Steven Mackey, Michael Pratt
and Barbara White,
Co-Directors
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2005-2006 Season
Friday, October 14Tuesday, September 28
Paul
Lansky Birthday Concert
Performers: The Brentano String
Quartet, Susannah Chapman, Margaret Kampmeier, Mihae Lee, Anna Lim,
Curtis Macomber, Patti Monson, Monica Mugan, William Purvis, Evan L.
Spritzer
Sunday, October 3
UNBEKANNT
Music by Brooke Joyce
Tuesday,
October 5
Music by
Newton Armstrong, Randall Bauer, Scott Smallwood, Chris Tignor, Stefan
Weisman
Performers: Newton Armstrong, electronics; Randall Bauer,
piano; Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; Stephen Griesgraber,
Electric guitar; Jonathan Hays, baritone; Marija Ilic, piano; Maxim
Moston, violin; Scott Smallwood, laptop
computer; Christopher Tignor, Violin/Software Instrument; David Watson,
guitar; Lee Whittier, Video
Tuesday,
October 19
DoublePlay Percussion Duo (Dominic Donato and
Stephen Paysen)
Music by Randall Bauer, Ross Bauer, Margaret
Brouwer, Dominic Donato, Elizabeth Hoffman, Eric
Moe, David Rakowski, Martin Scherzinger, Alan Tormey, Barbara White
Wednesday,
October 27
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Moby Dick, an opera by Peter
Westergaard
Tuesday, November 9
ALCHEMY
Music by Judd Greenstein, David Little, Martin
Scherzinger, Dmitri Tymoczko
Performers: Edward Arron, cello; Susan Babini, cello; John Blacklow,
piano; Aaron Boyd, violin; Kathy Cherbas, cello; Jennifer Curtis,
violin; Kimball Gallagher, piano; Aaron Jackson, piano; Jim Johnson,
piano; Tricia Park, violin
Thursday, December 2
So Percussion
Music by Paul Lansky, Greg Spears, John Supko,
Alan Tormey,
Stefan Weisman, Miriama Young
Wednesday and Thursday, December 8-9
The Frist Campus Center
Mini-Operas
Melissa
Madden Gray, voice
Music by Newton Armstrong, Betsey Biggs, Paul
Botelho, Ted Coffey, Alan Tormey, Scott Smallwood
Tuesday, February 15
FACES
Music by Andrew McKenna Lee, Toru Takemitsu,
Alan Tormey,
Dmitri
Tymoczko
Performers include: Janus; Aaron Jackson, piano;
Peggy Kampmeier, piano; Andrew
McKenna Lee.
guitar; Monica Mungan, guitar
Tuesday, February 22
TACTUS, The Manhattan
School of
Music Contemporary
Ensemble
Patti Monson, director
Music by Oscar Bettison, Nathan
Michel, John Supko, Alan Tormey
Thursday, February 24
The
Brentano String Quartet
Music by Randy Bauer, Lisa Coons, Andrew
McKenna Lee, Alan Tormey
Sunday,
March 6
Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau
Street
Five
(and-a-half) Gardens
So Percussion
Music by Betsey Biggs, Dan Trueman
Tuesday, March 8
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Gregg Smith Singers
Music by Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, Dale
Jergenson, Charles Kulis, Gregg Smith, Dmitri Tymoczko, Nils Vigeland
Thursday to
Saturday, April 7-9
Berlind Theater
Pas D’Acier
Music by Serge Prokofiev
Additional music by Paul Lansky, Dan Trueman, Barbara White
Sunday, April 10, 3:00 pm
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
The Nash
Ensemble of London
Music by Brooke Joyce, Miriama Young, others
Thursday,
April 14
John Butcher
Music by Newton Armstong, John Butcher,
Scott Smallwood, Chris Tignor, Alan Tormey, Dan Trueman, Barbara White
Friday,
April 29
General Exam Concert
Music by Oscar Bettison, Andrew Lee,
Scott Smallwood, John Supko
Monday, May 9
eighth blackbird
Music by Randy Bauer, Judd Greenstein,
Jennifer Higdon, David Little, John
Supko, Greg Spears
Tuesday, May 10
George Perle Birthday Concert
Performers include:
Michael Boriskin, piano; Michael Brown, piano; eighth blackbird;
Seymour Lipkin, piano;
Curtis Macomber, violin; Molly Morkoski, piano; Lucy Shelton, soprano
Friday, May 13
Ensemble Surplus
Music by Daniel Biro, Tae-Hong Park, John
Supko, Scott Smallwood, Alan Tormey
Thursday, November 4, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
Arthur Kampela
Thursday, November 18, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
Joran Rudi
Monday,
