Sam Adams – New Work (World Premiere)
Performed by Lisa Moore, April 21, 2010
Website

Samuel Adams (b. 1985) is a composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist from the San Fracisco Bay Area. His music is informed by his experiences as a jazz bassist in and around San Francisco. He received a Bachelors from Stanford University, where he studied primarily with Mark Applebaum and Erik Ulman. His works have been performed by The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Beta Collide, The Stanford New Ensemble, and Yale Philharmonia, Lisa Moore and Karen Bentley-Pollick. He is currently a student at the Yale School of Music where he studies with Martin Bresnick.

How can I live in your world of ideas? [2007]
Performed by Lisa Moore, April 21, 2010
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Timothy Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA; Timo for short) is a composer and pianist. He grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in New York City. His compositions meld a classical-music upbringing with diverse interests in the natural world, graphic arts, technology, cooking, and photography. He has been praised for his “acute ear” by The New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini and “stubborn nose” by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross.

How can I live in your world of ideas?

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Receptive Asphasia [2010] (NY Premiere)
Winner of New Voices project,
Philadelphia chapter of the American Composers Forum
(Selected in collaboration between MATA, Argento, and ACF Philadelphia)
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Ryan Beppel (b. 1987 Philadelphia, USA) is a guitarist, improviser and composer studying at Columbia University. While at Columbia, he has studied composition under Fabien Levy, Tristan Murail, and Arthur Kampela. His interests include alternate systems of temperament, spectral harmony and improvisation within structured composition. He was recently chosen to participate in a special reading of a new orchestral work performed by members of the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Youth Symphony.  He made his Miller Theatre debut with Columbia Classical Performers premiering a piece for string quartet. His music has been performed by Talea Ensemble, Counter Induction and fourbythree.  Graduating from Columbia in May 2010, he hopes to pursue graduate studies around the world.

Receptive Asphasia
performed by Argento

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The Grid (Symbols + Numbers + Text) [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, April 21
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A diverse pianist/composer of great imagination, David Broome’s curiosity for music has led him to create new possibilities for the concert stage. David has experimented and performed in nearly every musical genre from classical to rap, jazz, gospel, musical theater, big-band, and heavy metal, among others. His recitals have been appreciated in America and across Europe and he has been described in the New York Times as a “deft and focused performer,” and as an artist who composes “juicily atmospheric music.” David regularly performs with and writes music for Ensemble Pamplemousse, as well as more theatrical, performance art groups – Tall Brown Boots and Corky Has a Band. David holds a Master’s of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s of Music from Towson University where he studied with Phillip Kawin and Reynaldo Reyes.

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for Patrick Kermann [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by L’Arsenale, April 22
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After a Diploma on Pianoforte (teacher: M. Aiello), and a Degree on Philosophy (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia; supervisors: Prof. L. Perissinotto, Prof. L.V. Tarca), Nicola Buso receievd his Diploma on Electronic Music in Venice (Conservatorio B. Marcello, Venezia; teacher: A. Vidolin). He has attended Masterclasseses on composition (A. Guarnieri, H. Lachenmann, G. Ligeti) and conducting (L. Descev), and has collaborated with the Archivio Luigi Nono (Venezia); his compositions have been performed in Italy, Poland, and Germany. His current interests deal with live coding and hypertextual hermeneutics.

Cythére: a trauma ballet in two parts [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by the Calder Quartet, April 20
Myspace

Lisa R. Coons studied composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City during her undergraduate degree and received her master’s from SUNY Stony Brook. Presently a graduate student at Princeton University, her portfolio includes music for acoustic and electronic instruments, turntables, traditional ensembles and even amplified percussion sculptures. She received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2005 for her string quartet Awkward Music and an Honorable Mention in 2009 for Cross-Sections, her electric guitar quartet. Lisa lives in New York and is a member of the composers collective called, simply, The Collected.

