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Jean-Baptiste Barrière Aleba & Co. 134 Henry Street • New York, NY 10002 212 206 1450 • [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: February 24, 2014 Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450; [email protected] InFormation: 212/854-7799; millertheatre.com Charlotte Levitt, 212/854-2380; [email protected] EDITORS’ NOTE: Members of the press are invited to attend a closing reception for “The Garden of Dreams” in the East Gallery immediately prior to the Composer Portrait concert, at 6:30pm on Saturday, March 29. The artist will be present and available to answer questions. RSVP to [email protected]. “Chréode I is an astonishing parade oF synthesized voices, sometimes sounding like the song oF Easter Island statues, sometimes like a human choir sweeping up through the pitch spectrum.” – The New York Times Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with a multi-faceted exploration of the work of Jean-Baptiste Barrière featuring RAPHAËLE KENNEDY, soprano CAMILLA HOITENGA, flute MARGARET LANCASTER, flute ALIISA BARRIÈRE, violin NATHAN DAVIS, percussion COMPOSER PORTRAIT CONCERT Saturday, March 29, 2014, 8:00 p.m. Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Tickets: $20-$30 • Students with valid ID: $12-$18 SPECIAL EXHIBIT: THE GARDEN OF DREAMS Monday, March 24 – Saturday, March 29 East Gallery, Maison Française (Buell Hall, Columbia University) An interactive multimedia installation exploring the ephemeral world oF dreams SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: DISTANT MIRRORS Saturday, March 29, 12 noon & 1:00 PM Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) An international, live collaboration between two flutists: Camilla Hoitenga perForming in Lyons, France, and Margaret Lancaster onstage at Miller Theatre in NYC Page 1 of 5 From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey: “Our Portrait oF Jean-baptiste encompasses a mainstage concert, a multimedia installation, and a live interactive perFormance that will bridge both sides oF the Atlantic. Produced in collaboration with partners at Columbia’s Maison Française and the Musée Gadagne in Lyon, France, this unique project will enable music and art lovers to explore the Full range of this artist’s fascinating work with digital media, images, and sound.” COMPOSER PORTRAITS Miller Theatre’s "ever-intriguing" (The New Yorker) signature series continues to celebrate the best contemporary composers from around the globe—emerging and established—with evening-length musical profiles. This season, all seven composers will participate in onstage discussions during their Portraits. Composer Portraits Saturday, March 29, 2014, 8:00 p.m. Jean-Baptiste Barrière Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Jean-Baptiste Barrière composer Aliisa Neige barrière violin Nathan Davis percussion Camilla Hoitenga flute Raphaële Kennedy soprano Margaret Lancaster flute Jean-baptiste barrière is a key Figure in computer music and multimedia art. A native Parisian, Barrière led the city’s electronic-music mecca IRCAM For more than 15 years, and his piece Chréode is recognized as a seminal work in the history oF electronic music. Many oF his more recent works entail live manipulation oF both audio and video. In this concert, Barrière premieres three pieces, one oF which, Crossing the Blind Forest, was previously given an early reading at Miller’s onstage Pop-Up series. A concurrent exhibition and related perFormance oFFer a Fuller perspective on the composer’s multiFaceted artistic pursuits. PROGRAM: Chréode (1983) Violance (2003) Time Dusts (2001/2013) world premiere of new version Crossing the Blind Forest (2011/2013) world premiere of new version Ekstasis (2013) world premiere, Miller Theatre commission Monday, March 24 – Saturday, March 29 Special Exhibit: The Garden oF Dreams Page 2 of 5 East Gallery, Maison Française Hours: Monday – Friday, 12 noon – 5pm & Saturday, 12 noon – 8pm FREE In collaboration with the Maison Française; Shanny Peer, Director This special installation by Jean-Baptiste Barrière is an other-worldly amalgamation oF sound and video, inspired by the dreams oF visitors From around the world. Barrière’s multimedia environment incorporates recordings oF dreams, submitted by users online at thegardenoFdreams.org or recorded in special “Dream Station” booths placed at the exhibition sites, both at Columbia University’s Maison Française in New York and at the Musée Gadagne in Lyon, France. Saturday, March 29, 12 noon & 1:00 p.m. Special Performance: Distant Mirrors Miller Theatre at Columbia University FREE A real-time international collaboration between Flutist Camilla Hoitenga, at the Musée Gadagne in Lyons, France, and flutist Margaret Lancaster, who will play live on the Miller Theatre stage. Musicians and audience alike will be