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Music10 was made possible through the generous support of:
College-Conservatory of Music,
University of Cincinnati
Frank Weinstock, Dean
The Hindemith Music Centre
Marcel Lachat, Director
Joel Hoffman, Artistic Director
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music | ccm.uc.edu
Hindemith Music Centre
Blonay, Switzerland
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eighth blackbird | Ensemble in Residence | eighthblackbird.com
Martin Bresnick | Composer in Residence | martinbresnick.com
Stephen Hartke | Composer in Residence | stephenhartke.com
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Final Concert
2 July, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
eighth blackbird
Music10 is a unique and intensive new
music festival for composers and
performers. While in residence at the
prestigious Hindemith Music Centre
in Blonay, Switzerland, the premiere
American ensemble eighth blackbird,
principal composers Martin Bresnick,
Stephen Hartke and Joel Hoffman,
and guest pianist Lisa Moore work with
an invited group of young composers and
performers from Asia, Europe and
North America. Upon acceptance,
participating composers were asked
to write new works for chamber
ensembles, including a member of eighth
blackbird and selected young instrumentalists. These works are performed and
recorded in a series of concerts at the
Hindemith Foundation Music Centre.
In addition to preparing for these concerts,
the festival offers a series of master
classes and lectures for composers and
performers. Music10 brings performers
and composers together
to create new music.
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Ted Goldman:
Cellular Automata
winner of the 2010 Music10/eighth blackbird composition competition
Missy Mazzoli:
Still Life with Avalanche
Steve Reich:
Double Sextet
Tim Munro, Kelli Kathman, flute
Michael Maccaferri, Ben Irwin, clarinet
Matt Albert, Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Nick Photinos, Agnieszka Kolodziej, cello
Matthew Duvall, Stan Muncy, percussion
Lisa Kaplan, Johanna Ballou, piano
Remainder of program TBA
Matthew Duvall endorses Pearl Drums and Adams Musical Instruments.
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Lisa Moore, piano
2 July, 2010, 15:00
Aula Bahyse, Blonay
Robert Schumann:
Leos Janacek:
Waldscenen (selections)
On An Overgrown Path (Second Series - Paralipomena)
Don Byron:
Etudes 2, 4, 5 and 6* (from Seven Etudes for Piano)
Sam Adams:
Piano Step*
Timo Andres:
How Can I Live In Your World Of Ideas?
David Lang:
wed
Martin Bresnick:
The Dream of the Lost Traveller
*asterisk indicates work commissioned by Lisa Moore
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Martin Bresnick was born in New York City in 1946. His compositions cover
a wide range of instrumentation, from chamber music to symphonic compositions and computer music. His orchestral music has been performed by
numerous ensembles, including the National Symphony, Chicago Symphony,
San Francisco Symphony, Münster Philharmonic, City of London Chamber
Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonika, and Izumi
Sinfonietta Osaka. His chamber music has been performed by The Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center, Sonor, Da Capo Chamber Players, Speculum
Musicae, Bang on A Can All Stars, Nash Ensemble, MusicWorks!, Zeitgeist,
Left Coast Ensemble, and Musical Elements. He is presently Professor of
Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the
Yale School of Music.
Stephen Hartke was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1952. He is widely
recognized as one of the leading composers of his generation, whose work
has been hailed for both its singularity of voice and the inclusive breadth of its
inspiration. He has composed major works for clarinetist Richard Stoltzman,
violinist Michele Makarski, the Hilliard Ensemble, New York Philharmonic, and
Glimmerglass Opera. Other commissions have come from the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, Meet The Composer, the National Endowment for the
Arts, among others. Mr. Hartke is currently Distinguished Professor of
Composition at the University of Southern California.
