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Music of Katarina Miljkovic, Jed Speare, and This organization is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, John Mallia and by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council with and administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events.. Christopher Watford, bassoon Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin Unauthorized use of cameras and tape recorders is not allowed in Jordan Hall. Aaron Likness, piano Please switch off cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms. John Mallia, Katarina Miljkovic, electronics Assistive Listening Devices are available for Jordan Hall concerts at the coatroom, or by contacting the Head Usher or House Manager on duty. necmusic.edu/cloud Connect with NEC and our music on Facebook, Twitter, and beyond, and sign up for e-mail news bulletins. Monday, February 29, 2016 7:30 p.m. NEC’s Jordan Hall necmusic.edu/concerts Upcoming Concerts at NEC –continued PROGRAM FACULTY RECITAL : RUSSELL SHERMAN , piano Schoenberg Three Pieces for Piano, op. 11; Beethoven Sonata for Piano No. 21 ____________________ in C Major, op.53 “Waldstein”; Debussy excerpts from Préludes, book 2; Liszt excerpts from Transcendental Etudes for Piano, S. 139 The first two pieces will be diffused without pause. Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Jordan Hall John Mallia Anastasis (2002) FIRST MONDAY AT JORDAN HALL Program includes Beethoven Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello No. 4 in B-flat Transference (2016) Major, op. 11; Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen; Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi World premiere d’un faune; Fauré Quartet for Piano and Strings No. 1 in C Minor, op. 15 John Mallia, electronics Performers include Jacqueline Stucker, soprano; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet; Joanna Kurkowicz, violin; Cathy Basrak, viola, Laurence Lesser, cello; Bruce Brubaker, Gloria Chien, Ran Blake, piano Monday, April 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Jed Speare Untitled (Cove) for violin and electronics (2016) TUESDAY NIGHT NEW MUSIC New music by NEC student composers, performed by their peers Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Williams Hall Jed Speare, laptop LIEDERABEND XXX, Cameron Stowe and Tanya Blaich, coordinators An evening of songs featuring student performers from NEC’s voice and Brief intermission collaborative piano departments Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 6:30 p.m., Williams Hall Katarina Miljkovic Forest Four (2014) NEC SYMPHONY , Hugh Wolff, conductor Copland Appalachian Spring; Ives Symphony No. 2; Chen It Ripples Aaron Likness, piano Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Katarina Miljkovic, electronics NEC JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE , Ken Schaphorst, director Drop, version ii (2008-2016) Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall Christopher Watford, bassoon NEC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE , Frank Epstein, director Katarina Miljkov ic, electronics Huang Orphan San Mao Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Jordan Hall Upcoming Concerts at NEC Mallia Anastasis (2002) –continued Anastasis is a five channel composition realized in the Studios of the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). The work is LIEDERABEND XXIX , Cameron Stowe and Tanya Blaich, coordinators programmatic in its representation of Christ's descent into Limbo, a An evening of songs featuring student performers from NEC’s voice and frequently treated subject in medieval art. The majority of sounds used are collaborative piano departments derived from concrete sources, some of which carry conceptual weight. For Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 6:30 p.m., Williams Hall example, the recurring sound of wax being scraped away from the metal surface of the candle trays at Bourges ' Cathedral St. Étienne: the residue of NEC PHILHARMONIA , Jeffrey Kahane, guest conductor and piano soloist prayer – its removal, a daily chore (or performance ritual) captured in Ravel Concerto for Piano in G Major; Adès Three Studies for Chamber Orchestra sound. Also, the emergence of a field recording of windmills at the work's from Couperin; Elgar Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major, op. 55 close: transformation, by man, of nature's breath into energy as a storm Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall blows in on the mountainside. The piece itself is a stormy, transformative descent. Sounds of friction [NEC ]SHIVAREE , Stephen Drury, artistic director and resistance represent the interpenetration of spheres of existence. Long Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall intense strokes of sound such as the dragging of wood along wood, glass on glass, and the grinding and scraping of metal against metal are fractured by FACULTY RECITAL : BOB NIESKE , jazz bass and the Bob Nieske 4 abrupt, pointed declamations which lead, ultimately, to a representation of Dave Tronzo, guitar and gizmos ; Phil Grenadier, trumpet; Jon Hazilla, the breaking of the gates of hell. The only purely electronic sounds used in percussion the composition are dense, bristling textures that occur as interruptions of Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 3:00 p.m., Pierce Hall the long descent. They represent the accumulation of a mysterious, electrical energy in the empty tomb above — static glimpses of that middle FACULTY RECITAL : EDEN MAC ADAM -SOMER , contemporary improvisation sphere. Monday, March 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Mallia Transference (2016) NEC PHILHARMONIA , Hugh Wolff, conductor In my recent work utilizing electronic processing, I have experimented with Kernis Whisper, Echo, A Cry; Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47; techniques of extreme reduction and subsequent enrichment of sound Elgar Concerto for Cello in E Minor, op. 85, Jonah Ellsworth, cello sources. Another area of inquiry has been the remapping of essences mined Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall from one source to another. In the case of Transference , which is being premiered tonight, many sounds are abstracted (spectrally reduced, HONORS ENSEMBLE : JAZZ AND WILD CARD (Jayu Quartet) durationally altered, and distorted) from speech sounds taken from Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Pentecostal channelings, or ‘speaking in tongues,’ and mundane arguments aired on daytime television soap operas. The spectral profiles of these PURCELL : DIDO AND AENEAS sources are absorbed into unifying chorale-like harmonies and ‘ghost’ Performed by the NEC Undergraduate Opera Studio, Michael Meraw, resonances that are pushed up to the surface — a kind afterglow. director – John Mallia Friday, April 1, 2016, 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall John Mallia lives and works in Boston, where he is a member of the Composition Faculty, and directs the Electronic Music Studio, at New England Conservatory. His compositional process is informed by spatial Upcoming Concerts at NEC constructs and concepts, and a fascination with presence, ritual, and the Visit necmusic.edu for complete and updated concert information thresholds standing between states of existence or awareness. In addition to composing chamber music and works combining acoustic instruments NEC SYMPHONY , CONCERT CHOIR , CHAMBER SINGERS , David Loebel, with electronics, he creates fixed media compositions, and collaborates with Erica Washburn, conductors visual artists on multimedia works, including installation. Berlioz Le Corsaire Overture, op. 21; Debussy Nocturnes ; Duruflé Requiem His music has been performed throughout the U.S. and internationally Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall by organizations such as Musicacoustica (Beijing, China), MediaMix (Monterrey, Mexico), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), L.A. PERKIN OPERA SCENES Freewaves (CA), ZeroOne New Media festival (CA), Gaudeamus (The Performances by graduate opera majors Netherlands), International Computer Music Association (Huddersfield, Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Brown Hall UK), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Hua xia Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Brown Hall Ensemble (Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center), Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art (Barcelona, Spain), Festival Synthèse (Bourges, France), Interensemble’s BORROMEO STRING QUARTET GUEST ARTIST CONCERT Computer Arts Festival (Padova, Italy), Yo-Yo Ma (Barbican Centre, Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G Minor, op. 57; Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G London), Society for New Music (New York), CyberArts, and Major, op. 36 with 2016 winners Isabelle David, piano; Kate Arndt, violin; Medi@terra`s Travelling Mikromuseum (Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Marthe Husum, viola; Ye Lin Stella Cho, cello Slovenia). Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Jordan Hall He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the University of North Texas (2004-5) and FIRST MONDAY AT JORDAN HALL was composer-in-residence at the Institut de Musique Electroacoustique Kodály Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, op. 12 ; Bartók String Quartet No. 4 (Bourges, France; 1993, 2002). Additionally, he has taught composition, and Rhapsody No. 1 ; Hungarian folk music from Transylvania electroacoustic music, and sound art at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Performed by Yoojin Jang, Mari Lee, violin ; Dimitri Murrath, viola ; Franklin Pierce College, Northeastern University, the School of the Museum Laurence Lesser, cello; Jayoung Kim, piano; the members of the of Fine Arts Boston, College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Borromeo String Quartet: Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, violin ; Brandeis University. https://soundcloud.com/jmallia Mai Motobuchi, viola ; Yeesun Kim, cello ; and Beth Bahia Cohen, hegedű ; Áron Székely, kontra ; Ildikó Nagy, bögös, ütőgardon Speare Untitled (Cove) Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall At the time of this writing, I am working on solving the question of whether the solo violin can hold its own amidst the scale and density of this SONATA NIGHT XIV, Pei-Shan Lee, coordinator particular four-channel electroacoustic sound environment – no matter, the Sonatas by Mozart, Brahms, and Clarke disparate sources.