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In the final episode of our series on the Akron Symphony Chorus, we sit down with Chorus Director Chris Albanese and special guests Chuck Myricks Jr. and Jesse Ayers about There's a Stirrin' in the Water, which they co-composed in 2016. The episode includes selections of There's a Stirrin' in the Water from the November 2016 performance by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Akron Symphony Chorus, as well as a performance by the Akron Symphony Chorus in May 2021 from the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church in Akron. As a pioneering participant in Akron's Gospel Meets Symphony concerts, Chuck Myricks has had several of his compositions performed by the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Tuscarawas Philharmonic. In 2000, he was commissioned by Akron's First Night to write the new Millennium Theme Song for the city-wide celebration. His 2004 collaboration with the Ohio Ballet led to the premier of Transformation, a ballet featuring music composed by Chuck and performed by Divine Hope. He also has written a musical, The Miracle of Love, and an opera, Paul: A Musical Journey. Jesse Ayers was the winner of the inaugural American Prize for Orchestral Composition in 2011, and winner of the first Opera Kansas Zepick Modern Opera Composition Competition in 2016. Recent honors include the 2020 Governor's Award for Ohio's Outstanding Individual Artist, the 2019 Ohio Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year Commission, two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards, the 2011 Dayton Ballet “New Music for New Dance” award, a 2010 MacDowell Fellowship, and seven “Finalist” awards from the American Prize. His music has twice been selected to represent the United States at the prestigious World Music Days festival. Learn more at his website.
Eetris on RAM. Festivali ISCM World Music Days 2019 kontsert "Pikse litaania". Tallinna Kultuurikatlas esineb Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor dirigent Mikk Üleoja juhatusel.
Eetris on RAM. Festivali ISCM World Music Days 2019 kontsert "Pikse litaania". Tallinna Kultuurikatlas esineb Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor dirigent Mikk Üleoja juhatusel.
Rahvusvahelisel muusikapäeval selgusid tänavused muusikapreemiate laureaadid.
Rahvusvahelisel muusikapäeval selgusid tänavused muusikapreemiate laureaadid.
2.-10. maini toimus esmakordselt Eestis maailma nüüdismuusika suursündmus ISCM World Music Days ehk Maailma muusika päevad. "Helikaja" vaatab lõppenud festivalile tagasi ning toob eetrisse kõige värskemad kontserdimuljed. Eetris laupäeval, 11. mail kell 9 ja pühapäeva keskpäeval.
Täna õhtul kulmineerub festival World Music Days 2019 ja ühtlasi ka Eesti Muusika Päevad.
Täna õhtul kulmineerub festival World Music Days 2019 ja ühtlasi ka Eesti Muusika Päevad.
Täna õhtul kulmineerub festival World Music Days 2019 ja ühtlasi ka Eesti Muusika Päevad.
Täna õhtul kulmineerub festival World Music Days 2019 ja ühtlasi ka Eesti Muusika Päevad.
Kestab nüüdismuusika festival World Music Days 2019.
Kestab nüüdismuusika festival World Music Days 2019.
Kontserdi eel rääkis helilooja Liina Vainumetsale oma koorimuusikast.
Kontserdi eel rääkis helilooja Liina Vainumetsale oma koorimuusikast.
Kestab nüüdismuusika festival World Music Days.
Kestab nüüdismuusika festival World Music Days.
Eestis toimub üks maailma olulisemaid uue muusika festivale World Music Days.
Pühapäevasel World Music Days kontserdil "Punkt puunktid puuunktidd..." esitab Tallinna Kammerorkester dirigent Risto Joosti juhatusel nüüdismuusikat Lõuna-Koera, Slovakkia, Jaapani, Poola ja Eesti autoritelt.
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor ja dirigent Kaspars Putninš toovad World Music Days laupäevasel kontserdil "Õitsengud" esiettekandele kahe Eesti helilooja uudisteosed.
Täna õhtul toimub Estonia kontserdisaalis festivali World Music Days sümfooniakontsert "Helide mets".
Plaadifirma Frotee korraldab festivali World Music Days raames Põhjala tehases Austraalia väliseestlase Olev Muska loomingule pühendatud eriõhtu.
Eestis toimub üks maailma olulisemaid uue muusika festivale World Music Days.
Rahvusvahelise nüüdismuusika ühingu ISCM täitevkomitee liige George Kentros räägib uue muusika suursündmuse World Music Days olulisematest eesmärkidest.
Plaadifirma Frotee korraldab festivali World Music Days raames Põhjala tehases Austraalia väliseestlase Olev Muska loomingule pühendatud eriõhtu.
Täna õhtul toimub Estonia kontserdisaalis festivali World Music Days sümfooniakontsert "Helide mets".
Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor ja dirigent Kaspars Putninš toovad World Music Days laupäevasel kontserdil "Õitsengud" esiettekandele kahe Eesti helilooja uudisteosed.
Pühapäevasel World Music Days kontserdil "Punkt puunktid puuunktidd..." esitab Tallinna Kammerorkester dirigent Risto Joosti juhatusel nüüdismuusikat Lõuna-Koera, Slovakkia, Jaapani, Poola ja Eesti autoritelt.
Rahvusvahelise nüüdismuusika ühingu ISCM täitevkomitee liige George Kentros räägib uue muusika suursündmuse World Music Days olulisematest eesmärkidest.
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) holds arguably the world's most important contemporary music festival in a different city each year. Much like the Olympics, cities bid to be the host and this year it's in Vancouver. In this second program of two, we hear from Canadian composer, Jennifer Butler, Lituanian composer, Sabina Ulubeanu, young American composer, Robert J Coe, and more, all performed by Vancouver's best musicians. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Sarah Zwinklis Music Klee Wyck Woman, by Jennifer Butler Emily Carr Quartet; Marion Newman, mezzo soprano Tonight My Shadow Sinks Into the Wall, by Vytautas Germanavicius Müge Buyukcelen, violin Vox Terminus, by Frederik Gran NOW Society Ensemble; JP Carter, trumpet; Joshua Zubot, violin; Lisa Cay Miller, piano; James Meger, bass; Skye Brooks, drums Gestalt X, by Frederick Neyrinck Bozzini Quartet Freycinet, by Robert J Coe Emily Carr Quartet Cadenza lirica, by Sabina Ulubeanu Müge Buyukcelen, violin
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) holds arguably the world's most important contemporary music festival in a different city each year. Much like the Olympics, cities bid to be the host and this year it's in Vancouver. In this first program of two, we hear from Jordan Nobles, Charlotte Bray, Jocelyn Morlock, and Stefan Prins. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Sarah Zwinklis Music Skywriting, by Jordan Nobles Redshift Vertical Orchestra & Electric Guitar Orchestra At the Speed of Stillness, by Charlotte Bray Aldeburgh World Orchestra; Sir Mark Elder, conductor Lux Antiqua, by Jordan Nobles The Esoterics; Eric Banks, conductor My Name is Amanda Todd, by Jocelyn Morlock Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra; Alexander Shelley, conductor Hände Ohne Orte, by Stefan Prins Hamburg-based Decoder Ensemble; Carola Schaal, clarinets; Jonathan Shapiro, percussion; Andrej Koroliov, piano; and Sonja Lena Schmid, cello
VERONIKA KRAUSAS Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia, raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life." Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said of her chamber opera The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth “Something novel this way comes.” Performances ?include Ensemble musikFabrik (at the Darmstadt Music Festival), The Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Esprit Orchestra, The Vancouver Symphony, San Francisco Choral Artists, Alexander String Quartet, Fort Worth Opera, Motion Music, and the Penderecki String Quartet. Her work was an official selection of the US for the 2012 World Music Days in Belgium and she was the featured composer at the 2013 Céret Music Festival. She was one of the composers for The Industry’s mobile opera project Hopscotch. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has commissioned a work for 5 basses to be performed in a tent designed by artist Ana Prvacki in the fall of 2016. Krausas has music composition degrees from ?the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is currently on faculty. www.veronikakrausas.com
VERONIKA KRAUSAS Of Lithuanian heritage, composer Veronika Krausas was born in Australia, raised in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. She has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life." Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said of her chamber opera The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth “Something novel this way comes.” Performances ?include Ensemble musikFabrik (at the Darmstadt Music Festival), The Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Esprit Orchestra, The Vancouver Symphony, San Francisco Choral Artists, Alexander String Quartet, Fort Worth Opera, Motion Music, and the Penderecki String Quartet. Her work was an official selection of the US for the 2012 World Music Days in Belgium and she was the featured composer at the 2013 Céret Music Festival. She was one of the composers for The Industry’s mobile opera project Hopscotch. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has commissioned a work for 5 basses to be performed in a tent designed by artist Ana Prvacki in the fall of 2016. Krausas has music composition degrees from ?the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is currently on faculty. www.veronikakrausas.com
VERONIKA KRAUSAS The works of composer VERONIKA KRAUSAS are performed throughout Europe and North America, where she is recognized for her innovative use of dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life." Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said of her chamber opera "Something novel this way comes." Since 1998 Krausas has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events in Los Angeles that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Her chamber opera The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth, based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, was premiered at the New York Opera's VOX 2008 festival. A full production was mounted in Los Angeles in August 2010 to sold out audiences. Other productions were by Goat Hall Productions in San Francisco, Fort Worth Opera's Frontiers Festival, and New Fangled Opera in New Orleans. Her chamber orchestra work Spirals was premiered at the Darmstadt Music Festival (1996) and had a subsequent performance by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Penderecki String Quartet gave the US Premiere of midaregami, her work for string quartet and mezzo-soprano at REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles and was performed by the Opium Quartet at the Céret Music Festival. Language of the Birds, a commission for the 25th Anniversary of the San Francisco Choral Artists and the Alexander String Quartet, using text by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was premiered in 2011 in San Francisco and released on CD with Foghorn Classics. Analemma for chamber orchestra was