Fifth Inversion Concert: The Ligeti Reimagined Project
Free
- Kimberley Breilen, flute
- John Turman, French horn
Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, Fifth Inversion’s regular flutist, Lisa McCarthy and horn player, Gustavo Camacho could not attend the IDRS conference so the project continued with guest artists Kimberley Breilein on flute and John Turman on horn. We are delighted to have them join us for this concert at WWU.
György Ligeti's famous 1953 wind quintet, Six Bagatelles is an arrangement that he made for winds from his solo piano work, Musica Ricercata that he composed in 1951. Ligeti only arranged six out of the eleven original movements from his piano piece for wind quintet. Musica Ricercata is a fascinating work that represents one of the first times Ligeti steps away from writing in a traditional style. Ligeti confined himself to only certain pitch classes in each movement, with each subsequent movement having exactly one more pitch class than the last. Movement I focuses on pitch class (A) only adding a (D) for the last note of the piece and by the eleventh movement he uses 12 pitch classes.
In 2019, Fifth Inversion commissioned New York composer Adam Billings to arrange the other 5 original movements of Ligeti's Musica Ricercata for wind quintet. The project was forced to pause during the pandemic, but was recently premiered at the 2022 International Double Reed Society Convention in Boulder, Colorado.
About Kimberley Breilen, flute
Kimberley received her Bachelor’s Degree in flute performance from Boston University, having studied under such renowned artists as Doriot Anthony Dwyer and Leone Buyse. A three-time winner of the Washington State Solo Contest and former member of the Seattle Youth Orchestra, Kimberley has performed as featured soloist with the Skagit Symphony and the North Cascades Concert Band and as principal flute with the Starry Night Orchestra, the Skagit Symphony, Boston University Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Symphony and the Rome Festival Orchestra. Her company, Enchanted Flute Productions, offers exquisite chamber ensembles for corporate and private parties, weddings and celebrations as well as concert performances. Kimberley enjoys teaching students of all ages and levels, maintaining active flute studios in Oak Harbor and Burlington.
https://www.enchantedflute.com/About John Turman, French horn
John Turman joined the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2015 as Third Horn. Prior to becoming a member of the SSO, Mr. Turman was awarded the position of Principal Horn of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2015. During the 2013-2014 season, Mr. Turman performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Acting Third Horn.
In 2010, Mr. Turman was named one of the Yamaha Corporation's Young Performing Artists, and in 2013 was chosen as a finalist in the Houston Symphony's Ima Hogg International Soloist Competition. Mr. Turman was awarded second prize in the wind division of the Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition in 2015.
In addition to his solo and orchestral playing, Mr. Turman is a dedicated chamber musician. He is a founding member of the award-winning Noctua Wind Quintet, the Olympic Winds and the Southern Bells Horn Quartet. As a member of The Seattle Symphony Horns, he has performed and produced a substantial catalog of chamber music arrangements, recordings and videos along with his fantastic colleagues in the section.
Mr. Turman received his Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance from Rice University in 2015, where he studied with William VerMeulen.
https://music.washington.edu/people/john-turman