Victoire Welcome to VIVA! & Gala Friday, February 22, 2013 • 7:30 P.M

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�� Victoire Welcome to VIVA! & Gala Friday, February 22, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. The new season of concerts at the Cleveland Museum of Gartner Auditorium, The Cleveland Museum of Art Art showcases 16 outstanding performances from around the globe and the U.S. Among the many highlights of ENSEMBLE the season are programs that tie into exhibitions, the openings of the Renaissance and Islamic galleries, and Missy Mazzoli (compositions, keyboards) the stunningly beautiful Ames Family Atrium. Mellissa Hughes (voice) Olivia De Prato (violin) Tonight please join me in welcoming composer Missy Eileen Mack (clarinet) Mazzoli and her ensemble Victoire to Cleveland. Lorna Krier (keyboards) Coming in March, we present Iraqi oud virtuoso Naseer Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass) Shamma, and fadista Ana Moura singing the passion songs of Portugal. PROGRAM

Then in April, we host Afro-pop superstar Oliver Tonight’s program is presented without intermission. Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits for a dance party in the Order to be announced from the stage. atrium and the inimitable Paris Combo. The Diver There’s much more to come. . . glance through the VIVA! & Gala brochure available in the lobby and see if A Song for Arthur Russell anything catches your imagination for an evening in the A Song for Mick Kelly fabulous surroundings of the Cleveland Museum of Art. A Thousand Tongues Cathedral City Thank you for being with us tonight. A Door into the Dark i am coming for my things Like a Miracle Orizzonte Massoud Saidpour India Whiskey Curator of Performing Arts and Music

For legal reasons and physical safety of the artists and for the comfort of the audience, cameras and other recording devices are not permitted in the theater during the performance. COMPOSERS NOTES ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Orizzonte, for piano and electrionics, consists of gently VICTOIRE is a family of musical misfits living in New overlapping sinewaves that set the stage for a meditative York City, helmed by composer/keyboardist Missy and introspective piano melody. This piece was composed Mazzoli. This “all-star, all-female band” (Time Out New for Hills Not Skyscrapers, a band devoted to combining live York) of strings, keyboards, clarinets, and electronics electronics, composition and improvisation, founded by performs Mazzoli’s hypnotic blend of dreamy chamber Missy Mazzoli in Amsterdam in 2004. The sinewaves were pop, minimalism and rich romanticism. Their debut created using SuperCollider software. Orizzonte (“horizons” album Cathedral City, released in 2010 on New in Italian) was first performed on a piano that had been left Amsterdam Records, envelopes the listener in a tapestry out in the rain for a year, in a dilapidated squat hidden in of classical influences, distorted guitars, multi-layered the heart of Amsterdam. vocals, vintage keyboard sounds and stuttering samples. Cathedral City was named one of 2010’s best classical albums by the New York Times, Time Out New York, the A Thousand Tongues was originally commissioned by cellist New Yorker, and NPR, and Pitchfork praised the group and vocalist Jody Redhage, and the version you will hear for “condensing moments of focused beauty and quiet tonight is a remix by Victoire’s keyboardist Lorna (Dune) conviction from the pandemic distractions of modern Krier. This piece is a short but intense response to the life.” In the past two years Victoire has performed following text by Stephen Crane: all over the US at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chicago’s Millennium Park, Le Poisson Rouge, Joe’s Yes, I have a thousand tongues, Pub, Roulette, the Whitney Museum, and the Bang on And nine and ninety-nine lie. a Can Marathon. In 2011 they embarked on their first Though I strive to use the one, European tour with The National, Efterklang, and Owen It will make no melody at my will, Pallett, and returned to Europe last Fall for a tour of But is dead in my mouth. Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands with My Brightest Diamond. They also recently performed in Sweden as part of the 2012 M.A.D.E. Festival and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival, curated by Bryce and Aaron Dessner. Victoire is Missy Mazzoli (compositions, keyboards), Mellissa Hughes and Caroline Shaw (voice), Olivia De Prato (violin), Eileen Mack (clarinet), Lorna Krier (keyboards), and Eleonore Oppenheim (double bass). For more information, visit www.victoiremusic.com or www.missymazzoli.com.

