I’m thrilled to be joining Parthenia and the distinguished panel of composers in a discussion about composing for viols, the challenges and delights. There will be a teaching component that starts at 6:30, if you’re interested. You can register for the event at info@parthenia.org.

We are delighted to present this, the second of three, Chamber Music Fall Fest ’23 concerts, here at Longy. This afternoon our students bring you music from Italy (Barbara Strozzi), Japan (Yuko Uebayashi), Germany (Clara Schumann), and the United States (Eleonor Sandresky & William Grant Still), works spanning from the Baroque to present-day.

Ralph Farris, Director of Instrumental Chamber Music
Corrine Byrne, Director of Vocal Chamber Music
Alexander Smith, Chamber Music Graduate Fellow

Collide-O-Scope Music:
Twelfth Anniversary Gala Concert

PROGRAM

Mikel Kuehn: Fünf Parabeln for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1993/2020)
Eleonor Sandresky: In Short, Db (2014)
Lou Bunk: Piano Trio (2006)
Felix Jarrar: New Work (2021) **World Premiere
Christopher Bailey: To Those Who Would Crush My Will (2008)
Venue TBA, New York City

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Wolf Moon premieres on January 17, 2022 at 9pm ET. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest host/curator Eve Beglarian and her special guest Paula Matthusen.

Our themed cocktail is the She Wolf, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

Eve Beglarian, guest curator and host

Paula Matthusen, guest composer

Wolf Moon (2022) for electronics, video & narrators*

by Paula Matthusen and Eve Beglarian

texts by Matthew Cordell and Barry Lopez with texts from the Aberdeen Bestiary

*world premiere

About Eve Beglarian

According to the Los Angeles Times, composer and performer Eve Beglarian is a “humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,”  she has also been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for her “innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation.”

Beglarian’s current projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel and writer/director Mallory Catlett about women in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present, a piece about the controversial Balthus painting Thérèse Dreaming for vocalist Lucy Dhegrae, and a duo for uilleann pipes and organ that was premiered by Renée Louprette and Ivan Goff at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times)

In 2009, “Ms. Beglarian kayaked and bicycled the length of the Mississippi River [and] has translated her findings into music of sophisticated rusticity. [Her] new Americana song cycle captures those swift currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works waft gracefully on her handsome folk croon and varied folk instrumentation as mysterious as their inspiration.” (New York Times)

Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, loadbang, Newspeak, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and individual performers including Maya Beiser, Lara Downes, Lucy Dhegrae, and Thomas Feng.

Highlights of Beglarian’s work in music theater includes music for Mabou Mines’ Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, Ecco Porco, Choephorai, and Shalom Shanghai, all directed by Lee Breuer; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater’s production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.

She has collaborated with choreographers including Ann Carlson, Robert LaFosse, Victoria Marks, Susan Marshall, David Neumann, Take Ueyama, and Megan Williams, and with visual and video artists including Cory Arcangel, Anne Bray, Vittoria Chierici, Barbara Hammer, Kevork Mourad, Shirin Neshat, Matt Petty, Bradley Wester, and Judson Wright.

Performance projects include Brim, Songs from a Book of Days, The Story of B, Open Secrets, Hildegurls’ Ordo Virtutum, twisted tutu, and typOpera.

Recordings of Eve’s music are available on ECM, Koch, New World, Canteloupe, Innova, Naxos, Kill Rock Stars, CDBaby, and Bandcamp.

 Learn more about Eve Beglarian

About Paula Matthusen

Paula Matthusen is a composer who writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as “run-on sentence of the pavement” for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker noted as being “entrancing”.

Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered. Awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers’ Awards, and the 2014 - 2015 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. Matthusen is currently Professor of Music at Wesleyan University.

Learn more at: https://www.paulamatthusen.com/

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Cold Moon premieres on December 19, 2021 at 9pm ET. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Phyllis Chen. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

Our themed cocktail is a warm Holiday Hug on a cold winter’s night, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS “Orphée Bedroom” Final Scene based on the opera Orphée

from the Orphée Suite (2000) arranged for solo piano by Paul Barnes performed by Sandresky

CHEN From High Windows (2021) for organ and hand-cranked music box performed by Parker Kitterman, organ and Phyllis Chen, hand-cranked music box