Skrzyp Skrzyn [2010] (World Premiere)
2010 MATA Festival Commission
Performed by the Calder Quartet, April 20
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Composer and percussionist Nathan Davis makes music inspired by natural processes, acoustic phenomena, and the abstraction of simple stories. He has received commissions from the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Ojai Festival (for Eighth Blackbird and an installation by sound-sculptor Trimpin), Ethos Percussion Group, Concert Artists Guild, and the Moving Theater Dance Company, and received awards from the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MTC’s Commissioning Music/USA, Argosy Foundation, ASCAP, and the ISCM. Nathan’s music has been performed in the U.S., Canada, Cuba, Europe, Scandinavia, and China, in NYC’s Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, Roulette, LPR, and The Stone, and is available on his solo electroacoustic percussion cd, Memory Spaces, on flutist Claire Chase’s debut Aliento, and on a forthcoming monograph release from ICE. He tours extensively in the cello/percussion duo Odd Appetite and is a member of ICE, and he has recorded for Mode, Tzadik, New Albion, Bridge, and Cold Blue record

Bad Blood [2010] (World Premiere)
2010 MATA Festival Commission
Performed by Lisa Moore, April 21
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New Music Up Late

Julian Day is a composer and sound/visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Described as “an epic and intimate formalist”, Julian is interested in creating evocative and lush works through simple yet surprising means. He is also drawn to dark and obsessive themes such as obsolescence, damage and defeat. Julian is an alumni of the Bang On A Can Summer Institute of Music. He directs the organ ensemble An Infinity Room (A.I.R) and co-directs Super Critical Mass, a performance/installation project for up to 100 identical instruments. Additionally Julian is a well-known broadcaster, hosting New Music Up Late on ABC Classic FM.

Symbiosis II [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, April 21
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Ensemble Pamplemousse

Flautist and composer Natacha Diels was born in Los Angeles in 1981 and spent most of her childhood in New Mexico. In 2002 Natacha founded the new music group Ensemble Pamplemousse (inc. 2004), with the purpose of commissioning and performing electroacoustic works for chamber ensemble. Her recent endeavors include collaboration with Jessie Marino in the performance duo On Structure (music + motion); flautist of Red Light New Music (virtuosic avant-garde chamber music); and Tall Brown Boots (improvisation with a theatrical edge). Natacha has participated as a performer and composer in new music and art festivals worldwide, including Ostrava Days, Soaring Gardens, Seedlot, Harold Arts, and summer school at STEIM. She is dedicated to helping others learn to incorporate technology and music, and has taught workshops at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Montessori School of Raleigh; the Upper Catskill Community Center for the Arts; and Hartwick College.

Nest [2009-10]
Performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, April 21
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Rama Gottfried (b. 1977) holds degrees in composition from the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and the University of Vermont. His primary teachers have included Walter Zimmerman, Marc Sabat, Nils Vigeland, Reiko Fueting, Justin Dello Joio, and Ernest Stires. Since 2002, he has been composer in residence with New York based Ensemble Pamplemousse exploring instrumental and electro-acoustic techniques, conceptual curation, and installation performance. Currently he is working on his PhD in composition and acoustics at the University of California, Berkeley.

On Structure II [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, April 21
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Andrew Greenwald (eend3ru: gri:nwald) 1. v. producing work which satisfies fascinations with the extremes of duration, density, texture, and their collective absence. 2. n. a composer who has been programmed by The Vancouver Jazz Festival, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge, Darmstadt Essential Repertoire of the Avant-Garde at Issue Project Room, HI-Fi New Music, the International Supercollider Symposium, and the 2010 MATA Festival among many others. 3. v. finishing a graduate degree in the composition program at Wesleyan University while working with advisor Alvin Lucier.

WORDS ARE MISSING or Six Ears, I’d Like To Have [2008/10] (World Premiere)
MATA Sound Works April 20-22
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Antye Greie (aka AGF) is a vocalist, software musician, producer, and e-poet. She was born and raised in East Germany and developed an early interest for music, poetry and philosophy. AGF became interested in the artistic exploration of digital technology, which is manifested on her first solo record, Head Slash Bauch (on Orthlorng Musork), where she translated fragments of HTML script and software manuals into a form of electronic poetry and deconstructed pop. Her follow-up record, Westernization Completed, won an Award of Distinction at the 2004 Ars Electronica festival. Her work was rewarded with a cover story on the May issue of the UK Wire Magazine 2006. She runs her own label AGF Producktion and has collaborated with Vladislav Delay, Craig Armstrong, Kataryna Zavoloka, and QUIO. She also performs and records with the laptop quartet Lappetites, which also includes Eliane Radigue, Kaffe Matthews, and Ryoko Akama. Exploring a personal form of poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and in the world wide web, her entrancing live performance and sound installations have been all over the world in museums, auditoriums, theaters, concert halls and clubs. AGF lives and works in Hailuoto/ Finland.

REGRESS [2008]
MATA Sound Works April 20-22
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My name is Bjørn Erik Haugen, and I have an MA from the National Academy in Oslo 2007. I work mainly with photo, sound and video installation. I work from a conceptual platform where the idea to the work comes before the material, media or way of expression. I make political works.

My intention is that my works shall make the viewer reflect and discuss the specualtive and spectacular of what we see on the screens and surfaces that surrounds us in our daily life, with that I mean everything from commercial boards, banners, internet and computer games to TV and video.

My works has been shown on the annual national autumn exhibition in Norway, and have been screened in Wienna, Barcelona, Sweden, Germany, England and in USA. The National TV Channel in Norway, NRK, has also shown an excerpt of one of my videos on TV.

I held my first soloexhibition at the Photogallery in Oslo in December and attended a sound art exhibition at Henie Onstad Art Center November 2008. I will have three solo exhibitions in Norway and Sweden in 2009/2010.

Procession in remembrance from Two Modules for sketches of miniatures [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by Argento Chamber Ensemble, April 22
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Brahim Kerkour was born and grew up in Rabat, MOROCCO. He is currently ABD in the doctoral program at Columbia University under the supervision of Fabien Levy. He received his B.A. from Connecticut College having studied composition and music technology with Noel Zahler. His interests in the perception of musical space, energy, and timbre, and the sculpting of sound, have led him to compose works for acoustic instruments, electronics, and mixed media.

Weeds, Grass, Rock, Slope [2009]
Performed by Argento Chamber Ensemble, April 22

Michelle holds degrees in double bass and in composition from UC San Diego. Additional studies include the Conservatorio G. Nicolini in Piacenza and the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz, the latter as a Fulbright Fellow. Michelle has had her music performed by ensemble ascolta at Donaueschingen Musiktage and Wien Modern and by Ensemble SurPlus at concerts in the US and Germany. She has been invited by the Arditti Quartet to participate in workshops in Blonay, Switzerland culminating in a performance at the 2010 Darmstadt Ferienkurse. Michelle is currently a doctoral student at Stanford University studying with Brian Ferneyhough.

Orizzonte [2005]
Performed by Lisa Moore, April 21
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Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” by the New York Times. Her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, the Minnesota Orchestra, the South Carolina Philharmonic, NOW Ensemble and many others. Upcoming projects include a performance by the American Composers Orchestra, and performances of her chamber opera, Song from the Uproar, at Bard College and on the New York City Opera’s VOX series. She is the recipient of three ASCAP Young Composer Awards, a Fulbright Grant, and grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Barlow Endowment. In 2006 Missy taught beginning composition at Yale University, and is now very very happy to be Executive Director of the MATA Festival in New York City.

Monuments (Crystal) [2010] (World Premiere)
MATA Sound Works April 20-22
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Ne(x)tworks
TILT Brass

Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career in the contemporary arts as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that “…with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York.” He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings that often incorporate improvisation within notation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band , and collaborative efforts such as Ne(x)tworks. His trombone skills have been utilized in groups such as SEM Ensemble, Flexible Orchestra, The Knights, and the Darmstadt series, and in composer-led projects of Zeena Parkins, David First, Michael Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Charles Waters, Jonathan Bepler (w/ Matthew Barney), and Anthony Coleman. Recordings of his performance work can be heard on New World, Tzadik, and Mode Records, and on Archive.org. In his composing, McIntyre has experimented with conceptual elements such as spatialization, recontextualized notated material, and improvisative strategy, along with ideas of scale, symmetrical pitch constructions, and self-similarity. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT (Brass Band and SIXtet), Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. He has created original music for filmmaker Redmond Entwistle (Monuments) and visual artist José Alvarez. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is active as a curator and concert producer. He is currently Artistic Director of the MATA Festival , and frequently presents independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info.

qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq [2009]
Performed by David Broome, Lorna Krier and the composer, April 21
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Myspace

Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics. The challenge of elegance provokes his work in acoustic and electronic music, and physical and digital art. WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” His work has been performed internationally by ensembles including Bang on a Can, Calder Quartet and Ensemble Pamplemousse at venues from the Whitney Museum and Issue Project Room to Zipper Hall. The Village Voice calls his circuit-in-a-CD-case album, 1-Bit Music, “technology and aesthetic rolled into one.” His new circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony, a long-form electronic composition in five movements, will be released by Cantaloupe Music this Spring. He was awarded in 2009 by Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica, and was commissioned by Rhizome for an audio installation with 1,500 speakers. In 2009, Perich had a solo exhibition of his visual artwork at bitforms gallery in New York, and will do a residency this Spring at Mikrogalleriet in Copenhagen.

Veglia [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by L’Arsenale and Argento Chamber Ensemble, April 22
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L’Arsenale

Filippo Perocco received his degree in Composition at the Conservatory in Venice. Awarded in different competitions, he has been Composer in residence at the European Centre for the Arts “KunstForum Hellerau” in Dresden (2006), Italian Arts Fellowship – Composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome (2008), Fulbright (2009). Works commissioned and performed by Holland Symphonia, Dresdner Sinfonikern, Young Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta, Ensemble Vocal Modern, IXION ensemble, Vokalensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ensemble Aleph, Accroche Note, Algoritmo, KAIDA, ASTRA Choir, COROinCANTO, broadcasted by NPS Holland, Radio Belgrado, SBS Melbourne, BBC Radio 3, Polski Radio and premiered in different festivals as Gaudeamus, Venice Biennale, Manca Nice, Aspekte Salzsburg, MATA Festival New York Finestre sul ‘900, Zèppelin Festival Barcellona, Rencontres Musiques Nouvelles Lunel, The New London Wind Festival, International Review of Composers Belgrade, The Brighton Festival, Astra Concerts Melbourne, Warsaw Autumn. He studies orchestral conductorship with Emilio Pomàrico at the International Academy of Music in Milan and Sylvain Cambreling at the EuropaChorAkademie in Mainz. He is the founder and artistic director of the ensemble L’Arsenale. His works are published by ArsPublica and Doblinger.

Mi(e)s(e)-En-AbîMe II [2007] (World Premiere)
Performed by Argento Chamber Ensemble, April 22
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Myspace
Ensemble Modelo 62

Alexander Sigman (b. 1980) is currently in the dissertation phase of the doctoral program in Music Composition at Stanford University, having studied primarily with Brian Ferneyhough. He has pursued further post-graduate study with Chaya Czernowin at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (2007), and attended the one-year intensive course of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands) during 2007-2008. Prior to Stanford, Sigman obtained a BM in Music Composition and a BA in Cognitive Sciences from Rice University. Since 2007, he has been Co-Editor of Search Journal for New Music and Culture (www.searchnewmusic.org) and Managing Director of Ensemble Modelo62 (www.modelo62.com).

Honky Tonk Toccata [2009]
Performed by Lisa Moore, April 21
Myspace

Paul Swartzel is a composer and pianist from Raleigh, North Carolina currently in graduate school at Duke University. His music has been performed by such people as the Duke New Music Ensemble, eighth blackbird, Evan Ziporyn, Todd Reynolds, and Katie Geissinger. Among his honors include 2 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. He attended the Bang on a Can Summer Festival in 2008 and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2009. His research interests include the music of Oliver Knussen, the Eighties, and the history of entrance music in professional wrestling. Paul likes to think that his music is not in bad taste but rather about the perception and appreciation of bad taste.

Singing and Dancing [2008]
Performed by the Calder Quartet, April 20
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Fabian Svensson is a composer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
His music has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Klang in the Netherlands, Sentieri selvaggi in Italy and the Calder Quartet in the USA. In 2005, Fabian co-founded KROCK, an ensemble of electric guitars. For this group he has written a number of pieces, the most ambitious to date being Tillvaratagna effekter, an hour-long modern-day “concerto” for violin soloist and an expanded version of the ensemble, with a line-up of 2 recorders, 2 melodicas, 6 electric guitars, 2 bass guitars and timpani.

