Contemporaneous (Concerts)
May 6, 2010 8:00 PM
Concert Info
CONTEMPORANEOUS presents "EVERYTHING MUST GO," a concert on May 6th, at 8:00PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (120 West 69th St., NY, NY) which will showcase the music of the next generation of composers in America and beyond, with works by Samuel Adams, Diogo Ahmed, Preben Antonsen, Jesse Brown, Albert Behar, Mario Ferraro, Dylan Mattingly, Daniel Shapiro, and Alyssa Weinberg.
CONTEMPORANEOUS (http://www.contemporaneous.org/) is an entirely youth-run group dedicated to the revival of excitement in "classical" music and the dispelling of the myth that classical music ended in 1940. CONTEMPORANEOUS plays music from OUR time, music that describes OUR world as we know it. Too often is "contemporary music" considered to consist of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, and other composers who wrote music a century ago. We seek to bring the new-music world out of the 20th century, to highlight the move from "contemporary" music to contemporaneous music. "EVERYTHING MUST GO", CONTEMPORANEOUS' second concert of the Spring season will take place at the Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church at 120 West 69th St., NY, NY on Thursday, May 6th at 8 PM and will feature all new music by the highest quality young composers of the next generation. The performance is free and open to the public!
Centered in the Hudson Valley of New York, CONTEMPORANEOUS is a newly founded, entirely youth-run group in its inaugural season, most of whose accomplished musicians study at Bard College Conservatory of Music. It is headed by Diogo Ahmed, David Bloom, and Dylan Mattingly, a triumvirate of talented composers, conductors, and performers.
CONTEMPORANEOUS seeks to showcase the transition from contemporary music, the music most often associated with the word "modern" - Schoenberg, Stravinsky, even Boulez - to music which is "contemporaneous," the music of OUR generation.
"EVERYTHING MUST GO," the program on May 6th, at 8:00PM at Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (120 West 69th St., NY, NY) will showcase the music of the next generation of composers in America and beyond, with works by Samuel Adams, Diogo Ahmed, Preben Antonsen, Jesse Brown, Albert Behar, Mario Ferraro, Dylan Mattingly, Daniel Shapiro, and Alyssa Weinberg.
The program will be as follows:
Samuel Adams (b. 1985): aves nostradamus :: stutter / prophecy (2008) **
Diogo Ahmed (b. 1980): Fiel Herzog (2005) **
Preben Antonsen (b. 1991): Permute (2007) **
Jesse Brown (b. 1987): In the Footsteps of Virgil (2009) **
Albert Behar (b. 1991): Catch and Release (2009) **
Mario Ferraro (b. 1965): Pressages (2010) (contemporaneous commission) Ý
Dylan Mattingly (b. 1991): Going to Where the Rain Falls (2009) **
Daniel Shapiro (b. 1985): Garage Sale (2010) **
Alyssa Weinberg (b. 1988): Night Images (2009) **
* New York premiere
** New York City premiere
Ý World premiere
Diogo Ahmed is Artistic Director and Conductor of CAMERATA ELECTRA, a new music ensemble based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has worked on a research project entitled Brazilian Composers and directed the project The Book's Sound, both of which were supported by the National Library of Brazil.
As a composer, his orchestral and chamber works have been played throughout Brazil, Europe, and the United States. He has also written more than twenty-five theater and film scores.
Ahmed is currently enrolled in the Master's Degree program at the Conductors Institute at Bard, where he studies with Maestro Harold Farberman. He holds a B.M. in composition and conducting from the University of Rio de Janeiro. He has attended conducting masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Donald Portnoy, Aleco Bocchino, Guiherme Bernstein, Ricardo Tacuchian, and Daisuke Soga.
David Bloom is a second-year student at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he studies with George Tsontakis and Joan Tower and participates in the dual-degree program, pursuing Bachelor's Degrees both in composition and philosophy. Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, David has worked with many other established composers such as David Ludwig, Stephen Coxe, Melinda Wagner, Christopher Theofanidis, Charles Norman Mason, and several others. Among the performers who have played his works are David Shifrin, Hsin-Yun Huang, Jeewon Park, Peter Miyamoto, Chris Nappi, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. David also studies conducting with James Bagwell and Eduardo Navega and has studied with Harold Farberman and Apo Hsu. Both as a clarinetist and a conductor, he focuses on performing contemporary works, especially those by his fellow emerging composers. In an engagement with the John Cage Trust, he curated events, led several ensembles, and lectured at the 2009 John Cage at Bard College Symposium. Outside of music, David is an Eagle Scout and an avid outdoorsman.
Dylan Mattingly was born March 18th, 1991 in Berkeley, California. He began playing cello at the age of 5, and began writing music at the age of 7. He currently studies composition at the Bard College Conservatory of Music with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, and Kyle Gann. His music has been performed in such cities as Sydney, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and numerous other locations all over the world. He has studied conducting with David Ramadanoff and Nathan Madsen, and has studied composition in California with David Tcimpidis, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Katrina Wreede, and John Adams, as well as taken part in the John Adams Young Composer's Program.
His work is influenced alike by John Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Magnus Lindberg, Joni Mitchell, and the old American blues and folk field recordings of the Lomaxes. For two years he was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical, a San Francisco bay area new music ensemble consisting of young musicians playing only music written in their lifetimes.
Dylan is also a painter, playwright, and a pitcher for Bard College's first ever club baseball team. In the past he has played cello in an improv string quartet called the Superdelegates, and guitar and vocals in a blues/funk/classic rock band entitled Funky Bus & the U-Turns. Dylan is a first-year at Bard College, double majoring in music composition and classics, and a performing cellist, guitarist, pianist, bassist, and singer.
Once again, the concert, "EVERTHING MUST GO," will be at 8:00PM on Thursday, May 6th at Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (120 West 69th St., NY, NY). This is somewhere you'll want to be. Hope to see everyone there!
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