Printer-friendly versionEdward T. Cone Concert Series Continues at Institute for Advanced Study
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Jeremy Denk, photo by Samantha West |
The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the spring schedule for its 2011-12 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, curated by Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence. The Harmonic Series presents fresh approaches to the classical tradition.
The season continues with noted American pianist Jeremy Denk on February 17 and 18, 2012. Denk will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Ligeti.
On March 23 and 24, 2012, Music from Copland House will initiate an innovative collaboration with Music from China, featuring works written for hybrid ensembles made up of Western and Chinese instruments.
The performances by Grammy-award winning sextet eighth blackbird, originally scheduled in February, have had to be postponed because of an injury sustained by one of the performers, and they will now appear in next season’s lineup on November 30 and December 1.
All the concerts will be held at 8 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall. Concert tickets are free but must be reserved in advance. For ticket information, or for further information about the Institute for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence Program, call (609) 734-8228 or visit www.ias.edu/air.
About Edward T. Cone
Noted composer, teacher, pianist and author Edward T. Cone earned his undergraduate and MFA degrees at Princeton University and was affiliated with its music department for more than 50 years. A Founding Friend of the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, he had a close and long-standing relationship with this institution. During his lifetime, he was a tireless supporter of the arts and humanities at the Institute and elsewhere. The Institute’s concert series has carried the Edward T. Cone name since 2007.
About the Artist-in-Residence Program
The Artist-in-Residence program was established at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1994 to create a musical presence within the Institute community and to have in residence a person whose work could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from all disciplines. Pianist Robert Taub was the first Artist-in-Residence from 1994 to 2001, followed by composer Jon Magnussen, who served as Artist-in-Residence from 2000 to 2007, and Paul Moravec, who served as Artist-in-Residence from 2007 to 2008 and Artistic Consultant from 2008 to 2009.
Jon Magnussen introduced Recent Pasts 20/21, a series of chamber music concerts and lectures that explored the contemporary musical landscape and the many points of view that define it. Paul Moravec curated Tradition Redefined, exploring the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of the 20th and 21st centuries.Derek Bermel, named Artist-in-Residence in 2009, is a composer, clarinetist, conductor, jazz and rock musician. The 2001 winner of a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, Bermel came to the Institute from a three-year position as the American Composers Orchestra's Music Alive Composer-in-Residence.
About the Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of no more than 28, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.
The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 6,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Some 33 Nobel Laureates and 38 out of 52 Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf or MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute.