Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Locrian Chamber Players

The Locrian Chamber Players, an ensemble dedicated exclusively to the performance of works less than ten years old, present a concert featuring

Judith Weir’s Piano Trio 2.

Russell Platt’s Duo (for violin and cello)

Ned Rorem’s Lullaby (for two violins and piano)

The New York premiere of Yao Chen’s Sotto Voce (for flute and piano)

Jason Freeman’s Etudes (for solo piano)

Gently, Like the Trickling of Melted Snow (for string quartet) by Rita Ueda

Prestissimo (for string quartet) by David Macdonald.

The performers are: Calvin Wiersma and Conrad Harris, violin; Dan Panner, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello; Diva Goodfriend-Koven, flute; and Jonathan Faiman, piano.

The concert is FREE and tickets are not required.

Venues:

May 31, 8pm
10th floor performance space
Riverside Church

More Information: The Locrian Chamber Players

Quintet Sfumato  is featured at  Queens New Music Festival from May 10-13 at the Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens). This trailblazing festival seeks to highlight and promote composers, musicians, and ensembles living and creating new music in the borough of Queens.

Info:

Saturday, May 12, 5 pm;

The Cosmos – Nature and Spirit: Quintet of the Americas

The program also features wind quintets: The Stuff of Comets by Dylan Glatthorn, Winter Music by Adam Shoenberg, Sfumato by Yao Chen, Mo Suo’s Burial Ceremony by Xinyan Li, and Short Winds by Sean Friar.

Migratory Journeys World Premiere Concert
Featuring Civitas Ensemble with guests Yang Wei, YuQi Deng and others
Friday, March 16, 2012, 6:30 PM
Tickets $20 for non-members, $10 for members.
Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
www.artic.edu

Yao Chen’s Yearning will receive its World Premiere at the Chicago’s Chinese Fine Arts Society  Migratory Journeys Concert which features the winning works from CFAS’s Third International Music Composition Competition.  Composers were invited to participate by creating original music inspired by the wandering, resettling, and emigration of Chinese diaspora population through the world.  Written for Double Bass and Zheng, Yearning will be performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist Daniel Armstrong and pipa-virtuoso Yang Wei of the Silk Road Ensemble.

• Sojourner’s Song by Daniel Lo, World Premiere*
• A set of 3 piano solo pieces by Vivian Fung
• Limpid Eyes Image by Hao Liu, World Premiere*
• Yearning by Chen Yao, World Premiere*
• Moon Lullaby by Tonia Ko, World Premiere*
• Tibetan Tunes by Chen Yi

* – denotes winners of Third International Music Composition Competition

Musicians include: Yuan-Qing Yu (Violin, Viola); Kozue Funakoshi (Violin); Ken Olsen (Cello); Daniel Armstrong (Double Bass); Kuang-Hao Huang (Piano); Scott Hostetler (Oboe); Eugenia Moliner (Flute); Cynthia Yeh (Percussion); Eric Millstein (Percussion); YuQi Deng (Zheng); Hong-Da Chin (DiZi); Wei Yang (Pipa) and Emanuele Andrizzi (Conductor)

ALSO:

Yao’ Yearning will performed again at the  Migratory Journeys Sunday Salon Concert: An All Chinese Music Concert dedicated to the memory of Barbara Tiao
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3:00 PM, Free admission
Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington, Chicago
www.chicagoculturalcenter.org

Yao Chen’s upcoming performance with Promusica Chamber Orchestra this coming weekend was part of an article in the Ohio State University Latern, the University’s own publication.

The program selections are meant to highlight and blend eastern and western orchestral styles. Yao Chen and Ruo‘s works emphasize the use of traditional Chinese instruments and percussion.

“We’re always trying to create different experiences for audiences,” said Janet Chen, executive director.

The pieces written by Yao Chen and Ruo have never been performed in Columbus. Janet Chen said they were chosen to showcase the upcoming talent emerging from Asia.

View the full article on The Lantern.

We are all looking forward to Chinese New Year celebrations, and ProMusica in Columbus, OH is celebrating on January 21 & 22, 2012 by featuring Yao Chen’s Two Poems alongside composer Huang Ruo’s Path of Echos: Chamber Symphony No. 1.  More on Yao Chen’s work and Huang Ruo can be found here.  Also featured on the program are Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. performed by Di Wu and Mozart’s Symphony No. 33 — complete program notes.   ProMusica is one of the foremost chamber orchestras of the Mid West.   Tickets can be purchased online.

Sat, Feb 4 at 4 pm
Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6944-music-of-now-marathon

Yao Chen’s Sfumato for wind quintet receives another New York City performance as part of the city-wide Music of Now Festival, curated by Composers Now.  The Music of Now Festival features the Symphony Space All-Stars and Jazz Gallery All-Stars.  Buy your tickets here!

“Contemporary classical music has been fragmenting into ever greater eclecticism, as demonstrated by the repertory performed at the Music of Now marathon at Symphony Space.” -The New York Times

Quintet of the Americas is one of the Western Hemisphere’s finest chamber ensembles. The Washington Post has called their performances, “Musical dialogue at the highest level” and Japan’s InTune Magazine has written about them, “Their virtuosity, balances, articulation and intonation mark them as one of the world’s top wind quintets. I have never heard finer playing.” The Quintet is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.