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SUMMARY:Horszowski Trio: Chamber music by Village composers
DESCRIPTION:The celebrated Horszowski Trio presents music primarily of composers who have lived in and around Greenwich Village over the past six decades. Village residents Elliott Carter\, Paul Chihara\, Louis Karchin and Wang Jie are represented by recent works\, performed alongside Dmitri Shostakovich’s landmark Second Trio. The Horszowski Trio (Jesse Mills\, Ole Akahoshi and Rieko Aizawa) has been described as “eloquent and enthralling” by the Boston Globe and heralded as “the most compelling group to come on the scene”  (The New Yorker). The Trio made its London debut in 2019 at a sold-out concert at Wigmore Hall\, and has toured throughout America\, Europe and the Far East. \nElliott Carter wrote his Epigrams for Piano Trio in 2012 at age 104; it is his very last completed work\, capping a career of astounding fluidity and longevity. \nPaul Chihara‘s Dragonfly Fantasy was commissioned by the Horszwoski Trio and is based on a well-known children’s song in Japan\, Aka Tombo\, one of the most popular songs in Japan today. \nLouis Karchin‘s Trio for violin\, cello and piano\, written for both the Horszowski and Fidelio Trios\, is a three-movement work that blends new harmonic ideas with cherished traditions of the genre; it receives its NY premiere at this concert. \n Wang Jie‘s evocative Faded Colors is based on the Mexican hymn “De Colores”: the colors of people who know freedom. Her recasting takes a “black and white” nostalgic approach\, complementary to the song’s original nature. \nShostakovich‘s four-movement Trio #2 (1943) alludes\, in its final movement\, to Jewish melodies\, reflecting Shostakovich’s concern and horror at rumors of the Holocaust\, and was written against the background of the Second World War. \n\nThe Horszowski Trio\nJesse Mills\, violin\nOle Akahoshi\, cello\nRieko Aizawa\, piano\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/horszowski-trio/
LOCATION:Tenri Cultural Institute\, 43A West 13th Street\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 New Music
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SUMMARY:Lafcadio Hearn Project: Four ghost stories for speaker and pianist
DESCRIPTION:Tenri Cultural Institute has a 30-year history of celebrating Japanese and Western culture. The Irish poet Lafcadio Hearn became an important bridge between Japan and the West. Four composers created musical works for narrator with piano based on Hearn’s much loved\, “Kwaidan”\, a chilling collection of Japanese ghost stories. \nWhat is the Lafcadio Hearn Project?\nIn 2017 Yuji Itoh and Satoko Inoue devised a partnership between Japan and Ireland focused on the writings of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) 1850-1904 as part of “60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Ireland. Hearn was Irish originally but became a citizen of Japan where he married a Japanese woman\, Setsu Koizumi\, and became famous for publishing books on Japan and on Japanese folklore. Before moving to Japan\, he traveled the world and emigrated to the United States where he worked as a journalist\, first in Cincinnati and later in New Orleans from 1872 to 1875. \nIn Japan\, He gathered\, among other things\, ghost stories\, which were published in his volume “Kwaidan”. Two composers from Japan and two from Ireland came together on the project\, each choosing a story to be read by a speaker or actor and setting it to original piano music. The words are thus woven into the rhythm and pacing of the piano part into a musical whole. \nThe project had been performed in tour performance in Tokyo and Matsue following Letterkenny\, Dublin and Waterford in 2017. This concert will be an American premiere. \nProgram\nAkemi Naito: Ubazakura (2017)\nYuji Itoh: The Reconciliation (2017)\nJohn McLachlan: Fragment (after Lafcadio Hearn) (2016)\nPaul Hayes: The Second Heaven of Desire in Old Tramore (2017) \nComposers \n\nAkemi Naito (Greenwich Village resident)\nJohn McLachlan\nYuji Itoh\nPaul Hayes\n\nPerformers \n\nSatoko Inoue\, piano\nJohn McLachlan\, narration\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS FROM EVENTBRITE
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/lafcadio-hearn-project/
LOCATION:Tenri Cultural Institute\, 43A West 13th Street\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:2023 New Music
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SUMMARY:Village Composers and Stephen Dembski\, featuring soprano Sharon Harms
DESCRIPTION:Greenwich Village\, has a thriving music scene represented in this program of newer and recent works by a diverse group of Village composers. This program of music is dedicated to the memory of composer Stephen Dembski\, long-time West Village resident\, who died suddenly in summer 2021. \nIn addition to works by Dembski\, the program includes a premiere by his friend and Village neighbor David Glaser\, plus works by composers who knew and loved Dembski – Frank Brickle\, Sheree Clement\, and Eve Beglarian\, Paula Matthusen – and works by Akemi Naito\, Yehudi Wyner and Steve Sacco. Many of the performers on this program knew Dembski. \nLong-time Village resident Stephen Dembski was an extraordinary composer of moving and beautiful music\, a music theorist\, editor and improvising conductor of long-form modular works. His death last August was unexpected and a great loss to the music community. This tribute will feature a mix of Dembski’s own compositions and selections by friends and other Village composers\, including new pieces by Frank Brickle and David Glaser. \nWith guitarists Dan Lippel and William Anderson; flutist Jayn Rosenfeld; pianists Eliza Garth\, Joan Forsyth\, and Theo Rocas; and soprano Sharon Harms. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the League of Composers/ISCM\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n			BUY TICKETS ON EVENTBRITE		\n			\n	\n\n\n\n \n\nComposers\nWhile still enrolled in college\, Stephen Dembski\, played flute professionally in Europe for a time\, worked in a small band named Kiss that played mostly prisons in Ohio\, and in a big band led by Cecil Taylor. By his early twenties\, he was composing music back in the old Euro-American tradition\, and eventually earned degrees in it from Antioch\, SUNY-Stony Brook\, and Princeton. His music – which includes instrumental\, vocal\, and electro-acoustic works\, as well as pieces for improvising musicians and for interactive installations of sound and light – has been recognized by awards and performances in both the United States and in Europe. \nAwarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his piano concerto\, Chiavi in Mano\, Yehudi Wyner (born 1929) is one of America’s most distinguished musicians. His compositions include over 100 works for orchestra\, chamber ensemble\, solo voice and solo instruments\, piano\, chorus\, and music for the theater\, as well as liturgical services for worship. He has received commissions from Carnegie Hall\, the Boston Symphony\, the BBC Philharmonic\, the Library of Congress\, the Ford Foundation\, the Koussevitzky Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Fromm Foundation\, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, and Worldwide Concurrent Premieres among others. His recording The Mirror (Naxos) won a 2005 Grammy Award. \nFrank Brickle (born 1951) studied composition and piano at Princeton\, where his principal teacher was Milton Babbitt. He has been widely performed for 50 years in the Americas\, Europe\, and Asia. Much of his earlier work involved electronic and synthesized sound and fixed media. In the late 1980s\, Frank began exploring ways to use the great wealth of compositional techniques that emerged in the last century for a broader range of musical goals. Most recently he has concentrated on vocal music\, often with small chamber ensembles featuring the guitar. He currently lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. \nBorn in Tokyo\, Akemi Naito began studying piano at the age of five and composition at 14. In 1978\, she received her B.A. in Music Composition from the University Division at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and a postgraduate degree from the same university in 1980. She was a member of the school’s faculty from 1980 until 1991. Akemi was awarded the Takei Prize in 1982 and was a finalist of the Music Today Composition Award in 1982 and 1988. Following her earlier activity as a composer in Tokyo\, she received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council that enabled her to come to New York City in 1991. She has since established herself as a New York-based composer. \nAccording to the Los Angeles Times\, Eve Beglarian is “a humane\, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” Her current projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel and director Mallory Catlett about women and gender-expansive people in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present which will premiere at Harlem Stage in January 2023\, and a piece for 24 basses in a grove of trees\, composed for Robert Black and friends. 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.” \nDavid Glaser is Associate Professor of Music at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University where he has taught since 1996. He studied at Hunter College\, Queens College\, and Columbia University and his teachers have included Mario Davidovsky\, George Edwards\, Martin Boykan\, Jacques-Louis Monod and Jack Beeson. David received a 2007 Fromm Foundation commission to compose a work for the Parthenia viol consort. In 2005\, he received the Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters which described his work as “subtly potent music of important potential”. \nSteven Sacco was born in Brooklyn. His work is performed internationally by some of today’s leading soloists and ensembles. Critics praise him for writing “absorbing\, poetic and passionate music that easily engages the sympathies and attention of a concert audience.” His artistic collaborators have included the American Brass Quintet\, Czech Nonet\, the United States Army Band Pershing’s Own\, Steven Isserlis\, David Oei\, Eriko Sato\, Adela Pena\, Luciano Berio\, John D. Rojak\, Michael Powell\, Raymond Mase\, Kevin Cobb\, Antoinette Perry\, Juliana Gondek\, and Speculum Musicae. International tours have seen his work performed in Australia\, Asia\, Europe\, North and South America\, as well as the music festivals of Aspen\, Tanglewood\, Bowdoin\, Deal (UK) and IIMF (Italy). \nUsing intricate shimmering colors over fragments of tunes\, Sheree Clement builds surprising narratives. She upends the listener’s expectations with politically charged texts\, found sounds and unusual structures. The League of Composers Orchestra\, Ariadne Greif\, Eliza Garth and others have commissioned works\, with performances by ensembles such as the Tanglewood Music Festival Orchestra\, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and Speculum Musicae. Sheree holds composition degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. Her honors include a Goddard Lieberson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nPerformers\nFlutist Jayn Rosenfeld is one of New York City’s great promoters of contemporary music. She ran the New York New Music Ensemble NYNME for many\, many years. Jayn and NYNME championed the music of Stephen Dembski. \nA top prizewinner at the International Mozart Competition\, Tunbridge Wells International Competition\, and Greater New York Chopin Competition\, pianist Emily White has appeared in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre\, New York’s Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall\, the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh\, and Saint David’s Hall in Cardiff\, and as soloist with the National Orchestral Institute in Maryland\, Lake Forest Symphony\, Brooklyn Symphony\, Sudeten Philharmonic (Poland)\, and Oltenia Philharmonic (Romania). Her recordings on Arabesque include Szymanowski Piano Works\, Brahms’s Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major\, and a new release\, American Collection\, including six world premieres of music by Yehudi Wyner. \nNew York based pianist Theo Rockas is a Greenwich Village resident\, currently studying at the Juilliard School. He has performed Pintscher at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, Reich in Juilliard’s ChamberFest\, and gave the premiere of renowned British composer Michael Finnissy’s “Could I Sing with Angels” in Carnegie Hall. Theo has participated in the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice and the Aspen Music Festival\, recorded with the New Juilliard Ensemble\, and received praise from the New York Times for his performance of Glass in a concert also featuring the composer as a performer.
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/village-composers-and-stephen-dembski-featuring-soprano-sharon-harms/
LOCATION:Tenri Cultural Institute\, 43A West 13th Street\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Music,New Music
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