Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents

Obsession: new works by Princeton composers

Performing New Works by:

• N. Cameron Britt

• Elliot Cole

• Viet Cuong

• Alex Dowling

• Cenk Ergun

• Emma O'Halloran

• Chris Rogerson

• Jason Treuting

Performed by:

• Obsession

Location: Solley Theater, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Start time: 8:00 pm

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Princeton Sound Kitchen presents OBSESSION: new works by N. Cameron Britt, Elliot Cole, Viet Cuong, Alex Dowling, Cenk Ergun, Emma O'Halloran, Chris Rogerson and Jason Treuting on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 8:00pm.

Dan Trueman, Director

Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor

PROGRAM

BRITT Sleight
12 mins
N. Cameron Britt, EMvibe

O’HALLORAN Drip
5 mins
Kendra Emery, tenor saxophone, voice and effects pedal

DOWLING Alphabetics
5 mins
Kendra Emery, tenor saxophone, voice and effects pedal

ROGERSON once, for violin and piano
18 mins
Keir GoGwilt, violin and Nathaniel LaNasa, piano

Total: 40 mins

- INTERMISSION -

CUONG Obsession
9 mins
Krystin O'Mara, solo guitar

COLE Vocalise

10 mins
Tema Watstein, solo violin

TREUTING Drone and Drums (from Diorama)
15 mins
Jason Treuting, solo percussion

ERGÜN Dolce far niente
6 mins
Miranda Cuckson, violin, and Ning Yu, piano

Total: 40 mins

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire, from early eras to the most current creations. In demand as a soloist and chamber musician, she appears in major concert halls, as well as at universities, galleries and informal spaces. She performs at such venues as the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Miller Theatre, the 92nd Street Y, Guggenheim Museum, Austrian Cultural Forum, Bargemusic, Museum of Modern Art,Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, and the Marlboro, Bard, Lincoln Center, Bridgehampton, Portland and Bodensee festivals. She made her recent Carnegie Hall debut in Walter Piston’s concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein. Her first CD recording was a disk of concertos by Erich Korngold and Manuel Ponce with the Czech National Symphony, on Centaur Records. She subsequently made recital discs of music by Ralph Shapey, Donald Martino and Ross Lee Finney. In 2010, Vanguard Classics released her CD the wreckage of flowers, comprising music by Michael Hersch with pianist Blair McMillen. Upcoming releases include solo and duo works by Anna Weesner (Albany Records); Melting the Darkness, a disc of solo microtonal and electronics pieces by Iannis Xenakis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Oscar Bianchi and others; and a CD comprising Roger Sessions’ Sonata for solo violin, Elliott Carter’s Duo and a commissioned duo by Jason Eckardt (Urlicht). Her CD of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura for violin and electronics (Urlicht), with Christopher Burns, was named a Best Classical Recording of 2012 by the New York Times. Miranda has in recent years earned a reputation as one of the foremost performer-interpreters of contemporary music. She has collaborated with such composers as Henri Dutilleux, Elliott Carter, Thomas Adès, Salvatore Sciarrino, John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Lee Hyla, Steven Mackey, George Crumb, Michael Hersch, Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, Mario Davidovsky, Phillipe Hurel, Derek Bermel, Yehudi Wyner, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jason Eckardt, Tristan Murail, Charles Wuorinen and Sebastian Currier. In 2012, she performed a new work by Harold Meltzer that was commissioned for her by the McKim Fund, at the Library of Congress. A particular champion of Ralph Shapey’s music, she has curated concerts of his music on Miller Theatre’s Composer Portraits series and the Contempo series at the University of Chicago. She is active performing with many organizations including counter)induction, Sequitur, Talea Ensemble and others. She is director of the not-for-profit organization Nunc, which she founded in 2007. Miranda studied at The Juilliard School, beginning at age 9 and continuing into the college for her BM, MM and DMA degrees. She graduated with the Richard F. French Prize for best doctoral dissertation. As winner of Juilliard’s Presser Music Award, she made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall. Her violin teachers included Felix Galimir, Robert Mann, Dorothy DeLay, Shirley Givens and Nathan Milstein, and for chamber music, Fred Sherry and members of the Juilliard String Quartet. She was recently appointed to the violin faculty at Mannes College.

Saxophonist Kendra Emery is a passionate and enthusiastic performer, educator, and collaborator. Kendra has an interest in creative and unique concert planning; some of her past productions include a 4-course dinner concert with original compositions written to accompany each dish, a new film score screening, and she loves hosting house concerts. She proactively works with composers to try to expand the saxophone and mixed chamber repertoire. She has performed at a variety of festivals including EMM, NASA, and the Westfield New Music Festival. As a member of the Vagus Trio she was a national finalist at the MTNA Chamber Music Competition in 2011 and the Arriaga Chamber Music Competition in 2012. In the spring of 2012 Ms. Emery was awarded the Hartford Arts and Heritage Jobs Grant for the purchase of a baritone saxophone. Kendra earned her BM at the University of Arizona and attended the Hartt School to obtain her MM and a GPD. Her primary teachers were Brian Sacawa, Timothy McAllister, Kelland Thomas, and Carrie Koffman. The summer of 2013 she was a fellow at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. Kendra currently maintains a private saxophone and clarinet studio in CT. For more information visit kendraemery.com.

