International Contemporary Ensemble, Quince Ensemble, and Columbia University Department of Music
Thursday, September 12, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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$20-$35 ($17-$30 senior, $15-$26 student/CU employee/ages 24 or under, $10 CU student)
Alice Teyssier, voice
Damian Norfleet, voice
Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
Alexander Davis, bassoon
Gareth Flowers, trumpet
Timothy James "T.J." Robinson, trombone
Kyle Turner, tuba
Josh Modney, violin
Yezu Woo, violin
Kyle Armbrust, viola
Clare Monfredo, cello
Courtney Bryan, piano
Kebra-Seyoun Charles, double bass
Clara Warnaar, percussion
Rebekah Heller, conductor
Courtney Bryan — Requiem (for 4 sopranos & chamber ensemble)
Courtney Bryan — Blessed (for voice & piano, with a film by Tiona Nekkia McClodden)
Courtney Bryan — DREAMING (Freedom Sounds) (for large ensemble & 2 voices)
A 2023 MacArthur Fellow, Courtney Bryan is a brilliant pianist and groundbreaking composer who received her doctorate in composition at Columbia University in 2014. Her music is layered with musical genres including jazz, gospel, and experimental music. We'll join with Quince Ensemble to perform a program of recent works, including Requiem, a powerful five-movement work bridging end-of-life rituals from a spectrum of traditions.
With a commitment to cultivating a more curious and engaged society through music, the International Contemporary Ensemble – as a commissioner and performer at the highest level – amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced.
About Quince Ensemble
Singing with the precision and flexibility of modern chamber musicians, Quince Ensemble, an all-female vocal quartet, is changing the paradigm of contemporary vocal music. Described as "the Anonymous 4 of new music" by Opera News, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of vocal ensemble literature.
As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works for voices, providing wider exposure for the music of living composers. In 2019, they launched the Quince New Music Commissioning Fund, a fund to grow the repertoire for women and treble voices. Quince has released four studio albums, Realign the Time, Hushers, Motherland, and David Lang's love fail, all available on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify, Bandcamp, and Amazon.
Quince has been featured on many festivals and series like KODY Festival in Lublin, Poland in collaboration with David Lang and Beth Morrison Projects, the Outpost Concert Series, the Philip Glass: Music with Friends concert at Issue Project Room, University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium, and the SONiC Festival in New York, to name a few. During the 2021-22 season, they can be seen with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra/MUSICNOW, University of Chicago Presents, University of Florida, University of Miami, Frost School, and more!
Comprised of vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire.
About Alice Teyssier, voice
About Damian Norfleet, voice
About Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
About Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
About Alexander Davis, bassoon
About Gareth Flowers, trumpet
About Timothy James "T.J." Robinson, trombone
About Kyle Turner, tuba
About Josh Modney, violin
Josh Modney—AKA Modney—is a violinist and creative musician working at the nexus of composition, improvisation, and interpretation. A "new-music luminary" (The New York Times) hailed for "jaw-dropping technical skill…" and as "one of today's most intrepid experimentalists" (Bandcamp Daily), Modney is a foremost interpreter of adventurous contemporary music, and has cultivated a holistic artistic practice as a composer, solo improviser, bandleader, music director, writer, arts administrator, and collaborator.
About Yezu Woo, violin
About Kyle Armbrust, viola
About Clare Monfredo, cello
About Courtney Bryan, piano
Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, is "a pianist and composer of panoramic interests" (The New York Times). She is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, and currently serves as composer-in-residence with Opera Philadelphia. Recent awards include the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2018), Samuel Barber Rome Prize in Music Composition (2019 2020), United States Artists Fellowship (2020), and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2020–2021). She is the Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music at Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University.
About Kebra-Seyoun Charles, double bass
About Clara Warnaar, percussion
About Rebekah Heller, conductor
Rebekah Heller is an artist whose work aims to expand the sonic possibilities of her instrument and the field at large. Called "an impressive solo bassoonist" by The New Yorker, she is dedicated to exploration, experimentation, and a robust collaborative practice.
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