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The 2012 Festival kicks off on Saturday!
Please join us for three concerts of new music in art galleries
Saturday, May 12th · Sunday, May 13th · Monday, May 14th
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, Second Floor
Tickets available online or at the door
Single tickets $15, students & seniors $10 · All-Festival Pass $35
Festival highlight:
- Three world premiere performances, one per festival concert, of the 2012 Look & Listen commission, Orbit Design, by composer Derek Bermel. The work is a tribute to 20th century radical John Cage. The score combines notation, improvisation, and chance elements that will come alive uniquely when realized by a trio of percussions on May 12th, a trio of flutists on May 13th, and Brooklyn Rider on May 14th.
- Look & Listen regular since 2002 So Percussion will curate the opening concert.
- Master’s degree candidates from Pratt Institute’s Department of Fine Arts will be exhibiting work in all media at Pratt Manhattan Gallery as part of Pratt Institute’s “Graduate Fine Arts 2012” exhibition during the Festival. Arrive early, ½ hour before concert begins, to enjoy the artworks and talk with visual artists represented in the show. The exhibition is on view from May 12–26, 2012.
- WQXR’s Q2 Music is the Festival’s digital partner. Stream all three concerts on-demand at q2music.org.
Saturday, May 12, 8 pm:
The opening night concert will be hosted by composer and Q2 Music host Phil Kline and guest curated by Look & Listen veteran So Percussion. Alongside So Percussion fellow percussionists Doug Perkins and Bobby Previte will perform. Works will include David Lang String of Pearls, Paul Lansky Panorama, Bobby Previte Terminal 4, new work by So Percussion, and Derek Bermel Orbit Design, and more!
Sunday, May 13, 4 pm:
WQXR’s Terrance McKnight will host our second concert which will feature Hilmar Jensson & Theo Bleckmann performing their original composition for quintet, flutists Eric Lamb, Kelli Kathman, & Alex Sopp performing Derek Bermel’s Orbit Design, the Kibbey/Hadfield/Mills Trio, Mark Stewart, Dan Trueman & Brittany Haas performing original compositions from their new album CrissCross, and the Mivos Quartet performing Lost Touch With Oneself by Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang, the 2012 L&L Composers’ Competition Winner.
Monday, May 14, 8 pm:
Pratt Institute Professor Tracie Morris will host the final evening of the festival as Brooklyn Rider performs Bermel’s Orbit Design and György Kurtág Microludes, ACME plays Timothy Andres’ variations for piano quartet - I Found it by the Sea, janus trio performs Caleb Burhans’ Keymaster and Anna Clyne’s Beware Of, Derek Bermel performs his Thracian Sketches for solo clarinet, and composer/pianist Michael Brown makes his Festival debut.
Please support us!
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You can make a tax-deductable donation at our donations page. We appreciate your support!
THANK YOU!
Tanya Bannister at the 10th Anniversary Celebration. Photo by Ron Gordon
Tanya Bannister at the 10th Anniversary Celebration. Photo by Ron Gordon
Thank you to everyone involved who made the 10th anniversary of the Look & Listen Festival so incredible: the performers, the composers, the hosts, Q2, the Chelsea Art Museum, our funders, and especially our wonderful audiences!
Watch the site for updates on the May 2012 Festival and in the meantime…
AUGUST is LOOK & LISTEN MONTH
on Q2 Music’s CUED UP!
Over the course of the month, Cued Up will webcast all four concerts from the 2011 Look & Listen Festival. Click here to stream the concerts on Q2 Music!
Here’s the full schedule of webcasts on Q2 Music’s Cued Up
Thursday night Look & Listen concert
Sunday, August 7th at 2 PM
Tuesday, August 9th at 8 PM
Thursday, August 11th at 4 PM
Friday night Look & Listen concert
Sunday, August 14th at 2 PM
Tuesday, August 16th at 8 PM
Thursday, August 18th at 4 PM
Saturday night Look & Listen concert
Sunday, August 21st at 2 PM
Tuesday, August 23rd at 8 PM
Thursday, August 25th at 4 PM
Sunday afternoon Look & Listen concert
Sunday, August 28th at 2 PM
Tuesday, August 30th at 8 PM
Thursday, September 1st at 4 PM