Ensemble Connect Up Close: space(s)

• Miranda Cuckson, violin
• Conor Hanick, piano
• Julia Eichten, dance

In collaboration with members of interdisciplinary group AMOC, Ensemble Connect invites audiences to an evening of close listening and engagement with sound, silence, movement, and space. Through compositions by Michael Pisaro, Jennifer Walshe, Jürg Frey, Carolyn Chen, and more, the concert explores physical awareness, attention to each other, and the spontaneity of personal and collective responses. 

Listeners are encouraged to arrive when doors open at 7pm to engage with Pisaro's space and other pieces of music.

About Ensemble Connect

Ensemble Connect is a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. This two-year fellowship program prepares extraordinary young professional classical musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Ensemble Connect offers top-quality performance opportunities, intensive professional development, and the opportunity to partner with a New York City public school throughout the fellowship.

About Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall's mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences.

About Miranda Cuckson, violin

https://www.mirandacuckson.com/

About Conor Hanick, piano

https://conorhanick.com/

About Julia Eichten, dance

Julia Eichten grew up dancing in Minnesota. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School under the directorship of Lawrence Rhodes. Upon graduation Julia received the Hector Zaraspe award in recognition of her choreography. She has shown her work around New York City, at venues ranging from, The Le Poisson Rouge to Dumbo Dance Festival and Dance Theater of Harlem, as well as choreographic residency at The Yard, in Martha’s Vineyard in 2011. She has performed professionally with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, as well as Aszure Barton & Artists. Julia is a founding member of L.A. Dance Project and she has had the pleasure to perform around the world, works by Benjamin Millepied, Merce Cunningham, Justin Peck, Martha Graham, Danielle Agami, Emanuel Gat, Sidi Larbi, Ohad Naharin, and William Forsythe. In the spring of 2015, Julia had a world premiere of her piece, O'de, in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project and Lil Buck at the Palace of Versailles. Last summer at the Joyce Theater, she showed her work, Monsieur, which The New York Times dubbed, "an elegantly clumsy solo."