Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival: Orlando Cela, solo flute
$20 ($12 students w/ ID)
Roger Briggs — Trailblazers
Brian Ferneyhough — Cassandra's Dreamsong
Jean-Patrick Besingrand — Le Soupir du Roseau dans le Bras du Vent
Mac Waters — Tinted
Robert Dick — Flames Must Not Encircle Sides
Orlando Cela, flute
Orlando Cela – Rag Lalit (2016)
Roger Briggs – Trailblazers (2006)*
Bryan Ferneyhough – Cassandras Dreamsong (1970)
Jean-Patrick Besingrand – Le Soupir du Roseau dans le Bras du Vent (2015)
Mac Waters – Tinted (2017)*
Robert Dick – Flames Must Not Encircle Sides (1980)
An afternoon concert of contemporary music for solo flute.
Boston-based, Venezuelan-born Orlando Cela specializes in contemporary performance practices for the flute. In concert, Mr. Cela regularly offers short lively introductions to selected works, offering audiences entry points into unfamiliar works, so that listeners can easily connect the music with other life experience. Mr. Cela has performed at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian (Washington DC), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and at the Center for New Music and Technologies at UC Berkeley. His credits abroad include concerts at the Zentrum Danziger (Berlin), the Espace des Femmes (Paris), and at the Musikverein (Vienna). As a collaborative artist, Mr. Cela has worked with flutist Paula Robison, tabla player Samir Chatterjee, harpsichordist John Gibbons, and shen (mouth organ) virtuoso Hu Jianbing.
This concert is presented by Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival, a new model for the presentation of contemporary art music. The artists select their own repertoire from living composers, both well-known and lesser-known, as well as some works by recently deceased 20th century composers. This program features two winners of an international call for scores, marked with an asterisk above (*).