Joel Hoffman, born in Vancouver, Canada in 1953, composes works that draw
from such diverse sources as Eastern European folk musics and bebop, and
are pervaded by a sense of lyricism and rhythmic vitality. They have been
performed by many ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Brass, the
BBC Orchestra of Wales, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, eighth blackbird,
the Cleveland Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, the Amernet Quartet and the
Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio. Hoffman has received commissions from, among
others, the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the Fromm Foundation,
the Cincinnati Symphony, the National Chamber Orchestra and the American
Harp Society. Currently, Hoffman is Professor of Composition at the
University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
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Australian-American pianist Lisa Moore lives in New York City where she
collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists. She was
recently crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” by The New Yorker
magazine. Moore was the founding pianist for the Bang On A Can All-Stars,
and has collaborated with composers ranging from Iannis Xenakis, Milton
Babbitt and Elliot Carter to Ornette Coleman, Meredith Monk and Phillip
Glass. She has also performed with the London Sinfonietta, American
Composers Orchestra, Steve Reich Ensemble, and So Percussion, among
others. She has released 5 solo discs and over 30 collaborative discs. Moore
teaches at the Yale-Norfolk Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University.
eighth blackbird:
Tim Munro, flutes; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets; Matt Albert, violin & viola;
Nicholas Photinos, cello; Matthew Duvall, percussion; Lisa Kaplan, piano
Hailed as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic, and highly skilled” by the New
Yorker, eighth blackbird is widely lauded for its unusual performing style –
often playing from memory with theatrical flair – and for its efforts to make
new music accessible to wider audiences. Since its founding in 1996, the
sextet has actively commissioned and recorded new works; recent commissions include a concerto from Jennifer Higdon and pieces from Steve Reich,
Mark-Anthony Turnage, Steven Mackey, David Lang, Stephen Hartke, and
Bruno Mantovani. The group’s CD strange imaginary animals won two
Grammy Awards in 2008, including one for Best Chamber Music Performance.
Kicking off its 2009-10 season, eighth blackbird makes its debut at the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, playing the world premiere of Mark-Anthony
Turnage’s Grazioso! In other season highlights, eighth blackbird presents a
new version of Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, with choreography and direction
by Mark DeChiazza. The ensemble performs Slide, a new music-theater piece
by Rinde Eckert and Steven Mackey (premiered at the Ojai Music Festival this
summer, where the group was collective Music Director) at the University of
Richmond in Virginia, and then takes the piece to the ensemble’s hometown,
Chicago, where the group has its own two-concert series at the Harris Theater.
During a season residency at the Curtis Institute of Music, eighth blackbird
performs Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Double Sextet, which was
commissioned and premiered by the ensemble and features prominently on
its season programming. The ensemble stops in New York City for the Look &
Listen Festival and the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, and it makes its
Minneapolis debut, performing Double Sextet at the Walker Art Center.
In June, eighth blackbird gave the world premiere of a new concerto for
sextet and orchestra by Jennifer Higdon, with the Atlanta Symphony.
Highlights of past seasons have included performances in South Korea,
Mexico, the UK, the Netherlands, Poland, and at nearly every major chamber
music venue in North America. eighth blackbird was honored in 2007 with
the American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award and a Meet The Composer
Award, and the group’s numerous competition wins include the Grand Prize
at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Naumburg
Chamber Music Award. The sextet has been profiled in the New York Times
and featured on CBS News Sunday Morning and Bloomberg TV’s Muse.
eighth blackbird has recorded for the Cedille and Naxos labels, and is
represented by Opus 3 Artists.
