Center for New Music

Composer Residencies

This season, rather than focus on one guest artist, the Center for New Music is featuring in residency three extraordinary composers representing vastly different aesthetic worlds. Each of these composers will come to the Boston University Center for New Music for a residency where they will be featured in a concert, offer composition lectures and work with BU students. The Thomalla and Ogonek residencies will feature Boston’s own Sound Icon Ensemble led by Jeffrey Means, and the Tsao residency will feature a concert from the New York-based Mivos Quartet. Sound Icon and Mivos Quartet will also work with BU students and Mivos Quartet will perform a concert of student works.

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE: HANS THOMALLA with Sound Icon conducted by Jeffrey Means

November 16-18, 2023

Hans Thomalla, a German American composer living in Chicago and Berlin. Thomalla’s work has particularly focused on the stage. He has written three operas and is currently composing a new work of music theater Dark Fall – for the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Thomalla is Professor of Music Composition at Northwestern University where he co-founded the Institute for New Music. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, the Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

EVENTS

Thursday, November 16, 2023 • 5-7 pm – Hans Thomalla discusses his work
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Friday, November 17, 2023 • 5-7 pm – Hans Thomalla composition Masterclass
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Saturday, November 18, 2023 • 8 pm – free concert
CFA Concert Hall

• Hans Thomalla Harmoniemusik [1] (2020-2021)
  
• Chaya Czernowin Fast Darkness III (2022)
  
• James Tenney Having never written a note for percussion (1971)
• Gérard Grisey Périodes (1974)

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE: ELIZABETH OGONEK with Sound Icon Conducted by Jeffrey Means

November 30 – December 2, 2023

Elizabeth Ogonek’s music has been described as “shimmering,” “dramatic” and “painstakingly crafted” by the Chicago Tribune. In 2015, Ogonek was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as the Mead Composer-in-Residence, a position which she held alongside Samuel Adams until 2018. Ogonek has also worked closely with the London Symphony Orchestra for whom she has written two orchestral works: as though birds and Sleep & Unremembrance. Both pieces were premiered under the direction of François-Xavier Roth at the Barbican Centre. In early 2020, the LSO gave the European premiere of All These Lighted Things while the Toronto Symphony Orchestra gave the Canadian premiere of as though birds. Recent notable chamber and solo projects include two works for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a work for Ensemble 360, a solo piano work, Orpheus Suite, commissioned by the Music Academy of the West and a Fromm Foundation commissioned work, where are we now, for pianist Xak Bjerken, percussion quartet and male vocal sextet on a text by Paul Griffiths.

Born in 1989, Ogonek grew up in New York City. Her primary teachers included Don Freund, Claude Baker, Michael Gandolfi, Donald Crockett, Stephen Hartke and Julian Anderson. A former Beinecke and Marshall Scholar, she holds degrees from Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music (BM, 2009), the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music (MM, 2012) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (DMus, 2017).

EVENTS

Thursday, November 30, 2023 • 5-7 pm – Elizabeth Ogonek discusses her work
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Friday, December 1, 2023 • 5-7 pm – Elizabeth Ogonek composition Masterclass
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Saturday, December 2, 2023 • 8 pm – free concert
CFA Concert Hall

• Gérard Grisey Stèle (1995)
  
• Alvin Lucier Opera with Objects (1997)
  
• Elizabeth Ogonek Orpheus Suite (2018)
• Kaija Saariaho  from the grammar of dreams (1988)
  
• Joshua Fineberg <<autant de libertés que l’esprit prend avec la nature>> (2021-2022)
  
• Erin Gee Mouthpieces 32 (2018)
  

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE: MING TSAO with the Mivos Quartet

February 1-3, 2024

Ming Tsao writes music with a sensuality that arises out of a focus on the inherent qualities of sound – what the composer calls its “materiality” – coupled to an extreme formal rigour and a highly precise, finely-crafted compositional style. In the foreground of his music is a contemporary conception of musical lyricism, which is fractured, multi-faceted and problematised to reflect the modern experience. Many of Ming Tsao’s works are the result of a critical and deep-thinking examination of the Western classical tradition as well as his serious engagement with Chinese traditional music. Ming Tsao has composed works for ensembles including the Arditti Quartet, ELISION Ensemble, ensemble ascolta, ensemble recherche, Ensemble KNM Berlin and Ensemble SurPlus and has had premieres at the Darmstadter Ferienkürse, Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik Berlin, Wien Modern and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. He was born in Berkeley, California. His father emigrated from China and his mother’s parents emigrated from Austria. He studied violin and viola before travelling to Suzhou, China, to study with the renowned Guqin (Chinese zither) performer Wu Zhao-ji. He studied composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston and Ethnomusicology at Columbia University in New York before studies in Logic, Philosophy and Mathematics. Returning to composition, he gained a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego under Chaya Czernowin as well as studying privately with Brian Ferneyhough. He was Professor of Composition at Göteborg University and Visiting Professor of Composition at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021 for music composition.

EVENTS

Thursday, February 1, 2024 • 5-7 pm – Ming Tsao discusses his work
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Friday, February 2, 2024 • 5-7 pm – Ming Tsao composition Masterclass
BU Electronic Music Studio (room B38) 855 Commonwealth Ave.

Saturday, February 3, 2024 • 8 pm – free concert
CFA Concert Hall

• Ming Tsao Pathology of Syntax (2010)
  
• Elizabeth Ogonek Running at Still Life  (2013)
• Raven Chacon The Journey of the Horizontal People (2016)
  
• Chikako Morishita Doll Time (2019)
  

Student Performance Opportunities

BU Center for New Music provides music students with opportunities to work on music with contemporary music groups based in or out of Boston, allowing them to learn different contemporary techniques beyond the classroom. This season Mivos Quartet will be performing a public concert of BU student works. Mivos Quartet and Sound Icon will both be working with students as well.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Georg Friedrich Haas • November 2-5, 2022 • February 21-25, 2023 • March 13-17, 2023

Each year, the BU Center for New Music hosts a major figure from the world of contemporary music for an extended residency. This season celebrates Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, considered one of the major European composers of his generation. His music synthesizes in a highly original way the Austrian tradition of grand orchestral statement with forward-looking interests in harmonic color and microtonal tuning that stem from both French spectralism and a strand of American experimentalism. The result is an exploratory, uncompromising music that appeals to a diverse range of people, from avant-garde composers for its microtonal investigations to casual listeners for its spacious forms and euphonious harmony. Haas has received numerous national and international prizes, including the Kompositionspreis of the SWR Symphony Orchestra (2010) for limited approximations and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Music (2007), the country’s highest artistic honor.

Haas will be in residence and on the BU campus three times during the 2022-2023 academic year. His first visit is from November 2-5, 2022. His second visit is from February 21-25, 2023. In addition to masterclasses, lessons, and forum presentations, his second visit also includes a screening of the film The Artist and The Pervert, with a discussion following the viewing of the film. The event, taking place on Thursday, February 23, 2023, is co-hosted by BU Arts Initiative and the location will be announced later.

