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Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 at 7:00pm
Whitney Museum of American Art
Composers OutFront!:
Erin Gee & Colin Gee
COLIN GEE, actor/director
ERIN GEE, vocalist
Join composer/vocalist Erin Gee and her brother Colin Gee,
actor/filmmaker, at the Whitney Museum for a special presentation of their work for voice, film, and actor. The evening begins with a performance by Ms. Gee of several of her works for solo voice, which employ unusual techniques using two microphones and live computer processing. Colin Gee, former actor with Cirque du Soleil and currently the Whitney Live Artist-in-Residence, will show an excerpt from his film Dakota. The event will also include a preview of the siblings’ work in progress – Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 – which premieres with ACO’s Orchestra Underground on November 30.
Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Traditions & Transmigrations
Stefan Lano, conductor
Donal Fox, piano
Colin Gee, actor/director
Erin Gee, vocalist
Huang Ruo, vocalist
ERIN GEE: Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci, Part 1 for Electronically Processed Voice, Actor, Film & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO/LVMH Commission)
CURT CACIOPPO: When the Orchard Dances Ceased
(World Premiere, ACOCommission)
CHARLES IVES: Tone Roads Nos. 1 and 3
HUANG RUO: Leaving Sao for Chinese folk voice and orchestra
(NYC Premiere)
DONAL FOX: Peace Out for Improvising Pianist & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Orchestra Underground: Conversations
Anne Manson, conductor
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet & saxophone
Robert Black, double bass
Pawel Wojtasik, video
ROGER ZARE: Time-lapse
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)
SEBASTIAN CURRIER: Next Atlantis for orchestra, electronics, and video
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
PAQUITO D’RIVERA: Conversations with Cachao
(NYC Premiere)
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6:00pm
Queens Library at Flushing
41-17 Main
Street, Flushing, NY
FREE Admission
Donal Fox: Composers OutFront!
DONAL FOX, composer/pianist
in a solo evening of “Transformations, Variations, Improvisations” on music by Chopin, Ellington, Bach, Gershwin, Monk, Schumann, Scarlatti, and Fox.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 4:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Center
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 7:30pm
Le Poisson Rouge
Composers OutFront!: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
MISSY MAZZOLI, composer/performer
Victoire, ensemble
Two chances to see Missy Mazzoli & her chamber-rock group
Victoire playing their signature blend of winds, strings, keys,
and lo-fi electronics.
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Orchestra Underground: Louis & the Young Americans
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: Symphony for Open Strings
(NYC Premiere)
MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us
(World Premiere, new orchestration)
MICHAEL FIDAY: HST: In memoriam Hunter S. Thompson
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN KORSRUD: New Work
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10am
Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
George Manahan & José Serebrier, conductors
Robert Beaser, Derek Bermel, George Tsontakis, mentor composers
TAMAR MUSKAL: Water Colors
George Manahan, conductor
HANNAH LASH: Furthermore
George Manahan, conductor
XI WANG: Symphony No. 1
José Serebrier, conductor
RICARDO ROMANEIRO: Sombras
José Serebrier, conductor
CHRISTOPHER STARK: Ignatian Exercises
José Serebrier, conductor
ERIC LINDSAY: Samba Koocho Hairy Boocho
George Manahan, conductor
MATTI KOVLER: Unsung Serenade
George Manahan, conductor
Coming to America
Celebrating NYC’s Immigrant Heritage week with music by young immigrant American composers: Feng Chern Hwei (Malaysia), Rubin Khodeli (Albania), Raimundo Penaforte (Brazil), and Gity Razaz (Iran).
Admission is FREE.