FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE MUSIQUE A LA MODE TO PRESENT AN EVENING OF MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS, FROM THE BAROQUE THROUGH THE PRESENT
Submitted by Laurie Rubin.
Laurie Rubin is a mezzo-soprano who has sung at The Kennedy Center, The White House, and Carnegie Hall. Born blind, Ms. Rubin has always advocated for people with disabilities. She serves as Director of Curriculum in PWdBC' s Summer Institute of The Performing Arts. You can visit her personal web site at http://laurie-rubin.com/.
FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “ALBEDO .12” BY MARGARET ANNE SCHEDEL
Concert to Also Feature New Music and Appearance by Renowned Composer Gabriela Lena Frank, Pieces by Rebecca Clarke, Libby Larsen, Barbara Strozzi, Shulamit Ran, and Pauline Viardot And a Performance by Baroque Ensemble Callisto Ascending
Sunday, April 13 at 7:30pm at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery NEW YORK March 10, 2008 Musique à la Mode, a new chamber music ensemble, today announced the third concert of its debut “Musique at the Bowery” season, a celebration of women composers from the baroque through the present featuring the world premiere of Margaret Anne Schedel’s “Albedo .12” for bass with gut strings and amplifyer. Schedel, a prominent composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of interactive media, will share the stage with world-renowned composer Gabriela Lena Frank, who will perform her “Cuatro Canciones Andinas” with the ensemble, and with Baroque ensemble Callisto Ascending, who will perform "L'Astratto, Voglio sì vò cantar", cantata, Op. 8 by Barbara Strozzi with authentic instruments. The concert, which also features the Musique a la Mode ensemble performing "Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale" for viola and clarinet by Rebecca Clarke, "Barn Dances" for piano, flute, and clarinet by Libby Larsen, "Soliloquy" for piano trio by Shulamit Ran, and three songs ("Hai Luli", "Havanaise", and "Les Filles de Cadix") by Pauline Viardot, will take place Sunday, April 13, 2008 at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery (131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village.) The concert begins at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $10.00, and $5.00 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/30797 or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
Musique a la Mode aims to bring music to a wide range of audiences, to keep classical music relevant to the current era, and to give the composers of the day a venue and musical palette for their new works. The “Musique at the Bowery” season began with a concert of works by Mozart and Schubert. The ensemble’s second concert, "Once Upon a Time: Stories and Poetry Told Through Music" was a fairy tale and literature inspired program including Schumann’s “Fairy Tales” and Stravinsky’s “Songs from Shakespeare,” as well as his “A Soldier's Tale,” which was performed as a staged reading with three actors. The program also featured two works by composer Adam Silverman “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” and the New York premiere of his “Duo Vert” given by the performers for whom it was commissioned.
“Our celebration of women composers truly demonstrates how Musique a la Mode hopes to achieve our mission of providing contemporary audiences with an accessible and enjoyable forum for discovering music both classical and new, while simultaneously giving voice to today’s most exciting composers,” said Edward Klorman, one of the founding members of the ensemble.
Margaret Anne Schedel’s works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her thesis, an interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is working towards a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth and McGregor Boyle. She serves as the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense and sits on the boards of the BEAM Foundation, the Electronic Music Foundation Institute, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electro Acoustic Music Organization, and Organised Sound. She can now be found at SUNY Stony Brook where she teaches in the music department and cDACT, the center for digital art, culture and technology.
Born in to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, Gabriela Lena Frank explores her multicultural heritage most ardently through her compositions. Inspired by the works of Bela Bartók and Alberto Ginastera, Frank considers herself a musical anthropologist. She has traveled extensively throughout South America and her pieces reflect and refract her studies of Latin-American folklore, incorporating poetry, mythology, and native musical styles into a western classical framework. Select recent premieres include Quijotadas (2007) by the Brentano String Quartet; Jalapeño Blues (2006) for Chanticleer based on the Spanglish poetry of renowned Chicano poet Trinidad Sánchez; Compadrazgo (2007), a double concerto for David Finckel and Wu Han with the ProMusica Orchestra; La Llorona: Tone Poem for Viola and Orchestra (2007) for the Houston Symphony with principal Wayne Brooks under the baton of Hans Graf; Dos Canciones de Cifar (2007) for baritone and piano commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation with Carnegie Hall; Ritmos Anchinos (2006) for the Silk Road Project; Cinco Danzas de Chambi (2006) for viola and piano commissioned by the Aspen Summer Music Festival; Canto de Harawi (2006) for the Da Camera Society of Houston; Manchay Tiempo (2005) for the Seattle Symphony under the baton of Jun Märkl; Inkarrí (2005) for the Kronos Quartet; Illapa: Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra (2004) for flautist Leone Buyse and the Shepherd Symphony Orchestra; and Three Latin-American Dances (2004) for the Utah Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Keith Lockhart.
Additional Information about Musique a la Mode's 2007-2008 Season is available by calling Laurie Rubin at (212) 874-1516 or emailing musiquealamode@gmail.com
Founding Members:
Hannah Shields: Hannah Shields is a young American pianist and chamber musician. She has performed in Carnegie Hall—as a soloist under the baton of Itzhak Perlman—and in such venues as Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Seattle Opera House. She was a top prize winner in the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition.
Edward Klorman: Violist Edward Klorman has performed throughout North America and Europe, including appearances at Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln Center's Wednesdays at One series, Centre d'Arts Orford (Quebec), IMS Prussia Cove (England), and Oberstdorfer Musiksommer (Germany). An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with such renowned artists as the Orion String Quartet, Ying Quartet, Claude Frank, Joseph Kalichstein, and Charles Neidich, with performances in such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Music@Menlo, Sarasota Music Festival, and Taos School of Music. He is also the founder of the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival near Rochester New York.
Laurie Rubin: Mezzo soprano Laurie Rubin has performed debut recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the White House. She performed a duet recital with world renowned mezzo soprano Frederica Von Stade, has released a recording of Lieder and American Songs with pianists Graham Johnson and David Wilkinson, and will be performing with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center this April.
Jennifer Taira: Clarinettist Jennifer Taira won first prize in the 2004 Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition, and was a soloist with the Berbank Philharmonic Orchestra. She has given recitals at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., the University of Hawaii, and Ruth Eckard Hall in Tampa Florida.
Jeffrey Worthey: Flutist Jeffrey Worthey is an active chamber musician in Boston and New York. His principal teachers include Francile Bilyeu, Judith Mendenhall, and Ransom Wilson. After completing his M.M. at the Yale School of Music, Mr. Worthey accepted an apprenticeship in flutemaking in Massachusetts. Working with some of the most respected craftsmen in the industry, Jeff has been involved in making flutes for the world's leading soloists and orchestral musicians.
