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SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS - check denison.edu/series/tutti Monday, March 4, 6:30 pm, Knapp Performance Space Artist Talk with Vail Visiting Artist Tara Booth, ‘Inward & Onward: The Contemporary Ceramics of Tara Booth,’ Tuesday March 5, 10:00 am Swasey Chapel Workshop with Third Coast Percussion, ‘Think Outside the Drum” 8:00 pm, Denison Museum The Weather Project - Artist Talk and Concert with Nathalie Miebach and Student Composers Concert with ETHEL and Students, Wednesday, March 6, 1:30 pm, Swasey Chapel Composers Workshop with Third Coast Percussion on Composition, Swasey Chapel 6:30 pm, Burke Recital Hall Composition and Improvisation: Philosophers and Musicians in Dialogue with John Carvalho, Ted Gracyk, Mark Lomax II and ETHEL Thursday, March 7, 11:30 am, Burke Rehearsal Hall Composition Seminar with Adam Schoenberg, 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert One with Guest Artists and the Columbus Symphony Quartet 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Two with Denison Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, with guest artists ETHEL Friday, March 8, 10:00 am, Burke Recital Hall Concert Three with Faculty, Students and Guest Artists 11:30 am, Burke Rehearsal Room Conversation with: Third Coast Percussion, ETHEL, and Adam Schoenberg 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Four with Chamber Singers, Jazz Ensemble, Faculty and Guest Artists 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Five ‘Words and Music with ETHEL and Michael Lockwood Crouch, actor, and Denison Creative Writing Students, Saturday, March 9, 10:00 am, Knapp Performance Space Concert Six with Faculty and Guest Artists, 11:00 am, Composers Forum - Knapp (various locations) - Composers 3:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall Concert Seven ‘New American Music Project 3. Chamber Music Connection with Columbus International Children’s Choir 4:00 pm, 4th Floor Slayter Student Union, Shepardson Lobby Roundtable Talk - Art Matters - Roundtable - Guest Artists and Composers 7:00 pm, Burke Recital Hall VAIL CONCERT Concert Eight with Third Coast Percussion, Swasey Chapel Questions? Call the Music Department - 740-587-6224 OR Campus Safety and Security 740-587-6482 ELCOME TO DENISON’S TUTTI FESTIVAL 2019! SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS - check denison.edu/series/tutti WThis week, there are multiple ways to get acquainted with the Fine Arts Departments at Denison. With featured composer Adam Schoenberg and forty other composers from around the world, we are hosting eight concerts and multiple events that feature the students, faculty, guests, and featured artists. We are excited to work with Studio Art, Data Analytics, Creative Writing, Physics, Philosophy, and the Museum this year—TUTTI is growing and expanding! We are thrilled to have Third Coast Percussion as one of our two featured ensembles! Their amazing artistry is on display throughout the festival, not only with performing on concerts from the submitted works, but also showcasing their Third Coast Percussion Emerging Partnership program to TUTTI on their Saturday evening concert. Our second featured ensemble is Denison’s own Ensemble-in-Residence, ETHEL, who will also perform throughout the week, work with students, and showcase their talents as composing and performing artists throughout this festival. You’ll see them perform with Michael Lockwood Crouch, who together will bring to life six Denison students’ works—combining words and music in a way you may never have encountered. Ethel is also collaborating with Nathalie Miebach, in The Weather Project, hosted by Denison’s Museum. Working with weather data, Nathalie creates sculptures that are translated by composers and musicians into sound. We start the week with art and collaboration. On Monday, Tara Booth gives an artist’s talk on her work, which deals with Tara’s work is an investigation of the female body considering notions of physicality, experience and perception in a digital age. We also have a fascinating panel discussion on Philosophy and Music, with panelists: John Carvalho, Theodore Gracyk, and Mark Lomax. This eighth TUTTI festival comes at an interesting time for our college. This will be the last TUTTI within the facilities as you see it. We are moving into the Michael D. Eisner Center for Performing Arts this semester, which will bring together the departments of Music, Theatre, and Dance under one roof. Art is vital, not only to our mission at Denison, but also to our society. Art expresses what we can’t; art expresses what we should; art expresses what we need; art matters. On behalf of all the artists you will encounter this week, art is us. Get to know us - get to know art. Ching-chu Hu, host Professor of Music, Denison University WELCOME FROM PRESIDENT AdaM WEINBERG: It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 edition of Denison’s TUTTI New Music Festival. The arts are crucial the health of any community. At Denison we have a long tradition of strength across the arts, and we are making new investments to con- tinue this tradition. We believe the arts are a foundational element to educating and inspiring our students to lead meaningful lives, achieve professional success, and to be the citizens the world needs. As one expression of this commitment, we are very excited that the Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts will open in a few weeks. Denison has an unusually broad array of strengths in the arts that starts with the passions and tal- ents our faculty and students.TUTTI exemplifies these features of the college. I am thrilled that the scope of TUTTI continues to broaden to encompass various areas of the fine arts and beyond. This year, we will be treated to a wide range of artistic performances. Joining our music department will be artistry from Studio Art, Data Analytics, the Museum, Philosophy, and Creative Writing. TUTTI is a special tradition at Denison. The week-long program of arts showcases the liberal arts at its finest. It also showcases the myriad of ways our faculty and students work together and the ways our faculty mentor our students. This is another distinguishing feature of Denison. When TUTTI is happening you can feel the energy across campus. We are pleased that you are participating in TUTTI and hope you will enjoy the distinctive display of creativity and artistry it conveys. WELCOME FROM PROVOST KIM COPLIN: I’m delighted to welcome you to TUTTI, Denison’s New Music Festival. TUTTI is an interdisciplinary festival, reaching across divisional boundaries to immerse us in a celebration of new music and the arts. This year we feature our ensemble in resi- dence, ETHEL, and Third Coast Percussion, as well as the work of Denison students and graduates. Guest artists, performances and class visits will span the disciplines of the arts, sciences and humanities. I hope that you will take time to experience what TUTTI brings to Denison. Enjoy! FUNDING FOR TUTTI provided by: VAIL Series, the Mellon Foundation, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, Columbus Foundation, Licking County Foundation, Academic Lecture Fund, Beck Lecture Series, Campus Sustainability, and Departments of Philosophy, Physics, and Music at Denison. orchestral work by the Kansas City Symphony for Reference Recordings, an arrangement of When You Wish Upon a Star for Anne Akiko Meyers and the London Symphony Orchestra on eOne Music, and a recording of his keyboard works by pianist Nadia Shpachenko on Reference Recordings. Future recordings include his chamber music featuring the Blakemore Trio, his Symphony No. 2 “Migration” with the University of Texas Wind Ensemble. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert Beaser and John Corigliano. He is currently a professor at Occidental College, where he runs the composition and film scoring FEATURED COMPOSER programs. He makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, ADAM SCHOENBERG screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Recently named one of the Top 10 most performed living Luca and Leo. classical composers by orchestras in the United States, Adam Schoenberg’s (b. Nov.15, 1980) music is “invigorating” (Los Angeles Times), and full of “mystery and sensuality” (The New York Times). His works have received performances and premieres at the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, FEATURED GUEST ENSEMBLE New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Symphony Orchestra, and Hollywood Bowl. Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning, artist-run Schoenberg has received commissions from several major quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the American orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has Orchestra (Up! and La Luna Azul), the Kansas City forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, Symphony (American Symphony and Picture Studies), and energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Aspen Music Festival and and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. School (Bounce). Other recent commissions include works The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” for Carlos Miguel Prieto and Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerry Junkin and the Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Texas Performing and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune).