American Masterpieces Chamber Music National Calendar June 2008–October 2009 ince late spring 2008, when the National Endowment for the Arts announced the first round of American Masterpieces: Chamber Music grant recipients, concert audiences have been treated to a steady stream of ensemble works by SU.S.-based composers, past and present. These events have included performances in a wide range of venues, as well as residencies, master- classes, and in-school educational activities. A second season of American Masterpieces projects is now underway, and the application deadline for a third round of grants is imminent. (See www.nea.gov.) Following is a national calendar of American Masterpieces-related performances and events, compiled from data we received before July 1, 2009. The calendar will continue to be updated, both in this magazine, and on the Chamber Music America website. We welcome your additions, corrections and revisions at [email protected]. *Some programming or dates may have changed since the concert information was first reported to CMA. 132 october 2009 JUne 14 & 15 Milwaukee,­WI June p r e s e n t e r Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society p r o g r a m July Kevin Puts, And Legions Will Rise and Einstein on Mercer Street a r t i s t s Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Randall Hodgkinson, JUne 2-14 Vinalhaven,­ME­ piano; Suzanne Beia, violin; Katrin Talbot, viola; Parry Karp, JUly 2 Brunswick,­ME p r e s e n t e r Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber cello, Stephanie Jutt, flute; Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet; Dane p r e s e n t e r Bowdoin International Music Festival p r o g r a m Music w o r k s Sebastian Currier, Quiet Time (for string Richeson, percussion; Amy Schendel, trumpet; Timothy Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 5 a r t i s t Amernet Quartet quartet); Libby Larsen, She Wrote (for string quartet); Sally Jones, baritone www.summermusic.org Lamb, Subito (for vio lin, cello and piano) Kay Kyurim Rhie, Three Miniatures a r t i s t s Cassatt String Quartet; Muneko JUly 26 Mt.­Monadnock,­NH­&­ Otani, violin; Nicole Johnson, cello; Adrienne Kim, piano JUne 14-18 Detroit,­MI­&­environs www.sealbayfestival.org p r e s e n t e r Great Lakes Chamber Music Society p r o g r a m environs John Harbison, selections from The Violist’s Notebook, p r e s e n t e r Monadnock Music p r o g r a m G. Crumb, Vox Balenae; Mirabai Songs, and Piano Trio No. 2; Joan Tower, Tres R. Vali, Folk Songs. a r t i s t s Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-mei Ku, JUne 8 Fernandina­Beach,­FL­ Lent, Trio (“For Daniel”), Holding a Daisy, Or Like a…an violin; Jonathan Bagg, viola; David Weiss, Celtic flute (Macedonia­AME­Church) Engine; John Corigliano, Soliloquy, Sonata for Violin and and woodwinds; Kevin Kuhn, guitar, dobro; Rahim AlHaj, p r e s e n t e r Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m Piano, Chiaroscuro; William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost Rag, oud; Laura Gilbert, piccolo, electric and alto flutes; Steven Samuel Barber, Cello Sonata; Libby Larsen, Schoenberg, Selected Cabaret Songs, The Poltergeist, Ballade, Piano Jackson, clarinet; Rafael Popper-Keizer and Fred Raimi, Schenker and Schillinger; Peter Schickele, Piano Quintet Quintet a r t i s t s Trio Lunaire, Rachel Gottlieb, soprano; cello; Emma Tahmizián, piano and electric piano; David a r t i s t s Kwan Yi, piano; Boram Kang, violin; So Jin Kim, Edward Auer, piano; Paul Katz, cello; Edward Auer, piano; Schotzko, percussion. www.monadnockmusic.org violin; Lee, viola; Yu Wen Wang, cello; and students from Josh Ulrich, violin; Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello; James Curtis, Juilliard, and Cleveland conservatories Tocco, piano; Ursula Oppens, piano; Anthony McGill, JUly 27 & 28 Santa­Fe,­NM www.aicmf.org clarinet; Amernet String Quartet; Ida Kavafian, violin; p r e s e n t e r Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m Jeremy Denk, piano; Cecilia String Quartet Roberto Sierra, Concierto de Cámera p e r f o r m e r s Imani JUne 11 Fernandina­Beach,­FL Winds and the Miami String Quartet www.sfcmf.org (Savannah­Grand­Assisted­Living­ JUne 20 & 22 Milwaukee,­WI p r e s e n t e r Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society p r o g r a m Facility) David Baker, Roots 2 ; Paul Schoenfield, Souvenirs a r t i s t s p r e s e n t e r Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Christopher Taylor, piano; Irina George Gershwin, selections from Porgy and Bess; Muresanu, violin; Ara Gregorian, viola; Jean-Michel Samuel Barber, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6, 1st Fonteneau, cello; Stephanie Jutt, flute movement; Leonard Bernstein, selections