Talujon Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 8:00pm Talujon & loadbang Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 8:00pm loadbang & The Housewarming Project Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 8:00pm The Housewarming Project & Sirius Quartet Friday, August 10, 2018 at 2:00pm Sirius Quartet Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 2:00pm 36 College Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 ~ 802-828-8600 ~ www.vcfa.edu Talujon Ian Antonio, percussion David Cossin, percussion Michael Lipsey, percussion loadbang Carlos Cordeiro, bass clarinet Andy Kozar, trumpets Jeffrey Gavett, baritone voice William Lang, trombone The Housewarming Project Jeremy Siskind, piano Nancy Harms, vocals Lucas Pino, clarinet and bass clarinet Sirius Quartet Fung Chern Hwei, violin Gregor Huebner, violin Ron Lawrence, viola Jeremy Harman, cello MFA in Music Composition Faculty Talujon Michael Early, Faculty Co-Chair Jonathan Bailey Holland, Faculty Co-Chair Described by the New York Times as an ensemble possessing an "edgy, un- Rick Baitz flagging energy", Talujon has been mesmerizing audiences since 1990. For well over two decades, Talujon has committed itself to the growth of contem- Don DiNicola porary percussion music through diverse performance, commissioning, educa- Andy Jaffe tional, and outreach activities. Carla Kihlstedt Highlights of Talujon’s recent engagements include appearances at the Brook- Ravi Krishnaswami lyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Carne- gie Hall, ISSUE Project Room, Miller Theatre, and New York Historical Soci- John Mallia ety. International performances include Taipei’s Lantern Festival, Italy’s Sound Diane Moser Res Festival, and a tour with Steve Reich and Musicians. In addition to its di- John Fitz Rogers verse performance schedule, Talujon has conducted residencies, clinics, and master classes at institutions across the US, including Harvard, Juilliard, Man- Roger Zahab hattan School of Music, Stanford, and the universities of Virginia, Oregon, and Buffalo. Notable commissions and premiers include collaborations with com- posers Dewa Alit, Nick Brooke, Chien Yin Chen, Louis Karchin, Alvin Lucier, Eric Moe, Steve Ricks, Ralph Shapey, Henry Threadgill, Ushio Torikai, and Program Staff & Administration Julia Wolfe. Locally, Talujon engages in a series of residencies in the New York City Public Carol Beatty, Program Director Schools though the Department of Cultural Affairs After School Adventures Sarah Madru, Assistant Director program, as well as through a collaboration with the Midori and Friends or- ganization. The ensemble’s playing can be heard on the Cantaloupe, Tzadik, New World, Bridge, Albany, and Capstone record labels. Talujon proudly uses Colin McCaffrey, Sound Recording Engineer Mike Balter sticks and mallets and Black Swamp Percussion instruments. Reed Robins, Sound Recording Assistant Justin Tosh, Support Specialist/Media Coordinator Ian Antonio performs new and experimental music frequently in a wide vari- ety of ensembles and locations. In addition to his role in Talujon, Ian is a founding member of the piano percussion quartet Yarn/Wire and the collec- tive Wet Ink. Ian also performs frequently with the International Contempo- rary Ensemble, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf. Recent performances have brought Ian to the Brooklyn Academy of Mu- sic, Lincoln Center, Edinburgh International Festival, Shanghai Symphony Hall, and Barbican Centre. From 2003-2011, Ian was a member of the difficult- to-categorize trio Zs. Ian is currently a Lecturer in Music at Purchase College. David Cossin is a specialist in new and experimental music. David has worked across a broad spectrum of musical and artistic forms to incorporate new me- dia with percussion. David has recorded and performed internationally with composers and ensembles including the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Meredith Monk, Tan Dun, Cecil Tay- Tyler Sherman—Mother embodies our first intimacy with human- lor, Talujon Percussion Quartet and the trio, Real Quiet. Numerous theater ity. Mother embodies our connection with the earth and the beauty of nature. projects include collaborations with Blue Man Group, Mabou Mines, and di- Mother is our natural conduit from the formless dimension. Mother can rector Peter Sellars. David was featured as the percussion soloist in Tan Dun's manifest in infinite forms and through different people. The suite that this Grammy and Oscar winning score to Ang Lee's film Crouching Tiger, Hidden movement is from was inspired by the Mothers who have birthed, watered Dragon. Most recently, David joined Sting for his world tour, Symphonicities, and fed me with love throughout different seasons in my life. Julia, Mary, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. David has performed as a soloist with Donna and Pat, your expressions of love are endlessly unique and infinitely orchestras through out the world including the New York Philharmonic, Los appreciated. Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra Radio France, Saint Paul Chamber Orches- Special thanks to Jonathan B. Holland for your guidance and encouragement! tra, Sao Paulo State Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Gothenburg Sym- phony, Hong Kong Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony. David ven- Tyler Sherman lives in Bowie, MD. tures into other art forms including curator for the Sound Res Festival, an experimental music festival in southern Italy. David teaches percussion at the Manhattan School of Music and Queens College in New York City. Paul Smith-Stewart Percussionist Michael Lipsey has performed at festivals in Bali, London, D.J. Tetreault—These two short pieces were inspired by poetry which ap- Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Mexico City, Taipei, Macao, Tokyo, La Jolla, New proaches the moon in very different ways. I say inspired because one of my York, Moscow, Bogota and France. Michael is the founding member of Talu- aims this semester was to convey story and emotion without the direct use of jon Percussion and has also performed with the Lincoln Center Chamber text, treating the vocalist as a true instrumental member of the ensemble. Music Society, Steve Reich, Bang on a Can, Tan Dun, New York New Music The first poem I wanted to incorporate was "Autumn" by T.E. Hulme, in Ensemble and Riverside Symphony. He has recorded for Sony Records, Red which the harvest moon plays a casual and grounding role in the nighttime Poppy Records, Nonesuch, Albany, Capstone and Mode. Michael has per- wanderings of the poems subject. The second poem is from a chain of love formed throughout the world and given master classes at numerous schools poems between a Zen student and master. In a reply by the student, Teishin, including the Juilliard School of Music and California School of the Arts. she uses the moon as a symbol of hope and love, but one that sometimes Michael has also worked with many musicians from around the world, most can't be seen behind the clouds. recently including Gamelan Dharma Swara, a Balinese gamelan located in D.J. is finishing his third semester at VCFA and lives in Burlington, VT. He New York City. He performed with DS at the first American gamelan at the sings regularly with Solaris Vocal Ensemble, Opera Company of Middlebury, PKB in Denpasar, Bali. He has worked with musicians Subash Chandran, and with whomever will feed him. Ganesh Kumar, Glen Velez, Carlos Gomez, Antonio Hart, Roland Vasquez, and River Guerguerian. His book and solo CD contains recently commis- sioned works for solo hand drums by Jason Eckardt, River Guerguerian, Barrett Tuttobene was a founding member of the now defunct experimental Mathew Rosenblum, Arthur Kreiger, Eric Moe, Dominic Donato, David Cos- group 100 Onces, which released 3 full length albums and headlined multiple sin and David Rakowski. Michael is a full-time Professor at the Aaron Cop- international tours before breaking up in 2015. He recently shifted his focus land School of Music at CUNY, Queens College, Director of the Percussion to the study of composition at VCFA, where he wants to explore writing for a Program, Gamelan Yowana Sari and UnSemble - the New Music Ensemble. wider variety of instrumentation. Tiffany Pfeiffer Tiffany Pfeiffer is a vocalist and bandleader based in Bur- lington, Vermont, where she maintains a private teaching studio and enjoys loadbang the fresh air and Lake Champlain. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, she studied voice and magazine journalism at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and spent several years living and working in San Francisco, and Brook- New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang is building a new lyn. In 2008, she made her way to Vermont, in need of the rhythm of nature. kind of music for mixed ensemble of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and She released her first original EP, Amor Frio, in 2010, and a short album of baritone voice. Since their founding in 2008, they have been praised as jazz standards, Stampede of Love, in 2016. She'd like to thank her advisor this ‘cultivated’ by The New Yorker, ‘an extra-cool new music group’ and semester, Diane Moser, for making the path clearer and the journey more ‘exhilarating’ by the Baltimore Sun, ‘inventive’ by the New York Times and complete. called a 'formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. Their unique lung- powered instrumentation has provoked diverse responses from composers, Family Dynamics came from exploring the patterns or characters present resulting in a repertoire comprising an inclusive picture of composition today. within the idea of a family unit. The first movement, “Increases”, is my at- In New York City, they have been recently presented by and performed at tempt to capture the essence of these “characters” and to create a conversa- Miller Theater, Symphony Space, MATA and the Avant Music Festival; on tion among them. The second movement, “Surface Waves”, illustrates how American tours at Da Camera of Houston, Rothko Chapel, and the Festival we can easily fall into set patterns in how we relate to others, recreating a kind of New American Music at Sacramento State University; and internationally at of family dynamic in various situations in life, unless we actively work to take Ostrava Days (Czech Republic), China-ASEAN Music Week (China) and notice and break out of them.