Matthew Welch
Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new
operas that last no more than 10 minutes. This Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, the new works will be
premiered by the contemporary music ensemble Hotel Elefant at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.
Purchase tickets at Issueprojectroom.org
There will be a Q and A conversation with all New Shorts composers
and moderated by James Holt at 6:30 on February 9 before the concert.
The featured composers are:
Robert Ashley, Joe Diebes, Ruby Fulton, Gabrielle Herbst, Mary
Kouyoumdjian, Aaron Siegel, Justin Tierney, Leaha Maria Villarreal, and Matthew
Welch. You can buy advance tickets from Issue Project Room. The concert is
at their temporary location: The Actors Fund Arts Center: 160 Schermerhorn St.
Brooklyn, NY.
Regarded as “a composer possessed of both rich imagination and the skill
to bring his fancies to life” by Time Out New York, composer and
bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch (b.1976) holds two degrees in Music
Composition, a BFA from Simon Fraser University (1999), and an MA from
Wesleyan University (2001), having studied with noted composers such as
Barry Truax, Rodney Sharman, Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton.
