Vent Nouveau In collaboration with Compass New Music Series March 25, 2018 4:30PM National Opera Center, Scorca Hall, NYC WHITE RAVEN - CHAMBER MUSIC FOR WINDS About Vent Nouveau is thrilled to partner with Compass New Music on this second annual performance of works by composers whose gender identities mean they do not benefit from the cisgender male-dominant culture of the contemporary classical music world. Music for this program was selected through a blind call-for-scores, and also with works by members of New York Women Composers, who have partially funded this performance with a seed grant. Program Ternura de las Grullas Alba potes Solo Flute Stress and Sunshine Hilary Purrington Intermission BaDaBaDaDa Rain Worthington Solo Bass Clarinet Woodwind Quintet White RAven Sonia Jacobsen Summer Reveries on a Mountainside Marga Richter Mixed Woodwind Quintet Solo Clarinet Simply Meows Elena REzzaro Wind Septet Thick Line Alex Temple Mycelium Elizabeth Lain Mixed Wind Trio Wind Septet Only to Ask Rain Worthington Mixed Wind Trio August Swale Beth Anderson Woodwind Quintet The Composers SONGS IN TRANSIT: An American Expedition Soprano Melanie Mitrano recorded LULLABY (words by Auden) and BEAUTY RUNS FASTER (words by the composer) for her new CD is on Beth Anderson Capstone CPS-8756. Her TRIO: dream in d and NET WORK have Beth Anderson (www.beand.com/) is a composer of new been released on Two by Three: Music by Women on romantic music, text-sound works, and music theater NORTH/SOUTH RECORDS, BELGIAN TANGO recorded by The Tango events. She has composed and has had produced an opera, Project, is available on Newport Classics CDs and OPUS ONE an oratorio, three off-off Broadway musicals, several has released REVEL with the Richmond Symphony and downtown music theater collaborations, music for MINNESOTA SWALE with the Bratislava Radio Orchestra. Her orchestra, voice, chorus, tape, instrumental solos with publishers include Joshua Corp./E.M.I., Recital Music in and without electronic modulation, and a large amount of England and Antes/Bella Musica in Germany. Ms. Anderson's chamber music, in this country and in Europe, on radio biography appears in Baker's Biographical Dictionary, The and in concert. A resident of New York City, Ms. New Grove Dictionary of American Music, The New Grove Anderson is a member of the International Alliance of Opera Dictionary, The Pandora Guide To Women Composers by Women in Music, B.M.I., & New York Women Composers. She Sophie Fuller, The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women has taught at New York University, Mills College Composers, Women In American Music by Christina Ammer, Preparatory, the N.Y.C. Public School System, Young Contemporary American Composers by Ruth Anderson, Women Audiences, the New School for Social Research, D.C. 37, Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the 20th Century, and the College of New Rochelle. Her articles have been Vol. 2 by Jane Weiner LePage, Contemporary Composers published in Heresies Magazine, Paid My Dues, The Soho edited by Morton & Collins, and The World Who's Who of Weekly News, and in Ear Magazine, which she Women. Born in Kentucky, she studied primarily in created/edited/published in New York City and California with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley and edited/published in San Francisco. Her early work was Larry Austin, at Mills College and the University of considered post-Cagian, non-academic but more recently California at Davis. She served as resident composer at the music became more lyrical while retaining the cut-up the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum quality of the minimalists. Her all-Beth Anderson in Bennington, Vermont and was chosen as contemporary recordings are out on Albany (QUILT MUSIC, 2004), New competition composer for the 2002 Vakhtang Jordania World (SWALES & ANGELS, 2004), and Pogus (PEACHY KEEN-O, International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. 2003). Other Minds (2003) includes TORERO PIECE. AMERICAN WOMEN: Modern Voices In Piano Music recorded by Nancy Boston includes SEPTEMBER SWALE along with new piano music by American women composers Deussen, Galbraith, Zaimont, Moon and Diemer just released 2006. POINTS OF ENTRY:The Laurels Project Vol. I Comment for flute solo (based on a poem by Dorothy Parker) is out on a Capstone CD (CPS-8759) performed by Nina Assimakopoulos. Her compositions, Cantares para Orquesta and Reflexiones, were winners of the 2002 New Music Reading Sessions of The Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco and the 1994 Riverside Symphony's First Alba Potes International Composers Reading Project in New York. Ms. Potes, (Colombia-USA), moved to the United States in Ms. Potes has received commissions, among others, from 1983 and began composing music in 1990 at the age of 35. the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, Music of Changes, She has established a career as a composer known for her Cantori New York, Independence Foundation Fellowship subtle, yet energetic and personal style. In her style in the Arts, Colombia's Luis Angel Arango Recital one notes rich European influences blended with Hall/Banco de la República, Roger Shapiro Fund for New occasional traces of rhythms