PIANO ON PARK AT CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS: HERE THIS NOW!
May
7
7:30 PM19:30

PIANO ON PARK AT CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS: HERE THIS NOW!


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To make the concerts more accessible, admission is available on a Choose-What-You-Pay basis. There is a suggested ticket price of $25.00 and a minimum ticket price of $5.00 per person.


Piano on Park at Carnegie Hill Concerts Presents:

Hear This Now!

An evening featuring new chamber music written by Randal Despommier, Ben Rosenblum, Andrea Casarrubios, Marc Migó and Cyrus von Hochstetter.

Program:

Ben Rosenblum - A Stallion’s Dream for violin solo

Andrea Casarrubios - Maktub for string trio & Afilador for clarinet and string trio

Marc Migó - Extinct Bestiary No. 2 for clarinet and piano

Cyrus von Hochstetter - Piano Trio No. 1

Randal Despommier - Adrian’s Atlas for saxophone and string quartet

Featuring:

Louis Arques - clarinet

Randal Despommier - saxophone

Luke Henderson - violin

Ron Shitrit - violin

Daniel Simmons - viola

Ian Maloney - cello

Cyrus von Hochstetter - piano

Ben Rosenblum

Pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum has traversed a truly unique musical path, one that has seen him perform alongside world-class musicians across more than twenty music genres and twenty-five countries, lead bands at prestigious venues across the world, all while maintaining a signature, melodic musical voice. Rosenblum’s journey has taken him on tours with Grammy-winning pop artist Rickie Lee Jones and Juno-winning contemporary Indian singer Kiran Ahluwalia. He’s played Brazilian choro with Ephrat Asherie Dance and Brazilian forró with The Late Night Show’s Nêgah Santos and famed forró band Forró in the Dark. His roots in jazz have led to an over ten-year relationship with Grammy-winning bassist Curtis Lundy, performing at festivals alongside jazz luminaries Bobby Watson, Sean Jones and Warren Wolf. He has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on accordion, and as a guest soloist on piano at Carnegie Hall’s Stern-Perelman Auditorium with Maestro Reona Ito’s New York Harmonic Band. Throughout it all, Rosenblum has always maintained the same priority - to tell a compelling story with his music, reaching the hearts of his audience and connecting on an emotional, intellectual and spiritual level.

Andrea Casarrubios

Praised by The New York Times for having "traversed the palette of emotions" with "gorgeous tone and an edge-of-seat intensity," GRAMMY® nominated Spanish-born cellist and composer Andrea Casarrubios has played as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. First Prize winner of numerous international competitions and awards, Casarrubios has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, Madrid National Auditorium, and the Ravinia and Verbier Festivals. Her latest engagements include commissions and concerts in Mexico, Spain, Romania, Belgium, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Casarrubios' compositions have been programmed by organizations such as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Sphinx Organization, NPR, and the Argentinian, Brazilian, Australian, and Spanish National Radios. Her acclaimed piece SEVEN "an intense and elegiac tribute to the essential workers during the pandemic" (The New York Times) was commissioned by Thomas Mesa, receiving its Carnegie Hall premiere in 2021. SEVEN has been performed around the world since, and it is featured in Casarrubios' latest album SEVEN Works by Andrea Casarrubios, nominated for the 2025 GRAMMY® Awards. Other recent compositions include the orchestra version of Afilador (2022-23) commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Herencia for String Orchestra (2023), a "stirring creation" (The Strad) and “a bond of humanity through music” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) commissioned for Sphinx Virtuosi's 2023-24 tour and premiered at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium in 2023.

Marc Migó

Born in 1993 in Barcelona, Marc Migó studied piano privately with Liliana Sainz and music theory with Xavier Boliart, leading to his acceptance in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya where he continued his studies with Salvador Brotons. In 2017, Marc was accepted into The Juilliard School as a CV Starr Fellow to pursue his master’s in music. While at Juilliard, he was awarded the 2018 Orchestral Composition Prize, and would win the prize again in 2021. Following his enrollment in Juilliard’s inaugural Opera Lab program (2020), Marc received a commission from UrbanArias in Washington DC to compose an original opera with librettist John de los Santos as part of the Decameron Opera Coalition. The resulting work, The Roost, premiered later that year and was inducted into The Library of Congress’ Performing Arts COVID-19 Response Collection. After receiving his master’s degree, Marc continued his compositional studies with John Corigliano in pursuit of his doctorate, which was awarded in 2024. Marc’s other commissions include The Fox Sisters (2022, libretto by Lila Palmer) for The Liceu, Concerto Grosso "The Seance” (2022) for Verità Baroque, L’Illa Deserta (2023) for the Foundation for Iberian Music at CUNY, Faust [working title] (2021) for Dutch National Opera, and his first symphony (2024) for Metamorphosen Berlin. In addition, he has received the Pablo Casals Award (2019), the George Enescu Prize (2020), Organ Taurida Competition’s First Prize (2021), the inaugural Dominic Argento Fellowship for Opera Composition (2021), and the Leo Kaplan Award (2023.) Marc’s music has premiered and been performed in prestigious venues around the world, including Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), Alice Tully Hall and National Sawdust (New York City), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), L’Institut de France (Paris), and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow). Moreover, he has worked with prestigious soloists, conductors, ensembles and orchestras, such as Osmo Vänskä, Salvador Brotons, Verità Baroque, Marisa Gupta, Mark Prihodko, Max Tan, Oliver Triendl, the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Barcelona Symphonic Band, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metamorphosen Berlin, and the New Juilliard Ensemble, among others.

Cyrus von Hochstetter

With his training in both classical and jazz piano, Cyrus von Hochstetter straddles the musical worlds as a pianist, composer, educator, lecturer and presenter. As a pianist, he has performed internationally and with various ensembles such as the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, toured the US and produced records with diverse musicians including Larry Campbell, Ryan Keberle, Stéphane Wrembel and David Taylor. He has composed music for the stage and for commercials and has brought his 7-piece ensemble the ‘Hat Music’, to Joe’s Pub in New York navigating a musical spectrum encompassing arrangements of music by Arnold Schönberg, Duke Ellington, and Cyrus von Hochstetter’s own compositions. With a passion for storytelling, he frequently speaks about the language of music and introduces audiences into the deeper fabric of classical music through his YouTube video series ‘My Music Notes’. He was invited to present at the University of Oregon and for the Oregon Music Teachers Association. Cyrus von Hochstetter is the founder of ‘Piano on Park’ a non-profit creating new opportunities for musicians to connect with diverse audiences and apply for grants. Concerts included performances by David Krakauer, JP Jofre, Rob Schwimmer, Stéphane Wrembel, Daniel Schnyder, David Taylor, Mark Peskanov. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the series streamed concerts by musicians recorded in their own living room, offering one of few opportunities for musicians to perform and connect with audiences during that time. As the director of the Two Bridges Music program in 2017 and 2018, Cyrus von Hochstetter launched a free concert series for New York’s Lower East Side community and also designed an innovative composition curriculum teaching children as young as seven years old how to write music from scratch. Within two years of enrollment in the program, these students were writing pieces for string orchestra. The ensuing collaborations with InterSchool Orchestras of New York, Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of NY and Third Street Music school orchestras led to public performances of the young composer’s pieces including a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His composition curriculum at Two Bridges Music received funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and he was invited to speak about the programs’ success at a convention of the New York State Council of the Arts. A Manhattan School of Music graduate under jazz pianists Garry Dial and Jason Moran, he expanded his education in classical piano with Zitta Zohar and complemented his training with studies of counterpoint and composition.

Randal Despommier

A multi-genre musician from New Orleans who “blends the suavity of Paul Desmond with the intensity of Dave Binney” (Musically Speaking), alto saxophonist Randal Despommier has captivated audiences at venues including Carnegie Hall (Weill), Bar Bayeux, Qintai Concert Hall in China, Lilla Jazzfestivalen, Soapbox Gallery, Dram, and Smalls with the Jason Yeager Quintet.Despommier released his debut album Dio C’è on Outside in Music in 2021 to critical acclaim. “Impressive in his debut as leader” (OffBeat), the record features his original quartet and showcases Grammy-winning bassist Jimmy Haslip as both guest artist and co-producer. His follow-up, A Midsummer Odyssey (Sunnyside Records)—a tribute to Swedish baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin—deepens his exploration of narrative and atmosphere. Featuring celebrated avant-garde guitarist Ben Monder, the album earned Despommier a nomination for “Best Contemporary Jazz Artist” from OffBeatand received praise in DownBeat. Despommier’s latest album, South, released on Sunnyside Records, is both a musical homecoming and a tribute to his New Orleans roots. Featuring Crescent City legends Johnny Vidacovich, David Torkanowsky, James Singleton, and his father Phil Despommier as guest artist, South blends reverence and originality in equal measure. As Dan Bilawsky writes, “New Orleans is inextricably linked to Randal Despommier's sound and sense of self, and he pays due respect with this highly agreeable appreciation… A sincerely felt musical homecoming, South is remarkably satisfying from every angle.”Whether through his genre-defying compositions, lyrical saxophone tone, or collaborations with artists across jazz, classical, and global traditions, Randal Despommier continues to carve a unique path—bridging worlds and honoring his New Orleans roots in search of new sonic possibilities.

Louis Arques

Louis Arques is a clarinet virtuoso, saxophonist, singer and conductor. One of the City’s most in-demand artist, he plays Classical and Contemporary music, as well as Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Jazz music and Early music on period instruments. As a soloist, Louis performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Empire State Symphony, the Debussy Clarinet Rhapsody with Camerata New York and the Zych Bass Clarinet concerto with Paris Ostinato Orchestra. Passionate about orchestra, he is principal clarinet of the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, also occasionally joining the young talents of the Miami New World Symphony. Sought after chamber music partner, he multiplies collaborations with ensembles including the internationally acclaimed Quintet of the Americas and the City’s finest players of the Metropolis Ensemble. Louis regularly performs recitals in the US with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev (ABT) and in France with pianist Nima Sarkechik with whom he recorded a Brahms Sonatas album. He recently joined the Bridget Kibbey’s Bach to Brazil Trio and finds the most thrill touring the U.S. concert series and university residencies with them. Advocating for contemporary music he constantly creates works by composers from the United-States and Europe. His love for the Afro-American rhythms led him to co-found Diálogos Duo with guitarist-composer Richard Boukas. Together they independently released two albums and became the Brazilian music duo with the largest body of original works for clarinet and guitar. Louis is a regular partner of the salsa band Sonido Costeño. To reconcile Classical and Contemporary music with his generation’s audience, he founded and conducted the orchestra NewOrch, and is now co-directing Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra. A Vandoren artist and MA from the New School (Professors Neidich and Krakauer), he taught in France for ten years (including Paris Conservatoire) and recently joined the faculty of the Diller-Quaile School of Music.

Luke Henderson

2020 Gold Medal Winner in the Fischoff and the Coltman National Chamber Music Competitions, Luke Henderson is 20 years old, from Raleigh, North Carolina, and currently studies with Li Lin at The Juilliard School. In 2021 Luke won The American Prize in Instrumental Performance and the Grand Prize at the World Classical Music Awards. Throughout high school, Luke was a member of the Chamber Music Intensive Performance Seminar at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School led by Merry Peckham and of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander. He has performed internationally in Berlin, Salzburg, Budapest, Pecs, Vienna, Amsterdam, and Jihlava. Luke was awarded the New England Conservatory Eugene Lehrer Chamber Music Award and is featured on National Public Radio’s From The Top (Show 392). Luke's musical interests extend beyond European classical repertoire – namely Bluegrass, Jazz, R&B, and South Indian Classical. Luke was featured in the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra during their residency at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, performing the music of Duke Ellington. Luke is dedicated to the study and performance of contemporary classical music. In 2023, he was featured in celebration performances for contemporary composers John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, and Reena Esmail. When not playing violin, Luke enjoys hiking and listening to John Coltrane.

Roni Shitrit

Roni Shitrit was born in 1999 in Israel. She began her violin studies with Mr. Oscar Shraiberman at the Ramla conservatory when she was 5 years old. She is currently pursuing her undergraduate studies at UNCSA with Professors Ida Bieler and Janet Orenstein. Roni is the first prize winner in the 2021 MTNA Young Artist National Competition, 1st prize winner of the IMKA music competition and one of the prizewinners of a national competition in Israel (2017). In addition, Roni received scholaships with exceptional distinction on her performances from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation. Roni was a member of the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra of the Jerusalem Music Center. She participated in the David Goldman Chamber Music Program for Outstanding Young Musicians, the Huberman Program, Keshet Eilon, and the Ilona Feher Violin Program. Roni participated in masterclasses with many world-renowned violinists, including Benjamin Schmidt, Miriam Fried, Grigory Kalinovsky, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Michaela Martin, Michael Kopelman, Hagai Shaham, and Daniel Heifetz.

Daniel Simmons

Violist Daniel Simmons enjoys connecting with diverse audiences through his expressive and dynamic performances. Daniel has showcased his talent at prestigious music festivals including the New York String Orchestra, Toronto Summer Music, the Heifetz International Music Institute, Lake George Music Festival, Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra of the USA, Curtis Institute Summerfest, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Sphinx Performance Academy. In 2023, Daniel attended the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France, where he won Third Prize in the Prix Ravel. That same year, he was a finalist in the 63rd Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition. In 2024, he won the Colorado College Summer Music Festival Concerto Audition, performing the Walton Viola Concerto with the festival orchestra. Daniel has performed in many esteemed venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Dimenna Center, the Kimmel Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, the Harvard Club of New York City, and the Château de Fontainebleau. As a chamber musician, Daniel has collaborated with renowned artists including Scott Yoo, Samuel Rhodes, Hsin-Yun Huang, Philip Chiu, and Angela Cheng, as well as members of the Pacifica, New Orford, and Ying Quartets. Daniel held the chair of principal violist of the Columbia University Orchestra, and frequently performs as principal violist with the Brooklyn Orchestra. Daniel studied economics at Columbia University. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Paul Neubauer and Steven Tenenbom.

Ian Maloney

Ian Maloney is a cellist, composer, and chamber musician studying with Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School where he is currently pursuing a Master of Music. Ian has appeared on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase, NPR’s From the Top, and in music videos with Brooklyn’s Project Trio and violinist Joshua Bell. He has performed in master classes for Carter Brey, Philippe Muller, Clive Greensmith, Paul Katz, David Finckel, Bonnie Hampton and Colin Carr. He has earned first prize in numerous music competitions and has appeared as a featured orchestral soloist. In January, Ian performed at GlobalFEST 2023 with the New York Arabic Orchestra at David Geffen Hall. Ian has also attended the Young Artist Chamber Music Programs at Music@Menlo, Kneisel Hall, and Yellow Barn, and was a featured young artist at the 2023 Music from Angel Fire festival.


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MATA PRESENTS AT CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS: AZALEA TWINING | ANNA HEFLIN
May
20
7:30 PM19:30

MATA PRESENTS AT CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS: AZALEA TWINING | ANNA HEFLIN



MATA Presents at Carnegie Hill Concerts:

Azalea Twining | Anna Heflin

Program:

AZALEA TWINING Enough Rope (2023-2025) World Premiere

Azalea Twining, Soprano
Sebastian Grinberg-Bly, Piano
A new song-cycle


ANNA HEFLIN: The Wonderland Series (2019)

Shannon Reilly, Violin/Vocals
a one-act opera for singing/acting violinist
by Anna Heflin
for Shannon Reilly

Featuring:

Anna Heflin - composer, librettist, director, videographer
Shannon Reilly - acting violinist in the roles of Scholar, Charles Dodgson, Alice, Queen(s), Flowers
Katie Weissman - animal handler, bird trainer, rabbit keeper
Evan Courtin - electronic track support
Molly the cat - Dinah

Enough Rope (2023-2025) is a song cycle of miniatures set to poems from Dorothy Parker’s collection of the same name. I first came across Parker’s poetry the Summer after graduating High School and instantly fell in love with her writing. Concise and cutting, yet sensitive–her  work articulated my own experiences and feelings, so I began composing while reading. I chose six poems: “Prophetic Soul,” “The Thin Edge,” “Anecdote,” “The Small Hours,” “Portrait of the Artist,” and “August” to string together into a song cycle which describes the protagonist's loss of a relationship and identity, followed by her struggle to reclaim and grow into herself through the restorative properties of her artistic process.

Anna Heflin’s The Wonderland Series (2019) is “fascinating and impossibly concise…a dense, 33-minute fever dream in which music is fully integrated in a one-woman play that investigates numerous facets of author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s life and his work under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.” (Roc City News) In this opera for singing/acting violinist Shannon Reilly, Reilly is joined onstage by accompanying pre-recorded audio and video, all of which features her portraying the various characters. There are three layers to the piece: the music which is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s writings, scholarly research about the work and Carroll, and the character of Lewis Carroll himself (i.e. Charles Dodgson) which uses quotes from the author. After falling into Wonderland, the listener will encounter Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson, The Scholar, Alice, The Queen, the Garden of Live Flowers, the Playing Cards, Dinah the Cat and others over the course of their journey. Themes in the work include Dodgson’s campaign against voter manipulation, his obsession with 42 and its relevance to Christianity and the Jabberwocky, the Carroll/Dodgson split identity, how Darwin’s work influenced Alice in Wonderland and more.

