Brightwork Newmusic Ensemble About the Ensemble Performer
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About the Ensemble Brightwork newmusic Ensemble is a classical new music sextet based in Los Angeles, California. A flexible, versatile, and fearless ensemble, consisting of world-class musicians, Brightwork’s members are either winning Grammy nominations, or gracing the stages with the LA Phil, Guest Artist Recital LACO, LA Opera, major recording studios in Hollywood, and are a part of the international solo scene. Brightwork consists of piano, violin, cello, featuring flute, clarinet, percussion (an instrumentation which is often called “Pierrot + percussion”) and champions the best of the cutting-edge music that’s Brightwork newmusic Ensemble being written today, while continuing to play the classics of “new” music in Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 8 p.m. state-of-art performances that are intellectually and emotionally engaging. Frederick Loewe Performance Hall Performer Biographies They Sang But Had Nor Human Tunes Nor Human Words (2018) Eric Moe Aron Kallay, piano and Brightwork Executive Director (b. 1954) - World Premiere - Described as a “modern renaissance man,” (Over the Mountain Journal) Grammy® nominated pianist Aron Kallay‘s playing has been called Wagon Wheeling (2012) Tom Flaherty “exquisite…every sound sounded considered, alive, worthy of our wonder” (b. 1950) (LA Times). “Perhaps Los Angeles’ most versatile keyboardist,” (LaOpus) Aron has been praised as possessing “that special blend of intellect, emotion, and overt physicality that makes even the thorniest scores simply leap from Breakdown Encore (2005, rev. 2007) Anthony Suter the page into the listeners laps.” (KPFK) Fanfare magazine described him (b. 1979) as “a multiple threat: a great pianist, brainy tech wizard, and visionary promoter of a new musical practice.” Aron has performed throughout the - Intermission - United States and abroad and is a fixture on the Los Angeles new-music scene. He is also the co-director of MicroFest Records, whose first release, Migrations (1997) Alexandra Gardner John Cage: The Ten Thousand Things, was nominated for a Grammy® (b. 1967) award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Aron is executive director of Brightwork newmusic and is on the faculty of Pomona College. Learn more at www.aronkallay.com. Eruptions (1989) Stefan Carow (b. 1957) Yuri Inoo, percussion Hell’s Kitchen (2014) Robert Paterson A native of Kanagawa, Japan, Dr. Yuri Inoo is musician and educator in (b. 1970) the Los Angeles area. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco State University, graduating summa cum laude, and receiving the Most Outstanding Senior Award. Yuri received her Master of Music and Doctorate in Musical Arts degree in Percussion Performance at the University of Southern California. Shalini Vijayan, violin Yuri has performed and collaborated with artists such as Yo Yo Ma, John Deemed “a vibrant violinist” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, is an Williams, Steve Reich, Andrea Bocelli, and members of NEXUS. Yuri established performer and collaborator on both coasts. Always an advocate is currently the Principal Percussionist with the Redlands Symphony for modern music, Ms. Vijayan was a founding member and Principal in Redlands, California, and remains as an active freelance musician in Second Violin of Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble, having recorded Southern California. She also is a founding member of percussion ensemble several albums with them including 2001 Grammy nominee, Absolution. bloom in Tokyo, Japan, and the Varied Trio in Los Angeles. She is the As a part of Absolute, she has performed throughout the United States and percussion instructor at Occidental College, University of Redlands, Mount Europe, most notably in London’s Barbican Hall and the Concertgebouw Saint Mary’s University, and Idyllwild Arts Academy, while keeping a in Amsterdam. A member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, private studio. For more info, please visit: www.redlands.edu/music. Florida from 1998-2001, Ms. Vijayan served as concertmaster for Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams, Reinbert de Leeuw and Oliver Knussen. She Maggie Parkins, cello was also concertmaster for the world premiere performances and recording of Steven Mackey’s Tuck and Roll for RCA records in 2000. In Los Angeles, An uncommonly versatile musician, cellist Margaret Parkins is in demand Ms. Vijayan is a member of the Lyris Quartet, resident ensemble of the as both a performer and a teacher. Based in Los Angeles, Parkins is equally famed Jacaranda Series in Santa Monica. She is featured regularly with at home in chamber music, orchestral music and the avant-garde, and has Grammy Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music and can be heard on performed throughout the Americas and Europe. their Grammy-nominated Complete Chamber Works of Carlos Chávez, Vol. 3. Most recently, she has been a featured soloist with the Los Angeles Master Her current work ranges from recitals and chamber music to