Keir GoGwilt was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in New York City. Notable performances include the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Bowdoin International Music Festival Orchestra, Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard, the Berg Concerto and Aucoin's This Same Light with the Encounters Ensemble at the Peabody Essex Museum, recitals at the Canadian Opera Company, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and a collaboration with Robert Levin on the world premiere of Levin's completion of a Mozart piano trio at the Sarasota Opera House. He has recorded some of Tobias Picker's violin and chamber music for Tzadik records, to be released in 2013. Keir graduated from Harvard University with high honors in 2013 and was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. Devoted to showing the manner in which the practice of music performance has relevance in a trans-disciplinary discourse, he continues to program and perform events combining music, poetry, and critical theory at venues such as the Scottish Poetry Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Fordham University.

Nathaniel LaNasa

Classical guitarist Krystin O'Mara's performances have been praised by audiences for displaying "wonderful energy, expressiveness, and a gorgeous tone." A 2013 prizewinner at the James Stroud Classical Guitar Competition and finalist at the Southern Guitar Competition, Krystin was the recipient of the Rosalia Alban Prize in Guitar and the Harold Randolph Prize in Performance. Highlights of recent seasons feature solo performances and chamber music collaborations throughout the United States. An active advocate of new music, Krystin performed Martin Herchenroder’s Landschaften, a concerto for two guitars and orchestra, at Bowling Green State University’s New Music Festival. The work was then recorded for a 2013 release on Albany records. Krystin's first CD, OBSESSION was released in Fall 2013 and features the first recording of two works: Viet Cuong's eponymously titled work, and Trois Tableaux d'Anderson by Ian Krouse, which is a set of three tone poems based on Hans Christian Andersen stories. Krystin performs in collaboration with saxophonist Ethan Miller in Duende, a unique duo representing a fresh, new direction in contemporary classical music. Duende performs a mixture of traditional classical repertoire, spanish and flamenco influences, jazz, brazilian, world music, as well as commissioned works. Their first CD is expected to be released in the upcoming season. Believing strongly in community outreach, Krystin acted as a site coordinator for The Creative Access – Peabody Conservatory’s student outreach initiative – while in Baltimore. In Cleveland, she is regularly seen performing community concerts. A passionate and dedicated teacher, Krystin maintains a large studio throughout Cleveland’s West Side. Krystin is a student of Jason Vieaux, where she is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Studies Certificate at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degree simultaneously from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Julian Gray.

Tema Watstein is a violinist in New York's premier post-classical quartet, ETHEL, resident ensemble of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hailed for her "sweeping and bristling" sound by the New York Times, she performs frequently at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Le Poisson Rouge as a member of the Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, as well as the Novus, Tactus, and Mimesis Ensembles. She has also appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Argento Ensemble, Ensemble ACJW, and Red Light New Music. She has worked with numerous composers, including John Zorn, Charles Wuorinen, Chen Yi, Paul Moravec, John Corigliano, Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, and Timo Andres, and regularly commissions and premiers works by her peers. She was also the violinist in Gabriel Kahane's musical February House at the Public Theater. In the summer of 2011, Tema was first violinist of the New Fromm Quartet at Tanglewood, where she has served twice as concertmaster under Robert Spano and Kurt Mazur; she has also performed under Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival. Tema is also a committed music educator, focusing on improvisation and the narrative art of music. Recent international appearances have included performances in Holland, Greece, Israel and Tanzania. www.temawatstein.com

New York based pianist Ning Yu brings virtuosity and adventurous spirit to a wide range of music, both in solo performances and in collaborations with some of today's most distinguished creative artists. Ning has performed dozens of world premieres including the works of Terry Riley, Michael Gordon, Tristan Perich, and Cenk Ergün among others. She has appeared on stages worldwide including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and also the United States. As a chamber musician, Ning has performed with leading new music ensembles such as Bang on A Can All-Stars, Signal Ensemble, and theater groups Mabou Mines and the Tectonic Theater Project. Ning is a member of the New York based percussion and piano ensemble Yarn/Wire and chamber music group counter)induction. A native of Shenyang, China, Ning has been living and working in New York City since 2004. www.ningyupiano.com

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS

N. Cameron Britt is a percussionist, composer, and instrument builder. As a percussionist he has performed with many orchestras throughout the Southeast including the North Carolina Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He is active as a creator and interpreter of new music and performs with cellist Tom Kraines in the free improvisation duo Dithyramb. His works have been performed by the Brentano String Quartet, So Percussion, Ensemble Klang, janus, NOW Ensemble, and the electronica duo Matmos. He has worked with the laptop ensembles Sideband and PLOrk and is interested in creating performable electronic instruments in both hardware and software. The EMvibe (an electromagnetically actuated vibraphone), combines his interests in composition, electronic music, instrument design and performance. He is currently teaching percussion at Duke University. If all goes according to plan, he will complete his Ph.D. in Composition here at Princeton tomorrow!

