NYWC & MIOLINA present: Miolina would like to thank the following for their assistance with making this concert happen, and we are so appreciative: “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 101” Glenn Cornett, Lester St. Louis, and all the staff at Spectrum; New York Women Composers; Max Lifchitz and Melissa Grey for writing MIOLINA us awesome new works; all the other composers for getting their Mioi Takeda, Violin thought-provoking music to us: Debra Kaye, Beata Moon, Angélica Lynn Bechtold, Violin Negrón, Elena Ruehr, & Rain Worthington.

Sunday–8 March, 2015–7 pm

Spectrum 121 Ludlow St, NYC

WORKS BY Lynn Bechtold Melissa Grey Debra Kaye Max Lifchitz Beata Moon Angélica Negrón Elena Ruehr Rain Worthington

With work described as “sumptuously scored and full of soaring melodies” (The New York Times), and “unspeakably gorgeous” (Gramophone), American composer Elena Ruehr is known for her lyrical and rhythmically vibrant music. Her music has an organic, breathing flow, derived from its origin in the movement of the body and the vitality of the natural world; her melodies often Tres insultos para dos violines (2004) Angélica Negrón incorporate details and figurations of improvised performance, sometimes with I. Burlesco exotic touches. An award-winning faculty member at MIT since 1992, she is II. Secco also a Guggenheim fellow and has been a fellow at Harvardʼs Radcliffe III. Insistente Institute, and was the first composer-in-residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) who recorded her opera Toussaint Before the Duet After Winter (2012) Debra Kaye Spirits (BMOP Sound) and her complete orchestral works (BMOP Sound, OʼKeeffe Images). In addition to her work with BMOP, her recordings A Silent Movie (2000/2013) Beata Moon include Averno (Avie Records, Trinity Choir, 2012), How She Danced: String Quartets of Elena Ruehr (Cypress String Quartet, 2010), Jane Wang considers Minnehaha Miniatures (2015) ❉ Lynn Bechtold the dragonfly (Albany, various artists, 2009) and Lift (Avie Records, Irina with pre-recorded electronics Muresanu, Jennifer Koetzel, Sarah Bob and Ethan Filner).

Rain Worthington has a distinct voice within the field of contemporary music. Night Stream (2011) ★ Rain Worthington As music journalist Bob Briggs noted, “…she writes music which speaks to the

senses, is packed with real emotion and, most important of all in contemporary Five Impromptus (2015) ❉ Max Lifchitz music, really communicates.” World music, minimalism and romanticism have I. Virtuoso Furioso influenced Worthingtonʼs compositional style. Her music has been performed II. Pizzica-Pizzica in a wide variety of venues from loft performance spaces and dance clubs in III. Happy New Year Mr. Billings New York City, to orchestra recordings in Eastern Europe and chamber IV. Sounds Mysterious concerts in Spain, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Iceland, and India. Rain V. Flashbacks Worthingtonʼs evocative work is nuanced, delicate, passionate and

transporting. Her music takes “…ideas of American musical style to a new Shukria (2012) ❉ Elena Ruehr place – like a walk in a familiar, yet very different park... And isnʼt afraid to

come up with its own startling conclusions” (Kyle Gann, Chamber Music Lateral Line: Three Electric Fish (2014) Melissa Grey magazine). Her music is released on CDBaby, North/South Recordings, and -stereo mix by Jan de Weille Navona Records. Member, NYWC. -electric recordings courtesy of Dr. F. Bretschneider,

