Monthly Archives: October 2018

Shows — Comments Off on ICEBERG New Music
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Oct 18

ICEBERG New Music

Ekmeles performs new works by ICEBERG composers Stephanie Ann Boyd, Victor Baez, Derek Cooper, Max Grafe, and Jonathan Russ. Also on the program are works by Donna McKevitt and Amy Brandon, the winners of ICEBERG’S third annual call for scores. Like every ICEBERG event, this concert features an open bar happy hour beginning at 7:30, and a discussion with the composers and performers after the show.

Ekmeles personnel for concert

Ekmeles’s 2018-2019 season is made possible with funds from the Amphion Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the generosity of private donors.

Performance details

  • Date: Saturday, March 9th 2019
  • Time: 8:00pm
  • City: Ekmeles in New York
  • Venue: Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center
  • Address: 450 W 37th St
  • Notes: ICEBERG: Ekmeles performs newly written works by ICEBERG New Music composers, and the winner of the 3rd ICEBERG call for scores.
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Shows — Comments Off on Mystical Paths
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Oct 18

Mystical Paths

This program takes the spiritual and nostalgic atmosphere of the crypt as inspiration. Each of the pieces is deeply human, as befits a set for voices unaccompanied, with works inspired by Sufism, silence, cooking, and humor.

  • Forrest Pierce – Tighten to Nothing (2012)
  • Taylor Brook – Motorman Sextet (2013) Ekmeles commission
  • Lucia Ronchetti – Anatra al sal (2004) U.S. Premiere
  • Agata Zubel – Alphabet of the Ars Brevis (2016)
  • Evan Johnson – Three in, ad abundantiam (2012)
  • Evan Johnson – vo mesurando (2012)

Ekmeles personnel for concert

Ekmeles’s 2018-2019 season is made possible with funds from the Amphion Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the generosity of private donors.

Ekmeles in Manhattan Spring 2019 is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by LMCC; and funding from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and administered by LMCC.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Performance details

  • Date: Friday, May 10th 2019
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • City: Ekmeles in New York
  • Venue: Crypt of the Church of the Intercession
  • Address: 550 West 155th Street
  • Admission: $20
  • Notes: Mystical Paths: Works by Taylor Brook, Evan Johnson, Forrest Pierce, Lucia Ronchetti, and Agata Zubel
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  • Date: Saturday, May 11th 2019
  • Time: 8:00pm
  • City: Ekmeles in Philadelphia
  • Venue: University Lutheran Church
  • Address: 3637 Chestnut Street
  • Notes: Mystical Paths: Works by Taylor Brook, Evan Johnson, Forrest Pierce, Lucia Ronchetti, and Agata Zubel
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Oct 18

Madrigals and Animals

This program celebrates the history and future of unaccompanied part song, and the interaction between human and animal voices. At the center of the program is the U.S. premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s epic 12 Madrigali

  • Karola Obermüller – mass:distance:time (2010/16)
  • Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf – void – un delitto italiano (2009)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino – 12 Madrigali (2006) U.S. Premiere
  • Carola Bauckholt – Instinkt (2007/8) U.S. Premiere

Ekmeles personnel for concert

Ekmeles’s 2018-2019 season is made possible with funds from the Amphion Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the generosity of private donors.

Ekmeles in Manhattan Spring 2019 is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by LMCC; and funding from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and administered by LMCC.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Performance details

  • Date: Thursday, January 17th 2019
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • City: Ekmeles in New York
  • Venue: Crypt of the Church of the Intercession
  • Address: 550 West 155th Street
  • Admission: $20
  • Notes: Madrigals and Animals: Works by Carola Bauckholt, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Karola Obermüller, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
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  • Date: Saturday, January 19th 2019
  • Time: 8:00pm
  • City: Ekmeles in Philadelphia
  • Venue: University Lutheran Church
  • Address: 3637 Chestnut Street
  • Notes: Madrigals and Animals: Works by Carola Bauckholt, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Karola Obermüller, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
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