Tone Grove (2021) for piano and electronics performed by Chen

CHEN/SANDRESKY New Work (2021)*

SANDRESKY Flowing Water Encountering Obstacles (2019) etude for solo piano

from Strange Energies performed by Erika Dohi

*world premier

About Phyllis Chen

Described by The New York Times as “spellbinding” and “delightfully quirky matched with interpretive sensitivity,” Phyllis Chen is a composer and sound artist whose music draws from her tactile exploration of object and sound. The toy piano became her grounds to develop her personal voice,one that defies genre and reflects her third-culture kid experience . She has received commissions from ICE ensemble, A Far Cry Orchestra, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Claire Chase’s Density Project, Opera Cabal, Singapore International Festival for the Arts, Jerome-Roulette Intermedium, Look& Listen Festival, NYSCA, New Music USA, Fromm Foundation (Harvard), Pew Heritage Trust (via Christ Church) and was named one of the 2019 Cage-Cunningham Fellow by ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Current projects include a new sound installation/work using artist Isamu Noguchi's Sounding Stone sculptures and a new collaborative work for toy instruments with Newbery Honor children's author and illustrator, Grace Lin. Phyllis is the founder of the UnCaged Toy Piano and a founding member of ICE ensemble.

Learn more about Phyllis Chen

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Beaver Moon premieres on November 19, 2021 at 9pm ET. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Nkeiru Okoye. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

Our themed cocktail is Nkeiru-tini, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS Etude #9 for solo piano,

performed by Eleonor Sandresky

OKOYE Voices Shouting Out for orchestra,

performed by the Detroit Symphony

“I Am Moses the Liberator” from Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, the opera

Performed by Sumayya Ali (Harriet Tubman), Sequina DuBose (Rachel Ross), Nicole Mitchell (Rittia "Ma" Ross), Clinton Ingram (Ben "Pa" Ross / William Still), John Damian Norfleet (Tubman / Robert Ross).

Featuring a string quintet from the The Harlem Chamber Players

3 Movements for string quartet

performed by the Harlem Chamber Players

SANDRESKY “What’s Left” and “Laughter” from Strange Energies, etudes for piano,

performed by Lisa Moore

About Nkeiru Okoye

A composer with a gift for incorporating many influences and styles within her work, Nkeiru Okoye is perhaps best known for her opera, Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom, the orchestral work, Voices Shouting Out, which is an artistic response to 9/11, and her suite, African Sketches, which has been performed by pianists around the globe. Dr. Okoye is a Guggenheim Fellow. She is profiled in the “Music of Black Composers Coloring Book” and Routledge’s “African American Music: An Introduction” textbook. She is the inaugural recipient of the International Florence Price Award for Composition. A recent New York Times article proclaimed, “Okoye’s work would make a fitting grand opening for an opera company’s post-pandemic relaunch.”

The State of Michigan issued a proclamation acknowledging Dr. Okoye’s “extraordinary contributions” to the history of Detroit, Michigan, for Black Bottom, a symphonic experience commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, in celebration of the centennial season of Orchestra Hall. Her other recent works include Tales from the Briar Patch, commissioned by The American Opera Project, and “Charlotte Mecklenburg,” commissioned by the Charlotte Symphony.  Some of her upcoming compositions for the 2021-2022 season include “Euba’s Dance,” for cellist Matt Haimowitz, “When young spring comes” for pianist and NPR Host, Laura Downes, and a micro-opera, “600 Square Feet,” for Cleveland Opera Theatre.  

Dr. Okoye is a board member of Composers Now!. She holds a BM in Composition from Oberlin Conservatory, and a PhD in Music Theory and Composition from Rutgers University.

Learn more about Nkeiru Okoye

Eleonor arranged the music for the new film by Sophie Dunér When the Saints Go Marching In, which will premiere at the AddAMovie Film and Visual Media Festival on November 2, 2021.

When the Saints Go Marching In (2021)
Sophie Dunér, filmmaker and vocalist
Eleonor Sandresky, film score arranger and pianist

AddAMovie Film and Visual Media Festival

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Harvest Moon premieres on October 20, 2021 at 9pm ET. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Mary Jane Leach. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

Our themed cocktail is the the Indian Summer, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

SANDRESKY Spice Mix 1 for open ensemble

LEACH Ariadne’s Lament for trombone choir

LEACH Dowland’s Tears for solo + 9 taped flutes

LEACH Xantippe’s Rebuke for solo + 8 taped oboes

GLASS Scene 6 from Les Enfants Terrible, arranged for solo piano by Eleonor Sandresky*

*World premier

About Mary Jane Leach

Mary Jane Leach is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from her deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities. “An acoustic ‘Through the Looking Glass’ world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker) The result is striking music which has a powerful effect on listeners.

Critics have commented on her ability to "offer a spiritual recharge without the banalities of the new mysticism" (Detroit Free Press), evoking "a visionary quest for inner peace" (Vice Versa Magazine), and "an iridescent lingering sense of suspended time." (Musicworks Magazine) Leach’s music has been performed throughout the world in a variety of settings, from the concert stage to experimental music forums, and in collaboration with dance and theatre artists. Recordings of her work are on Modern Love, Blume, Apostos, die Schachtel, Lovely Music, New World, XI, Starkland, Innova, and Aerial compact disc labels.

