his Sonata for Cello: In Memoriam and the 2015 Gold Medal, Best of Show, and Recording of the Year from the Global Music Awards for his Requiem: For The Living. Residencies include the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.Official website: arthurgottschalk.com
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Piano quintet "ALEPPO" & String quartet
COMPOSER: Malek Jandali
1-Piano Quintet No. 1 Aleppo
World Premiere: October 15, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
2-String Quartet in E-flat Major
World Premiere: February 5, 2017 | Carnegie Hall
1-Piano Quintet No. 1 Aleppo
World Premiere: October 15, 2016 | MATCH at Midtown
2-String Quartet in E-flat Major
World Premiere: February 5, 2017 | Carnegie Hall
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Instrumentation: Piano Quintet & String Quartet
Theme: Inspired by Syrian/Persian folk traditions
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
Theme: Inspired by Syrian/Persian folk traditions
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
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German born, Syrian-American composer and pianist, Malek Jandali, is recognized as a leading figure in today’s piano world. His outstanding recordings and extensive concert tours receive abundantly glowing praise. Hailed by BBC WorldNews as “an acclaimed pianist”, his music has been described as “moving and thought provoking” by Bob Stevenson of NPR and “inspiring” by the Huffington Post.
Mr. Jandali was the recipient of the 2011 “Freedom of Expression” award in Los Angeles and was recognized in New York City with the 2012 Arab-American Cultural Achievement Award. |
He was honored with the 2013 GUSI Peace Prize for his dedication to the peace and humanitarian causes featured in his 2013-2014 world tour “The Voice of the Free Syrian Children”.
Malek’s prolific compositions integrate Middle-Eastern modes into Western classical forms and harmony. They range from chamber music to large-scale orchestral works including concertos for violin and piano. His compositions have been performed by numerous leading orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Stockholm Solister, and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Malek currently resides in New York City and is a member of The Recording Academy and The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). His music is published by Soul b Music and can be found on iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon and at Virgin Megastores worldwide.
Official website: malekjandali.com
Malek’s prolific compositions integrate Middle-Eastern modes into Western classical forms and harmony. They range from chamber music to large-scale orchestral works including concertos for violin and piano. His compositions have been performed by numerous leading orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Stockholm Solister, and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Malek currently resides in New York City and is a member of The Recording Academy and The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). His music is published by Soul b Music and can be found on iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon and at Virgin Megastores worldwide.
Official website: malekjandali.com
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fOUR DREAMS
COMPOSER: CHRISTOPHER WALCZAK
World Premiere: January 7, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: January 7, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Based on Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
Underwriting: Adam Chandler
Theme: Based on Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
Underwriting: Adam Chandler
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CHRISTOPHER WALCZAK
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Christopher Walzack is Assistant Professor of Music Theory & Composition at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Composition from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a doctorate from Rice University. He has studied with composers Stephen Dembski, Joel Naumann, Laura Schwendinger, Shih-Hui Chen, Richard Lavenda, Pierre Jalbert, and Arthur Gottschalk. His music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by various orchestras and ensembles including the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the University of Wisconsin – Madison Symphony
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Orchestra, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Wind Ensemble, the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers, Flutes Quatre, Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble, Brightmusic, Ensemble Laboratorium, Relache, and members of Grammy Award winning eighth blackbird. In April of 2012 Christopher’s solo piano work ‘Dark Blue Etude’ received its Carnegie Hall debut by pianist Andrew Staupe in New York City and was later broadcast on National Public Radio’s Performance Today with Fred Child.
In recent years Christopher has been admitted as a fellow to numerous composition conferences and festivals including June in Buffalo, the Welleseley Composers Conference, MusicX, and the Czech-American Summer Music Institute. His orchestral tone poem ‘The Evening Shadow’ was the winner of the 2013 Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize in Composition. The composer has been nominated for a Charles Ives Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was the winner of the 2011 Robert Avalon Composition Competition, the recipient of the 2010 Presser Music Award, and the winner of the 2008 Chasm New Music Festival Composition Competition among other awards and honors.
Official website: christopherwalzack.com
In recent years Christopher has been admitted as a fellow to numerous composition conferences and festivals including June in Buffalo, the Welleseley Composers Conference, MusicX, and the Czech-American Summer Music Institute. His orchestral tone poem ‘The Evening Shadow’ was the winner of the 2013 Paul and Christiane Cooper Prize in Composition. The composer has been nominated for a Charles Ives Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was the winner of the 2011 Robert Avalon Composition Competition, the recipient of the 2010 Presser Music Award, and the winner of the 2008 Chasm New Music Festival Composition Competition among other awards and honors.
