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Musicnow 2015/16 SERIES ANNOUNCED For Immediate Release: Press Contacts: May 26, 2015 Eileen Chambers, 312.294.3092 Rachelle Roe, 312.294.3090 Photos Available By Request [email protected] MusicNOW 2015/16 SERIES ANNOUNCED New CSO Mead Composers-in-Residence Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Ogonek Curate Their First MusicNOW Series Programming Highlights Include a New Work by Adams and Music by Saariaho, Hearne, Iannotta and Naqvi Series Features Conductors Cliff Colnot, Donald Nally and Christopher Rountree; Soloists Tony Arnold, Vicky Chow, Erin Lesser, Kate Soper and Agata Zubel CHICAGO—The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announces the 2015/16 season programming for its acclaimed MusicNOW contemporary music series—dedicated to showcasing contemporary music through an innovative concert experience. Curated by the newly-appointed CSO Mead Composers-In-Residence Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Ogonek, the annual four-concert series in 2015/16 presents work from established contemporary composers and new voices beginning to emerge across today’s active and varied contemporary music scene. Composers Adams and Ogonek stated, “It is with great excitement that we present our first MusicNOW series as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new Mead Composers-in-Residence. As young artists, we see our residency with the CSO as a wonderful opportunity to showcase the breadth of creativity, inventiveness and originality of today’s up-and-coming musical voices. Through four conceptually constructed evenings, our season traverses an extraordinarily broad musical landscape, featuring thirteen wildly diverse statements that range from a 1-bit piano concerto to works that turn the tradition of vocal writing on its head.” Programs are performed by members of the CSO and guest artists led by MusicNOW principal conductor Cliff Colnot and guest conductors, which this year includes the California-based conductor/composer Christopher Rountree, as well as Donald Nally, Director of Choral Organizations at Northwestern University and the award-winning chamber ensemble The Crossing. The 2015/16 MusicNOW concerts take place on four Mondays—November 23, 2015; March 7, May 9 and June 6, 2016—at 7 p.m. at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance (205 E. Randolph). Each concert includes special elements such as projected program notes with video introductions by featured composers and the opportunity to meet with the CSO musicians and composers in a casual, lounge-style setting during post-concert receptions with free food and drink. The MusicNOW season opens with a program focused on new works for strings on Monday, November 23, 2015 at 7 p.m. Hailed for his “infectious enthusiasm” (Los Angeles Times) and “elegant clarity” (The New York Times), conductor Christopher Rountree comes to MusicNOW for the first time, fresh from recent conducting debuts on the LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella and San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series. He leads musicians of the CSO in a program that includes Chicago native Ted Hearne’s six-movement work for string orchestra, Law of Mosaics. Completing the program are Glitch, for string quartet and electronics by Paris-born, Brooklyn-based composer Daniel Wohl and Petals, a work for solo cello by prominent Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who is the winner of numerous international composition awards including The Grawemeyer Award, The Nemmers Prize and The Sonning Prize. The second program on the series takes place Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7 p.m., and features the recent instrumental work, Falling Up (2015) from Ogonek and several works that showcase the composer as performer. American soprano and composer Kate Soper performs with flutist Erin Lesser in her whimsical duet, Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say. Polish soprano and composer Agata Zubel performs in her unpredictable vocal/instrumental work Labyrinth, based on a text by the late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. Closing the program is Katachi, a sextet by American composer Eric Wubbels with Soper as soloist. A focus on contemporary vocal repertoire continues in the third MusicNOW series concert on Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7 p.m. Critically-acclaimed soprano Tony Arnold returns to MusicNOW for her first appearance since 2009 in a performance of composer Christopher Trapani’s Waterlines. The set of five blues songs is inspired by effects of Hurricane Katrina on Trapani’s home town of New Orleans. Clara Iannotta’s hauntingly intimate and tactile sinfonietta Intent on Resurrection—Spring or Some Such Thing, as well as the evocative masterwork Wald by Hans Abrahamsen complete the program. The MusicNOW 15/16 series finale takes place Monday, June 6, 2016 at 7 p.m., and includes a special appearance by the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble of Northwestern University led by conductor Donald Nally. The Ensemble