2013 look and listen

current season

 

The 2013 Look & Listen Festival

May 17th, 18th and 19th, 2013

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, Second Floor

 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Doors open at 7:30 pm, Concert at 8

JACK Quartet

Opening night features JACK Quartet performing the New York premiere of Le journal du corps, a new work by Lewis Nielson. Audiences will hear/see the world premiere of Self-Portrait*, a multi-media creation for piano, cello and video by Michael Brown and Nick Canellakis. The Brown-Canellakis duo also performs Grave by Lutoslawski and Bulgarian Folk Tunes Gankino Horo & Daichovo Horo, arranged by Nicholas Canellakis. Michael Brown performs the solo piano piece Short Sonata by George Perle, and a cappella group The M6 performs Basket Rondo by Meredith Monk. WQXR’s Terrance McKnight hosts and interviews performers and composers.

 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Doors open at 7:30 pm, Concert at 8

Harpist Bridget Kibbey

Taking a cue from a Look & Listen Festival first in 2012 when So Percussion curated an entire show, we are excited to have composer Suzanne Farrin as curator for one of the May 2013 concerts. Farrin is a member of Look & Listen’s Composers Collective and Board of Directors, as well as an Associate Professor of Composition and Director of the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase. She brings us an evening of works entitled Music & Words, featuring works by Saariaho, Carter, Berio, Mendelssohn and Britten with harpist Bridget Kibbey and oboist James Austin Smith.

 

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Doors open at 3:30 pm, Concert at 4

Flutist Claire Chase

Nadia Sirota, violist and regular on Q2 Music, hosts the final concert of the season. Flutist Claire Chase and percussionist Svet Stoyanov perform Songs by Stuart Smith, Sequenza I by Luciano Berio, and the world premiere of Poe by Marcos Balter. Returning Look & Listen composer/toy pianist Phyllis Chen is joined by the avant-folk group Cuddle Magic to perform pieces from their soon-to-be released collaborative album. String quintet Sybarite5 performs the world premiere of Urbano: ensaio de escola de samba (school of samba rehearsal)* by New York-based Brazilian composer João Luiz, and the Momenta Quartet, joined by Jessica Meyer and Sean Katsuyama, performs the US premiere of the Look & Listen 2013 Composers Competition winning piece entitled Echopraxia, by Evis Sammoutis.

 

 

 

*Designates works jointly commissioned by Look & Listen and Concert Artists Guild

**Artists, programs and times are subject to change