SONiC Festival Comes to the Miller Theater

From Broadway World:

Saturday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, 12 noon-midnight
Monday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 • Extended Play: $25 for the whole day or $15 per set

Saturday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.
eighth blackbird

PROGRAM: Timothy Andres: Crashing Through Fences
Bruno Mantovani: Chamber Concerto No. 2 (world premiere, eighth blackbird commission)
Amy Beth Kirsten: Pirouette
Mayke Nas: DiGiT #2 (U.S. premiere)
Fabian Svensson: Two Sides (U.S. premiere)
Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams
Caleb Burhans: Lullaby for Madeline

Sunday, October 16, 12 noon-midnight
Sets at 12:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9:00 p.m.
Extended Play: Marathon Concert
hosted by JACK Quartet
featuring performances by Talea Ensemble, The New York Virtuoso Singers, Prism Quartet, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Imani Winds, Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, NOW Ensemble and other special guests.

PROGRAM:
12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

JACK Quartet performs:
Alex Mincek: String Quartet no. 3 (lift-tilt-filter-split)

Talea Ensemble performs:
Hector Parra: String Trio – U.S. premiere
Anthony Cheung: Roundabouts – U.S. premiere
Victor Adan/Douglas Repetto: Tractus – world premiere, Meet the Composer Commission

JACK Quartet performs:
Vykintas Baltakas: b(ell tree) – U.S. premiere
Aaron Cassidy: Second String Quartet – New York premiere commissioned by Südwestrundfunk/Donaueschinger Musiktage for the JACK Quartet. The collaborative research in the development of this piece was supported through a generous grant from the ‘Practice Led and Applied Research’ scheme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

The New York Virtuoso Singers perform:
Jenece C. Gerber: Je me delace
Nicholas Reeves: In Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich
Michael Fletcher: H
Thomas Lavoy: White Stones
Yotam Haber: I Am (with JACK Quartet) – world premiere

4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

JACK Quartet and harpist Yolanda Kondonassis perform:
Hannah Lash: Filigree in Textile- world premiere
This piece was made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.

Prism Quartet performs:
David Laganella: Leafless Tree
Roshanne Etezady: Inkling
Ken Ueno: from sunrise to sunset, the summer of the Ken Ueno S.E.P.S.A. bus rides destra e sinistra around Ischia just to get tomorrow’s scatolame
Lei Liang: Yuan
Kati Agocs: Coloratura
Kristin Kuster: Breath Beneath

JACK Quartet performs:
Jessie Montgomery: Standing / Forward – world premiere

Young People’s Chorus of New York City; Cantare Chorus performs:
Elizabeth Ziman: Beauty in a Moment
Tarik O’Regan: The Taxi
Susie Ibarra: Excerpts from Saturnalia
Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum: Two Songs from e. e. cummings

JACK Quartet performs
Gregory Spears: Buttonwood – New York premiere

Concert Chorus performs:
Gabriela Lena Frank: Picaflor Esmeralda fromTwo Mountain Songs
Bora Yoon: Semaphore Conductus
Rufus Wainwright: Hope is a Thing of Feathers from Bloom

9:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

Jason Eckardt: Subject – world premiere
This piece has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

Imani Winds performs:
Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
Mohammed Fairouz: Wind Quintet (I. March) – New York premiere
Philip Taylor: Prelude and Scherzo
Jason Moran: Cane
i. Togo to Natchitoches
ii. Coin Coin’s narrative
iii. Gens libre de couleur
iv. Natchitoches to New York

JACK Quartet performs:
Matthew Barnson: String Quartet No. 3 – world premiere

Dither Electric Guitar Quartet performs:
Paula Matthusen: but because without this
Jascha Narveson: The Driving One
Ches Smith: Metal Vacation
Lisa R. Coons: Prolix
Lainie Fefferman: Tongue of Thorns

JACK Quartet performs:
Christopher Otto: Algol

NOW Ensemble performs:
Patrick Burke: Awake
Mark Dancigers: New Work
Sarah Kirkland Snider: New Work
Judd Greenstein: Change

Monday, October 17, 7:30 p.m.
Either/Or
Marie Bernard and Estelle Lemire, ondes Martenot

PROGRAM: Raphaël Cendo: In Vivo part I (2008)
Hans Thomalla: Piano Counterpart (2009)
Richard Carrick: “à cause du soleil” Flow Trio (2009)
Erin Gee: Mouthpiece I / Yamaguchi Mouthpieces / Akiguchi Mouthpiece (2001-2011)
Keeril Makan: Resonance Alloy (2008)
Jonny Greenwood: smear (2004) with special guests Marie Bernard and Estelle Lemire

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