Ashley Addington

A concert series featuring music written by female composers performed by female musicians.

Monday, October 18th, 2010, 8:00 PM
Boston Conservatory
Seully Hall

Donations will be taken at the performance to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation (benefiting October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month).

“Left Coast” Avant Gardner

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Tapestry Room
Thursday, September 16th, 2010, 7:00 PM

Visit the Gardner Museum or Callithumpian Consort for more information.

Opening Concert of the Season

Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 7:30 PM
First Church Boston
66 Marlborough St.
Boston, MA

General Admisson $12, Students $10

Other featured composers include Randall Bauer, Chester Biscardi, Tucker Fuller, James Holt, Vera Ivanova, and Bruce Reiprich. More information here.

Rachel Arnold and I have been busy rehearsing for the upcoming flute and cello events. Jim Scully, the composer of Duplicitious Encounter, which we premiered in January, arranged a concert and recording session after he was  awarded a Subito Composers Grant.   We will record Duplicitious Encounter at the WGBH Fraser Recording Studios on Friday, August 6th.  The Saturday evening concert will feature music by Jim Scully, Nolan Stolz, Elliott Carter, Kaija Saariaho, Charles Turner and others!  It should be a fun evening – hope to see you there!

From Matthew Guerrieri’s Boston Globe review of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice Iditarod on June 19th, 2010:

Many works privileged artful arrangements of envelope-pushing sounds over melodic or harmonic narrative. In Kaija Saariaho’s “Cendres,’’ flute, cello, and piano (Ashley Addington, Jennifer Bewerse, and Kyle Adam Blair) churned up an undulating sea of keening and growling swells.

Read full article.

SICPP performs new music at the Gardner Museum

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, 1:00 PM

The rest of the concert includes music by Berio, Takemistu, Messiaen, and Kurtag performed by fellows at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice Festival.

Music at the Lily Pad

Saturday, August 7th, 2010, 7:30 PM
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA

with Rachel Arnold, cello

The program also features music performed Melanie Chirignan (flute), Keith Calmes (guitar), Aaron Larget-Caplan (guitar), and Samantha Benson (french horn).

Simon Sinfonietta performs at Highfield Hall in Falmouth, MA

Sunday, July 11th, 7:30 PM

More information here.

Please join Rachel and I next Sunday for a great recital of new music!  We will be performing works by Elliott Carter, Kaija Saariaho, and others including world premieres of commissioned pieces by Charles Tuner and Jay Batzner.  The recital is at the Danvers United Methodist Church, 16 Sylvan Street, Danvers, Massachusetts.

Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice

June 19th, 2010, 4:00 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall

Stephen Drury, Artistic Director

The SICPP Iditarod is a six hour marathon concert featuring work by SICPP Composition Fellows and composer-in-residence Chaya Czernowin, and music of Donatoni, Stockhausen, Hyla, Crumb, Liang, Ives, Sciarrino, Harvey, Hosokawa, Takemitsu, Berio, Foss, Feldman and Cage, with electronic sound installations throughout the Conservatory building.