MATA Presents 2025

MATA Presents: VAPOURS + Charmaine Lee (solo) + Lea Bertucci (solo)

Saturday, March 8, 2025
Church of Advent Hope
233 BUTLER ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 11217

Vapours by Lea Bertucci  is a piece for string quartet and electronics commissioned by Quartetto Maurice and premiered in Italy at the group's Musica in Prossimita Festival in 2021. Vapours uses shifting states of fluid dynamics as a metaphor for perception and truth in the age of unknowing. With electronics, the ensemble expands and contracts between acoustic instruments and sound system, creating a dynamic and mesmeric meditation on the nature of perception. Although performed widely throughout Europe over the past five years, this performance at Public Records will be the New York premiere of the piece.

Featuring:

Conrad Harris (violin)
Pauline Kim Harris (violin)
Joanna Mattrey (viola)
Alex Waterman (cello)
Lea Bertucci (electronics)

2025 MATA Presents Artists

Lea Bertucci

Lea Bertucci is a composer, performer, and sound designer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her practice with woodwind instruments, she incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, timbral techniques, and tape collage.

Charmaine Lee

Charmaine Lee is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee's practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation.

Music at the Anthology (MATA) was founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa and has become the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for adventurous emerging music artists experimenting with composition, multimedia, and collaborative performance art. MATA presents, supports, and commissions new music by early-career composers at an internationally recognized concert festival each spring in NYC.

MATA’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Tickets:

$20 in advance/$30 at the door