MUSIC
MUSIC IN TIME
John Kennedy, Director and Host
PROGRAM I: PAMELA Z Works for Voice, Electronics, and Video
Memminger Auditorium May 27 at 9:00pm
“Bone Music” (1992) Pamela Z (b. 1956)
“Typewriter” (1995)
“Declaratives in the First Person” (2005)
“Badagada” (1986)
“Flare Stains” (2010)
“Breathing” (2013)
“Unknown Person” (from Baggage Allowance, 2010)
“16 Actions” (2009)
“Syrinx / Birdvoice” (2003)
“Pop Titles ‘You’” (1986)
“Broom” (2009)
PROGRAM II: IN CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF THE RITE OF SPRING, MAY 29, 1913–MAY 29, 2013
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston May 29 at 5:00pm
In addition to select passages of The Rite of Spring, the following works will be performed:
Epitaphium (1959) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Allegro Barbaro (1911) Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Preludes Book II (1912) Claude Debussy (1862–1918) XI. “Les tierces alternées”
Three Japanese Lyrics (1913) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Syrinx (1913) Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Six Bagatelles (1913) Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Octandre (1923) Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Music for Pieces of Wood (1973) Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Workers’ Union (1975) Louis Andriessen (b. 1939)
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JOHN KENNEDY (conductor, director, HENRIK HEIDE, (flute, Program II) and host), Spoleto Festival USA Resident praised by The Washington Post for his Conductor and Director of Orchestral “gleaming tone,” has appeared as soloist Activities, has led acclaimed performances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and premieres worldwide of opera, ballet, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and National orchestral, and new music. Kennedy has Repertory Orchestra. He is currently a fellow conducted the Festival’s widely-regarded with the New World Symphony in Miami recent American premiere productions of Beach, Florida. Heide was a member of the the operas Faustus, the Last Night by Pascal 2012 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and Dusapin (2007), Proserpina by Wolfgang Rihm (2010), Émilie by has also participated in numerous music festivals, including the Kaija Saariaho (2011), and Kepler by Philip Glass (2012). As artistic Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Pacific director of Santa Fe New Music since 2001 and of New York’s Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, National Orchestral Institute, Essential Music from 1988–2001, he has been a leader in exploring National Repertory Orchestra, and the Kent/Blossom Music diverse and adventurous repertoire and in contextualizing it Festival. He is a substitute flutist with the Milwaukee Symphony for today’s audiences. He has also served as guest conductor in Orchestra. Heide received his master’s degree in 2012 from The residence at Oberlin Conservatory and worked with leading new Juilliard School, where he was a student of Jeffrey Khaner. He has music ensembles including Ensemble ACJW, Magik*Magik, and also studied with Jeani Foster, Betty Bielefeld, Stephanie Jutt, and the Talea Ensemble. Kennedy is the composer of over 90 works, Leone Buyse at Rice University, where he received his bachelor’s including opera, orchestral, chamber, and experimental works degree. that have been performed throughout the world. PUREUM JO (soprano, Program II), a native SAMANTHA BENNETT (violin, Program of Korea, is entering the international opera IV) is an active soloist and chamber musician world while finishing her graduate studies at around the Boston area. As a recitalist, The Juilliard School, where she received her Bennett has performed in Boston’s Jordan undergraduate degree. Early on in her career, Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall at the invitation she won numerous competitions including of the Razumovsky Academy, and Zankel Hall The Korean Voice Competition and the Seoul at Carnegie Hall. She has participated in such Philharmonic Competition. Jo has sung the internationally renowned music festivals as role of Sandrina in La finta giardiniera, Giulia Spoleto Festival USA, the Music Academy of in La scala di seta, Lucinde and Melisse in Armide, and La Virtú in the West, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. As a member of the L’incoronazione di Poppea. She has also performed at Alice Tully Tanglewood Music Center, Bennett had the privilege of performing Hall in concerts including Juilliard’s Wednesday at One series, as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit. Brian Zeger’s Songfest, and Robert Mealy’s Juilliard 415 Rameau Additionally, she accompanied legendary soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Anne concert. Jo has appeared as a soloist in Haydn’s Mass in Time of -Sophie Mutter, Gil Shaham, and Emanuel Ax as part of the PBS War and Mozart’s Laudate Dominum with Voice of Ascension broadcast Tanglewood’s 75th Anniversary Celebration. Currently, in New York City. She