Learn more about Mary Jane Leach

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Corn Moon premieres on September 20, 2021 at 9pm EST. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Trevor New. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

Our themed cocktail is the Corntini, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket or subscription, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS - ‘Knee 1’ from Einstein on the Beach (1976) arranged by Eleonor Sandresky*

SANDRESKY - Alligator for piano and wonder suit (2015) based on a poem by Mary Oliver and recorded by Leonardo Heiblum at Academia de Arte de Florencia in Meixco City, MX

NEW - New Work*

NEW-SANDRESKY- New Work*

• World Premier

About Trevor New

Trevor New, a Brooklyn-based electro-acoustic viola musician, has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He has appeared as a soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto transcribed for Viola, and premiering the Henderson Viola Concerto with the Chelsea Symphony of New York in 2014. As a chamber musician he has played with the Balkan Chamber Orchestra on a multi-city tour of Japan, Chris McNulty on her Jazz album “Eternal”, Joe Daley’s “Portraits and Virtues”, David Chesky's “Joy and Sorrow”, Feist's “Metals”, Hip-hop Violinist and Emmy award winner Damien Escobar, and in the TV Orchestra of television's first drama about life in a Symphony, “Mozart in the Jungle”. In 2018 Trevor performed a concert series with Academy award winner Joe Hisaishi, playing his film scores, including “Spirited Away” at Carnegie Hall.

Trevor, interested in the effect that music has in describing and effecting social issues and human experiences, premiered the Quartet titled “Offer” by Ernest Casutto a Dutch-Jewish Holocaust survivor, which was written in 1944 while he was in a concentration camp, and performed at Carnegie Hall for the "Black Stars of the Great White Way" Broadway Reunion. He also performed as a part of a series called “Broadway Sings” for The Trevor Project, to raise money for suicide prevention efforts among LBGTQ youth.

His work as a sound designer, engineer/producer, and performer can be found in a variety of media, including film scores, arranging, electronic music, TV. In a Timeout New York review of a recent production of the play "Your Hair Looked Great" his music was described as "Smartly Scored". Trevor designs solo performances playing his viola and singing and using Ableton Live for looping and effects. He has been hard at work developing his custom sound setup which features the Myo armband, an open source gestural control sensor, midi controllers made by Keith McMillen, and effects he designed himself. He also has played at Mediation workshops and Sound Baths around Brooklyn and the Northeast.

Learn more about Trevor New

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Sturgeon Moon premieres on August 22, 2021 at 9pm EST. This special “Greatest Hits” episode will showcase conversation and music highlights from Season 1!

Our themed cocktail is TBD, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GREATEST HITS FROM SEASON 1

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Buck Moon premieres on July 24, 2021 at 9pm EST. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Matthew Shipp. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

Our themed cocktail is the Fuzzy Horn, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your $5 ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

SANDRESKY Contemplation 1 for electric guitar and electronic playback

MATTHEW SHIPP Selections from The Piano Equation and more

GLASS “The Poet Speaks” from The Hours
(Arranged for solo piano by Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly)

About Matthew Shipp

Pianist and composer, Matthew Shipp, with his unique and recognizable style, has worked and recorded vigorously from the late '80s onward, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical is intertwined. His artistic breakthrough came in the early 1990s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and he soon began leading his own dates (most often including Ware bandmate and preeminent bassist William Parker) as well as recording duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, the latter another musician who first made a name for himself in the 1990s. Through his range of live and recorded performances and unswerving individual development, Shipp has come to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music into the new millennium.

Born in 1960 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Shipp grew up around 1950s jazz recordings. He began playing piano at the young age of five, and decided to focus on jazz by the time he was 12. He played on a Fender Rhodes in rock bands while privately devouring recordings by a variety of jazz players. His first mentor was a man in his hometown named Sunyata, who was enthusiastic about a variety of subjects in addition to music. Shipp later studied music theory and improvisation under Clifford Brown's teacher Robert "Boisey" Lawrey, as well as classical piano and bass clarinet for the school band. After one year at the University of Delaware, Shipp left and took lessons with Dennis Sandole for a short time, after which he attended the New England Conservatory of Music for two years.

Shipp moved to N.Y.C. in 1984 and soon met bassist William Parker, among others. Both were playing with tenor saxophonist Ware by 1989. Meanwhile, Shipp had debuted as a recording artist in a duo with alto player Rob Brown on Sonic Explorations, recorded in November 1987 and February 1988. He then went on to lead his own trio with Parker and drummers Whit Dickey and Susie Ibarra. Shipp has led dates for a number of labels, including FMP, No More, Eremite, Thirsty Ear, and Silkheart. In 2000, he began acting as curator for Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. This excellent series hosted a number of Shipp's own recordings, as well as the recordings of William Parker, Tim Berne, Roy Campbell, Craig Taborn, Spring Heel Jack, and Mat Maneri. The following year saw the release of Nu Bop, an exploration into traditional jazz, followed closely by its 2003 counterpart, Equilibrium. In 2004, Shipp released Harmony and Abyss, a meditation on repetitive melodic and harmonic structures. One arrived in January 2006 and Piano Vortex followed a year later.