Elliot Cole is a composer, singer, programmer and producer who lives in Newark, NJ and is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University. His musical activities are wide-ranging. As a singer, he has performed at Merkin Hall, in the premiere of Sarah Snider's Unremembered, at the Berkshire Fringe Festival, as soloist with the Princeton Chamber Choir, and with his book-club-band Oracle Hysterical in tours across Germany and Texas. This winter he will sing his bardic epic Hanuman's Leap with percussion ensembles across the midwest. As a rapper, he has performed his hip-hop history of the world De Rerum with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, where he was Spotlight Artist in 2011. Deeply interested in the music of the past, he was a member of the Princeton Georgian Choir and sings regularly in a working group devoted to 14th and 15th century repertoire from original notation. His chamber music has been performed by So Percussion, Roomful of Teeth, FLUX Quartet with Logan Coale, Metropolis Ensemble, Chicago Composers Orchestra, MATA festival, Brentano Quartet, operacabal, Solar Winds, the Princeton Glee Club and shakuhachi master Riley Lee. Postludes, a book of quartets for bowed vibraphone, is quickly becoming a staple of percussion repertoire with over fifty performances around the world in their first season alone, including at Lincoln Center. His software projects employ formal abstraction of pattern and content to create novel composition environments. His studio work has been called "meticulously balanced" (NY Times), and he has produced albums of avant hip hop, chamber pop and, most recently, Morton Feldman's masterpiece Three Voices.

Viet Cuong, a young composer described as “show-stealing” (Baltimore City Paper) and a “dazzler” (Broad Street Review), has had works performed in venues across the United States, Canada, South Africa, Singapore, and Japan. Viet is currently a Naumburg and Roger Sessions Fellow in Princeton University's Ph.D. program. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Oscar Bettison and Kevin Puts. Viet received scholarships to study at the Aspen and Bowdoin music festivals, and has held artist residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Yaddo Corporation. Viet’s music has been performed previously at the Aspen Music Festival, International Double Reed Society Conference, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music at the Bowdoin Music Festival, the US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, Midwest Clinic, CBDNA conferences, and the GAMMA-UT Conference. He was a winner of the ASCAP Morton Gould Composers Award, Walter Beeler Memorial Prize from Ithaca College, Dolce Suono Ensemble Young Composers Competition, Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association Grant, National Band Association Young Composer Mentor Project, the Prix d'Été Composition Competition, and the Trio La Milpa Composition Competition.

Alex Dowling makes music for real and imaginary instruments.

Cenk Ergün is a composer and improviser based in New York. As a composer, he has worked with artists such as So Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Laboratorium, Yarn/Wire, and Joan Jeanrenaud. As an improviser, he performs electronics in groups with Alvin Curran, Jason Treuting, and Jeff Snyder. Some venues that have featured Ergün's music are New York's Carnegie Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, The Roulette, The Stone, Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw, Zurich's Tonhalle, and Istanbul's Babylon. Some events Ergün has participated in are Gaudeamus Music Week, MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, WNYC's New Sounds Live, Peak Performances at Montclair University, Stanford Lively Arts, and San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Some records Ergün appears on are The Art Of The Fluke with Alvin Curran (Tear), So Percussion's Cage 100 Bootleg Series (Cantaloupe), and Chris Brown's Rogue Wave (Tzadik).

Emma O'Halloran is an Irish composer who writes music for electronic and acoustic instruments.

Hailed as a “confident, fully-grown composing talent” (The Washington Post), Chris Rogerson’s music has been praised for its “virtuosic exuberance” and “haunting beauty” (The New York Times). He has received commissions and performances from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Brentano Quartet, and the JACK Quartet. His music has been performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and Merkin Hall. Recently, Chris was honored with a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also won awards from ASCAP, BMI, the Theodore Presser Foundation, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the National Association for Music Education, the New York Art Ensemble, and the Aspen Music Festival (Jacob Druckman Award). Chris has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Ucross Foundation. He has also been Composer-in-Residence for the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, Young Composer-in-Residence at Music from Angel Fire, and a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, and the Norfolk New Music Workshop. Born in 1988, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music with Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Martin Bresnick, and is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. Chris is represented by Young Concert Artists, Inc.

Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents

The Black Box Project

Performing New Works by:

• Alex Dowling

• Amanda Feery

• Wally Gunn

• Dave Molk

• Jason Treuting

Performed by:

• The Black Box Project

Location: The Black Box Theater at Wilson College
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Start time: 8:00 pm

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PSK presents composers Alex Dowling, Amanda Feery, Wally Gunn, Dave Molk and Jason Treuting showing newly devised performance works in a black box theater with director Laura Sheedy on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 at 8:00pm.

Dan Trueman, Curator
Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor

THE BLACK BOX PROJECT
Princeton composers Alex Dowling, Amanda Feery, Wally Gunn, Dave Molk and Jason Treuting showing newly devised performance works in a black box theater

Director: Laura Sheedy
Producer: Andrew Lovett
Production Manager: Wally Gunn

PROGRAM

ALEX DOWLING
1. Birds
2. My Joy
World Premiere

Leila Adu-Gilmore, vocals
Elliot Cole, vocals
Alex Dowling, vocals
Emma O’Halloran, vocals

AMANDA FEERY
Tide Over, Tide Over
World Premiere

Leila Adu-Gilmore, vocals
Amanda Feery, vocals
Rosalie Kaplan, vocals
Emma O’Halloran, vocals

WALLY GUNN
By The Time You Get This
World Premiere

Devised by Nothing To See Here Theater, Laura Sheedy, Artistic Director
Danielle Brustman, deviser and designer
Ryan Drickey, violin
Spencer Evans, deviser and actor
Wally Gunn, deviser and composer
Laura Sheedy, deviser, actor and director
Jason Treuting, percussion

DAVE MOLK
Time for Coffee
World Premiere

1. down
1a. head in hands
2. a pitter of patterns
2a. the quiet one
2b. #1 groove
3. waiter, reader, sugar, sleeper (who is she, and can we keep her?)
3a. #2 groove brew
4. cupuccino forte!

Quinn Collins, percupsion
Wally Gunn, percupsion
David Molk, percupsion
Jason Treuting, percupsion

JASON TREUTING
Interludes 1, 2, 3 and 4

Jason Treuting, percussion
Beth Meyers, viola

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS

Leila Adu travels the spaceways of music without limits. From tours of the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East, London’s Time Out says, “Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley,” and Italy’s popular music mag Blow Up describes her last album Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker as “splinters of folk and blues but also hypnotic and ghostly prog.” Steve Albini who produced her second album dubbed her ‘Spooky Adu.’ In 2013 Leila Adu has recorded improv with Daniel Carter, Jeff Henderson, Federico Ughi, with Quinn Collins and Jeff Snyder as part of The Miz'Ries, as well as singing in renowned NZ composer, John Psathas's audio visual composition Between Zero and One and as part of Alex Dowling's electronic accapella group. Adu has performed and composed for dance, theatre, film, gamelan, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet and So Percussion. She completed post-graduate studies in 2003 at Victoria University of Wellington, majoring in composition and specialising in Electro-acoustic Music, Ethnomusicology and Orchestration. Adu is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University.

Elliot Cole is a composer, singer, programmer and producer. His musical activities are wide-ranging. As a singer, he has performed at Merkin Hall, in the premiere of Sarah Snider’s Unremembered, at the Berkshire Fringe Festival, as soloist with the Princeton Chamber Choir, and with his book-club-band Oracle Hysterical in tours across Germany and Texas. Most recently, he sang the roles of Jupiter and Deucalion in Doug Balliett's newest Ovid cantata, The Flood. This winter he will sing his bardic epic Hanuman’s Leap with percussion ensembles across the midwest, and the role of Mercury in Monteverdi's Poppea at Princeton. Also committed to exploring territory between traditional storytelling and hip hop, he has performed his rap lecture about the history of the world, De Rerum, with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, where he was Spotlight Artist in 2011. Deeply interested in the music of the past, he was a member of the Princeton Georgian Choir and sings regularly in a working group devoted to 14th and 15th century repertoire from original notation.

Usually, Quinn Collins asks other people to make a racket. But tonight, David Molk has asked him to make a racket in his debut as a mugger.

Alex Dowling makes music for real and imaginary instruments.

Ryan Drickey is a violinist who specializes in contemporary and traditional musical dialects. His influences range from the 20th century classical virtuoso tradition to the rural old-time fiddling of Appalachia, from the formidable traditions of Scandinavian dance music to the wild intricacies of American Jazz. He spent the 2011 - 2012 academic year in Sweden studying traditional Swedish fiddle styles with the support of a Fulbright grant. He won the Rockygrass fiddle competition in 2007 in Colorado, and has played and taught across the US as well as in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Ryan currently plays with the bluegrass/americana/honky-tonk outfit known as Finnders and Youngberg (FY5), as well as with Cahalen Morrison and Eli West, and others. He holds a Masters of Music in violin from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently living in New York City, Ryan has performed on the Late Show with David Letterman and the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and has worked with artists such as Matt Morris, Darrell Scott, Matt Flinner, Opera Colorado, The Denver Philharmonic, and many others.