Official website: christopherwalzack.com
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ANDEAN SUITE
COMPOSER: JAVIER FARIAS
World Premiere: March 31, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: March 31, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet & Guitar
Theme: Explores Peruvian, Argentinean, Bolivian and Chilean folk dances
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
Theme: Explores Peruvian, Argentinean, Bolivian and Chilean folk dances
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
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JAVIER FARIAS
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Javier Farias, recent recipient of a New Music USA award, and a Fromm Music Foundation Commission from Harvard University, has a catalogue that includes more than sixty compositions, emphasizing his numerous works for solo guitar, as well as duos, quartets and ensembles for guitar. He has also written numerous works for orchestra, jazz ensemble, mixed choir, bandoneon, flamenco guitar, electric guitar, charango and other instruments.Some of these works have won first place in some of the world’s leading composition competitions including; the Andrés Segovia (Spain) in 2005 for his work “Retorna”, and the
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Michele Pittaluga (Italy) in 2004 for his “Sonata for Solo Guitar”, a piece that was made part of the obligatory repertoire for guitarists at the Conservatory of Paris, during years 2007-2008. In 2008 his work for symphonic orchestra “Canta la Tierra” won the first place at the XIV Concorso 2 de Agosto in Bologna, Italy. In December, 2003 the Modern Orchestra of Chile honored him with their “Best Composer of the Concert Season Award” for his work “Dezlía”, for flamenco group, jazz ensemble and string orchestra.
Farias’ music has been praised by the Classical Guitar Magazine as “wonderful writing in every respect for the guitar…highly recommended work” and “bracing and evocative piece that offers much food for thought, both musically and lyrically.”
He served as professor of composition at Modern School of Music and Dance Institute, in Chile, from 2002 to 2012. In August of 2012 he moved to Washington DC and began a Residence as a Composer at The Catholic University of America, in its Latin American Music Center.
Official website: javierfarias.cl
Farias’ music has been praised by the Classical Guitar Magazine as “wonderful writing in every respect for the guitar…highly recommended work” and “bracing and evocative piece that offers much food for thought, both musically and lyrically.”
He served as professor of composition at Modern School of Music and Dance Institute, in Chile, from 2002 to 2012. In August of 2012 he moved to Washington DC and began a Residence as a Composer at The Catholic University of America, in its Latin American Music Center.
Official website: javierfarias.cl
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WHAT IS THE WORD
COMPOSERS: CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS & MARK WINGATE
World Premiere: May 5, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: May 5, 2017 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet + Digital Playback
Theme: Based on poetry of Samuel Beckett. Used by arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the estate of Samuel Beckett. Maura Hooper, voice recording.
*All rights reserved
Underwriting: Donald and Rhonda Sweeney
Theme: Based on poetry of Samuel Beckett. Used by arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the estate of Samuel Beckett. Maura Hooper, voice recording.
*All rights reserved
Underwriting: Donald and Rhonda Sweeney
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christopher theofanidis and mark wingate
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Christopher Theofanidis (b. 12/18/67 in Dallas, Texas) has had performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, and California Symphonies, and many others. He also served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006-2007 Season, for which he wrote a violin concerto for Sarah Chang.
Mr. Theofanidis holds degrees from Yale, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Houston, and has been the recipient of the |
International Masterprize (hosted at the Barbican Centre in London), the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, six ASCAP Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood Fellowhship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Fellowship. In 2007 he was nominated for a Grammy for best composition for his chorus and orchestra work, The Here and Now, based on the poetry of Rumi. His orchestral concert work, Rainbow Body, has been one of the most performed new orchestral works of the last ten years, having been performed by over 100 orchestras internationally.Mr. Theofanidis’ has recently written a ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, a work for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as part of their ‘New Brandenburg’ series, and he currently has two opera commissions for the San Francisco and Houston Grand Opera companies. He has a long-standing relationship with the Atlanta Symphony, and has just had his first symphony premiered and recorded with that orchestra. He has served as a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s Leadership Program and is a former faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He currently teaches at Yale University.
