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World Premiere of Judith Shatin’s Being in Time for Wind Ensemble, Electronics and Video on April 26 at University of Virginia in Charlottesville
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
The World Premiere of Judith Shatin’s Being in Time for wind ensemble, electronics and video will be performed on Sunday, April 26 – 3:30 PM, by the University of Virginia Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. William Pease at Old Cabell Hall on the campus of University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This is presented as part of the ensemble’s Spring concert, Jefferson: Past, Present, and Future.
The composer writes, “Being in Time, scored for wind ensemble, conductor-controlled electronics and interactive video, plays with our experience of flow, in music, in visuals, in time. Supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant for the Arts from the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia, the piece combines interactive technologies: a kinect controller reads the conductor’s gestures to play and shape the electronic sound; activity level, amplitude and frequency bands collected from two microphones control the visual elements. In order to make it accessible to many kinds of wind ensembles, the piece can also be performed without the interactive elements, with either a DVD for playback, or just a CD, with the electronic sounds.” Read her complete notes at http://judithshatin.com/being-in-time-3/.
This concert will range from the historical, with the Festival Overture by Dudley Buck, who wrote the piece in 1879 to celebrate Independence Day, to the present with the Shatin work, and will also feature Tulsa, a composition for band written in 1950, and other newer works for wind ensemble. More about the event at http://music.virginia.edu/wind-2015.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free for UVA Students who reserve at least 24 hours in advance. Tickets can be reserved through the UVA Arts Box Office by visiting http://www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu or calling 434-924-3376.
Called “highly inventive...hugely enjoyable and deeply involving” by the Washington Post and "exuberant and captivating" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Virginia, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her chamber and choral music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals throughout North America and Europe. She has been commissioned by organizations and ensembles including the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Kronos Quartet, Library of Congress, National Symphony, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus and the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus.
Innova Records has issued Time to Burn, with a combination of Shatin’s chamber and electroacoustic music performed by the Cassatt Quartet, violist James Dunham, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and others. Her music can also be heard on the Ravello, Etcetera, Capstone, Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
For press inquiries about Judith Shatin, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
The World Premiere of Judith Shatin’s Being in Time for wind ensemble, electronics and video will be performed on Sunday, April 26 – 3:30 PM, by the University of Virginia Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. William Pease at Old Cabell Hall on the campus of University of Virginia in Charlottesville. This is presented as part of the ensemble’s Spring concert, Jefferson: Past, Present, and Future.
The composer writes, “Being in Time, scored for wind ensemble, conductor-controlled electronics and interactive video, plays with our experience of flow, in music, in visuals, in time. Supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant for the Arts from the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia, the piece combines interactive technologies: a kinect controller reads the conductor’s gestures to play and shape the electronic sound; activity level, amplitude and frequency bands collected from two microphones control the visual elements. In order to make it accessible to many kinds of wind ensembles, the piece can also be performed without the interactive elements, with either a DVD for playback, or just a CD, with the electronic sounds.” Read her complete notes at http://judithshatin.com/being-in-time-3/.
This concert will range from the historical, with the Festival Overture by Dudley Buck, who wrote the piece in 1879 to celebrate Independence Day, to the present with the Shatin work, and will also feature Tulsa, a composition for band written in 1950, and other newer works for wind ensemble. More about the event at http://music.virginia.edu/wind-2015.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free for UVA Students who reserve at least 24 hours in advance. Tickets can be reserved through the UVA Arts Box Office by visiting http://www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu or calling 434-924-3376.
Called “highly inventive...hugely enjoyable and deeply involving” by the Washington Post and "exuberant and captivating" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music is renowned for its dramatic shape and imaginative blending of acoustic and digital media, as well as her work in each. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Virginia, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Her chamber and choral music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals throughout North America and Europe. She has been commissioned by organizations and ensembles including the Barlow Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Kronos Quartet, Library of Congress, National Symphony, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus and the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus.
Innova Records has issued Time to Burn, with a combination of Shatin’s chamber and electroacoustic music performed by the Cassatt Quartet, violist James Dunham, pianist Margaret Kampmeier and others. Her music can also be heard on the Ravello, Etcetera, Capstone, Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
For press inquiries about Judith Shatin, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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