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
Kathleen Supové is an American pianist specializing in modern classical music. She has premiered the works of hundreds of composers on her Exploding Piano series. Her recitals involve recitation, costume, theatrical elements such as lighting, and sets. Kathleen's intention is to augment and extend the piano recital, and to borrow from contemporary theater, film. and dance to create a new context for modern classical music. She also performs works that extend the sonic world of the piano recital, by. using electronics both live and pre-recorded, preparation of the piano, robotics, the Mugic device, and virtual reality. As Anthony Tommasini said in The New York Times: "What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the. piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed." She has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Bang On A Can Long Play, Either/Or, Composers Concordance, Composers' Collaborative, Inc., and at many other venues, ranging from concert halls such as Carnegie to theatrical spaces such as The Kitchen to clubs such as The Knitting Factory and The Cutting Room. Frequent collaborators are violinist Jennifer Choi, composer/sound artist Guy Barash, flutist Tessa. Brinckman. She is also the keyboard player for Nick Didkovsky's band Dr. Nerve. She has collaborated with musicians from other realms such as. techno artist Jeff Mills and American roots poet-songwriter Michelle Shocked. In addition to being a performing pianist, Supové has also curated music series' for the Flea Theater and The Center For Fiction. As a composer, she has received two NYSCA Grants and commissions from Bargemusic, The Illustrated Pianist project, New Music New College, the. Henry Cowell celebration project, and several others.
http://www.supove.com/