June in Buffalo 2015

• Slee Sinfonietta
• Meridian Arts Ensemble
• Ensemble Signal
• New York New Music Ensemble
• Talujon Percussion Ensemble
• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

• Irvine Arditti
• Heather Buck
• Ethan Herschenfeld
• Brad Lubman

7:30 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Capriccio – Heinrich Sutermeister.
Michael Tumiel, clarinet

Scenes from a Jade Terrace: II. Memories of an Ancient Garden – Alexina Louie.
Benjamin Havey, piano

Der Kleine Harlekin – Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Pei-Lun Tsai, clarinet

Burritt Variations – Alejandro Viñao.
Max Fahland, marimba

(dys)functions for trumpet and electronics – Samuel Wells.
Samuel Wells, trumpet

Boureé – Andrew Greenwald

7:30 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

A Curtain Raiser – Jeffrey Stadelman
Figment II – Elliott Carter
Elegy – Elliott Carter
Song – Jennifer Higdon. Wayla Chambo, flute
King of Denmark – Morton Feldman
American Breserk – John Adams.
Adam Sherkin, piano

Praegustatum for James Levine – Charles Wuorinen.
Hangyu Bai, piano

Trombone Trio – Charles Wuorinen.
Benjamin Herrington, trombone

Faculty Lecture: Martin Bresnick
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

Meridian Arts Ensemble & Talujon
4:00 PM, Slee Hall, B1
Program:

Autumn Water – Shuyue Cao
The Freedom of the Moon – Lisa Eleazarian
Four Possible Coceks – Louis Goldford
Rust Belt – Elliot Gabrill
Victory over Jester Douglas – Travis Huff
Metabolic Motives- Hangrui Zhang
Beginning of Origin – Tiange Zhou

New York New Music Ensemble
7:30 PM, Slee Hall, Lippes Concert Hall
Program:

The Advancing Moment – Harvey Sollberger
Echoi – Lukas Foss
Bird as Prophet – Martin Bresnick
New York Notes – Charles Wuorinen

Faculty Lecture: Charles Wuorinen
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

Meridian Arts Ensemble & Slee Sinfonietta Soloists

4:00 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Falling Out of Time – Iddo Aharony
Perceptive Fragments – David Nguyen
Learning from the Laughing Man – Ori Talmon
Three Family Photos – Matthew Chamberlain
Chocolate Android Proton Thrust – Zane Merritt

Meridian Arts Ensemble & Talujon
7:30 PM, Slee Hall, Lippes Concert Hall
Program:

A message from the Emperor – Martin Bresnick
Canzone XXXI – David Felder
Bone Alphabet – Brian Ferneyhough
Bill Solomon, percussion

Refrains – Steven Stucky
Brass Quintet – Charles Wuorinen
Okho – Iannis Xenakis

Faculty Lecture: Steven Stucky
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

New York New Music Ensemble
4:00 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Insight II – Stephen Yip
Trio II something in somewhere another thing somewhere else – Can B. Bilir
Memos – Weijun Chen
reactivities – Andrew Maxbauer
Dark Roses – James Chu
Humayun – Timothy Pag

Performance Institute Members
7:30 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Four Movements for Two Pianos – Philip Glass.
Anna Whistler & Adam Sherkin, Piano

Piano Quartet – Steven Stucky.
with Mia Detweiler, Violin and faculty members of the Performance Institute

Piano Etudes, Book I – Roger Reynolds

Faculty Lecture: Roger Reynolds & Irvine Arditti
9:30 AM, Baird Hall

Performance Institute Members
4:00 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Emptying the Body – Fernanda Nevarro.
T J Borden, Cello

Scenes for Violin – Niki Charlafti.
Mia Detweiler, Violin

Misprision of Quod – Steven Crane.
Joe Desotelle, Percussion

Blue Sky Catastrophe – Paul Hembree
Samuel Wells, Trumpet

Irvine Arditti
7:30 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Duo for Violin and Piano – Elliot Carter
For Aaron Copland – Morton Feldman
Unsichtbare Farben – Brian Ferneyhough
Eight Whiskus – John Cage
Kokoro – Roger Reynolds

Late Night Piano Ensemble Concert
9:30 PM, B1 in Slee Hall
Program:

Five Pianos – Morton Feldman
Six Pianos – Steve Reich

Hangyu Bai, Nicholas Emmanuel, Anna Whistler, Bryndis Schilling, Ben Havey, & Adam Scherkin, Pianos

Faculty Lecture: Bernard Rands
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

Faculty Lecture: Brian Ferneyhough
3:00 PM, Baird Hall

Performance Institute Members
6:00 PM, Kleinhans Concert Hall
Program:

Scat – Augusta Read Thomas
Wayla Chambo, flute; Michael Tumiel, clarinet; Anna Whistler, piano; Christina Courtin, violin; Sarah Bish, cello; Daniel Bassin, conductor

Walcott Songs – Bernard Rands
Julia Bently, mezzo-soprano; Veronica Nettles, cello

Passion Players – Augusta Read Thomas
Wayla Chambo, flute; Michael Tumiel, clarinet; Kristen Theriault, harp; Nicholas Emmanuel, piano; Max Fahland, percussion; Christina Courtin, violin; Veronica Nettles, cello, Daniel Bassin, conductor

Capriccio – Lukas Foss
Sarah Bish, cello; Bryndis Schilling, piano

Memo 4 – Bernard Rands
Come Around – Jacob Druckman
Wayla Chambo, flute; Pei-lun Tsai, clarinet; Adam Sherkin, piano; Joe Desotelle, percussion; Mia Detweller, violin; T. J. Borden, cello; Matthew Chamberlain, Conductor

Harvey Sollberger Recital
8:00 PM, Pausa Art House
Program:

Accordion:
The Tinker Polka
Wir Fahren mit der SBB – Walter Wild
Non Ti Scordar di Me – Ernesto de Curtis
‘mbriacame – Mimmo Di Francia
Reginella – Libero Bovio & Gaetano Lama
Anema e Core – Salvatore d’Esposito & Domenico Titomanlio

Flute:
Riding the Wind II – Harvey Sollenberger
Movement I of Tetratkys – Giacinto Scelsi
Cara per te quest’anima dal’opera “Armida” di G. Rossini – Saverio Mercadente

Faculty Lecture: Augusta Read Thomas
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

Performance Institute Members
4:00 PM, Baird Hall, Rm 250
Program:

Souvenirs/Miniatures – Ryan Jesperson
Mia Detwiler, violin; Sarah Bish, cello; Nicholas Emmanuel, piano

The Journey – Ying-Ting Lin
Pei-lun Tsai, clarinet; Christina Courtin, violin; Adam Scherkin, piano

third world fable – Liliya Ugay
with T. J. Borden, cello & Liliya Ugay, piano

Music for Mad Scientist – Texu Kim

Ensemble Signal & Slee Sinfonietta
7:30 PM, Slee Hall, Lippes Concert Hall

Program:

Les Quatre Temps Cardinaux – David Felder

Faculty Lecture: Harvey Sollberger
10:00 AM, Baird Hall

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

4:00 PM, Slee Hall
Program:

On Time and the instrumental Factor – Morton Feldman
Six Poems from Neruda’s Altruas – David Felder