$20
Meet the Composer's Three-City Dash Festival:
Alarm Will Sound
and
Ethel Perform New Music from San Francisco
w/ composers Ken Ueno and Dohee Lee and music of Riley, Lee & Modirzadeh
w/ composers Ken Ueno and Dohee Lee and music of Riley, Lee & Modirzadeh
Mon., April 11, 2011 / 6:00 PM
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Alarm Will Sound will premiere a new work by Berkeley-based composer Ken Ueno. Ken’s been working on the piece while he spends the year at the American Academy in Berlin. Over the holidays, though, he headed to California to write in the sun and spend time with his family. You can see more in his New Year’s Message.
ETHEL will premiere a new work by Korean performance artist and composer Dohee Lee. Dohee’s music and performance draws on the Korean shamanic tradition, which is rich with music, dance, and story. See how Dohee mapped out her initial ideas for ETHEL, and how she experiments with electronics in this video.
ETHEL's Program:
Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Dohee Lee’s HonBiBaekSan (The Ritual of White Mountain)
Hafez Modirzadeh’s A Hot Time in the Ol’ Town
Pamela Z’s ETHEL Dreams of Temporal Disturbances.
Alarm Will Sound will premiere a new work by Berkeley-based composer Ken Ueno. Ken’s been working on the piece while he spends the year at the American Academy in Berlin. Over the holidays, though, he headed to California to write in the sun and spend time with his family. You can see more in his New Year’s Message.
ETHEL will premiere a new work by Korean performance artist and composer Dohee Lee. Dohee’s music and performance draws on the Korean shamanic tradition, which is rich with music, dance, and story. See how Dohee mapped out her initial ideas for ETHEL, and how she experiments with electronics in this video.
ETHEL's Program:
Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Dohee Lee’s HonBiBaekSan (The Ritual of White Mountain)
Hafez Modirzadeh’s A Hot Time in the Ol’ Town
Pamela Z’s ETHEL Dreams of Temporal Disturbances.
Artists
Alarm Will Sound
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music. They have established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic skill. ASCAP recognized their contributions to new music with a 2006 Concert Music Award for "the virtuosity, passion and commitment with which they perform and champion the repertory for the 21st century." Their performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the London Financial Times and as "a triumph of ensemble playing" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music" and "the very model of a modern music chamber band."
The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers and has commissioned and premiered pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergün, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, Wolfgang Rihm, Payton MacDonald, Gavin Chuck, and Dennis DeSantis.
Alarm Will Sound may be heard on four recordings. Their genre-bending, critically acclaimed Acoustica
features live-performance arrangements of music by electronica guru Aphex Twin. This unique project taps the diverse talents within the group, from the many composers who made arrangements of the original tracks, to the experimental approaches developed by the performers. Reich at the Roxy, is an award-winning, surround-sound DVD/CD recording of a live concert of music by Steve Reich performed in the famed New York nightclub. Their most recent release is A/Rhythmia
.
Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. With diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz and popular styles, early music, and world musics, they bring intelligence and a sense of adventure to all their performances.
The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers and has commissioned and premiered pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergün, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, Wolfgang Rihm, Payton MacDonald, Gavin Chuck, and Dennis DeSantis.
Alarm Will Sound may be heard on four recordings. Their genre-bending, critically acclaimed Acoustica
features live-performance arrangements of music by electronica guru Aphex Twin. This unique project taps the diverse talents within the group, from the many composers who made arrangements of the original tracks, to the experimental approaches developed by the performers. Reich at the Roxy, is an award-winning, surround-sound DVD/CD recording of a live concert of music by Steve Reich performed in the famed New York nightclub. Their most recent release is A/Rhythmia.
Members of the ensemble began playing together while studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. With diverse experience in composition, improvisation, jazz and popular styles, early music, and world musics, they bring intelligence and a sense of adventure to all their performances.
Ethel Perform New Music from San Francisco
Acclaimed as America's premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL invigorates contemporary concert music with refreshing exuberance, fierce intensity, imaginative programming and exceptional artistry. Formed in 1998, New York's ebullient ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello) and Mary Rowell (violin).
ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades, with emphasis on works composed since 1995. Their repertoire includes self-composed works, as well as works by such luminaries as Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, John Zorn, Steve Reich, John King, JacobTV, David Lang, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs.
Boldly exploring new synergies between tradition and technology, ETHEL initiates innovative collaborations with an extraordinary community of American and international artists such as Joe Jackson, Kurt Elling, Bang on a Can, Todd Rundgren, David Byrne, Ursula Oppens, Loudon Wainwright III, STEW, Ensemble Modern, Jill Sobule, Joshua Fried, Andrew Bird, Iva Bittová, Colin Currie, Thomas Dolby, Steve Coleman, Stephen Gosling, Jake Shimabukuro and Polygraph Lounge.
ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades, with emphasis on works composed since 1995. Their repertoire includes self-composed works, as well as works by such luminaries as Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, John Zorn, Steve Reich, John King, JacobTV, David Lang, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs.
Boldly exploring new synergies between tradition and technology, ETHEL initiates innovative collaborations with an extraordinary community of American and international artists such as Joe Jackson, Kurt Elling, Bang on a Can, Todd Rundgren, David Byrne, Ursula Oppens, Loudon Wainwright III, STEW, Ensemble Modern, Jill Sobule, Joshua Fried, Andrew Bird, Iva Bittová, Colin Currie, Thomas Dolby, Steve Coleman, Stephen Gosling, Jake Shimabukuro and Polygraph Lounge.
composers Ken Ueno and Dohee Lee
music of Riley, Lee & Modirzadeh