Also, during this visit is HYENA at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. HYENA is a concerto for orchestra and narrator, featuring a remarkable score by Haas to accompany the autobiographical story told by his American wife, the writer and storyteller Mollena Lee Williams-Haas. She was an alcoholic for years and wrote a searing story about her long journey to sobriety. In the performance, Williams-Haas reads her story, as the music reinforces her narrative’s hallucinatory qualities. HYENA will be performed by Boston’s own Sound Icon Ensemble led by Jeffrey Means. This performance of HYENA on Friday, February 24, 2023, is a coproduction of the BU Center for New Music and the ICA/Boston.

Haas returns for his third visit from March 13-17, 2023, for a public presentation at BU Center for New Music’s Composer’s Forum on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, from 9:30-10:45am.

Public Events visit 1

November 3, 2022 Composition Masterclass 1:30-3:30 pm Room B38

GF Haas discusses his work.

November 4, 2022 8pm CFA Concert Hall.

Argento Chamber Ensemble presents a Haas portrait concert featuring: ATTHIS for soprano and 8 instruments, tria ex uno for sextet, and …fließend… for 9 instruments.

Concert is free and open to the public.

November 5, 2022 Composer’s Forum 3:00-5:00 pm Room B38

Haas discusses the works of three BU student composers.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02, BUTI’98) • Spring 2023

Described by Time Out New York as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart,” Missy Mazzoli is one of America’s preeminent composers. Mazzoli is the Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and her music has been performed all over the world by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, pianist Emanuel Ax, Opera Philadelphia, Scottish Opera, LA Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Fringe Opera, the Detroit Symphony, the LA Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, JACK Quartet, cellist Maya Beiser, violinist Jennifer Koh, pianist Kathleen Supové, Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, the Sydney Symphony and many others.

Mazzoli and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ellen Reid started the Luna Composition Lab, in collaboration with the Kaufman Music Center in New York, to give teenage female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers a head start. Mazzoli also makes it her practice to advocate for better representation for women, publicly when needed.

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

Du Yun • December 5-7, 2022

Born and raised in Shanghai, China and currently based in New York City, Du Yun is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, activist, and curator for new music, who works at the intersection of orchestral, opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, musical theater, oral tradition, public performances, sound installation, electronics, visual arts, and noise.

Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Yun’s second opera, Angel’s Bone, won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017. In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow; and in 2019 she was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Composition category. She has been hailed by the New York Times as a groundbreaking artist, was listed by the Washington Post as one of their Top 35 female composers and selected by Rolling Stone Italia in their decade review as one of the composers who defined the 2010s.

CONCERTS/GENERAL PUBLIC EVENTS

Argento Chamber Ensemble

• Friday, November 4, 2022, 8pm
• CFA Concert Hall at 855 Commonwealth Avenue
• Haas portrait concert featuring: ATTHISfor soprano and 8 instruments, tria ex uno for sextet, and …fließend… for 9 instruments
• Free, open to the BU community and public

Film screening of The Artist and the Pervert (in collaboration with BU Arts Initiative)

• Thursday, February 23, 2023
• Discussion to follow film
• Free, open to the BU community and public

HYENA concert at ICA Boston

• Boston-based Sound Icon and Mollena Lee Williams-Haas perform
• Friday, February 24, 2023, 8pm
• $15 for members or BU students
• $25 for general admission
• For tickets: https://www.icaboston.org/events/hyena

STUDENT PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES

BU Center for New Music provides music students with opportunities to work on music with contemporary music groups based in or out of Boston, allowing them to learn different contemporary techniques beyond the classroom. This season Sound Icon will be performing a public concert of BU student works.

Sound Icon Concert of Student Works

• Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8pm

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Splinter Reeds • November 18-19, 2019

The Center for New Music will host an artist residency in the fall with Splinter Reeds, the West Coast’s first reed quintet. The ensemble is committed to presenting top tier performances on the cutting edge of contemporary composition, showcasing the vast possibilities of the reed quintet, commissioning new works, and collaborating with fellow musicians and artists. Splinter Reeds will perform works written by BU composers specifically for the ensemble in a free concert on Tuesday, November 19 at BU College of Fine Arts.

Workshop
Monday, November 18, 7 – 10 pm

Free concert featuring works written by BU composers for Splinter Reeds
Tuesday, November 19
BU College of Fine Arts Concert Hall • 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

Spring 2020
Jennifer Walshe • February 17 – March 1, 2020
“Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.” – Michael Dervan, The Irish Times

Walshe’s residency includes guest residencies (Feb. 24 – March 1) Wobbly and M.C. Schmidt, master classes, and public lectures.

Innovative Irish composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe, who blends composition, live improvisation, and electronics, will come to Boston as Composer-in-Residence at BU College of Fine Arts in early 2020. “Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years,” claims The Irish Times. Her time at BU will feature guest residencies by leading electronic artists Wobbly and M.C. Schmidt (from Matmos), performances, master classes, and public lectures.

Walshe’s work has been performed and broadcast all over the world by renowned ensembles, and she has written many operas, ranging from XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! (2003) for Barbie dolls and ensemble to Die Taktik, an opera commissioned by the Junge Oper Stuttgart, which received 14 performances in Stuttgart in 2012.

Walshe frequently performs as a vocalist, and many of her compositions are commissioned for her voice either as a soloist or in conjunction with other instruments. Since 2007 Walshe has developed Grúpat, a project in which Walshe has assumed twelve different alter egos – all members of art collective Grúpat – and created compositions, installations, graphic scores, films, photography, sculptures and fashion under these alter egos. Pieces by Grúpat members have been performed and exhibited all over the world. In 2009 Grúpat were the feature of a major retrospective at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, which coincided with the launch the book Grúpat by Project Press and the release of two CDs. This was followed in 2010 with a Grúpat solo exhibition titled NO IRISH NEED APPLY at Chelsea Art Museum New York. Walshe’s most recent project, Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde, involved the creation of an elaborate fictional history of the musical avant-garde in Ireland.

CONCERTS & READINGS

February 16, 2019 – Sound Icon reads and records works by BU student composers for large ensemble
BU College of Fine Arts Concert Hall • 855 Commonwealth Ave.
7:00 – 10:00 pm

February 21 – Sound Icon plays Jennifer Walshe
BU College of Fine Arts Concert Hall • 855 Commonwealth Ave.
8:00 pm
Free Concert

Jennifer Walshe
Volunteer Chorus (revised version 2019) any duration, done as an installation, when the audience is coming in
HYGIENE (2011) for violin, viola or cello, 8 performers and DVD
a sensitive number for the laydeez (2004) for viola, saxophone, percussion, piano

with Broken Symmetries by Joshua Fineberg
featuring a new work from the BU student who wins the Sound Icon competition

February 27 – Works written by BU composers for Mivos Quartet
BU College of Fine Arts Concert Hall • 855 Commonwealth Ave.
8:00 pm
Free Concert

February 28 – The Music and film of Jennifer Walshe
featuring Mivos Quartet, Jennifer Walshe, MC Schmidt and Wobbly
ICA/Boston
8:00 pm
$20 general admission; $10 ICA members + students

February 29 – in collaboration with non-event
Live electronic improv show featuring Jennifer Walshe, Wobbly and MC Schmidt
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Anderson Auditorium • 230 The Fenway, Boston
8:00 pm
$15 general admission, $10 students, Free for SMFA and BU students

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

November 2018
TAK Ensemble
TAK is a quintet (flute, clarinet, violin, percussion, piano and soprano) that delivers energetic and virtuosic performances of contemporary classical music. Their debut album “Ecstatic Music: TAK plays Taylor Brook” was released by New Focus Recordings in September 2016, to critical acclaim; it was featured as Q2 Music’s Album of the Week by WQXR, and was listed in the Top 10 Classical Albums of 2016 by The Boston Globe, which praised the “young, fearless players… fluid grace and confidence.”

