Name: Translucent Harmonies With andPlay
Start: 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-10-23T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Scandinavia House

Translucent Harmonies With andPlay

Scandinavia House was created by the American-Scandinavian Foundation to be the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States. It offers a wide range of programs that include exhibitions, film series, concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, language courses, and activities for kids.

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The NYC-based music duo andPlay, featuring Maya Bennardo on violin and Hannah Levinson on viola, joins us to perform “Translucent Harmonies,” a program of two pieces written by composers Catherine Lamb and Kristofer Svensson.  
This program, commissioned from the composers, consists of two new pieces composed in just intonation, which uses a form of tuning outside of the standard system to create otherworldly moods. The first is "Prisma Interius VIII" by composer Catherine Lamb; the second, “Sinnets Tomma Rörelser” by Kristofer Svensson consists of two movements, one with brief melodic fragments against a backdrop of silence and noise, and one that dissects a singular short melodic phrase.
Since being founded in 2012, andPlay has been committed to expanding the existing violin/viola repertoire through performances of rarely heard works as well as commissioned pieces from emerging composers.
The artists will be present for a pre-concert discussion starting at 7:30 PM.
 
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About the Artists
Described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration” and performing “with a welcoming and dynamic spirit,” andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire through performing rarely heard works and commissioning emerging composers.
The New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, first played to an eager crowd on Fire Island in the summer of 2012, and has since premiered nearly fifty new works, close to thirty of which have been commissioned, many of which include electronics. andPlay has collaborated closely with numerous composers, including Robert Honstein, Scott Wollschleger, Clara Iannotta, David Bird, Bethany Younge and Ravi Kittappa, and consider those relationships to be an integral part of their artistic process. Honstein praises the duo for their "consummate professionalism, fierce musicality and an unflappable good spirit."
andPlay was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Concert Artists Guild Victor Emaleh Competition and was the recipient of a 2016 CMA Classical Commissioning grant with composer Ravi Kittappa, made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
Recent highlights include a West Coast tour with performances and workshops at the Center for New Music in San Francisco and Monkspace in LA, a Midwestern tour (including performances in Columbus, Ohio through CNX: The Columbus // NYC New Music Exchange, at the Toledo Museum of Art, Short North Stage in Columbus, OH), and a performance as guest artists at the 2017 Omaha Under the Radar Festival (Omaha, NE). The duo has also performed at the NUNC!2 Conference at Northwestern University, the New Music Gathering at Peabody Conservatory, and the String Theories festival in New York City, as well as performances at venues including Roulette, The Stone, The DiMenna Center in NYC and The Record Company in Boston, MA.
Beyond the concert stage, Maya and Hannah are passionate educators offering workshops in contemporary string techniques, chamber music coaching and composition notation for strings. They’ve offered performances and masterclasses at UC Santa Cruz, Western Connecticut State University, and Bowling Green State and are artists-in-residence at the Snow Pond Composers Workshop (Sidney, ME).
 
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