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Carnegie Hill Concerts Presents a collaboration between composer Lester St. Louis and Carnegie Hill Concerts Chamber Players.
PERFORMERS:
Teodora Stepancic, Piano
Pauline Kim Harris, Violin
Mariel Roberts, Cello
James Ilgenfritz, Bass
PROGRAM:
Metonymic Principles: TRANSFER (2019)
PRIM (for ensemble) (2020) World Premiere
Lester St. Louis is a New York City born and based Multi-instrumentalist, composer and curator. Lester has worked in, performed and created in artistic environments in The United States, Canada, South America, Europe and China with groups and artists such as Dré Hočevar Trio, Jaimie Branch Fly or Die, Exploding Star Orchestra, SZA, Chance the Rapper, MOCREP, TAK Ensemble and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as the JACK Quartet, Mahan Esfahani, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh along with many others. In the near future Lester will be continuing to develop new intermedia projects and performing with the various groups he plays in along with many new ventures.
Pauline Kim Harris aka PK or Pauline Kim is a GRAMMY™-nominated violinist and composer. The youngest student to have ever been accepted into the studio of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz, she has appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director. Known for her work with classical avant-punk violin duo, String Noise, she has toured extensively with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and continues to collaborate with leading new music ensembles in New York City. Pauline Kim was the first Music Director for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and has been the featured artist for choreographers David Parker and Pam Tanowitz. Pauline’s debut album, Heroine — a reimagining of the Bach Chaconne and Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias was released on Sono Luminus with worldwide distribution on September 27, 2019.
Composer and bassist James Ilgenfritz is recognized in The New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and his “invaluable contributions to New York’s new-music community.” James has performed around the US, Europe, and in Asia with his bands Hypercolor and MiND GAMeS. In 2019 he released You Scream A Rapid Language – an album of recent chamber music, which was noted in The Wire for its "glint of mischief" and ability to "foreground the performative and gestural elements of music making." This album of chamber works follows his previous two solo contrabass albums Origami Cosmos (2017) and Compositions (Braxton) 2011 – which featured music by Annie Gosfield, Miya Masaoka, Elliott Sharp, JG Thirlwell, and Anthony Braxton. James presented his music in residencies at John Zorn’s The Stone in 2015 and 2018, and in 2011 he was Artist In Residence at ISSUE Project Room. He holds degrees from University of Michigan and University of California San Diego. James began New York’s first Suzuki Bass program at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in 2011, and continued there until 2019, when he left to pursue a PhD in music composition at University of California Irvine. James splits his time between Brooklyn, NY and Orange County, California. www.james-ilgenfritz.com
American cellist and composer Mariel Roberts is widely recognized not just for her “virtuosic” performances, but as a “fearless explorer” (Chicago Reader) in her field. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation as an interpreter, improvisor, and composer have helped create a body of work which bridges avant-garde, contemporary, jazz, classical, and traditional music. Roberts has been hailed as “one of the most adventurous figures on New York’s new music scene—one with a thorough grounding in classical tradition but a ravenous appetite for and tireless discipline in new work.” (Bandcamp). Roberts has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, as well as with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Mivos Quartet, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Ensemble Signal. Roberts' compositions have been performed at venues such as Merkin Hall and Miller Theater in New York City.
Photo Credit: John Rogers
Teodora Stepančić is a composer, performer and curator based in Brooklyn. In her compositions, Teodora explores theatrical and visual elements in music performance, cyclical and game-based musical forms, and developing works in close collaboration with individual performers. She collects, programs and performs piano and chamber works that speak in the voice of the outsider, a hushed voice, that stresses generosity, attentiveness, and focus. In the events she organizes, composers, performers and audience are invited into an intimate listening experience, a space for sharing sounds, ideas and music, a place for open minds and ears.Teodora is the organizer and curator of the Piano+ and Shared Space concert series, both in Brooklyn. She is co-founder of LCollective, a group of composers/performers committed to playing rarely heard and newly composed experimental music and film in open and permeable musical situations.
Teodora is pianist of Ensemble Modelo62 (the Netherlands), collaborates with numerous new music ensembles and theater groups such as Ghost Ensemble, ensemble mise-en, StudioŠest, BRock Ensemble, Asko Shoenberg, Veenfabriek, Schauspielhaus Bochum etc., and has appeared at festivals such as BBC Proms, Gaudeamus Muziek Week Utrecht, Klangraum Düsseldorf, Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen Hannover, Dag in de Branding, November Music, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, ORCiM Ghent, Hawler International Theater Festival Erbil. She studied piano and composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.