Azalea Twining (19) is a soprano and composer. As a 2020-2021 fellow of the Luna Composition Lab at Kaufman Music Center, Azalea studied composition with Ellen Reid and composed Under Her Voices for piano trio, which was the winner of the 2021 G. Schirmer for Luna Lab Prize. She has continued to study composition and create pieces with a focus on singing her own work.

Azalea’s most recent and current projects include “Echo” for solo flute, commissioned by Intersection, The Red House for saxophone quartet, commissioned by Second Stage and Composers Now, and Evelyn: Four Bodies One Life, a dance opera created and performed by her family.

Azalea studied voice with Eileen Clark from 2014-2023 and is an alumni of the WNO Opera Institute, Eastman Summer Classical Studies programs, and NYU MPAP Summer Classical Voice Intensive. She is currently a music major at Columbia University, where she studies voice with Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper and is a member of the early-music choral ensemble, Collegium Musicum.

She is also honored to work outside of university—premiering works by composers Elizabeth Hoffman and Cecilia Olszewski. In the past year, she has had the pleasure of performing at The Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, SEAMUS Festival, and MATA Festival.

Azalea hopes to foster a career as a composer/performer.

Anna Heflin is a composer and writer who constructs high-octane, humorous, and sensual worlds with non-linear narratives that thrive on musical and psychological fragmentation. Whether writing a symphony or a staged literature-inspired solo opera for an instrumentalist, she is drawn to the unexpected and channels her highly imaginative virtuosic visions into complex characters and unorthodox narrative arcs that often integrate text and staging. Her long-term collaborations with individual artists and organizations developed over years of working as a freelance violist are central to her process and her core values include trust, risk-taking, experimentation, play, open communication, and creative problem-solving.

Her compositions do not fit neatly into a box and neither does she – she is invigorated by approaching music from every angle and can be found writing program notes for the LA Phil, giving academic lectures, hosting radio shows, leading roundtable discussions, and running her journal Which Sinfonia. Recent highlights include the sold-out run of Heflin’s The INcomplete Cosmicomics (2025) — her hour-long Calvino-riff opera full of “sly humor and eternal cosmic peace” (Classical Voice North America) for vocalizing cellist Aaron Wolff and looper at The Tank in NYC as produced by Experiments in Opera. 

Heflin is currently based in Los Angeles pursuing her Doctorate in Music Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music.

annaheflin.com

Violinist Shannon Reilly thrives in the passionate pursuit of excellence in decoding and performing experimental contemporary music. A dedicated collaborator, she often premiers her colleagues’ compositions and works with emerging and student composers.

She regularly plays with ensembles, including Slee Sinfonietta and Liminal Space Ensemble, and has appeared with the Buffalo Chamber Players, Ensemble Signal, Buffalo’s Friends of Vienna series, and the Alla Balena Ensemble. She’s recorded new works by Anna Heflin, Connor D’Netto, and Duo Purla, in addition to her own active recital schedule and an upcoming premiere recording of works by Ákos Rózmann.

This is Reilly’s seventh year as Concertmaster and performance faculty for the June in Buffalo Festival at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where she also held the violin professorship for four years, and she routinely performs with the Buffalo and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Reilly holds both a Bachelor’s and a Masters degree in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied violin with Reneé Jolles and Charles Castleman, and with Brad Lubman in the Musica Nova ensemble.

Reilly is an avid reader, currently making her way through the works of Terry Pratchett, and lives in Buffalo, NY, with her three dogs.

shannonreillyviolin.com


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CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS GLADSTONE DELUXE
Apr
30
7:30 PM19:30

CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS GLADSTONE DELUXE

Inspired from navigating the beginning stages of my dreadlock journey, this collection of music is born from feelings of spiritual nascence. As something that’s been a part of humanity since our inception, the locking process unfolds on a primordial timescale, and has everything to teach about the true natures of form, growth and conflict. “Budding Permutations” is a reflection on shifts in energy I’ve experienced thus far and a projection of dreams for future chapters.

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CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS: Iceberg New Music, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, and ShoutHouse
May
25
12:00 PM12:00

CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS: Iceberg New Music, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, and ShoutHouse

Award-winning singer/songwriter Ayanna Witter-Johnson joins performers from NYC-based ensemble ShoutHouse and composers from ICEBERG New Music for a thrilling program of world premieres. Witter-Johnson, a MOBO-winning artist whose debut album debuted in 2019, has been described by Jazzwise as,"A huge talent. Like a young Cassandra Wilson would have sounded if she also happened to be a fine cellist." This concert features new arrangements of songs from Ayanna's recent Roadrunner LP, presented alongside original concert compositions by ICEBERG composers.

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Nov
26
7:30 PM19:30

CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS CHAMBER MUSIC BY ERIC LYON (Copy)

Free Admission (suggested donation: $20 | $10 students & seniors)


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Carnegie Hill Concerts presents Chamber Music by Eric Lyon performed by the Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players at Church of the Advent Hope.

Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players:

Stephen Gosling, Piano

Conrad Harris, Violin

Pauline Kim Harris, Violin

Dana Kelley, Viola

Meaghan Burke, Cello

Program:

The Book of Strange Positions for Two Violins (2013)

Symphony No. 2 for Violin and Piano (1986)

String Trio No. 1 for Violin, Viola and Cello (2013)

String Quartet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola and cello + Tape (1991)


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Eric Lyon, Composer

Eric Lyon is a composer and computer music researcher. His work focuses on articulated noise, spatial orchestration and computer chamber music. In the 1980s, Lyon developed a wide range of new signal processing strategies for modifying both synthetic and acoustic sounds. This period resulted in many works for fixed media computer-generated sound, and for computer-generated sound with live acoustic instruments. In the 1990s, Lyon developed algorithmic approaches to sound design that resulted in increasingly complex and unpredictable timbres. In parallel, he began working with live processing of acoustic sounds, first with the Kyma system, and next with Max/MSP, ultimately writing a large collection of his own externals. In first decade of the 21st century, Lyon continued developing interactive computer chamber music, with precise DSP strategies integrated into instrumental counterpoint. He also began developing strategies for multichannel music. In the second decade of the 21st century, Lyon has focused on music for massively multichannel systems, also known as high-density loudspeaker arrays. He has increasingly automated the live DSP processing in his works for acoustic instruments and electronics, drawing on the sequencing capabilities of Ableton Live in tandem with its internal DSP plug-in design platform Max for Live.

