Institute for Advanced Study: 2006-2007 Season:

In 2003-2004, the Institute for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence Program launched
Recent Pasts 20/21, a four-year initiative of chamber music concerts and lectures. Hosted by Institute Artist-in-Residence, composer Jon Magnussen, the series is designed to explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in western art music of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

This year's series features nationally and internationally known artists with performances by The FLUX Quartet with guest artist Stephen Gosling, piano; The New York New Music Ensemble; and Trio Solisti with guest Alan Kay, clarinet. Speakers in the series include composers Robert Beaser, Steven Mackey, Paul Moravec and Somei Satoh. Each Institute concert series includes a concert talk with the musicians hosted by Magnussen.

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2006-2007 Season

October 20-21, 2006	A GATE INTO INFINITY: MUSIC FROM A MODERN JAPAN FLUX QUARTET, with guest artist Stephen Gosling
February 16-17, 2007	*A 21st CENTURY VIRTUOSITY* THE NEW YORK NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
March 30-31, 2007	THE LYRIC IMPULSE TRIO SOLISTI, with guest artist Alan Kay
April 15, 2007	FOLK INFLUENCES AND MORE: Cambodian, North American, Iranian and others DA CAPO CHAMBER PLAYERS

A GATE INTO INFINITY: MUSIC
FROM A MODERN JAPAN
FLUX Quartet with Stephen Gosling, piano

October 20 & 21, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall

“...New York's highly respected FLUX Quartet has built its reputation by handling the
most daunting challenges set forth by contemporary composers...”
Billboard Magazine

The FLUX Quartet and guest artist Stephen Gosling offer a stirring musical portrait of Japanese composer Somei Satoh and his compatriots Toru Takemitsu, Toshio Hosokawa, and Toshiro Mayuzumi. The program includes Satoh's birds in warped time II for violin and piano; Toki No Mon (A Gate into Infinity) for violin, piano, percussion; Towards the Night for string quartet; and Hashi for solo piano; Toshio Hosokawa's Vertical Time Study III for violin and piano; Toshiro Mayuzumi's Bunraku for solo cello; and Toru Takemitsu's A Way A Lone for string quartet.

Pre-concert Talk, Saturday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall

Members of the FLUX Quartet speak with Jon Magnussen about the music on the program.

RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION
Japan in the World: Somei Satoh
speaks with Jon Magnussen

Friday, October 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.
in the West Building Lecture Hall

Composer Somei Satoh has emerged as one of Japan's most internationally celebrated and significant composers of the post-Takemitsu era. An autodidact, he has distilled the experience of Shintoism and Zen Buddhism into an essential purity and simplicity in his music. Satoh has created a significant body of work for a variety of media, including Kisetsu, commissioned by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic in 1999 as part of the "Messages for the Millenium" Series.

A 21st CENTURY VIRTUOSITY
The New York New Music Ensemble

February 16 & 17, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall

“...player for player, perhaps the best new music group in the country.” (New York Times)

For thirty years, The New York New Music Ensemblehas commissioned, performed, recorded, taught, and fiercely advocated the music of our time. Sought out by composers and audiences wishing thoughtful and passionate performances, NYNME offers a program including Steven Mackey's Micro Concerto (1999), and Donald Martino’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Notturno (1973), both for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion; Augusta Read Thomas’ Piano Preludes (2006); Bernard Rands’ Memo 4 (1997) for solo flute; and a new work by Institute Artist-in-Residence Jon Magnussen.

The New York New Music Ensemble consists of artists Daniel Druckman, percussion; Christopher Finckel, cello; Stephen Gosling, piano; Jean Kopperud, clarinet; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor/percussion; Linda Quan, violin; and Jayn Rosenfeld, flute.

Pre-concert Talk, Saturday, February 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall

Members of the New York New Music Ensemble speak with Jon Magnussen about the music on the program.

RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION
Eating Greens: Steven Mackey speaks with Jon Magnussen

February 16, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Dilworth Room

Composer Steven Mackey's first musical passion was playing the electric guitar in rock bands. Once he discovered concert music, the former professional freestyle skier began composing for orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance and opera, drawing on his rock music past. With commissions by major symphonic organizations including the San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a busy performing career as improvising guitarist and chamber musician, Mackey is a distinctive figure on the contemporary music scene.

THE LYRIC IMPULSE
Trio Solisti with Alan Kay, clarinet

March 30 & 31, 2007 at 8:00 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall

“…compelling and consistently brilliant.”
New York Times

The acclaimed Trio Solisti (Maria Bachmann, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; and Jon Klibonoff, piano) is quickly becoming a major force in the chamber music world, with performances of "unrelenting passion and zealous abandon" (The Washington Post). Joined by guest clarinetist Alan Kay, the ensemble offers a program including Robert Beaser's Sonata for violin and piano; Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy for piano, violin, `cello, and clarinet; and Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, opus 66.

Pre-concert Talk, Saturday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall

Members of Trio Solisti speak with Jon Magnussen about the music on the program.

RECENT PASTS 20/21 CONVERSATION
New Tonalities: Robert Beaser and Paul Moravec
speak with Jon Magnussen

March 30, 2007 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Dilworth Room

Critically acclaimed composers Robert Beaser and
Paul Moravec have emerged as two of the most accomplished creative musicians of their generation.
Beaser possesses a "lyrical gift comparable to that
of the late Samuel Barber" (New York Times), and
2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Moravec has been
described as "openly and ebulliently attractive,
flowing with an effortless lyric pulse" (Fanfare).

FOLK INFLUENCES AND MORE:
Cambodian, North American, Iranian and others
Da Capo Chamber Players

April 15, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
in Wolfensohn Hall

Based in New York City, the Da Capo Chamber Players have been "exploring and helping to create the modern repertory for flute, clarinet, violin, 'cello and piano" for more than 35 years (New York Times). They will perform works by Chinary Ung, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, Reza Vali, Stefan Weisman and Institute Artist-in-Residence Jon Magnussen.

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