Name: ESCAPADES
Start: 2025-12-13T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-13T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Tenri Cultural Institute

ESCAPADES

Immeasurable Arts

Immeasurable Arts presents ESCAPADES, an evening of music by composer/pianist Jonathan Howard Katz. Multiple world/NYC premieres and more!

Tenri Cultural Institute

Program will include:<ul><li>A preview of Urtext (2025), commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts</li><li>The world premiere of Around the Idea of You (2020), a song cycle on poems by Andrea Cohen</li><li>The world premiere of Escapades (2023), for clarinet, cello, and piano, commissioned by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation</li><li>the NYC premiere of Katz's first book of piano études (2024)</li><li>the presumed NYC premiere of You were of that light (2022), commissioned by the family of Georgia Marriott</li><li>some returning favorites: Berceuse (2021), for violin and piano; and As If Saying Goodbye (2020), another song cycle on poems by Andrea Cohen</li></ul>Collaborators include mezzo-sopranos Sophie Delphis and Emily Hughes, sopranos Sharon Harms and Amber Evans, cellist Kirsten Jermé, pianist Piotr Kozłowski, violinist Madeline Hocking, and clarinetist Nuno Antunes.To support this program with a tax-deductible donation, please visit <a href="https://pentacle.formstack.com/forms/unique_donation_form_jonathan_howard_katz" title="https://pentacle.formstack.com/forms/unique_donation_form_jonathan_howard_katz" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.For more information about Jonathan Howard Katz, please visit <a href="https://www.jonathanhowardkatz.com/" title="https://www.jonathanhowardkatz.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.About the Artists:Described as “gifted and uncompromising,” Jonathan Howard Katz is a NYC-based composer and pianist who enjoys a varied and eclectic career. Current projects include a commission from NYSCA and a series of piano études. His music has been heard at Symphony Space, Bargemusic, Merkin Hall, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and numerous other venues, and has been performed by the Mivos Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and many others. Recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary work with dance, Dr. Katz has collaborated as composer with over thirty choreographers, including Seán Curran, Gabrielle Lamb, PeiJu Chien-Pott, and Kate Skarpetowska. He directed Periapsis Music and Dance for its entire 10-year run, performed as guest pianist with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center and the Guggenheim, and taught music classes for dancers as faculty at NYU Tisch. He holds a doctorate in piano performance from Northwestern University and degrees from New England Conservatory and Indiana University.Born in Portugal, clarinetist Nuno Antunes performs extensively with a variety of ensembles in and around New York City. Nuno is currently a member of Sylvan Winds, Trio Cabrini, IRIS Orchestra, and Principal Clarinetist with Opera Saratoga. He is a frequent collaborator with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St Luke’s, American Ballet Theatre, The Knights, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the MET Opera Orchestra, America Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Philharmonic, Miami Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera and Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa. He played clarinet and bass clarinet for the Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods and Camelot, and has been a substitute clarinetist for the productions of My Fair Lady, The King and I, Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd. Nuno has appeared as a soloist with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, performing Strauss’s Duett Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra. Other solo performances include Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra and Lutoslawski’s Dance Preludes. He has performed as a guest artist with various chamber music groups, including the Parker Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, NOW Ensemble, yMusic, Lisbon Clarinet Quartet, and the Jasper String Quartet. Nuno has held faculty positions at various schools and festivals, including Killington Music Festival, New York Summer Music Festival, and Professional School of Arts of Beira Interior. Nuno holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, with David Krakauer, and Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, with Nuno Silva and Ettienne Lamaison.Franco-American mezzo-soprano Sophie Delphis’ stage roles this season include: Christine (Phantom of the Opera, Theater in Quarantine/NYU Skirball), Principal Second Soprano (What to Wear, Beth Morrison Projects/BAM), and Félicie/Adélaïde (La Belle et la Bête, Opera Paralèlle). Her recital and chamber work performances include: Fauré’s La Chanson d’Ève, Ravel's Chansons madécasses and Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams, León’s Atwood Songs, Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, and Messiaen's Harawi. She regularly collaborates with composers, improvisers, and theater artists on new works, with American Opera Projects, BargeMusic, InfraSound Ensemble, the Why Collective, and others. She is a dancer and singer with Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble, which combines technology, movement, and composition. Passionate about language and poetics, she is a writer, a French translator and teacher, and a doctoral candidate in performance at the Graduate Center City University of New York. In both her performing and academic work, Sophie explores the embodied process of multi-sensory experience, analysis, translation, and transformation in the creation and interpretation of words and music.Amber Evans is an Australian vocalist, conductor and composer currently based in the US. She regularly performs as an early music soloist, chamber ensemble vocalist, and contemporary opera/vocal specialist, with consistent touring engagements in Australia, the US and the UK. Winner of the inaugural US Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Advancement Award for the interpretation of contemporary music, she is committed to the vital