[BROADCAST] New Music Gathering: Seattle Modern Orchestra w/ Cristina Valdés
Free
Yiğit Kolat — Tierra Arrasada
Kaley Lane Eaton — Dissociation or Self Portrait
Wayne Horvitz — 188 Sullivan: Varèse meets Bird
Melia Watras – Otra vez for piano (2019) (world premiere)
(Cristina L. Valdés, piano)
Yiğit Kolat – Tierra Arrasada ("Scorched Earth") (excerpt) (2020) (world premiere)
(Evan Smith, saxophone; Jordan Voelker, viola; Michael Nicolella, guitar; Bonnie Whiting, percussion; Cristina L. Valdés, piano; Sarah Kolat, narrator)
Kaley Lane Eaton – Dissociation (excerpt) (2020) (world premiere)
(Bonnie Whiting, percussion; Cristina L. Valdés, piano)
Wayne Horvitz – 188 Sullivan: Varèse meets Bird (excerpt) (2020) (Movement II - Movement V - Ionisation Movement VII - Electronic Poem)
(James Falzone, clarinet; Eric Rynes, violin; Jordan Voelker, violin; Maria Ritzenthaler, viola; Ha-Yang Kim, cello; Joe Kaufmann, contrabass; Greg Campbell, percussion; Cristina L. Valdés, piano; Julia Tai, conductor; Wayne Horvitz, conduction & electronics)
New Music Gathering 2020 is 15 days of concerts, lectures, discussions, and fun time socializing galore.
This concert features the Seattle Modern Orchestra with pianist Cristina Valdés.
The concert begins at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern.
Watch the concert on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newmusicgathering/live_videos/
Full conference schedule & registration details for non-performance sessions: https://www.newmusicgathering.org/program. Registration is free.
About New Music Gathering
New Music Gathering is an annual conference dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support and creation of new concert music. With concerts, lecture/recitals, roundtable discussions, talks, and everything from composer-performer “speed dating,” to live action role playing games, NMG aims to be both a conference in the traditional sense but also quite literally a collective place for things to grow, improve, solidify, and above all get personal.
New Music Gathering is volunteer-organized by five working musicians – Lainie Fefferman, Daniel Felsenfeld, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Jascha Narveson, and Angélica Negrón. Its focus is on meeting the needs and desires of the community in ways that are increasingly direct and diverse.
"A reunion for friends who had never met each other." ~ Rob Deemer (New Music Box, 2015)
Link to donate to New Music Gathering: https://www.newmusicgathering.org/support
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/