4D, featuring Shipp on solo piano, was released by Thirsty Ear early in 2010. It was one of several recordings from the pianist in the initial years of the 21st century, which included a two-disc solo piano recital entitled Creation Out of Nothing: Live in Moscow on the SoLyd Records imprint and the stellar trio set Night Logic, with Joe Morris and former Sun Ra saxophonist Marshall Allen, on the Rogue Art label. Shipp kept up the pace in 2011, kicking off the year with the double-CD offering Art of the Improviser, which showcased him in two different live settings: one solo and one in a trio with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey. In the spring he released a duet recording with alto saxophonist Darius Jones titled Cosmic Lieder on the AUM Fidelity label. In 2012, he re-formed the trio with Bisio and Dickey for Elastic Aspects. Shipp entered into a prolific collaboration with saxophonist Ivo Perelman for a slew of projects that year, and 2013 included a duet, trios, and quartets with various personnel, all issued by Leo Records. Titles included The Gift, The Clairvoyant, The Foreign Legion, A Violent Dose of Anything, Enigma, The Art of the Duet, Vol. 1, The Edge, and Serendipity. In the fall of 2013, Shipp released the solo piano offering Piano Sutras for Thirsty Ear, as well as a retrospective for the label entitled Greatest Hits and a duet offering with saxophonist John Butcher, Fataka 2.

Shipp maintained a prolific release and touring pace in 2014. First to appear was the trio date The Roots of Things in February with Dickey and Bisio, followed by two more sets in various ensembles with Perelman. The first, titled The Other Edge, was issued in March and featured the pianist's quartet backing the saxophonist, while the second, released the same month, was Book of Sound, a collaborative recording between Perelman, Shipp, and Parker. Symbol Systems, a solo piano outing, appeared in May from Lithuania's No Business label, while The Darkseid Recital, a second chapter in Jones' and Shipp's "Cosmic Lieder," was released in August by AUM Fidelity, followed by the solo piano offering I've Been to Many Places on Thirsty Ear in September. That year, the French Rogue Art label issued no less than four Shipp-led dates compiled from several years of performances. They included the solo Piano (2008); a duet album with Evan Parker titled Rex, Wrecks & XXX (2013); Right Hemisphere with Brown, Dickey and Morris (2008); and Declared Enemy: Salute to the 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet with Parker, Gerald Cleaver, Sabir Mateen, and Denis Lavant (2006).

The following year saw two more releases from the label. Our Lady of the Flowers was a Genet tribute follow-up a decade on (sans Lavant), and the controversial but still widely celebrated trio recording To Duke. Shipp also issued a pair of duet recordings: Live at Okuden: The Uppercut with Polish reed and woodwind master Mat Walerian on ESP-Disk, and Callas with Perelman for Leo.

Associations with both men produced more 13 more recordings in 2016 and 2017. Complementary Colors and Corpo were duo dates with Perelman (the pair released 13 albums together before 2017 was out), while Butterfly Whispers added Dickey to make it a trio. Live at Okuden: Jungle with Walerian and Hamid Drake, capturing a performance from 2012, was released by ESP-Disk. The pianist issued a trio date titled Piano Song in early 2017, with Michael Bisio on bass and drummer Newman Taylor Baker. Produced by Peter Gordon, it marked Shipp's swan song as a recording artist for Thirsty Ear, though he remained curator of its Blue Series imprint. An ESP-Disk trio date with Walerian and Parker was issued as Toxic: This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People during the late spring. In early 2018, Shipp released no less than three albums. In January, Accelerated Projection, a duo date with Roscoe Mitchell was issued by France's Rogue Art label. A month later, Shipp released two dates through ESP-Disk simultaneously: Sonic Fiction, a quartet date with Walerian, Bisio, and Dickey, and the solo piano offering Zero in February. In late 2018, Rogue Art issued a duet album with Shipp and viola player Mat Maneri called Conference of the Mat/ts. The following year, the label released three more Shipp albums: All Things Are, a trio date with Michael Bisio and Newman Taylor Baker featuring flutist Nicole Mitchell; another trio album, Symbolic Reality, with Maneri and William Parker; and What If?, a duet record with trumpeter Nate Wooley.