Three times, in 2002, 2006 and 2007, works by Fabian have been shortlisted for the Dutch, prestigious Gaudeamus prize. In 2008 he was chosen as the winner of the Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition, and in 2009 he won the 2nd UnCaged Toy Piano Competition.

Besides composing, Fabian is active as a melodica player, often playing melodica parts in his own works.

Giorni smègi e lombidiosi [2010] (World Premiere)
Performed by L’Arsenale, April 22
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Lorenzo Tomio obtained a first-class Master-degree in classical guitar (his thesis is entitled: “Spectral Music. Tellur by Tristan Murail”) and studied composition at the Conservatoire of Adria.

He was a finalist at the international composition contest ‘Musica e arte’ in Rome. His pieces have been published by ArsPublica, recorded on CD by labels such as AliaMusica (Compositori a Confronto, 2005), RES and GiardiniSonori, broadcasted by Klang RadioBase and performed in Italy (Roma-Auditorium Parco della Musica, Venice, Treviso, Padua and Reggio Emilia) and abroad (Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Slovenia and the USA).

He composes music for film and television (in co-production with RAI e Mediaset), theatre and dance. Moreover, he makes sound installations and sound designs for several expositions. He is guitarist and co-promoter of the contemporary music ensemble L’Arsenale and of the experimental theatre group ‘Plumes dans la tête’, witch which he participated in several festivals, including Uovo-Milano, DrodeseraFies-Trento, Es.Tenri 07 and 08-Terni and MladaLevi-Slovenia.

Alchimie de la douler
Performed by L’arsenale

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Breaking a Curtained Haze [2009]
Performed by L’Arsenale, April 22

Stefano Trevisi (Mantova, 1974) studied Composition with Mario Garuti and Electronic Music with Francesco Giomi. His works were performed in music festivals such as Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Primavera en la Habana (Cuba), Zeppelin (Barcelona), V BIMESP (São Paulo), RaiNuovaMusica (Turin), Acousmania (Bucarest), Sonic Fusion Festival (Edinburgh), Synthèse (Bourges), Licenses (Paris), E-Nacht (Stuttgart), Biennale Musica (Venice), Traiettorie (Parma), REC (Reggio Emilia), Ai-Maako (Santiago de Chile), CrowdenMusicCentre (Berkeley), EMUfest (Rome) and 44th International summer courses (Darmstadt). His compositions were selected in several competitions, such as 29th, 33rd and 36th International Competition of Bourges, Gaudeamus Music Prize 2002, and Franco Evangelisti 2003 and 2006 (Rome). His works are published by RAI Trade (Rome). He’s working as a teacher of mathematics and music informatics.

Glitch [2009]
Performed by the Calder Quartet, April 20
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Myspace

Daniel Wohl is a Paris-born composer who writes for a variety of instruments that range from computers and slide whistles to orchestras, chamber ensembles and string quartets. He has been commissioned and worked with artists such as Vicki Ray, Eighth Blackbird, the California E.A.R Unit, Calder Quartet, TRANSIT, NY Youth Symphony, Dither, Mantra, Da Capo, St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra amongst others, and his music has been heard at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Disney Hall’s Redcat, Chelsea Art Museum, Mass MoCA, the Dia Beacon, and on PBS. Upcoming projects include a large scale work for TRANSIT commissioned by Meet the Composer, a piece for 4 electric guitars and 4 percussionists commissioned by the Dither and Mantra quartets, and a multi-media instrumental song cycle commissioned by the Jerome Foundation. Daniel currently lives in Brooklyn, and teaches courses in composition and theory at Sarah Lawrence College.