is the recipient of the Anna Case MacKay Bennett plays with the Boston Philharmonic and is the principal Scholarship. Jo is performing the title role in Spoleto Festival USA’s second violin of the Discovery Ensemble, a group that presents 2013 production of Matsukaze. outreach classes and concerts in underprivileged Boston public schools in addition to concert performances. GLEB KANASEVICH (clarinet, Programs III and IV) has appeared as a soloist with NATHAN DAVIS (composer, Program III) the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, “writes music that deals deftly and poetically Belarus National Philharmonic, Peabody with timbre and sonority” (The New York Symphony Orchestra, and many more. He Times). His music has been commissioned by has performed on the stages of Norfolk the International Contemporary Ensemble Chamber Music Festival, Atlantic Music (ICE), Claire Chase, Steven Schick, Yarn/Wire, Festival, soundSCAPE, and Klangspuren La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Miller Theater, Schwaz, and has received instruction as a Santa Fe New Music, and the Ojai Festival clarinetist and composer at the Yale School of Music and Peabody (for eighth blackbird and sound sculptor Conservatory. Kanasevich has won numerous competitions and Trimpin). Lincoln Center inaugurated the Tully Scope Festival awards as a clarinetist and composer in the United States, South with the premiere of Davis’s landmark work, Bells. His music America, and Europe. Kanasevich currently holds a position has been presented at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony as a clarinetist/composer with Lunar Ensemble and is under Space, The Kitchen, Roulette, Le Poisson Rouge, the Stone, the management of Chesapeake International Artists. His playing can Park Avenue Armory, and many festivals. He has received awards be heard on the 2011 NEOS label release Music of Marcela Pavia from Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation, Copland Fund, and Max E. Keller, and on the 2012 solo release Refractions, which Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, ASCAP, and also features his original compositions. the ISCM. As a percussionist and a core member of ICE, Davis is in residence at the Mostly Mozart Festival and has premiered hundreds of pieces, working with luminaries and fostering emerging composers. He is on the faculty at Dartmouth College.
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Okho (1989) Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)
Elegy for Solo Viola (1944) Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
John Kennedy, concept and conductor Pureum Jo, soprano Henrik Heide, flute Jocelin Pan, viola Keun-A Lee, piano Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
PROGRAM III: MUSIC OF NATHAN DAVIS
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston June 2 at 5:00pm
Bells (2011) for ensemble with four-channel diffusion and cellphone transmission Nathan Davis (b. 1973)
Weather Rock (2012) for violin, cello, and percussion
On speaking a hundred names (2010) for bassoon and processing
Crawlspace (2002) for amplified computer, processing itself video programming by Charles Spears
Skrzyp Skzryń (2010) for string quartet
Nathan Davis, percussion and electronics Ryan Wilkins, bassoon Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
PROGRAM IV: IN A SPRING GARDEN
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston June 7 at 5:00pm
Death Valley Junction(2010) Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980)
Variative. Derivative. Exploitative… Gleb Kanasevich (b. 1989) from Zyklus for clarinet and tape (2011)
Cadernos (2009) Andreia Pinto-Correia (b. 1981)
Hop (1989) Paul Lansky (b. 1944)
Im Frühlingsgarten (In a Spring Garden, 2002) Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955)
Sergei Pavlov, conductor Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet George Nickson, vibraphone Samantha Bennett,violin Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
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KEUN-A LEE (piano, Program II) has been SERGEI PAVLOV (conductor, Program on the music staffs of New York City Opera, IV) has been guest conductor of the Classic Spoleto Festival USA, The Gotham Chamber FM Radio Symphony Orchestra in his native Opera, The Juilliard School, and Manhattan Bulgaria since 2007. Currently he is conductor School of Music. She has performed in in residence at Teatro Nacional Sucre, the venues that include Carnegie Hall’s Zankel national opera theater of Ecuador. Recent Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, engagements include assistant conductor The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., of the National Repertory Orchestra in Chicago’s Preston Bradley Hall, Toronto’s Colorado, chorus master of Théâtre du Centre for the Arts, and the Sejong Cultural Center and Seoul Arts Châtelet in Paris, assistant conductor of Ensemble Orchestral de Center, both in her native Korea. Recent engagements include Paris, associate conductor of the Illinois Opera Theater at the