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2019-08-08 00:13:00
Chamber Music America Grants for McGill/McHale Trio, Jessie Montgomery, Trevor Weston
[…] panels. *** CLASSICAL COMMISSIONING Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thirteen grants totaling $209,100 have been awarded through the Classical Commissioning program, which provides support to U.S.-based professional ensembles and presenters for the creation and performance of classical contemporary chamber works. 92nd Street Y with the McGill/McHale Trio (New York, NY) Composer: Tyshawn Sorey Cassatt String Quartet (New York, NY) Composer: Victoria Bond Departure Duo (Boston, MA) Composer: Sarah Gibson FLUX Quartet (Brooklyn, NY) Composer: Hans Tammen F-PLUS (Chicago, IL) Composer: Jessie Montgomery Hub New Music (Jamaica Plain, MA) Composer: Hannah Lash Kaleidoscope (Los Angeles, CA) Composer: Peter Shin Latitude 49 (Waco, TX) Composer: Gity Razaz Musiqa (Houston,TX) Composer: Trevor Weston PRISM Quartet (Philadelphia, PA) Composer: George Lewis Shanghai Quartet (Montclair, NJ) Composer: Marcus Balter The Nouveau Classical Project (New York, NY) Composer: Sugar Vendil Third Sound (Philadelphia, PA) Composer: Kati Agócs Additional program support is […]
2017-08-06 18:54:28
The indomitable FLUX Quartet, who gave the first complete performance of Morton Feldman's gigantic Second Quartet in 1999, repeat the feat at Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo on Aug. 8.... ICE will give the American première of Liza Lim's How...
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-03-14 10:22:44
Student, 25, becomes orchestra’s composer in residence
Katherine Balch, 25, a PhD student at Columbia, is the new composer in residence at the California Symphony. It’s a good jumpboard. Previous residencies have been held by Kamran Ince (1991-92), Christopher Theofanidis (1994-96), Kevin Puts (1996-99), Pierre Jalbert (1999-2002), Kevin Beavers (2002-05), Mason Bates (2007-10), D.J. Sparr (2011-14), and Dan Visconti (2011-17). Balch, originally from San Diego, has received commissions from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, FLUX Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and more.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-03-01 04:25:29
Flux Endures and Abides
Perhaps they had rushed somewhat—billed as running an “uninterrupted six hours, the FLUX Quartet’s 2:00 pm performance of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2 concert at MIT’s Killian Hall ended at 7:30 p.m—a half-hour-early. No matter: the massive and quirky architecture of the piece became physically tangible as it progressed. It did not pass quickly; but neither did it pass slowly. Marked and structured by Feldman’s use of sound, it achieved both elusiveness and monumentality. Wagner knew that making music on the scale of hours requires recourse to methods of musical evolution that go beyond what we think of as “development.” But Wagner has intermissions and the full resources of the orchestra, as well as voices and words. whereas Feldman sculpted time with a mere four players, without a break, without text. His spare material is mostly very quiet. During much of Sunday, one watched the quartet sliding bows inches […]