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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Susie Ibarra: BarangayRhythms
Weaving a fascinating mix of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Thai rhythms and cultures with contemporary composition and improvisation. Featuring Electric Kulintang with music from their new recording to be released this fall.
Susie Ibarra, acoustic & electric kulintang, drum set, vocals & keyboard;
plus Electric Kulintang with Roberto Rodriguez, electronics, cajon & percussion;
Gilad Harel, clarinets
Mari Kimura, violin & electronics
Jade Simmons, piano
Joseph Trent, flutes
Tomas Ulrich, cello
Friday, October 13, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront
ACO’s groundbreaking series reinvents the orchestra with four world premieres, a multi-media collaboration, and a new focus on composer-performers.
Brad Lubman, guest conductor
Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet
Lauren Radnofsky, amplified cello
Susie Ibarra, percussion
Corey Dargel, vocalist
Jim Altieri, violin
CHARLES IVES: Ragtime Dances
EVAN ZIPORYN: Big Grenadilla
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MICHAEL GATONSKA: After the Wings of Migratory Birds
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)
MICHAEL GANDOLFI: As Above (with video by Ean White)
(NY and Philadelphia Premieres)
BRAD LUBMAN:
Fuzzy Logic (with visual installation by Boom Design Group)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
SUSIE IBARRA: Optical Illusion – Meditation in White Light
(NY Premiere)
COREY DARGEL All the Notes & Rhythms I’ve Ever Loved
(World Premiere)
Friday, October 20, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Brad Lubman’s Electric Fuzz (NYC Debut)
The versatile conductor-composer-instrumentalist Brad Lubman’s latest project creates new artistic synergies, juxtaposing acoustic music with electronics, pop-art and the avant-garde.
Brad Lubman, keyboards, synth, & percussion
Will Chapin, electric guitar
Paul Coleman, electronics
Olivia DePrato, violin;
Charlie Dye, percussion
Juliet Grabowski, clarinets & koto
Oliver Hagen, keyboards
Lauren Radnofsky, cello & electronics
Todd Reynolds, violin
Thurs., Fri. & Saturday, November 16, 17 & 18, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
ACO & Jazz at Lincoln Center
Steven Sloane, conductor
Marcus Roberts, piano
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
DEREK BERMEL:The Migration Series
(World Premiere, ACO/Music Alive Commission)
plus great American song orchestrations by NELSON RIDDLE
Friday, March 2, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Andrew McKenna Lee: From the Raunchy to the Refined
Andrew McKenna Lee pushes the envelope with his original compositions for electric and acoustic guitar – solo and with allied musical mavericks Janus and NOW Ensemble.
Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
Monday, March 26, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront!
ACO challenges conventional notions about orchestra music with category-breaking premieres that continue a focus on composer as performer.
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor laureate
Vijay Iyer, piano
Steven Mackey, electric guitar
Kurt Rohde, viola
Harold Meltzer, harpsichord
Jason Treuting, percussion
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
STEVEN MACKEY: Deal for Electric Guitar & Chamber Orchestra
(Philadelphia and New
York Premieres)
KURT ROHDE: White Boy/Man Invisible
(NY Premiere, ACO Commission)
VIJAY IYER: Interventions
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
HAROLD MELTZER: Virginal
TANIA LEÓN: Indigena
plus music by ANDREW McKENNA LEE & MIN XIAO-FEN
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Min Xiao-Fen: Blue Pipa Trio
Pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa Trio integrates and improvises on the best of Chinese folk music, Jazz standards and even Bluegrass. With Bill McCrossen, bass & Steve Salerno, guitar.
Friday & Saturday, April 13, 1:30 – 4:30pm. Free.
Saturday, April 14, 7:30pm.
Harold Prince Theater
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
ACO/Penn New Music Readings & Lab
Featuring brand new music by five emerging composers from the Philadelphia-area.
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Music Alive composer-in-residence
Jennifer Higdon, mentor composer
Gerald Levinson, mentor composer
Jay Reise, mentor composer
MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Gaeng
JOHN B. HEDGES: Scirocco Dances
DAVID LAGANELLA: Under Ethereal
GREGORY SPEARS: Finishing
ALAN TORMEY: Cleveland is a State of Mind
Friday, April 27, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall
An Adams Apple: John Adams at 60
John Adams, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
JOHN ADAMS: My Father Knew Charles Ives
The Wound Dresser
Violin Concerto
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8 & 9, 2007
10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Admission is Free.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers selected from a national search.
Paul Lustig Dunkel & David Alan Miller, conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Tania León, Christopher Theofanides & Yehudi Wyner, mentor composers
ROSHANNE ETEZADY: Cereus
HSU CHIA-YU: Fantasy on Wang Bao Chuan
XINYAN LI: Mountain Sacrifice No. 2
NORBERT PALEJ: Movimento Sinfonico
AMY KIRSTEN: Strange Angel
PHILIPPE BODIN: Fling
JOSEPH PEREIRA: Mask
RYAN STREBER: Arcuare
CLINT NEEDHAM: Earth and Green