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April 1: World premiere by Jeremy Gill for Parker Quartet

March 23, 2022 | By Gail Wein
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January 25, 2022
Updated: March 7, 2022
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Jeremy Gill’s new music for the Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet is inspired by a “kaleidoscope of postmodern fairy tales”

World premiere of “Motherwhere” on April 1, Parker Quartet with New York Classical Players, Dongmin Kim, conducting 

For his new work for the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet, Jeremy Gill drew inspiration from a book described as a “kaleidoscope of postmodern fairy tales”1. Motherwhere is a concerto grosso for the Parkers and New York Classical Players, who perform the world premiere on April 1, 2022*.
 
This book, “Night School: A Reader for Grownups,” by the Hungarian author Zsófia Bán, is a volume of short stories which range from “a meditation on the Mathematics of Randomness, to a "blog opera" based on?Fidelio, to a love story found in a bottle on a Borneo beach”2. Gill was so enraptured with it that, he says, “I wanted to evoke, musically, the experience of reading her book.” He converted this literary “bag-of-tales” into 21 connected musical “bagatelles,” in a compact 24-minute work that traces the emotional thread from Motherwhere's absence (the first story) through the unexpected “Miraculous Return of Laughter” of the final story. 
 
“Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players.  
 
The performance is April 1 (W83 Auditorium in New York) at 7:30 pm. Free tickets available on New York Classical Players' website.
 
 
"I want the audience to feel – in so far as this is possible – my love and admiration for Bán’s wonderfully fun, inventive, witty, touching, thrilling book. If I managed to capture half of her infectious spirit and can translate that to the audience, this will be a great success!"
 
 
"I'm absolutely thrilled about this accidental encounter that produced Jeremy Gill's composition! It's like the clicking of two billiard balls on a global pool table. From my perspective, one of the best things has happened that I think can happen to a book or in fact, any work of art: that it inspires other artists and the work suddenly reappears, as a kind of magical metamorphosis, in another genre, another form, another "costume". Different but recognizable.
 
I love it, and I hope there will be many more such meetings of kindred spirits, including, of course, the audience. Now, more than ever, we need the power of art to bring us together."
 
Zsófia Bán, author of "Night School: A Reader for Grownups"
 

NYCP presents the world premiere
of Jeremy Gill's

Motherwhere
Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán

April 1, 2022 at 7:30 pm

W83 Auditorium
150 W 83rd St
New York, NY

Free tickets available on New York Classical Players' website

New York Classical Players
Dongmin Kim, conductor
Parker Quartet
Madeline Fayette, cello

Program

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra
JEREMY GILL: Motherwhere: Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán (premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

Recent collaborators of American composer, conductor, and pianist Jeremy Gill include conductors JoAnn Falletta, Stuart Malina, Steven Osgood, Gil Rose, and Jaap van Zweden; pianists Ching-Yun Hu, Orion Weiss, and Shai Wosner; the vocal sextet Variant 6, and the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet. Jeremy has written major works for flutist Mimi Stillman, oboist Erin Hannigan, clarinetist Chris Grymes, and pianist Peter Orth, and the Buffalo Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, and New York Classical Players have each commissioned his music since 2016. Other commissions have come from the American Opera Project, Chamber Music America, Concert Artists Guild, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Composers Forum. Jeremy has received major awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, BMI, and the League of American Orchestras.
 
Major premieres during the 2021–22 season include Corvus Mythicus, commissioned by the Dallas Symphony to celebrate the installation of Dutch artist Arie Van Selm's Crow sculpture at the Meyerson Symphony Center; Motherwhere: Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán, a New York Classical Players-commissioned concerto for string quartet and string orchestra to be premiered by the Parker Quartet and NYCP in New York City; and Winternacht, a trio for flute, viola, and harp based on a poem by Georg Trakl, featuring the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston.

 

 

 

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