From New York’s ISSUE PROJECT ROOM:
01/25 @ 7:30pm
at 110 Livingston — Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY: Wet Ink EnsembleThe composer-performance collective Wet Ink Ensemble will kick off Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York with the U.S. premiere of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize-winner Yoshi Onishi’s “Départ dans…” Wet Ink will also play works by past Gaudeamus prize-winners Ted Hearne, Chris Trapani, Richard Barrett along with works by Wet Ink members Alex Mincek and Kate Soper.
01/26 @ 7:30pm
at 110 Livingston — Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY: Wouter Snoei + Matthew Ostrowski + R WE WHO R WE
Gaudeamus Muziekweek encompasses a wide range of musical styles and media, and January 26 will feature Dutch electronic musician Wouter Snoei, an authority on 192-channel “wave-field” synthesis techniques. New York-based electronic artist Matthew Ostrowski will also perform, as well as the duo R WE WHO R WE, a collaboration between New York composer-performers Philip White & Ted Hearne.
01/27 @ 7:30pm
at 110 Livingston — Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY: Composer portrait of Yannis Kyriakides by Ensemble MAE + International Contemporary Ensemble
Yannis Kyriakides, winner of the Gaudeamus prize in 2000 for his piece conSPIracy cantata, was born in Cyprus and is currently based in Amsterdam. The Dutch-based Ensemble MAE will join with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to perform a number of works by Kyriakides, as well as other Dutch composers Peter Adriaansz and Michel Van der Aa.
01/28 @ 7:30pm
at 110 Livingston – Gaudeamus Muziekweek NY: Iktus Percussion + Ensemble MAEIktus Percussion performs works for amplified triangle and 100 metronomes, among other instruments, by Ron Ford, Michel Van der Aa, Hugo Morales Murguia, Yannis Kyriakides, and Gyorgy Ligeti. Ensemble MAE will return for a second night to perform work by other composers, including Robert Ashley’s “in memoriam … Esteban Gomez.”
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