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April 22: The Stenberg | Cahill Duo and Percussionist Matthew Richmond Celebrate the Music of Lou Harrison in Concert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press contact (Cahill): Kira Grunenberg, Jensen Artists
kira@jensenartists.com
The Stenberg | Cahill Duo with
Percussionist Matthew Richmond
Performing the Music of Lou Harrison
Presented by Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center
L-R Sarah Cahill, Kate Stenberg, Matthew Richmond
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 7pm
Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center
120 College Street | Asheville, NC
$8 General Admission
Free for BMCM AC members Students w/ID
Tickets and more information: www.blackmountaincollege.org/
“Contemporary music fans are fortunate to have [The Stenberg | Cahill Duo, a] simultaneously authoritative and approachable pair.”
– San Francisco Classical Voice
“Cahill’s touch is perfectly in keeping with the style of the Javanese instrument.” – BBC Music Magazine on Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan
Sarah Cahill: www.sarahcahill.com | Kate Stenberg: www.katestenberg.com
Matthew Richmond: www.matthewrichmond.com
Asheville, NC –?On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 7pm, The Stenberg | Cahill Duo, pianist Sarah Cahill and violinist Kate Stenberg, along with guest percussionist Matthew Richmond, will be presented in concert by Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center. Cahill and Stenberg, longtime friends and esteemed Bay Area musicians, will collaborate with Richmond to perform a program featuring the work of Lou Harrison. The concert will be held at Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center (120 College Street).
Throughout each of their prolific performance careers, Cahill and Stenberg have both paid homage to the composer Lou Harrison through performances of his work –– live and recorded. An icon of the West Coast, Harrison is widely regarded as a composer who was ahead of his time, often pursuing sound and musical expression through unconventional means. This point of view extended beyond Harrison’s work as a composer. He was passionate about many things and advocated for widened awareness and consideration in spheres of LGBTQIA rights, environmental conservation, the universal language of Esperanto, and more.
In September 2021, Cahill released a recording of Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan through the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Recorded Archive Editions, from a performance presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 20, 2017, in honor of Harrison’s centennial. The performance was given in collaboration with Gamelan Galak Tika, under the direction of Evan Ziporyn and Jody Diamond. Stenberg’s latest recording on Other Minds Records (released September 23, 2022) features the world premiere recording of Lou Harrison’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin.
For this performance, Harrison’s music will be honored in many forms. Cahill will perform a range of Harrison's solo piano works from 1929 to 1992, including Range Song and Jig, Cembalo Sonata No. 3, two movements from the Suite, A Little Gamelon for Katherine Litz to Dance By, Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen, and Tandy's Tango. Stenberg will perform Harrison’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin, Op. 7. Together, the Cahill | Stenberg Duo will perform several movements from Harrison’s Grand Duo, and alongside Matthew Richmond, the three musicians will perform Harrison’s Varied Trio.
Of the opportunity to collaborate on a program honoring Lou Harrison, as well as the opportunity to have the performance presented by the historic Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center, Cahill says:
“It's a great honor to be presented in this series, since Black Mountain College was an important place for Lou Harrison. Kate and I are excited to play his great Varied Trio with Matthew Richmond, and we've put together a program which spans Lou's entire career, starting with his studies with Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, through his work with dancers and favorite collaborators, along with compositions his audiences at Black Mountain College might have heard.”
Sarah Cahill has long enjoyed working closely with composers, musicologists, and scholars to prepare scores for each performance. Her latest project is The Future is Female, an investigation and reframing of the piano literature featuring more than seventy compositions by women around the globe, from the Baroque to the present day. She has recorded music from the project in a critically acclaimed three-volume series for First Hand Records, with the final volume to be released on April 28, 2023. She has performed music from The Future is Female at The Barbican in London, The National Gallery of Art, Carolina Performing Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, University of Iowa, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, North Dakota Museum of Art, the EXTENSITY Concert Series’ Women Now Festival in New York, the Newport Classical Music Festival, and more. In addition, Cahill is performing as part of two concerts dedicated to the late Ingram Marshall – the first took place in October 2022 at New York Public Radio’s The Greene Space in New York, broadcast live and hosted by John Schaefer. The second will be presented by San Francisco Performances at Herbst Theatre on April 15, 2023. In addition, on April 19, Cahil joins Pamela Z, Kate Stenberg, flutist Sara Simpson, and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn for a concert featuring Z’s music at MIT. On May 20, Sarah Cahill will give the world premiere of Stargazer, a new piano concerto by Viet Cuong, with the California Symphony where Cuong is the Young American Composer-in-Residence.
