a collaborative series of events on the themes of change & transformation ... in our lives, in our art

Roger Reynolds (Artist in Residence, University of California, Washington Center, Calit2 Composer in Residence) – composer

Steve Antosca (VERGE ensemble, Artistic Director) – composer, computer musician

Lisa Cella (University of Maryland Baltimore County) – flute

Bill Kalinkos (Alarm Will Sound, New York) – bass clarinet

Ross Karre (red fish blue fish, Ensemble XII, and University of California, San Diego) – percussionist, interdisciplinary artist

Lina Bahn (University of Colorado at Boulder & VERGE ensemble) – violin

Alexis Descharmes (Ensemble Court-Circuit, the National Opera Orchestra, Paris) – violoncello

Jaime Oliver (Lima, Peru, and University of California, San Diego) – computer musician

additional participants:

Thomas DeLio (University of Maryland) – moderation

Library of Congress Whittall Pavilion

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 2:00 PM: Forum on CHANGES: SEASONS

The CHANGES: SEASONS concert is being presented in partnership between the National Gallery of Art and the University of California, Washington Center (UCDC), with the additional collaboration of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (Calit2), University of Maryland, Computer Music Department of Peabody Conservatory of the  Johns Hopkins University, American University, La Maison Française/Embassy of France, the Library of Congress, the Contemporary Music Forum, the Randy Hostetler Living Room Music Fund and Meet the Composer (funded in part through the MetLife Creative Connections program).

The concert will center around Roger Reynolds’ SEASONS, music by co-organizer Steve Antosca, and by Twentieth Century pioneers Edgard Varèse and Iannis Xenakis. The program will feature an exceptional complement of international specialists in contemporary music performance and the real-time computer processing and spatialization of sound. Performers will be placed strategically at different levels throughout the Atrium of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. Their placement, coordinated with technology developed for the concert, will respond to the sonic – as well as the visual – uniqueness of I. M. Pei’s architectural vision.

logo: karen reynolds

The inaugural concert of the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble

performing the world première of Cycle I of SEASONS by Roger Reynolds