Biology Department, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

❉ = World premiere

★ = NYC premiere

Since she settled in NYC, Japanese violinist Mioi Takeda earned her Conservatory of Music and Tufts University in Boston. In addition, she likes to reputation as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and as a compose electroacoustic works, and to write articles about food/music/life. Her seasoned new music specialist in town. As Miolina's artistic director, her compositions have been performed on the Composers Concordance Festivals mission is clear: Encourage composers to write music for violin duo employing and the Music With a View Festival, and at venues such as the Austrian the natural beauty and sound of the instruments, without limitations. She also Cultural Forum, and the Bohemian National Hall. She is on the faculty of The hopes to expand the violin-duo repertory for future generations. Mioi wants to Dwight School and Greenwich House Music School in NYC, and the Norwalk help rediscover neglected violin-duo compositions by old masters, and to Youth Symphony. share the joy of current violin-duo music with her audiences. In addition, Ms. Takeda has performed with new music groups, including North/South Composer Melissa Greyʼs projects include concert works, electroacoustic Consonance as concertmaster, SEM Ensemble, and Composers performances, installations, food and sound events, and collaborations with Concordance, giving countless premieres. She has also performed with the artists, architectural designers, and musicians. Recent works have been Orchestra of St. Luke's, American Symphony Orchestra, Washington Square published by The MIT Press and featured at the National Gallery of Canada, Festival, Scandia Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Strathmere Orchestra, The Whitney Museum of American Art (with Antenna International), Electronic Japan Philharmonic, and The New Japan Philharmonic. Ms. Takeda's Music Midwest, Goethe-Institut Montréal, The Stone, Corridor at BolteLang, performances can be heard on North/South and Naxos Recordings. Mioi was a Radiauteur, Dorsky Gallery, Alphabet City Festivals 2010 AIR and scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at The Juilliard 2009 WATER, Cinesonika: First International Film and Video Festival of Sound School, and she earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from The City University of Design, Parsons The New School for Design, Chicagoʼs Experimental Sound New York under the guidance of Itzhak Perlman. She also enjoys doing yoga Studio, Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media and others. Grey is and watching The Big Bang Theory when she is not playing the violin. currently Artistic Director and Curator of Circuit Bridges (Vox Novus), a monthly electroacoustic concert series presented in NYC and in communities Violinist/composer Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the around the world, and she teaches Sound Studies at The New School. U.S., Canada, Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked with composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Debra Kaye is a composer of contemporary classical music living in New York Harbison, and Morton Subotnick, and has premiered works on the Princeton City. Her recent release, And So It Begins, (with violinist Lynn Bechtold Composers' Series. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a work for performing on several of the tracks), made Ted Gioiaʼs list of the Top 100 CDs violin and electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier. Called 'up-and-coming' by of 2014. La Sonograma Magazine describes her musical language as deep TimeOut, and noted in All About Jazz for her 'virtuosity and technical and sensory, ”…a beautiful exhibition of the art of musical flow.” “…Unique expertise,' she performs with Zentripetal, Miolina, Bleecker StQ, North/South sound and feel…inspirational…an album that will surely stand the test of time,” Consonance, and the SEM Ensemble, and has been a member of groups that says babysue.com. A graduate of Mannes College and New York University, have included the East Village Opera Company (rock/opera band), Lumina with degrees in piano performance, composition, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics, String Quartet, and the NY Symphonic Ensemble. Ms. Bechtold has performed Debra rounded out her musicianship studying jazz piano with former musical around the world, and has been heard on CBC Radio, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, director to Dizzy Gillespie, Mike Longo. She has honed her craft “on the job,” NHK-TV, and WNYC, on shows such as 30 Rock, The CBS Morning Show, through collaborations such as this one, with Miolina. Support for her music and Good Day NY. Other programs have been with Absolute Ensemble, includes awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Mannes College, Edward Catalyst Dance, DJ Spooky, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor Dance Company, 10 T. Cone Foundation, residencies at the Millay Colony and Helene Wurlitzer Hairy Legs, Tenth Intervention, the Vermont Symphony, VisionIntoArt, VOX Foundation, and three Off-Off Broadway productions of The Ugly Duckling, Opera Readings, and Pablo Ziegler. In addition, she's performed with with laudatory notice from the NY Times. Debra is on the faculty of Mannes entertainers such as Boyz II Men, Willie Colon, Sheryl Crow, Dead Can Dance, Prep and Next (formerly the Extension Division). She has served as executive Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Band, Escort, Roberta Flack, Left Banke, director of the NY Composers Circle and president of the Howland Chamber Smokey Robinson, J-Pop band SMAP, Donna Summer, and Stevie Wonder. Music Circle in Beacon, NY. Member, NYWC. An active performer, she has performed at diverse venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Blue Note, Citi Field, the Frick Museum, the Harvard Club, Joe's Pub, Active as composer and performer, Max Lifchitz has appeared on concert Madison Square Garden, Merkin Hall, nublu, le Poisson Rouge, Radio City stages throughout Europe, Latin America and the US. He was awarded the Music Hall, St John the Divine, and Zankel Hall. She received her M.M. from first prize in the 1976 Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Mannes, where she was a student of noted violinist Felix Galimir. Prior to that, Contemporary Music held in Holland. A graduate of The Juilliard School and she received a double-degree in Violin and English from New England Harvard University, his mentors included Luciano Berio, Leon Kirchner, Bruno Maderna, and Darius Milhaud. His compositional and performance activities The New York Women Composersʼ annual Seed Money Grant have been sponsored by grants and fellowships from the ASCAP, Ford and Program awards grants for Concerts or Recording projects that Guggenheim Foundations; Meet the Composer, Inc.; the Individual Artists include a substantial commitment to the performance of music by Program of the New York State Council on the Arts; and the National NYWC members. Applicants may be solo performers, ensembles or Endowment for the Arts. His compositions and performances are available on the Classic Masters, CRI, Finnadar, New World, North/South, Opus One, RCA presenting organizations. The Mission of the New York Women Victor and Vienna Modern Masters record labels. Since 1980, he has directed Composers, Inc. is to create performing, recording, networking, and North/South Consonance, Inc. the performing organization devoted to the mentoring opportunities for its members, and to work for the promotion of music from the Americas based in New York City. Advocate betterment of all women concert-music composers. member, NYWC.