Official website: theofanidismusic.com
Official website: theofanidismusic.com
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Mark Wingate is a composer on the faculty of the College of Music at Florida State University where he serves as Associate Professor of Composition and Director of Electroacoustic Music. Dr. Wingate came to FSU after co-founding and directing the Electronic Arts Studio at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. He holds a D.M.A. from the University of Texas, during which time he composed electronic music at EMS studios in Stockholm as a Fulbright Scholar to Sweden. A subsequent travel grant from the National
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Endowment for the Arts allowed him to write theater music in Caracas, Venezuela. Wingate has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship. His electroacoustic works have received international acclaim at new music festivals such as the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days (Copenhagen and London), the Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (Warsaw), le Festival Rien à Voir (Montreal), the Acousmatic Experience (Amsterdam), the Pierre Schaeffer Concert de Bruits (Perugia), and many others.
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cosmic knowledge & a mouthful of universe
COMPOSER: CHITRAVINA RAVIKIRAN
World Premiere: October 7, 2017 | Zilkha Hall
World Premiere: October 7, 2017 | Zilkha Hall
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Instrumentation: String Quartet, Chitravina, and double bass
Theme: Based on Indian ragas and Melharmony
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
Theme: Based on Indian ragas and Melharmony
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
CHITRAVINA RAVIKIRAN
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Since his grand entrance at age two, Chitravina N Ravikiran has enthralled record audiences (of 45,000-100,000 in some concerts) and won critical acclaim as one of the most inspiring ambassadors of Indian music and culture in the world. The substance and quality of his contributions as instrumentalist, composer, vocalist, guru, author and orator are held in the highest regard. Ravikiran is the inventor of the Award-Winning world music concept
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Melharmony‘. Apart from being a history making achiever with feats like setting to music 1330 verses of ancient Tirukkural in 16 hours, Ravikiran is also a socially involved Musician who has inspired substantial funds through his concerts for charities including Tsunami Relief, Hurricane Katrina, Chennai Floods as well as health, educational and cultural initiatives.
Official website: ravikiranmusic.com
Official website: ravikiranmusic.com
dreamtime suite no. 5 "voices from the steppes"
COMPOSER: Virko Baley
World Premiere: February 17, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: February 17, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: Piano Quintet
Theme: Inspired by folk music and folk tales from Ukraine and Crimea
Underwriting: Robert and Lee Ardell
Theme: Inspired by folk music and folk tales from Ukraine and Crimea
Underwriting: Robert and Lee Ardell
VIRKO BALEY
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Virko Baley is a Jacyk Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Music, Composer-in-Residence, and co-director of NEON, an annual composers’ conference, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received a 2007 Grammy® Award as recording co-producer for TNC Recordings and the prestigious Academy Award in Music 2008
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from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The citation reads:
“A highly cultured, polyglot intellectual, brilliant pianist and a dynamic and accomplished conductor, the Ukrainian-born Virko Baley composes music which is dramatically expansive of gesture, elegant and refined of detail and profoundly lyrical. It is music which ‘sings’ with passionate urgency whether it embraces (as in his more recent work) folkloric elements from his origins or finds expression in a more universal style of modernism typical of his earlier music. It is always a singular voice and a deeply felt and acutely heard music.”
Official website: virkobaley.com
“A highly cultured, polyglot intellectual, brilliant pianist and a dynamic and accomplished conductor, the Ukrainian-born Virko Baley composes music which is dramatically expansive of gesture, elegant and refined of detail and profoundly lyrical. It is music which ‘sings’ with passionate urgency whether it embraces (as in his more recent work) folkloric elements from his origins or finds expression in a more universal style of modernism typical of his earlier music. It is always a singular voice and a deeply felt and acutely heard music.”
Official website: virkobaley.com
MÂY [CLOUD]
COMPOSER: VU NHAT TAN & VANESSA VO
World Premiere: May 19, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: May 19, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: Dan Bầu and String Quartet
Theme: Vietnamese-inspired work featuring Emmy/Grammy winning
dan bau musician Vanessa Vo.
Underwriting: John and Lisa Jones
Theme: Vietnamese-inspired work featuring Emmy/Grammy winning
dan bau musician Vanessa Vo.
