San Diego New Music in the news!
The Voice of San Diego has published an article about our former Executive Director, Nathan Brock, and about the future direction of San Diego New Music. Many thanks to author Libby Webber!
Friday & Saturday, June 14-15, 2013
The soundON Flute Project
with Lisa Cella
Join NOISE member and soundON Festival Artistic Director Lisa Cella on June 14 for an evening of innovative new music for solo flute. The evening consists of two concerts with a reception between. Works presented include pieces by Christopher Adler, Matthew Burtner, Christopher Burns, Adam Greene, and Madelyn Byrne, all veterans of the soundON Festival or San Diego residents. After a reception stay and listen to the premiere of the epic A Liturgy of the Hours by Stuart Saunders Smith. Come back Saturday night for an evening of works for big flutes, duos, trios and a rare performance of Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint for 11 flutists. All proceeds from the soundON Flute Project go to support the seventh soundON Festival of Modern Music, in January, 2014.
Friday, June 14
Two concerts in one night!
7:30 p.m.
Christopher Adler, 010 machine states (west coast premiere)
Christopher Burns, Knot Theory I
Adam Greene, Ripples for alto flute
Matthew Burtner, Flute Code (world premiere)
Madelyn Byrne, In a Winter Landscape
wine-and-cheese reception
8:45 p.m.
Stuart Saunders Smith, A Liturgy of the Hours (world premiere)
Saturday, June 15
9:30-11:30 a.m. Extended techniques workshop
12:30-2:30 p.m. Masterclass for flute participants
3:30-5:30 p.m. Rehearsal of Steve Reich Vermont Counterpoint and other works
7:30 p.m.
soundON Flute Project concert
with guest artists Marion Garver Fredrickson and Elena Yarritu
and San Diego New Music Affiliated Artist Rachel Beetz
Olivier Messiaen, Le Merle Noir
Caterina Calderoni, Scaglie
Steve Reich, Vermont Counterpoint
Chris Fulford-Brown, The Heist
and additional works TBA
Tickets
Friday concert: $25/general, $20/members and seniors, and $10/students.
Saturday workshop: $20 for flute participants (includes one additional ticket to evening concert for a guest)
Saturday concert: $25/general, $20/members and seniors, and $10/students.
All proceeds from the soundON Flute Project go to support the seventh soundON Festival of Modern Music, in January, 2014.
All events at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, ljathenaeum.org
Advanced tickets available at the Athenaeum's website or by calling (858) 454-5872
Friday, June 21, 2013
San Diego New Music at the Carlsbad Music Festival's Village Music Walk
SDNM Presents an Affiliated Artist performance of
Workers Union, by Louis Andriessen
on the Carlsbad Music Festival Village Music Walk
Venue and time TBA
With Eric Starr, trombone, Jory Herman, bass, Christopher Adler, piano, and more
Coming up:
January 9-12, 2014
The seventh soundON Festival of Modern Music
News and events from earlier this season:
JULY 20, 2012
We at San Diego New Music are very sorry to announce the sudden and unexpected passing of our Executive Director, Dr. Nathan Brock. Nathan served for one year as Executive Director and brought a fresh and inspiring vision to our organization and to San Diego's musical community. He was a prominent, respected and cherished member of our community and an artist of great talent and accomplishment. His contributions to San Diego New Music will have a lasting impact on our organization. Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends. Here is a nice rememberance of Nathan by his friend Jay C. Batzner.
AUGUST 7, 2012
San Diego New Music is pleased to announce that we embarking on a new long-term project. We are now developing a roster of Affiliated Artists who are talented performers of contemporary music based in San Diego. We will invite these artists to present on our concert series, and they will become the featured performers for most of our events. With this project, we hope to tap into the tremendous talent and vibrant energy of artists living and working here in San Diego. Many of our local performing artists have a national or international reputation and yet they go unrecognized here at home. With our Affiliated Artist program, we hope to bring attention to these artists and to build stronger relationships between our artists and the community of music lovers here in San Diego. Please look for news about concerts featuring our Affiliated Artists coming soon, and sign up on our mailing list below so you don't miss anything.
San Diego New Music launches a new series at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla on Friday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m. This first concert celebrates the centennials of the American maverick John Cage and Poland’s greatest 20th-century composer, Witold Lutoslawski. Christopher Adler will perform John Cage’s One2 in a version for 1 piano; Christian Hertzog will join Adler for a rare performance of Cage’s Music for Amplified Toy Pianos. Soprano Stephanie Aston will perform one of Lutoslawski’s last compositions, the song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables, accompanied by Brendan Nguyen. Aston will also sing the North American premiere of Rozalie Hirs’ Article 5, a virtuosic tribute to dolphins. San Diego Symphony musicians Wesley Precourt and Jory Herman will perform Symbiosis, a duet for violin and bass by Estonian composer Erki-Sven Tuur; Precourt will join Christopher Adler for a performance of Arvo Part's contemplative masterpiece, Fratres.
