Composers Concordance: Cycles & Songs
$20 in advance, $30 at the door
- Melanie Mitrano, voice
- Michelle Shocked, voice
- Maria Tegzes, voice
- Adriana Valdés, voice
- Geoffrey Burleson, piano
- Kathleen Supové, piano
- Christopher Vassiliades, piano
- Steve Sandberg, piano
Gene Pritsker — Poet's Songs
Geoffrey Burleson / Maria Tegzes — Come in from the Edge
Charles Coleman — Searching for Solace
Christopher Vassiliades — Evangeline – A Tale of Acadie (Prelude)
Dan Cooper — Selected works
Steve Sandberg — Selected works
Michelle Shocked — Selected works
Kathleen Supové — Selected works
On Saturday, November 11th, 2023 at The Tenri Cultural Institute, Composers Concordance presents "Cycles & Songs," a concert featuring four new song cycles and five new piano solos, performed by vocalists Michelle Shocked, Melanie Mitrano, Maria Tegzes, and Adriana Valdes; and pianists Geoffrey Burleson, Steve Sandberg, Kathleen Supové, and Christopher Vassiliades.
Featured song cycles include Melanie Mitrano's Adverse Childhood Experiences, Poet's Songs by Gene Pritsker, and Come in from the Edge by Maria Tegzes and Geoffrey Burleson. Searching for Solace by Charles Coleman and the Prélude to Evangeline – A Tale of Acadie by Christopher Vassiliades are the featured piano solos.
About Composers Concordance
Staying in rotation for 40 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene.
Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead.
Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Peter Jarvis. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
http://www.composersconcordance.comAbout Melanie Mitrano, voice
About Michelle Shocked, voice
About Maria Tegzes, voice
About Adriana Valdés, voice
Cuban born Adriana Valdés Santibáñez, studied violin at Manuel Saumell in Cuba, and majored in Voice at the Escuela Superior de Música (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, INBA) in Mexico City. Adriana has been a Soloist Soprano in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras.
She is the Winner of four National Competition Prizes in Mexico: First Place and The Roberta Peters Prize by Opera de San Miguel, and Second Prize and First Zarzuela Prize by Contest Carlo Morelli in Mexico.
https://www.adrianavaldessoprano.com/About Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Geoffrey Burleson has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant” and “compelling,” and has praised his “command, projection of rhapsodic qualities without loss of rhythmic vigor, and appropriate sense of spontaneity and fetching colors.” The Boston Globe refers to Mr. Burleson as a “remarkable pianist” and “a first-class instrumental presence” whose performances are “outright thrilling.”
https://geoffreyburleson.com/About Kathleen Supové, piano
In May 2012, Kathleen Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Kathleen Supové is one of America’s most acclaimed and versatile new music pianists, continually redefining the pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today’s world. Ms. Supové presents solo concerts under the moniker THE EXPLODING PIANO. A striking presence onstage, she has performed with computers, boxing gloves, robots, and laptop orchestra.
Recent projects include two solo CDs: "The Debussy Effect," on New Focus Recordings (La Barbara-Clark-Marks-Felsenfeld-Woolf-Gosfield-Cooper), the result of a multi-composer commissioning project; and "Eye to Ivory" (Childs-Woolf-Barash-Didkovsky-Naphtali), with vocalizing, extended techniques, Yamaha Disklavier, and noise-based effects.
http://www.supove.com/