Biography by Josyln Lane for AllMusic

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Strawberry Moon premieres on June 24, 2021 at 9pm EST. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest composer Leonardo Heiblum. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

The featured cocktail/mocktail is the Strawberry Sling. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

SANDRESKY Strange Energies No. 11 “Freedom” for solo piano

LEONARDO HEIBLUM The Monk and the Elephant (US premiere)

HEIBLUM/SANDRESKY The Sheep (US premiere)

GLASS Etude No. 16, for piano and tabla

About Leonardo Heiblum

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Leonardo Heiblum is a composer, producer, multi instrumentalist and sound artist from Mexico City

He studied piano and other instruments from a very early age, composition in Mexico City, Indian Classical Music Tabla and singing in India, traditional Son Jarocho in Veracruz, Latinoamerican music in Argentina and Recording Engineering in Full Sail Center for the recording arts in Orlando, Florida.

He worked as an engineer and music assistant for Philip Glass and Michael Riesman in the 90’s

He is one of the most prolific film composers from México and has scored films from all over the world for over 20 years. Films with his music have premiered at the most important festivals and he has won major awards, including the Fénix twice and the Ariel three times. Most of this work he has done in collaboration with Jacobo Lieberman.

He owns “Belurecords” an independent record label and studio where he records and mixes everything that he produces. Original work, traditional Son Jarocho, and music from other composers, including "Spirit of the Earth" and “Concert for the Sixth Sun” with Philip Glass, Daniel Medina de la Rosa, Erasmo Medina Medina y Roberto Carrillo Cocío (traditional Wixarika musicians) "Introducing the Suso & Glass Quartet" with Foday Musa Suso, Philip Glass and Asher Delerme, where he also plays Tabla and “The Peyote Dance”, “Mummer Love” and “Peradam” a trilogy with Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, where he co-writes and co-produces all the tracks.

His personal project is the Encyclopedia Sonica, music created with sounds recorded by him over 25 years around the world.

https://belurecords.com/

Official website

"Paris on Hudson" is the culminating event of Third Street Music School’s new music festival, 20/21 Vision, celebrating the amazing legacy of Nadia Boulanger, the French composer and teacher who influenced an entire generation of American composers and performers.

Eleonor will be performing two works by Boulanger’s student Philip Glass: Etude No. 16 and her own arrangement of “Entrance of the Moon” from A Descent into the Maelström.

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Flower Moon premieres on May 26, 2021 at 9pm EST. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest filmmaker Erika Suderburg. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

The featured cocktail/mocktail is the Rose. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS Etude #5 for piano

SANDRESKY / SUDERBURG End Credits for chamber ensemble

SUDERBURG Strip

SANDRESKY / SUDERBURG These Iron Words for percussion, voices and keyboard*

SUDERBURG Chromography

Glimmer

VAN ZANDT Painted Night, nocturnes for piano*

*World premiere

ABOUT ERIKA SUDERBURG

Erika Suderburg is a filmmaker and writer. She began making experimental film in 1978 and has made ten feature-length films and myriad short ones that have been exhibited internationally from Korea to Qatar, and Croatia to Iran. She has been on the faculties of Otis College of Art and Design, The California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, University of California and Bard College. 

Suderburg has written art, performance, television and film criticism over the past thirty years and is co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices, Resolution 3: Global Networks of Video and editor of Space Site Intervention: Situating Installation Art, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.

The Making of Donne Songs Without Words
A Choreographic Work for Viol Quartet and Baroque Harp
by Eleonor Sandresky

Parthenia Viol Consort, Eleonor Sandresky, composer, Christa Patton, harp

Parthenia and guests discuss the conception, composition and performance of Sandresky’s 2014 work, John Donne Songs Without Words, commissioned by Parthenia with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. We will explore our love of Donne’s poetry, the guiding aesthetic for this work, and talk about learning to use body movements while playing our instruments, and show videos of the 2015 premier.

Watch with us on May 13, and join in the conversation!

This program will be archived through May 23.

For more about Parthenia and the event, please visit their website at www.parthenia.org

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Pink Moon premieres on April 27, 2021 at 9pm EST. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest Daniel Bernard Roumain. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

The featured cocktail/mocktail is the Pink Martini. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS Trilogy Sonata mvt 3 (2000)

ROUMAIN I Need to Cry But I Can’t (2017)

8’ 46” (2020)

choreography by Tiffany Rea-Fisher

commissioned by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth

SANDRESKY Strange Energy #7 Waves (2015)

About Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain’s (DBR) acclaimed work as a composer, performer, educator, and activist spans more than two decades, and he has been commissioned by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (NYT), DBR is perhaps the only composer whose collaborations span Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover and Lady Gaga.

Known for his signature violin sounds infused with myriad electronic, urban, and African-American music influences, DBR takes his genre-bending music beyond the proscenium. He is a composer of chamber, orchestral, and operatic works; has won an Emmy for Outstanding Musical Composition for his collaborations with ESPN; featured as keynote performer at technology conferences; and created large scale, site-specific musical events for public spaces. DBR earned his doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan and is currently Institute Professor and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University.

An avid arts industry leader, DBR serves on the board of directors of the League of American Orchestras, Association of Performing Arts Presenters and Creative Capital, the advisory committee of the Sphinx Organization, and was co-chair of 2015 and 2016 APAP Conferences.

DBR has most recently created the musical score for The Just and The Blind, a collaboration with spoken word artist and writer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, commissioned by Carnegie Hall; and a new work for Washington State University’s Symphonic Band, Falling Black Into The Sky, based on the work of the artist James Turrell and his “light work” at Roden Crater.

www.danielroumain.com

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Worm Moon premieres on March 28, 2021 at 9pm ET. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest Eve Beglarian. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

The featured cocktail/mocktail is the Earthworm. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS Metamorphosis 2

BEGLARIAN A Solemn Shyness

I Have to See You (with Lukas Papenfusscline)

Who Else? (poem by Crispin Best)

SANDRESKY In Short Db

About Eve Beglarian

According to the Los Angeles Times, composer and performer Eve Beglarian is a “humane, idealistic rebel and a musical sensualist.” A 2017 winner of the Alpert Award in the Arts for her “prolific, engaging and surprising body of work,”  she has also been awarded the 2015 Robert Rauschenberg Prize from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for her “innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation.”

Beglarian’s current projects include a collaboration with writer/performer Karen Kandel and writer/director Mallory Catlett about women in Vicksburg from the Civil War to the present, a piece about the controversial Balthus painting Thérèse Dreaming for vocalist Lucy Dhegrae, and a duo for uilleann pipes and organ that was premiered by Renée Louprette and Ivan Goff at Disney Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Since 2001, she has been creating A Book of Days, “a grand and gradually manifesting work in progress…an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements.” (Los Angeles Times)

In 2009, “Ms. Beglarian kayaked and bicycled the length of the Mississippi River [and] has translated her findings into music of sophisticated rusticity. [Her] new Americana song cycle captures those swift currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works waft gracefully on her handsome folk croon and varied folk instrumentation as mysterious as their inspiration.” (New York Times)

Beglarian’s chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the California EAR Unit, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, loadbang, Newspeak, the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and individual performers including Maya Beiser, Lara Downes, Lucy Dhegrae, and Thomas Feng.

Highlights of Beglarian’s work in music theater includes music for Mabou Mines’ Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, Ecco Porco, Choephorai, and Shalom Shanghai, all directed by Lee Breuer; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater’s production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.

She has collaborated with choreographers including Ann Carlson, Robert LaFosse, Victoria Marks, Susan Marshall, David Neumann, Take Ueyama, and Megan Williams, and with visual and video artists including Cory Arcangel, Anne Bray, Vittoria Chierici, Barbara Hammer, Kevork Mourad, Shirin Neshat, Matt Petty, Bradley Wester, and Judson Wright.

Performance projects include Brim, Songs from a Book of Days, The Story of B, Open Secrets, Hildegurls’ Ordo Virtutum, twisted tutu, and typOpera.

Recordings of Eve’s music are available on ECM, Koch, New World, Canteloupe, Innova, Naxos, Kill Rock Stars, CDBaby, and Bandcamp.

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LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Snow Moon premieres on February 27, 2021 at 9pm EST, the final concert of the 2021 Composers Now Festival. We will celebrate the full moon with special guest Jack van Zandt. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky and features two world premieres.

The featured cocktail/mocktail is the Snowdrift. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS “Knee 4” from Einstein on the Beach (1975)

JACK VAN ZANDT Painted Night, excerpt for piano (2017)*

JACK VAN ZANDT Aether, from Stoichea, five etudes solo viola

for viola, electronics and video (2020)*

SANDRESKY Donne Songs without Words (2014)

*world premiere

About Jack van Zandt

Jack Van Zandt (b. 1954, Honolulu) is a Los Angeles and Ireland-based composer of music for concerts, public spaces, gallery installations, television, film, and advertising. He studied composition at Cambridge University with Alexander Goehr; the Dartington Summer School of Music with Peter Maxwell Davies; and at University of California Santa Barbara with Thea Musgrave, Peter Racine Fricker, and electronic music with Emma Lou Diemer. He was Alexander Goehr’s teaching, personal and musical assistant from 1978-1984. He has composed more than 300 works. His concert music has been performed in the USA, Canada, Asia and Europe, and his commercial music is regularly heard on broadcast, internet, and cable TV. He has scored documentary and silent films, and his electronic music has been used for installations, multimedia presentations, TV, and meditation videos and workshops. He is a co-Grammy winner in the Best Classical Compendium category for his piece “Sí an Bhrú” for solo piano and electronics on pianist Nadia Shpachenko’s CD “Poetry of Places.”