artistic collaboration with composers to thoughtfully contribute to the musical canon of the present day. In Australia during the uncertainty of the pandemic years from 2020, Amber became the inaugural lecturer for aural studies and ear training at the Young Conservatorium, stepped in as assistant conductor for The Australian Voices, established the vocal sextet Formant, and directed the music for All Saints Anglican Church, Brisbane. Upon her return to the US, Amber commenced doctoral studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, under the tutelage of Neil Semer. Her thesis topic is centred around codifying Lucy Shelton’s pitch and rhythm chart methods aimed at singers learning post-tonal and atonal musics. Notable musical endeavours to date include work with medieval ensemble Concordian Dawn, new music ensembles BlackBox and Infrasound, her duos confluss, Aesop’s Nightingale and panSonus, concerts and services with the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields, and further engagements as an extra member of vocal ensembles Ekmeles and Roomful of Teeth.Soprano Sharon Harms is celebrated for her vibrant voice and fearless artistry, delivering "luscious-toned," "extraordinarily precise and expressive" performances (The New York Times). Her dedication to contemporary vocal music has made her a vital collaborator and sought-after interpreter of works by living composers. She has premiered numerous works with leading chamber ensembles, including the Talea Ensemble, Argento Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, International Contemporary Ensemble, Lyris Quartet, Ensemble Signal, Third Coast Percussion, and the MET Opera Chamber Orchestra. Her performances have also been featured at the American Academy in Rome and the Resonant Bodies Festival.Harms was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where she premiered Charles Wuorinen’s cantata It Happens Like This, which she later sang for her Carnegie Hall debut. She has been a visiting artist at East Carolina University, a faculty member at New Music on the Point, and serves as soprano with the conference ensemble for the Composer’s Conference at Avaloch Farm Music Institute.Committed to expanding the vocal repertoire, she is currently working on new works written for her and the Talea Ensemble, alongside recording projects featuring Milton Babbitt, Charles Ives, and Aaron Helgeson. She has recorded for the Albany, Bridge, and Innova labels. www.sharonharms.comDescribed as 'enchanting' and 'exceptional' by New York Concert Review, Madeline Hocking is a performer, composer, and artistic director committed to giving contemporary music the attention and passion it deserves. She finds great enjoyment in bringing new musical works to life, and in creating interdisciplinary concert experiences alongside a wide variety of artists. Madeline belongs to numerous new music ensembles in NYC, including Sixth Degree, COPE Collective, and Infrasound, as well as the non-profit Enjinn Arts, which merges new music with technology to maximize audience interactivity in its wide range of musical events. Other recent roles include co-founding/co-artistic directing Noise Catalogue, an award winning contemporary music collective based in New York City, and belonging to Semiosis Quartet, a Boston-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of works by living composers. She also regularly performs with New Chamber Ballet, Blackbox Ensemble, Unheard-of//Ensemble, chromic duo, and more. Madeline has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras across North America, including the American Composers Orchestra, the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra, the Vancouver Philharmonic, the Strathcona Symphony Orchestra and the Comox Music Centre Orchestra. She has been featured on the New York Philharmonic's 'Nightcap' series, at IRCAM forum, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, the Banff Centre, the Bang on a Can Marathon, and numerous music festivals worldwide. As a composer, her works have been performed at venues across the US, Canada, and Hungary. Madeline received her Bachelor's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music.Mezzo-Soprano Emily Hughes is thrilled to have made her German house debut this summer singing Flora in La Traviata at Oper Kiel. Her recent performances include her debut at Carnegie Hall with DCINY as the alto soloist for Vivaldi’s Gloria, Smeton in Anna Bolena with Winter Opera St. Louis, the title role of La Cenerentola with Bel Cantanti Opera, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with the Southern Illinois Music Festival, a staging of Jake Heggie’s song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire with New Camerata Opera, and Musette in Leoncavallo's La Bohème with Teatro Grattacielo, for which Opera News called her “delightful and coquettish Musette” a performance of “particular note.” Collaborating with Jonathan Howard Katz, Emily was a finalist for both the Joy in Singing and Federation of the Art Song competitions, and she has been a young artist with Teatro Nuovo, Opera on the James, and Charlottesville Opera. A versatile performer, Ms. Hughes has sung with early music groups such as Artek and the Amherst Early Music Festival, and she has premiered many works, including Lingbo Ma’s The Pile at National Sawdust. www.emily-hughes.comPiotr Kozłowski (Poland) is a versatile pianist and educator with a special affinity for chamber and contemporary music. Drawn to creative programming that highlights the unifying nature of chamber music, he has performed extensively across Europe and North America and is a laureate of both chamber music and solo piano competitions. After completing his studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, he earned his doctorate in piano performance under Kevin Kenner at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. As an Erasmus+ scholarship recipient, he studied with Avedis Kouyoumdjian at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and later held fellowships at the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance. Now based in New York City, he freelances internationally, serves as collaborative pianist at Manhattan School of Music, and is Piano Mentor at tonebase.

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