Underwriting: John and Lisa Jones
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VU NHAT TAN
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Born August 8, 1970 in Hanoi, Vietnam, Vu Nhat Tan began studying piano at Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi in 1980. He then studied composition and musicology with professor Tran Trong Hung from 1991-1995 and graduated with his BA. From 2000-2001 he studied computer music and new music at the music college in Cologne, Germany on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). In addition, he studied composition with Chinary Ung at the University of California at San Diego in 2002 as a guest student in the framework of the artists in residency program of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC).
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His music has been performed at the Roaring Hoofs Festival in Ulaanbaatar (2000), the Louisiana Festival of Contemporary Music in Baton Rouge (2002), the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth (2003), the Asian Music Festival in Tokyo (2004), the Arts Network Asia in Singapore and the Space of Traditional and Contemporary Music in China (2003)… Since 2002, Vu Nhat Tan has turned to stronger work in the electronics field and has himself performed with laptop, electronic equipment and sound instruments. He has given numerous live concerts in collaboration with other local and international artists in Vietnam. He is now teaching in the new department for electronic music at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi and is one of three founders of the experimental music VuNhatTanGroup (VNTG)
Composer Vu Nhat Than passed away in 2020.
Composer Vu Nhat Than passed away in 2020.
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NOSTALGIA DE LAS MONTAÑAS
COMPOSER: LEO BROUWER
World Premiere: September 29, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: September 29, 2018 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: Inspired by the mountains of Brazil; Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and rhythms
Underwriting: Lorenzo Martinez, Polly Johnson & Shelby Allen, and Roger & Candice Moore
Theme: Inspired by the mountains of Brazil; Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and rhythms
Underwriting: Lorenzo Martinez, Polly Johnson & Shelby Allen, and Roger & Candice Moore
LEO BROUWER
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Composer, guitarist and music director, Leo Brouwer was born in Havana, Cuba in 1939. He studied with Isaac Nicola, Pujol’s pupil and specializing in composition, completed his studies at the Julliard School of Music and at Hartt College of Music.
In 1987 Brouwer was selected, along with Isaac Stern and Alan Danielou, to be honourable member of UNESCO in recognition for his music career – an honour that he shares with Menuhin, Shankar, Karajan, Sutherland and other musical luminaries. |
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the unraveling
COMPOSER: PAMELA Z
World Premiere: March 16, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: March 16, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet, Voice, MacBook Pro
Theme: Inspired by American 1960’s/70’s folk rock
Underwriting: Joe and Venona Detrick
Theme: Inspired by American 1960’s/70’s folk rock
Underwriting: Joe and Venona Detrick
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PAMELA Z
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Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her
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to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Ethel, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Her interdisciplinary performance works have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as the Whitney (NY), the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Official website: pamelaz.com
Official website: pamelaz.com
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L'ESPRIT DU NORD
COMPOSER: PIERRE JALBERT
World Premiere: May 11, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
World Premiere: May 11, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet with optional field recordings
Theme: Inspired by French-Canadian folk music
Underwriting: Anonymous
Theme: Inspired by French-Canadian folk music
Underwriting: Anonymous
pierre jalbert
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Earning widespread notice for his richly colored and superbly crafted scores, Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) has developed a musical language that is engaging, expressive, and deeply personal. Among his many honors are the Rome Prize, the BBC Masterprize, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 2007 Stoeger Award, given biennially “in recognition of significant contributions to the chamber music repertory”, and a 2010 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Jalbert has drawn inspiration from a variety of sources, from plainchant melodies to natural phenomena. His music has been performed worldwide, with four Carnegie Hall performances of his orchestral music, including the Houston Symphony’s Carnegie Hall premiere of his orchestral work, big sky, in 2006. Other major works for orchestra include In Aeternam (2000), performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonia
Sacra (2001), written for the California Symphony; Les espaces infinis (2001), written for the Albany Symphony, Chamber Symphony(2004), commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Fire and Ice (2007), commissioned for the Oakland East Bay, Marin, and Santa Rosa Symphonies through Meet the Composer Foundation’s Magnum Opus Project, Autumn Rhapsody (2008), commissioned by the Vermont Symphony, and Shades of Memory (2011) premiered by the Houston Symphony. Recent orchestral performances include those by the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (2002-2005), California Symphony under Barry Jekowsky (1999-2002), and Music in the Loft in Chicago (2003). Select chamber music commissions and performances include those of the Emerson, Ying, Borromeo, Maia, Enso, Chiara, and Escher String Quartets.