performs a cappella in excerpts from Fjoloy, a work for “pure choir” by American composer Qasim Ali Naqvi. Also on the program is the world premiere of a new work by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Samuel Adams and Tristan Perich’s Surface Image. Performed by pianist Vicky Chow, for whom the piece was composed, Rolling Stone called the sprawling work “a dizzying, disorienting, 63-minute symphony for piano and 1-bit pixels.” MusicNOW receives funding through a leadership challenge grant from Irving Harris Foundation, Joan W. Harris. Major support is provided by Cindy Sargent and the Sally Mead Hands Foundation. Subscriptions for the four-concert MusicNOW series are on sale now and are $72. There is also a $28, four-concert student subscription available with valid student ID. Single tickets ($26, General admission; $10, student ticket with valid ID) for all MusicNOW concerts go on sale August 7, 2015. Tickets for all MusicNOW concerts can be purchased by phone at 800-223-7114 or 312- 294-3000; online at cso.org, or at the Symphony Center box office: 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. MusicNOW concerts for the 2015/16 season take place on Mondays at 7 p.m. at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance located at 205 E. Randolph in Chicago. Artists, programs and prices are subject to change. # # # Symphony Center Presents Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, 7 p.m. MusicNOW Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harris Theater for Music and Dance Samuel Adams, Mead Composer-in-Residence 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago Elizabeth Ogonek, Mead Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rountree, conductor WOHL Glitch SAARIAHO Petals HEARNE Law of Mosaics Symphony Center Presents Monday, March 7, 2016, 7 p.m. MusicNOW Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harris Theater for Music and Dance Samuel Adams, Mead Composer-in-Residence 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago Elizabeth Ogonek, Mead Composer-in-Residence Cliff Colnot, conductor Kate Soper, vocalist Agata Zubel, vocalist Erin Lesser, flute SOPER Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say OGONEK Falling Up ZUBEL Labyrinth WUBBELS Katachi Symphony Center Presents Monday, May 9, 2016, 7 p.m. MusicNOW Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harris Theater for Music and Dance Samuel Adams, Mead Composer-in-Residence 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago Elizabeth Ogonek, Mead Composer-in-Residence Cliff Colnot, conductor Tony Arnold, soprano IANNOTTA Intent on Resurrection— Spring or Some Such Thing ABRAHAMSEN Wald TRAPANI Waterlines Symphony Center Presents Monday, June 6, 2016, 7 p.m. MusicNOW Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harris Theater for Music and Dance Samuel Adams, Mead Composer-in-Residence 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago Elizabeth Ogonek, Mead Composer-in-Residence Donald Nally, conductor Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble of Northwestern University Vicky Chow, piano NAQVI Fjoloy ADAMS New Work [MusicNOW Commission, world premiere] PERICH Surface Image BIOGRAPHIES Samuel Adams, CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Adams is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been hailed as "wondrously alluring" (The San Francisco Chronicle), “thoroughly ingenious" (The San Francisco Examiner) and “music of a composer with a personal voice and keen imagination” (The New York Times). His atmospheric, inventively orchestrated portfolio draws from such diverse influences as noise and electronic music, jazz and field recording, and includes commissions by Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony and the New World Symphony and collaborations with Anthony Marwood and Emanuel Ax. Learn more at samuelcarladams.com. Elizabeth Ogonek, CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Ogonek creates music that is energetic, dramatic, vivid and colorful. Her imaginative compositions draw inspiration from text and explore the transference of poetic imagery to music. The winner of numerous awards and scholarships, she frequently collaborates with cutting-edge artists, authors, poets and actors. Her recent music has been commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Ear Taxi Festival for Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Royal Philharmonic Society and the London Symphony Orchestra. In August 2015, Elizabeth joins Oberlin Conservatory as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition. Learn more at elizabeth-ogonek.com. Cliff Colnot, MusicNOW Principal Conductor In the past decade, Colnot has emerged as a distinguished conductor and a musician of uncommon range. He has been principal conductor of the MusicNOW series since its inception, and in 2005 he was named principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, having served as its resident conductor since 1995. Colnot has also served as assistant conductor at Pierre Boulez’s Lucerne Academy. Christopher
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