NOISE: soundON Festival of Modern Music 2008




NOISE c/o San Diego New Music PMB 316 9700 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-5010 (858) 232-3388 sdnm@yahoo.com musical excerpt: Illuminaciones, by Juan Campoverde Q. photos by Supeena Insee Adler
		Presented by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library and San Diego New Music June 19-21, 2008 The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library 1008 Wall St., La Jolla, California downloadable festival program (2 MB pdf)

		San Diego’s homegrown new music festival returns with high-caliber performances of the most challenging and innovative new music being written by young composers today. During the three-day festival, NOISE and guest artists will perform concerts, including daytime and outdoor events, conduct open rehearsals with resident composers, present a panel discussions with composers and performers, and lead an exploratory community workshop in the performance of music with the sounds of everyday life. Composers in attendance at the festival, whose works will be featured in performance include Juan Campoverde Q. (Ecuador / U.S.), Ingrid Stolzel (Germany / U.S.), Nathan Brock (U.S.), Madelyn Byrne (U.S.), Steve Hoey (U.S.), Eric Simonson (U.S.) and NOISE composer-in-residence Christopher Adler (U.S.). NOISE will be joined by the internationally-acclaimed new music interpreter Mark Menzies (violin), Ashley Walters (cello), Kathryn Pisaro (oboe), and Robert Zelickman (clarinet). The members of NOISE are Colin McAllister, one of America’s leading contemporary music guitarists, Lisa Cella, a flutist heralded internationally for commissioning new works and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Morris Palter, an internationally acclaimed percussionist and former member of red fish blue fish, and Christopher Adler, an innovative cross-cultural composer and pianist and Associate Professor at the University of San Diego.
		Thursday, June 19 12:00 - 1:00 pm NOISE in the Street Cutting edge music in Athenaeum courtyard. Free and open to the public. Steve Reich, Clapping Music Ann La Berge, Revamper Beaser, Mountain Songs David Loeb, Karin: A Forest of Verses Javier Alvarez, Temazcal Tom Johnson, Failing 7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers 7:30 pm Music of a New Century, part I NOISE performs the most exciting new concert music being written by living composers today. These composers unite grooves, rigor, harmonious textures and terrifying dissonances, boldly declaring entrance to a new century of music. Juan Campoverde Q., música elemental Christopher Burns, windwork Madelyn Byrne, Rain, Sea and Sky +* Eric Simonson, Towards an Interaction Seth Wrightington, Piece for Flute and Piano * David Loeb, Travelogues * Christopher Adler, I Want to Believe * world premieres + commissioned by San Diego New Music and NOISE Friday, June 20 12pm - 12:30pm NOISE in the Street NOISE performs the minimalist classic Bell Set No. 1 by Michael Nyman and the theatrical Music for Electric Metronomes, by Toshi Ichiyanagi in the Athenaeum courtyard. Free and open to the public. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Open rehearsals NOISE rehearses the works of featured guest composers. A unique opportunity to peek behind the curtain at the making of new music as composers and performers work together to bring new works into being. 6:00 pm Community Concert rehearsal Members of the community are invited to join in this evening's performance of Terry Riley's In C. Musicians of all abilities are welcome. To participate, attendance to the 6:00 p.m. rehearsal is required! You must bring your own instrument, but all instruments are welcome. Please note that amplification will not be provided and keyboardists must also bring their own instrument. The music may be downloaded in advance here, and additional copies will be available at the rehearsal. Click here to download score for In C. 7:30 pm High School / Community Concert Students of San Diego's High Tech High and members of the community join the performers of soundON in a rousing performance of Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece In C and other contemporary works. To join in the performance, see the note for the 6:00 pm rehearsal. Saturday, June 21 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Exploring the art of performance making with Lisa Cella A workshop for the young and old, the curious and adventurous non-musician. NOISE flutist leads a workshop exploring the art of performance making and finding music with everyday objects in everyday places. 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Composers and Performers in Dialogue The guest composers and performers will be joined by members of NOISE and 2009 commissionee Nathan Brock for a roundtable discussion probing the joys and challenges of devotion to modern music and the international state of contemporary music today. An intimate and invigorating discussion is expected and the audience will be welcome to particpate. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Charla de Juan Campoverde Q.: La composición antes de la composición En esta charla breve me gustaría abordar aquellos aspectos que no siendo estrictamente musicales, forman parte si embargo, del proceso creativo musical. Aspectos tomados de la literatura y las artes plásticas Latinoamericanas que han sido, y continúan siendo, fundamentales en mi desarrollo como compositor. (Guest composer Juan Campoverde Q. offers a Spanish-language presentation about his approach to composition, and the influence of Latin American literature and arts on his work.) 7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers 7:30 pm Music of a New Century, part II NOISE is joined by guest performers in the performance of the most exciting new concert music being written by young composers today. These composers unite grooves, rigor, harmonious textures and terrifying dissonances, boldly declaring entrance to a new century of music. Juan Campoverde Q., Iluminaciones Alfio Fazio, Tre contrappunti coreografici #* Ingrid Stolzel, with both eyes + Nicholas Deyoe, fl/vln* Steve Hoey, Re * Christopher Adler, Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze * world premiere # Winner of 2008 International Call for Scores + commissioned by San Diego New Music and NOISE GUEST COMPOSER AND PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES Composers Nathan Brock Nathan Brock (b. 1977) is an emerging composer of contemporary concert and chamber music. His works have been performed by some of the most talented performers of new music in venues across North America, Europe, and Latin America. Brock received his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego in 2007, where he studied with Roger Reynolds. His interests include dramatic development, reconceptualizations of language, literary source material, expressions of personal identity, and explorations of musical style. Noted musical influences include post-war modernism, American experimental traditions, and lyrical gestures derived from Romantic and Expressionist traditions. Brock currently teaches at the University of San Diego and can be found on the internet at www.nathanbrock.com Madelyn Byrne Madelyn Byrne is a composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Recent work includes In Your Dreams, an inter-media piece which Madelyn composed the music for and performed in, playing the laptop computer and synthesizer. She has also played laptop in the inter-media production Spoonful of Hope and as part of the soundCommons Orchestra. Other recent projects include Notre Dame Suite (commissioned by Peter Gach) for piano and computer and scoring the documentaries Colors that Grow and Horse Vet. Past honors include winning the Friends and Enemies of New Music Composition Competition, recordings on CRI Records and SoundWalk 2005 Compilation Disk, and selections for performance at the International Computer Music Conferences in Hong Kong and Beijing. Madelyn’s music has also received performances, television, radio, and internet broadcasts throughout the world. She completed her DMA in Composition at The Graduate Center in 1999 and joined the Palomar College Faculty in the Fall 2000 semester. Madelyn has also been a guest composer at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center. Juan Campoverde Q. Juan Campoverde Q. studied music at the National Conservatory of Music and the Pontifical University, both in Cuenca, Ecuador. Through a Fulbright Scholarship he continued his studies in the USA at the University of Cincinnati, and later at the University of California in San Diego where he earned a PhD in Composition working with Roger Reynolds. L'Ensemble Intercontemporain, KammerensembleN, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador, SONOR Ensemble, and Ensemble SurPlus among others, have performed his music, as well as soloists Lisa Cella, Elizabeth McNutt, Claire Chase, Colin McAllister, and Daniel Lippel. His works has been heard twice at the ISCM World Music Days and were also featured in the Green Umbrella series of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with the CalArts New Century Players. He teaches Musicianship and Composition Studies at the School of Music of DePaul University in Chicago, and is also the curator of Encuentros en DePaul, a yearly concert series featuring recent works by Latin American composers. Steven Hoey Steven Hoey is an American composer who has been performed widely on the west coast of the States as well as New York City, France and Italy. He recently was awarded the Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. A winner of the Dutilleux Prize for International Composition for his solo piano work, Artifact I, Hoey has written for a wide array of soloists and ensembles including the Lisa Cella, Susan Allen, Vovka Ashkenazy, Luciane Cardassi, Ensemble Green, the California EAR Unit, The New Millennium Players, the New Century Players as well as faculty ensembles at the University of California at San Diego. A founding member of