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Richard Cameron-Wolfes 1990 cello/piano duo Time Refracted will receive two LA-area performances in early February.

Tuesday, February 7, 7:00PM - at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Claremont [the program also including works of Rachmaninov and Beethoven] and Friday, Feb 10 at 12:15 pm, in Balch Auditorium at Scripps College [along with music by Dutch composer Jo Sporck].

Time Refracted was inspired by the musical paintings of Kandinsky and the composers own notion of time [as rhythm] being as refractable as light. The performers will be Susan Lamb Cook, cello, and Gayle Blankenburg, piano their Scripps College performance amplified by the space-refracting choreography of Ronnie Brosterman, with dancers Devon Frost and Anna Paz. Both events are free.

Scripps Dances is the Scripps College [Claremont, CA] Dance Departments annual spring concert of original dance-works choreographed by students, faculty, and guest artists. The program [Friday 4/21 at 8:00; Saturday 4/22 at 2:00 & 8:00] will include "Time Refracted" by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, performed on all three concerts by Susan Lamb Cook, cello and Gayle Blankenburg, piano, and choreographed by Ronnie Brosterman.

Tickets: $10 general, $5 faculty, staff, students, seniors. Reservations Not Required: Tickets sold at Garrison Box Office from 6:00pm on performance evenings and 1:00pm on Saturday.

Monday, March 27, 7:30pm
Yeshiva University Museum,
15 West 16 Street (bet 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York City

CXX Proof and the Diener Ensemble

Reut Ben-Zeev, mezzo soprano and the Beatrice Diener Ensemble-in-Residence at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University perform the work of Jewish composers with music by Martin Boykan (Songlines) Edward Jacobs and the world premiere of Concertino No. 1 for Guitar and Chamber Ensemble by YU faculty composer David Glaser.

Tickets: $10 general; $5 seniors, students; free YUM members and YU faculty, staff and students.
For reservations, go to http://www.smarttix.com or call 212-868-444

Program:

Selectionsfrom the sixcello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1007-1012, #4, #5, #3, #1, #6, #2) arranged by Rudolf Haken for viola pomposa

Chaconne from Partita #2, by Johann Sebastian Bach
Selections from Suite in a Minor for Solo Violaby Rudolf Haken
Elegy by Igor Stravinsky
Suite pour Jean by Rudolf Haken
Magyar Rondo by Matthew Davidson

Rudolf Haken, violist and composer, performs on his five-string viola pomposa built by Portland, OR, resident David Rivinus.

The Haller Lake Music Series has been offering classical music performances to Seattle audiences for over 20 years. Performers include local professional musicians, as well as visiting artists. All concerts are held in the intimate setting of Haller Lake United Methodist Church, located at 13055 1st Avenue NE, Seattle, WA

Matthew Davidson holds degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Apart from concertizing in Canada, New Zealand and the United States, with ragtime, early jazz, classical and contemporary music concerts, he actively promotes the work of other composers and his work has received radio broadcasts in New Zealand, North America and Europe.

Dr. Davidson studied piano privately with John Powell and Rae de Lisle in New Zealand, with Bruce Greenfield and Phillipa Ward at the Wellington Polytechnical Institutes Executant Music Course in New Zealand, privately with Lawrence Pitchko and Harold Heap in Canada and with William Heiles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

On July 14th a new computer piece by veteran electronic music composer Alice Shields will be performed at National Sawdust as part of the 2017 NYC-Electroacoustic Music Festival, with Noh Theater performer Mayo Miwa and video by artist Tom Barratt. The concert "Ancient Voices of the Computer," includes White Heron Dance by Shields, as well as electronic works by Joel Gressel, Jeff Hall, Stephen Dydo, Maurice Wright and Joe Hudson. The concert has been curated by the Association for the Promotion of New Music.

White Heron Dance is a shamanic ritual in sound in which a human beingexperiences a moment of union with nature in the form of a Great White Heron. Shields has compiled sounds for this piece from the cries of herons, hawks, eagles, songbirds and the human voice. The composer also recorded Noh performer Mayo Miwa singing the ritual song in the folk style used by the Shinto priests and in the elaborate Noh recitational style. Shields studies Noh Theater with Miwa, who suggested the ancient Japanese Shinto ritual Sa-gi Mai upon which the piece is based.

