Name: NYCC Presents | New Music for Voice & Instruments
Start: 2022-04-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-04-21T21:00:00-04:00
Location: The Church of the Transfiguration

NYCC Presents | New Music for Voice & Instruments

The New York Composers Circle is an artistic and educational organization of composers and performers dedicated to new music whose mission is to promote public awareness and appreciation of contemporary music through concerts, salons, and other events in the New York metropolitan area. The NYCC assists composers in the creation of new concert works of all genres, arranges for their performance, and offers its resources toward the development and education of new audiences for new music.

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A Concert of New Music for Voice & Instruments at Little Church Around the Corner, Church of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration

Catherine Neville – Three Pieces on Paintings by Kandinsky – Kyle Miller, electric guitar; Matthew Kowalski, vibraphonePaul Aljian – By Night. By Day. † – David Steinberg, violin; Daniel Barrett, celloSimona Smirnova – Jauna Meilė † – Simona Smirnova, soprano; Vivienne Aerts, alto – Takuma Matsui, tenor; Erik Schark, bassDavid Mecionis – Five Mirror Canons † – David Steinberg, violin; Daniel Barrett, celloMadelyn Byrne – Hallie Quinn Brown – Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano; Rich Wardlow, trumpet – Simon Mulligan, pianoEric Heilner – Short Story for Violin &amp; Piano Nº 1 † – Marina Kifferstein, violin; Simon Mulligan, pianoPatricia Leonard – Remember Me, from “Written in the Stars” – Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano; Simon Mulligan, pianoChristopher Sahar – Shortcuts for Solo Piano † – Simon Mulligan, pianoAnton Rovner – Mysterious Star, song cycle on poems by Edgar Allan Poe † – Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano; Simon Mulligan, piano† World premiere

British pianist SIMON MULLIGAN is, according to The Times of London ‘the most abundantly gifted of pianists’, to Steinway &amp; Sons he is ‘the world’s most versatile pianist’; Pulitzer prizewinning composer Paul Moravec calls him ‘a pianist with complete mastery of the instrument’, while Herbie Hancock says ‘You have a phenomenal touch, man!’ In addition to his extensive discography and vast repertoire, Mulligan’s solo work gains praise from critics and audiences alike, and his collaborations include performances and recordings with Yehudi Menuhin, Joshua Bell, Leonard Slatkin and Sting.He has performed all over the world, most notably at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, as well as private performances for Her Majesty the Queen and President Barack Obama. His keen interest in film composition led to a long association with composer Michael Kamen, culminating in his performance on the soundtrack to Spielberg’s Band of Brothers. He has led his own jazz quartet since he was thirteen, which has performed in major international festivals. His eclectic work has led to profiles in Downbeat, JazzTimes, BBC Music, Classic fM, and Gramophone magazines, among others.Simon is a recipient of the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Music, and his teachers include Alexander Kelly, Murray Perahia, Alfred Brendel and Alexis Weissenberg.

Hailed as “a brilliant and driven cellist, composer, and conductor” (Huffington Post), whose instrumental playing is described as “fire and ice” (The New York Times), DAN BARRETT is the creator and director of the music ensemble International Street Cannibals (ISC). He has played extensively for BBC America in their TV series Copper, and for the national public television station PBS, particularly as solo and ensemble cellist for documentaries such as Ric Burns’ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Death and the Civil War, The Way West, Andy Warhol, and his 10-part series The History of New York, and for The Great Depression. He has also performed in numerous documentaries for HBO Television and for the national sports station ESPN. His solo performance credits include Festival Radio France, Gulbenkian Festival (Lisbon), Festival Présences (Paris), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and WQXR. Featured solos can be heard on recordings by Iannis Xenakis (Mode and Vandenberg labels) and the renowned Irish ensemble Cherish the Ladies (RCA), and on the soundtrack of Andy Warhol (Sony). In addition to being the onstage cellist in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway, Barrett performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Philomusica, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Sirius Quartet, ST-X Ensemble, Strathmere Festival Orchestra, Spectrum Orchestra, Stamford Chamber Orchestra, Connecticut Grand Opera, S.E.M. Ensemble and the concert series North/South Con- sonance. His compositions have been performed by the national public station NPR, Absolute Ensemble, International Street Cannibals, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and New York Mandolin Orchestra. Barrett has con- ducted The New York Bach Ensemble, the Ethos Ensemble, and the Composers Concordance Ensemble, among others. He has also taught at New York University, Outreach Academy (Schwaz, Austria) and the Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians (Stamford, Connecticut).

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