Violinist Sarah Plum – music for violin with electronics
Free (Online: Free | In person: $15)
- Sarah Plum, violin
Kyong Mee Choi — Selected works
Charles Nichols — Selected works
Mari Takano — Selected works
Jeff Herriott — Selected works
Laurie Schwartz — Selected works (world premiere)
The "adventurous indie violinist" Sarah Plum has spent her career championing new music, commissioning composers and bringing their work to a wider audience.
In this concert, Plum performs new music for violin with electronics, composed especially for her. The program celebrates her forthcoming album, Personal Noise on Blue Griffin Records, with music by Osnat Netzer, Kyong Mee Choi, Mari Kimura, Charles Nichols, Mari Takano, and Jeff Herriott, and the world premiere of a multimedia piece by Laurie Schwartz.
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About Sarah Plum, violin
Sarah Plum began her performing career by winning the gold medal at the International Stulberg Competition in 1983. Since then she has carved out a distinctive role as a serious interpreter of a wide range of repertoire both old and new.
Soon after receiving her DMA at SUNY Stony Brook, Plum moved to Europe where she was a leading player with world-class orchestras such as the West German Radio Orchestra (WDR) and the London Philharmonic and a performer in new music ensembles such as Ensemble Moderne, Musik Fabrik and Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam. Plum had the good fortune to take part in historic concerts of new music at the Luzerne Festival, the Festival Automne (Paris), and Ars Musica (Brussels) among others.
Plum has been touring with an evolving solo program of new music since she celebrated the release of her 2011 solo CD Absconditus (BGR 235) with a critically acclaimed performance at the Ankunft:Neue Musik Festival at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof. These concerts have brought her to festivals and venues worldwide such as Quiet Cue Intermedia (Berlin), the Center for New Music San Francisco, Spectrum New York, Unruly Music at the Marcus Center (Milwaukee), Stanford University's CCRMA (center for computer research in music and acoustics) and the Cube at Virginia Tech's Institute for Creativity among others.
In 2015 Plum released two CDs on the Bluegriffin label. Bela Bartok Works For Violin Volume 1 (BGR 373), is the first of a projected two CD set with her longtime duo partner Timothy Lovelace. Music for a New Century (BGR 371) features performances of two 21st-century concertos: Yaël, a violin concerto from composer Sidney Corbett in a live recording from its American premiere; and the Violin Concerto of Christopher Adler, which was commissioned by Plum. Whole Note Magazine wrote about this CD: "I can’t think of a better flag bearer than Sarah Plum who is quite brilliant here, or better performances or interpretations. This is an important addition to the contemporary violin concerto discography."
Recent concerts include appearances with 5th House Ensemble at Kalamazoo's Festival of Sacred Music, the Harris Center in Folsom, California and the King Auditorium in Denver as well as their premiere of Daron Hagen’s Opera Orson Rehearsed, at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago. In November she was a featured guest at the 3rd Practice Festival in Richmond Virginia where she performed music of Eric Moe, Joo Won Park, and Ben Broening.
https://www.sarahplum.com/