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Music10 Composers III
1 July, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
Louis Chiappetta:
…and again…
Ben Irwin, clarinet
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Nick Photinos (eighth blackbird), cello
Naomi Perley, piano
Ted Goldman:
Urulumunu
Tim Munro (eighth blackbird), flute
Rebecca Danard, clarinet
Christian Smith, percussion
Sarah Gibson, piano
Ben Irwin:
Nascence
Rebecca Danard, clarinet
Matt Albert (eighth blackbird), violin
Alisa Seavey, viola
Paul Kerekes, piano
Amy Kirsten:
L’ange pale
Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Tim Munro (eighth blackbird), flute
Jeremy Malvin, percussion 1
Christian Smith, percussion 2
Wei-Chieh Lin:
IN THE SILENCE OF TIME
Rebecca Danard, clarinet
Matt Albert (eighth blackbird), violin
Sarah Gibson, piano
Nissim Schaul:
Trio
Matt Albert (eighth blackbird), violin
Agnieszka Kolodziej, cello
Yu-Chun Kuo, percussion
Christopher Stark:
Stars in Dead Reflection
Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet
Maggie Hasspacher, double bass
Stan Muncy, percussion
Sarah Gibson, piano
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Music10 Composers II
30 June, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
Ecstatic Dances
27 June, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
Maria Grenfell:
These dark notes drifting
Tim Munro (eighth blackbird), flute
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Jeremy Malvin, percussion
Erika Dohi, piano
Hannah Lash:
UNCLOSE
Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Matthew Duvall (eighth blackbird), percussion 1
Christian Smith, percussion 2
Erika Dohi, piano
Michael Ippolito:
Nocturne
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Matt Albert (eighth blackbird), violin
Naomi Perley, piano
Jennifer Jolley:
Flight 710 to Cabo San Lucas
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Nick Photinos (eighth blackbird), cello
Johanna Ballou, piano
Jesse Benjamin Jones:
Four Bagatelles
Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Maggie Hasspacher, double bass
Liz Remizowski, piano
Paul Kerekes:
Trio
Kelli Kathman, flute
Nick Photinos (eighth blackbird), cello
Johanna Ballou, piano
Andrew Ford:
Female Nude
Tim Munro, flute
Yu-Chun Kuo, percussion
Ross Edwards:
Ecstatic Dances
Tim Munro, flute
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Joel Hoffman:
Self Portrait with Orlando
Kelli Kathman, flute
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Tim Munro, flute
Jordan Kuspa:
Metronome
Kelli Kathman, flute
Alisa Seavey, viola
Lisa Kaplan (eighth blackbird), piano
Helena Tulve:
Soaring
Tim Munro, flute
Kelli Kathman, flute
Carrie Magin:
Shear Meridian
Tim Munro (eighth blackbird), flute
Ben Irwin, clarinet
Maggie Hasspacher, double bass
Naomi Perley, piano
Philip Glass:
Music in Fifths
Tim Munro, flute
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Kelli Kathman, flute
Douglas Pew:
En Los Muros De Arlés
Lindsay Kesselman, soprano
Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet
Yu-Chun Kuo, percussion
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Music of Bresnick, Hartke, and Hoffman
28 June, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
Stephen Hartke:
eighth blackbird
Meanwhile
Martin Bresnick:
***
Rebecca Danard, clarinet
Alisa Seavey, viola
Liz Remizowski, piano
Joel Hoffman:
Partenze
Matt Albert, violin
Stephen Hartke:
Percolative Processes
Music10 Percussion Ensemble:
Matthew Duvall (eighth blackbird), Logan Dean, Yu-Chun Kuo,
Jeremy Malvin, Stan Muncy, Christian Smith
Joel Hoffman:
Hands Down
Joel Hoffman, piano
Martin Bresnick:
My 20th Century
eighth blackbird
Music10 Composers I
29 June, 2010, 19:30
Bartok Hall, Hindemith Music Centre
Federico Garcia:
a trois
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Logan Dean, percussion
Lisa Kaplan (eighth blackbird), piano
Sarah Gibson:
Breathe out, Sleep in
Tim Munro (eighth blackbird), flute
Alisa Seavey, viola
Liz Remizowski, piano
Jenny Olivia Johnson:
now is the blue
Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet
Agnieszka Kolodziej, cello
Paul Kerekes, piano
Carolyn O’Brien:
Impromptu
Kelli Kathman, flute
Agnieszka Kolodziej, cello
Logan Dean, percussion
Lisa Kaplan (eighth blackbird), piano
Ben Wallace:
The Punctuality of Arriving on Time
Matthew Duvall (eighth blackbird), Logan Dean,
and Jeremy Malvin, percussion
Kyle Werner:
Trajectories
Pethrus Gärdborn, flute
Nick Photinos (eighth blackbird), cello
Erika Dohi, piano
Matthew Duvall endorses Pearl Drums and Adams Musical Instruments.
www.eighthblackbird.com
Exclusive Management for eighth blackbird:
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470 Park Avenue South
9th Floor North
New York, NY 10016
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Wenhui Xie:
Quartet
Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet
Brenda van der Merwe, violin
Stan Muncy, percussion
Johanna Ballou, piano
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