December 6, 2:30pm, Woolworth Studio B
Janek Schaefer
Friday,
December 10, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
Zeena Parkins
Thursday,
February 17, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
Daron Hagen
Wednesday,
March 2, place TBA
George Lewis
Part of the new "/@rts" colloquium series
Thursday,
March 3, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
Michael Gordon
Thursday,
March 24, place TBA
Paul Lansky
Part of the new "/@rts" colloquium series
Thursday,
April 14, 4:30pm, Woolworth Room 102
John Butcher
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Princeton University Chapel,
7:00 p.m.
Performers: David Messineo, organ; Greg Spears, synthesizer;
Traces (Jason Treuting and Lawson White), percussion
Music by Brooke Joyce, Greg Spears, Stefan Weisman, Barbara White
Friday, October 24, 2003
The
Brentano String Quartet
Music by Betsey Biggs, Ted Coffey, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczko
Additional Performers: Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi; Ted Coffey,
homemade instrument
Thursday to Friday,
November
13-15, 2003
Listening
in the Sound Kitchen (Click here for details)
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Non
Sequitur New Music & Creative Arts Ensemble
Music by Betsey Biggs, Emily Doolittle, Brooke Joyce, Nathan Michel,
Greg Spears, Dan Trueman
Additional Performer: Dan Trueman, electric violin/laptop
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Poodles & Cream
Music by Randall Bauer, Daniel Biro, Brooke Joyce, Phoebe Myhill, Tae
Hong Park, Dan Trueman
Performers: Arash Amini, cello; Martha Elliott,
soprano; Brooke Joyce, vibraphone; Tom Kolor, speakers; Brian Krinke
violin; Margaret Lancaster, flute; Beth Meyers, viola; Tae Hong Park,
Electic Bass and Electronics; Adam Sliwinski, speaker; Evan Spritzer,
clarinet; Dan Trueman, electric violin ; Danny Tunick, percussion;
Jenny Undercofler, piano
Sunday, February 8, 2004
3:00 p.m.
Tarab
Cello Ensemble
Music by Randall Bauer, Larry Bell, Betsey Biggs, David Liptak, Gregory
Mertl, Tae Hong Park,
Alan Tormey, Aaron Travers, Dan Trueman
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Synergy
Vocals
Music by Paul Botelho, Brooke Joyce, Paul Lansky, Alan
Tormey, Dmitri Tymoczko, Barbara White
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Network
for New Music
Music by Randall Bauer, Steve Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko,
Barbara White
April 30, 2004, General
Exam Concert
Music by Betsey Biggs, Nathan Michel, Greg Spears, Alan Tormey
Responding to Henry Cowell, Jack Kerouac, Troubadour Songs, and Iannis
Xenakis
Performers: Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano; Eric Huebner, piano;
Jim Johnson, piano; Sarah Manguso, voice; Douglass Perkins, percussion;
David Schotzko, percussion; Erin Stewart, soprano; Danny Tunick,
percussion; Carl Voss, piano;
Friday, May 7, 2004
The
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Music by Tae Hong Park, Greg Spears, Stefan Weisman, Miriama Young
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
The Person Sitting Next to You Will Explain Everything
Music by Newton Armstrong, Brooke Joyce, Andrew Lee,
John Supko, Stefan Weisman
Performers include: Paul Botelho, voice; Andrew Lee, guitar; Steve
Mackey, e-guitar; Greg Spears, synthesizer; Meighan Stoops, clarinet;
Mary Wing, flute; Elizabeth Kitson, flute; Molly Filer, flute; Patti
Monson, flute
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Double Bar
Music by Oscar Bettison, Tae Hong Park, Alan Tormey, Miriama Young,
Sharon Zhu
Performers include: Greg Beyer, percussion; Sara Baird, Dancer; Lee
Whittier, Video Artist; Argento Ensemble; Briaan McWhorter, trumpet;
Peggy Kampmeier, piano
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
New Millennium Ensemble Plays
Music by Princeton Composers
Music by Patricia Alessandrini, Randall Bauer, Paul Botelho,
Brooke Joyce, Stefan Weisman, and Barbara White.