The ambitious ensemble “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity — and, well, just a dash of IDGAF as they slay the thorniest material like it’s nothing” (Q2 Music). Dedicated to the commissioning of new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists, TAK promotes ambitious programming at the highest level, fostering engagement both within the contemporary music community and the artistic community at large.

CONCERTS

November 26, 2018, 8pm
TAK Ensemble
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert
– Ornations –Tyshawn Sorey
– Only the words themselves mean what they say – Kate Soper
– Amalgam– Taylor Brook
– Deseo from Love, Crystal and Stone– Ashkan Behzadi
– Series Imposture – David Bird
– Mouthpiece 28 – Erin Gee
– Eyam iii (if it’s living somewhere outside of you)– Ann Cleare

November 28, 2018, 8pm
TAK Ensemble
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert
– Works written by Boston University composers for TAK

COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE

February 9-March 1, 2019
Klaus Lang
The music of Klaus Lang is a wonderful example of the fruitful coexistence of objectivity and mysticism, of concept and image, of planning and hoping, of thought and experience. The things about which one can speak and write in Lang’s work are the countable things and the forms they take; structures and systems.

Klaus Lang (*1971 Graz / Austria) lives in Steirisch Lassnitz (Austria). He studied composition and theory of music (with H.M. Preßl, B. Furrer and Y. Pagh-Paan) and organ. Klaus Lang loves tea and dislikes lawnmowers and Richard Wagner. Klaus Lang’s music is not a means to convey extra musical contents, such as emotions, philosophical or religious ideas, political propaganda, advertisement etc.… His music is no language used to communicate non-musical content. Music is seen as a free and self-standing acoustical object. In his work he is not using sound, sound is explored and given the opportunity to unfold its inherent rich beauties. Only when sound is just sound it is perceivable as that what it really is: a temporal phenomenon – audible time. Klaus Lang sees time as the genuine material of a composer and at the same time also the fundamental content of music. In his view musical material is time perceived through sound, the object of music is the experience of time through listening.

PUBLIC LECTURES

February 12, 19, & 26, 2019, 9:30-10:50am
The Music of Klaus Lang
College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Room B38

February 19, 2019, 12:30-3:30pm
Playing New Music with Historic Instruments
a workshop with baroque violinist/viola d’amore virtuoso Barbara Konrad
College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

February 26, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm
Klaus Lang.Organ
a workshop on the organ in Klaus Lang’s music and improvisation
College of Fine Arts, Marsh Chapel

CONCERTS

February 15, 2019, 8pm
Klaus Lang and Barbara Konrad
Marsh Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert
Klaus Lang and Barbara Konrad play Organ and viola d’amore in a concert spanning time and aesthetics with music from the baroque to our time. Barbara Konrad, born in Graz, studies classical violin in Graz and Vienna. Since 2001 she stops to play in orchestras and to give lessons and starts with tango, dance music and so called “Wiener Schrammelmusik”. 2008 she goes to Belgium, to study old music. Since she plays violin and viola in “La Petite Bande”, “Ars Antiqua Austria”, “Bach Concentus”, and between a lot of chamber music – from time to time in groups like Les Buffardins, Le Concert d’Anvers, Il Gardellino, L’Orfeo Barockorchester. At the moment she is highly interested in diminutions of Italian music of the 15th century and explores together with Klaus Lang the tonal options of “Viola d’ Amore.”

February 21, 2019, 8pm
Time’s Arrow plays Klaus Lang
CFA Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert

February 23, 2019, 8pm
Sound Icon plays Klaus Lang
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert
Sound Icon will continue their collaboration with BU CNM in a concert built around Klaus Lang’s ensemble work and featuring his percussion quartet The Moon in a Moonless Sky and his work for oboe and ensemble Der Dünne Wal along with the winner of the BU CNM/ Sound Icon composition competition. Sound Icon is a sinfonietta committed to performing the most significant progressive works of the past few decades. As a sinfonietta, Sound Icon offers the color palette of a full orchestra with the precision and flexibility of a chamber ensemble. The technical and logistical challenges of contemporary repertoire for sinfonietta often discourage live performance in the United States, however, Sound Icon embraces this music and aims to bring this repertoire to Boston and beyond. Through ambitious programming performed to the highest standards, Sound Icon engages audiences in dialogues about what progressive music is and can be: music that redefines rules, experiences, and expectations.

February 25, 2019, 8pm
Boston University Symphony Orchestra
Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Free concert
The BU Symphony (BUSO) will perform Klaus Lang’s the thin tree.

February 28, 2019, 8pm
The Music of Klaus Lang – featuring Yarn/Wire and Sound Icon
ICA/Boston, 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston
$20 general admission; $10 ICA members + students
Austrian composer Klaus Lang embraces the influence of history. His compositions reflect a keen understanding of the musical canon, from early 17^th century composers like Frescobaldi to 20^th century experimentalists like John Cage and Morton Feldman. Catalyzed by history, his compositions conjure a strange and mesmerizing sound world that exists somewhere between the past and the present. At the ICA, two highly acclaimed ensembles will interpret Lang’s music. The percussion/piano quartet Yarn/Wire will perform molten trees (2017), and members of the Boston-based sinfonietta Sound Icon will perform weisse aepfel (2009).

STUDENT READINGS

February 10, 2019, 7-10pm
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Sound Icon reads and records works by BU student composers for large ensemble.

March 1, 2019, 10am-1pm
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Yarn/wire reads and records works by BU student composers for 2 pianos and percussion

COMPOSITION MASTERCLASSES

February 14, 2019, 4-6:30pm; February 19, 4-7:30pm
College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Feb 12-28, 2018
Liza Lim
This residency of renowned Australian composer Liza Lim, whose work has made her a leading international artist, includes performances with the Ludovico Ensemble, Sound Icon, the JACK Quartet, and Ashot Sarkissjan of the Arditti Quartet; Lim will also offer a series of lectures on her work, along with coachings, open rehearsals, and masterclasses. Learn more about Liza Lim at www.lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com.