Lyon’s publicly available software includes FFTease and LyonPotpourri, collections of audio objects written for Max/MSP and Pd. He is the author of “Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd”, which explicates the process of designing and implementing audio DSP externals. In 2016, Lyon was guest editor of the Computer Music Journal, editing two issues (CMJ 40:4 and 41:1) dedicated to the subject of high-density loudspeaker arrays (HDLAs). Lyon also curated the 2016 Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology, which was the first binaural anthology published by the CMJ.In 2011, Lyon was awarded a Giga-Hertz prize from ZKM, resulting in the creation of the 43-channel computer music composition Spirits. His 124-channel composition “The Cascades” was premiered in the Cube at the Virginia Tech Center for the Arts, and performed on the BEAST system at BEAST FEaST 2015 in Birmingham, and at the SARC Sonic Lab in Belfast at Sonorities/Speculations 2016. His multichannel composition "Spaced Images with Noise and Line" was selected for performance at MUSLAB 2015, and his computer music composition "Light Rain, Laganside" was selected for performance at the International Society for Contemporary Music’s 2016 World Music Days festival. Lyon was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition. His music is available commercially on Everglade, Capstone Records, EMF, Isospin Labs Records, Sound’s Bounty, Centaur Records, Smart Noise Records, Ash International, Bohn Media, Northern Spy Recordings, Innova, and Ravello.Lyon has composed for such artists as Sarah Plum, Margaret Lancaster, The Noise Quartet, Ensemble mise-en, String Noise, The Crash Ensemble, Esther Lamneck, Kathleen Supové, Marianne Gythfeldt, Seth Parker Woods, and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. He has taught computer music at Keio University, IAMAS, Dartmouth College, Manchester University, and Queen’s University Belfast. Currently, Lyon teaches in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech, and is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.


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Meaghan Burke, Cello

Hailed as “outstanding,” with a “street-smart, feline voice” (The New York Times), Meaghan Burke is a cellist, vocalist, and composer working in the space between contemporary music, improvised music, and songwriting. She is a founding member of the contemporary feminist string quartet The Rhythm Method, avant-grunge band Forever House, bi-hemispherical performance trio Dead Language, and Viennese songwriter collective Loose Lips Sink Ships. Meaghan recently released her second album of her original songs, "Creature Comforts," as well as Forever House's debut album "Eaves" and Loose Lips Sink Ships' self-titled debut.


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Stephen Gosling, Piano

Stephen Gosling earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Juilliard, where he was awarded the Mennin Prize and Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He is a member of New York New Music Ensemble and Talea Ensemble, as well as a pianist at New York City Ballet. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic (most notably as soloist in Messiaen’s Sept Haikaï), Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, American Composers Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among many others.


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Conrad Harris, Violin

Violinist Conrad Harris has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and New York's Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra and Ensemble LPR.

He has performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. His recordings of the Lejaren Hiller Violin Sonatas with pianist, Joseph Kubera will be released in 2018 on New World Records. He has also recorded for Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, and Vinyl Retentive Records.


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Pauline Kim Harris, Violin

Pauline Kim Harris, aka PK or Pauline Kim is a GrammyTM-nominated violinist and composer. The youngest student to have ever been accepted into the studio of legendary violinist ‪Jascha Heifetz,‬ she has since appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director‪. ‬Currently known for her work with classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise with her husband, Conrad Harris of the FLUX Quartet, she has toured extensively with ‪Orpheus Chamber Orchestra‬, has been a long standing member of the SEM Ensemble and OstravskaBanda in the Czech Republic and has been a guest artist with leading new music ensembles such as Talea, ICE, ‪Alarm Will Sound‬, Argento, TRANSIT,  Object Collection, Glass Farm Ensemble, Ensemble LPR, Wordless Music and Ensemble Signal in New York City.

Committed to the idea that music is one continuous lineage of expression and demonstration of time, Pauline has been dismantling the norm of expectation of a typical classical violinist by performing in concerts presented in museums, churches, nightclubs, out of doors, rooftops, pop-ups to major stages with an openness to genre. As a composer, Pauline searches for a tactile connection between memory and sound. Her music creates a multi-dimensional sonic matrix through composition, transporting the listener to an alternate co-existence. She introduces an environment that alters the listener’s emotional identity to what they are experiencing.

Active in the experimental music scene, her work extends into interdisciplinary worlds, crossing boundaries and connecting visual art, electronics, media, film and dance to music. She has premiered and recorded works by Alvin Lucier, ‪John Zorn‬, ‪Philip Glass‬, ‪Steve Reich‬, George Lewis, David Lang, Du Yun, Annie Gosfield and more.

Crossing over into the rock and pop worlds, she has played and recorded as collaborator and leader for ‪Jeff Beck‬, ‪Lenny Kravitz‬, ‪David Byrne‬ (Talking Heads), Jonny Greenwood (‪Radiohead‬), Greg Saunier (‪Deerhoof‬), ‪Tyondai Braxton‬, ‪Max Richter‬, ‪Gordon Gano‬ (‪Violent Femmes‬), ‪Jon Brion‬, Savion Glover, ‪Gabriel Kahane‬, Mica Levi (‪Micachu‬ and the Shapes), ‪Jay Z/Beyoncé‬, Adele, ‪Peter Gabriel‬, Somi, ‪Jane Siberry‬, Macy Grey, ‪Laurie Anderson‬, ‪Björk‬, ‪Roscoe Mitchell‬, ‪Max Richter‬, ‪Rostam Batmanglij‬ (‪Vampire Weekend‬), Michael Leonhart, ‪Placido Domingo‬, ‪Joni Mitchell‬, ‪John Cale‬ (‪Velvet Underground‬), Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), ‪Jason Moran‬, ‪Dan Romer‬, ‪William Basinski‬, Jherek Bischoff, ‪Stars of the Lid‬, ‪Goldfrapp‬, ‪Chilly Gonzales, Louis Michot (Lost Bayou Ramblers), Kishi Bashi, Nico Muhly & Doveman, Nu Deco Ensemble and‬ with ‪Jónsi‬ Birgisson (‪Sigur Ros‬) in the fall of 2019.

Pauline was the first Music Director for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and has been the featured artist for choreographers David Parker, Kora Radella and Pam Tanowitz. She has performed at MASS MoCA, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, iMOCA, ‪Baryshnikov Arts Center‬, Guggenheim, ‪The Drawing Center‬, Paula Cooper Gallery, Barnes Foundation, Brooklyn Museum and ‪Noguchi Museum‬ to name some. She has appeared at ‪Lincoln Center‬ Out of Doors, Ghent Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, ‪Lincoln Center‬ Festival, White Light Festival, Big Ears Festival, Liquid Music, Jacob's Pillow, Barbican, Miller Theater, Baryshnikov Center, DiMenna Classical Center, Symphony Space, Joyce Theater, Roulette, Issue Project Room, BAM, ‪Sydney Opera House‬, Library of Congress, FringeArts, ‪Lincoln Center‬, and Carnegie Hall.

Pauline moved to NYC at the age of 15 to study with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School and is currently a sought after mentor to dance and drama students through the Juilliard Mentoring Program.

Pauline’s solo debut album HEROINE is out now worldwide: www.sonoluminus.com


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Dana Kelley, Viola

Violist Dana Kelley has been a top prizewinner in the Sphinx Music Competition and the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. She is a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and recently completed an Artist Diploma in String Quartet Studies from the Juilliard School as a member of the Argus Quartet. The Argus Quartet was named the First Prize Winners of both of the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and were recipients of the 2018 Classical Recording Foundation Award and the 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Award. Dana was a 2014-2016 Fellow in Ensemble Connect - a performance and teaching program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She received her Bachelor’s of Music from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, studying violin with Cornelia Heard and viola with Kathryn Plummer, and completed her Master’s of Music degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. Dana has collaborated with artists such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Nobuko Imai, and Miriam Fried, and participated in Ravinia’s Steans Musicians on Tour. She frequently performs with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, A Far Cry, and The Knights chamber orchestras. She has attended festivals such as Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Lucerne Academy, the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Schiermonnikoog International Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.

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Jun
25
8:00 PM20:00

CARNEGIE HILL CONCERTS PRESENTS CHAMBER MUSIC BY RAMIN HEYDARBEYGI

Free Admission (suggested donation: $20 | $10 students & seniors)


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Carnegie Hill Concerts presents Chamber Music by Ramin Heydarbeygi performed by the Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players at Church of the Advent Hope.

Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players:

Christina Kay, Soprano

Conrad Harris, Violin

Pauline Kim Harris, Violin

Dana Kelley, Viola

Michael Haas, Cello

Stephen Gosling, Piano

Program:

String Quartet No. 2

WP 2017

Gefangene, Musik hörend

(after Käthe Kollwitz)

for two violins

WP 2019

Setayesh az Anahid

for string trio

2008

(revised version)

Avaz hay Nima

for voice and viola

2011/2019

Astvihad

for soprano and piano

2012

Rok-ku no haiku

2004/2019

for violin and piano

Program Notes:

The title of my song cycle, Astvihad (2012), in Old Persian, refers to the demon of death. I have used a number of poems that relate directly or indirectly to this subject. The collection of poems used for this song cycle are from the 9th century to present by Hafez, Sanai, Rudaki, Khoi, and Khaiyam. Astvihad was commissioned by Dr. Faustus for the “New Art Songs Project 2012,” and premiered on 8 May 2012 at WMP Concert Hall, New York, by Mary Hubbell, soprano, and Mirna Lekic, piano.

For many years I have been fascinated by the poetry of Nima, the father of modern Persian poetry. For me, his poems are musical, with distinct characters; however, once translated to other languages, these distinctions are lost. In many of his poems, including the three I have chosen for this cycle, there is an underlying dark, melancholic tone, which, in this case, unifies the selected poems. Avaz hay Nima (2009, rev 2019) was premiered by H. Roz Woll, voice, and William Hakim, viola, on 20 May 2009 at Elebash Concert Hall, New York. This performance marks the premiere of the revised version.

Gefangene, Musik hörend (after Käthe Kollwitz) (2019) centers on the notions of loss and memory. The title is based a work by German expressionist artist Käthe Kollwitz. Remembering what is lost when only its illusion exists in our memory or dreams is the central idea of this work. The musical element that represents the past is quotations and references made to JS Bach’s Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, at times latently. For this piece, I have suggested two performance versions, one is with inclusion of the first movement of Bach’s Sonata. This marks the first performance of this work.

Rok-ku no Haiku (2004-05, rev 2019) is in six movements, each movements expresses a different emotion. Despite the fact that there is a reference to Haiku in the title, this work, similar to my other works, should be viewed as Persian miniatures, an artistic expression found in classical poetry book illustration, as well as in poetic structures found rubai (or rubaiyat). Rok-ku no Haiku was first performed by Pauline Kim-Harris, violin, and Eric Huebner, piano, on 2 June 2005 at CAMI Hall, New York. This performance marks the premiere of the revised version.

