Friday, September 27, 2019

MUSICAL BRIDGES CONCERT | New York Composers Circle Exchange Program

Nikolai Myaskovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, Tchaikovsky Conservatory

This program includes music by Russian composers Olesya Rostovskaya, Mark Belodubrovsky, Igor Vorobyov, and Anton Rovner, as well as the following works by NYCC composers:

Peter Kelsh — Saranac Sketches

Christopher Sahar — Fantasy for Violin and Piano

Mark Belodubrovsky — Poem for violin and piano

• First performed in Moscow

David Picton — Redwood Prelude and Fugue

Olesya Rostovskaya— Meditation

Eric Heilner — Divertimento for Violin and Viola a la Bartok

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Two Rhapsodies

Igor Vorobyev — Five Romances and Vocalise in Memory of Valery Garvilin

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy No. 10

Timothy Lee Miller — Carmina solis et lunae

Anton Rovner — At Diamond Park

clarinet, Irina Dogueva, violin, Maria Khodina, viola, Vyacheslav Grabennikov, cello, Nadezhda Grebennikova, piano, Yulia Cherpakova, Elizaveta Danilina, Olga Tabachnik, & Sayaka Takahashi, organ, Olesya Rostovskaya, voices, S. Yesenin, Samoilov, Ya Smelyakova, R. Rozhdestvensky, A. Voznensky, Marina Rumyantseva, Ekaterina Milkina, Maria Khodina, Anatoly Burlakov Volkov, Anastasia Batrakova, Vladimir Gapontsev

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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

COBALT SAXOPHONE QUARTET PLAYS NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE (#72)

"Little Church Around the Corner," Church of the Transfiguration

David Mecionis — Grand Quartet in E-flat Minor ‡

Raoul Pleskow — Three Madrigals for Saxophone Quartet ‡

Christopher Sahar — Amsterdam, 1983 for solo soprano saxophone †

Eric Heilner — The Source of The Beat

Richard Brooks — Four-Play

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy No. 11 †

Timothy Lee Miller — Dappled light 'mid mountains gleams ‡

Bunny Beck — Fantasy for Saxophones ‡

Premieres: † World ‡ New York

The COBALT SAXOPHONE QUARTET: soprano saxophone, Raymond Kelly; alto saxophone, Anthony Izzo; tenor saxophone, Ryan Mantell; baritone saxophone, Josh Lang

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

CRAIG KETTER PERFORMS NEW MUSIC FOR PIANO (#73)

Marc A. Scora Hall, National Opera Center

Eugene Marlow — Three in Three †

Madelyn Byrne — Piano Sonata

Eric Heilner — Variations on Stravinsky's "Les cinq doigts" †

Sam Hoyland — Orpheus and Eurydice †

Dary John Mizelle — Sonata XV †

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Vistas †

Premieres: † World

CRAIG KETTER, piano

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

NEW MUSIC FOR TRIOS, ELECTRONICS, AND VOICE (#74)

Marc A. Scora Hall, National Opera Center

Thomas Parente — Selections from Morphs for Piano Trio

Scott D. Miller — Paganini Liszt Distortion for electronics †

Tamara Cashour — Trio of Troubled Earth †

Richard Brooks — String Trio †

Patricia Leonard — The Presence of Absence for soprano, cello, piano †

Frederick Boyle — Palindrome Canon 5 for electronics †

David See — In The Gloaming for soprano and piano †

Carl Kanter — Piano Trio †



Premieres: † World

soprano, Christinia Kay, violin, Gregor Kitzis, viola, Arthur Dibble, cello, Peter Sachon, piano, Craig Ketter & Geoffrey Burleson

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

CLAUDIA DUMSCHAT PERFORMS NEW MUSIC FOR ORGAN (#75)

"Little Church Around the Corner," Church of the Transfiguration

Frederick Boyle — Huntington †

Kevin McCarter — Prelude and Toccata †

Frank Retzel — Selections from Sapphire Cantos †

Dary John Mizelle — Passacaglia and Toccata †

Gayther Myers — Merry-Go-Round †

Timothy Lee Miller — Meditation No. 2 "Chorale & Variations" †

Premieres: † World

organ, Claudia Dumschat

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