CONCERTS

Oct 21, 2017, 8pm
Cairn Ensemble
CFA Concert Hall (855 Commonwealth Ave.)
Free Concert
The Cairn Ensemble from France’s Loire Valley will come to the BU Center for New Music on its first ever American tour. They will play in the concert hall and host pedagogical events around their remarkable ¼-tone accordion earlier in the day. Featuring: Franck Bedrossian’s Innersonic (for accordion and electric guitar), Tristan Murail’s Tellur for classical guitar, Joshua Fineberg’s Just as much entangled with other matter for accordion and iPhones, Fausto Romitelli’s Professor bad trip for electric guitar, Jérôme Combier’s KikaPou for ¼ tone accordion, and Daniel Alvarado Bonilla’s Tañer el viento.

Oct 22, 2017, 3pm
Arditti Quartet
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The highly-acclaimed Arditti Quartet returns to the ICA in collaboration with the Boston University Center for New Music. Founded in 1974 by Irvine Arditti, the quartet’s concerts and albums of 20th and 21st century music have been praised for their technical expertise and spirited interpretations. The Guardian has called the Arditti Quartet “The world’s pre-eminent contemporary music quartet.” At the ICA, the Arditti Quartet will perform a concert of prominent 21st female composers. Co-presented with the Boston University Center for New Music. Tickets: $20 general admission; $10 ICA members + students. Program: Liza Lim – Hell, Clara Iannota – Dead wasps in the jam jar, Rebecca Saunders – Fletch interval, Hilda Paredes – Bitacora Capilar, Olga Neuwirth – In the realms of the unreal

Feb 16, 2018
Ludovico Ensemble
St. Paul’s Church, Brookline
Featuring Liza Lim’s Spirit Weapons and Inguz, and the world premiere of Marti Epstein’s Dirl. View more information.

Feb 18, 2018, 8pm
Sound Icon
CFA Concert Hall
Free Concert
Featuring Liza Lim’s The Turning Dance of the Bee, The Heart’s Ear and An Elemental Thing and a work by a BU student composer. View more information.

Feb 20, 2018, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
Free Concert
New music string quartet performing Liza Lim’s The Weaver’s Knot, Dum Transisset (Brian Ferneyhough), Chambers (Marcos Balter), and String Quartet No. 2 (Elliott Carter). View more information.

Feb 22, 2018, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
Free Concert
Performing a concert of new works written by BU student composers for the JACK Quartet.

Feb 26, 2018, 8pm
Ashot Sarkissjan solo recital
CFA Concert Hall
Free Concert
Ashot Sarkissjan (violin), most often seen as a member of the Arditti Quartet, returns to the BU CNM as a soloist, performing the world premiere of Liza Lim’s The Su Song Star Map for solo violin with, James Dillon Del Cuatro Elemento(1988), Steven Daverson Giacometti’s Razor (2014), Georg-Friedrich Haas De Terrae Fine (2001), and a work by a BU student composer.

PUBLIC EVENTS (FREE)

Oct 21, 2017, 1:30pm
Ensemble Cairn
855 Commonwealth Ave., Room B38
“The Microtonal Accordion”

COMPOSER’S FORUM — HIGHLIGHTS

Feb 13, 2018, 9:30-11:50am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Liza Lim
855 Commonwealth Ave., Room B38

Feb 20, 2018, 9:30-11:50am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Liza Lim
855 Commonwealth Ave., Room B38

Feb 27, 2018, 9:30-11:50am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Liza Lim
855 Commonwealth Ave., Room B38

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Sep 27–30 and Jan 23–25
Fred Lerdahl
Two-part residency with composer and music theorist Fred Lerdahl, best known for his work on musical grammar and cognition, rhythmic theory, pitch space, and cognitive constraints on compositional systems, includes a performance of Time After Time by new music sinfonietta Sound Icon; collaborations with the contemporary string quartet JACK Quartet; and presentations in Composer’s Forum, in addition to coachings with the ensembles and masterclasses with composition students.

Oct 18–19 and Mar 14
Giacomo Baldelli
One of the most complete performers of the new generation, electric guitarist Giacomo Baldelli will perform a concert of contemporary repertoire in the fall, a concert of pieces by BU student composers in the spring, present in Composer’s Forum, and host workshops with BU composers and instrumentalists.

Apr 4–13
Philippe Leroux
Ten-day residency with Philippe Leroux, one of today leading international composers one of the leaders of the Spectral Music movement, includes concerts focused on Spectral repertoire with New York’s Argento Ensemble, Boston-based ensemble Sound Icon, and the US premiere of Tristan Murail’s Liber fugralis for ensemble and video by the New York-based Talea Ensemble at the ICA/Boston.

CONCERTS

Sep 30, 8pm
Sound Icon
CFA Concert Hall
Boston-based new music sinfonietta performing Rick Burkhardt’s Great Hymn of Thanksgiving and Alban, Richard Carrick’s Dark Flow, and Fred Lerdahl’s Time After Time, as part of two-part residency.

Oct 18, 8pm
Giacomo Baldelli
CFA Concert Hall
Electric guitarist Giacomo Baldelli performs Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, Tristan Murail’s Vampyr!, Fausto Romitelli’s Trash TV Trance, and Davide Ianni’s [Ni] Svanito Costrutto..

Nov 30, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
New music quartet performing Iannis Xenakis’ Tetora (14’), Erin Gee’s Mouthpiece XXII (10’), Julia Wolfe’s Early That Summer (12′), and Roger Reynold’s FLiGHT (30′).

Jan 24, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
Performing Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso (24’), Cenk Ergun’s Sonare (8′), and Fred Lerdahl’s String Quartet No. 3 (25’), as part of two-part residency.

Jan 26, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
Performing a concert of new works written by BU student composers for the JACK Quartet.

Mar 14, 8pm
Giacomo Baldelli
CFA Concert Hall
Performing works by BU student composers.

Apr 6, 7pm
Argento Ensemble
CFA Concert Hall
Members of the New York-based chamber ensemble performing the solo and chamber works by Tristan Murail as part of a ten-day Spectral Music Festival.

Apr 12, 8pm
Sound Icon
Tsai Performance Center
Performing Gérard Grisey’s Stele, Phlippe Leroux’s …AMI…CHEMIN…OSER…VIE…, and the work of a BU student composer, as well as Tristan Murail’s Disintegration, as part of a ten-day Spectral Music Festival.

Apr 13, 8pm
Talea Ensemble
Institute of Contemporary Art
New York-based new music ensemble performing Gérard Grisey’s Taley, the Boston premiere of Center for New Music Director Joshua Fineberg’s L’abîme, and the U.S. premiere of Tristan Murail’s Liber fugaralis for ensemble and video as part of a ten-day Spectral Music Festival.

