Talea Ensemble Celebrates Boulez Centennial with 'Dialogues & Notations: Boulez at 100' at Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew on January 24

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Talea Ensemble Celebrates Boulez Centennial with 
Dialogues & Notations: Boulez at 100 at 
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew on January 24



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January 9, 2025 (New York, NY) — In its first concert of the new year, 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 – celebrates the 100th birthday of French composer Pierre Boulez with Dialogues & Notations: Boulez at 100 on Friday, January 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew. 

The program features two works by Boulez: 12 Notations and Dialogue de l’ombre double together with works by Alyssa Regent, a Guadeloupean composer and artist working within acoustic and electroacoustic mediums; Maryanne Amacher, the American experimental composer and installation artist famed for utilizing auditory distortion products; John Cage, a kindred musical colleague to Boulez despite artistic differences of opinion; and sculptor and multimedia artist, Carol Szymanski.

Talea Ensemble’s Executive Director Adrian Morejon said, “Looking back at Pierre Boulez's time in New York and his monumental impact on our field, this program explores both his personal relationships and electroacoustic music from then and now. Considering this program's unique use of space, we're thrilled to call the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew our new performance home, and this inaugural program places music in dialogue with the space it's in.”

Talea is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Talea Ensemble's 2024-25 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’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
Dialogues & Notations: Boulez at 100
Friday, January 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew | 520 Clinton Ave | Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tickets: $20, $10 for students/seniors
Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dialogues-notations-tickets-1123312189999?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Program:
Pierre Boulez - 12 Notations 
          for solo piano
Alyssa Regent - Fortis Meam 
          for cello and electronics
Maryanne Amacher - Adjacencies 
          for 2 percussionists, from Audjoins, a Suite for Audjoined rooms
John Cage - Ryoanji 
          for oboe and percussion 
Carol Szymanski - Baudelaire (the fall: recirculation, Movement 1) 
          for trumpet and electronics 
Pierre Boulez - Dialogue de l’ombre double 
          for bassoon and electronics

Artists:
Talea Ensemble

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 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 Drew Bordeaux Photography

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