Maverick Offspring
$15 suggested donation at the door ($12 seniors/children; ages 7 & under free)
- Tessa Brinckman, flute
- Stephanie Griffin, viola
- Kathleen Supové, piano
Pierre Auclert — Trio for flute, alto, and piano
Stephanie Griffin — For Joni (world premiere)
Claude Debussy — Trois Chansons de Bilitis (selected movements, with poetry by Adrienne Rich, Diana Goetsch, Audre Lorde)
Andile Khumalo — Zeuze
Tessa Brinckman / Andile Khumalo — Wade Through Water
Kathleen Supové — Nautical Twilight
Zack Browning — Hakka Fusion
Maverick Offspring makes their ensemble debut with sultry, ephemeral groove music from past and present.
The program features selections from Claude Debussy's famed Chansons De Bilitis paired with queer poetry of Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Diana Goetsch; Pierre Auclert's evocations of fin de siècle Paris; Andile Khumalo's spectralist celebrations of South Africa; Chen Yi's night musings; and Zack Browning rocking us right out the door!
Compositions by the members of the trio include the world premiere of Stephanie Griffin's For Joni, and Kathleen Supové's dramatic solo piece Nautical Twilight.
About Tessa Brinckman, flute
About Stephanie Griffin, viola
Stephanie Griffin is an innovative violist and composer with an eclectic musical vision. Born in Canada and based in New York City, her musical adventures have taken her to Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Mongolia. Stephanie founded the Momenta Quartet in 2004, and is a member of the Argento Chamber Ensemble and Continuum; principal violist of the Princeton Symphony; and viola faculty at Hunter College. She was a 2019 Composition Fellow at the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and has received prestigious composition fellowships and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts. As an improviser she has performed with Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Butch Morris and Adam Rudolph, among others, and was a 2014 Fellow and 2021 Alumna-in-Residence at Music Omi. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Samuel Rhodes, and has recorded for Tzadik, Innova, Naxos, Aeon, New World and Albany records. Since August 2020, she has served as the Executive Director of ACMP, a nonprofit organization providing grants and services for amateur chamber music worldwide.
https://www.stephaniegriffinviola.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/