COMPOSER’S FORUM — HIGHLIGHTS

Sep 20, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Eric Sawyer
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Sep 27, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Fred Lerdahl
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Oct 11, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Composer Chris Arrell and Performer Lisa Arrell
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Oct 18, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Giacomo Baldelli (Electric Guitar)
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Nov 1, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Dan Asia
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Jan 24, 9:30am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Fred Lerdahl with JACK Quartet
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38) – room may change

Mar 14, 9:30am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Giacomo Baldelli (Electric Guitar)
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

Apr 4, 9:30am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Philippe Leroux
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38) – room may change

Apr 11, 9:30am
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Philippe Leroux
CFA Electronic Music Studio (Room B38)

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Nov 16–18 and April 28–29
JACK Quartet
New Music String Quartet’s residencies include presentations in Composer’s Forum, masterclasses for students, reading sessions and concerts of student works, and concerts at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Tsai Performance Center.

Dec 8–9
Dal Niente
Chicago-based ensemble Dal Niente’s residency includes a presentation in Composer’s Forum, a reading session of student composer works, and a concert in BU’s Tsai Performance Center.

Feb 8-24
Philip Grange
English Composer Philip Grange, Professor of Composition at the University of Manchester, will spend three weeks working with composition students and performers and giving lectures on topics ranging from his music to composing for wind ensemble. He will give a talk on his music on February 10, 6:30, in the Marshall Room. All are invited. The Boston University Wind Ensemble will perform the American premiere of his piece, Cloud Atlas, on Feb 23.

Apr 11–30
Beat Furrer
Three week residency with esteemed Austrian composer, Beat Furrer, includes collaborations with members of the premiere contemporary music ensemble Argento; French Institute of Musical and Scientific Research IRCAM; contemporary string quartet JACK Quartet; and Boston-based new music ensemble, Sound Icon.

Apr 24–29
IRCAM
IRCAM’s residency includes public lectures and demonstrations of IRCAM technology, a scientific conference on current topics in music and audio research, workshops, and two concerts at the ICA featuring the music of leading composers of today.

CONCERTS

Nov 12, 8pm
Sound Icon
CFA Concert Hall
“Focus on America”—Boston’s contemporary music sinfonietta perform works by America Master Roger Reynolds, Rome Prize winner Ken Ueno, the winner of A Call for Scores, and the BU Student Competition.

Nov 16, 8pm
JACK Quartet
CFA Concert Hall
Presenting Pierre Boulez’s “Ia & Ib” from Livre pour quatuor alongside works by Christopher Trapani, John Zorn, and Boston University visiting composer Alex Mincek.

Nov 18, 8pm
JACK Quartet
Tsai Performance
Performing works written for them by BU student composers Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar, Lara Poe, Daniel Valentine, Trevor Kowalski, André Mestre, Allan Chen, and Heather Stebbins.

Nov 30, 8pm
Augustus Arnone, piano
Marshall Room
Performing works by Milton Babbitt. Co-sponsored by the CNM, Theory/Composition Dept., and the Piano Dept.

Dec 9, 8pm
Dal Niente
Tsai Performance Center
Chicago-based ensemble performs stunning recent works from Austria and Germany by Enno Poppe, Mathias Spahlinger, Mark Andre, Johannes Kreidler, Carola Buckholt, and Helmut Lachenmann.

Dec 11, 8pm
Time’s Arrow
CFA Concert Hall
Boston University New Music ensemble performs works by Beat Furrer, Philip Grange, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Lyle Davidson, Judith Weir, Ezra Sims, Stephen Feigenbaum, and BU alum Alex Huddleston.

Dec 18, 8pm
Dec 19, 8pm
Lorelei Ensemble
Marsh Chapel
Lorelei Ensemble’s first Christmas series, including selections from early English sources, including the Selden Carol Book, and world premieres by Timothy Takach, Adam Jacob Simon, and Bryan Christian. Tickets $15 Student/$30 General Admission.

Feb 19, 8pm
Time’s Arrow
CFA Concert Hall
Boston University New Music ensemble performs works by Philip Grange, Morton Feldman, Judith Weir, and James Tenney.

March 18, 8pm
Time’s Arrow with BU Chorus
Marsh Chapel
Boston University New Music ensemble performs with the BU Chorus. Showcasing works by Byrd, Cornelius Cardew, Gibbons, and Nico Muhly.

Apr 16, 8pm
Argento Ensemble
CFA Concert Hall
Members of the New York-based chamber ensemble performing the music of Austrian composer Beat Furrer, as part of a three-week residency with Beat Furrer.

Apr 21, 3pm
Tony Arnold
BU Electronic Music Studio
Soprano Tony Arnold discusses contemporary vocal technique and writing for the voice in a masterclass open to the public. She will focus on works by Beat Furrer.

April 26, 8pm
Boston University Symphony Orchestra
Presenting the U.S. premiere of Beat Furrer’s “Zwei Studien” for orchestra at Symphony Hall, as part of a three-week residency with Beat Furrer.

Apr 28, 7:30pm
IRCAM, Sound Icon, and Beat Furrer
Institute of Contemporary Art
New music ensemble performing the works of Beat Furrer alongside other leading composers as part of a three-week residency. Concert includes Furrer’s “Gaspara” and “Aria”, Tristan Murail’s “L’ésprit des dunes”, and “Boulez’s Anthèmes 2”.

Apr 29, 7:30pm
IRCAM and JACK Quartet
Institute of Contemporary Art
Performing works with electronics by Jonathan Harvey (4th Quartet) and Chaya Czernowin (HIDDEN).

May 2, 8pm
Time’s Arrow
CFA Concert Hall
Boston University New Music ensemble performs works by Beat Furrer, Morton Feldman, Dave Smith, John White, Michael Parson, and others.

COMPOSER’S FORUM — HIGHLIGHTS

Nov 17, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum: JACK Quartet (Lecture, Demonstration, & Performance)
CFA Concert Hall

Dec 1, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Augustus Arnone (Lecture, Demonstration, and Performance)
Marshall Room

Dec 8, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Dal Niente (Lecture, Demonstration, and Performance)
CFA Concert Hall

Feb 9, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Philip Grange

Feb 23, 12:30pm
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Philip Grange (Writing for Wind Ensemble)

March 17-18, 12:30pm
Nico Muhly Residency

April 5 & 12
Composer’s Forum Lecture: Beat Furrer
CFA Concert Hall

Celebrating its third season, the Boston University Center for New Music is honored to host a number of artists-in-residence, including Italian composer Pierluigi Billone, for a three-week residency. A student of lauded Italian composer of avant-garde music Salvatore Sciarrino, Billone views composition as a relationship between composer, object, and sound, and experiments through the exploration of acoustic possibilities, the means of their production, and the manual exploration of the instrument. A three-part series, Billone’s residency will include weeklong residencies with Italian violinist Marco Fusi, bassoonist Christopher Watford, and Boston-based sinofonietta-sized new music ensemble Sound Icon. Other residencies include a variety of visiting artists and ensembles including a two-day residency with Mario Caroli, one of the most remarkable flutist of his generation and soprano, as well as performances with Tony Arnold, a luminary in the world of contemporary music, the JACK Quartet, and Talea Ensemble.

