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"Those thirty minutes number among the most intense I’ve experienced as a listener... The close-up, multiple angle and high resolution shots of the performance gave a view not even accessible to an audience member sitting in the front row.” — Elizabeth Lyon in The Hudson Review
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts
announces the extension of
LIVE FROM COLUMBIA
Pop-Ups in the Lantern
With two additional concerts
The GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet
Video Premiere: Tuesday, April 6 at 7pm
The Brooklyn-based Brazilian choro band Regional de NY
Video Premiere: Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm
Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts
Virtual & Free
Concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered on select dates at 7pm, with on-demand streaming available immediately after.
millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia
LIVE FROM COLUMBIA
Pop-Ups in the Lantern
Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts
Miller Theatre’s celebrated, fun and free Pop-Up Concerts resume, with a change of venue. Filmed live in the awe-inspiring Lantern—the top floor venue in the Lenfest Center for the Arts—Miller invites the public to take a virtual front-row seat for performances by world-class musicians. Miller brings Columbia to audiences around the world through these unique digital concert experiences showing the breadth of Miller's programming, while highlighting the iconic beauty of the campus of Columbia University.
In previous Pop-Up Concerts, audiences sat on the Miller stage and enjoyed a free drink during hour-long weeknight concerts, mingling with the musicians and fellow concertgoers after the show. While this season’s iteration features a change in setting, it offers the same up-close opportunity to experience music—virtually.
Viewers can tune in to millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia to watch and learn more.
Video premiere: Tuesday, April 6 at 7pm
Attacca Quartet
Amy Schroeder, violin; Domenic Salerni, violin
Nathan Schram, viola; Andrew Yee, cello
The GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet, praised by The Strad as “stunning” and for possessing “a musical maturity far beyond its members’ years,” returns after making their premiere at Miller last February. Passionate advocates of contemporary music, the ensemble presents a captivating program featuring the works of four living composers, anchored by Philip Glass’ String Quartet, "Mishima.”
PROGRAM:
Anne Müller: Drifting Circles (arr. Domenic Salerni) (2019)
John Adams: selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances (1994)
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima” (1985)
Flying Lotus: Suite (arr. Nathan Schram)
Video premiere: Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm
Regional de NY
Vitor Gonçalves, accordion; Kahil Nayton, cavaquinho; Cesar Garabini, 7-string guitar
Grant Ziolkowski, mandolin; Eduardo Belo, bass; Ranjan Ramchandani, percussion
The incredibly talented Brooklyn-based choro band, Regional de NY, returns to Miller’s Pop Up Concerts series to share the choro tradition of Brazilian culture—a highly energetic, improvisational music that is full of joy and deeply grooving.
Watch previous Live from Columbia:
Pop-Up Concerts on-demand
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The Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past.” They are one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment—a quartet for modern times. First prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, top prize and Listeners’ Choice award recipients of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, the ensemble has received international acclaim and become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles. They have served as The Juilliard School’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, the Quartet in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Quartet in Residence at Texas State University.
Touring extensively, the ensemble’s recent performances in the U.S. include Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival and Miller Theatre at Columbia University, The Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, among others. Internationally, they have performed at Kings Place (London), the Vertavo Haydn Festival (Oslo), Gothenburg Concert Hall (Sweden), MITO SettembreMusica (Italy), and Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao (Spain). The ensemble has also been featured in a number of filmed and streamed concerts for the Banff String Quartet Festival, Duke Performances, the Austin Chamber Music Center, and the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Their new film Plan and Elevation premiered in late 2020 at The Juilliard School.
Dedicated to presenting and recording new works, Attacca Quartet received great critical acclaim—including a 2020 GRAMMY Award—for their most recent album, Orange, featuring works by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Previous recordings include three highly praised albums with Azica Records, including a disc of Michael Ippolito’s string quartets, and the complete works for string quartet by John Adams, which was the recipient of the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial Chamber Music Award.
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Regional de NY is a traditional choro group in the style of the great Brazilian ensembles of years past and present. Since 2011, their mission has been to keep the rich musical tradition of choro alive in a contemporary U.S. context. They bring a deep love for the history of the genre together with a modern attitude towards arrangement and performance to create a style of choro that reflects our time, place, and backgrounds. Pre-COVID, they also hosted regular rodas—informal jam sessions—for an extended community of musicians, contributing to the thriving choro scene in New York City.
Columbia University School of the Arts
Columbia University School of the Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts and Writing and the Master of Arts degree in Film Studies; it also offers an interdisciplinary program in Sound Arts. The School is a thriving, diverse community of talented, visionary and committed artists from around the world and a faculty comprised of acclaimed and internationally renowned artists, film and theatre directors, writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, playwrights, producers, critics and scholars. In 2015, the School marked the 50th Anniversary of its founding. In 2017, the School opened the Lenfest Center for the Arts, a multi-arts venue designed as a hub for the presentation and creation of art across disciplines on the University’s new Manhattanville campus.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New York City and one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming. In partnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Miller is dedicated to producing and presenting unique events, with a focus on contemporary and early music, jazz, opera, and multimedia performances. Founded in 1988, Miller Theatre has helped launch the careers of myriad composers and ensembles over the years, serving as an incubator for emerging artists and a champion of those not yet well known in the United States. A four-time recipient of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, Miller Theatre continues to meet the high expectations set forth by its founders—to present innovative programs, support the development of new work, and connect creative artists with adventurous audiences.
Miller Theatre 's 2020-21 season is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature,
and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Support for contemporary music is provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
Additional support is provided by the Amphion Foundation.
For further information, press tickets, photos, and to arrange interviews,
please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/206-1450 or aleba@alebaco.com.
For photos, please contact Lauren Bailey Cognetti, lrb2113@columbia.edu
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