Jalbert is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, and he serves on the Artistic Board of Musiqa, a Houston-based new music group. His music is published by Schott Music.
Official website: pierrejalbert.com
Sacra (2001), written for the California Symphony; Les espaces infinis (2001), written for the Albany Symphony, Chamber Symphony(2004), commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Fire and Ice (2007), commissioned for the Oakland East Bay, Marin, and Santa Rosa Symphonies through Meet the Composer Foundation’s Magnum Opus Project, Autumn Rhapsody (2008), commissioned by the Vermont Symphony, and Shades of Memory (2011) premiered by the Houston Symphony. Recent orchestral performances include those by the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (2002-2005), California Symphony under Barry Jekowsky (1999-2002), and Music in the Loft in Chicago (2003). Select chamber music commissions and performances include those of the Emerson, Ying, Borromeo, Maia, Enso, Chiara, and Escher String Quartets.
Jalbert is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, and he serves on the Artistic Board of Musiqa, a Houston-based new music group. His music is published by Schott Music.
Official website: pierrejalbert.com
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moonstrike
COMPOSER: Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate
NARRATOR: JOHN HERRINGTON
World Premiere: September 27, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
NARRATOR: JOHN HERRINGTON
World Premiere: September 27, 2019 | MATCH at Midtown
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Instrumentation: String Quartet and Narrator
Theme: Inspired by Native American moon legends and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
Theme: Inspired by Native American moon legends and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Underwriting: C. Howard Pieper Foundation
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JEROD IMPICHCHAACHAAHA' TATE
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Praised and honored for “his ability to effectively infuse classical music with American Indian nationalism” (Washington Post), Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, born in Norman, Oklahoma, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition.
In 2016, Tate was selected as one of five composer-orchestra pairs to participate in Music Alive, a national three-year residency program of the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA. As Composer-in-Residence with South Dakota Symphony Orchestra |
Tate will be participating in the third phase of SDSO’s Lakota Music Project.
His commissioned works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Colorado Ballet, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Philadelphia Classical Symphony and Santa Fe Desert Chorale. He is a three-time commission recipient from the American Composers Forum and he received a 2011 Emmy Award for his work on the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority documentary, The Science of Composing.
Tate earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from Northwestern University and his Master’s Degree in Piano Performance and Composition from The Cleveland Institute of Music, from whom he received the 2006 Alumni Achievement Award. In 2008, he was appointed Creativity Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma.
Works available are Iholba’ (The Vision), for Solo Flute, Orchestra and Chorus and Tracing Mississippi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, recorded by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, on the Grammy Award winning label Azica Records.
Tate’s recent commissions include his Muscogee Hymn Suite for Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, his Ponca Indian Cantata for Hildegard Center for the Arts and his Chickasaw oratorio, Misha’ Sipokni’ (The Old Ground), for Canterbury Voices and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Tate has held Composer-in-Residence roles for Oklahoma City’s NewView Summer Academy, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Joyce Foundation/American Composers Forum and Grand Canyon Music Festival Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Tate was the founding composition instructor for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy and taught composition to American Indian high school students in Minneapolis, MN and Native students in Toronto, Ontario.
Mr. Tate’s middle name, Impichchaachaaha’, means “his high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage of corn and other vegetables. In traditional Chickasaw culture, the corncrib was built high off of the ground on stilts to keep its contents safe from foraging animals.
Official website: jerodtate.com
His commissioned works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Colorado Ballet, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Philadelphia Classical Symphony and Santa Fe Desert Chorale. He is a three-time commission recipient from the American Composers Forum and he received a 2011 Emmy Award for his work on the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority documentary, The Science of Composing.
Tate earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance from Northwestern University and his Master’s Degree in Piano Performance and Composition from The Cleveland Institute of Music, from whom he received the 2006 Alumni Achievement Award. In 2008, he was appointed Creativity Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma.
Works available are Iholba’ (The Vision), for Solo Flute, Orchestra and Chorus and Tracing Mississippi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, recorded by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, on the Grammy Award winning label Azica Records.
Tate’s recent commissions include his Muscogee Hymn Suite for Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, his Ponca Indian Cantata for Hildegard Center for the Arts and his Chickasaw oratorio, Misha’ Sipokni’ (The Old Ground), for Canterbury Voices and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Tate has held Composer-in-Residence roles for Oklahoma City’s NewView Summer Academy, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Joyce Foundation/American Composers Forum and Grand Canyon Music Festival Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Tate was the founding composition instructor for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy and taught composition to American Indian high school students in Minneapolis, MN and Native students in Toronto, Ontario.
