April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

REAL TIME, IMAGINARY TIME

 April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Saturday, April 14, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

Music for live and recorded digital media featuring music by composers Gerry Basserman, Peter Elsea, Paul Nauert, and James Tenney.

Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students

 

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DEGREES OF FREEDOM

April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

Composer/clarinetist/laptop artist Matt Ingalls and percussionist William Winant in a program of free improvisation and works by Ingalls, Denis Smalley, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Plus tributes to composers Lou Harrison and James Tenney featuring the UCSC Percussion Ensemble.

Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students

 

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MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH

April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Thursday, April 19, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

John Schneider leads the ensemble PARTCH in a program featuring the music and novel musical instruments of maverick American composer Harry Partch.

Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students

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MUSIC FOR KOREAN GAYAGEUM AND WESTERN INSTRUMENTS (PREMIERE CONCERT I)

April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Sunday, April 22, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

Hee-Jeong Kim and You-Seon Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with UCSC graduate student performers (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, and Patrick Richey) to present world premiere compositions by graduate student composers from UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis (Jesse Berkowitz, Daniel Brown, Sylvain Carton, Young-Shin Choi, Joel Ford, Jean Ahn, Sue-Hye Kim, Simon Hutchinson, Monica Lynn, and John Seales).

Admission: Free

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MUSIC FOR KOREAN GAYAGEUM AND WESTERN INSTRUMENTS (PREMIERE CONCERT II)

April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Monday, April 23, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

Eun-Ah Kwak and Hee-Jeong Kim, 12-string Korean gayageum (zither) virtuosos, will join with members of San Francisco’s Ensemble Parallèle (Jean-Michel Fonteneau and John Sackett) to present world premieres of music by composers from the Bay Area and Korea, including Yu-Hui Chang, David Cope, Andrew Imbrie, David Evan Jones, Hi Kyung Kim, Sung-Ki Kim, and Young-Ja Lee.

Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students

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DOUBLE BILL: FRANKLIN COX / KARLTON HESTER

April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music

Sunday, April 29, 2007 / 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Music Center Recital Hall

Double bill: cellist Franklin Cox in a set featuring premieres by Benjamin Carson and Avi Tchamni and music by Brian Ferneyhough. Flutist / saxophonist / composer Karlton Hester and guests (Renata Bratt, Larry T. Douglas, Stan Poplin, Kamau Seitu) preview Hester’s large-scale cycle Balledrama, which explores relationships and intersections between musical and universal order.

Admission Required: $12 general, $10 seniors, $8 students

 

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