2011-12 Concert Season
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
Ryan Carter - Impaired contact with reality
Friedrich Heinrich Kern - Von Taufendern und Sternen
Clara Latham - Devil in Blue-Blue Sea
Adam Mirza - Partial Knowledge (Situational Ethics)
Kurt Nelson - Ingenium
Yoni Niv - Formaldehyde
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
Anderson Alden - New Work
Emily Cooley - New Work
Baldwin Giang - New Work
Nathan Prillaman - New Work
Alex Vourtsanis - New Work
Gabriel Zucker - New Work
Kathryn Alexander - New Work
Prof. Michael Klingbeil - New Work
Argento at the Czech Center
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:00 PM
Bohemian National Hall site
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 - "Music from Four Continents"
Friday, March 16, 2012, 8:00 PM
Mayo Concert Hall, The College of New Jersey Map
Admission free
Educational workshops, readings, and Argento classics, conducted by Michel Galante and David Fulmer.
Program
Leoš Janáček - Preludeto From House of the Dead arranged by Kimmy Szeto
for solo violin and ensemble - NJ premiere - David Fulmer, violin
Michel Galante - Kreutzerspiel for violin and piano - NJ premiere
Michel Galante - Flicker for clarinet and piano
Alban Berg - Adagio from Kammerkonzert arranged by Michel Galante
for violin, clarinet, cello and piano by Michel Galante - NJ premiere
Mahir Cetiz - Enfilade - world premiere
Paul Clift - Infinite Regress - world premiere
Christopher Trapani - Past All Deceiving - world premiere
with Margot Rood, soprano
Residency at Columbia University
Sunday, March 18, 2012, 8:00 PM
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 346 W 20th Street Map
Admission free
Argento workshops and performs new works by Columbia University graduate composers, featuring soprano Margot Rood and conductors Michel Galante and David Fulmer.
Program
Geoff Holbrook - IDM (Intelligent Design Music) - world premiere
Sam Pluta - Portraits/Self Portraits - world premiere
Lu Wang - Cross Round - world premiere
Mahir Cetiz - Enfilade - NY premiere
Paul Clift - Infinite Regress - NY premiere
Christopher Trapani - Past All Deceiving - NY premiere
with Margot Rood, soprano
Residency at Cornell University
Friday, May 11, 2012
Barnes Hall, Cornell University
website
Argento workshops and performs new works by Cornell University composers at Music: Cognition, Technology, Society, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
Program - all world premieres
Sean Friar - Scale 9
Bryan Christian - Walk
Christopher Chandler - the resonance after...
Eric Lindsay - Town's Gonna Talk
Amit Gilutz - Miscellaneous. Romance
Juraj Kojs - Re-route
Austrian Cultural Forum New York Anniversary Series
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 7:30 PM
Friday, May 18, 2012, 5:30 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
Argento will present the world premiere of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang’s new piece Monadologie XVIII: Moving Architecture. The piece, which was commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum to commemorate its 10-year anniversary, traces the building’s architecture in 22 layers with the architecture’s original proportions referenced in time-structures. In a choreographic layer, Austrian performance artist Silke Grabinger transposed the underlying rhythmic structures to movement patterns, for which she developed a new form of "dance-writing", which Lang integrated directly into the score.
Program
Bernhard Lang - Monadologie XVIII: Moving Architecture
featuring Daisy Press, soprano
Art After 5 in Philadelphia
Friday, July 6, 2012
Great Stair Hall, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Program
Tristan Murail - L'Attente
Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
arr. by Michel Galante - world premiere
Spectral Impressions: Music of Tristan Murail
Sunday, July 22, 2012, 5:30 PM
Rodin Museum website
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Tickets, Museum Tours, and VIP packages available at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (215) 235-7469
Tristan Murail Tristan Murail is the leading exponent of French spectral music, a compositional approach that focuses on musical color, electronic sound, and impressionist aesthetics. After a 12-year tenure as head of Music Composition at Columbia, Murail was recently appointed composer-in-residence at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Argento has championed Murail since he arrived in the United States, and has won the Recordo Geijutsu 2010 Record Academy Award for Winter Fragments, a recording that showcases Murail’s compositions.
This concert includes the world premiere of a Philadelphia Museum of Art commission, The Bronze Age, and will also be Murail’s first portrait presentation in Philadelphia. For this event, the museum has created a unique outdoor concert setting, complete with a state-of-the-art surround sound system. The program also includes virtuoso solo performances by violist Stephanie Griffin and pianists Joanna Chao and Stephen Gosling. Works for ensemble with electronics will be conducted by Michel Galante.
The museum’s Spectral Impressions series continues on July 28 with another performance in the elegant Rodin Museum Garden showcasing the works of Philippe Hurel.
Program
Compositions by Tristan Murail
The Bronze Age (2012) for flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello and piano
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
World premiere
Bois flotté (1997) for trombone, violin, viola, cello, piano, and electronics
C'est un jardin secret, ma soeur, ma fiancée, une source scellée, une fontaine close… (1976) for solo viola
Feuilles à travers les cloches (1998) for flute, violin, cello and piano
Winter Fragments (2000) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion and electronics
Cloches d'adieu, et un sourire...in memoriam Olivier Messiaen for solo piano
La Mandragore (1993) for solo piano
Spectral Impressions: Music of Philippe Hurel
Saturday, July 28, 2012, 5:30 PM
Rodin Museum website
Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Tickets, Museum Tours, and VIP packages available at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (215) 235-7469
Philippe Hurel Philippe Hurel is one of the most compelling contemporary French composers, achieving lyricism and intensity by calibrating algorithms to transform musical materials. Argento has been actively promoting Hurel's music to North American audiences since hosting his first French-American Cultural Exchange tour in 2005. In this second of two composer portraits at Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble will perform three works by Hurel, as well as the world premiere of a Philadelphia Museum of Art commission, Phasis, featuring clarinet soloist Carol McGonnell. This program, including commissioning and presentation, has been generously supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
Program
Compositions by Philippe Hurel
Phasis (2007/2012) for solo clarinet and large ensemble - World Premiere
Commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Figures libres (2001) for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, vibraphone and piano
…à mesure (1996) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and vibraphone
Loops II (2002) for solo vibraphone