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COMPOSER’S FORUMS

• September 30 Film Music with Larry Groupé (EM studio)
• October 7 Contemporary Bassoon with Chris Watford (Concert Hall)
• October 21 Composer Jong Yeoul Chong (EM studio)
• November 4 Composer Richard Beaudoin (EM studio)
• November 11 Composer Evan Johnson (EM studio)
• February 3 JACK Quartet (Concert Hall)
• February 24 Contemporary Flute with Mario Caroli (Concert Hall)
• March 3 Jeffrey Means and Toni Arnold on performing Sciarrino’s Lohengrin (Concert Hall)
• March 17 Billone with violinist Marco Fusi (Concert Hall)
• March 24 Billone with bassoonist Chris Watford (Concert Hall)
• March 31 Pierluigi Billone (EM studio)

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CONCERTS

• October 4 Sound Icon (Concert Hall)
• November 8 JACK Quartet (ICA Boston) 7pm
• December 12 Time’s Arrow 8pm
• February 2 !!!cancelled due to snowstorm Linus!!! JACK Quartet Repertoire (Concert Hall)
• February 4 JACK Quartet student works (Tsai)
• February 7 Time’s Arrow 8:30pm
• February 24 Mario Caroli (Concert Hall)
• March 7 Sound Icon Lohengrin (Fenway Center)
• March 19 Marco Fusi/Billone (Hillel House)
• March 20 Billone 1+1=1 (808 Gallery)
• March 24 Chris Watford/Billone (Concert Hall)
• March 27 Time’s Arrow 8pm (Concert Hall)
• April 1 Sound Icon/Billone (Tsai)
• May 4 Time’s Arrow 8pm (Rm. 167)

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READINGS

• September 27 Sound Icon (7-10pm) – Concert Hall
• October 7 Chris Watford bassoon (9am-12pm) – Concert Hall
• November 7 JACK Quartet (11am-2pm) – Concert Hall
• February 3 JACK Quartet (2-5pm) – Concert Hall
• February 24 Mario Caroli flute (3-6pm) – Concert Hall
• March 16 Sound Icon (7-10pm) – Concert Hall
• March 18 Marco Fusi violin/viola (7-10pm) – Marshall Room
• March 23 Chris Watford bassoon (3-6pm) – Marshall Room

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MASTER CLASSES

• October 8 Bassoon class with Chris Watford 7pm (Marshall Room)
• November 6 Quartet master class with the JACK 7pm (Room 167)
• November 7 Open rehearsal with the JACK Quartet (Room 171)
• February 2 Open rehearsal with the JACK Quartet 10am-1pm
• February 4 Quartet master class with the JACK 10am-1pm (Marshall Room)
• February 23 Flute master class with Mario Caroli 6pm (Room 156)
• March 17 Violin/viola master class with Marco Fusi 7:30pm (Marshall Room)
• March 25 Bassoon class with Chris Watford 6:30-9pm (Room 167)
  
• March 31 4:30-7:30 Joint Master Class with Harvard (Rm B38)

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SOUND ICON ENSEMBLE FALL RESIDENCY

• September 27 Reading of student composers (Concert Hall)
• October 4 Fall Concert featuring Robin Hoffmen Locken, HP Kyburtz Cells, GF Haas La Profondeur, and the world premiere of a new commissioned work by Richard Beaudoin

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WATFORD FALL RESIDENCY

• October 7 Recording (based on recording’s availability) 9am-12pm
• October 7 Composer’s Forum 12:30-2pm
• October 8 Master class: 7-10pm, Marshall Room

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JACK RESIDENCY 1

• November 6 Master class 7pm (Room 167)
• November 7 Reading 11am-2pm (Concert Hall)
• November 7 Open Rehearsal 7pm (Room 171)
• November 8 Concert ICA “In iij. Noct.” String Quartet no. 3 GF Haas

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JACK RESIDENCY 2

Radulescu 29′
February 3 Tuesday: Composer’s Forum, 12:30-2pm (Concert Hall); reading/recording session 2-5pm (Concert Hall)
February 4 Wednesday: Master class, 10am-1pm (Marshall Room); Concert of student works 8pm (Tsai)

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MARIO CAROLI

• February 23 Flute lessons
• February 23 Flute class 6 pm (Room 156)
• February 24 Composer’s Forum, 12:30-2pm (Concert Hall)
• February 24 Composer workshop/readings 3-6pm (Concert Hall)
• February 24 Concert 8pm (Concert Hall)

COMPOSER’S FORUM

Performing Sciarrino

March 3 12:30-2pm Concert Hall

featuring members of Sound Icon, their artistic director and conductor Jeffrey Means, and soprano Tony Arnold

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SOUND ICON LOHENGRIN MARCH 7 (FENWAY CENTER)

Salvatore Sciarrino is considered one of the most important composers of our time. His soundscapes employ isolated sounds, extended techniques of playing, silence and more or less ironic and confrontational quotes, popular music, and stories. The opera Lohengrin is loosely based on Julies Laforgue’s version from the 1800s.

In most versions of this well-known chivalric legend, Lohengrin arrives in a boat drawn by swans and rescues a damsel in distress. If she asks for his name, the spell is broken and he has to leave her. In Laforgues’ version the story is given a parodical, slightly surreal form: The Vestal Elsa is accused of “knowing other caresses than that of the moon,” and will be blinded as punishment if no suitors step forward. She is placed in front of a tribunal on the beach, and after three fanfares, Lohengrin comes in from the ocean, riding on one of the aforementioned swans. They get married and withdraw at the wedding villa, where they swim around in the pool chattering before entering the marriage bed. There, the childlike Lohengrin embraces his pillow, whereupon it is transformed into a swan that flies with him out of the window.

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PIERLUIGI BILLONE RESIDENCY

STUDENT COMPOSER READING WITH SI CONCERT HALL

March 16 7-10pm

MARCO FUSI VIOLIN/VIOLA

• March 17 Composer’s Forum with Marco Fusi 12:30-2pm Concert Hall
• March 17 Marco Fusi Master class 7:30-10pm Marshall Room
• March 18 Marco Fusi Composer readings 7-10pm Marshall Room
• March 19 Marco Fusi Concert 8pm Hillel House

BILLONE’S 1+1=1 WITH SAMUEL DUNSCOMBE AND CURT MILLER – 808 GALLERY

• March 20
  7pm workshop with Pierluigi Billone 808 Gallery
  8pm Concert 808 Gallery

CHRIS WATFORD

• March 23 Chris Watford Composer readings 3-6pm Marshall Room
• March 24 Composer’s Forum with Chris Watford 12:30-2pm, – Concert Hall
• March 24 Chris Watford Concert Hall 8pm
• March 25 Chris Watford Master class, 6:30-9pm, Room 167

JOINT EVENTS WITH HARVARD COMPOSITION

• March 31 Composer’s Forum 12:30-2 (EM Studio, B38)
• March 31 Joint Masterclass 4:30-7:30 (EM Studio, B38)

SOUND ICON BILLONE CONCERT

April 1 Tsai

featuring Billone’s Veritcale Muto Mani.mata

 

TIME’S ARROW FINAL CONCERT

• May 4 8pm Room 167 Concert featuring the music of Ezra Sims, Lyle Davidson, Mary Jane Leach, Dave Smith, Morton Feldman, Connor Burke, Lara Poe, Carolyn Regula, and Brandon Chang.