A versatile musician acclaimed for her expressivity and sincerity, Beata Moon ARTISTS & COMPOSERS continues to reach audiences through her many-faceted roles as composer, pianist and educator. Moon graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School where she was a student of Adele Marcus. After completing a semester of the Masters Degree Program at Juilliard, she took a Miolina was formed in 2012 when artistic director/violinist Mioi break from playing to reflect on what music meant to her personally. It was at Takeda decided to form a violin duo with longtime collaborator, this time that she discovered composing and teaching, which has resulted in violinist/composer Lynn Bechtold. To date, the duo has had her return to performing. The last eighteen years have seen Moon produce successful performances in NYC at The Church of the works in a variety of genres, including solo instrumental, chamber and voice. Transfiguration, Gallery MC, Greenwich House Music School, The Her four CDs of original music were enthusiastically received by press and public alike and continue to be broadcast on radio stations throughout the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Parsons School of Design, Queens world. Reviewer Andrew Druckenbrod of Gramophone magazine wrote, “Moon Library, Spectrum, St. Mark's Church, and Turtle Bay Music School, writes compelling music that is utterly sincere…” Through her various roles as as well as at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, and Monk an educator, performer and composer, Moon fulfills her wish to work musically Space in Los Angeles. In addition, they have performed on series with people of all ages and backgrounds. She believes that creating and and festivals such as Circuit Bridges, Composers Concordance, making music (not just listening to music) can be an invigorating way to Electronic Music Midwest, and International Street Cannibals. process lifeʼs varied experiences. Moon hopes to reach and engage all people Miolina specializes in violin duo music that employs the natural through her music and work. Member, NYWC. beauty and sound of the instruments, with or without electronics and Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica video. They enjoy collaborating on new compositions with Negrón writes music for accordions, toys and electronics as well as chamber composers, as well as discovering hidden gems of the past. Miolina's ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been described as “wistfully future productions include creating music for silent Japanese films of idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) and “mesmerizing and affecting” the 1920s, and collaborative performances with composer Martin (Feast of Music) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise” Phelps in Paris, France this coming June. Both violinists are and her “quirky approach to scoring”. Her music has been performed at the longtime advocates of new music, and have performed with various Bang on a Can Marathon and the Ecstatic Music Festival and she has collaborated with artists like Sō Percussion, janus trio and Face the Music, new music groups, including the American Symphony Orchestra, among others. Angélica is currently pursuing a doctorate at The Graduate Composers Concordance, Glass Farm Ensemble, North/South Center (CUNY), where she studies composition with Tania León. She's a Consonance, SEM Ensemble, & VIA. teaching artist for New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program www.miolinanyc.wix.com/miolina and for Little Orchestra Society's School Partnership Program working with children grades K through sixth on creative composition projects. Angélica is (Continued on next page…) the 2014-2015 Van Lier Fellow at American Composers Orchestra.