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SUMMARY:The Music of Salvatore Sciarrino
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is excited to present flutist Christopher Schelb and pianist Michael Tan in an all Sciarrino program. Schelb will perform selections from “L’opera per Flauto\, Vol. 1” and Tan will perform four of Sciarrino’s Nocturnes. There is something very particular that characterizes the music of Salvatore Sciarrino: it leads to a different kind of listening. \nSciarrino’s “L’opera per Flauto\, Vol. 1” (1990) is a collection of seven pieces for solo flute\, each dating between the years between 1977 and 1990. Each piece is meant to stand alone as a single work. The single exception is the fact that “Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi?” and “Canzona di ringraziamento” are linked with an attacca. Many sounds heard in L’opera per flauto are a result of approximately twenty years of Sciarrino’s work on developing new flute sonorities. Other sounds\, such as harmonics and breathy air sounds\, were common property of contemporary composers\, but Sciarrino believes they are often attributed to him because he feels they are so well incorporated and appropriately used in his music. He feels that as immodest as it seems\, each of the L’opera compositions is a legitimization of these modern sounds. \nSciarrino’s Due Notturni (1998) and Due Notturni Crudeli (2001) are evocative sets of pieces that explore the extreme boundaries of perception and audibility. Due Notturni investigates the thresholds of silence and resonance. It utilizes extended techniques that distort the resonance of the instrument and shimmering quiet sounds and cascading gestures. In particular\, the second piece of the set creates an effect as if the piano had been turned inside out as the listener is drawn to the barely audible inner workings of the instrument. Due Notturni Crudeli meanwhile explores boundaries through opposite means. The first piece features repeated chords in the highest register persistently played at fortissimo while the second uses a brutal\, rapid gesture from pianissimo to fortissimo. This forms a background of relentless sound from which silence occasionally emerges. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nfrom L’opera per flauto\, Vol. 1 \nCome Vengono Prodotti Gli Incantesimi?\nCanzona di ringraziamento\nVenere Che le Grazie la Fiorscono\nL’orizzonte luminoso di Aton \nChristopher Schelb\, flute \nDue Notturni (1998)\nI. Vivo volando\nII. Non troppo lento \nDue Notturni Crudeli (2001)\nI. Senza tempo e scandito\nII. Furia\, metallo \nMichael P. Tan\, piano \n  \n  \nTHE PERFORMERS \nMichael P. Tan is a Guam-born pianist currently based in New York. Mr. Tan is an avid proponent of 20th and 21st century music and has extensively performed around the United States and abroad. He has commissioned works by several composers including Matthew Greenbaum and has performed with ensembles including the Temple New Music Ensemble and the NYU Contemporary Ensemble. His musical achievements have been recognized through the Olga Gagliardi Getto Award (2012)\, the Elmer Y. Yarnell Scholarship (2013)\, and Jacobs Music Company Steinway Award (2015) for “outstanding pianistic ability\, musicianship\, and artistic and academic achievement.” In addition to his musical interests\, he has been involved with cross-disciplinary work\, participating in a Thirdbird’s workshop series with choreographers Matteo Fargion and Jonathan Burrows in 2015. His work has been presented at the 2016 Dada Lives! Exhibition at UC Blue Ash College and published in MetaDada: The International Journal of Data Mining. He holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from Temple University and is currently pursuing an M.M. at New York University\, where he serves as Adjunct Instructor of Piano. His teachers include Mr. Harvey Wedeen and Dr. Marilyn Nonken. \n  \nChris Schelb “I am a flutist and composer who is passionately engaged with contemporary music. I have always been attracted to the sonorities and sheer audacity of modernist composers— the complexity of Brian Ferneyhough and Salvatore Sciarrino and their marvelous timbres were doorways into fresh sonic worlds. I’ve slowly begun to move outwards; exploring composers such as Richard Barrett and James Dillon. these composers\, while extremely diverse in sound world\, have created a compositional language which I find extremely appealing. I currently study with David Cramer at Temple University. Over the past four years I have also studied with notable new music pedagogues such as Patricia Spencer\, Mario Caroli\, and Robert Aitken. In the Fall of 2016 I will be moving to Wales to study with Richard Craig and specialize in the interpretation of New Complexity.” \n  \nTHE COMPOSER \nSalvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947) is\, along with Luciano Berio\, among the most important Italian composers of contemporary music. Self-taught\, he began to compose when he was twelve. His first public concert was given in 1962. After completing his schooling and a few years of university in his home town\, he moved first to Rome in 1969 and then to Milan in 1977. Since 1983 he was been living in Umbria. He has taught at the conservatories of Milan (1974-1983)\, Perugia (1983-1987) and Florence (1987-1996). He has also held courses of specialization and master classes: particularly worth mentioning are those of Città di Castello from 1979 to 2000. Between 1978 and 1980 he was artistic director of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. An Academician of Santa Cecilia (Rome)\, Academician of the Fine Arts of Bavaria and Academician of the Arts (Berlin)\, he has won numerous prizes\, the most recent ones being the Prince Pierre de Monaco (2003) and the prestigious Premio Internazionale Feltrinelli (2003). He is also the first winner of the new Musikpreis Salzburg (2006).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-music-of-salvatore-sciarrino/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pierluigi Billone's 1+1=1 for Two Bass Clarinets
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the Philadelphia premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s “1+1=1”\, an 80 minute exploration into the boundless terrain of two bass clarinets performed by the California based duo of Samuel Dunscombe and Curt Miller. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann\, Billone’s music can sound elemental and primordial\, yet at the same time achingly human. In “1+1=1”\, a deliberate pacing and frequent pianissimo dynamic makes for an inward inquiry into the character of the bass clarinet while the doubling of the instrument allows for an pulsating resonance of microtonal shifts.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pierluigi-billones-111-for-two-bass-clarinets/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:R. Andrew Lee performs Epstein\, Houben\, Glass
