Program
1. Jacob Cooper, Commencer Une Autre Mort (2010) video
2. Eric Wubbels, Viola Quartet (2007)
3. Francesco Filidei, MATA Commission (2011) World Premiere SIGNAL Ensemble
4. David Coll, Position, Influence (2010), for soprano and electronics. Mellissa Hughes, voice.
5. Alex Freeman, Magnolia, for kantele. Eva Alkula, kantele.
6. Ivan Ferrer-Orozco, Traces IV: Anamnesis, for piano and tape. Kathleen Supove, piano.

Matt Marks is a composer/performer of emotionally manipulative pop songs and acoustic works. A founding member of Alarm Will Sound, he also performs as a French hornist with such acclaimed new music ensembles as the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Signal, and ACME. He has recorded for Warp Records, Nonesuch, Cantaloupe Music, as well as many other independent labels. As a composer and arranger, Matt’s work has been called “staggeringly creative” by The New York Times, “obsessively detailed” by New York Magazine, and “stunning” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, The Barbican Center, The Bang on a Can Marathon, and live on WNYC radio. Matt’s first album, his post-Christian nihilist pop opera, The Little Death: Vol. 1, released on New Amsterdam Records, was described as “cheerily seductive” by the NY Times and “unabashedly boppy, baroquely multireferential, then suddenly sentimental” by Time Out NY. TLDV1 was also one of Time Out NY’s Top Ten Classical albums of 2010 and it contained one of Huffington Post’s Top Ten Alternative Art Songs of the Decade.
Other recent projects include The Adventures of Albert Fish, described by Sequenza21.com as “brilliantly simultaneously creepy and funny”; A Portrait of Glenn Beck for the new music ensemble Newspeak; and an arrangement of The Beatles’ Revolution 9 for Alarm Will Sound. Recently Matt has been working with The Dirty Projectors on a live realization of their opera The Getty Address and on his first string quartet for ETHEL. Matt is also co-director of the BDSM-themed chamber ensemble, Ensemble de Sade, and is an organizer of the annual New Music Bake Sale.

José-Luis Hurtado’s music has been performed worldwide by ensembles and soloists such as Boston Modern Orchestra Project, International Contemporary Ensemble, Jack Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Quatuor Molinari, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Tony Arnold, Garth Knox, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti String Quartet among others.
He has been the recipient of the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Wolkersdorf (Austria), the Harvard University Green Prize for Excellence in Composition (USA), the Rodolfo Halffter Ibero- American Composition Prize (Mexico), the Julián Carrillo Composition Prize (Mexico), Regional Winner of the National SCI/ASCAP Composition Competition (USA) and 2nd prize in the Troisieme Concours International de Composition du Quatuor Molinari (Canada).
Hurtado holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied under Mario Davidovsky, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of New Mexico.

Qin Yi, Composer, serves as Lecturer in the Department of Music Engineering at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She received degrees from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Composition and Pipa, Master of Composition, studying with Chen Qiangbin and Qu Xiaosong).

Her works have been performed in numerous venues including International Gaudeamus Music Week, Ars Electronica FESTIVAL, Hong Kong Arts Festival,  Huayi – Chinese Festival of Arts (Singapore), Melbourne Festival, Chinese Composers’ Festival, Shanghai International Festival of Arts, Shanghai International Music Festival, Shanghai eARTS festival, and Beijing Modern International Music Festival.

Recent honors include First Prize in 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition; Honorary Mention in the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Category; and Second Prize of Composition Competition in “Chinese Music Jin Zhong Award”.

She has current commissions from Shanghai International Electronic Music Week and Les Percussions de Treffort.

In recent years, She has served on the organizing committees of the 1st-3rd Shanghai International Electronic Music Week and the Shanghai eARTS festival.

Artist and vocalist Lesley Flanigan (New York) approaches electronic sound with a sculptural method based on materials of noise and tone. Surrounded by clusters of wires, speakers, and microphones, she choreographs the sounds of speaker feedback against her own singing voice, constructing music that embraces the transparency of process. ArtsCriticATL writes, “Flanigan’s performance comes loaded with philosophical ideas, often blurring the boundaries among music, noise, sculpture and performance art.” Amplifications, her album of music for speaker electronics and voice, was called a “snow storm of a record” by New Music Box. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals internationally, including Sonar (Barcelona), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn), TransitioMX (Mexico City), the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art (Denmark) and .HBC in Berlin.

Hugi Gudmundsson (Iceland, 1977) studied composition at Reykjavik College of Music with Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson and Úlfar Ingi Haraldsson. In 2005 he finished a Masters degree in composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he studied with Bent Sorensen, Hans Abrahamsen and Niels Rosing-Schow. He finished a second Masters degree (electronic music, Institute of Sonology, Netherlands) spring 2007.

Hugi Gudmundsson has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Music Awards and received the award in 2008 for his work Apocrypha for baroque ensemble and electronics.

Among international recognitions are recommendations in both categories at the International Rostrum of Composers 2006 in Paris for Eq. IV: Windbells. In 2010 his piece Händelusive received the same recommendation at the 2010 Rostrum in Lisbon as well as being nominated for the ISCM Young Composer Award in 2011.

Hugi Gudmundsson lives and works as a composer in Copenhagen, Denmark.

www.hugigudmundsson.com

Papalexandri’s work includes compositions and installations for sound objects that she creates herself and in collaboration with Swiss artist Pe Lang. Selected exhibitions and festivals include Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Kulturhuset Stockholm, DAS Weekend Transmediale, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, Darmstadt, impuls, Ultrashall, ISCM-World New Music Days, Aspekte and Wien Modern in performances by Klangforum Wien, SurPlus, Mosaik, QNG, among others. She studied composition with Chaya Czernowin, Rand Satieger and Roger Redgate. Papalexandri holds a PhD. and Master’s degrees in music composition from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Selected prizes include the Berliner Kompositions stipendien, the Impuls award the Dan David Prize, the Stipendienpries der Darmstadter Ferienkurse, the Kurt Weil Fellowship, the Robert Erickson Scholarship. She is currently in residence at the Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

Kate Soper is New York City-based composer and performer.  Her current compositional interests include the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the transformation of visceral gestures in and out of time, and the potential of the human voice to communicate abstractly (or not).  Her music, described as “exquisitely quirky” by the New York Times, has been played by ensembles such as the SEM ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Dinosaur Annex, the BUTI Wind Orchestra, and others.  She has received awards from the Fromm Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Music Theory Society of New York State, and ASCAP, and has been commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center, Yarn/Wire, the Flexible Orchestra, and Line Upon Line percussion.  Kate is Managing Director and vocalist for Wet Ink, a new music ensemble dedicated to seeking out adventurous music across aesthetic boundaries.  She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University.  For more information: www.katesoper.com.

Jacob Cooper, video work TBA

Cecilia Lopez, Mechanical Music for Sheet Metal

Kate Soper, Only the words themselves mean what they say

Lesley Flanigan, Snow

Matt Marks, sneak preview of The Little Death, Vol. 2 with Mellissa Hughes

Eli Keszler, Cold Pin