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