For more information, email Joshua Fineberg, Director of the Center for New Music.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Joan Tower
December 11-13, 2013
March 25-29, 2014
April 23-25, 2014
Joan Tower’s three visits to the Center for New Music will include chamber and solo performances by faculty and students, as well as public lectures, masterclasses and private lessons.

Olga Neuwirth
February 24-27, 2014
April 1-3, 2014
Residency begins February 24, 2014 Neuwirth’s residency includes a lecture in Composers’ Forum, masterclasses, presentations and a joint masterclass with Harvard University.

Hilda Paredes
March 18, 2014
Paredes’ residency includes a lecture in Composers’ Forum, masterclasses, and lessons with our composers.

Marilyn Nonken
September 17-20, 2013 Nonken’s residency includes a presentation in Composers’ Forum, as well as masterclasses and private lessons for students.

CEPROMUSIC Ensemble from Mexico City with José Luis Castillo
Jan. 27 – Feb. 1, 2014 The CEPROMUSIC Ensemble from Mexico City with José Luis Castillo residency includes multiple concerts, readings and workshops for students. This will be an amazing opportunity to engage with new music from Mexico that doesn’t often make it north of the border.

Arditti Quartet
March 21-23, 2014 This Arditti Quartet’s residency will include a masterclass, student reading, and concert at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

CONCERTS

Marilyn Nonken
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 8:00PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Spectral Piano: this concert will feature Tristan Murail’s monumental Territoires de l’oubli and Joshua Fineberg’s Veils and Grisaille (Boston premiere), along with other works that explore the resonant possibilities of the piano.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013 8:00PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Featuring works by Olga Neuwirth, Giulio Castagnoli, Luca Francesconi and the winner of the Boston University Center for New Music / [sound icon] composition competition.

Boston University Symphony Orchestra
OCTOBER 25, 2013 8:00PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Time’s Arrow Ensemble
CONCERT
DECEMBER 11, 2013 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Featuring works by Eve Beglarian, Salvatore Sciarrino, Olga Neuwirth, Rusty Banks, Peter Westergaard, Harrison Birtwistle, and Jonathan Harvey.

BU Students and Faculty with Joan Tower
PUBLIC INSTRUMENTAL MASTERCLASS
DECEMBER 11, 2013 5:30PM
ROOM 167
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

GROUP DISCUSSION/Q&A WITH MAESTRO TOWER ABOUT HER MUSIC
DECEMBER 12, 2013 2-5PM
ROOM B38
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

JOAN TOWER PORTRAIT CONCERT
DECEMBER 13, 2013 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CEPROMUSIC Ensemble from Mexico City with José Luis Castillo
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN MEXICO
JANUARY 28, 2014 12:30-2 PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This presentation/demonstration will offer the chance to get a first hand view of new music in Mexico today. There will be both live performance demonstrations and recorded examples. This will be a great chance to interact with some of the most active new music performers in Latin America.

READING OF STUDENT WORKS 1
JANUARY 29, 2014 3-5 PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

READING OF STUDENT WORKS 2
JANUARY 30, 2014 3-6 PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CONCERT 1
JANUARY 31, 2014 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This concert features works by Mexican composers Julio Estrada, Javier Álvarez, and Jorge Torres, French composer Philippe Leroux, and American Richard Cornel. These two concerts offer a rare opportunity to engage with some of the best music of Mexican composers who have remained in Mexico and placing their work in an international context.

CONCERT 2
FEBRUARY 1, 2014 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This concert features works by Mexican composers Victor Ibarra, Georgina Derbéz, and Ignacio Baca Lobera, French composer Tristan Murail, and American Joshua Fineberg. These two concerts offer a rare opportunity to engage with some of the best music of Mexican composers who have remained in Mexico and placing their work in an international context.

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CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
MARCH 17, 2014 8:00PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sound Icon, led by conductor and artistic director Jeffrey Means, performs music from three generations of French composers, including Jérôme Combier’s elegant Bois Sombre for solo viola, Gérard Pesson’s playful and dizzying Rescousse (marginalia)for ensemble, and Pierre Boulez’s legendary Sur Incises for three pianos, three harps, and three percussionists.

Arditti Quartet

MARCH 23, 2014 7:00PM
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
100 NORTHERN AVENU, BOSTON
TICKETS: $20, $10 STUDENTS, AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STAFF WITH VALID UNIVERSITY ID

Muir String Quartet & Joan Tower

OPEN REHEARSAL
MARCH 26, 2014 2:00PM
ROOM 167
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PORTRAIT CONCERT
MARCH 28, 2014 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

BU Students and Faculty with Joan Tower

PUBLIC INSTRUMENTAL MASTERCLASS
APRIL 23, 2014 7:00PM
ROOM 167
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CONCERT
APRIL 25, 2014 8:00PM
CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

COMPOSER’S FORUM

All Composers’ Forum events are held from 12:30-2:00pm.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 LECTURE BY MARILYN NONKEN, MARSHALL ROOM
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 PRESENTATION BY YU-HUI CHANG, CFA ROOM B38
OCTOBER 8, 2013 PRESENTATION BY DU YUN, CFA ROOM B38
JANUARY 21, 2014 PRESENTATION BY VIRTUOSO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CELLIST FRANCES-MARIE UITTI CFA CONCERT HALL
JANUARY 28, 2014 PRESENTATION BY CEPROMUSIC ENSEMBLE FROM MEXICO CITY WITH JOSÉ LUIS CASTILLO CFA CONCERT HALL
FEBRUARY 18, 2014 PRESENTATION BY JULIAN WACHNER
FEBRUARY 24, 2014 LECTURE BY OLGA NEUWIRTH CFA CONCERT HALL
MARCH 18, 2014 LECTURE BY HILDA PAREDES CFA ROOM B38
APRIL 1, 2014 LECTURE BY OLGA NEUWIRTH CFA ROOM B38
APRIL 22, 2014 LECTURE BY JOAN TOWER CFA CONCERT HALL

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

Gunther Schuller
October 29-November 2, 2012 Schuller’s residency includes a presentation in Composer’s Forum, as well as masterclasses and private lessons for students.

Philippe Leroux
November 13-14, 2012 Leroux’s residency includes a presentation in Composer’s Forum, as well as masterclasses and private lessons for students.

Enrico Chapela
December 11, 2012 Chapela’s residency includes a presentation in Composer’s Forum, and a master classes for students.

Salvatore Sciarrino
February 18-March 2, and March 25-31, 2013 Sciarrino’s three week residency will include multiple Composer’s Forum Lectures, pedagogical events for students, and an afternoon reading/recording session in the CFA Concert Hall.