multimedia, Chorale in Chinary Ung’s Spiral XII and Tan Dun’s Water Passion. Ms. multi-genre collaborations. Always an advocate for new and experimental Vijayan is on the performance faculty of the Nirmita Composers Workshop music, Parkins with the Eclipse String Quartet, has commissioned or in Siem Reap, Cambodia. For more info, please visit: www.lyrisquartet. premiered numerous works from composers throughout the US and Canada. com. The Eclipse String Quartet released its first CD in 2005 on John Zorn’s Tzadik label and as also released CDs on the Bridge and New World labels. Brian Walsh, clarinets Eclipse has held residencies at Mills College and Villa Aurora. Parkins is also a member of the Mojave Piano Trio based in Los Angeles focusing Brian Walsh is a musician who is interested in sound and communication, on repertoire from classical to contemporary and is also in Brightwork regardless of the genre. Mr. Walsh specializes in performance on the newmusic, an instrumental sextet performing music of the 20th and 21st clarinet and bass clarinet and is fluent in many styles of music. He is a centuries. Her interest in music outside the classical tradition has led her to graduate of the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, BFA), and the Los perform with groups including the Jazz Passengers, the Anthony Braxton Angeles County High School for the Arts. Mr. Walsh frequently performs Ensemble, backing up singers Bjork, Enya, Caetano Veloso and in ensembles with such diverse groups as Inauthentica, The New Century Players, with Alex Cline and Nels Cline. The Industrial Jazz Group, PLOTZ!, The Doug McDonald Brass and Woodwind Coalition, and the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. Mr. Walsh also Parkins received her B.M. from the Eastman School of Music and her leads Walsh Set Trio, a jazz ensemble focusing on the performance of his D.M.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her principal own compositions. Performances have taken him to Japan, Canada, Italy, teachers include Louis Potter, Steven Doane and Timothy Eddy. A dedicated England, the Netherlands, Iceland, and all over the United States. He has educator, Parkins was cello professor and led chamber music activities at premiered pieces by Luigi Nono, Girard Grisey, James Newton, Rosalie UC Irvine for 19 years. She is visiting professor of cello at Pomona College Hirs and many others. Past collaborators have included Peter Maxwell since the Fall of 2016. For more info, please visit: www.maggieparkins.com Davies, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Money Mark, Bright Eyes, James Newton, Larry Koonse, Muhal Richard Abrams, the Henry and Piano with Van Cliburn Gold Medal Winner, pianist Simone Pedroni, Mancini Orchestra, and the Riverside Philharmonic. Mr. Walsh is also an honoring the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone. Andon received active private teacher and clinician. He is an instructor at Baxter-Northup her music degrees from CSUSB (B.A.), University of Southern California Music, the Oakwood School, and the Academy of Creative Education. For (M.M.) and Yale University (Post-graduate Artist Diploma). Andon is the more info, please visit: www.brianwalshclarinet.org Artist Teacher of Flute at the University of Redlands School of Music, Idyllwild Arts Academy and is the Artistic Director of the University of Sara Andon, flutes Redlands Annual Flute Festival, as well as an active clinician throughout southern California and worldwide. For more info, please visit: www. Flutist Sara Andon is an international soloist and recording artist known for facebook.com/sara.andon.3 and www.redlands.edu/music. her ravishing tone and deeply engaging musical interpretations. A versatile performer in many music genres including solo, chamber, symphonic, Composer Biographies opera, ballet, new music, jazz and Broadway, she has performed all over the world in major concert venues, TV and radio broadcasts, as well as on Anthony Suter countless motion picture/TV soundtracks, documentaries and video games. Some recent credits include the movies IT and IT - Chapter 2, Crazy Rich Anthony Suter’s music has been heard in nearly every major U.S. city, Asians, Disney’s live-action The Jungle Book and Lady and The Tramp, TV as well as a growing list of international venues. His works include three shows The Orville, Star Trek Discovery and the new Picard to premiere on chamber operas, chamber and orchestral music, and several works for wind Jan 23. Her bass flute playing is featured on the current, award-winning ensemble. He studied at the University of Southern California (B.M., 2002), documentary The Biggest Little Farm, and for video games such as World of the University of Michigan (M.M., 2004), and the University of Texas at Warcraft, League of Legends, and Fortnite. She has performed with the Los Austin (D.M.A., 2008). His teachers have included Donald Crockett, Angeles Philharmonic, LA Opera, LA Master Chorale, LACO, Hollywood Stephen Hartke, Frank Ticheli, William Bolcom, Susan Botti, Bright Sheng, Bowl Orchestra and orchestras for the Broadway Shows Disney’s Beauty and Dan Welcher.