Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents

Stainless Staining: Lisa Moore, Courtney Orlando, Adam Sliwinski

Performing New Works by:

• Viet Cuong

• Donnacha Dennehy

• Amanda Feery

• Chris Rogerson

• Jason Treuting

• Dan Trueman

Performed by:

• Stainless Staining

  • Lisa Moore

  • Courtney Orlando

  • Adam Sliwinski

Location: Solley Theater, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Start time: 8:00 pm

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PSK presents STAINLESS STAINING: Lisa Moore, Courtney Orlando and Adam Sliwinski, performing new solo works by Princeton composers.

Dan Trueman, Director
Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor

STAINLESS STAINING
A concert of new solo works

LISA MOORE, piano
COURTNEY ORLANDO, violin
ADAM SLIWINSKI, prepared digital piano

PROGRAM

DONNACHA DENNEHY
Overstrung
Courtney Orlando, violin

AMANDA FEERY
Nocturne For The Old Raver
Lisa Moore, piano

JASON TREUTING
Bagatelle
Lisa Moore, piano

DAN TRUEMAN
Nostalgic Synchronic: Études for Prepared Digital Piano 1 - 4
Adam Sliwinski, prepared digital piano

- INTERMISSION -

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Xenia
Courtney Orlando, violin

CHRIS ROGERSON
Noble Pond
Lisa Moore, piano

VIET CUONG
Veil
Lisa Moore, piano

DONNACHA DENNEHY
Stainless Staining
Lisa Moore, piano

Read more:
Pre-concert thoughts from the composers about the compositional process
Q&A with the performers
Q&A with the composers

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Lisa Moore has been described as “brilliant and searching” (The New York Times) and "visionary" (The New Yorker). This Australian-born pianist has performed with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists – the London Sinfonietta, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet, Bang on a Can, Steve Reich Ensemble, American Composers Orchestra, So Percussion, Ensemble Signal, Barge Music, Australian Chamber Orchestra, TwoSense, Paul Dresher Double Duo, Grand Band and John Jasperse Dance. Her festival performances include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Holland, Graz, Tanglewood, Huddersfield, Paris d'Automne, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, Barbican, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Israel and Warsaw in venues such as La Scala, Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein. Winner of the silver medal in the 1981 Rockefeller-Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition Moore has collaborated with composers ranging from Elliot Carter and Iannis Xenakis to Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Ornette Coleman. As a concerto soloist she has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Wesleyan Orchestra and Sumarsam Gamelan, Albany, Sydney, Tasmania, Thai Symphony Orchestras and the Queensland Philharmonic - under the batons of Bradley Lubman, Reinbert de Leeuw, Jorge Mester, Angel Gil-Ordonez and Edo de Waart. From 1992-2008 Lisa Moore was the founding pianist for the electro-acoustic sextet The Bang On A Can All-Stars - winner of Musical America's 2005 Ensemble of the Year Award. Lisa Moore has released 7 solo discs (Cantaloupe, Tall Poppies) and over 30 collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, BMG, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion, Starkland). As an artistic curator Moore produced Australia's Canberra International Music Festival Sounds Alive ‘08 series. Based in New York City since 1985 she enjoys dual Australian-American citizenship, holds B.Mus, M.Mus and DMA degrees and teaches at the Yale-Norfolk Summer Festival and at Wesleyan University CT.

Heralded by The New York Times as a violinist of “tireless energy and bright tone” and The Washington Post as “dangerously gifted”, Courtney Orlando specializes in the performance of contemporary and crossover music. She is a founding member of the acclaimed new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, which has premiered works by and collaborated with some of the foremost composers of our time, including John Adams, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Wolfgang Rihm, and Augusta Read Thomas. Performances with AWS include those at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall, the Kimmel Center, London’s Barbican Theatre, and in Germany, Poland, Italy, and Russia. She is also a member of Ensemble Signal and the Deviant Septet. Courtney is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory. Prior to her appointment at Peabody, she received her doctorate from and taught at the Eastman School of Music.

Adam Sliwinski has built a dynamic career of creative collaboration as percussionist, conductor, and teacher. He specializes in bringing composers, performers, and other artists together to create exciting new work. A member of the ensemble So Percussion (proclaimed as "brilliant" and "consistently impressive" by the New York Times) since 2002, Adam has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Lincoln Center Festival, Stanford Lively Arts, and dozens of other venues in the United States. In that time, So Percussion has toured Russia, Spain, Australia, Italy, Germany, and Scotland. He has had the opportunity to work closely with Steve Reich, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, David Lang, Matmos, Dan Deacon, and many others. Adam has been praised by the New York Times for his “shapely, thoughtfully nuanced account” of David Lang’s marimba solo String of Pearls. He has appeared as soloist in many diverse venues, including the International Computer Music Conference, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and at the Joyce Theater in New York for a 2-week run of Eliot Feld's Mandance. He has performed many times with the International Contemporary Ensemble, founded by classmates from Oberlin. In recent years, Adam's collaborations have grown to include conducting. He has conducted over a dozen world premieres with the International Contemporary Ensemble, including residencies at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Adam has also served as a rehearsal conductor with ICE, preparing them for concerts with Maestri Steven Schick and Susanna Mälkki (Ensemble Intercontemporain). Adam is one of only a few percussionists ever to complete the Yale School of Music's Doctor of Musical Arts program, where his thesis engaged the percussion music of Iannis Xenakis. He also earned his Masters at Yale with marimba soloist Robert Van Sice, and his Bachelors at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Michael Rosen. Adam is co-director of the So Percussion Summer Institute, an annual intensive course on the campus of Princeton University for college-aged percussionists. He is also co-director of the percussion program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and has taught percussion both in masterclass and privately at more than 80 conservatories and universities in the USA and internationally. During the 2011-2012 year, Adam was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University, where So Percussion was ensemble-in-residence.