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
Giacinto Scelsi Pwyll for solo flute (1954)
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
Elliott Carter Enchanted Preludes
Kaija Saariaho Mirrors
Jim Scully Duplicitious Encounter
Charles Turner 11 Love Songs on poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler
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
Felix Mendelssohn Music from a Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aaron Copland Quiet City
Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony
Vincent Persichetti The Hollow Men
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
More information here.
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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
Louis Andreissen Hoketus
Chaya Czernowin Afatsim
Anne Goldberg Legno Metallico
Kaija Saaraiho Cendres
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.
Nashua Community Music School Flute Festival
June 28th – July 2nd, 2010, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
The Flute Festival is open to all middle school and high school students interested in improving tone, technique, sight reading skills, ensemble experience, and musicianship! Participants will have the opportunity to perform with a pianist in a master class and on the final participant recital.
We had a terrific time last summer and I’m looking forward to another great week this summer!
To sign up, please visit www.nashuacms.org.
An Evening of Flute and Cello Music with Rachel Arnold
June 6th, 2010, 7:00 PM
Danvers United Methodist Church
16 Sylvan Street
Danvers, MA
Jay Batzner Oblique Extensions*
Volker Blumenthaler Elegie
Elliott Carter Enchanted Preludes
Christopher Gainey Breakdowns
Donald Martino Variations on a Medieval Melodies for solo cello
Kaija Saariaho Mirrors
Giacinto Scelsi Pwyll for solo flute
Charles Turner 11 Love Songs on Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler*
*Premiere of commissioned pieces
Suggested Donation $10
MetroWest Opera presents Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Weston Town Hall
11 Town House Road
Weston, MA
Saturday, April 25th, 2010, 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 26th, 2010, 3:00 PM
Saturday, May 1st, 2010, 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, 3:00 PM
Adam Boyles, Music Director
More information and tickets here.