Friday, November 30, 2012
7:30 p.m.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, ljathenaeum.org
Tickets for the concert are $25/general, $20/members and seniors, and $10/students. For tickets call (858) 454-5872.
Download the complete Press Release
"This series is an exciting new step for us," says Madelyn Byrne, President of San Diego New Music. "For the past few years, we've produced the annual soundON Festival focusing on recent compositions, but we wanted to do a series more inclusive of older 20th-century works. We have a roster of very talented local musicians to draw from for each concert. There’s more flexibility in what we can program."
John Cage was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 5, 1912; this year musicians around the world are celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. During his lifetime, musicians and professors denounced him as a charlatan and clown, but since his death in 1992, he has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded composers born in the 20th century. Cage's belief that any sound could be used by a composer and his pioneering use of electronic music (he wrote the first composition using a turntable in 1939), silence, and chance procedures made him a controversial figure.
Cage's Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, written in 1960, combines all of his interests by using toy piano, an instrument few at the time considered appropriate for concert music; by amplifying the toy pianos with contact microphones, which pick up the physical vibrations of the instrument, rather than the sounds we hear through the air; and in Cage's innovative score, which consists of transparencies which are laid on top of each other, which guarantees that no realization of Music for Amplified Toy Pianos will ever be the same. There are almost as many noises as pitches in the score, with prolific silences between those sounds.
One2, from 1989, is one of Cage's number pieces, a style of composition he focused on exclusively in the last five years of his life. In these works, Cage usually notated the exact pitches that he wanted, but gave the performer leeway in when they actually produce those sounds.
Witold Lutoslawski was born in Warsaw on January 25, 1913. He was a soldier when the Germans invaded Poland and was captured, but escaped on a march to a prison camp, walking 250 miles back to Warsaw. During the War, he illegally performed Polish music and resistance songs in Warsaw cafes. After the War, modern music was frowned on by musical authorities, so Lutoslawski had to write folk-based music to please the Polish Composers Union, while developing his own harmonic language privately. After Stalin's death, Lutoslawski was able to openly pursue his own music. Hearing a performance of John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra inspired a major breakthrough for Lutoslawski. When he died in 1994, he was considered the greatest Polish composer since Chopin, and one of the major European composers of the 20th century.
Chantefleurs et Chantefables is one of Lutoslawski's last works. The harmonic language looks back to his earliest works, where the influence of Ravel was strong, and the music reflects the playfulness of Robert Desnos's surrealist poems about animals and plants. Desnos was not as lucky as Lutoslawski in surviving the War; active in the French Resistance, Desnos was captured by the Gestapo in 1944 and died in the Teresienstadt concentration camp in 1945.
The concert concludes with Fratres by Arvo Part. Built with eight major and minor chords that slowly reconfigure in a simple yet mysterious way, it is one of Part’s most popular works. Paradoxically, it is rarely performed in San Diego. Its enigmatic, transcendental beauty will be an appropriate way to end a concert dedicated to two of the greatest composers born in the last century.
COMPLETE PROGRAM
TUUR Symbiosis
CAGE Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
LUTOSLAWSKI Chantefleurs et Chantefables
INTERMISSION
CAGE One2
HIRS Article 5 (North American premiere)
PART Fratres
Christopher Adler, piano
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Jory Herman, contrabass
Christian Hertzog, toy piano
Brendan Nguyen, piano
Wesley Precourt, violin
Monday, March 4, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Featuring Gyorgy Ligeti's Sonata for viola solo
additional repertoire to be announced
Jessica Aszodi, soprano
Rachel Beetz, flute
AJ Nilles and Gareth Zenghut, violas
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, ljathenaeum.org
Thursday, May 9, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Affiliated Artist Series Concert
Alfred Schnittke, Violin Sonata No. 1
Witold Lutoslawski, Epitaph for Oboe and Piano
Witold Lutoslawski, Dance Preludes
David Lang, Press Release
Elliott Carter, Inner Song
Nicholas Deyoe, Fantasia III
performed by Jisun Yang,
Sarah Skuster, Ariana Warren, Brendan Nguyen and Christopher Adler
Tickets $25/general, $20/members and seniors, and $10/students.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, ljathenaeum.org
Advanced tickets available at the Athenaeum's website or by calling (858) 454-5872
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