Sunday, October 13, 2002
3:00 p.m.
Cleveland Institute of Music
Contemporary Ensemble
Music by Dan Cooper, Paul Botelho, Brooke Joyce, Steven Mackey, and
Miriama Young.
Wednesday, October 20, 2002
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute;
Todd Phillips, violin, Daniel Phillips, viola; Fred Sherry, cello.
Music by Steven Mackey and W. A. Mozart.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Zoe Martlew, cello
Music by Randall Bauer, Daniel Biro, Brooke Joyce, Tae Hong Park, Alan
Shockley, Sharon Zhu, and by
Mattias Pintscher, George Aperghis, Thomas Ades, Zoe Martlew, and
Kenneth
Hesketh.
Friday, February 28, 2003
Improvised Music
Earl Howard, sax
Denman Maroney, prepared piano
Mark Dresser, bass
Gerry Hemingway, drums
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Yesaroun'
Duo
Music by Brooke Joyce, J. K. Randall, Stefan Weisman,
Barbara White, and Miriama Young.
Sunday, April 6, 2003
Nash Ensemble of London
3:00 p.m.
Music by Randall Bauer, Tae Hong Park, and others.
April 22, 2003
Entropy: Lydia Forbes, violin
and Danny Tunick, percussion
Music by Daniel Biro, Ted Coffey, Emily Doolittle, Tae Hong Park,
Juliet
Palmer.
May 1, 2003
Generals Concert
Music by Newton Armstrong, Paul Botelho,
Stefan Weisman, and Miriama Young, as well
as by Louis Andriessen, John Cage, Scott Joplin,
and Arnold Schoenberg.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Music by Patricia Alessandrini, Betsey Biggs, David Claman, Dan Cooper,
Tae Hong Park.
November 17-18
Listening
in the Sound Kitchen (Click here for details)
December 11
Music by Randall Bauer, Sharon
Zhu, others.
January 8
Princeton University Chapel,
7:30 p.m.
New Works for Baroque Flutes
Ronai/Moore Duo
February 28, 2002
Theatre of Voices
Music by Ted Coffey, Carson Kievman, Colby
Leider,
Alan Shockley.
April 9, 2002
Music by Ted Coffey, Brooke Joyce, Paul
Koonce, Reuben de Lautour,
alan frederick shockley, Frances White, Sharon
Zhu,
2000-2001
Season
October 10, 2000
Henri Dutilleux, Prelude I, "D'ombre et de silence" (1973)
Paul Koonce, "Anacrusis" for eight-channel tape
Paul Lansky, "Ride"
Reuben de Lautour, "NJ 101.5 FM" (Stiefel, guitar; de Lautour, violin)
October 22, 2000
The
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Robert Bowen, "46-41-KC"
Maria Kalaniemi, "Two Finnish Pieces"
Astor Piazzola, Three Pieces
Hermannin Rilli, "Skymningspolskan"
alan frederick shockley, "celluloid night"
Van Stiefel, "Four Guitars in a Thought Bubble"
Federico Moreno Torroba, "Estampas"
Associated Events:
- Accordion Workshop and Demonstration by William Schimmel. February 13, 4 p.m., 102 Woolworth Center.