The Portland Chamber Orchestra, Yaacov Bergman, music director, will feature a concert in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Orchestra, as well as the 150th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark College. On April 22 and 23rd, the orchestra will perform the Chief Joseph Legend for Baritone and orchestra, by John Verrall. Richard Zeller will be the Baritone soloist with the Lewis and Clark College Choir; Katherine FitzGibbon, Director.

Chief Joseph or Young Joseph (March 3, 1840 September 21, 1904), succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon. In 1873, Joseph negotiated with the federal government to ensure his people could stay on their land in the Wallowa Valley. But in 1877, the government reversed its policy, and Army General Oliver Howard threatened to attack if the Wallowa band did not relocate to the Idaho Reservation with the other Nez Perce.

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will perform Aaron Avshalomov's Peiping Hutungs, March 17th, and 21th, 2017, conducted by Long Yu on Shanghai Symphony Hall and Taibei National Theatre & Concert Hall. Additional Works by Felix Mendelssohn, and Niccol Paganini are also on the program.

From Forbidden City to Hutungs of Peking: Shanghai Symphony Hall
Fri, Mar 17 2017, 20:00
Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai
Concert Hall

Long Yu conducts the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a varied program evoking the city of Peking, with pianist Yalun Wang and violist Scott Lee.
Works by Aaron Avshalomov, Felix Mendelssohn, and Niccol Paganini are on the program of this evening.

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is the oldest and the best-known ensemble of its kind in Asia, through which the Chinese symphonic music develops. Originally known as the Shanghai Public Band, it
developed into an orchestra in 1907, and was renamed the Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Notably under the baton of the Italian conductor Mario Paci, the orchestra promoted
Western music and trained Chinese young talents very early in China, and introduced the first Chinese orchestral work to the audience, hence reputed as the the best in the Far East. Practically, the history of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra may be referred as the history of Chinas symphonic music development.

On Thursday, May 18, at 8 PM, opening night of the Look and Listen Festival at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 W. 14th St.). Louis Karchin's solo violin piece, Prayer, will be performed by violinist Miranda Cuckson in a free concert that will also feature works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Pauline Oliveros, and Salvatore Sciarrino.

Help usher in the festivals Opening Night at Pratt Manhattan Gallery with Ione from the Deep Listening Institute who will lead Pauline Oliveros The Heart Chant. Hosted by Bill McGlaughlin, the evenings program features violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson, septet ensemble yMusic performing selections from their latest album, First, composed by Son Lux; and tenor sax quartet Battle Trance is performing an excerpt from Blade of Love.

Wednesday, May 10th, live broadcast at 12:10 PM to 12:50 PM on NPR station WXXI-FM 91.5, WXXI 90.3, WXXI-FM/HD 91.5-1, and online at WXXI.org. Repeat broadcast on the same day from 10 PM to 11 PM.

The Eastman Cello Ensemble performs works by Rochester composer David Liptak, Eastman alumnus Caleb Burhans, and Arvo Prt as part of the series Live from Hochstein.

Hosted by Classical 91.5's Mona Seghatoleslami, Live from Hochstein is the longest running live broadcast concert series in Western New York. Broadcast live from the Hochstein Performance Hall (50 North Plymouth Ave. in Rochester), the series presents performances by some of the finest artists from the Rochester areas musical community.

Elizabeth R. Austin'sLitauische Lieder(Lithuanian Lieder) for baritone & piano will be performed on April 5, 2017 atDie Akademie der KnsteBerlin. The occasion is the Centennial celebration of the poet, Johannes Bobrowski, who was born in East Prussia. Performers are Wolfram Tessmer, baritone and Frank Gutschmidt, pianist.

The 45th Annual National Flute Association Convention will be held August 10-13, 2017 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This years convention celebrates the diversity of the NFA membership, featuring varied musical traditions from jazz to world music, Baroque flute to flute choir, low flutes to piccolo, and tried-and-true standards to world premieres. 2017 features commissioned works for the high school and young artist competitions, this year by David Froom ("Ribbons") and Laura Schwendinger ("Aurora"). Former honorees of these awards include Marilyn Bliss and Lansing McLoskey. This year will also feature a premiere of a large ensemble work by Harvey Sollberger.