Totem for Gobi – New York
for interactive audio and video [2010] (World Premiere)
2010 MATA Festival Commission
Performed by the composer and special guest improvisers, April 19
MATA Sound Works April 20-22
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Blindman

Matt Wright (Born 1977, Norwich, UK) works as a composer, turntablist and sound artist at the edges of concert and club culture. Erosion, non-linear networks, the idea of music ‘at the edge of collapse’ and the dialogue between ‘stillness’ and ‘speed’ are recurrent themes in his work and he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Evan Parker, Ensemble Klang and The Percussion Group of Hague and worked in venues such as Abbey Road studios and Tate Modern (London), De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam) and Bunkier Stzuki (Krakow). His output is available on a number of labels and has been streamed online, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and ABC Classic FM (Australia), London’s Resonance 104.4FM and the UK’s Channel 4 television. This 2010 MATA commission forms the first part of the Totem Project, a series of large scale works to be created for organizations and ensembles in New York, The Hague and Brussels.

Improvisation with Evan Parker, saxophone

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Among Europe’s most innovative and intriguing saxophonists, Evan Parker’s solos and playing style are distinguished by his creative use of circular breathing and false fingering. Parker can generate furious bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, and spiraling lines and phrases and his solo sax work isn’t for the squeamish. He’s one of the few players not only willing but eager to demonstrate his affinity for late-period John Coltrane. Parker worked with a Coltrane-influenced quartet in Birmingham in the early ’60s. Upon resettling in London in 1965, Parker began playing with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. He joined them in 1967 and remained until 1969. Parker met guitarist Derek Bailey while in the group, and the duo formed the Music Improvisation Company in 1968. Parker played with them until 1971, and also began working with the Tony Oxley Sextet in the late ’60s. Parker started playing extensively with other European free music groups in the ’70s, notably the Globe Unity Orchestra, as well as its founder Alexander von Schlippenbach’s trio and quartet. Parker, Bailey, and Oxley co-formed Incus Records in 1970 and continued operating it through the ’80s. Parker also played with Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath and other groups with Bailey, and did duet sessions with John Stevens and Paul Lytton, as well as giving several solo concerts. Parker’s albums as a leader and his collaborations are all for various foreign labels; they can be obtained through diligent effort and mail-order catalogs.

www.larsenale.com

Founded in Treviso by young musicians and composers under the artistic/musical direction of Filippo Perocco, L’Arsenale aims to bridge the divide between writing music and making music, between conceiving a sound and the gesture needed to produce that sound, between the lifetime of a sound and the space it lives and dies in. A special feature of the group is its flexibility, easily changing personnel in its keenly attentive explorations of the new work coming from young composers in the vast field of contemporary music.

From its inception, L’Arsenale has devoted much of its activity to commissions and first performances of new music. To date the group has given world premiéres to more than thirty pieces, working in close collaboration with composers such as Andrew Byrne, David Lang, Michael Gordon and Camille Roy, and thanks also to the cooperation of international organizations such as Sacem – Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique.

The ensemble’s objective is to explore the languages belonging to the world of modern and contemporary music through its extensive repertoire, which stretches from the historical avant-garde of Messiaen, Stravinsky and Schönberg to composers such as Ligeti, Berio, Stockhausen, Morton Feldman and Toru Takemitsu, and takes in the minimalism of Louis Andriessen, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, and the sound researches of Salvatore Sciarrino, Gerard Grisey, Iannis Xenakis and Giacinto Scelsi.

Collaborating with various associations, the group has taken part in numerous contemporary music festivals, such as Metaarte, cZ95 in Venice, ‘Compositori a Confronto’ in Reggio Emilia and many others.

In 2007 it performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale.

From its foundation L’Arsenale has been resident ensemble at the Teatro delle Voci, as well as collaborating with Fabio Vacchi in his composition classes at the Accademia Musicale Villa Ca’ Zenobio, both in Treviso.

In 2008 it also worked with a composition course organized by the Kairòs association and given by Riccardo Vaglini.

There are concerts programmed for the near future in collaboration with two major institutions in Rome, the Goethe Institute and the American Academy, and with the German Centre for Venetian Studies in Venice.

www.argentomusic.org

The Argento Chamber Ensemble is the performance arm of the Argento New Music Project. Consisting of nine dedicated members, the ensemble regularly expands to perform and record chamber orchestra works of up to thirty musicians, and has established a reputation for delivering unforgettable performances.