Mr. Tate’s middle name, Impichchaachaaha’, means “his high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage of corn and other vegetables. In traditional Chickasaw culture, the corncrib was built high off of the ground on stilts to keep its contents safe from foraging animals.
Official website: jerodtate.com
JOHN HERRINGTON
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Former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy officer John Bennett Herrington, of Chickasaw heritage, was born on September 14, 1958, in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Herrington graduated from Plano (Texas) Senior High School in 1976. In 1983 he received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado. Herrington completed a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1995.
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Before being accepted as an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, in 1996, Herrington was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1984 at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. The following year he was designated a naval aviator and reported to Moffett Field Naval Air Station in California. There he transitioned from student to patrol plane commander and instructor pilot. In 1990 Herrington attended the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in Maryland.
In 1996 NASA selected John Herrington as an astronaut. After two years of training and evaluation he received an assignment as a mission specialist. He traveled to the International Space Station in the space shuttle STS-113 Endeavor, launched on November 23, 2002, from Kennedy Space Center. The mission accomplished the delivery of a new crew to the space station, the delivery and installation of the P1 Truss, a transfer of cargo, and the return of the former space station crew. Herrington accomplished three space walks totaling nineteen hours and fifty-five minutes.
As an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, NASA considers Herrington as the first American Indian astronaut to accomplish space travel and a space walk. On his journey to the International Space Station he carried eagle feathers, arrowheads, wooden flutes, and flags of the Chickasaw and Crow nations. The Endeavor returned to Kennedy Space Center on December 7, 2002. In July 2004 Herrington served as the commander of NEEMO 6 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an underwater laboratory known as Aquarius, which is used to study human survival techniques in preparation for additional space exploration.
In 2005 Herrington left NASA and retired from the U.S. Navy. That year he was hired by Rocketplane Global, an Oklahoma City–based company. In December 2007 he decided to leave the company in order to do public speaking engagements and to work with the Chickasaw Nation. In 2008 Herrington made a cross-country bicycle trip. During his excursion he met Margo Aragon, whom he married in 2009 in Joseph, Oregon. They live in Lewiston, Idaho, where in 2013 he was working on a doctorate degree in education at the University of Idaho. He has received many accolades, including being inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 2007.
In 1996 NASA selected John Herrington as an astronaut. After two years of training and evaluation he received an assignment as a mission specialist. He traveled to the International Space Station in the space shuttle STS-113 Endeavor, launched on November 23, 2002, from Kennedy Space Center. The mission accomplished the delivery of a new crew to the space station, the delivery and installation of the P1 Truss, a transfer of cargo, and the return of the former space station crew. Herrington accomplished three space walks totaling nineteen hours and fifty-five minutes.
As an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, NASA considers Herrington as the first American Indian astronaut to accomplish space travel and a space walk. On his journey to the International Space Station he carried eagle feathers, arrowheads, wooden flutes, and flags of the Chickasaw and Crow nations. The Endeavor returned to Kennedy Space Center on December 7, 2002. In July 2004 Herrington served as the commander of NEEMO 6 (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), an underwater laboratory known as Aquarius, which is used to study human survival techniques in preparation for additional space exploration.
In 2005 Herrington left NASA and retired from the U.S. Navy. That year he was hired by Rocketplane Global, an Oklahoma City–based company. In December 2007 he decided to leave the company in order to do public speaking engagements and to work with the Chickasaw Nation. In 2008 Herrington made a cross-country bicycle trip. During his excursion he met Margo Aragon, whom he married in 2009 in Joseph, Oregon. They live in Lewiston, Idaho, where in 2013 he was working on a doctorate degree in education at the University of Idaho. He has received many accolades, including being inducted into the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 2007.
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WE WILL SING ONE SONG
COMPOSER: EVE BEGLARIAN
World Premiere: May 1, 2022 | Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
World Premiere: May 1, 2022 | Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
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Instrumentation: String Quartet with Duduk and Percussion
Theme: Inspired by Armenian folk music
Underwriting: Pamela Auburn
Theme: Inspired by Armenian folk music
Underwriting: Pamela Auburn
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eve beglarian
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According to the Los Angeles Times, composer and performer Eve Beglarian “is a humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,” she has also been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for her “innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation.”
