2011-12 Concert Season
Upcoming:
Argento at the Czech Center, Wednesday, February 8, at 8pm
Moving Sounds Festival 2011
Thursday-Sunday, September 15-18, 2011
For the third year, Argento curates a festival of music, visual media, and aesthetic dialogue in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum. The festival will host Austrian early music specialist Eva Reiter in two expectation-defying performances. Meanwhile, Argento will team up with fourbythree to perform new takes on Austrian and Czech classical music in the Czechsplorations concerts. At the Symposium, electronic and throat music specialist Helge Hinteregger discusses Soundart, spatialization, and internet compositions with a panel of scholars in the fields of music, literature, and philosophy, including George Lewis of Columbia University.
Fontainebleau Contemporain: A 90th Anniversary Event
Saturday, October 1, 2011, 4:00 PM
La Maison Française website
16 Washington Mews, New York map and directions
Tickets: $20; $10 students/Fontainebleau alumni. Information: (212) 998-8750
Concert features composers from 25 years of Le Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau.
Program
Joshua Fineberg - Objets Trouvés for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion - U.S. premiere
Fabien Lévy - Rouge Burri for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Fabien Lévy - Rajeunir, Par Penone for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Richard Carrick - la scène miniature for piano quartet
Amit Gilutz - Improvisation for clarinet and piano
Michel Galante - third etude in speeds for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, keyboard, and marimba - world premiere
Tristan Murail - Feuilles a Travers les Cloches
SONiC Festival - Joyce SoHo
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 10:00 PM; Thursday-Friday October 20-21, 2011, 7:30 PM
Joyce SoHo website
155 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince)
Subway: A/C/E to 14th Street; L to 8th Avenue; 1 to 18th Street
Tickets: (212) 431-9233
As a result of our evening of composer/choreographer collaboration, Argento Chamber Ensemble teams up with Joyce SoHo and SONiC in three performances of brand new music and brand new choreography.
Program
Michael Klingbeil / Darcy Naganuma - New York - world premiere
Michel Galante / Miro Magloire - New York - world premiere
David Fulmer / Deborah Lohse - New York - world premiere
Konrad Kaczmarek / Rebecca Stenn - New York - world premiere
Argento Performers Series
Sundays, November 13 through December 18, 4:00 PM
Saturdays December 3 and December 17, 7:00 PM
Austrian Cultural Forum website
11 East 52nd Street, New York
Subway: B/D/F trains to Rockefeller Center; 6 train to 51st Street; E/M trains to 5 Avenue
Admission free, donation appreciated
Information: (212) 319-5300
Following the success of last year's Lunar Movements series, Argento once again hosts a concert series this fall, now renamed the Argento Performers Series. Each week, Argento highlights one of its world-class musicians in an intimate recital of chamber works. After the concert, audience members are invited to engage the performers and composers in post-concert discussions.
Check back for further details of each week's program.
Residency at Yale University
Thursday, November 10, 2011; Wednesday, February 28, 2012
Concert time and location TBD
Admission free
Argento workshops and performs new works by Yale University composers.
Program - all world premieres
Residency at CUNY Queens College
Monday, November 21, 2011, 7:30 PM
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street map
Admission free
Argento teams up with the Second Instrumental Unit in workshops and performances of new works by QC composers.
Program - all world premieres
Manuel Ciordia - Dreamed Memories
Sean Havrilla - Guts and Glory
Howie Kenty - Clattering in the Wind
Gregory Menillo - Epitaph
Roy Vanegas - Jeisyn
William Wheeler - City Variations
Residency at New York University
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 7:00 PM
220 Silver Center, 24 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003 map
Admission free
Argento workshops and performances of new works by New York University composers.
Program - all world premieres
Rebecca Lentjes - Music in four dimensions
Paul de Vicenzo - New Work
Andrew Fernandez - New Work
Carson Grubb - Song of Welcome
Nevin Reade - New Work
Xiuwu Yang - Rosy Clouds of Dawn
Argento at the Czech Center
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:00 PM
321 E 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021 map
Admission free; donation suggested
Argento previews its 2012 Irish tour highlights.
Program
Enno Poppe - Holz (2000) for solo clarinet with flute, violin, viola, cello, percussion and keyboard
Philippe Hurel - Figures libres (2000)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion
Heinz Holliger - Trema for solo viola
Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (The Wayfarer's Songs)
arranged for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg
Tharanga Goonetilleke, soprano
David Fulmer - Verlöschend for soprano saxophone
World premiere - Eliot Gattegno, saxophone
Argento Tours Ireland and Norway
Tuesday, February 15, 2012, 8:00 PM
The National Concert Hall, Dublin directions
Informtaion: +353 (0)1 417 0000
Program
Heinz Holliger - Trema for solo viola
Michel Galante - Kreutzerspiel for violin and piano
Enno Poppe - Holz (2000) for clarinet and ensemble
Siobhan Cleary - Psychopomp - world premiere
for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion
Philippe Hurel - Figures libres (2000)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion
Anton Webern - Quartet, op. 22 for clarinet, saxophone, violin and piano
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Galway - Private Performance
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:15 PM
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick Lunchtime Concert Series
Tower Theatre map and directions
Admission Free. Information: +353 61 202590
Tuesday, February 16, 2012, 1:00 PM
Harty Room, School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's Univeristy Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland website
Information: +44 (0) 754 299 1371
Tuesday, February 17, 2012
Music in Kilkenny
Kilkenny, Ireland website
Programs include pieces from the following selection
George Aperghis - 280 measures
for solo clarinet
Alban Berg - Adagio from the Chamber Concerto
arranged for piano trio by Michel Galante
Elliott Carter - Rhapsodic Musigs for solo violin
Elliott Carter - Figment I for solo cello
Elliott Carter - Con Leggerezza Pensosa
for clarinet, violin, and cello
Michel Galante - Kreutzerspiel for violin and piano
Michel Galante - Flickr for clarinet and piano
Matthais Pintscher - Figura V for solo cello
Residency at the College of New Jersey
Friday, March 16, 2012
Concert time and location TBD
Admission free
Educational workshops, and encore performances of repertoire from the Irish tour.
Residency at Columbia University
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Concert time and location TBD
Admission free
Argento workshops and performs new works by Columbia University graduate composers. Concert also features soprano Margot Rood.
Program - world premieres of compositions by Mahir Cetiz, Paul Clift, Geof Holbrook, Sam Pluta, Christopher Trapani, and Lu Wang