INSTITUTE CONCERT SERIES BEGINS OCTOBER 20-21

PRINCETON, N.J. - September 20, 2006 - The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the schedule for its 2006-07 concert series. Entitled Recent Pasts 20/21, the series explores a variety of aesthetic perspectives in Western art music of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This year is the final season of the four-year series, which is sponsored by the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence program, curated by Jon Magnussen.

Opening this year’s season will be A Gate into Infinity: Music from a Modern Japan, featuring the FLUX Quartet with guest pianist Stephen Gosling, on October 20 and 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus. The concert will feature the works of Somei Satoh, Toru Takemitsu, Toshio Hosokawa and Toshiro Mayuzumi.

Two other events are associated with the concert: Japan in the World: Somei Satoh speaks with Jon Magnussen presents composer Somei Satoh in conversation with Magnussen on Friday October 20 at 4:00 p.m. in the Dilworth Room. On Saturday, October 21, members of FLUX Quartet will join Magnussen in a pre-concert conversation about the music on the program, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall.

FORTHCOMING CONCERTS AND LECTURES

Future concerts and lectures in the Institute series will include A 21st Century Virtuosity, featuring The New York New Music Ensemble on February 16 and 17, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall. The program is scheduled to offer works by Steven Mackey, Jon Magnussen, Donald Martino and Augusta Read Thomas. Composer Mackey will participate in the Recent Pasts 20/21 Conversation with “Eating Greens,� joined by Jon Magnussen on Friday, February 16 at 4 p.m. in the West Building Lecture Hall. There will be a Pre-concert Talk on February 17 at 6:30 p.m.

The Lyric Impulse is planned for March 30 and 31, 2007, with Trio Solisti and guest clarinetist Alan Kay. The program will feature music by Robert Beaser, Paul Moravec and Arnold Schoenberg/Eduard Steuermann. Composers Beaser and Moravec will join Magnussen in the Recent Pasts 20/21 Conversation “New Tonalities� on March 30 at 4:00 p.m. in the West Building Lecture Hall. There will be a Pre-concert Talk on March 31 at 6:30 p.m.

Concert tickets are free but must be reserved in advance; no tickets are necessary for the talks. For ticket information, or further information about the Institute for Advanced Study’s Artist-in-Residence Program, call (609) 734-8228 or visit www.ias.edu/air.