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
guitar, Oren Fader & Bill Zito, piano, Craig Ketter
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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
soprano, Jacqueline Milena Mulligan, baritone, Robert Garner, bass clarinet, David Valbuena, violin, Josh Henderson, cello, Peter Sachon, piano, Markus Kaitila & Craig Ketter
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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: E-flat clarinet, Natalia Benedetti, B-flat clarinets, Mattia Rellini, David Valbuena, Valentina Betti Sorbelli, Jacqueline Gillette, bass clarinets, Letizia Rossi & Guido Arbonelli
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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
soprano, Marina Donayeva & Valeria Golovko, flute, Ekaterina Milkina, violin, Anastasia Anisimova, Ekaterina Gubanova & Maria Khodina, cello, Nadezhda Grebennikova, piano, Olga Tabachnik, Tatiana Rovner & Sayaka Takahashi
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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
bass flute, Mary Barto, oboe, Lillian Copeland, bassoon, Harry Searing, bassoon, violin, Katie Thomas, viola, Arthur Dibble, double bass, Troy Rinker, Jr, piano, Markus Kaitila & Nataliya Medvedovskaya, narrator-piano, Anthony de Mare
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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
soprano, Anna Voevoda, baritone, Gennadiy Vysotskiy, flute, Ammon Swinbank, clarinet, Timothy Hanley, tuba, Wes Krygsman, violin/viola, Artie Dibble, cello, Rocío Díaz de Cossio, electric guitar, David Mecionis, piano, Craig Ketter & Nataliya Medvedovskaya
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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
soprano, Valerie Gonzalez, tenor, Adam Klein, violin, Haig Hovsepian, piano, Nara Avetisyan & Craig Ketter
Bergamot Quartet: violins, Ledah Finck & Sarah Thomas, viola, Amy Huimei Tan, cello, Irène Han
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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
soprano, Dominika Zamara, flute, Ammon Swinbank, clarinet, David Valbuena, violin, viola, Artie Dibble, Laura Goldberg, cello, Kate Dillingham & Sara Strozza, electric guitar, Kyle Miller, piano, Markus Kaitila & Craig Ketter, kanklės, Simona Smirnova, percussion, Dylan Ofrias
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