Bryant Park Presents IN/TER\SECT Friday, August 4 | Saturday, August 5

Two-day and classical music festival, featuring music by Billy Childs and Derek Bermel. Produced by Bryant Park Corporation with Chamber Music America. Curated by Patrick Zimmerli.

Hosted by Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Music .

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 | 6-10PM | Featuring the music of Billy Childs

MANUEL VALERA TRIO THE TRITON BRASS QUINTET THE CITY OF TOMORROW BILLY CHILDS QUARTET

Piano provided by Yamaha Artist Services, New York.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 | 2-9PM | Featuring the music of Derek Bermel

DR. ASHLEY JACKSON: ELECTRIC LADY BLAIRMEL: BLAIR MCMILLEN AND DEREK BERMEL HELEN SUNG: SUNG WITH WORDS SINGS PATRICK ZIMMERLI’S SAPPHO: DESIRE MANHATTAN CHAMBER PLAYERS HALF AND HALF BY DEREK BERMEL AND NATE SMITH METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE

Piano provided by Steinway & Sons..

Chamber Music America (CMA) is the national network of ensemble music professionals. Chamber-Music.org.

Bryant Park Corporation operates Bryant Park and produces events year round. BryantPark.org.

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Luma Hotel and The Bryant Hotel are the official accommodation sponsors of Bryant Park Presents INT/TER\SECT.

Bryant Park Presents is a performing arts series produced by Bryant Park Corporation that creates adventurous and immersive outdoor cultural experiences in the center of Midtown Manhattan. The season, April 21 – September 15, 2017, comprises more than 40 free events spanning a broad range of concerts, theater performances, dance parties, and more.

IN/TER\SECT PROGRAM 8pm: The City of Tomorrow

FRIDAY Elise Blatchford , flute Stuart Breczinski , oboe Rane Moore , clarinet Nanci Belmont , bassoon Leander Star , horn

6pm: Manuel Valera Trio Forging a new identity for the wind quintet in the same way that did for strings, The City of Tomorrow commissions new works, buffs up older compositions from the 20th century, and continues to shatter expectations for a concert of wind chamber music. This frequently means unexpected sounds: conch shell horns, Manuel Valera , piano Hans Glawischnig , bass E. J. Strickland , drums strange timbres coming from double-reed instruments, wails from the French horn, improvisation in the clarinet, and a flute that can whisper, spit, talk, and sigh. A touring ensemble that has performed across the U.S. and Born and raised in Havana, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Manuel Valera has become well known in Canada in venues ranging from concert halls to the Mayo Clinic, the group is the only woodwind quintet to win a the modern jazz scene, garnering national reviews and lending his talents as a pianist and composer to such gold medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in more than 15 years. TheCityofTomorrow.org. notable artists as , Paquito D’Rivera, , Dafnis Prieto, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Chris Potter, Dave Binney, , Mark Turner, John Benitez, , Joel Frahm, MEMORIA (2003) …………………………………………………………………….………………..……………. Esa Pekka Salonen

Yosvany Terry and Pedro Martinez and classical violinist and composer Joshua Bell, among many others. This Twenty years passed between the first doubt-laden draft of Memoria for chamber symphony in 1982 and the premiere of dynamic and prolific artist has recorded 12 CDs as a bandleader with touring projects ranging from his Grammy- the wind quintet version. It took exactly this long – and much heavy editing – for Salonen to feel at peace with this nominated group New Cuban Express to his modern contemporary trio to solo piano. His latest trio recording, The sweeping and emotional work. As Memoria grew in size and scope, it took on the added significance of serving as a Seasons, was released on MAVO Records in Spring 2017. Valera is the recipient of many composition grants — tribute to the late Luciano Berio. The final mysterious chorale resembles the last section of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of most notably Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, the Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation and the Wind Instruments , itself a tribute to Debussy. ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. He has performed in more than 30 countries at some of the biggest international venues and festivals in the world. ManuelValera.com. LEANDER AND HERO (2014) ………..…………………...………………………………..……….....…………….. Hannah Lash

I. Prelude: The Cliffs IV. The Storm; Leander Does Not Return to the Nest The trio performs selections from its recent recording, The Seasons . II. Courting Dance: Slow and Ancient V. Postlude: The Cliffs

III. Flocking

Lash examines apocalyptic phenomenon through the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, a tragedy of two minor characters subject to natural forces greater than themselves and doomed by their own fidelity. Leander and Hero are depicted as seabirds, mated for life and victims of the terrible storms unleashed on their habitat. Leander is killed by the storm, and 7pm: The Triton Brass Quintet Hero will not leave his body that washes up on the shore. Made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the CMA Endowment Fund, and this Stephen Banzaert and Andrew Sorg , trumpets Shelagh Abate , horn performance is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Wes Hopper , tenor trombone Angel Subero , bass trombone FUGUE IN PERPETUAL MOTION (IN B-FLAT MAJOR) (1999) ……………………………………………….. Billy Childs

with Glenn Zaleski , piano Billy Childs’ lively and irreverent quintet was premiered by the Dorian Quintet, authorities in the wind quintet genre. Although the title creates an impression that the piece will be in the key of B-flat major, the twisting fugue subject quickly Prize winners at the 2005 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition and 2003 Fischoff International spirals through distant tonalities and unexpected rhythmic junctures. Chamber Music Competition, The Triton Brass Quintet is in its fourth year as artists-in-residence at The Boston Conservatory. The ensemble is an exciting musical collaborative that is a fervent supporter of new music, performing multiple world premieres throughout the U.S. and maintaining a growing repertoire of works from talented young composers. TritonBrass.org. 9pm: Billy Childs Quartet Glenn Zaleski , one of the most in-demand jazz pianists in NYC, has played with , Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig, and was a semi-finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. Earlier this year, he released his second album, Fellowship , on Sunnyside Records to critical acclaim. All About Jazz says, Billy Childs , piano Steve Wilson , alto saxophone "Glenn Zaleski has quickly become one of the most important pianists of his generation." DownBeat called his Hans Glawischnig , bass Ulysses Owens, Jr. , drums debut album "sublime," and The New York Times praised his "fluent but unhurried sense of phrase." He attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program in Stockton, CA, and finished his undergraduate studies at The New Four-time Grammy winner Billy Childs is perhaps the most distinctly American composer since Aaron Copland - School in 2009. While working towards his graduate degree at NYU from 2009-11, Glenn was also on NYU faculty, for like Copland, he has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical teaching classes and private students. GlennZaleski.com. traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism. A native of LA, he grew up immersed in jazz, classical, and popular music. By the time he graduated from USC with a degree in LO QUE VENDRA (1957) ……..……………………………………………………………………………….…..….…. Astor Piazzola composition, Childs was already an in-demand performer in the LA jazz scene. He has recorded and performed with many influential jazz musicians including , J.J. Johnson, Joe Henderson, Jack DeJohnette, CINCO PIEZAS, NO. 4: TRISTON (1980) ……………….…………………….………………………………..…. Astor Piazzola , , , and , with classical musicians Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, MICHELANGELO ‘70 (1969) …….…………………………………………………………………………………..…. Astor Piazzola The Kronos Quartet, The Ying Quartet, and The American Brass Quintet, and with and . Simultaneously with his recording and performance career, Childs has occupied a parallel niche as a composer. TWO ELEMENTS FOR BRASS QUINTET AND PIANO (2007) …...... ………………………………….…….. Billy Childs His orchestral and chamber commission credits include Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonic,

I. Water II. Fire Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The American Brass Quintet, and The Dorian Wind Quintet. Childs has garnered thirteen Grammy nominations and four awards: two for Best Instrumental Composition and two for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist. In 2009, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, was awarded the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2013, and received the music award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2015. BillyChilds.com.

The quartet performs selections from its recent album, Rebirth .