The Ensemble has toured widely in the US and abroad in festivals including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the International Festival of Spectral Music in Istanbul, Turkey, the American Festival of Microtonal Music in New York, Sounds French Festival in New York, The Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, and the International Festival of Electro-acoustic music, Shanghai. Tours to Asia and the Middle East included collaborations with non-Western musicians such as singer Kani Karaça.

The group has worked closely with leading composers such as Pierre Boulez, Tania Leon, Tristan Murail, Elliott Carter, Philippe Hurel, Gerard Pesson, Joshua Fineberg, and Philippe Leroux, and has collaborated with younger emerging composers internationally and at leading universities such as Columbia, Princeton, and Stonybrook.

The Ensemble’s first recording, featuring the music of Tristan Murail, was released in January of 2007 on the AEON label with distribution through Harmonia Mundi. The recording immediately received critical acclaim worldwide. Recordings of Philippe Hurel and Alexandre Lunsqui are slated for release in the 2008–2009 season. The ensemble has also recorded surround sound installation works, and has produced a complete video and audio recording of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire for online education.

Argento’s reputation has been the result of its long history as a chamber ensemble since 2000, demanding technical preparation, and a probing interpretive commitment to the music.

www.lisamoore.org

Australian-American pianist Lisa Moore lives in New York City where she collaborates with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists. The New York Times says “her energy is illuminating” and the New Yorker magazine called her “visionary” and “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano”. Moore has released 5 solo discs (Cantaloupe and Tall Poppies labels) and 30 collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG, Point, New World, ABC Classics, Albany and New Albion). Her latest solo recording “Seven” (music by Don Byron) has just been released on Cantaloupe. Two more solo Cantaloupe EPs are scheduled for release in 2010 featuring original music by composers Annie Gosfield and Donnacha Dennehy.

Lisa Moore’s performances combine musical and emotional power — whether in the delivery of the simplest song, the most challenging chamber work or complex solo score. She is passionately dedicated to the music of our time as well as the great musical canon. Moore has collaborated with composers from many musical genres — Elliot Carter, Iannis Xenakis, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, Thurston Moore and Ornette Coleman to name just a few. Her wide-ranging repertoire spans from Robert Schumann, Leos Janacek and Modeste Mussorgsky to music and text settings by Randy Newman, Frederic Rzewski and Kurt Schwitters. Past solo shows include “ipiano: my brilliant career”, “Wilde’s World”, “The Totally Wired Piano”, “Janacek from the street” and “Musically Speaking”. Moore has given concerts at La Scala, the Musikverein, the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. She has made many guest appearances at festivals – The Holland, Lincoln Center, Schleswig-Holstein, BBC Proms, Israel, Warsaw, Uzbekistan, Musica Ficta Lithuania, Prague Spring, Istanbul, Athens, Taormina, Southbank’s Meltdown, Dublin’s Crash, Graz, Huddersfield, Scotia, Paris d’Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Turin, Palermo, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Berlin, Perugia, Tanglewood, Houston Da Camera, Jacob’s Pillow, Aspen, Norfolk, Sandpoint, Saratoga, Victoriaville, Ojai, Other Minds, NY’s Sonic Boom, BAM Next Wave, MassMoca, Bang on a Can, Keys to the Future, Healing The Divide, Mizzou, Music 10 Blonay, Adelaide, Perth, Queensland, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney’s Olympic Arts, Sydney Spring, Sydney Mostly Mozart, Brisbane Biennale, and the Darwin Festival.

Lisa Moore has performed with the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, St. Lukes Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Steve Reich Ensemble, So Percussion, Don Byron Adventurers Orchestra, Signal, Third Coast Percussion,, Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Dresher Double Duo, Mabou Mines Theater, Susan Marshall Dance Co, Sequitur, Newband, Music at the Anthology, The Crosstown Ensemble, Australia Ensemble, Westchester Philharmonic, New York League of Composers ISCM, Newband, Alpha Centauri Ensemble, Terra Australis, Essential Music, and the John Jasperse Dance Company. As a concerto soloist she has appeared with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany, Sydney, Tasmania, Thai and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, Philharmonia Virtuosi and the Queensland Philharmonic, under the baton of conductors Reinbert de Leeuw, Pierre Boulez, Jorge Mester and Edo de Waart.

