COMING TOGETHER

Special guests: David Abel and Molly Barth
November 17, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Community Music Center
3350 SE Francis St. Portland, OR 97202

Gyorgy Ligeti (Hungary): Sonata, for violoncello solo.

Bernard Rands (England/USA): Memo 4, for solo flute.

James MacMillan (Scotland): After the Tryst, for violin and piano.

Gyorgy Kurtag (Hungary): Jelek (Signs), for solo viola.

Joe Waters (USA): Flamehead, percussion and electronics.

John Corigliano (USA): The Red Violin Caprices , for violin solo.

Frederic Rzewski (USA): Coming Together, for narrator and ensemble.

A program with something for everyone: it came together almost by itself. Music from John Corigliano's Academy Award winning score "The Red Violin". A highly virtuosic piece for percussion and live electronics that will pin you to the wall, by Joseph Waters - Artistic Director of NWEAMO (North-West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization), and other solo works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Gyorgy Kurtag, Bernard Rands, and James MacMillan. We decided that each of us would perform a solo piece, and then the entire ensemble would come together to play Frederick Rzewski's Coming Together. Written and first performed in 1972, Rzewski's Coming Together is a setting of an excerpt from a prison letter of Sam Melville, written the year before his involvement in the uprising at Attica State Prison in New York in the fall of 1971. For this performance, fEARnoMUSIC is joined by poet and performer David Abel as narrator, and flutist Molly Barth, a founding member of the renowned ensemble eighth blackbird (Chicago), who recently moved to Portland.

HAMMERS AND STICKS: A PIANO & PERCUSSION RIOT

Special guests: Tomas Svoboda, Orla McDonagh & Gordon Rencher
February 25, 2007 at 3:00 pm
WIEDEN + KENNEDY
224 NW 13th Ave, Portland OR 97209

Tomas Svoboda: Concealed Shapes, for Two Pianos, Xylophone and Marimba, Op. 163.

George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening: Makrokosmos III, for two amplified pianos and percussion (two players).

Other works to be announced.

The ever-popular Piano Riot returns, with reinforcements! First, Orla McDonagh will reprise her role at the keyboard from the 2002 premiere of Tomas Svoboda's Concealed Shapes (1999), joined by the composer himself (as well as our busy percussionists).Then, fEARnoMUSIC's own Mika Sunago and Jeff Payne (pianos) and Joel Bluestone (percussion) will be joined by Gordon Rencher (percussion) for Music for a Summer Evening: Makrokosmos III (1974) by Pulitzer Prize winner George Crumb, whose reputation as a composer of hauntingly beautiful scores has made him one of the most frequently performed composers in today's musical world.

"In closing, I feel that it would be most appropriate to emphasize the critically important role of the performer in the evolution of any musical language. New Music, with its enormous technical and expressive demands, depends for its very existence on a type of pioneer performer, who in fact, is engaged in creating and codifying the Auff¸hrungspraxis -- performance practice -- of our time."

- George Crumb

Tickets at the door: $15 general admission; $5 students.

HEARING THE FUTURE

May 6th, 2007, 2:30 pm
PSU Lincoln Hall, Room 75

For the season's final concert, fEARnoMUSIC presents student works in the culmination of the tenth annual Young Composers Project. Hear the latest works from the startlingly creative minds of the Young Composers Project, the Ligetis and Towers of tomorrow, right here, today!

Tickets at the door: $15 general admission; $10 students.

YOUNG COMPOSER'S PROJECT - 10th ANNIVERSARY!!

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Young Composers Project, under the direction of pianist and conductor Jeff Payne, offers the only program of its kind in the country. Currently sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, this innovative program gathers young composers (grades 6-12) from around Oregon for workshops over a nine-month period. During the workshops, the students develop their compositional ideas, experiment with orchestration, and have their works professionally performed and recorded.

More than a hundred students have taken advantage of this exceptional opportunity, and they have won more than two dozen state, regional, and national awards for their compositions. KBPS Classical Radio has annually broadcast interviews with students along with performances of their pieces, and segments of the workshop have been featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "ArtBeat." Students have also participated in master classes with Pulitzer Prize winning composer William Bolcom, and Indiana University faculty member David Dzubay.

fEARnoMUSIC's Young Composers Project gives the community the opportunity to hear the works of the finest young creative minds working in the region, at the beginning of their musical careers -- to hear the future, right now!

For questions, contact director Jeff Payne or call 503.335.3386.

Jeffrey Payne (pianist and conductor), Young Composers Project Director, founded the fEARnoMUSIC ensemble, with percussionist Joel Bluestone in 1992. As a member of the ensemble he has appeared in New York City, California, and Colorado, as well as throughout the Pacific Northwest. During his tenure as Artistic Director for the group he was responsible for presentation of twenty World Premiere or American Premiere performances of works by Pacific Northwest composers. In 1997 he founded the Young Composers Project, as part of the mission of fEARnoMUSIC, and continues as its Director, overseeing the development of aspiring young creative minds around the region.

Tickets will be available only at the door: $15 general admission and $5 students.
Season tickets will be available for sale at the first performance: Three concerts: General admission $40.50 (save %10).