able to view a large video score, which uses color and images to guide the perFormers’ actions, changing and adapting as the perFormance proceeds. The two flutists play together via the Internet, creating a collective memory that transcends geographic barriers. Two perFormances take place at noon and 1 p.m. This project is made possible, in part, through support from The French-american Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FaCE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SaCEM, lnstitut Français, the Florence Gould Foundation, and the andrew W. Mellon Foundation. BIOS: Jean-Baptiste Barrière was born in Paris in 1958. His studies included music, art history, philosophy, and mathematical logic. In 1998, he joined IRCAM in Paris, directing Musical Research, Education, and Production; he leFt in 1998 to concentrate on personal projects Focusing on the interaction between music and image. His piece Chréode (1983) won the Prix de la Musique Numérique oF the Concours International oF Bourges in 1983 (CD Wergo). He composed the music oF several multimedia shows, including 100 Objects to Represent the World by Peter Greenaway, which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1997. barrière has also composed the music oF several virtual reality and interactive installations by Maurice benayoun, including Worldskin (Prix Ars Electronica 1998). He developed Reality Checks, a cycle oF installations and perFormances questioning the concept of identity in the digital age. He directed the CD-ROM, Prisma: The Musical Universe of Kaija Saariaho (Grand Prix Multimédia Charles Cros 2000), and regularly realizes visual concerts oF Saariaho’s music, including her opera L’amour de loin, perFormed in berlin and Paris in 2006 by Kent Nagano and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He directed visuals For concert versions oF operas such as Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’assise with Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (which won the 24th Grand Prix du Conseil des arts oF Montréal), and with Myung Whun Chung and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France in 2008; and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia oF London in 2009. During the 2011–2012 academic year, he was a Visiting ProFessor in the music department oF Columbia University, and this year he is the Composer-in-Residence For the music Page 3 of 5 department’s Computer Music Center. Aliisa Neige Barrière (b. 1995) was born into a French-Finnish Family in Paris, where her music studies have included violin, piano, chamber music, and choral as well as orchestral conducting. She studied violin with Renee Jolles in New York at the Preparatory Division of Mannes College of Music (2011-12), and as a winner of the Concerto Competition she played the First movement oF the Khachaturian concerto in March 2012 at Symphony Space, New York. Apart From her studies at Mannes, she was a member oF the Face The Music ensemble, directed by JenniFer UndercoFler, dedicated to perForming only music by living composers. In 2012, she continued her studies in Paris, in the ‘Cycle de PerFectionnement’ For young perFormers, playing violin and piano. Her recent engagements have included solo appearances as well as conducting. Aliisa won the New School Competition in New York and was awarded a Full scholarship for four years oF studies at Mannes College oF Music, where she has studied since September 2013 with Lewis Kaplan (violin), Michael Adelson (conducting), and Todd Philips (chamber music). She is also a member of the Mannes baroque Players, under the direction oF Nancy Wilson. She plays a 1717 violin by Claude Pierray. Inspired by natural processes and acoustic phenomena, composer and percussionist Nathan Davis makes music that elucidates essential characters oF instruments and the fragile athleticism oF playing them. He has received commissions From the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the Calder String Quartet, the Ojai Festival (For eighth blackbird and an installation by sound-sculptor Trimpin), Meehan/Perkins Duo, TimeTable Percussion, Concert Artists Guild, and the Moving Theater Dance Company, and received awards From the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, Meet the Composer Commissioning Music USA, Argosy Foundation, MATA, ASCAP, and the ISCM. Lincoln Center inaugurated the new Tully Scope Festival in 2011 with the premiere oF Nathan’s 30 minute site-speciFic work “bells”, perFormed by ICE and praised by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times as “an alluring and pensive musical experience.” Flutist Camilla Hoitenga travels extensively, perForming solo repertoire oF music ranging From pre- Bach to post-Stockhausen in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kremlin
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