Hypercube Presents: Mosaic

This will be the final concert of works written during the Hypercube Composition Lab.

Hypercube presents this concert of duos and quartets by composers Lawton Hall, Kris Peysen, Maria Lihuen Sirvent, Dayton Kinney, Edward Shilts, Nick Fagnilli, and Hayden Fung.

You can watch on the Hypercube Facebook page, or the Charlotte New Music YouTube: youtube.com/charlottenewmusic

Duke New Music Ensemble presents HYPERCUBE

New York City-based Hypercube (saxophone/electric guitar/piano/percussion quartet) performs works by Duke graduate composers James Budinich, James Chu, Stephen Downing, Brooks Frederickson, Dayton Kinney, and Amin Sharifi. HYPERCUBE has been featured at Music on the Edge (Pittsburgh) and The Versipel New Music Festival (New Orleans), among others. They have presented performances, masterclasses and residencies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Bowling Green State University, University of Tennessee, Kent State University (Vanguard Artist Series), Oberlin Conservatory, and others. The group has commissioned new works by Daniel Tacke, Eric Wubbels, Dennis Sullivan, Philip Schuessler, Kari Besharse, Anthony Gatto, Nomi Epstein, Christopher Adler and Nicholas Deyoe. HYPERCUBE is Erin Rogers (saxophones), Jay Sorce (classical & electric guitar), Andrea Lodge (piano), and Chris Graham (percussion). [dnme] is directed by Brooks Frederickson.

Durham Medical Orchestra
Winter 2017 Concert

This winter, the DMO explores the storytelling power of music. From Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story to Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid, every piece on our program leads the audience through narratives that explore the full range of human emotion, experience, and imagination. Hear old favorites like Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. Experience new works, including the world premiere of a DMO commission – The Orchestra Pit, based on a children’s book by Johanna Wright about a snake that loses its way and finds itself in the wrong pit.

The DMO is happy to be able to offer free concerts to the greater Durham community for no charge. Please arrive early to find parking on or near Duke’s East Campus. See the Baldwin Auditorium information page for parking advice and directions.

Amherst (MA) - From September 8 to 10, the UMass Amherst Department of Music and Dance will host the 2017 Five College New Music Festival, featuring four concert programs of music by Five College faculty composers, as well as world premieres, electro-acoustic works and pieces by modern masters from the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, the winning piece from the festival's nationwide composition competition will be performed; this year’s winner, Sato Matsui, will be in attendance.

The Festival includes nearly 50 performers and composers, primarily current and former Five College faculty but also current students and community musicians. Returning as organizers of the Festival are Elizabeth Chang, assistant professor, UMass, Salvatore Macchia, professor, UMass; and Eric W. Sawyer, professor, Amherst College. All four concerts will take place in Bezanson Recital Hall in the UMass Fine Arts Center, and are free and open to the public.

The schedule of the 2017 festival is as follows:

Friday, Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. – Five Colleges and Beyond
Composers: David Sanford, Gunther Schuller, Robert Stern, Daniel Warner, Don Wheelock

Saturday, Sept. 9,  2 p.m. – New Duos and Five College Composition Competition Winner
Violin duos by Stan Charkey, Dayton Kinney, Bruce Quaglia, and a saxophone duo by Christine Hedden, plus competition-winning piece by Sato Matsui

Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. – Old as New Again: The Art of Transcription
Composers: Thomas Adès, Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtág, Salvatore Macchia, Charles Wuorine

Sunday, Sept. 10, 3 p.m. – New Music Masters
Composers: Frank Bennett, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, John Harbison, György Kurtág 

Duke New Music Ensemble presents RELA Percussion

New works written for Rela Percussion by Ben Daniels, Dayton Kinney, and Yahn Wagner, as well as a new work by Ken Stewart for ukulele. Detroit-based percussion group Rela is unlike any band working in music today. Rela's music seamlessly combines world rhythms with jazz harmony into a unique blend that is both complex and playful. The group is dedicated to exploring the styles and textures of all percussion instruments. By utilizing the marimba, vibraphone, steel pan, congas, drum set, tabla, and many others, Rela has cultivated a new concept of what it means to be a percussion quartet. The Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme] is directed by Eren Gumrukçuoglu.