4 5 Internationally recognized as a soloist as well as a work by Matt Marks; sings a solo cycle written for her by chamber musician, Austro-Italian violinist Olivia De Jacob Cooper on a bill with Corey Dargel at (le) Poisson Prato has been described as “flamboyant... convincing” Rouge; makes her New York City Opera debut in a work (New York Times) and an “enchanting violinist” by John Zorn; tours with Missy Mazzoli and Victoire; (Messaggero Veneto, Italy). After moving to New York sings Reich on the West Coast with Alan Pierson and City she has quickly established herself as a passionate Alarm Will Sound, et al. Recent highlights include the performer of contemporary and improvised music, world premiere of David T. Little’s Am I Born, a solo breaking boundaries of the traditional violin repertoire orchestral work written for Ms. Hughes, commissioned and regularly performs in Europe, South America, China by the Brooklyn Philharmonic for Alan Pierson’s and the United States. Her chamber music activities inaugural season as Music Director; rapturously-received include appearances at the Bang on a Can Marathon in performances of David Coll’s Position, Influence for the New York City, the David Byrne Perspective Series at MATA Festival; the world premiere of Alex Temple’s Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival with Pierre Boulez, Liebeslied with George Manahan and the American the Ensemble Modern Festival (Austria), “June in Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall. Buffalo” Festival, the Ojai Festival with Steve Reich and Lorna Krier is one of the most versatile young Brad Lubman, the Darmstadt New Music Festival and keyboardists in New York performing music from the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK. experimental to pop on anything from analog As well as her activities with Victoire, Olivia is the synthesizers to toy pianos to Steinways. Ms. Krier co-founder and first violinist of the Mivos String Quartet, has been described as “a pianist specializing in focused on the performance of contemporary repertoire. contemporary music, who has become an expert In 2010 and 2011 she toured Europe and South Africa synthesizer player and is helping break down the with Grammy-award winning Esperanza Spalding and boundary between new classical and indie rock” Chamber Music Society on violin and viola. (Lukas Ligeti). Acting as an advocate for new music, Hailed by the New York Times as “a versatile, she has worked with some of the nation’s finest young charismatic soprano endowed with brilliant technique composers and performers to create exciting new and superlative stage instincts…indispensable to New works. She is currently performing with the “all-star, all- York’s new-music ecosystem,” Mellissa Hughes enjoys female quintet” (Time Out New York) Victoire with Missy a busy career in both contemporary and early music. A Mazzoli, JD Samson & MEN, her solo project Lorna Dune, dedicated interpreter of living composers, Ms. Hughes and many other bands and ensembles touring across has worked closely with Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, the US, Europe, and Canada. www.lornakrier.com David Lang, Steve Reich, Neil Rolnick, and has premiered works by Caleb Burhans, David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Ted Hearne, Jacob Cooper, Matt Marks, and Frederick Rzewski. In the current season, Ms. Hughes reunites with the Brooklyn Philharmonic for performances of a new