Spencer Evans is very pleased to be making his debut with Nothing to See Here. He was most recently seen in the Players Theatre productions of The Traveler and Famished in New York. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Theatre Arts, he has lived primarily between New York and San Francisco creating critically acclaimed experimental theatre. Over the years he has collaborated with: Sens Productions, Z Plays, Zaccho Dance Theater, ESP/Erica Shuch, Torque, Ensemble 6150 and The Sisyphus Project. Special thanks to Varian.

Amanda Feery is a musicmaker from Ireland, working with acoustic, electronic, and improvised music. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2006, with a B.A in Music. She completed an M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin in 2009. Her work has been performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Fidelio Trio, Lisa Moore, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Dublin Guitar Quartet. She was the winner of the West Cork Chamber Music Composer Award (2009) and the recipient of the Music Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2011/2012). She has participated at a number of festivals and residencies including the International Young Composers Meeting (2009), Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (2010), soundSCAPE Festival (2011) and Ostrava Days (2011). She is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. Current and ongoing projects include a vocal work based on the diary entries of Donald Crowhurst, a bass clarinet work based on motet cadences, and an EP recorded on neglected pianos.

Wally Gunn is an Australian composer living and working in New York. He writes concert music, rock music, and music for theatre, visual art, and other media, and enjoys collaboration with artists in other fields. He is interested in the sciences - especially natural history - as well as modern history and contemporary literature, and these themes often make appearances in his work. Wally is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University.

Rosalie Kaplan is a singer. She studied at the New England Conservatory and graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School. She co-leads the Brooklyn-based art song rock band Dollshot, whose forthcoming album Lalande, will be released in 2014. Her duo with guitarist/improviser Marco Cappelli recently recorded an EP of arrangements of Britten’s Songs from the Chinese which will be released this fall. She has performed at (le) Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, and The Stone among other venues.

Violist Beth Meyers is a founding member of janus flute, viola and harp trio whose debut album i am not was called “gorgeously subtle” (Studio 360). She is also a member of the band, QQQ (viola, hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar and drums) whose debut album Unpacking the Trailer (also New Amsterdam Records) was hailed “a bold statement of purpose disguised as an unpretentious lark” (Time Out New York). She has performed with ensembles and artists including ACME Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Antony and the Johnsons, Chromeo, Clare Muldaur Manchon, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble ACJW, Kishibashi, Matmos, Meredith Monk, Pierre Boulez, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, Rochester Philharmonic, Signal, Regina Spektor, So Percussion, Steve Reich and Musicians, Sufjan Stevens, Theo Bleckman and the Ying Quartet. Beth is a graduate of the University of Rochester (BA English ’00) and Eastman School of Music (BM ’00, MM ’02) where she studied with George Taylor. Her principal teachers also include John Graham (Aspen Music Festival), Christophe Dejardins (Lucerne Festival Academy), Garth Knox (formerly Arditti String Quartet), and Melissa Micciche (Rochester Philharmonic). Beth spends a good deal of her playing in NYC on the Broadway scene where she can be heard in various pit orchestras. She lives with her family in Princeton, NJ and enjoys riding her road bike and fiddling on fiddle.

Dave Molk is in his 3rd year at Princeton. He previously studied composition at Berklee College of Music under John Bavicchi and Tufts University under John McDonald.

Emma O'Halloran is a composer and musician from Ireland. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in composition at Princeton University. She also likes to sing.

Laura Sheedy is a performer and director from Melbourne, Australia currently based in New York. Laura was a founding member of The Other Tongue performing in Face2Face (Melb. Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Speaking in Thongs (Melbourne Comedy Festival). She also co-founded physical clown duo A Scam and a Strongman, making the shows A Scam and a Strongman, Spoilt and Short Straw (Melb. Comedy Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Green Room Award nomination). Laura has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company in New York since 2000 (Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant) and has been teaching Viewpoints, both in Australia and New York, since 2001. She has a solo show, Undercover (Melb. Fringe Festival) and has directed solo works by Kirsty Fraser, Miss Behave, Captain Frodo, Amy G and Kurt Braunohler. Laura has been a directorial advisor to such companies and artists as Circus Oz, La Clique, La La Parlour and Suitcase Royale, Kate Neal and Wally Gunn. Laura has performed with the Wau Wau Sisters both in NY and at the Sydney Opera House. In February 2012, Laura along with SITI Company’s Barney O’Hanlon, presented a creative development showing of a new work, Communication Over Distance, at the World Theatre Festival in Brisbane. In May 2012, Laura directed Chuck Mee Jr’s Big Love for La Trobe University and in December, she performed in Adrienne Truscott’s Too Freedom at The Kitchen and in Ann Hamilton’s The Event of A Thread at the Park Ave Armory. Laura is founder and Artistic Director of the theater company Nothing To See Here.

Jason Treuting is a performer and composer. He plays with and writes most often for his quartet So Percussion and now lives in Princeton as one of two inaugural Lewis Center Fellows in the Arts.

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.

Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents

Songs on the Theme of Knowing: Michelle Nagai

Performing New Works by:

• Michelle Nagai

Location: Taplin Gallery, Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center For The Arts
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2013
Start time: 1:30 pm and 8:00 pm

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PSK presents new work by Princeton composer Michelle Nagai.

Dan Trueman, Director
Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor

SONGS ON THE THEME OF KNOWING
New work by Michelle Nagai

PROGRAM

MICHELLE NAGAI
Work/Rest

1:30pm – 4:30 pm
Taplin Gallery

Composer Michelle Nagai, in collaboration with percussionists Michael Evans and Andrew Drury, presents part 1 of Work/Rest. The performers will collect and categorize sound objects throughout the day in a performative work-in-process set in the Taplin Gallery. Arts Center visitors are invited to drop in and observe, ask questions, and help gather and organize sounds and objects. The installation of instruments in the gallery culminates with a live performance as part of the evening concert Songs on the Theme of Knowing (see below).

MICHELLE NAGAI
Songs on the Theme of Knowing

8:00pm
Taplin Gallery

An evening of new music composed by Michelle Nagai, and inspired by the rhythms and ethos of Japanese rural farm life. After Preface, the first work on the program, is a setting of the poem Preface by Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa. Scored for an unusual combination of traditional instruments and more familiar sounds, After Preface features voice (Kyoko Kitamura), acoustic guitar (James Moore), futozao shamisen (Kenta Nagai), and shakuhachi (Elizabeth Brown). The piece is presented here in its U.S. premiere. Work/Rest (part 2) rounds out the program and features an array of sound objects that have been assembled in the gallery over the course of the day by percussionists Michael Evans and Andrew Drury. Composed together and meant to be heard that way, this pair of works touches on the mysteries of enlightenment, agricultural routine, seasonal change, and the wisdom of elders. Doors open at 7:30 pm.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Elizabeth Brown combines a successful composing career with an extremely diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles. A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, her music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe. She has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Newband, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, the Cary Trust, and NYFA. Brown is celebrated both here and in Japan for her compositions and performances combining eastern and western sensibilities. She was Grand Prize Winner in the M. Yutaka Composition Competition for Japanese traditional instruments, and also a prizewinner in the SGCM Shakuhachi Composition Competition 2010. Music from Japan presented her in recital in New York City and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. She has been Artist-in-Residence in the Grand Canyon, working on a series of solo shakuhachi pieces inspired by particular places in nature. In 2008/2009, she lived in Japan on a Cultural Exchange Fellowship supported by the US/Japan Friendship Commission. Brown was an invited performer at the World Shakuhachi Festivals in 2008 in Sydney, Australia, and in 2012 in Kyoto.

Andrew Drury is a drummer/composer whose work encompasses a stunning range of tradition and exploration while manifesting a core of rhythmic savvy, intense energy, and meticulous sonic control. A former student of the legendary drummer Ed Blackwell, Drury is known for a swinging and lyrical approach to the drum set, and for being able to leave audiences spellbound with his use of extended techniques. One of few percussionists performing at a world class level in both jazz and in experimental idioms that don’t obviously spring from jazz, Drury has appeared in 25 countries and on 40 cds as a soloist, as a bandleader, and in groups with artists such as Myra Melford, Chris Speed, Elliot Sharp, and Andrea Neumann. Currently he leads a quartet with Briggan Krauss, Ingrid Laubrock, and Brandon Seabrook. He performs with 10^32K (featuring Frank Lacy), Jason Kao Hwang, Jack Wright, TOTEM>, IRON DOG, JD Parran’s clarinet ensemble, Dan Peck, Daniel Blake, and others.

Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics, combining ordered systems with intuitive choices of sound making using found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and analog electronics. He has worked with a wide variety of artists nationally and internationally including EasSide Percussion, Fast Forward, Fulminate Trio, Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten), Susan Hefner, Gordon Monahan, Evan Parker, William Parker, Psychotic Quartet, LaDonna Smith and Peter Zummo.

Kyoko Kitamura is vocal improviser and composer who has performed and/or recorded with many distinguished musicians including Anthony Braxton, Reggie Workman, Jay Clayton, Steve Coleman, Jim Staley, and Taylor Ho Bynum. Mostly recently, she appears on two Anthony Braxton albums, the opera "Trillium E" (New Braxton House 2011) and the "Syntactical GTM Choir (NYC) 2011" (New Braxton House 2012). Also known for her interdisciplinary projects, she released her first solo album "Armadillo In Sunset Park" (KK 2011) last year, a collection of songs written for Mark Lamb Dance. Kitamura has garnered critical praise for her “great vocal range, veering from wordless vocalese to near operatic feats” (AllAboutJazz) and her “smoky alto that at turns belongs to a children’s storyteller, slam poet or blues singer” (New York City Jazz Record), with All Music Guide describing her as “an expressive vocalist who knows how to be quirky and eccentric but is also quite musical.” http://www.kyokokitamura.com/