Anahid, Anahita, Ab-Nahid, or Nahid, a Zoroastrian yazata, is an Iranian divinity, the one who “possesses waters,” and is the “mother of all knowledge,” and is celebrated in Aban Yasht, the longest of the Avestan hymns, verses from her hymn form the greater part of the Āban Niyayesh. Anahid was worshipped at many natural sanctuaries throughout Iranian territory. An Anahid temple, next to Shapur I’s palace at Bishapur, could be flooded with water, where Anahid was worshiped. This water-goddess and mother-goddess, responsible for life, was royally promoted and became widely popular. Artaxerxes II (404-359 B.C.) invoked Anahita, after Ahura Mazda and Mithra, and he encouraged her worship. Anahita has been a prominent figure in artistic representation and figures mainly in Zoroastrian literature. Setayesh az Anahid is a tribute to Nahid Jenabzadeh. The original version of this work was premiered by members of the Barbad Chamber Orchestra, Cyrus Beroukhim, violin, Miranda Sielaff, viola, and Arash Amini, violoncello, on 28 April 2010 at Steinway Reformed Church in Astoria, New York. This performance marks the premiere of the revised version.

String Quartet No. 2 (2017) consists of seven movements. In this work, a series of gestures in each movement leads to final movement, which is built as a strong closing gesture. This gesture brings the piece to a close in unison on a single note.


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Ramin Heydarbeygi, Composer

Critics have described Ramin Heydarbeygi’s music as “rich and expressive” and “honest, direct and uncompromising”, and with “unique artistic voice . . . well crafted, probing, and rich in content.”  His music has been performed in Iran and throughout the US, and featured at international music festivals, including the Silk Road Modern, Icebreaker III Festival, Festival of Modern Music, and Composers Now Festival; and by Ensemble 365, the Cygnus Ensemble, the Seattle Chamber Players, Dr. Faustus Project, Anti-Depressant, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, the Transit, among others, and in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and the New York Botanical Garden.

Recent commissions have included from the Dr. Faustus Project, the Next Stage, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Seattle Chamber Players.  He studied composition with Bruce Saylor, Leo Kraft, Thea Musgrave, and Paul Cooper, was previously a resident composer with the Next Stage Ensemble in New York, and the founding music director and conductor of the Barbad Chamber Orchestra.  With the Barbad Chamber Orchestra he has conducted a wide range of music from historically informed performances of the baroque to numerous world, US, and New York premieres by contemporary composers from around world.


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Stephen Gosling, Piano

Stephen Gosling earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Juilliard, where he was awarded the Mennin Prize and Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He is a member of New York New Music Ensemble and Talea Ensemble, as well as a pianist at New York City Ballet. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic (most notably as soloist in Messiaen’s Sept Haikaï), Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird, American Composers Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, among many others.


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Christina Kay, Soprano

Soprano Christina Kay is a versatile singer with a particular enthusiasm for early and contemporary music. She was recently seen as Daphne in David Chesky’s new satirical opera, La Farranucci, and as Lead Singer in Petr Kotik’s chamber opera, Master-Pieces, for which she was praised for portraying a “vital, intelligent, generous and deeply rewarding” Gertrude Stein. In May 2019, Christina sang the premiere of Hannah Selin’s Six Narratives with the Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra, a piece written for six female soloists with text by Adrienne Rich. An active soloist and chorister, she has sung with many professional groups, including ARTEK, The American Classical Orchestra, and True Concord Voices and Orchestra. She enjoys her weekly position at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and is active as a voice teacher and arts administrator in the NYC-area. 


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Conrad Harris, Violin

Violinist Conrad Harris has performed at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and NY Sonic Boom Festival. He is member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra and Ensemble LPR. He has performed and recorded with Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. A recording of the sonatas of Lejaren Hiller was released in 2018 with pianist Joe Kubera on New World Records. Harris has also recorded for Lovely, Mode, Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, Northern Spy, and Vinyl Retentive Records.


Pauline Kim Harris, Violin

Pauline Kim Harris is a violinist and composer, prolific in the classical to the experimental/avant-garde. A frequent guest with New York City’s leading new music ensembles, she has also toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Pauline serves as Music Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and has performed as violin soloist for choreographer Pam Tanowitz and David Parker of The Bang Group. As a curator, she co-produced Drawing Sounds II, with husband, Conrad Harris at the Drawing Center, Petr Kotik @75 at (le) poisson rouge and continues as co-curator of Carnegie Hill Concerts, a chamber music series committed to new music. Her violin duo, String Noise released their freshman album “The Book of Strange Positions” on Northern Spy Records in 2015 and can also be heard on Dymaxion Groove Records, Cold Blue Music and more. Pauline has discovered an equal passion for composing as performing and is thrilled to be a resident fellow this spring at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Commissioned by the St. George’s Choral Society her piece for organ, choir, cello and soprano, “When We Were” was premiered in 2016. She is currently making a new work for String Noise and Syrinx (acoustic synthesizer) "100 Thimbles in a Box" to be premiered on the Interpretations Series at Roulette on June 6, which will also include new works for String Noise by Sam Yulsman, Jessie Cox and George Lewis. A collection of even more new works will be presented July 9-13 on her first residency at The Stone and look out for her debut solo album on Sono Luminus Label later this summer. Fun fact: Pauline was in the final masterclass of Jascha Heifetz.


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Dana Kelley, Viola

Violist Dana Kelley has been a top prizewinner in the Sphinx Music Competition and the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. She is a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and recently completed an Artist Diploma in String Quartet Studies from the Juilliard School as a member of the Argus Quartet. The Argus Quartet was named the First Prize Winners of both of the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and were recipients of the 2018 Classical Recording Foundation Award and the 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Award. Dana was a 2014-2016 Fellow in Ensemble Connect - a performance and teaching program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She received her Bachelor’s of Music from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, studying violin with Cornelia Heard and viola with Kathryn Plummer, and completed her Master’s of Music degree at the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. Dana has collaborated with artists such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Nobuko Imai, and Miriam Fried, and participated in Ravinia’s Steans Musicians on Tour.  She frequently performs with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, A Far Cry, and The Knights chamber orchestras. She has attended festivals such as Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Lucerne Academy, the International Summer Academy of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Schiermonnikoog International Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. 


