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North/South's Season Finale -- Tuesday June 22 at 8 PM!
North/South Consonance, Inc. concludes its 30th consecutive season of free admission concerts with a special program featuring New York premieres of chamber orchestra works by Vera Ivanova, Francis Kayali, Veronika Krausas and Massimo Luaricella.
The event will take place on Tuesday June 22 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free – no tickets necessary.
Russian-born Vera Ivanova studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before earning a Ph.D. in Composition from the Eastman School of Music. She now serves as Assistant Professor of Music in the Conservatory of Music at Chapman University in Southern California. Her Still Images for 15 performers is a single movement composition that "explores the junction and disjunction of static musical parameters with more agile and directional gestures."
Born in Poitiers, France in 1979, Francis Kayali grew up in the French village of La Maucarrière and has resided in the US since 1997. He studied at Bowdoin College, SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. His mentors included among others, Elliott Schwartz, Peter Winkler Frank Ticheli, and Donald Crockett. In the manner of a mirage, his five-movement Croquis du Nil for 14 instruments combines musical elements derived from various cultures including Egypt, Eastern Europe and the US.
Originally from Australia but raised in Canada Veronika Judita Krausas studied of the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she received the outstanding 2001 DMA in Composition award. The Toronto Globe and Mail stated that "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." Based on the sutartine (the Lithuanian folk bi-modal singing style) Krausas' analemma for 11 instruments is about the same musical ideas seen from different angles or in differing situations. Just as the sun’s analemma results from slightly different positions in the sky, this work presents 3 musical ideas in differing lengths, situations or combinations.
Active as composer and conductor Massimo Lauricella (b. 1961; Genoa , Italy ) was educated at the Paganini Conservatory under the tutelage of his father, the late Sergio Lauricella (1921-2008). His works have earned many pretigious awards including the 1986 Valentino Buchi Prize; the 1990 Cologne Forum Prize; and the 1992 International Contest of Warsaw prize and a Fromm Foundation fellowship. Le immagini nascoste (The Concealed Images) was jointly commissioned in 2008 by the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, the University of Michigan and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The work employs a large mixed ensemble comprising winds, brass, percussion, harp, piano, and strings. Lauricella uses many avant-garde devices and playing techniques including clusters, poly-meters, and controlled aleatory. Yet he also reconnects with musical impressionism.
The composers will be on hand to introduce their works and meet with the audience during intermission and after the concert. All participants in the event are available to the press for interviews and may be contacted through our office at ns.concerts@att.net
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season was made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University , the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 and the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music. Contributions by many generous individuals are gratefully acknowledged.
To stream and/or download the more than fifty albums comprised in North/South Recordings catalogue please visit
http://www.classicsonline.com/North_South_Recordings/
The event will take place on Tuesday June 22 at 8 PM at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in Manhattan. Admission is free – no tickets necessary.
Russian-born Vera Ivanova studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before earning a Ph.D. in Composition from the Eastman School of Music. She now serves as Assistant Professor of Music in the Conservatory of Music at Chapman University in Southern California. Her Still Images for 15 performers is a single movement composition that "explores the junction and disjunction of static musical parameters with more agile and directional gestures."
Born in Poitiers, France in 1979, Francis Kayali grew up in the French village of La Maucarrière and has resided in the US since 1997. He studied at Bowdoin College, SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. His mentors included among others, Elliott Schwartz, Peter Winkler Frank Ticheli, and Donald Crockett. In the manner of a mirage, his five-movement Croquis du Nil for 14 instruments combines musical elements derived from various cultures including Egypt, Eastern Europe and the US.
Originally from Australia but raised in Canada Veronika Judita Krausas studied of the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto, McGill University in Montreal and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she received the outstanding 2001 DMA in Composition award. The Toronto Globe and Mail stated that "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." Based on the sutartine (the Lithuanian folk bi-modal singing style) Krausas' analemma for 11 instruments is about the same musical ideas seen from different angles or in differing situations. Just as the sun’s analemma results from slightly different positions in the sky, this work presents 3 musical ideas in differing lengths, situations or combinations.
Active as composer and conductor Massimo Lauricella (b. 1961; Genoa , Italy ) was educated at the Paganini Conservatory under the tutelage of his father, the late Sergio Lauricella (1921-2008). His works have earned many pretigious awards including the 1986 Valentino Buchi Prize; the 1990 Cologne Forum Prize; and the 1992 International Contest of Warsaw prize and a Fromm Foundation fellowship. Le immagini nascoste (The Concealed Images) was jointly commissioned in 2008 by the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, the University of Michigan and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The work employs a large mixed ensemble comprising winds, brass, percussion, harp, piano, and strings. Lauricella uses many avant-garde devices and playing techniques including clusters, poly-meters, and controlled aleatory. Yet he also reconnects with musical impressionism.
The composers will be on hand to introduce their works and meet with the audience during intermission and after the concert. All participants in the event are available to the press for interviews and may be contacted through our office at ns.concerts@att.net
North/South Consonance’s 2009-10 season was made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University , the Music Performance Funds of Local 802 and the Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music. Contributions by many generous individuals are gratefully acknowledged.
To stream and/or download the more than fifty albums comprised in North/South Recordings catalogue please visit
http://www.classicsonline.com/North_South_Recordings/
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