About The Stenberg | Cahill Duo: The Stenberg | Cahill Duo is dedicated to promoting the American experimental tradition and expanding it through the commissioning of new work. “Contemporary music fans are fortunate to have this simultaneously authoritative and approachable pair,” writes the San Francisco Classical Voice.
The Stenberg | Cahill Duo appearances include performances at Mendocino Music Festival, San Francisco Performances PIVOT, Berkeley Chamber Performances, Cal State Fullerton New Music Festival, Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, Mills College’s Music in the Fault Zone Festival, and Other Minds New Music Séance. The duo has recently commissioned works from Pamela Z, Roscoe Mitchell, and Aaron Gervais.
Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include John Adams, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Julia Wolfe, Roscoe Mitchell, Annea Lockwood, and Ingram Marshall. Keyboard Magazine writes, “Through her inspired interpretation of works across the 20th and 21st centuries, Cahill has been instrumental in bringing to life the music of many of our greatest living composers.” She was named a 2018 Champion of New Music, awarded by the American Composers Forum (ACF). Cahill has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano and her discography includes more than twenty albums on the New Albion, CRI, New World, Tzadik, Albany, Innova, Cold Blue, Other Minds, Irritable Hedgehog, and Pinna labels.
Violinist Kate Stenberg has performed in a dozen countries worldwide and premiered over a hundred solo and chamber works. Stenberg’s recordings are available on New World Records, Sono Luminus, Newport Classics, New Albion and Other Minds Records. Her latest CD release with Other Minds Records includes a world premiere recording of Lou Harrison’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin. In 2022, Stenberg founded The Mycos Project with Irene Sazer - a collective of multi-media artists, educators and scientists whose mission is to expand climate change through the arts, ecological sciences and Indigenous practice.
About Matthew Richmond: Matthew Richmond is a percussionist, composer, recording artist, and educator who can’t stick to one genre. He appears most frequently with Like Mind Trio and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and has extensive experience in classical music, rock, funk, jazz, Latin music, and marching percussion. He contributed vibraphone and percussion to Infinity Plus One by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, which won the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album. He has also performed and/or recorded with Jonathan Scales, Steve Reich, Gordon Stout, Lizz Wright, Jeff Sipe, Billy Jonas, Kevin Spears, Kat Williams, and many others. Matthew loves musical theater, and has played more than 70 local and regional productions from Amélie to Zombie Prom. He served as music director of TheaterUNCA’s productions of Into the Woods and Marat/Sade, and for the latter he composed an original score. He has also composed and directed music for dance and drama performances by Asheville Ballet, Norte Marr, Black Swan Theatre, and The Road Company, and created the score for the feature film Flight of the Cardinal (Gaston Pictures).
About Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center: ??The Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center (BMCM AC) preserves and continues the legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College (BMC). We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs. Arts advocate Mary Holden founded BMCM AC in 1993 to celebrate the history of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in progressive interdisciplinary education and to explore its extraordinary impact on modern and contemporary art, dance, theater, music, and performance. Today, the museum remains committed to educating the public about BMC’s history and raising awareness of its extensive legacy. Our goal is to provide a gathering point for people from a variety of backgrounds to interact through art, ideas, and discourse.
For Calendar Editors:
Description: Pianist Sarah Cahill, violinist Kate Stenberg, and percussionist Matthew Richmond perform and celebrate the music of the late iconic West Coast composer Lou Harrison in a performance presented by the Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center. Longtime friends and Bay Area colleagues, Cahill and Stenberg have each paid homage to Lou Harrison through performances of his work in live and recorded presentations. Harrison is celebrated not only for his adventurous musical style but also his advocacy of many areas beyond music, including LGBTQIA rights, environmentalism, and poetry. Cahill, Stenberg, and Richmond will perform several of Harrison's works in solo and collaborative arrangements.
Short description: Pianist Sarah Cahill, violinist Kate Stenberg, and percussionist Matthew Richmond perform the music of the late West Coast composer Lou Harrison.
Concert details:
What: The Music of Lou Harrison
Featuring Pianist Sarah Cahill, Violinist Kate Stenberg, Percussionist Matthew Richmond
Presented by Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center
Program: All Music by Lou Harrison - Range-Song and Jig, Cembalo Sonata No. 3, A Little Gamelon for Katherine Litz to Teach By, Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen, selected movements of Harrison’s Suite, Tandy's Tango, Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin, Op. 7, Grand Duo, Varied Trio
When: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 7pm
Where: Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center, 120 College Street, Asheville, NC
Tickets and information: www.blackmountaincollege.org/
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