James Moore is a versatile guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been immersed in New York's creative music community since 2006, earning the title of "local electric guitar hero" by Time Out NY and "model new music citizen" by the NY Times. James is a founding member of the electric guitar quartet Dither, and performs internationally as a soloist and ensemble player. Current projects include performances and recording of John Zorn's Book of Heads for solo guitar, playwright Richard Maxwell's critically acclaimed theater piece Neutral Hero, and PLAY/PAUSE, a collaborative piece for BAM's Next Wave Festival with composer David Lang and choreographer Susan Marshall.

Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from Niigata Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his current exploration of the physical properties of sound and its impact on human emotion and the body. This interest has led to numerous collaborations with dancers and artists across diverse media, in New York City and abroad. Nagai's original work, and collaborations, have been presented at major venues including Carnegie Hall, Roulette, Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center Out Door Stage, Rubin Museum, Hershhorn Museum at the Smithonian Institute, Sculpture Center, The Whitney Museum, and The Japan Society. Nagai is the guitarist for Trophies, a Berlin-based musical trio featuring composer/vocalist Alessandro Bosetti and drummer Tony Buck (of The Necks). The band has released two albums since 2010 - 'Become Objects of Daily Use' (Monotype Records) and 'A color photo of the horse' (D.S. al Coda). A third album is due for release this autumn. In 2011, Nagai made a year-long sojourn back to Japan, where he studied shamisen with Tsuruzawa Asazo the 5th and participated in the daily routines and cultural traditions of rural Japan.

Composer/sound artist Michelle Nagai creates original music and sound for electronics and live players, ephemeral performance events, video, dance and theater. In tandem with her work as a composer, Nagai's published writings reflect a deep engagement with the intersection of words, sounds, places and ideas. In 2012, Nagai lived in rural Japan, the recipient of a creative artist fellowship from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. She now resides in rural New York State, where she continues to explore connections between sound and place, while working toward completion of a doctoral dissertation in composition at Princeton University. Nagai’s work has been presented in North America, Japan and Europe with the support of numerous institutions including the American Composers Forum, the Deep Listening Institute, Harvestworks, Eyebeam, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents

Hammer/Klavier

Location: McAlpin Hall, Woolworth Center for Musical Studies
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Monday, October 07, 2013
Start time: 1:00 pm

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PSK presents piano and percussion ensemble HAMMER/KLAVIER in an open rehearsal of Princeton Music Department faculty member Paul Lansky's Textures on Monday, October 7th, 2013 at 1:00pm.

Dan Trueman, Director
Michael Pratt, Resident Conductor

HAMMER/KLAVIER:
Gwendolyn Burgett, percussion
Thomas Rosenkranz, piano
Michael Sheppard, piano
Svet Stoyanov, percussion

in an open rehearsal of Paul Lansky’s Textures

PAUL LANSKY
Textures

1. Striations
2. Loose Ends
3. Soft Substrates
4. Slither
5. Granite
6. Points of Light
7. Aflutter, On Edge
8. Round-Wound

34 minutes

Textures was commissioned by the ensemble Hammer/Klavier. In writing the piece I kept finding myself fascinated, on one hand by the wide variety of ‘textures’ the percussion is capable of, and by the world of harmony in which the piano is queen, and on the other hand the ways that piano and percussion could change places. So, I mixed them all together is various ways and pray fiercely that it all works. I also was thrilled to be able to work together with this group of brilliant performers. - PL

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Gwendolyn Patricia Burgett is currently associate professor of percussion at the Michigan State University College of Music. Burgett has maintained a career as an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician. She is currently the principal percussionist of the Lansing Symphony and has performed with the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Grand Rapids Symphony among others. Burgett was awarded the Teacher Scholar Award from Michigan State University in January 2012. She was the winner of the Keiko Abe Prize at the 2nd World Marimba Competition and received the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Burgett has also performed numerous solo recitals throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. She released her first solo CD in October of 2007 and her second solo CD in the fall of 2012 both on the Blue Griffin label. Burgett holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory and the Yale School of Music.

