Scores of Sound: Day 1
Free (Free)
Scores of Sound is a biannual festival held by the students and faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts Music Department to showcase the semester’s best work and foster a community between the department’s vast and varied musical endeavors.
Scores of Sound includes performances from many ensembles and genres, including jazz, classical, new music, African drummings, and Gamelan. This year, we are pleased to be working with Artists-in-Residence Quince Ensemble, who will be presenting three noontime workshops, an evening showcase of student compositions, and an event through Cornish Presents on Saturday, December 9.
10am Chamber ensembles
11am Jazz Ensemble II
12pm Composing for Voice: Workshop for Composers feat. Quince Ensemble
2pm Jazz Vocalists
3pm Opera Scenes
4pm Guitar Ensemble
5pm Chamber Singers
7pm Classical Instrumentalists
8pm Gamelan Ensemble
About Quince Ensemble
Singing with the precision and flexibility of modern chamber musicians, Quince Ensemble, an all-female vocal quartet, is changing the paradigm of contemporary vocal music. Described as "the Anonymous 4 of new music" by Opera News, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of vocal ensemble literature.
As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works for voices, providing wider exposure for the music of living composers. In 2019, they launched the Quince New Music Commissioning Fund, a fund to grow the repertoire for women and treble voices. Quince has released four studio albums, Realign the Time, Hushers, Motherland, and David Lang's love fail, all available on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify, Bandcamp, and Amazon.
Quince has been featured on many festivals and series like KODY Festival in Lublin, Poland in collaboration with David Lang and Beth Morrison Projects, the Outpost Concert Series, the Philip Glass: Music with Friends concert at Issue Project Room, University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium, and the SONiC Festival in New York, to name a few. During the 2021-22 season, they can be seen with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra/MUSICNOW, University of Chicago Presents, University of Florida, University of Miami, Frost School, and more!
Comprised of vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire.
http://www.quince-ensemble.com