Talea, called a “vital part of the New York contemporary-classical scene” by The New York Times, performs works by young composers from six countries culled from the more than 600 submissions to our annual call for scores. Evan Antonellis’s MATA commission sets the stage with a poetic series of miniature journeys for ensemble. David Fennessy takes us on a journey of memory, inspired by the “Thirteen Factories of Canton.” Taylor Brook presents a memory of the summer morning on the lake of Schoenberg’s “Farben.” The remaining journeys are more internal: Milica Djordjevic’s moves into the subconscious, while Hugo Morales continues the inward motion, releasing the sounds inherent in objects. Mauro Lanza allows those objects to move on their own and settle, as ashes, into shapes.

Program:
David Fennessy: 13 Factories
Taylor Brook: Against the Morning
Milica Djordjevic: Manje te u majke groze [One Less Horror for your Mother] (with soprano Jamie Jordan)
Mauro Lanza: Aschenblum
Evan Antonellis: Transparent Itineraries (World Premiere MATA commission)
Hugo Morales Murguia: Tonewood

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7:30 PM

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Opera and song are flourishing these days with ample room for interdisciplinary cross-pollination. The daring Stewart Wallce (Harvey Milk (1995), The Bonesetter’s Daughter (2008) is joined by vocal virtuoso and composer Joan La Barbara, Steven Burke, Paola Prestini, and independent opera’s rising composer/librettist duo, David T. Little and Royce Vavrek. Together, the panel explores the ways that composers, poets, and librettists collaborate and create.

Free and Open to the Public

2:00 PM

Location:
620 Dodge Hall
Columbia University
Broadway at 116th St.

MATA presents an evening of works that stand at the intersection of new music, performance art and sound art. Known for her work with concrete sounds, Dutch-Welsh composer Jobina Tinnemans follows the lead of the late Cornelius Cardew incorporating nonmusicians into a new music context. Her MATA commission, a concerto grosso for solo knitters, instrumental ensemble and a ripieno orchestra of knitters, visualizes the passage of time through its trace in fibre. In addition MATA presents Henry Vega’s ritualistic invocations for vocalist and electronic sounds performed by American expat vocalist Stephanie Pan accompanied by video projection by Emanuel Flores, Jessie Marino’s performance art piece written for the two performers of On Structure, and Seth Cluett’s enactment of weather patterns on a metal tray of water activated by electronic sounds and three clarinets.

Program:
Jobina Tinnemans: Killing Time for knitters and ensemble (World Premiere MATA commission)
Seth Cluett: Cloud-to-Air for three clarinets, water-filled metal tray, sine tones and projections
Jessie Marino: Rot Blau I for two performers
Henry Vega: Wormsongs for vocalist and electronics

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The performance of Killing Time is sponsored in part by Lion Brand yarn.
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Meitar, Israel’s premier new music ensemble, will workshop and discuss new works by selected American and Israeli composers. Featuring composers Lydia Ainsworth, Jenny Beck, Marek Poliks, Tomer Hod, and Ziv Cojocaru. With special guest Hannah Levinson.

Free and Open to the Public

At BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street
New York

2:00 PM

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Meitar, Israel’s leading new music ensemble, comes to us direct from Tel Aviv for their American debut. Ha’aretz has called them “some of [Israel’s] best musicians” and they have won numerous awards in Israel and performed in some of the most prestigious venues and festivals globally. The concert will feature a world premiere MATA commission by Bryan Jacobs; a world premiere by Israeli composer Ofer Pelz; Enda Bates’s crepuscular Calls from the Fog for flute and electronics; Marcin Stancyzk’s alien solo for cello and electronics Mosaique; and direct from Mercury, a brand new arrangement of Christopher Bailey’s microtonal hymn of self-immolation, performed in the Mercurian language by the mesmerizing duo of Sukato and Meredith Borden and accompanied by live video by Charles Woodman.

Bryan Jacobs: Play May Shay Fay Bay (World Premiere MATA Commission)
Christopher Bailey: Mergurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst (with vocalists Sukato and Meredith Borden, and video by Charles Woodman)
Marcin Stanczyk: Mosaique
Ofer Pelz: Chinese Whispers (World Premiere)
Enda Bates: Calls from the Fog

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7:30

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