21st Century Violin
$20 ($10 student/senior)
Salvatore Sciarrino — La Stagioni Artificiali
Franco Donatoni — Spiri
Jérémy Jolley — Selected works
Graeme Jennings, violin
Luciano Berio – Sequenza VIII for solo violin
Salvatore Sciarrino – Le Stagioni Artificiali for violin and ensemble (U.S. premiere)
Jérémy Jolley – New work for violin and ensemble (world premiere)
Franco Donatoni – Spiri for ten instruments
Seattle Modern Orchestra welcomes Australian violinist Graeme Jennings in a special concert for the 21st century violin featuring U.SS and world premieres.
Jennings, for 11 years the second violinist of the celebrated Arditti String Quartet with over 70 recordings and more than 300 world premieres, will perform a world premiere written for Jennings and SMO by Co-Artistic Director Jérémy Jolley.
Jennings will also perform three works by three masters of Italian contemporary music: Luciano Berio, Salvatore Sciarrino and Franco Donatoni. Berio's Sequenza VIII (1976) for solo violin pushes virtuosity to new heights with rustlings of Bach's Chaconne and a Paganini Caprice. Sciarrino's Le Stagioni Artificiali (2006) leads us to the subtle thresholds of different acoustic environments (U.S. premiere).
Dedicated to Sciarrino, Donatoni's Spiri (1977), is a joyful, quasi-euphoric, extroverted piece with dancing rhythms and modal sonorities supporting floating melodic arcs in solo violin and oboe.
7:30 PM – Multimedia pre-concert presentation by co-Artistic Director Jérémy Jolley.
About Seattle Modern Orchestra
Founded in 2010, Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Led by co-artistic directors Julia Tai and Jérémy Jolley, SMO commissions and premieres new works from an international lineup of composers, in addition to presenting important pieces from the contemporary repertoire that are rarely if ever heard by Seattle audiences. The ensemble "operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation" (Vanguard Seattle) curating new sounds and experiences for concert goers in the region.
SMO provides audiences with performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, and develops radio talks, lectures, and other forms of outreach in an accessible and inviting format all designed to expand the listener’s appreciation and awareness of the music of today.
http://www.seattlemodernorchestra.org/