TIME:SPANS Festival: Talea Ensemble – Enno Poppe
$20 ($10 senior/student)
- Barry Crawford, flute
- Jessica Schmitz, flute
- Michelle Farah, oboe
- Rane Moore, clarinet
- Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
- Erin Rogers, saxophone
- Adrian Morejon, bassoon
- Nicolee Kuester, French horn
- Sam Jones, trumpet
- Mike Lormand, trombone
- Alexander Lipowski, percussion
- Bill Solomon, percussion
- Nuiko Wadden, harp
- Steven Beck, piano
- William "Bill" Schimmel, accordion
- Karen Kim, violin
- Johnna Wu, violin
- Leah Asher, viola
- Josh Henderson, viola
- Christopher Gross, cello
- Greg Chudzik, double bass
- James Baker, conductor
About Talea Ensemble
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. Recipient of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the New York based Talea Ensemble has premiered more than 45 commissions since it was founded in 2008. Festival engagements have included performances at Lincoln Center Festival, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Resonant Bodies Festival, TIME:SPANS, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Time of Music Finland, Wien Modern, Vancouver New Music, Festival Musica, and many more. The ensemble has also partnered with institutions across disciplines, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the City of Ideas Festival in Mexico, and the Storm King Art Center, and has undertaken residencies in music departments around the country to support a new generation of musicians.
http://taleaensemble.org/About Barry Crawford, flute
https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/school-music/music/faculty/Barry-Crawford
About Jessica Schmitz, flute
About Rane Moore, clarinet
About Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt has played a central role in the music scene of New York City for three decades, as a chamber ensemble player, an electroacoustic music soloist, and educator.
Winning the Naumburg chamber music award with New Millennium Ensemble in 1995 launched a wide-ranging career as clarinetist with Ensemble Sospeso, SEM ensemble, Absolute Ensemble, Collide-o-scope Music, Da Capo Chamber Players, Zephyros Winds, and Talea Ensemble.
Ms. Gythfeldt’s recent solo CD release on the New Focus label was called “…stunning, Gythfeldt is setting a new standard for her instrument here.” Marianne can also be heard on recordings by CBS Masterworks, CRI, Albany, Innova, New World Records, Koch and Mode Records.
https://www.mariannegythfeldt.com/About Erin Rogers, saxophone
About Adrian Morejon, bassoon
About Nicolee Kuester, French horn
About Sam Jones, trumpet
About Mike Lormand, trombone
About Alexander Lipowski, percussion
https://promusicahebraica.org/our-concert-series/musicians/alexander-lipowski/
About Bill Solomon, percussion
About Nuiko Wadden, harp
About Steven Beck, piano
A New York concert by pianist Steven Beck was described as "exemplary" and "deeply satisfying" by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin, and Bruce Brubaker.
Mr. Beck made his concerto debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. His annual Christmas Eve performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations at Bargemusic has become a New York institution. He has also performed as soloist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and Miller Theater, as well as on WNYC, and summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. He has performed as a musician with the New York City Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and as an orchestral musician he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and Orpheus.
Mr. Beck is an experienced performer of new music, having worked with Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, Charles Wuorinen, George Crumb, George Perle, and Fred Lerdahl. He is a member of the Knights, the Talea Ensemble, Quattro Mani, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. His discography includes George Walker’s piano sonatas on Bridge Records, and Elliott Carter’s Double Concerto on Albany Records. He is a Steinway Artist, and is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as the Colorado College Summer Music Festival and the Sewanee Music Center.
https://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/steven-beckAbout William "Bill" Schimmel, accordion
About Karen Kim, violin
Grammy Award-winning violinist Karen Kim is widely hailed for her sensitive musicianship and passionate commitment to chamber and contemporary music. Her performances have been described as "compellingly structured and intimately detailed" (Cleveland Classical), "muscular and gripping" (New York Classical Review), and having "a clarity that felt personal, even warmly sincere" (The New York Times). She has performed in such prestigious venues and series as Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and Zankel and Weill Recital Halls; the Celebrity Series of Boston; the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; the Vienna Musikverein; London’s Wigmore Hall; the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; the Seoul Arts Center; and Angel Place in Sydney, Australia. She received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2011 for her recordings of the complete quartets of György Ligeti.
Esteemed for her versatility across a broad spectrum of musical idioms and artistic disciplines, Ms. Kim has collaborated with artists ranging from Kim Kashkashian, Jörg Widmann, and Shai Wosner to Questlove & The Roots and the James Sewell Ballet. She is a member of the Jasper String Quartet, winners of Chamber Music America's prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award and the Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians. She is also a member of the critically acclaimed Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Échappé, and Deviant Septet, and she is a founding member of the "forward-looking, expert ensemble" Third Sound (The New Yorker).
Ms. Kim received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Violin Performance, as well as a Master's degree in Chamber Music from the New England Conservatory, where she worked with Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Roger Tapping, Paul Katz, and Dominique Eade. She is a supporter of the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
http://www.jasperquartet.com/karenkimAbout Leah Asher, viola
About Josh Henderson, viola
About Christopher Gross, cello
Christopher Gross earns his living as a piano technician but is also an active performer, playing guitar in the rhythm section of North South Jazz swing band; in a couple different rock-n-roll bands; and in a vaudevillian-style show band known as The Fremont Philharmonic, directed by Kiki Hood, which participates in The Moisture Festival each summer. As a former member of the Northwest Chamber Chorus under the direction of Joan Conlon, Chris most recently soloed in "He Is An Englishman" (from H.M.S. Pinafore) in an NWCC reunion concert, "Topsy Turvy," a Gilbert & Sullivan revue. Chris is also a jazz composer: in 1999 The Christopher Gross Ensemble, a jazz fusion band, released two CDs (Hit the Mark and The Hidden Tiger).
https://www.facebook.com/christopher.gross.908/About Greg Chudzik, double bass
About James Baker, conductor
James Baker is principal percussionist of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. He is music director and conductor of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College and director of the Percussion Ensemble at the Mannes College of Music. Mr. Baker was the conductor of the New York New Music Ensemble and is conductor of the Talea Ensemble.
As instrumentalist or conductor, he has premiered music by many of the great composers of the 20th and 21st centuries including Boulez, Cage, Carter, Messiaen, Dillon, Harvey, Wourinen, Davidovsky, Glass, Aperghis, Reynolds, Henze, Crumb, Babbitt, Neuwirth, Furrer, and many, many others, often working closely with the composers.
Through his work with his groups at conferences, universities, and festivals, he is an advocate for the music of a whole new generation of composers from around the world, premiering hundreds of new works. Mr. Baker was a conductor of Broadway shows for many years, conducting "The King and I," "The Sound of Music," "The Music Man," "Oklahoma," "An Inspector Calls," and "La Boheme," among others.
An active composer of electro-acoustic music, Mr. Baker won a Bessie award for composition for dance. He has written extensively for the theater and for various ensembles with electronics and has written a number of pieces for longtime collaborator/choreographer Tere O'Connor. Recent commissions include the Opera Ballet de Lyon, BAM Next Wave, The Dublin Dance Festival, and the Abbey Theater in Dublin.
As a percussionist he appears often with Orpheus, was a member of the American Composers Orchestra and the Eos Orchestra, and has played with the New York Philharmonic, the Paris Opera Orchestra, and the Royal Danish and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, among others.
https://www.newschool.edu/mannes/faculty/james-baker/Mary Flagler Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th StNew York, NY 10018
United States