Van Zandt is also a writer, publisher, teacher, music education program designer, concert producer, and frequent university guest lecturer on various musical subjects.  He is a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Composers Forum, of which he was president 2014-17, and was Visiting Artist at Cal Arts in 2017. He was a member of the Thea Musgrave International 90th Birthday Celebration Committee (2019), and travelled to various universities and other venues presenting live conversations with Thea Musgrave about her life and work and their friendship.

His concert music has recently been performed at Symphony Space, Barge Music and Queen’s College in New York; the San Francisco Center for Contemporary Music; Orgelpark, Amsterdam; new music festivals in Krakow, Philadelphia, Seattle and Montreal; Birmingham University UK; The Florida Toy Piano Festival; Wende Museum Music Series Los Angeles; Hear Now Festivals in Los Angeles and Paris; Unsung Festival Los Angeles; Pianospheres LA; Boston Court Pasadena; Tuesdays @ Monk Space Series LA; People Inside Electronics LA; Ussachevsky Festival at Pomoina College; Cal Arts; Universities of California at San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Riverside; California State Universities at Los Angeles, Fullerton, San Bernardino, and Cal Poly Pomona; Bridges Hall and Drinkwater Hall, Claremont, California;  Salmon Hall, Chapman University, Orange, California; and many other North American theaters, colleges and universities.

Van Zandt’s orchestral score for a segment of the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu” was premiered live in 2018 with film projection at the Forest Lawn Crucifixion-Resurrection Hall in Glendale, California. His music composed for TV has appeared on broadcast, cable and internet networks all over the world, including Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, HBO, AMC, the BBC, E Channel, Discovery, USA Network, Oxygen, Bravo, and Viceland; and dozens of internationally popular programs including Bosch (Amazon), Desperate Housewives (ABC), Modern Family (NBC), and Weird Loners (Fox). He co-composed the score for a 2018 Canadian documentary on homeopathic medicines, “Magic Pills.”

Van Zandt has recently received concert music commissions from the Copland House Foundation New York, Grammy-winning pianist Nadia Shpachenko, soprano Stacey Fraser, the Cal Poly Pomona Piano Ensemble, soprano Kirsten Wiest, cellist Maksim Velichkin, Celliola, LA Harptette, bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood, soprano Stacey Fraser, Hear Now LA Music Festival, the LA Music Theater Ensemble, and the Villiers Quartet (UK). His “Sí an Bhrú” for solo piano and electronics, recorded at Skywalker Ranch, appears on Nadia Shpachenko’s 2020 Grammy-winning CD “The Poetry of Places.” His song cycle with librettist Jill Freeman, “Apples and Time Crack in October,” appears on the recently released CD “Luminous” from soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest and pianist Siu Hei Lee.

His current projects in progress include the jazz-inspired monodramedy “The New Frontier,” with librettist Jill Freeman, and a dance cantata “On the Shores of Eternity,” with texts by R. Tagore for soprano, dancer, electronics, flute, harp, cello and electric bass, both with soprano Stacey Fraser; a set of Irish traditional music inspired pieces with flutist/co-composer Jane Rigler and various Irish traditional singers, artists and filmmakers; pieces for solo viola, electronics and video with UK violist Carmen Flores and filmmaker Tim Bassford. In addition, Van Zandt is writing a book with British composer Alexander Goehr, “Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors and Models” to be published in 2021.

Van Zandt divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and West Cork Ireland. The composer and his publishing company, Roaring Water Music, are BMI affiliates. His concert music is published by Composers Edition in Oxford, UK.

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January 28, 2021 at 9pm EST is a brand new episode of LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Wolf Moon . This month, we will celebrate the full moon with special guest Gilda Lyons. The livestream will also include music by Philip Glass and Eleonor Sandresky.

In January, everything but humans is asleep. The featured cocktail/mocktail, the Wolf’s Den, invokes a cozy place to be warm, rest and reflect. Outside plant life is seemingly dead. You will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

GLASS “Dead Things” from The Hours for solo piano (2002)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky

SANDRESKY Someone Comes By for soprano and piano (2003)
Text by William Bronk
Performed by Gilda Lyons and Eleonor Sandresky

LYONS A Girl Who Misses for solo piano (2008)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky

LYONS Hydroxychhloroquine for soprano (2020)
Video by Chris Lyons
Performed by Gilda Lyons

SANDRESKY Strange Energies #10, Patience for solo piano (2020)
Performed by Eleonor Sandresky

About Gilda Lyons

GILDA LYONS, composer, vocalist, and visual artist, combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, folk, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism to create works of uncompromising emotional honesty and melodic beauty.

