The website of the Afro-Cuban composer and conductor Tania Justina León (b. 1943) is http://www.tanialeon.com/;
she is also profiled at AfriClassical.com.
From June 21-30, the Imani Winds Chamber Music
Festival convenes 19 leaders in the world of chamber music with 56
promising musicians ages 18-63 for rehearsals, professional development,
and collaboration—culminating in eight world premieres at the Mannes
School of Music at The New School. The Festival includes seven public
performances.
Participating ensembles include PUBLIQuartet, AnAlex Duo, The
Songwriter’s Orchestra, Imani Winds, as well as composer-in-residence
Tania León, composers James Primosch, Victoria Bond, and Greg Sandow,
clarinetist David Krakauer, and MET Opera Orchestra musicians, oboist
Pedro R. Díaz and bassoonist Daniel Shelly.
Details and calendar information are below. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Best,
Mike
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June 6, 2016
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From June 21-30, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival convenes premier woodwind & brass musicians, emerging talent for collaborative projects, master classes, and performances, culminating in eight world premieres
Members of PUBLIQuartet, AnAlex Duo, The Songwriter’s Orchestra, Imani Winds, and more perform in forward-looking summer institute at the Mannes School of Music at The New School in New York City
The Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, an intense
summer institute devoted to performance excellence and career
development, will pair 19 leaders in the world of chamber music with 56
promising, deftly talented participants ages 18-63 from across the
country and as far as Brazil and Spain to strengthen the future of
chamber woodwind music. Faculty for the 2016 Imani Winds Chamber Music
Festival includes the members of Imani Winds, composer-in-residence
Tania León, composers James Primosch, Victoria Bond, and Greg Sandow,
clarinetist David Krakauer, and MET Opera Orchestra musicians, oboist
Pedro R. Díaz and bassoonist Daniel Shelly.
Created by Imani Winds (Valerie Coleman, Mark Dover, Monica Ellis, Toyin
Spellman-Diaz, and Jeffrey Scott) in 2010, the festival is one of only a
few in the United States to focus exclusively on woodwind quintet and
sextet repertoire. Imani Winds is known for its adventurous programming
and dedication to education, exemplified through extensive outreach,
cultivation of young musicians, and its Legacy Commissioning Project.
The Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival was founded in this spirit, to
engage new music and new voices in the modern classical idiom.
Over 10 days, participating musicians engage in rigorous workshops,
coaching sessions, lectures, and rehearsals. The result is a congenial
and free exchange of information, expertise, and critique. Participants
are also grouped into ensembles which work exclusively with mentor
musicians during the course of the festival to create and refine a new
composition by an emerging composer, which is debuted during the
festival’s culminating concerts.
The festival includes public concerts with members of PUBLIQuartet, The
Songwriter’s Orchestra, AnAlex Duo, and members of Imani Winds. Select
festival participants will perform alongside these all-star ensembles.
The concerts Visionaries and Chamber Music Celebration conclude the
festival, featuring more established repertoire alongside eight world
premieres. All concerts take place in the Concert Hall at the Mannes
School of Music at The New School, located at 55 W 13th St, New York, NY
10011.
Concerts in the Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival
Traditional and the Experimental
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
Paquito D’Rivera: Kites
Astor Piazzolla arr. Jeff Scott: Contrabajissimo
Anders Hillborg: Six Pieces for Wind Quintet
Simon Shaheen arr. Jeff Scott: Dance Mediterranea
This program features staples of Imani Winds’ repertoire representing
diverse and virtuosic renditions of works written or arranged
specifically for Imani Winds or from the 21st century wind quintet canon.
AnAlex Duo
Friday, June 24, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
Valerie Coleman: Rubispheres #4 & #5
Guy Mintus: Trapatikadoo-Sounds of Creation
Sunny Knable: AlexAna
AnAlex Duo, featuring saxophonist Ana Garcia Caraballos and bassoonist
Alexander Davis, balances the refinement of classical music while
zigzagging through hip-hop, blues, flamenco, bollywood, and rock ‘n’
roll. Daring these two instruments to have a conversation, AnAlex Duo
commissions electrifying works, creating an ice-breaker for this unusual
collaboration. Their musical dynamism has carried AnAlex Duo to Alice
Tully Hall, Symphony Space, Instituto Cervantes NY, Merkin Concert Hall,
The National Opera Center, Spectrum, and Le Poisson Rouge. They have
also performed with a range of ensembles, from Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
and the Kronos Quartet, to CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, The
Juilliard New Music Ensemble, Windscape, and Imani Winds.