the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, the season- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois, and opening concert with Liang Wang by the Lyric Chamber Music visiting director of the orchestral and choral programs at Eastern Society of New York, recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation Illinois University. Born in Bulgaria, Pavlov graduated from the at the Music Academy of the West, and recitals with the winners Bulgarian National Conservatory of Music. Upon completing his of Young Concert Artists and Concert Artist Guild. She holds a studies, Pavlov joined the Conservatory’s faculty as assistant master’s degree and artist diploma from The Juilliard School and professor in conducting, a position he held until departing for the a professional studies certificate in vocal accompanying from United States in 2004. Pavlov has also served as music director of Manhattan School of Music. the University of Illinois String Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Quad City Symphony. GEORGE NICKSON (vibraphone, Program IV) has been hailed as “a performer RYAN S. WILKINS (bassoon, Program III) handling his role with ease and flair” by is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School, The New York Times. Nickson, a native of where he received his master of music South Florida, was appointed principal degree. Before Juilliard, Wilkins earned his percussionist of the Sarasota Orchestra bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College’s in April 2012. He also recently received Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers a master’s degree at The Juilliard School, include Judith LeClair, George Sakakeeny, where he studied with Daniel Druckman. Barrick Stees, and Eric Stomberg. From Recent highlights include performing Sur Incises by Pierre 2009–11, Wilkins was a member of the Boulez with AXIOM at Lincoln Center, a complete performance Wooster Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as a guest of Drumming by Steve Reich at (Le) Poisson Rouge, and being a with the San Antonio Symphony and New World Symphony. He finalist for the Boston Symphony’s Percussion position in January has played under such conductors as Kurt Masur, Alan Gilbert, 2012. Previous engagements include solo percussion recitals at Christoph von Dohnányi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Semyon Bychkov. The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and at the Kravis Center In 2010 and 2011, Wilkins was a fellow at the Music Academy of for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, in addition the West where he studied with Benjamin Kamins and Dennis to serving as guest principal percussionist with the National Michael. This is his second summer at Spoleto Festival USA. Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. PAMELA Z (Program I) is a San Francisco- JOCELIN PAN (viola, Program II) began based composer/performer and media artist her musical studies on piano at age five who makes solo works that combine a wide in her hometown of Leawood, Kansas. range of vocal techniques with electronic She later developed an interest in violin processing, samples, gesture-activated after hearing fiddle music and begged her MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured parents for an instrument. When Pan moved extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, to California with her family, she began and Japan. Her work has been presented at seriously studying classical performance and venues and exhibitions that include Bang on experimented with playing the viola. After a Can (New York), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (San an enriching experience at the Young Musician’s Foundation’s Francisco), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has Summer Orchestra Camp, Pan decided to permanently switch created installation works and has composed scores for dance, her focus from violin to viola at the age of 13. Since then, she film, and new music chamber ensembles. In addition to her solo has pursued intense musical training: she enrolled in the Colburn work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, School’s preparatory division, where she studied privately with theater, film, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos Ingrid Hutman of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Currently, Pan Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her numerous awards is pursuing a graduate degree at The Juilliard School and studying include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the with Steven Tenenbom and Robert Vernon. She graduated from CalArts Alpert Award, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Award, an Ars The Juilliard School in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree under the Electronica honorable mention, the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship, and a tutelage of Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Djerrassi Resident Artist Program residency. www.pamelaz.com.
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