Ensemble Court-Circuit
March 18, 2013 This residency will include a presentation in Composer’s Forum by the superb French clarinetist Pierre Dutrieu on contemporary clarinet techniques, and a concert by the ensemble Court-Circuit.

CONCERTS

Rodney Lister
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 8PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring music by Eric Satie and John Cage.

Alea III
OCTOBER 7, 2012 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thirtieth International Composition Competition
Featuring premiere performances of the finalists’ works. At the conclusion of the concert, the Alea III prize shall be awarded by a panel of distinguished judges.

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OCTOBER 21, 2012 8PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the US Premiere of Mark André’s NI, Gérard Grisey’s Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, and a selected student work.

Boston University Wind Ensemble
OCTOBER 23, 2012 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Premiere of Ketty Nez’s thresholds for piano and wind ensemble
Featuring soloist Pei-Yeh Tsai and conductor David Martins. Also on the program, Andreas Makris’s Aegean Festival Overture, Scott Lindroth’s Spin Cycle and James Syler’s The Hound of Heaven.

Alea III
NOVEMBER 14, 2012 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Iannis Xenakis in First Person
Alea III celebrates the life and work of Iannis Xenakis, on the 90th anniversary of his birth.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012 8PM
FENWAY CENTER
77 ST. STEPHEN ST.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Voi(Rex) and (D’)Aller by Phillipe Leroux.

Alea III
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Young Composers Experiment
The 2013 Alea III Composers Workshop performs new works specially written for the group by an international group of seven young composers.

Boston University’s Time’s Arrow Ensemble
FEBRUARY 11, 2013 8PM
808 GALLERY
808 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring James Tenny’s Form #3 and #4, Elliott Carter’s La Musique, Judith Weir’s Wake Your Wild VoiceMichael Finnissy’s Vigany’s Cabinet (US premiere), and Morton Feldman’s Three Clarinets, ‘Cello, and Piano and Voice, Violin, and Piano

Salvatore Sciarrino
FEBRUARY 22, 2012 7:30PM
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
100 NORTHERN AVE.
TICKETS: $20, $10 STUDENTS, AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STAFF WITH VALID UNIVERSITY ID
Featuring Sciarrino’s Infinito Nero and Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip (Parts 1, 2, and 3) performed by [sound icon].

Jack Quartet
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Salvatore Sciarrino’s 7th Quartet, Georg Friedrich Haas’ 5th Quartet, Enno Poppe’s Tier, and Roger Reynolds’ not forgotten.

Boston University Wind Ensemble
FEBRUARY 28, 2012 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
World-wide Concurrent Premiere of Baris Perker’s Saxophone Concerto for sax and wind ensemble. Featuring soloist Ken Radnofsky and conductor David Martins.

Boston University’s Time’s Arrow Ensemble
MARCH 2, 2013 8PM
MARSH CHAPEL
735 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Melincolia I for cello and piano, Melincolia for violin and viola, and Nocturne #2 for piano, with several of the 12 Madrigals performed by the BU Chamber Choir.

BU Symphony Orchestra Concert
MARCH 7, 2013, 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Conducted by David Hoose. Featuring Salvatore Sciarrino’s Shadow of Sound.

Court-Circuit Ensemble
MARCH 18, 2013, 8PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
One of the very best French contemporary chamber ensembles on its first ever American tour, featuring works by Grisey, Hurel, Manoury and Fineberg.

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MARCH 23, 2013 8PM
CFA CONCERT HALL 855 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
Featuring Carter’s ASKO concerto, Gervasoni’s Epicadenza, and works by Anthony Cheung and John Aylward.

String Quartet Recital
MARCH 30, 2013, 8PM
CFA MARSHALL ROOM
855 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Scelsi’s 3rd Quartet and Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima by Luigi Nono. Marcio Candido, Natalie Calma, Minjung Chun, and Stephen Marotto.

Sciarrino Masterclass and Coaching of his Chamber Music at BU
MARCH 29, 2013, 3-6PM
MARSHALL ROOM
2ND FLOOR OF 855 COMMONWEALTH AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Maestro Sciarrino coaching his solo, duo and trio works including De La Nuit, Nocturne, Canzona di Ringrazimento, Tre duetti con l’eco for flute, All’Aure in una Lontananza, Notturno 2, Esplorazione del Bianco I, produced in collaboration with the New England Conservatory and performed by NEC performers.

Concert of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Chamber Music at NEC
MARCH 31, 2013, 8PM
NEC BROWN HALL
290 HUNTINGTON AVE.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Tre duetti con l’eco for flute, All’Aure in una Lontananza, Notturno 2, Esplorazione del Bianco I and other solo, duo and trio works by Sciarrino, performed by NEC performers.

Alea III
APRIL 3, 2013 8PM
TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER
685 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Violinist Scott Woolweaver and friends present an evening of international music for viola.

Boston Harp Trio
APRIL 10, 2013, 8PM
CFA CONCERT HALL
855 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring works by Martin Amlin, Matti Kovler, Angelica Negron, Keeril Makan, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Earl Kim.

Boston University’s Time’s Arrow Ensemble
MAY 3, 2013 8PM
MORSE AUDITORIUM
602 COMMONWEALTH AVE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring Andriessen’s, A Very Sharp Trumpet Sonata, Little Quartet No. 1 by Peter Maxwell Davies, Ruinen by Georges Asperghis, Incantation by Augusta Read Thomas, Two Psalms by Michael Finnissy (first performance–written for Time’s Arrow), and Gay Guerilla by Julius Eastman.

 

COMPOSER’S FORUM

All Composer’s Forum events are held from 12:30-2pm.
OCTOBER 2, 2012 LECTURE BY ROGER REYNOLDS, ELECTRONIC STUDIO ROOM B38
OCTOBER 30, 2012 PRESENTATION BY GUNTHER SCHULLER, LOCATION TBD
NOVEMBER 13, 2012 PRESENTATION BY PHILIPPE LEROUX, LOCATION TBD
DECEMBER 11, 2012 PRESENTATION BY ENRICO CHAPELA, LOCATION TBD
FEBRUARY 19, 2013 LECTURE BY SALVATORE SCIARRINO, CFA CONCERT HALL
FEBRUARY 26, 2013 LECTURE BY SALVATORE SCIARRINO WITH DEMONSTRATIONS BY THE JACK QUARTET AND PERFORMANCES BY ARI STREISFIELD, CFA CONCERT HALL
MARCH 5, 2013 LECTURE BY CINDY COX, CFA ELECTRONIC STUDIO RM. B38
MARCH 18, 2013 LECTURE BY CLARINETIST PIERRE DUTRIEU ON CONTEMPORARY CLARINET TECHNIQUES, CFA CONCERT HALL
MARCH 26, 2013 LECTURE BY SALVATORE SCIARRINO, CFA CONCERT HALL
APRIL 30, 2013 LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION BY ACCORDIONIST LUCA PIOVESAN, CFA ELECTRONIC STUDIO RM. B38