"For twelve years, the Look and Listen Festival has organized
concerts in art galleries, maintaining a link between visual and musical
avant-gardes. The Pratt Manhattan Gallery hosts this year’s festival, which
includes performances by such groups as Sybarite5 and the JACK Quartet." -- The New Yorker, April
22, 2013
THREE WORLD PREMIERES:
Poe, Part I
for flute and percussion by Marcos Balter performed by flutist Claire Chase,
2012 MacArthur Fellow, and percussionist Svet Stoyanov [May 19]
Self-Portrait* for piano, cello and film created and
performed by composer/pianist Michael Brown and filmmaker/cellist Nicholas
Canellakis [May 17]
Urbano: ensaio de escolar
de samba (school of samba rehearsal)* for the
string quintet Sybarite5 by New York-based Brazilian composer João Luiz [May
19]
NEW YORK PREMIERE: Le
journal du corps by Lewis Nielson performed by the JACK Quartet
[May 17]
The 2013 Look & Listen Festival May 17th, 18th and 19th, 2013 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, Second Floor
Doors open at 7:30 pm, Concert at 8
Other highlights:
• Appearances by The M6 [May 17], Phyllis Chen/Cuddle Magic [May 19], Momenta
Quartet playing the winning work by Evis Sammoutis from the 2013 L&L
Composers Competition [May 19];
• Words & Music,
an evening curated by Suzanne Farrin, L&L Composers Collective member, with
harpist Bridget Kibbey and oboist James Austin Smith and featuring works by
Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, Felix Mendelssohn, Kaija
Saariaho [May 18];
• Ambient Music, a Look & Listen tradition, created this year by L&L Composers
Collective member Sebastián Zubieta and heard in the gallery prior to each
concert;
• Pratt Institute’s “Graduate Fine Arts 2013” exhibition, featuring works in
all media, is on display in Pratt Manhattan Gallery during the Festival.
Faculty members from Pratt Institute’s Department of Fine Arts will be present
to introduce the works. The exhibition is on view from May 9 – 21, 2013;
• WQXR’s Q2 is the Festival’s media partner and records all three concerts for
future streaming on its internet station.