6 7 Clarinetist Eileen Mack grew up in Australia and is now Eleonore Oppenheim is a versatile bassist-about-town, based in New York. She is a sought after new music equally at home in several genres, and a staple of the “new clarinetist, regularly performing with the Newspeak music scene” as well. Her playing has been described as ensemble and Victoire, as well as appearing with groups “…quietly virtuosic…with subtle expressivity…” (Alan Kozinn, including Signal Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra, NY Times), “…with particular eloquence,” (Joshua Kosman, Wet Ink, ymusic, and the Bang on a Can All Stars. She San Francisco Chronicle), and “…skillfully negotiated… has worked with composers such as Steve Reich, David astonishingly poised.” (Joshua Rosenblum, Charleston Post Lang, and Michael Gordon, with conductors including and Courier). For more, look her up at Oliver Knussen and Pierre Boulez, and has in venues www.eleonoreoppenheim.com. including Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Eileen has performed as soloist at the Canberra International UPCOMING PERFORMANCES Chamber Music Festival and the Bang on a Can Marathon. Music in the Galleries Wednesday, March 6, 6:00. Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more Young artists from the historical performance program at consistently inventive, surprising composers now Case Western Reserve University perform an hour-long working in New York” (New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s concert in the galleries. Free. post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York), and her music has been performed all over the world. She Naseer Shamma & Ensemble Friday, March 15, 7:30. is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and in February 2012 her “No other musician playing in Cairo has ever had such a chamber opera, Song from the Uproar, had a sold-out power over such a large audience.” –Al Ahram (Cairo) premiere run at New York venue The Kitchen. The Iraqi musical master and oud (lute) virtuoso Naseer Wall Street Journal called this work “both powerful Shamma performs Arab music from its golden era with his and new”, and the New York Times claimed that “in the ensemble Oyoun from Cairo. Presented in conjunction with electric surge of Ms. Mazzoli’s score you felt the joy, the opening of the Islamic galleries. $34–$54 risk, and limitless potential of free spirits unbound.” Ana Moura: Fado of Portugal October 2012 saw the premiere of SALT, Missy’s new Friday, March 22, 7:30. collaboration with cellist Maya Beiser and writer Erin Cressida-Wilson, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Superb young fadista.” –Billboard The upcoming season will include premieres by the Fado (“fate”) arose out of Lisbon cafes to become the Kronos Quartet, pianist Emanuel Ax, and the Detroit most prized music of Portugal. Ana Moura, a leading Symphony. Mazzoli is an active pianist and keyboardist, exponent of the genre, interweaves glimmers of hope, and has performed around the world with her ensemble hints of sensuality, passages of melancholy, and glints of Victoire. Mazzoli’s music is published by G. Schirmer. determination into a magical musical elixir. $34–$54

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES (CONTINUED) �� Visit www.clevelandart.org/vivagala for more information about ��performances, including audio/video samples and program notes. DANCE�� PARTY IN THE ATRIUM! Oliver�� Mtukudzi ��Inca Son ��Naseer Shamma & Ensemble ��Friday, October 26, 7:30 ��Friday, March 15, 7:30 Friday,�� April 5, 9:00. † �� Prazak Quartet ��Ana Moura: Fado of Portugal “A gorgeous night of polyrhythmic grooves.” –New York ��Wednesday, October 31, 7:30 ��Friday, March 22, 7:30 Times�� Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI ��Oliver Mtukudzi In his music, Afro-pop superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi ��Wednesday, November 7, 7:30 ��IN THE ATRIUM ��Friday, April 5, 9:00 mixes�� hypnotic guitar loop, percussive beats, and the ��James Feddeck, solo organ African�� thumb piano with his soulful husky voice and ��Sunday, January 13, 2:30 ��Paris Combo vocal harmonies to superb effect. Tall, slim and handsome, ��Friday, April 19, 7:30 �� Kronos Quartet with�� a big stage presence, an easy manner, and a slick ��Friday, January 18, 7:30 ��The Cleveland Orchestra line in dance moves, his live performances pack houses in ��California Masterworks �� King Lear: prestigious stages around the world from the Barbican in ��Wednesday & Friday, May 1 & 3, 7:30 �� Contemporary Legend Theatre London to the Millennium Park in Chicago. $43 ��of Taiwan �� Friday, January 25, 7:30 “Tuku” prix fixe dinner(7:00 p.m. seating) Menu�� includes peanut butter stew with organic chicken, * ��Chanticleer free-range�� antelope with sweet potato purée, cornmeal ��IN THE ATRIUM �� cake�� with toasted sour cream, and other items inspired by Wednesday, January 30, 9:00 the�� eclectic Zimbabwean culture. $75 (excludes gratuity) * ��Flamenco Vivo/Carlota Santana �� Friday, February 8, 7:30 * ��The Idan Raichel Project Paris�� Combo ��Saturday, February 16, 7:30 �� Friday, April 19, 7:30. ��Victoire �� “Seduces you with its one-of-a-kind point of view.” –Jazziz ��Friday, February 22, 7:30 �� † ��The Art of Naqqali: This fascinating quintet from Paris brings back a cabaret- �� Master Storytellers of Iran style�� sound reminiscent of the Paris of the late 1930s. The ��Wednesday & Friday, March 6 & 8, 7:30 young�� vibrant Combo plot an innovative course of new ��Saturday & Sunday, March 9 & 10, 2:30 and original music that, like its predecessor, is unabashedly �� playful and sensuous and bubbles with subtlety and intelligence. $34–54 �

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