Queens New Music Festival 2024 Concert No. 1: RAM Players/Composers
Individual concert: $20 ($10 student) |
Festival Pass for all concerts: $60
- Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
- Aaron Wolff, cello
- Alicia "Lish" Lindsey, flute & ryuteki
- Tengku Irfan, piano
- Sabina Torosjan, violin
- Jay Sorce, guitar & electric guitar
Beata Moon — Vignettes (for electric guitar & piano; 2003-4)
Allen Schulz — Six Bagatelles for solo guitar (world premiere)
Zhihua Hu — AI & Human (for flute/ryuteki, clarinet/hichiriki, violin, & piano; 2024; world premiere)
Frances White — falling away (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, & piano; 2024; world premiere)
Xinyang Wang — Amodeo Alley (for clarinet, cello, & piano; 2017)
About Queens New Music Festival 2024: 4 days, 6 concerts, May 9-12. RAM (Random Access Music) supports and produces the creation and performance of new music through the Queens New Music Festival. This festival, which was first produced in 2012, is an annual event that brings new music front and center into Queens. Each year, RAM invites ensembles to participate and accepts concert proposals from various artists. RAM then selects and curates the proposals along with the invited ensembles to create a multi-day festival celebrating the diversity of styles and voices in new music today.
Check out all the festival concerts: https://www.ram-nyc.org/queens-new-music-festival-2024
About Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital, and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Described by The New York Times as “Brilliant... playing with refinement and flair… evoking a panache in the contemporary works…,” Mr. Piercy presents audiences to varied and exciting concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations.
Piercy's repertoire ranges from the Classical period to premieres of compositions written for him by some of the most outstanding composers of today, including Ned Rorem, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Jennifer Higdon, Fernando Otero, and Shoichi Yabuta.
http://www.thomaspiercy.com/