NOISE
c/o San Diego New Music
PMB 316
9700 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-5010
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 17-19, 2010
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St., La Jolla, California
The soundON Festival of Modern Music brings together an international roster of composers and performers to present a three-day exploration of contemporary chamber music. Set in the intimate environment of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, in beautiful downtown La Jolla, the Festival offers ample opportunity for audiences to interact informally with the artists and to work with them on the performance of experimental new music. The Festival is hosted by San Diego New Music’s chamber ensemble-in-residence, NOISE, which features six acclaimed specialists in the performance of contemporary concert music from across the United States. With prominent performances across Europe and the U.S., and extensive recordings released, NOISE returns to its San Diego home once a year to produce the exciting Festival. This year our guest composers hail from Korea, Switzerland and Mexico, and represent the most dynamic young voices emerging in the chamber music world today. Festival events include chamber music concerts, daytime open rehearsals, panel discussions on contemporary music and a performance workshop in which members of community join with NOISE to perform experimental works.
The 2010 festival features the works of composers Nicolas Tzortzis, Sungji Hong and Iván Ferrer-Orozco, all winners from our annual international call for scores. NOISE returns as the performers in residence with special guest Robert Zelickman on clarinet and members of the Formalist Quartet Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh and Ashley Walters.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 17
12:00 pm Outdoor concert: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla location)
Special promotional concert in the outdoor cafe atrium, free and open to the public
Anne La Berge, rollin'
Charles Amirkhanian, Church Car
Igancio Baca-Lobera, 5 Mniatures para Violin y Violinchelo
Tristan Murail, Tellur
Christian Bok, Eunoia: Chapter O
Christopher Adler, Jolie Sphinx
Sidney Marquz Boquiren, Paper Pieces
7:00 pm Community Music Workshop
Have you wondered about the experience of playing modern music? It may be easier than you think! Join NOISE for an interactive workshop in the performance of contemporary music. We will prepare a few works, one of which will be selected for inclusion on Friday night's concert and be performed by workshop participants. Amateurs and professionals welcome! Please contact sdnm@yahoo.com for inquiries about participation so we may plan for a suitable instrumentation
9:00 pm Chill-out Concert
The chill-out returns with late-evening presentations of the extremes of minimalism, contemplation, introspection and sonic microscopy. This year we feature performances by members ot the Formalist Quartet, Southern California's most progressive string quartet (formalistquartet.com).
Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Plainsound-Litany
Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, Voice and Echo I
Friday, June 18
1:00 pm - 4:00 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. Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers
7:30 pm Concert: Solos and Duos
The members of NOISE are joined by guest performers to dazzle with the daring and improbable demands of the modern virtuoso solo. What happens when composers throw caution to the wind? All the members of NOISE and the guest performers are outstanding soloists in their own right. Don't miss this chance to see them at their best.
Juan Campoverde Q., Aires
Ignacio Baca-Lobera, 5 Miniaturas para Violin y Violinchelo
Ada Gentile, Flashback
Anne La Berge, rollin'
Stuart Saunders Smith, Willow
Franklin Cox, Etude-Double
selection from the Community workshop
additional repertoire TBA
Saturday, June 19
1:00 pm - 4:00 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. Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm pre-concert talk with guest composers
8:00 pm Chamber Concert Finale
NOISE is joined by guest performers in the performance of the most exciting new concert music being written today. Brilliantly illluminated musical colors in furious and challenging ensemble work characterize the modern international style of our three guest composers, Sungji Hong, Nicholas Tzortzis and Ivan Ferrer Orozco, all winners of our overwhelmingly successful 2009 international call for scores. These are presented alongside a new work by legendary American minimalist work by Tom Johnson and virtuoso solo works by our composers-in-residence.
Sungji Hong, Shades of Raindrops
Nicolas Tzortzis, Mnésique *
Iván Ferrer-Orozco, Trace II: Vestigium
Franklin Cox, If on a Winter's Night
Richard Barrett, Dark Ages
Christopher Adler, Jolie Sphinx
Tom Johnson, 844 Chords *
* U.S. premiere
GUEST PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES
click here for NOISE member bios
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 contemporary music, Robert conducts the UCSD Wind Ensemble and lectures on Jewish Music. Besides his duties at the University, Robert can be seen in many other venues throughout the community. He is a member of Orchestra Nova San Diego 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, and is a frequent guest performer with NOISE. Zelickman earned his B.A. at UCLA and a MFA at Cal Arts.
Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, viola
Violinist, violist, and composer Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh focuses primarily on performing and expanding the repertoire of compelling and experimental music. McIntosh is a member of the Formalist Quartet, which is also dedicated to adventurous and relevant repertoire and regularly performs around the country. He holds degrees in violin and composition from the University of Nevada, Reno and the California Institute of the Arts. As a chamber musician he has played in festivals, concerts, art spaces, and recordings around the US and Europe with the Formalist Quartet, Tholl/McIntosh duo, Quatuor Bozzini, Rohan de Saram, and many others. As a solo artist he has appeared in venues such as Stanford University, REDCAT, the Wulf, and KPFK Pacifica Radio, as well as with the New Century Players, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, and inauthentica. He also recently was the viola soloist in the US premiere of Gèrard Grisey’s Les Espaces Acoustiques, for which performance the LA Times said he “played […] with commanding beauty”. As a composer, McIntosh strives to write vibrant and compelling pieces while bringing a spirit of experimentalism to the music, usually through working with just intonation and frequency ratios. For more information please visit Plainsound Music Edition at www.plainsound.org. A native of rural Northern Nevada, McIntosh is currently based in Los Angeles where he is principal viola of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and enjoys a large and frequently unexpected variety of performing, recording, teaching, and composing activities. www.andrewnathanielmcintosh.com
Ashley Walters, cello
Ashley Walters is a native of Oak Hill, Virginia. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Contemporary Cello Performance as a fellow at the University of California, San Diego. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cello Performance. In 2005, Ashley graduated from Vanderbilt University, Magna Cum Laude. She had her solo debut in 2006 performing Sciarrino’s Melencolia I at the REDCAT hall in Los Angeles. In the summer of 2008, Ashley worked with the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho performing her work Spins and Spells as part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Ashley is a founding member of the Formalist Quartet, a new music based string quartet that tours in the U.S. and internationally. She is also a member of inauthenita, a LA based new music ensemble. Ashley serves on the cello faculty of the Oakwood School, the Academy of Creative Education, and the California State Summer School. Ashley's primary teachers have been Charles Curtis, Felix Wang, John Kochanowski, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, and Barbara VanPatten. Ashley can also been seen performing as a modern dancer and focuses on works that incorporate music and dance. She has worked with choreographers such as Bennett Savage, Ivan Pulinkala, Kelvin Amburgey, Marsha Barsky, Mary Arwen, Blythe Barton, Alicia Peterson Baskel, and Allyson Greene.
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 2010 soundON Festival is supported in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program,
the Music Department at the University of California, San Diego,
and the generosity of our private donors.
Leadership support for Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program is generously provided by MetLife Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Amphion Foundation, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, BMI Foundation, Inc., Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Jerome Foundation, media The Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the ARts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd.