2022-2023 SEASON 20
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
DIFFERENT STRINGS (#85)
Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner
Hubert Howe — Moments of Uncertainty †
Dary John Mizelle — Preludes & Fugues, Book II (Nos. 2, 9, 16, 20) †
Richard Brooks — Sonata for Guitar †
Roger Blanc — Fantasy Variations †
Igor Vorobyev — Elegy in the Old Style ‡
Dana Dimitri Richardson — Consolations †
Premieres: † World ‡ New York
Oren Fader & Bill Zito, guitar, Craig Ketter, piano
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Thursday, December 15, 2022
MOMENTS SWEEP PAST (#86)
Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner
Peter Kelsh — Four Shelley Songs †
Sergey Oskolkov — Sonata for Bass Clarinet & Piano ‡
Scott D. Miller — Liszt on Liszt †
Emiko Hayashi — Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello †
Kevin McCarter — City Park, Afternoon †
Anthony Izzo — Permutations †
Patrick Andrew Thompson — Moments Sweep Past (Three Poems of Tracy K. Smith) ‡
- Winner of the 15th annual John Eaton Memorial Competition
Premieres: † World ‡ New York
Jacqueline Milena Mulligan, soprano, Robert Garner, baritone, David Valbuena, bass clarinet, Josh Henderson, violin, Peter Sachon, cello, Markus Kaitila & Craig Ketter, piano
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
NAMASTE CLARINET QUINTET & GUIDO ARBONELLI (#87)
Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner
David See — Suite for Clarinet Quintet †
Gayther Myers — Poem in October †
David Mecionis — Two Table Canons for Two Clarinetists ‡
Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy Nº 15 ‡
Robert S. Cohen — Variants ‡
Todd Mason — Echoes of the Heart †
Anton Rovner — Lamento †
Timothy L. Miller — Circus Minimus: Six Vignettes for Clarinet Ensemble ‡
Premieres: † World ‡ US
Namaste Clarinet Ensemble: Natalia Benedetti, E-flat clarinet, Mattia Rellini, David Valbuena, Valentina Betti Sorbelli, Jacqueline Gillette, B-flat clarinets, Letizia Rossi & Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinets
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
NEW YORK to MOSCOW MUSICAL BRIDGES PROGRAM
Lermontov Library, Ulitsa Barbolina 6, Moscow
David See — Das, vas ist ‡
Timothy L. Miller — Cuatro en uno †
Christopher Sahar — Four Violin Duos ‡
Christopher Sahar — Ludwig Variations †
Robert S. Cohen — Five Nights in Sophia ‡
David Mecionis — Five Mirror Canons †
Eric Heilner — Short Story for Violin & Piano, No. 1 ‡
Dary John Mizelle — Preludes & Fugues, Book II (Nos. 2, 9, 16, 20) ‡
Linda Marcel — Anjana, a Cantabrian Myth ‡
Hubert Howe — Nocturne, Dance & Dream
Barrett Kalellis — In Our Time ‡
Premieres: † World ‡ Russian
Marina Donayeva & Valeria Golovko, soprano, Ekaterina Milkina, flute, Anastasia Anisimova, Ekaterina Gubanova & Maria Khodina, violin, Nadezhda Grebennikova, cello, Olga Tabachnik, Tatiana Rovner & Sayaka Takahashi, piano
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RECORDING CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
Monday, February 13, 2023
THE INTERVAL BETWEEN (#88)
Marc A. Scorca Hall / OPERA America's National Opera Center
David Picton — Piano Sonata No. 1 †
Kevin McCarter — Responding Variations †
Debra Kaye — Submarine Dreams
Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Ragtimes
Olga Victorova — Magic Birds Phung Hoan (Telling the Sage Lin Loon the Mystery of the Twelve Tones in Music) ††
Tamara Cashour — Two Shorts for Piccolo & Contrabassoon †
Timothy L. Miller — Two Settings of Ogden Nash Poems †
David Mecionis — Trio in Two Parts with an Interval Between ‡
Andrey Bandura — Spring Sonata for Violin & Piano ††
Premieres: † World †† US ‡ New York
Mary Barto, bass flute, Lillian Copeland, oboe, Harry Searing, bassoon, Katie Thomas, violin, Arthur Dibble, viola, Troy Rinker, Jr, double bass, Markus Kaitila & Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano, Anthony de Mare, narrator-piano
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Monday, March 27, 2023
LINES OF REFERENCE (#89)
Marc A. Scorca Hall / OPERA America's National Opera Center
Madelyn Byrne — Flow ‡
Mark Belodubrovsky — Romances on Verses by African Poets ††
Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Aria of the Fairy of Doubt †
Hubert Howe — Harmonic Fantasy Nº 6 †
Linda Marcel — The Wonders ‡
Sergey Oskolkov — Line of Reference ††
Robert S. Cohen — Do Not Enter ‡
Premieres: † World †† US ‡ New York
Anna Voevoda, soprano, Gennadiy Vysotskiy, baritone, Ammon Swinbank, flute, Timothy Hanley, clarinet, Wes Krygsman, tuba, Artie Dibble, violin/viola, Rocío Díaz de Cossio, cello, David Mecionis, electric guitar, Craig Ketter & Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
ROWING IN EDEN (#90)
Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner
Eric Heilner — SQrt: Season 1, Episode 1 †
Carl Kanter — String Quartet, September 2021 †
Susan J. Fischer — Emily Dickinson Seasons of Love ††
Marina Shmotova — Playing (or, Games) ††
Christopher Kaufman — Mercury's Shadow ‡
Thomas Parente — Violin Sonata †
Premieres: † World †† US ‡ New York
Valerie Gonzalez, soprano, Adam Klein, tenor, Haig Hovsepian, violin, Nara Avetisyan & Craig Ketter, piano
Bergamot Quartet: Ledah Finck & Sarah Thomas, violins, Amy Huimei Tan, viola, Irène Han, cello
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Monday, May 22, 2023
TRANSFIGURED SKYLINE (#91)
Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music
Emiko Hayashi — Last Days of Summer †
Patricia Leonard — Transfiguration †
Paul Aljian — Trio for Flute, Viola & Cello †
Simona Smirnova — Manhattan Skyline
Alexander Vustin — In Memoriam Grigori Frid ‡
Davide Capobianco — Plethora of Simulacra †
Barrett Kalellis — Dancing the Lively Air †
Timothy L. Miller — Three Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Premieres: † World ‡ New York
Dominika Zamara, soprano, Ammon Swinbank, flute, David Valbuena, clarinet, Laura Goldberg, violin, Artie Dibble, viola, Kate Dillingham & Sara Strozza, cello, Kyle Miller, electric guitar, Markus Kaitila & Craig Ketter, piano, Simona Smirnova, kanklės, Dylan Ofrias, percussion
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