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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 Hindemith Music Center | hindemith.org Marcel Lachat, Director eighth blackbird | Ensemble in Residence | eighthblackbird.com Martin Bresnick | Composer in Residence | martinbresnick.com Stephen Hartke | Composer in Residence | stephenhartke.com Joel Hoffman | Artistic Director, Composer in Residence | joelhoffman.net Michael Ippolito | General Manager | michaelippolito.com Kyle Werner | Operations Manager, Blogger | kylewerner.com Christopher Stark | Technical Director, Webmaster | christopher-stark.com Kelly Werner | Poster/Program Designer | [email protected] Jennifer Jolley | Blogger | jenniferjolley.com MusicX | musicxfestival.com 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. 1 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. www.eighthblackbird.com Exclusive Management for eighth blackbird: OPUS 3 ARTISTS 470 Park Avenue South 9th Floor North New York, NY 10016 10 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 9 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. 2 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. 3 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 8 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 7 4 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: OPUS 3 ARTISTS 470 Park Avenue South 9th Floor North New York, NY 10016 5 Wenhui Xie: Quartet Michael Maccaferri (eighth blackbird), clarinet Brenda van der Merwe, violin Stan Muncy, percussion Johanna Ballou, piano 6