An Evening of Classical Improvisation
with members of PUBLIQuartet and Imani Winds
Saturday, June 25, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody #1 for solo violin
Max Duykers: After lightness
Founded in 2010, PUBLIQuartet, featuring three of its members tonight
(Curtis Stewart, Jannina Northporth, and Amanda Gookin), is dedicated to
presenting new works for the string quartet. PQ was selected as the
Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/New Places Ensemble at the 2013 CAG
Victor Elmaleh Competition, winning their 2013 Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Adventurous Artist Prize. Hailed by WQXR as a “…’genre-independent’
quartet that not only vehemently supports emerging composers, but also
composes collectively – a rare occurrence in this field,” the group
received Chamber Music America’s ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award for
outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz,
and world chamber music.
The Songwriter’s Orchestra
Solomon Hoffman, artistic director
Sunday, June 26, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
The Songwriter’s Orchestra is a genre-defying ensemble that pairs
singer/songwriters with a group of 12 orchestral musicians to present
brand new musical arrangements of original songs. They work with
songwriters from a variety of genres, transforming each song so the
ensemble of wind, string, brass, and percussion players can serve as the
sole accompaniment. This performance of The Songwriter's Orchestra will
feature Britton Smith, currently in Broadway's Shuffle Along, Olivia Harris, and duo Jazze Belle (Taylor Simone and Jett Carter), and others.
The diversity and power of the ensemble brings each song to life in a
whole new way as they continue to explore the unique possibilities of
this chamber ensemble. They have worked with a variety of singers
including Shaina Taub, Grace McLean, Magnus Ferguson, Sarah Dooley,
Nicole Weiss, Dawn Cantwell, Olivia Harris, Britton Smith, Janet Krupin,
Brittany Campbell, Jazze Belle, and Eisa Davis.
Mythos and Logos, (A Musical Journey through Myth and Logic)
with Imani Winds composer-musicians Valerie Coleman & Jeff Scott
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
Jeff Scott: Poem for a Lost King
Scott: Xango e Oya
Scott: The Rite of Nestinari
Scott: De Mujeres y Agua
Valerie Coleman: Wish Sonatine
Coleman: Hair Cloth and Thread
Coleman: Umoja for Chamber Winds
Coleman: Rubispheres #2
This concert features original repertoire by Valerie Coleman and Jeffrey Scott from the Imani Winds.
Visionaries
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
5 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation: $10
Hosted by Tania León, this concert features eight world premieres for
woodwind quintet and sextet by composers Guy Mintus, Christopher
Kaminski, Marnen Laibow-Koser, Jonathan Newmark, John Albert Harris,
Andre Codeco, Erik Maloy, and Aaron Price.
Chamber Music Celebration
Thursday, June 30, 2016
7 p.m.
Concert Hall, Mannes School of Music at The New School
Suggested donation $10
This culminating concert for the festival highlights the work of eight
woodwind quintets, one quartet, and two sextets, and showcases works by
Paquito D’Rivera, Valerie Coleman, Astor Piazzolla, and Jean Francaix,
alongside select world premieres from the Visionaries concert.
About Imani Winds
Since 1997 Imani Winds, the Grammy-nominated wind quintet, has taken a
unique path carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world
with its dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, adventurous
collaborations, and inspirational outreach programs. With two member
composers and a deep commitment to commissioning new work, the group is
enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire while meaningfully
bridging European, American, African and Latin American traditions.
The group continues its Legacy Commissioning Project, in which the
ensemble commissions and premieres new works for woodwind quintet
written by established and emerging composers of diverse musical
backgrounds. Legacy Commissioning projects have included works by Vijay
Iyer, Simon Shaheen, Jason Moran, Mohammed Fairousz and Frederic
Rzewski. 2016 – 17 will include premiers by Reena Esmail, Nkeiru Okoye
and Pulitzer prize winner Henry Threadgill.
The range of programs offered by Imani Winds demonstrates their mission
to expand the repertoire and diversify new music sources. From
Mendelssohn to Astor Piazzolla to Wayne Shorter and Derek Bermel, Imani
Winds seeks to engage new music and new voices into the modern classical
idiom. Imani members Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott both regularly
contribute compositions and arrangements to the ensemble’s expanding
repertoire.
In the summer of 2010 the ensemble launched its annual Chamber Music
Festival. The program, set on the campus of Mannes School of Music,
brings together young instrumentalists and composers from across North
America and beyond for intense exploration and performance of
traditional and new chamber music compositions. In addition to the
musicians of Imani Winds the Festival brings in some of the most
important names of the chamber music world including Tania Leon, Paula
Robeson and Paquito d' Rivera.
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Thanks so much, Bill! Clearly you’re friendly with the Imani Winds folks (hey guys!). So glad this was on your radar. Thanks again for posting to AfriClassical. [Mike Fila]
Comment by email:
Thanks so much, Bill! Clearly you’re friendly with the Imani Winds folks (hey guys!). So glad this was on your radar. Thanks again for posting to AfriClassical. [Mike Fila]
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