A fierce advocate of contemporary music, Lyons has commissioned, premiered, and workshopped new vocal works by dozens of composers. Her works and performances are available on the Clarion, GPR, Naxos, New Dynamic, New Focus, Roven Records and Yarlung Records labels. Lyons’ vocal collaboration with Laura Ward (Lyric Fest/Naxos) was described by Opera News as “winning delivery, full of character.” “Gilda Lyons's clear soprano compels admiration” writes David Shengold of Opera, UK of her performance in Hagen’s “Shining Brow” (Buffalo Philharmonic/Falletta/Naxos).

Recent recording projects as composer include the release of Lyons’ works by Quince (Motherland); Laura Strickling (Confessions); and entelechron (The Folk Tune Project); Lindsey Goodman's tour de force performance of Lyons' Chrysalis (reach through the sky); and Sing for Hope’s release of Lyons' Hold On (An AIDS Quilt Songbook).

Lyons currently serves as Co-Chair of the Composition Program at Wintergreen Summer Music Academy and as Assistant Professor of Composition at The Hartt School. She is Artistic and Executive Director of The Phoenix Concerts, New York's "intrepid Upper West Side new-music series" (The New Yorker), and serves on the Board of Advisors of Composers Now, the Steven R. Gerber Trust, and Sparks & Wiry Cries.

Lyons served as Composer-in-Residence of Chautauqua Opera in the 2019 season. In 2021, she returns as composition faculty for Connecticut Summerfest. Lyons’ music is published by Schott, E.C. Schirmer, and Burning Sled. www.gildalyons.com

LUNAR LANDSCAPES: Cold Moon, premieres on December 29, 2020 at 9pm EST. We'll be ushering in the new year with meditative, focused, and beautiful music by special guest Fahad Siadat, Philip Glass, and myself.

Our themed cocktail is my take on the Poinsettia, and you will receive the recipe and snack recommendations when you purchase your ticket, along with a unique link to the event.

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PROGRAM

SANDRESKY Closing (2020)

FAHAD SIADAT Meditations

GLASS Opening (1982)

About Fahad Siadat

Fahad Siadat creates interdisciplinary storytelling works, folding together words, sound, and movement into ritualistic narratives. His work is described by the press as “Exceptional” (LA Times), “hypnotic” (Backstage) and having “a sophisticated harmonic vocabulary” (San Diego Story) with “characteristic vivaciousness” (Theatre Scene). He is an advocate of innovative and adventurous music, particularly for vocal ensembles and approaches this advocacy as a performer, composer, conductor and entrepreneur. Fahad maintains a robust performing schedule, and has performed as soloist with such groups as LA’s groundbreaking opera company The Industry, and the Grammy Award-Winning PARTCH, and at events included SASSAS, the NEO Voice Festival, the Hear Now Festival, Tuesdays@MonkSpace, and the Masters in the Chapel Concert Series. 

He is the artistic director of LA’s premier chamber vocal ensemble HEX and co-artistic director of The Resonance Collective, an interdisciplinary music/dance ensemble with collaborator André Megerdichian. In 2019 he co-founded the NEO Voice Festival, a week-long celebration of new music for the voice, for which he is the Director of Composition.

Fahad is regularly commissioned to compose for concert music ensembles, dance companies, and theater troupes including: Theater Dybbuk, Rosanna Gamson Dance, Monmouth University, Seton Hill College, Northeastern State University, The Esoterics, C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, Smitten Kitten Film Productions, the award winning Armada Films, Jacksonville Dance Theater, the California EAR Unit, New Century Players, and the TOCCATA Orchestra. His music has been performed in Europe, China, and across the United States.

He has conducted such ensembles as the Chaffey College Concert and Chamber Choirs, the CalArts Institute Choir and Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Columbia University Glee Club, C3LA, and C4: The Choral Composer Conductor Collective and has been assistant conductor of The Industry opera company. Fahad is a sought after choir clinician and has made workshop appearances with ensembles from coast to coast.

In addition to his creative work, Fahad has a reputation as a dynamic speaker and has given keynote addresses, commencement speeches, and guest lectures at Whittier College, NSU, Tufts University, California State University Long Beach, Institute of the Arts – Barcelona, CalArts, CSU Fullerton, Concordia College, Ashland High School, and the Kaufman Center in New York. He has been featured in over a dozen podcasts, print magazines, and online publications. He regularly writes articles for NewMusicBox and the Choral Journal and has presented on various topics at conference for the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, the NY Choral Consortium, and Classical NEXT.

Fahad is an experienced arts entrepreneur and is the founder of C3LA: The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, a board member of C4 in New York, and the founder of See-A-Dot Music Publishing, Inc., a company devoted to the advocacy of new choral works and emerging composers. 

Fahad holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and the California Institute of the Arts, from which he received the degree Doctor of Musical Arts.