Post by deanna on Mar 24, 2011 12:31:50 GMT -7
The 2011 UNM John
Donald Robb Composers’
Symposium,
Sunday, March 27-Wednesday,
March 30, features headliner
Konrad Boehmer, a Dutch
composer of German descent
and one of the last remaining
links to post-War European
serialism.
The New Mexico Symphony
Chorus, directed by New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Associate Conductor Roger
Melone, will perform Boehmer’s
choral piece “Frontlines,”
including two pianos and
percussion. The piece, written
for the symposium, makes its
world premiere Wednesday,
March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in
UNM’s Keller Hall.
The opening concert on
Sunday, March 27, at 7:30
p.m., in collaboration with the
Outpost Performance Space,
features Skümbaag, a vaudeville-
new music-heavy metal
ensemble. Ticket information
is available by contacting the
Outpost at (505) 268-0044 or
online at outpostspace.org.
Symposium evening performances
and daytime activities,
except the Outpost concert,
are free and open to the public
in the UNM Center for the
Arts. For schedules and information,
visit robbtrust.org.
In addition to an international
array of participants,
New Mexico composers, musicians
and UNM faculty will be
featured throughout the event.
Monday evening’s traditional
“John Donald Robb Concert”
features a performance by the
UNM women’s chorus, Las
Cantantes, under the direction
of UNM’s Maxine Thevenot, of
Robb’s Two Songs: “I Am Very
Old Tonight” and “Tears,”
Opus 57, arranged by Bradley
Ellingboe, and two brass compositions,
“Miniatures (five
short pieces)” and “Prelude
Robb symposium presents
international composers
and Commentary,” the latter
directed by UNM horn Professor
J.D. Shaw. The concert also
includes the world premiere of
the winning composition by
Colin Holter of Minneapolis,
Minn., for the 2010 National
Biennial UNM Robb Trust
Composers’ Competition.
“The Recording You Will Now
Hear,” based on a Hispanic
folk song collected by Robb,
will be performed by music
ensemble Chatter.
Holter is a doctoral student
at the University of Minnesota.
In addition to composing
music, he writes a weekly
column for NewMusicBox, the
Web magazine of the American
Music Center. He is a native of
Frederick, Md.
UNM’s Andrea Polli, a wellknown
sound artist, makes her
symposium debut, and other
participants include Italian
composer Barbara Rettagliati,
Chong Lim Ng of Malaysia,
Sergei Zhukov from Russia,
Ron Newman, who teaches
at Michigan State University,
and three younger composers:
Frank Cox of Ohio and New
York-based composers Martin
Scherzinger and Elizabeth
Hoffman. These three, in addition
to Boehmer, Christopher
Shultis and Richard Hermann,
will be part of a featured series
of discussions on “Post-War
Experimental Music” Tuesday
morning.
The symposium also includes
music by two new composition
faculty at UNM: Karola Obermüller
and Peter Gilbert.
Donald Robb Composers’
Symposium,
Sunday, March 27-Wednesday,
March 30, features headliner
Konrad Boehmer, a Dutch
composer of German descent
and one of the last remaining
links to post-War European
serialism.
The New Mexico Symphony
Chorus, directed by New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Associate Conductor Roger
Melone, will perform Boehmer’s
choral piece “Frontlines,”
including two pianos and
percussion. The piece, written
for the symposium, makes its
world premiere Wednesday,
March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in
UNM’s Keller Hall.
The opening concert on
Sunday, March 27, at 7:30
p.m., in collaboration with the
Outpost Performance Space,
features Skümbaag, a vaudeville-
new music-heavy metal
ensemble. Ticket information
is available by contacting the
Outpost at (505) 268-0044 or
online at outpostspace.org.
Symposium evening performances
and daytime activities,
except the Outpost concert,
are free and open to the public
in the UNM Center for the
Arts. For schedules and information,
visit robbtrust.org.
In addition to an international
array of participants,
New Mexico composers, musicians
and UNM faculty will be
featured throughout the event.
Monday evening’s traditional
“John Donald Robb Concert”
features a performance by the
UNM women’s chorus, Las
Cantantes, under the direction
of UNM’s Maxine Thevenot, of
Robb’s Two Songs: “I Am Very
Old Tonight” and “Tears,”
Opus 57, arranged by Bradley
Ellingboe, and two brass compositions,
“Miniatures (five
short pieces)” and “Prelude
Robb symposium presents
international composers
and Commentary,” the latter
directed by UNM horn Professor
J.D. Shaw. The concert also
includes the world premiere of
the winning composition by
Colin Holter of Minneapolis,
Minn., for the 2010 National
Biennial UNM Robb Trust
Composers’ Competition.
“The Recording You Will Now
Hear,” based on a Hispanic
folk song collected by Robb,
will be performed by music
ensemble Chatter.
Holter is a doctoral student
at the University of Minnesota.
In addition to composing
music, he writes a weekly
column for NewMusicBox, the
Web magazine of the American
Music Center. He is a native of
Frederick, Md.
UNM’s Andrea Polli, a wellknown
sound artist, makes her
symposium debut, and other
participants include Italian
composer Barbara Rettagliati,
Chong Lim Ng of Malaysia,
Sergei Zhukov from Russia,
Ron Newman, who teaches
at Michigan State University,
and three younger composers:
Frank Cox of Ohio and New
York-based composers Martin
Scherzinger and Elizabeth
Hoffman. These three, in addition
to Boehmer, Christopher
Shultis and Richard Hermann,
will be part of a featured series
of discussions on “Post-War
Experimental Music” Tuesday
morning.
The symposium also includes
music by two new composition
faculty at UNM: Karola Obermüller
and Peter Gilbert.