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Beglarian’s current projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel about women in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present, a piece about the controversial Balthus painting Thérèse Dreaming for vocalist Lucy Dhegrae, and a duo for uilleann pipes and organ that was premiered by Renée Louprette and Ivan Goff at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times)
In 2009, “Ms. Beglarian kayaked and bicycled the length of the Mississippi River [and] has translated her findings into music of sophisticated rusticity… [Her] new Americana song cycle captures those swift currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works waft gracefully on her handsome folk croon and varied folk instrumentation as mysterious as their inspiration.” (New York Times)
Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,Sequitur, loadbang, the Guidonian Hand, Newspeak, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and individual performers including Maya Beiser, Sarah Cahill, Lauren Flanigan, Marya Martin, and Mary Rowell.
Official website: evbvd.com
In 2009, “Ms. Beglarian kayaked and bicycled the length of the Mississippi River [and] has translated her findings into music of sophisticated rusticity… [Her] new Americana song cycle captures those swift currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works waft gracefully on her handsome folk croon and varied folk instrumentation as mysterious as their inspiration.” (New York Times)
Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s,Sequitur, loadbang, the Guidonian Hand, Newspeak, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and individual performers including Maya Beiser, Sarah Cahill, Lauren Flanigan, Marya Martin, and Mary Rowell.
Official website: evbvd.com
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in the shadow of the mountain
COMPOSER: JENNIFER HIGDON
World Premiere: May 1, 2022 | Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
World Premiere: May 1, 2022 | Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
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Instrumentation: String Quartet
Theme: The new string quartet is thematically connected to Higdon’s Grammy-winning opera, Cold Mountain.
Underwriting: Thomas and Terri Kosten
Theme: The new string quartet is thematically connected to Higdon’s Grammy-winning opera, Cold Mountain.
Underwriting: Thomas and Terri Kosten
jennifer higdon
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Pulitzer Prize and two-time Grammy-winner Jennifer Higdon (b. Brooklyn, NY, December 31, 1962) taught herself to play flute at the age of 15 and began formal musical studies at 18, with an even later start in composition at the age of 21. Despite these obstacles, Jennifer has become a major figure in contemporary Classical music. Her works represent a wide range of genres, from orchestral to chamber, to wind ensemble, as well as vocal, choral and opera. |
Her music has been hailed by Fanfare Magazine as having “the distinction of being at once complex, sophisticated but readily accessible emotionally”, with the Times of London citing it as “…traditionally rooted, yet imbued with integrity and freshness.” The League of American Orchestras reports that she is one of America’s most frequently performed composers.
Higdon’s list of commissioners is extensive and includes The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well such groups as the Tokyo String Quartet, the Lark Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has also written works for such artists as baritone Thomas Hampson, pianists Yuja Wang and Gary Graffman, violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jennifer Koh and Hilary Hahn. Her first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2016; the first American opera to do so in the award’s history. Performances of Cold Mountain sold out its premiere run in Santa Fe, North Carolina, and Philadelphia (becoming the third highest selling opera in Opera Philadelphia’s history).
Upcoming commissions include a chamber opera for Opera Philadelphia, a string quartet for the Apollo Chamber Players, a double percussion concerto for the Houston Symphony, an orchestral suite for the Made In America project, and a flute concerto for the National Flute Associations’ 50th anniversary.
Read more on her official website: jenniferhigdon.com
Higdon’s list of commissioners is extensive and includes The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well such groups as the Tokyo String Quartet, the Lark Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has also written works for such artists as baritone Thomas Hampson, pianists Yuja Wang and Gary Graffman, violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jennifer Koh and Hilary Hahn. Her first opera, Cold Mountain, won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2016; the first American opera to do so in the award’s history. Performances of Cold Mountain sold out its premiere run in Santa Fe, North Carolina, and Philadelphia (becoming the third highest selling opera in Opera Philadelphia’s history).
Upcoming commissions include a chamber opera for Opera Philadelphia, a string quartet for the Apollo Chamber Players, a double percussion concerto for the Houston Symphony, an orchestral suite for the Made In America project, and a flute concerto for the National Flute Associations’ 50th anniversary.
Read more on her official website: jenniferhigdon.com
