EJF: Music of Benjamin Marx, accompanied by Rose Bellini (cello), Erin Wight (viola), & Erin Jorgensen (marimba)
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- Rose Bellini, cello
- Erin Wight, viola
Close out the fest with cupcakes, drinks, and intimate acoustic music! "Drones are coolest when they deviate like 8 cents in either direction over long periods of time. Everything is in motion and nothing is real. Institutional funding never made anything better. Delete your internet and call your family." – composer Ben Marx ftw
Benjamin Marx is an American composer, producer, and songwriter. His work focuses on that which is quiet and repetitive. His latest chamber work, feynman diagrams for percussion, synthesizer and samples, premiered at Octave 9 in May of 2023, under the auspices of the Seattle Symphony, and his debut record of contemporary chamber music, anxious pangs, debuted on KEXP's Pacific Notions in 2019.
This performance is part of EJF, a weeklong mini-festival chock-full of music, mini-classes, films, and more. EJF is all-day, all-ages.
Please check out the full schedule for more sessions and descriptions.
About Rose Bellini, cello
About Erin Wight, viola
Violist Erin Wight, a Midwestern transplant to New York City, is an active chamber musician and avid performer of new music. Described by the NY Times as “engrossing” and “surehanded,” she performs frequently as a member of the Red Light New Music Ensemble and Either/Or, has played with Talea, Signal, the Wordless Music Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Axiom, the Juilliard Electric Ensemble, FiRE, and worked closely with members of the Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain. In addition, Ms. Wight is a founding member of the Toomai String Quintet, 2007 winners of the 92nd St. Y’s Music Unlocked! competition for emerging ensembles dedicated to educational outreach. Ms. Wight is deeply committed to community engagement and is on the teaching artist faculty of the New York Philharmonic’s School Partnership Program and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Wight completed her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School where she studied with Paul Neubauer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-wight-8b98a2149/