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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS February 20, 2019 Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450 Tickets & Information: 212/854-7799 [email protected] millertheatre.com Lauren Bailey, 212/854-1633 [email protected]

"There are few series as satisfying as the Miller Theater’s signature dives into one composer." — The New York Times

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts

presents a Composer Portrait of TYSHAWN SOREY

New music superstars ICE and JACK Quartet perform recent works by Sorey including a world premiere commissioned by Miller Theatre

Sorey also guests as conductor and percussionist

Thursday, March 28, 2019, 8:00 p.m. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)

Tickets: $20–$30; Students with valid ID: $7–$18

From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey: “Tyshawn is a phenomenal, multi-faceted artist who I've followed for years, especially during his time at Columbia University, where he recently completed his Doctorate in Musical Arts. I am thrilled that audiences will get to experience his unrivaled artistry in this Portrait, both as a performer and composer.”

Q&A with Melissa Smey about this Portrait by writer Lara Pellegrinelli https://www.millertheatre.com/about/news/tyshawn-sorey-qa

Tyshawn Sorey (photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theatre)

Composer Portraits Thursday, March 28, 2019, 8:00 p.m. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Tyshawn Sorey Tyshawn Sorey is a visionary artist who is erasing the lines of musical preconceptions. The 2017 MacArthur Fellow has a wide-ranging creative practice, embracing the roles of composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, scholar, and educator. This Portrait features two new works, written for ensembles with which Sorey has close ties.

PROGRAM: Autoschediasms for Creative Chamber Orchestra (2019), world premiere, Miller Theatre commission Everything Changes, Nothing Changes (2018), New York premiere Violin and Glockenspiel, in Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams (2018) Bertha’s Lair (2016) Ornations (2014)

ARTISTS: JACK Quartet International Contemporary Ensemble

Tyshawn Sorey tyshawnsorey.com

Newark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Claire Chase, Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman, Robyn Schulkowsky, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, and Myra Melford, among many others.

Sorey has received support for his creative projects from The Jerome Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, and Van Lier Fellowship and was a 2015 recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Award. The Spektral Quartet, Ojai Music Festival, and ICE have commissioned his works. As a percussionist and resident composer, he collaborates regularly with ICE. As a leader, he has released six critically acclaimed recordings that feature his work, including his latest Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017).

Sorey received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition in 2017 from Columbia University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Creative Music at Wesleyan University, where he received his Masters in Composition in 2011.

JACK Quartet jackquartet.com

Deemed "superheroes of the new music world" (Boston Globe), the JACK Quartet is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and spread of new string quartet music. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, JACK has collaborated with composers John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, Caroline Shaw, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Matthias Pintscher, and John Zorn. Upcoming and recent premieres include works by Derek Bermel, Cenk Ergün, Roger Reynolds, Toby Twining, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

The recipient of Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA's Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, JACK has performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Wigmore Hall (U.K.), Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (Netherlands), IRCAM (France), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Suntory Hall (Japan), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Festival Internacional Cervatino (Mexico), and Teatro Colón (Argentina).

International Contemporary Ensemble iceorg.org

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is an artist collective that is transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, ICE explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The ensemble’s 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time.

A recipient of the American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award and the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, ICE was also named the 2014 Musical America Ensemble of the Year. The group currently serves as artists in residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart Festival, and previously led a five- year residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

New initiatives include OpenICE, made possible with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which offers free concerts and related programming wherever ICE performs, and enables a working process with composers to unfold in public settings. DigitICE, a free online library of over 350 streaming videos, catalogues the ensemble’s performances. ICE's First Page program is a commissioning consortium that fosters close collaborations between performers, composers, and listeners as new music is developed. EntICE, a side-by-side education program, places ICE musicians within youth orchestras as they premiere new commissioned works together. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE. The final concert in Miller Theatre's Composer Portraits Series

Single tickets: $20-$30 Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)

Thursday, April 18, 2019, 8 p.m. DAVID T. LITTLE

Miller Theatre millertheatre.com

Now in its 30th Anniversary season, Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New York City and one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming. In partnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Miller is dedicated to producing and presenting unique events, with a focus on contemporary and early music, jazz, opera, and multimedia performances. Founded in 1988, Miller Theatre has helped launch the careers of myriad composers and ensembles over the years, serving as an incubator for emerging artists and a champion of those not yet well known in the United States. A four-time recipient of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, Miller Theatre continues to meet the high expectations set forth by its founders—to present innovative programs, support the development of new work, and connect creative artists with adventurous audiences.

Major support for Miller Theatre’s 2018-19 Season is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

Major support for Composer Portraits is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Columbia University’s Miller Theatre is located north of the Main Campus Gate at 116th St. & Broadway on the ground floor of Dodge Hall.

Directions and information are available online at millertheatre.com or via the Miller Theatre Box Office at 212.854.7799.

For photos, please contact Lauren Bailey, 212/854-1633; [email protected].

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