the composer consortia Different Trains in Los Angeles and Auralia, he is committed to building new audiences for contemporary music. His solo harp work Sudden Travel, commissioned and premiered by Susan Allen, has been selected for performance at the 2006 World Harp Conference in San Francisco. His solo oboe work m/ODE/s was written for Jacqueline Leclair in 2005; and his orchestral work m/ODE/s on Three Ancient Greek Fragments was performed in April 2005 by the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. He was a Composition Fellow at the 2005 Wellesley Composers Conference, where his chamber work, a Seraph’s Shadow for eleven players was premiered. Sirens in December for soprano, flute, and cello was commissioned by Fiona Chatwin and premiered in April 2006. Steven was the winner of the 2006 Thomas Nee Commission from the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, and his work Five Rivers was premiered by the orchestra in May 2007. In addition, Five Rivers was supported by The American Music Center Composer Assistance Program and the 2007-2008 UCSD Humanities Graduate Student Award. After completing his Masters degree at the California Institute of the Arts, Hoey served as a faculty member there two years before relocating in San Diego to pursue his doctoral studies. Steven received his Ph.D. dissertation in composition at the University of California at San Diego with Chinary Ung. Steven holds degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University where he studied on a Marshall Scholarship. Eric Simonson Eric Simonson received his Ph.D. from the University of California--San Diego in 1999. That year he joined the liberal arts faculty at Danville Area Community College (in Danville, Illinois), where he has been teaching music theory and history courses. His degrees are in composition, but his interests and teaching experience have involved computer music, music theory and musicology. He first studied piano with Boaz Sharon at the University of Tulsa. Later he studied composition with Harvey Sollberger at Indiana University and Roger Reynolds at UC--San Diego. His current creative project (entitled Geometries) is a group of chamber music pieces that incorporate electroacoustic and computer generated sounds. He has performed as a piano soloist with the Tulsa Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Symphony and the Memphis State University Orchestra. Before turning his attention exclusively to composition and teaching, he enjoyed a busy career as an accompanist. Simonson also has extensive experience as a conductor (especially in 20th century repertoire). Ingrid Stölzel Ingrid Stölzel is a native of Germany and permanent resident of the United States. The ensembles Third Angle, newEar, California E.A.R. Unit, Adaskin String Trio, Oakwood Chamber Players, Hartt Contemporary Players, Musica Nova and Synchronia, among others, have performed Ingrid Stölzel’s music. She is the first prize winner of the 2007 UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competition and the recipient of the 2006 PatsyLu Prize awarded by the International Alliance of Women in Music. Recently, Stölzel was a guest composer at the 30th Sacramento State Festival of New American Music. She was also selected for the National Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet reading and a participant of the Sentieri Selvaggi International Masterclass with James MacMillan in Milan, Italy. Stölzel was invited to the 2007 Sixth Annual Women in New Music Festival, Chamber Music Conference of the East, Oregon Bach Festivals, Ernest Bloch Festivals, Music 01 and 03, Women Composers' Showcase, New Jersey City University, Otterbein Contemporary Music Festival, Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts, Bard Composers/Conductors Institute, Indiana State Contemporary Music Festival, and James Madison Annual Contemporary Music Festival. She has done artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Stölzel is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri, Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City where she has studied with Chen Yi, Zhou Long and James Mobberley. Stölzel’s other principal teachers have been Robert Carl and James Sellars. She also has had masterclasses and private lessons with James MacMillan, Jennifer Higdon, Joan Tower, David del Tredici, Michael Torke, Donald Crockett, Tan Dun, Louis Andriessen, Martin Bresnick and R. Murray Schaefer. Stölzel holds a Master of Music in Composition from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, and a Bachelor of Music from the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City. She is a composer and the Vice President of the newEar Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble in Kansas City, Missouri. Performers Kathryn Pisaro, oboe Dr. Kathryn Pisaro is busy as both an oboist and a music historian. She received a Certificate in Performance from the California Institute of the Arts, a Ph.D. and Master of Music degree in music history