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Michael Haas, Cello

Hailed as a “sterling musician” by the Washington Post, cellist Michael Haas has performed for audiences in New York and around the world. As a member of the acclaimed Momenta Quartet he has premiered works by over 100 living composers and performed internationally at the Cervantino Festival, Ostrava Days Festival, Bolivia’s Instituto Laredo, and at Salihara in Jakarta. He can be seen in New York with a wide range of ensembles, including the American Symphony, Ensemble Échappé, Mark Morris Dance Group, Argento Chamber Ensemble, and Trinity Wall Street's NOVUS NY. Mr. Haas holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard School.

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May
28
8:00 PM20:00

Carnegie Hill Concerts presents music by Catherine Lamb feat. Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players

Free Admission (suggested donation: $20 | $10 students & seniors)


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Carnegie Hill Concerts presents music by Catherine Lamb feat. Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players:

Conrad Harris, Violin

Joshua Modney, Violin

Eric Wubbels, Piano

PROGRAM:

in (tone) for Two Violins (2012)

Prisma Interius VII for Violin and Synthesizer (NY Premiere) (2018)

in (tone) (2012) was written during a phase of trying to comprehend, or discover, overlays or saturations of similar qualities in harmonic colorations. Searching for the moments where monochromatic points of brilliant intensities drift into after-images and resultant vibrations of the other by taking simplified and otherwise very activated and sympathetic resonances around multiples of 3 and unisons, displacing them towards their extremes by their close proximities sounding together, compressed.  All the possible saturations of yellow and white together in one space, perhaps, with a slight shift into orange.

Prisma Interius VII (2018), commissioned by Hellqvist/Amaral duo, comes from a series of nine pieces exploring the role of the secondary rainbow synthesizer, a keyboard instrument that is placing resonant band pass filters with high Qs on whatever the microphones just outside of the listening space are capturing. In each piece the role changes slightly. While mostly the pieces are exploring its bridging potential between the harmonic space made clear by the main voices and the surrounding environment (highlighting or basso continuo instrument), in VII it becomes an actual duo between violin and synthesizer, each phrase an unfurling form as one color shifting into another, and its smeared residue.

The intention is to narrow the (our own) filters and to approach a kind of thread that could have a feeling of an infinite space. from one inner point of listening, being very individual and personal—from that point one could listen with the others into the outer atmosphere and see the connectivity of everything. that’s ideal. that’s what i am trying to find, that space. what is the limit of connectivity from one point to the absolute, outside…


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Violinist Conrad Harris has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Muisic, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and New York’s Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX Quartet, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M Ensemble, Ostravská Banda, and STX Ensemble. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Clause Risset, Rohan de Saram, and Tiny Tim. A solo CD featuring premiers by Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma will soon be released on Mode Records. He has also recorded for Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, and Vinyl Retentive Records.


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Eric Wubbels is a composer and pianist, and a Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble. His music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and the U.S., by groups such as Wet Ink Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, yarn|wire, Splinter Reeds, Kupka's Piano (AUS), SCENATET (DK), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and featured on festivals including Huddersfield Festival, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, New York Philharmonic CONTACT, MATA Festival, and Zurich Tage für Neue Musik.

As a performer, he has given U.S. and world premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Beat Furrer, George Lewis, and Mathias Spahlinger, as well as vital young artists such as Rick Burkhardt, Francesco Filidei, Erin Gee, Bryn Harrison, Clara Iannotta, Darius Jones, Cat Lamb, Ingrid Laubrock, Charmaine Lee, Alex Mincek, Sam Pluta, Katharina Rosenberger, and Kate Soper.

He has recorded for Carrier Records, hatART, Intakt, New Focus, Spektral (Vienna),  quiet design, and Albany Records, among others, and has held teaching positions at Amherst College and Oberlin Conservatory.


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Josh Modney is a violinist devoted to creative musicmaking. A “new-music luminary,” “superb violinist” (The New York Times), and “multitasking virtuoso” (The New Yorker) hailed for “jaw-dropping technical skill…” and as “one of today’s most intrepid experimentalists” (Bandcamp Daily), Modney collaborates with a wide array of renowned ensembles and artists as part of a broad scene of adventurous music that thrives at the nexus of composition, improvisation, and interpretation.

Modney is violinist and Executive Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble and a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and performed with the Mivos Quartet for eight years, a vital new-music string quartet he co-founded in 2008.

Modney’s playing has been featured on a wide variety of outstanding recordings, including titles on Carrier Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Sound American, hat[now]ART, Nonesuch, and Tzadik Records. Modney’s 2017 release of improvised chamber music with guitarist Patrick Higgins (ZS), EVRLY MVSIC (NNA Tapes), earned praise for its “clairvoyant connection and sheer instrumental prowess” (The Quietus), and his 2018 triple-CD debut solo release, Engage (New Focus Recordings) was lauded by The New York Times as “one of the most intriguing programs of the year”.


Catherine Lamb (b. 1982, Olympia, Wa, U.S.), is a composer exploring the interaction of elemental tonal material and the variations in presence between shades and beings in a room. She has been studying and composing music since a young age. In 2003 she turned away from the conservatory in an attempt to understand the structures and intonations within Hindustani Classical Music, later finding Mani Kaul in 2006 who was directly connected to Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and whose philosophical approach to sound became important to her. She studied (experimental) composition at the California Institute of the Arts (2004-2006) under James Tenney and Michael Pisaro, who were both integral influences. It was there also that she began her work into rational Harmonic Space, which became a clear way to investigate the interaction of tones and ever-fluctuating shapes, where these interactions in and of them-selves became structural elements in her work. Since then she has written various ensemble pieces (at times with liminal electronic portions) and continues to go further into elemental territories, through various kinds of research, collaboration, and practice (herself as a violist). She received her MFA from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College in 2012 and is currently residing in Berlin, Germany.

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