2009-2010 Season Celebrating American Composers
Upcoming:
Saturday, April 3, Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia.
Argento at the Phillips Collection
THURSDAY, NOV 12, 2009, 6:00 PM
Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC
Inquiries: (202) 387-2151
Argento performs the stunning, subtle, and often unpredictable musical creations of Tristan Murail, the leading spectralist composer in America. The composer and Argento musicians speak about his work and spectralism as a modern art.
Program Includes
Unanswered Questions
for solo flute
Feuilles à travers les cloches
for flute, violin, cello and piano
Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire... in memoriam Olivier Messiaen
for solo piano
The Blue-Footed Booby
for flute and piano
Les Ruines circulaires
for clarinet and violin
La Barque mystique
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Composer Portrait: Ralph Shapey
TUESDAY, NOV 17, 2009, 8:00 PM
Miller Theatre website
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York
Subway: 1 train to 116th Street/Columbia University
Admission: $25; $15 students; $7 Columbia University students
Box Office (212) 854-7799
Argento violinist Miranda Cuckson leads the Argento Chamber Ensemble, New York Woodwind Quintet, and the Talujon Percussion Quartet in this showcase of the unique American voice of Ralph Shapey.
Program
Five (1960)
for violin and piano
Interchange (1996)
for percussion quartet
Movements (1960)
for woodwind quintet
Etchings (1945)
for solo violin
Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Group (1954)
Charles Neidich, clarinet
Three for Six (1979)
for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin/viola and cello
New Sound Worlds
November 24, 2009, 8:30 PM
Tha National Concert Hall website
Dublin, Ireland
Information: +353 (0)1 417 0000
An exciting and eclectic concert featuring Carol McGonnell and Erin Lesser of the Argento Chamber Ensemble. It will include the world premiere of Anne Cleare's Eyam along with works by Nono, Meltzer, Gaussin and Furrer.
Program Includes
Ann Cleare - Eyam for contrabass clarinet and electronics
World premiere
Luigi Nono - À Pierre for contrabass flute, contrabass clarinet and live electronics
Harold Meltzer - Trapset
Allain Gaussin - Satori for solo clarinet
Beat Furrer - Fema for contrabass flute and actor
Argento at Modfest
SUNDAY, JAN 24, 2010, 3:00 PM
Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Directions
Works by Milton Babbitt, Harold Meltzer, and Jonathan Chenette.
Composer Portrait: Sebastian Currier
FRIDAY, MAR 5, 2010, 8:00 PM
Miller Theatre website
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York
Subway: 1 train to 116th Street/Columbia University
Admission: $25; $15 students; $7 Columbia University students
Box Office (212) 854-7799
Grawemeyer-award winning composer Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) creates music that is “lyrical, colorful, firmly rooted in tradition, but absolutely new,” says The Washington Post. His ability to evoke an array of emotions and instrumental colors are his stylistic trademarks. This concert includes a world premiere for chamber orchestra, along with an encore performance the 2006 piano concerto performed by the brilliant pianist Christopher Taylor.
Program
Night Time (1998)
Bodymusic (2010)
world premiere
Piano Concerto (2006)
American Composers Forum, Philadelphia
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2010, 7:30 PM
Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street website
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 569-9700
Argento premieres seven works by Philadelphia composers, topping off the concert with a rarely performed Davidovsky gem Festino Notturno.
Mata Festival LPR
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010, 7:30 PM
Le Poisson Rouge website
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan), New York
Tickets $15; $10 students and seniors; $50 festival pass
Argento showcases young American composers, performing Michelle Lou and a world premiere of Alexander Sigman at the 12th annual MATA Festival.
Program Includes
Michelle Lou - Weeds, Grass, Rock, Slopes (2008/2009)
for flute, clarinet, oboe, trombone, violin, cello and double bass
Alexander Sigman - Bloot
world premiere
American Composers Showcase: Galante, Iglesia, and Adán
FRIDAY, APR 30, 2010, 8:00 PM
Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York
Subway: 1 train to 116th Street/Columbia University
Admission free;
Box Office (212) 854-7799
Argento premieres works by Michel Galante, Daniel Iglesia and Victor Adán. Concert also includes Igor Stravinsky’s masterwork Les Noces with the Princeton Chamber Choir and Columbia Classical Performers.
Residency at New York University
MONDAY, MAY 10, 2010
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South), New York
Admission free
Argento workshops new works by New York University graduate composers.
Summer Concert: Schumann at 200 + Schubert
THURSDAY, JUN 25, 2010
Location TBA
Argento celebrates Robert Schumann's 200th birthday with premieres of new, exciting chamber arrangements by Kimmy Szeto.
Program
Robert Schumann, arr. Kimmy Szeto - Symphony No. 2 in C Major
world premiere
Franz Schubert, arr. Kimmy Szeto - Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, "Unfinished"
world premiere
Summer Concert: Edmund Campion and Mahler transformed
WEDNESDAY, July 7, 2010, 8:00 PM
Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York
Subway: 1 train to 116th Street/Columbia University
Admission: $25; $15 students; $7 Columbia University students
Box Office (212) 854-7799
Argento premieres the new concerto by Dallas-born composer Edmund Campion, and rounds up the evening a new chamber arrangement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony.
Fabien Lévy
July 2010, date TBA
Austrian Cultural Forum website
11 East 52nd Street, New York
Subway: B/D/F trains to Rockefeller Center; 6 train to 51st Street; E/V trains to 5 Avenue
Admission free, ticket required
Information: (212) 319-5300
Argento showcases compositions by Columbia University Professor Fabien Lévy.
Program Includes
À propos
for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
other compositions TBA