an official selection of the US for the 2012 World Music Days in Belgium. Recent premières have included: her solo piano pieces UN-intermezzi, performed and recorded by pianist Aron Kallay with subsequent performances by Steven Vanhauwaert at the Amigos De Música de São Lourenço in Almancil Portugal, a new work for harpsichord solo l'ombre du luth (shadow of the lute) for Gloria Cheng for Piano Spheres, and a song cycle The Alchemist's Suite for bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood and Sillages for 4 double basses on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Chamber Music Series at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and a Piano Spheres commission for pianist Steven Vanhauwaert at REDCAT in June 2015. She is one of six composers involved in The Industry's new mobile opera project Hopscotch, the first mobile opera premiering in Los Angeles October 31, 2015. Of Lithuanian heritage, she was born in Australia and raised in Canada. Krausas has music composition degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at USC. She is currently a Professor in the Composition Department at the Thornton School of Music, on the advisory council of Jacaranda Music and People Inside Electronics, an associate artist with The Industry, and a pre-concert lecturer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. http://www.veronikakrausas.com/
VERONIKA KRAUSAS The works of composer VERONIKA KRAUSAS are performed throughout Europe and North America, where she is recognized for her innovative use of dance, acrobatics and video. The Globe & Mail (Toronto) writes "her works, whose organic, lyrical sense of storytelling are supported by a rigid formal elegance, give her audiences a sense that nature's frozen objects are springing to life." Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times said of her chamber opera "Something novel this way comes." Since 1998 Krausas has directed, composed for, and produced multi-media events in Los Angeles that incorporate her works with dance, acrobatics and video. Her chamber opera The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth, based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, was premiered at the New York Opera's VOX 2008 festival. A full production was mounted in Los Angeles in August 2010 to sold out audiences. Other productions were by Goat Hall Productions in San Francisco, Fort Worth Opera's Frontiers Festival, and New Fangled Opera in New Orleans. Her chamber orchestra work Spirals was premiered at the Darmstadt Music Festival (1996) and had a subsequent performance by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The Penderecki String Quartet gave the US Premiere of midaregami, her work for string quartet and mezzo-soprano at REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles and was performed by the Opium Quartet at the Céret Music Festival. Language of the Birds, a commission for the 25th Anniversary of the San Francisco Choral Artists and the Alexander String Quartet, using text by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was premiered in 2011 in San Francisco and released on CD with Foghorn Classics. Analemma for chamber orchestra was an official selection of the US for the 2012 World Music Days in Belgium. Recent premières have included: her solo piano pieces UN-intermezzi, performed and recorded by pianist Aron Kallay with subsequent performances by Steven Vanhauwaert at the Amigos De Música de São Lourenço in Almancil Portugal, a new work for harpsichord solo l'ombre du luth (shadow of the lute) for Gloria Cheng for Piano Spheres, and a song cycle The Alchemist's Suite for bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood and Sillages for 4 double basses on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Chamber Music Series at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and a Piano Spheres commission for pianist Steven Vanhauwaert at REDCAT in June 2015. She is one of six composers involved in The Industry's new mobile opera project Hopscotch, the first mobile opera premiering in Los Angeles October 31, 2015. Of Lithuanian heritage, she was born in Australia and raised in Canada. Krausas has music composition degrees from the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal, and a doctorate from the Thornton School of Music at USC. She is currently a Professor in the Composition Department at the Thornton School of Music, on the advisory council of Jacaranda Music and People Inside Electronics, an associate artist with The Industry, and a pre-concert lecturer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. http://www.veronikakrausas.com/
We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to Wrocław, Poland to attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant cultural mecca. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters Krzysztof Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen, V (excerpt) London Symphony Orchestra/Penderecki; Anne-Sophie Mutter, v. Witold Lutosławski, arr. Marta Ptaszynska: Paganini Variations Safru Duo and Slovak Piano Duo Hanna Kulenty: Breathe for String Orchestra Wrocław Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra/Ernst Kovacic Mateusz Ryczek: 28 Days of Moon Ensemble Kwartludium Marta Ptaszynska: La Novella d'Inverno (Winter's Tale) for Strings Polish Chamber Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk Zygmunt Krause: Fête galante et Pastorale (excerpt) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Jacek Rogala; Music Workshop Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to Wrocław, Poland to attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant cultural mecca. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters Jacek Sotomski: beautiful to me. ah (excerpt) NFOM Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum/Ernst Kovacic; Rafał Łuc, accord.; Jacek Sotomski, live electronics Agata Zubel: Not I (excerpt) Klangforum Wien/Clement Power Michał Moc: stuntmen's relay AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of Tychy/Marek Moś Paweł Hendrich: Emergon αβ (excerpts) Ensemble Musikfabrik/Masson Zygmunt Krauze: Piano Concerto No. 1 (excerpt) Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Wojciech Michniewski; Krauze, p. Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.