from West Side Story; Peter Schickele, Piano Quintet No. 2, 4th movement a r t i s t s 2008 AICMF Resident Fellows JUne 27 Milwaukee,­WI p r e s e n t e r Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society p r o g r a m Aaron Jay Kernis, 100 Greatest Dance Hits, a r t i s t s Jeffrey JUne 12 Fernandina­Beach,­FL Sykes, piano; Aaron Jay Kernis, piano; Axel Strauss, violin; (Family­Concert) Daria Adams, violin; Anja Strauss, soprano; David Harding, p r e s e n t e r Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Stephanie Jutt, flute; David Charles Gordon Rex: Meet Mr. Twink; Libby Larsen, The Tanenbaum, guitar; John DeMain, narrator Adventures of Wonderboy, Issue One; Selections from the music of Raymond Scott. a r t i s t s Mark Mobley, narrator; JUne 28 & 29 Milwaukee,­WI 10 artists and a conductor from the festival’s guest artist p r e s e n t e r Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society p r o g r a m roster; dancers from Lee Harper & Dancers Company Aaron Jay Kernis, Two Awakenings and a Double Lullaby and Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine a r t i s t s Jeffrey Sykes JUne 13 St.­Paul,­MN and Aaron Jay Kernis, piano; Axel Strauss and Daria p r e s e n t e r Zeitgeist p r o g r a m Works of Terry Riley, John Adams, violins; Anja Strauss, soprano; David Harding, Cage, and Frederic Rzewski a r t i s t s : Zeitgeist ensemble: viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Stephanie Jutt, flute; David Heather Barringer, percussion; Patti Cudd, woodwinds; Tanenbaum, guitar; John DeMain, narrator Pat O’Keefe; percussion Shannon Wettstein, piano www.zeitgeist.org JUne 13 & 15 Milwaukee,­WI p r e s e n t e r p r o g r a m Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society 008­ Kevin Puts, Traveler and Ritual Protocol a r t i s t s Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Randall Hodgkinson, piano; Suzanne Beia, violin; Katrin Talbot, viola; Parry Karp, cello, Stephanie Jutt, flute; Doris Hall-Gulati, clarinet; Dane Richeson, percussion; Amy Schendel, trumpet; Timothy Jones, baritone www.bachddsoc.org 2 133 American Masterpieces Chamber Music october 18­Santa­Fe,­NM August September p r e s e n t e r Santa Fe New Music p r o g r a m David Lang and the Post-Classicals: David Lang, Child; Peter Garland, War of the Words; works by Phillip Bimstein for pre-recorded AUgUst 8-9 Mt.­Monadnock,­NH­&­ septeMber 6 Onion­Creek,­UT­ human and feline voices with chamber ensemble. environs p r e s e n t e r Moab Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m Derek Bermel, Soul Garden, for String Sextet; William Bolcom, p r e s e n t e r Monadnock Music p r o g r a m J. Cage: Four Inter- october 19­Fernandina­Beach,­FL­ ludes; J. Schwantner: Velocities; G. Crumb: An Idyll for the Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (“In Memory of Joe Venuti”) and Concerto for Clarinet, 2nd Movement (arr. p r e s e n t e r Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival p r o g r a m Misbegotten; N. Davis: Talking to Vasudeva; p e r f o r m e r s Leonard Bernstein “New York, New York,” “Maria”; Aaron Donald Berman, prepared piano; Douglas Perkins, marimba; for clarinet & piano); Darius Milhaud, Saudades do Brasil (arr. for piano trio); Piano Rags by Scott Joplin, Copland, “I Bought Me a Cat” and “Ching-a-Ring Chaw”; Laura Gilbert, electric flute; Nathan Davis, percussion; Samuel Barber, Summer Music; George Gershwin, Three David Schotko, vibraphone. William Bolcom, et al. a r t i s t s Andrew Armstrong, piano; William Bolcom, composer-in-residence & piano; Derek Preludes (arr. Stewart); Charles Rex, Three Miniatures; Bermel, composer & clarinet; Maria Bachmann, violin; Arthur Pryor, “Whistler and His Dog”; Scott Joplin, “The AUgUst 17 Mt.­Monadnock,­ Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Leslie Tomkins and LP How, Entertainer; “When The Saints Go Marching In” (arr. NH­&­environs violas; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Tanya Tomkins, cello Arthur Frackenpohl); J.P. Sousa, “Liberty Bell March, Stars p r e s e n t e r Monadnock Music p r o g r a m P. Schoenfield, In www.moabmusicfest.org and Stripes Forever a r t i s t s Atlanta Woodwind Quintet Memoriam; R. Shapey, O Jerusalem; O. Golijov, The Dreams (Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet; Elizabeth Koch, oboe; Carl and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. p e r f o r m e r s Ilana Davidson, Nitchie, bassoon; Christina Smith, flute; Brice Andrus, septeMber 14 Dallas/Ft.­Worth,­TX­ horn; and Christopher Rex, cello) www.aicmf.com soprano; Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano; Ole Bohn, p r e s e n t e r Voices of Change p r o g r a m Robert Frank, String Curtis Macomber, Christina McGann and Steve Miahky, Quartet No.