7th Annual New Music Festival February 28 - March 2, 2008

California State University, Fullerton

 

INCLUSIVE VOICES: HEALING THE DIVIDE

 

Featuring inclusive programming bridging the divide between gender, culture and media.

 

Through Concerts, Listening Room, Lectures, Master Classes and Workshops with:

So Percussion

Miya Masaoka, composer/performer, sound artist

Lisa Moore, pianist from Bang on a Can

Martin Bresnick, guest composer-in-residence

International Womens Electroacoustic Listening Room Project

Bora Korkmaz & Füreya Ünal, flute/piano duo

and others

 

Pamela Madsen, director

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/pmadsen

 

 

PERFORMERS & PERFORMANCES

 

Bora Korkmaz and Füreya Ünal, flute/piano duo

8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28

The sensational Turkish duo with flutist Bora Korkmaz and pianist Füreya Ünal have performed around the world charming audiences with their beautiful blend of rhythms and melodies. Through the eloquent language of music, this duo once again joins Cal State Fullerton in the New Music Festival.

 

Miya Masaoka, composer/performer and So Percussion

8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29

Musician, composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka's varied contexts of sound, music, multi-media and nature incorporates koto and electronics stretching the language of music beyond the norm. Joining her is the "astonishing and entrancing" (Billboard) So Percussion. Energetic and thrilling, their performances have earned them the title of "one of the grooviest new groups to come along in a while. They are terrific!" (George Steel, Columbia University).

 

Lisa Moore, piano with So Percussion

8 p.m. Saturday, March 1

"Phenomenal pianist," (The Village Voice) Lisa Moore has developed a unique and unforgettable repertoire combining powerful technique with vivid theatricality creating a one-woman opera "thrilling both for its drama and dazzling pianism" (Sydney Morning Herald). With illuminating energy Moore sings, acts and plays in her "flawless" (ArtsHub) performances of "delicacy mingled with brusqueness" (New York Times).  Joining her is the "innovative" (New York Times) So Percussion that Billboard hails as "a must-hear" group!

 

CSUF University Symphony Orchestra with Jamie Laredo, violin
& pre-concert lecture with Martin Bresnick, composer-in-residence

3 p.m. Sunday, March 2 pre-concert lecture

4 p.m. Sunday, March 2 concert

"A violinist whose art goes deeper than virtuosity," (Miami Herald), Jaime Laredo has been acclaimed as one of the master musicians of our time. He has performed throughout the world and joins the University Orchestra along with the "gifted and inventive American composer"(Washington Post) Martin Bresnick in a concert of elegantly smooth style and lyrical intensity.

 

 

INCLUSIVE VOICES: HEALING THE DIVIDE

February 28 - March 2, 2008

 

Thursday, February 28

• 4 -6 p.m. Room 257 free
              Lecture/Workshop with Martin Bresnick, composer-in-residence
• 8 p.m. Recital Hall Tickets $10/$5 (with Titan Discount)
              Bora Korkmaz and Fureya Unal, Flute/piano duo from Turkey
              A program of works by Mucynski, Feld, Corigliano, Scelsi and CSUF faculty composer Ken Walicki

 

Friday, February 29

• 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Recital Hall free
              Flute/Piano Workshop with Bora Korkmaz and Füreya Ünal
• 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Meng Concert Hall free

Open Rehearsal/Workshop with Composer Martin Bresnick and Orchestra

 

• 8 p.m. Meng Concert Hall Tickets: $20/$15 (with Titan Discount)
              Miya Masaoka, composer/performer, koto and electronics and So Percussion
              The recital includes new works by Miya Masaoka for laser koto and electronics, Paul Lansky's Threads
• and Jason Treuting's Amid the Noise for percussion and video.

Saturday, March 1

• 9 a.m. -2 p.m. Recital Hall free
              International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project
              Non-stop playback of electroacoustic works by Miya Masaoka, Maggi Payne, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Kristine Burns and others
• 2 -4 p.m. Recital Hall free
              Miya Masaoka in a Lecture/Demo
              Presentation of video, digital stills, audio work, followed by a question and answer period
• 4 -6 p.m. Recital Hall free
              Lecture/Panel with Guest composers/performers
              with Miya Masaoka, Martin Bresnick and others
•  
• 8 p.m. Meng Concert Hall Tickets: $20/$15 (with Titan Discount)
              Lisa Moore with So Percussion
              The West Coast premiere of Martin Bresnick's Caprichos Enfaticos for percussion and piano and his For the Sexes for piano and video; Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin's Purple Prelude and Drumming by Steve Reich

Sunday, March 2, 2008

• 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.Minor Hall, Room 119 free
              Composer/Performer Workshop
              with Miya Masaoka, SO Percussion, Lisa Moore, Martin Bresnick
• 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Recital Hall free
              Piano Masterclass with Lisa Moore
• 3 p.m. Meng Concert Hall Free with concert ticket
              Pre-concert lecture with Martin Bresnick
• 4 p.m. Meng Concert Hall Tickets: $35/$30 (with Titan Discount)
              CSUF Symphony Orchestra Concert with Jamie Laredo, violin

This Symphonic Tales program weaves the magic of this passionate and polished Grammy award-winning violinist in Barber's brilliant and virtuosic Concerto for Violin plus Martin Bresnick"s Encore , Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony, No. 6

and works by Copland.

 

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