Talea Ensemble Presents 15th Anniversary Concert with Talea at 15 on March 16

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Talea Ensemble Presents 15th Anniversary Concert with 
Talea at 15 on March 16

  Columbia Composers Presents Talea Ensemble on April 6

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New York, NY (February XX, 2024) — Talea Ensemble – a group of bold and boundary-breaking  musicians, with a mission to champion musical creativity, cultivate curious listeners, and bring visionary new works to life – continues its 15th anniversary season with Talea at 15 on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, followed by Columbia Composers Presents Talea Ensemble on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Talea’s anniversary program celebrates 15 years of commissions, premieres, and recent works by composers with whom the ensemble continues to closely collaborate. The program features works by Hannah Kendall (Tuxedo: Between Carnival and Lent), Suzanne Farrin (Suite from Dolce La Morte), Wang Lu (November Airs), Steven Takasugi (Strange Autumn), and Georges Aperghis (Wild Romance).

The following month, Columbia Composers presents Talea Ensemble on Saturday, April 6 with works by Jessie Cox, Nina Fukuoka, Uri Kochavi, and Anna-Louise Walton.

Talea Ensemble is currently comprised of the following members: Barry Crawford and Laura Cocks (flutes), Rane Moore and Marianne Gythfeldt (clarinets), Adrian Morejon (bassoon & Executive Director), Karen Kim (violin), Hannah Levinson (viola), Chris Gross (cello), Greg Chudzik (double bass), Sam Jones (trumpet), Mike Lormand (trombone), Steven Beck and Stephen Gosling (piano), Matthew Gold (percussion), Michelle Farah (oboe), Sae Hashimoto (percussion), David Adamcyk (electronics), and James Baker (Principal Conductor).

Talea Ensemble is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Talea Ensemble's 2023-24 season projects are supported in part by the Alice M. Ditson Fund, Amphion Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, and generous donors like you. Talea Ensemble’s season is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Concert Information
Talea at 15
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music |450 W 37th St | New York, NY 10018
Tickets: $20, $10 for students / seniors
Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/written-for-talea-2024-tickets-705760477587 

Program:
Hannah Kendall - Tuxedo: Between Carnival and Lent
Suzanne Farrin - Suite from Dolce La Morte
            l’onde
            Prisoner Poems
            freddo al sole
            unico spirto
Wang Lu - November Airs
Steven Takasugi - Strange Autumn
Georges Aperghis - Wild Romance

Columbia Composers Presents Talea Ensemble
Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music |450 W 37th St | New York, NY 10018
Tickets: FREE
Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbia-composers-presents-talea-ensemble-tickets-795963166257?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl 

Program:

Program to include works by Jessie Cox, Nina Fukuoka, Uri Kochavi, and Anna-Louise Walton.

About the Talea Ensemble
Heralded as “a crucial part of the New York cultural ecosphere” by The New York Times, the Talea Ensemble’s mission is to champion musical creativity, cultivate curious listeners, and bring visionary new works to life with vibrant performances that remain in the audience’s imagination long after a concert. Recipients of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the ensemble has brought to life over 50 commissions of major new works since it since it was founded in 2008, including bold and inventive productions that span multiple genres, bringing together music and other contemporary art forms such as theater and visual art. Talea has helped introduce NYC audiences to important works of seasoned composers such as Pierre Boulez, Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Olga Neuwirth, Unsuk Chin, and Hans Abrahamsen, and has regularly commissioned composers of the following generations. 

The Talea Ensemble’s work has spanned imaginative performances, collaboration with composers, artist development projects, discussion, and reflection around music. Highlights from Talea’s most recent performance seasons have included: world premieres by Wang Lu, Tyshawn Sorey, Sarah Hennies, Natacha Diels, Anthony Cheung, Agata Zubel, Mark Applebaum, and more; a production of Georg Friedrich Haas’s concert-length Solstices in complete darkness; the US premiere of the immersive theater work Love & Diversity by Manos Tsangaris; and a performance of Julius Eastman’s Femenine in the NY Philharmonic Artist Spotlight Series. 

Festival engagements have included performances at Lincoln Center Festival, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, TIME:SPANS, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Wien Modern, Vancouver New Music, Festival Musica, and many more. The ensemble has also partnered with institutions from across disciplines, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the City of Ideas Festival in Mexico, and the Storm King Art Center. 

Talea undertakes residencies in music departments around the country to support early career composers. Residencies in the current season include the Peabody Institute, Rice University, Hunter College, Brown University, Ithaca College, and Queens College. Since 2020, Talea has targeted support to early career composers through the Talea Access Project, which includes a commissioning program and a composer recording workshop. Talea is committed to continuing to build these artist development programs in the upcoming seasons.  

Image at top of release by Beowulf Sheehan

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