- Toy Piano Workshop and Demonstration by Margaret Leng Tan. Thursday, February 15, 4 p.m., 102 Woolworth Center.
- SqueezeVox Demonstration by Colby Leider and Professor Perry Cook. Friday,February 16th, 4 p.m., 102 Woolworth Center.
March 13, 2001
Music by Randall Bauer, Ted Coffey, Emily
Doolittle,
Brooke Joyce, Tae Hong Park, Judith Weir, Sharon
Zhu
April 17, 2001
Emily Doolittle, "four pieces about water"
Tae Hong Park, "Omoni"
J. K. Randall, "Boogiebop and Cartoon" for
c-sound
and sidekick
Judith Weir, "Michael's Strathspey"
Judith Weir, "Musicians Wrestle Everywhere"
Sharon Zhu, "Levocka Biela Pani (Levoca's White
Lady)"
1999-2000 Season
December 1, 1999:
Brasil/Estados Unidos/United
States/Brazil:
New Works for Baroque Flutes
Tom Moore and Laura Ronai,
Baroque
Flutes
Colby Leider, "Song"
Dan Trueman, "Immix" for two Baroque flutes and 6-string electric
violin
(with Dan Trueman, electric violin)
Alan Shockley, "of folly and..."
Barbara White, "Chansons d'amour"
January 18, 2000
Patricia Alessandrini, "Five Colors of Silence"
Daniel Biro, "Poems"
Emily Doolittle, "night black bird song" and "Ruby-Throated Moment"
Paul Koonce, "Breath and the Machine"
Colby Leider, "Taedet animam meam"
March 22, 2000:
Talujon
Percussion Quartet
with Steve
Mackey,electric guitar
Performs New Works by
Princeton
Composers
Patricia Alessandrini, "The Colors of Silence"
Reuben de Lautour, "Loops"
Van Stiefel, "Body Swimming"
Talujon/Steve Mackey, "Improvisation"
Barbara White, "Third Rule of Thumb"
November 17, 1998
Dan Cooper, "Techno" for violin and piano
Carson Kievman, "Meditation" for piano
Van Stiefel, "The Lite Principle" for flute,
guitar and vibraphone
Bertolt Sobolik, "Boustrophedon" for tape with
video
Dan Trueman, "Danceless Dances" for electric
violin
December 15, 1998
Patricia Alessandrini, "Dances" for bass clarinet
and percussion
Paul Lansky, "Semi-Suite" for guitar
Colby Leider, "Nexus" for three contrabasses
James Rolfe, "Bouquet" for clarinet, violin,
'cello and piano
Dan Trueman, "four" for electric violin
Barbara White, "the mind's fear, the heart's
delight" for sextet
February 16, 1999
Juliet Palmer, "Blood Shower" for 2
percussionists.
Colby Leider, "Hydraulis" for
quadraphonic
tape
Dan Trueman, "Corrondo," "Backlit," and
"Ghostwalk"
for electric fiddle and guitar
Music by Inouk Demers, James Rolfe, Alan Shockley
February 23, 1999: Love
Songs
Participants in Steven Mackey's graduate seminar,
"Ends and Means:
Issues in Composition" perform a concert of
improvised
and other music.
March 23, 1999
Dan Cooper, "Wind Quintet," performed by the
Imani Winds.
Carson Kievman, "Nuts & Bolts" for
solo piano, performed by Joseph Kubera.
Music by James Rolfe, J.K. Randall, Van Stiefel,
Peter Westergaard
April 11, 1999: The Nash
Ensemble
Plays Music by Princeton
Composers
Richardson Hall, 3 p.m.
Colby Leider, "Trotto"
Reuben de Lautour, "Artefact"