NFA will be live, streaming a number of events from the 45th Annual NFA Convention right on Facebook. More than 600 works are scheduled for performance throughout the convention.

The National Flute Association is a significant national and international player in the commissioning of new works. Since commissioning its first works in the 1980s, the NFA has sheparded more than 65 new works into the musical world. Commissioned composers include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Prix de Rome, the Naumberg, Guggenheim, and many other national and international awards. They have been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Order of Canada, and other prestigious organizations. The NFA has offered opportunities for emerging composers as well as those for leading composers of the world.

Amuse Singers will be performing Jan Gilberts Thillana Tuesday, June 13 at Rutgers Presbyterian Church, 236 West 73rd Street, NYC, and Wednesday, June 14 at Church of the Heavenly Rest at Fifth Ave and 90th St. NYC. Both concerts are at 7:30pm. This program features work by contemporary composers who draw on the tonalities and rhythms of non-Western music, featuring Jan Gilbert's THILLANA, Abbie Betinis' From Behind the Caravan, and works by Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Gabriela Lena Frank, Ivan Moody, and Jaakko Mantyjarva.

Amuse is a small ensemble founded by Lee Ryder in the fall of 2003 to bring music written for womens voices to New York audiences. An often overlooked area of choral literature, this repertory comprises serious works by a wide variety of composers throughout the last twelve centuries. Writing in the New York Times, Allan Kozinn said, This choirs real magic is in its delicate balance of serenity and intensity...a pure transparent tone and solid ensemble.

Family, friends, former students, colleagues, and far-flung fans are invited to celebrate the life and music of Maine giant and Bowdoin music professor from 1963 to 2007,Elliott Schwartz.

Former students will perform diverse works from across Elliott's career. All are invited to a post-concert reception to announce the Elliott & Dorothy Schwartz Visiting Artists Fund, and ride along with a rousing performance of Elliott's oft-cited 1967 piece, Elevator Music, taking place throughout all 15 floors of the Coles Tower.

6pm concert @ Studzinski Recital Hall
... including The Facebook Chronicles, Music for Audience & Soloist, Three Inventions for Tuba & Piano, Memorabilia, and more
... withLibby Van Cleve'80,Scott Vaillancourt'91,Francis Kayali'01,Katie Cushing Butler'10,Olivia Madrid'10,Abriel Ferreira'10,Peter McLaughlin'10, andAkiva Zamcheck'11

7pm reception @ Daggett Lounge
... food, drinks, & the announcement of the Elliott & Dorothy Schwartz Visiting Artists Fund
... and Elevator Music throughout Coles Tower! The large ensemble will be playing across all 15 floors of the tower and our guest conductors/elevator operators will guide the audience through the mass of sound

Both events are free & open to the public.

Two events this week, featuring the music of ACA composer Ray Luedeke: in Toronto, Ontario, on Monday, June 5 at 7:30 pm, the Zephyr Piano Trio will perform Three Episodes from Iron John at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre as part of The Toronto Symphony's Small Concerts series; and in New York, on Thursday, June 8 at 7pm, clarinetist Julian Milkis and accordionist Alex Sevastian will perform Serenity at the Nicholas Roerich Museum 319 W 107th St, New York City.

SONODANZA: Contemporary Music meets Contemporary Dance- November 9 in Kiev, Ukraine four compositions by Richard Cameron-Wolfe

This concert, presented as part of the Ruban Production project Impulse of Transformation, features the music of Richard Cameron-Wolfe his duo Roerich Rhapsody (with dance improvisation by Olga Kebas, Luda Mova, and Viktor Ruban), micro-opera A Sound-Shroud for Bill Knott (featuring Butoh dancer Irina Avdeyeva), cantata A Measure of Love and Silence (choreography by Alina Tskhovrebova), and his chamber orchestra Reconciliation, conducted by Sergii Gorkusha (choreography by Viktor Ruban and Mariya Salo).

7:00PM at Central House of Artists, Artema ulitsa 1-5, Kiev

Tickets:
100-200 UAH.