DESCRIPTION:R. ANDREW LEE\nperforms\nEva-Maria Houben – Go and Stop\nPaul A. Epstein – Changes 3\, Changes 6\, Drawing 6\nPhilip Glass – Etude Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\nWilliam Duckworth – Imaginary Dances
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/r-andrew-lee-performs-epstein-houben-glass-2/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:R. Andrew Lee performs Epstein\, Houben\, Glass
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird is pleased to present pianist R. Andrew Lee at the intimate Biello Martin Studio in Old City Philadelphia. For his Philadelphia premiere\,Lee will be performing works that encompass a variety of styles within minimal music. The first half opens with Eva-Maria Houben’s Go and Stop\, which explores the decay of tones and a series of chords that never seem to quite get moving. In contrast are strictly constructed works by Philadelphia composer Paul A. Epstein\, Changes 3: Palindromes\, Changes 6\, and Drawing No. 6 (horizontal and vertical broken lines). The second half features three etudes by Philip Glass\, Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\, and closes with elegant and exciting Imaginary Dances by William Duckworth. \n  \nTHE PROGRAM \nR. ANDREW LEE\nperforms\nEva-Maria Houben – Go and Stop\nPaul A. Epstein – Changes 3\, Changes 6\, Drawing 6\nPhilip Glass – Etude Nos. 2\, 5\, and 6\nWilliam Duckworth – Imaginary Dances \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST \nPianist R. Andrew Lee is one of the foremost interpreters of minimal music. He has been described as having “consistently impressive solo releases” (New York Times)\, and his CD\, Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music\, was chosen by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as one of the Top 10 Classical Recordings of 2013. He has performed in a number of venues dedicated to experimental music around the world\, including the STUK Arts Centre (Belgium)\, Cafe OTO (London)\, ISSUE Project Room (New York) and Gallery345 (Toronto). He has also been invited to speak and perform at music departments known for their exploration of the avant-garde such as the University of Huddersfield and the California Institute of the Arts. Lee currently teaches at Regis University in Denver\, Colorado\, and was most recently Artist-in-Residence at Avila University. \n  \nABOUT THE VENUE\nThe Biello Martin Studio is the creative sanctuary and gallery of interdisciplinary artist Michael Biello and composer/musician Dan Martin. Biello creates operatic neo-classic crystal chandeliers\, sensually-cascading metallic beads of light\, and whimsical clay light sculptures. Martin is an award-winning composer and music producer and\, with Biello\, has created critically acclaimed musical theatre and performance pieces.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/r-andrew-lee-performs-epstein-houben-glass/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nmperign\, Matt Mitchell\, and Corinna Burns
DESCRIPTION:Sound and text. Food and drink. This intimate evening brings together Nmperign\, the experimental improvisation duo of trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey\, a rare home-city appearance by pianist-composer Matt Mitchell\, and writer-performer Corinna Burns reading from a new solo work. The night takes place at the Biello Martin Studio\, a fanciful space full of operatic neo-classic crystal chandeliers\, sensually cascading metallic beads of light\, and whimsical clay light sculptures. Space is limited to 30 people. Light fare and drink are included with admission. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nFounded in 1998\, Nmperign is the experimental improvisation duo of trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey. Noted for their musical shaping of “slow\, sparse sounds– sounds that approach\, and sometimes achieve\, total silence”\, Rainey and Kelley have collaborated with a wealth of fine musicians\, most notably Jason Lescalleet\, Axel Dorner\, Andrea Neumann\, and Jake Meginsky. Rainey\, once a fixture of the Boston scene\, now calls Philadelphia home\, making this event both a homecoming and a reunion for Nmperign. \nMatt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic\, electric\, composed\, and improvised new music. He has lived in Philadelphia since 1999 and performs regularly in New York City\, throughout the United States and around the world. His album Fiction was released in 2013 on Pi Recordings; it features 15 of his compositions performed in duo with Ches Smith. Other ensembles he leads or co-leads include the Matt Mitchell Quartet with Chris Tordini\, Dan Weiss and Chris Speed\, the duo Fourth Floor with Dan Weiss\, and Normal Remarkable Persons with Tim Berne\, Herb Robertson\, Travis Laplante and Tyshawn Sorey. He is a member of Tim Berne’s Snakeoil\, the Dave Douglas Quintet\, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble\, Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Project\, the Darius Jones Quartet\, Michael Attias’ Spun Tree\, and Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux. He is a 2012 recipient of a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. \nCorinna Burns is a Philadelphia-based actress who has worked with many area companies. Recent credits include: Pay Up! and Isabella with Pig Iron Theatre Company\, August: Osage County with the Arden Theatre\, The English Bride with Theatre Exile\, Phoenix with Flashpoint Theatre Company\, and Little Gem\, Pumpgirl\, and Skin Deep with Inis Nua Theatre Company\, to name a few. She’s a big fan of Bowerbird\, for whom she read Samuel Beckett’s Not I a little while back. \n  \nABOUT THE VENUE \nThe Biello Martin Studio is the creative sanctuary and gallery of interdisciplinary artist Michael Biello and composer/musician Dan Martin. Biello creates operatic neo-classic crystal chandeliers\, sensually-cascading metallic beads of light\, and whimsical clay light sculptures. Martin is an award-winning composer and music producer and\, with Biello\, has created critically acclaimed musical theatre and performance pieces.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/nmperign-matt-mitchell-and-corinna-burns/
LOCATION:Biello Martin Studio\, 148 N 3rd St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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