Thomas Rosenkranz enjoys a musical life as a soloist, chamber musician, and artist teacher. Since winning the Classical Fellowship Award from the American Pianists Association, his concert career has taken him to four continents. His repertoire extends from the works of J.S. Bach to premieres of works written exclusively for him, often including improvisation into his performances. During recent years, he has concertized in many of the major cities of Asia including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Jakarta, and Bangkok. His first trip to China began in 2006 when he was a featured soloist with the Oberlin Orchestra and since then he has returned annually. His 2013 visit included a nine-city tour including solo performances in the Grand Theatres of Ningbo, Hangzhou, and Wenzhou. During the summers, he is in residence at the soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy where he engages pianists in the performance of new music. In 2010 he co-founded Musicians from soundSCAPE with percussionist Aiyun Huang and vocalist, Tony Arnold, highlighting the commissioned works of the festival in concert and in recordings. He also continues to perform with the two piano, two percussion group, Hammer/Klavier which recently commissioned a large-scale work by Paul Lansky entitled, Textures. In addition to his work in western art music, Mr. Rosenkranz continues to explore multi-cultural projects. He was named a Cultural Ambassador sponsored by the U.S. Department of State in 2003 and has traveled to Tunisia more than a dozen times to teach, collaborate and perform with local Tunisian musicians at such festivals as the Carthage International and the Tabarka Jazz Festival. He has been appointed to visiting residencies and professorships at the Sichuan Conservatory, Xinghai Conservatory, University of California at San Diego, and the Higher Institute de Musique Tunis among others. He has taught masterclasses at the Shanghai Conservatory, Tunghai University (Taiwan), Idllwyld Arts Academy, and the Oberlin Conservatory. Prior to his appointment at BGSU, he was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Mr. Rosenkranz completed an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied with Robert Shannon and earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with and was teaching assistant to Nelita True. On behalf of the Presser Foundation, he studied with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Paris. He is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University where he teaches piano, chamber music and leads the improvisation collective, The Combustible Arts Ensemble.

Already known as a pianist of dazzling virtuosity and penetrating musicianship, Michael Sheppard is also spreading his wings as a composer, arranger and transcriber. Trained by the legendary Leon Fleisher and the scholarly but passionate Ann Schein at the Peabody Conservatory, Michael was selected by the American Pianists Association as a Classical Fellow. This designation led to the recording of his Harmonia Mundi CD of 2007 and in late 2012 another recording will be released by Azica, a Cleveland-based label distributed worldwide by Naxos Records. The APA fellowship provided a tour of Southern Asia and the Middle East, done in collaboration with the US Department of State. During this tour, he performed with numerous national orchestras, played chamber music with resident ensembles, and played in solo recitals as well as diplomatic events. He additionally found time to do master classes and conducted informal presentations in secondary schools and universities. Back in the US, Mr. Sheppard made his debut at the Kennedy Center and has since performed standard piano repertoire with numerous orchestras nationwide in addition to recitals, more master classes, broadcasts and chamber performances as a member of the Monument Trio. He has returned to Asia, Europe and performed at Carnegie Hall as well. Receiver of a Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship and another from the LaGesse Foundation, Sheppard took a major prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs National Competition. As an interpreter of great acclaim of operatic transcriptions and musical theater scores, Michael Sheppard today stands at a crossroads, spending large amounts of time writing as well as performing and teaching. He has worked closely with fellow composers John Corigliano, Christopher Theofanidis, Michael Hersch, Robert Sirota and with the late Nicholas Maw, demonstrating a deep love of new music. His catalogue of works, numbering in the dozens, is about to be published and marketed by a new entrepreneurial music publishing company beginning in the fall of 2012. Michael Sheppard is a native of Philadelphia and resides in Baltimore where he often enjoys performing chamber music with Baltimore Symphony Principal cellist Dariusz Skorazewski and Hong Kong Philharmonic Concertmaster Igor Yuzefovich in the Monument Trio. He is also a teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Recently, he has reconnected with old friends and fabulous musicians Gwendolyn Burgett, Thomas Rosenkranz, and Svetoslav Stoyanov to form a two-piano, two-percussion music group calling itself "Hammer/Klavier".

Praised by the New York Times for his “understated but unmistakable virtuosity” along with a “winning combination of gentleness and fluidity,” Svet Stoyanov is a driving force in modern percussion. Winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and most recently, the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Award for outstanding achievement and public service, Mr. Stoyanov’s career highlights include solo appearances with the Chicago, Seattle, and American Symphony Orchestras, as well as debuts in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and Taiwan National Concert Hall amongst others worldwide. His solo album “Percussive Counterpoint” was released to a great acclaim, airing on multiple radio stations across the globe. A new recording, honoring the music of American composer Paul Lansky, will be released in the near future. Mr. Stoyanov has also recorded for Naxos, Telarc. A passionate advocate of contemporary and new music, Svet Stoyanov has commissioned a significant body of new solo and chamber works. This is commitment that Mr. Stoyanov considers essential to his role as a musician today. Current commissions feature a Duo in collaboration with flutist Claire Chaise and composer Marcos Balter, a Sextet by Alejandro Vinao, as well as a Percussion Quartet by Andy Akiho. Svet Stoyanov is the Director and Professor of Percussion Studies at the Frost School of Music in University of Miami, where he has collaboratively built a unique and innovative modern percussion program.

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Paul Lansky has done just about everything, sometimes twice. This is his 89th semester at Princeton