Lisa Moore won the silver medal in the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. From 1992-2008 she was the pianist and founding member for the Bang On A Can All-Stars — the New York based electro-acoustic sextet and winner of Musical America’s 2005 “Ensemble of the Year” Award. As an artistic curator she most recently produced Australia’s Canberra International Music Festival “Sounds Alive ‘08” series, importing musicians from around the world for 10 days of music making at the Street Theatre.

Lisa Moore teaches at the Yale-Norfolk New Music Workshop Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University as well as making guest teaching appearances at conservatories around the world. She was born in Canberra and raised in Australia and London before moving to the USA in 1980. Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stonybrook. For more Moore please visit www.lisamoore.org

www.ensemblepamplemousse.org

Founded in 2002 as a vehicle for musical exploration, Pamplemousse presents concerts of extraordinary focus and clarity. Comprised of virtuosic musicians trained in classical, electronic, and improvisational realms, the group consistently delivers fresh, exhilarating new concepts in sound. The members’ eagerness for aural discovery has allowed for ample experimentation processes, where boundaries are non-existent, and from which a strong dialogue has emerged. Among the group’s vernacular resides formerly unfathomable sound landscapes formed by the acute relationships the performers have forged with each other, and with the composers who are an intrinsic part of the ensemble. The product, uncompromising and resolutely beautiful, is created by incredibly innovative, yet-to-be-named approaches to performance and composition.

www.calderquartet.com

Inspired by the innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet continues to expand its unique array of projects by performing traditional quartet repertoire as well as partnering with innovative modern composers, emerging musicians, and performers across genres. The group was awarded the 2009 ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award in recognition of its exciting programming and collaborations.

As quartet-in-residence at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, the Calder performs twice yearly at Zipper Hall. In December of 2008, the group collaborated with Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng on the Thomas Ades quintet. Season highlights this year include a return to La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, as well as recent performances at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Lied Center at the University of Kansas, and the Beeline Festival at MIT. Their live performance on New York’s WNYC-FM in 2008 was voted one of the “Best of 2008.”

This year has been monumental for the quartet with unique collaborations with artists ranging from Terry Riley to party rocker Andrew W.K.. The Calder Quartet has been teaming up extensively with indie rock band The Airborne Toxic Event, including performances on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, the Late Show with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and at Coachella Music and Arts Festival.

The quartet has long-standing relationships with pivotal composers Terry Riley and Christopher Rouse. The Calder Quartet met Riley when they shared a concert as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Minimalist Jukebox Festival in 2006, and continues to spend time studying his works and making personal recordings for Riley. The Calder is also the first quartet in two decades to have a work written for them by composer Christopher Rouse. Carnegie Hall, New Haven’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, La Jolla Music Society, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival have co-commissioned Rouse to write a new quartet for the Calder, which premieres in New Haven in June 2010. The quartet has also recorded a Christopher Rouse album to be released on the E1 label.

In 2008, the Calder Quartet released its first album featuring the music of Thomas Ades, Mozart, and Ravel. Strings Magazine called the album “an almost delirious display of rich coloration and complex textures.” They had the special opportunity to work with visual artist Dave Muller on the album artwork and were able to expand their relationship with Thomas Ades by working directly with the composer on a performance of Arcadiana as part of the Green Umbrella Series at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in May 2008.

The Calder Quartet continues its relationship with the Carlsbad Music Festival, an alternative classical music festival, which the group co-founded with composer Matt McBane in 2004. The festival presents concerts in both San Diego and Los Angeles as well as outreach programs and a composers commissioning competition. Commissioned works for the Calder Quartet through the Carlsbad Music Festival include a piece by Tristan Perich incorporating 1-bit electronics and a piece by Christine Southworth using robotic instruments. By the end of 2009, there will be eight original quartets commissioned for the Calder by the Carlsbad Music Festival.

The Calder Quartet has studied together at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Ronald Leonard, and at the Juilliard School, where it received the Artist Diploma in Chamber Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet. They have also studied with Professor Eberhard Feltz at the Hochschule fűr Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and collaborated with such notable performers as Menahem Pressler and Joseph Kalichstein. They have enjoyed performances in venues and festivals across the country and have been featured in some of the nation’s top publications and radio stations.