and melodic gestures Music and the Office of Academic Affairs of Hostos inspired by Latin-American traditional music. Community College. Her compositions have been performed by the Montreal Ms. Potes began her musical studies at the Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia, the Conservatorio Antonio Maria Valencia in Cali, her Symphony Orchestra of Cali, National Philharmonic hometown. She received a Bachelor of Arts in music Orchestra of Venezuela (XVI Festival de Música theory, a Master of Music in composition and a Doctor Latinoamericana), the National Symphony of El Salvador of Musical Arts in composition from Temple University (IV Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea), where she studied with Matthew Greenbaum, Ursula Azlo Orchestra, (NYC), Cantori New York, Darmstadt 2000 Mamlok, and Maurice Wright. Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, International Alliance for Women in Music, the ISCM in New York, The New York Times has described her composition, Parnassus, the Network for New Music, Momenta Quartet, Canciones Nocturnas, as songs that "limn nocturnal The New York New Music Ensemble, the Institute for New shadows exquisitely and are the very soul of brevity" Music in Freiburg, Germany, and the ISCM in Seoul, South and Cánticos para Cinco as a composition of "calmly Korea. Her music has been heard in England, Colombia, weaving counterpoint, undulant dance rhythms, and Brazil, Austria, El Salvador, Germany, Mexico, elegant atonal harmonies". Argentina, and Venezuela. She has received commissions from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, Cantori New York, Independent Foundation, Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, Sala Luis Angel Arango/Banco de la República of Colombia and Music of Changes, among others. Ms. Potes is the Artistic Director and founder of the concert series Las Américas en Concierto and teaches at The New School Mannes College Preparatory Division. Other artists who have performed her music include Jessye Norman, Natalie Hinderas, David Wells, Lenore Engdahl, Vivian Marga Richter Taylor, Leonard Raver, Peter Basquin, and Daniel Heifetz, for whom Richter wrote her Landscapes of the Mind II which he A Mid-Western native (WI, MN), Richter earned her Bachelor's premiered at Alice Tully Hall in New York and included in his and Master's degrees in composition at The Juilliard School prize-winning Tchaikovsky Competition program in Moscow in where she studied piano with Rosalyn Tureck and majored in 1978. composition with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti. She has written over 150 works, encompassing virtually every genre. Conductors who have programmed or recorded her music include: Her orchestral music has been played by over 50 orchestras Marin Alsop, Richard Bales, Michael Bartos, Louis Calabro, including concert performances by the Atlanta and Milwaukee Arthur Cohn, Ainslee Cox, JoAnn Falletta, Harold Farberman, Symphonies, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Julius Hegyi, Margaret Hillis, Kenneth Jean, Roland Johnson, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the National Gallery Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, Louis Lane, Seymour Lipkin, Carolann Martin, Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oakland, Oklahoma, Gregory Millar, Sheldon Morgenstern, Thomas Nee, Kenneth Tucson, Oakland, Madison, and Maracaibo Symphonies, and Schermerhorn, Gerard Schwarz, Jose Serebrier, Calvin Simmons, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seattle Stanislaw Skrowaczeski, William Smith, Izler Solomon, Joel Symphony, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, the Czech Radio Symphony Suben, Carlos Surinach and Wolfgang Trommer. Orchestra and the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra. Richter's music is published by Carl Fischer, G. Schirmer, In 1951, while she was still a student at Juilliard, Broude Brothers, Theodore Presser, Vivace and Shrewsbury Richter's music was presented at a Composers Forum concert at Press*. She has received grants, commissions, awards and MacMillin Theatre in New York, until then the youngest composer fellowships from private individuals and institutions, the to be so honored. National Endowment for the Arts, National Federation of Music Clubs, Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, Meet The Composer and Richter's music first came to national attention in the late ASCAP. 1950's through a series of four commissioned recordings by MGM Records for: Menahem Pressler - Sonata for Piano; William Masselos - Concerto for Piano and Violas, Cellos and Basses; Walter Trampler - Aria and Toccata for Viola and Strings; and Lament for Strings. A fifth MGM recording from that period included Transmutation – Eight Songs on Chinese Texts, and Two Chinese Songs, for soprano and piano. (Dorothy Renzi and Maro Ajemian). She first began composing solo piano pieces, before learning music notation, and performed her works from memory in fellow artists’ lofts in Soho and at The Kitchen. With the downtown Rain Worthington NYC club scene serving as her conservatory, Worthington led two bands and performed at CBGB’s, the Pyramid, Roulette, and PS “There is a deep interiority to this music .