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New York Viola Society Presents Garth Knox - November 19
We are very pleased to report that Garth Knox is returning to perform in NYC presented by the New York Viola Society:
NEW YORK VIOLA SOCIETY PRESENTS “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces” Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM Church of Christ and St. Stephen’s 120 West 69th Street (between Columbus and Broadway), NYC) Performers: Garth Knox (viola and viola d’amore); Beth Myers, Amelia Hollander Ames and Kirsten Swanson (violas); Lauren Radnofsky (cello) Works by Hans Werner Henze, Akira Nishimura, Garth Knox & György Ligeti
On Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m., at the Church of Christ and St. Stephen’s, 120 West 69th Street (between Columbus Avenue and Broadway), NYC, the New York Viola Society presents “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces”. World-renowned new-music specialist Garth Knox will perform solo works by Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti and Akira Nishimura, as well as works composed by Knox himself. Other performers on the program are violists Beth Myers, Amelia Hollander Ames and Kirsten Swanson; and cellist Lauren Radnofsky. General admission is $15; seniors (62 and over) $10; students $5 (NYVS members admitted free). For information, call (212) 592-7785 or visit www.nyvs.org.
The program includes Hans Werner Henze’s Serenade, Akira Nishimura’s Whirl Dance, György Ligeti’s Hora Lunga from the Viola Sonata, and, from Mr. Knox’s recent composition Viola Spaces, selections of pieces for two to four violas, Viola Spaces with Cello and Variations on Marin Marais for 4 violas.
GARTH KNOX was born in Ireland and grew up in Scotland. He studied with Fredrick Riddle at the Royal College of Music in London, where he won several prizes for viola and chamber music, thereafter playing with most of the leading groups in London in repertoires from baroque to contemporary music.
In 1983 he was invited by Pierre Boulez to become a member of the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris, where he had the chance to do much solo playing and chamber music, touring widely and playing in international festivals. In 1990 Garth Knox joined the Arditti String Quartet, working closely with and giving first performances of pieces by most of today’s leading composers, including Ligeti, Kurtág, Berio, Xenakis, Lachenmann, Cage, Feldman and Stockhausen (the famous “Helicopter Quartet”). Since leaving the quartet in 1998, Knox has given premieres by Henze (the Viola Sonata is dedicated to him), Ligeti, Schnittke, Ferneyhough, James Dillon, George Benjamin and many others.
In the past decade Garth Knox has begun to write his own music, and is much in demand for theatre, dance and film scores as well as concert pieces and instrumental works. He now lives in Paris, playing recitals, concertos and chamber music concerts all over Europe, the USA and Japan. His solo CD with works of Ligeti, Dusapin, Berio, Kurtág and others (MO 782082) won the coveted Deutsche Schallplaten Preis in Germany, and his subsequent CD “Spectral Viola” (edition zeitklang) has been highly acclaimed.
Current projects include exploring the possibilities of the viola d’amore in new music, with and without electronics, which has resulted in new works for this instrument as well as his recent CD “D’Amore” (ECM New Series 1925). Most recently he has composed “Viola Spaces” (published as Schott ED 20520), ensemble works for multiple violas and viola and cello, which can be heard on the 2009 CD “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces” (Mode 207).
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, BETH MEYERS is a founding member of the flute/viola/harp trio, “janus”, and a member of the band QQQ (viola, hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar and drums). As an orchestral violist she has played with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Beth has worked with such composers and artists as Darol Anger, Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Martin Bresnick, Helmut Lachenmann, Gregoire Maret and Meredith Monk. She has performed at such venues as The Knitting Factory, the Bowery Poetry Club and Brooklyn’s Monkeytown, and is featured on albums including Alarm Will Sound’s “Steve Reich – The Desert Music” (Cantaloupe), Clare and The Reasons “The Movie” (Frogstand) and Sufjan Stevens’ “the BQE” (Asthmatic Kitty).
KIRSTEN SWANSON graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance in 2004, and spent 2005-2007 as Assistant Principal and section violist with the Charlotte Symphony. She has also played with the North Carolina Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras. She co-founded the Atticus String Quartet, a semi-professional ensemble based in Eastern North Carolina. She has collaborated with such artists as Jon Nakamatsu, Calin Lupano, Garth Knox, and members of the Pacifica and JACK quartets. Kirsten has premiered new works by Eastman and World composers and has worked with many living composers as a member of Ossia and Musica Nova, new music ensembles at Eastman, and HGNM, the new music ensemble at Harvard.
AMELIA HOLLANDER AMES received her Masters degree at the New England Conservatory and her Bachelors in Viola Performance at the Eastman School of Music. From 2004-2007 she was the violist of the award-winning Israel Contemporary String Quartet, with whom she performed throughout Israel and in the U.S., Canada and Asia, collaborating with such composers as Josef Bardanashvili, Judd Greenstein and Steve Reich. She has performed at the IMS Prussia Cove Festival, the Singapore Arts Festival, Kneisel Hall and Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and toured Europe and Asia with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Amelia is an active freelance violist in the New York City area, and is the founder and artistic director of Con Vivo. She has recorded for the Naïve, Nonesuch and Tzadik labels.
Cellist LAUREN RADNOFSKY has performed at the Lucerne Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Joe’s Pub, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Wordless Music Series, and The Stone in New York City, and has worked with Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Garth Knox and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 with the American Composers Orchestra, in a concerto for cello and live electronics by Brad Lubman; in 2007 she appeared with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, in Kaija Saariahos Amers for cello and ensemble with electronics. Lauren is cellist and founding co-artistic director of the NYC-based new music ensemble SIGNAL, and records for John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
NEW YORK VIOLA SOCIETY PRESENTS “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces” Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM Church of Christ and St. Stephen’s 120 West 69th Street (between Columbus and Broadway), NYC) Performers: Garth Knox (viola and viola d’amore); Beth Myers, Amelia Hollander Ames and Kirsten Swanson (violas); Lauren Radnofsky (cello) Works by Hans Werner Henze, Akira Nishimura, Garth Knox & György Ligeti
On Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m., at the Church of Christ and St. Stephen’s, 120 West 69th Street (between Columbus Avenue and Broadway), NYC, the New York Viola Society presents “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces”. World-renowned new-music specialist Garth Knox will perform solo works by Hans Werner Henze, György Ligeti and Akira Nishimura, as well as works composed by Knox himself. Other performers on the program are violists Beth Myers, Amelia Hollander Ames and Kirsten Swanson; and cellist Lauren Radnofsky. General admission is $15; seniors (62 and over) $10; students $5 (NYVS members admitted free). For information, call (212) 592-7785 or visit www.nyvs.org.
The program includes Hans Werner Henze’s Serenade, Akira Nishimura’s Whirl Dance, György Ligeti’s Hora Lunga from the Viola Sonata, and, from Mr. Knox’s recent composition Viola Spaces, selections of pieces for two to four violas, Viola Spaces with Cello and Variations on Marin Marais for 4 violas.
GARTH KNOX was born in Ireland and grew up in Scotland. He studied with Fredrick Riddle at the Royal College of Music in London, where he won several prizes for viola and chamber music, thereafter playing with most of the leading groups in London in repertoires from baroque to contemporary music.
In 1983 he was invited by Pierre Boulez to become a member of the Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris, where he had the chance to do much solo playing and chamber music, touring widely and playing in international festivals. In 1990 Garth Knox joined the Arditti String Quartet, working closely with and giving first performances of pieces by most of today’s leading composers, including Ligeti, Kurtág, Berio, Xenakis, Lachenmann, Cage, Feldman and Stockhausen (the famous “Helicopter Quartet”). Since leaving the quartet in 1998, Knox has given premieres by Henze (the Viola Sonata is dedicated to him), Ligeti, Schnittke, Ferneyhough, James Dillon, George Benjamin and many others.
In the past decade Garth Knox has begun to write his own music, and is much in demand for theatre, dance and film scores as well as concert pieces and instrumental works. He now lives in Paris, playing recitals, concertos and chamber music concerts all over Europe, the USA and Japan. His solo CD with works of Ligeti, Dusapin, Berio, Kurtág and others (MO 782082) won the coveted Deutsche Schallplaten Preis in Germany, and his subsequent CD “Spectral Viola” (edition zeitklang) has been highly acclaimed.
Current projects include exploring the possibilities of the viola d’amore in new music, with and without electronics, which has resulted in new works for this instrument as well as his recent CD “D’Amore” (ECM New Series 1925). Most recently he has composed “Viola Spaces” (published as Schott ED 20520), ensemble works for multiple violas and viola and cello, which can be heard on the 2009 CD “Garth Knox – Viola Spaces” (Mode 207).
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, BETH MEYERS is a founding member of the flute/viola/harp trio, “janus”, and a member of the band QQQ (viola, hardanger fiddle, acoustic guitar and drums). As an orchestral violist she has played with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Beth has worked with such composers and artists as Darol Anger, Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Martin Bresnick, Helmut Lachenmann, Gregoire Maret and Meredith Monk. She has performed at such venues as The Knitting Factory, the Bowery Poetry Club and Brooklyn’s Monkeytown, and is featured on albums including Alarm Will Sound’s “Steve Reich – The Desert Music” (Cantaloupe), Clare and The Reasons “The Movie” (Frogstand) and Sufjan Stevens’ “the BQE” (Asthmatic Kitty).
KIRSTEN SWANSON graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance in 2004, and spent 2005-2007 as Assistant Principal and section violist with the Charlotte Symphony. She has also played with the North Carolina Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras. She co-founded the Atticus String Quartet, a semi-professional ensemble based in Eastern North Carolina. She has collaborated with such artists as Jon Nakamatsu, Calin Lupano, Garth Knox, and members of the Pacifica and JACK quartets. Kirsten has premiered new works by Eastman and World composers and has worked with many living composers as a member of Ossia and Musica Nova, new music ensembles at Eastman, and HGNM, the new music ensemble at Harvard.
AMELIA HOLLANDER AMES received her Masters degree at the New England Conservatory and her Bachelors in Viola Performance at the Eastman School of Music. From 2004-2007 she was the violist of the award-winning Israel Contemporary String Quartet, with whom she performed throughout Israel and in the U.S., Canada and Asia, collaborating with such composers as Josef Bardanashvili, Judd Greenstein and Steve Reich. She has performed at the IMS Prussia Cove Festival, the Singapore Arts Festival, Kneisel Hall and Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and toured Europe and Asia with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Amelia is an active freelance violist in the New York City area, and is the founder and artistic director of Con Vivo. She has recorded for the Naïve, Nonesuch and Tzadik labels.
Cellist LAUREN RADNOFSKY has performed at the Lucerne Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Joe’s Pub, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Wordless Music Series, and The Stone in New York City, and has worked with Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Garth Knox and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 with the American Composers Orchestra, in a concerto for cello and live electronics by Brad Lubman; in 2007 she appeared with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, in Kaija Saariahos Amers for cello and ensemble with electronics. Lauren is cellist and founding co-artistic director of the NYC-based new music ensemble SIGNAL, and records for John Zorn’s Tzadik label.
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