from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance from DePaul University. Her recent performance of Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin was described as a "many-spendored serenade to joy" in the Santa Barbara Daily Sound. She has performed in the Los Angeles area with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Andrea Bocelli, the Fresno Philharmonic and on several recording sessions. In Chicago, she worked with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, was principal oboe in the Illinois Philharmonic orchestra for ten years and played oboe and English horn in over fifteen Broadway touring productions, including Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime, Beauty and the Beast, South Pacific, Showboat and Cabaret. As a musicologist, she has presented papers on music history at national and international conferences. Her musicological writings can be found in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, the International Double Reed Society Journal and Musicworks. She taught at Depaul University in Chicago, IL, Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, Judson College in Elgin, IL and at Ventura College in Ventura, CA. She is currently teaching oboe and piano at Keyboard Galleria in Saugus, CA and directing the Neinte Chamber Music Ensemble. Mark Menzies, violin Residing in the United States since 1991, Mark Menzies has established an important, world-wide reputation as a new music violist and violinist. He has been described in a Los Angeles Times review, as an "extraordinary musician" and a "riveting violinist." At 39 years, his career as a viola and violin virtuoso, chamber musician and advocate of contemporary music, has seen performances in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and across the United States, including a series of appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall. Mark Menzies is renowned for performing some of the most complex scores so far written and he has been personally recommended by composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Michael Finnissy, Vinko Globokar, Philippe Manoury, Jim Gardner, Elliott Carter, Liza Lim, Christian Wolff, Richard Barrett and Sofia Gubaidulina for performances he has given of their music. First violinist of New York's Ensemble Sospeso he organized a joint venture with the California Institute of the Arts to present the first professional concerts in the US dedicated to Brian Ferneyhough's music in December 2002. Mark Menzies has a considerable reputation as a chamber music performer. He is the director of a collective ensemble based in Los Angeles, called inauthentica; with members drawn from the Southern California area, including young musicians and recent graduates from CalArts, inauthentica has been featured on an innova CD release of Mark Applebaum's recent compositions. In the spring of 2007, he led a newly formed string quintet belArtes Quintet (formely Ensemble du Monde) in a rapturously received tour in Germany, France and Poland. Mark Menzies is viola and violin professor at the California Institute of the Arts where he also coordinates their chamber orchestra, new music ensembles and conducting studies. Ashley Walters, cello Ashley Walters is a native of Fairfax, Virginia. She is currently pursuing a doctoral Degree in Contemporary Cello Performance as a fellow at the University of California, San Diego. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Cello Performance. In 2005, Ashley graduated from Vanderbilt University, Magna Cum Laude. She recently had her solo debut performing Sciarrino's 'Melencolia' at the REDCAT hall in Los Angeles. Ashley is a member of inauthentica and a founding member of the Formalist Quartet. Robert Zelickman, clarinet Robert Zelickman is a Lecturer of Music at UC San Diego where he has taught since 1983. In addition to teaching clarinet and performing in SONOR (a contemporary ensemble), Robert conducts the UCSD Wind Ensemble and lectures on The Symphony and Jewish Music. Besides his duties at the University, Robert can be seen in many other venues throughout the community. He is a member of the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the San Diego Symphony and the San Diego Opera. Robert is also well known throughout California as the co-director of the Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble. Zelickman earned his BA at UCLA and a MFA from Cal Arts.
		TICKETS AND LOCAL INFORMATION One day admission (includes all events on a given day): $20 / $15 Athenaeum members and students with ID Festival pass for all events $50 / $40 Athenaeum members and students with ID To reserve tickets call (858) 454-5872 Accomodations in San Diego Empress Hotel 7766 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037 (888) 369-9900 www.empress-hotel.com La Jolla Village Lodge 1141 Silverado Street La Jolla, CA 92037 Free:(877) 551-2001 www.lajollavillagelodge.com The 2008 soundON Festival is funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program and the Puffin Foundation