HEAR NOW 2016 Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers
April 21, 23 and 24, 2016
THURSDAY, 8:00 PM
April 21
Orchestra concert
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Philharmonia,
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
BEN PHELPS: Circus Maximus
WILLIAM KRAFT: Settings from Pierrot Lunaire
CEIRI TORJUSSEN: Blodeuwedd (2001, rev. 2015)
DANIEL KESSNER: River of Time (2001)
SATURDAY, 3:00 PM
April 23
HEAR NOW/PIE Electroacoustic concert:
Presented in collaboration with People Inside Electronics (PIE)
Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica
JOSHUA CARRO – [[[nex]]] (2015) with French horn
LIVIU MARINESCU – Shadows with piano
JASON HEATH – Wanaya Songs
JOSEPH PEREIRA – …alter the way things are with us down here (2012; rev. 2016) with amplified contrabass quartet
JEFF BEAL – new work (world premiere) with trumpet
SATURDAY 8:00 PM
April 23
Chamber concert
Presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. LACO artist-in-residence, cellist par excellence Joshua Roman, will be our guest artist.
First Lutheran Church of Venice
ADAM SCHOENBERG ayudame (2004)cello solo
ISAAC SCHANKLER Oscillations (2005) piano solo
JEFFERSON FRIEDMAN Quintet (2013) (LA premiere)string quartet plus cello
ANDREW THOLL hitting things won’t solve your problems (but it might make you feel better) (2009)— piano and percussion (1 player)
REENA ESMAIL Teen Murti string quartet plus cello
GERNOT WOLFGANG Open Spaces (2013) (US premiere) clarinet and piano
HUGH LEVICK Tierra Del Fuego (2014-15) (world premiere) string quartet and bass baritone
SUNDAY 5:00 PM
April 24th
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
First Lutheran Church of Venice
CAROLINE LOUISE MILLER reductionism is a dirty word (2015) (US premiere)bass flute, piano, contrabass
JEREMY CAVATERRA The Owls (2011)string quartet and percussion
KATHRYN BOSTIC Tres Osos y una Playa flute,clarinet,bassoon
YALIL GUERRA String Quartet No. 3 (in memoriam Ludwig van Beethoven)(2016) (World premiere – Pacific Serenades commission)
ELLIOTT GOLDKIND Buddha in der Glorie flute & tenor
VERA IVANOVA The Laughing Man Alphabet (2013-14; rev. 2015) flute, piano
DANTE DE SILVA Wake The Dead (2012)(world premiere) piano trio
