NewSound presents composer Dan Welcher this week
NewSound '11All concerts are open to the campus and community and take place at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall, with the exception of the final performance, which will take place in King Concert Hall. Tickets are available at the Fredonia Ticket Office or at the door. Sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Student Association, Ethos New Music Society is administered and operated by SUNY Fredonia students, under the supervision of its advisor, Dr. Rob Deemer. Tickets: Call SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office: 716-673-3501. Tickets also available at door. |
The 11th annual NewSound Festival will take center stage throughout the month of February. Hosted by SUNY Fredonia’s Ethos New Music Society, the festival will focus on contemporary performances and hold nine events featuring world-renowned performers and composers, including:
 Dan Welcher |
Friday, February 25, 8 p.m.: Composer Dan Welcher will perform a concert of his chamber music in Rosch Recital Hall at 8 p.m. It will feature performances by SUNY Fredonia faculty Angela Haas, Joe Dan Harper, Lynn McMurtry, Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Seigel, Jonathan Mann, Ann Kissel, I-Fei Chen and the SUNY Fredonia Percussion Ensemble. Admission is $2 students, $5 general admission at the door.
Saturday, February 26, 8 p.m., King Concert Hall: Dan Welcher concludes the festival with the SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble. The ensemble will perform Welcher's "Zion" and Igor Stravinski’s “Piano Concerto” with Fredonia Professor Sean Duggan, as well as Charles Ives’ "Old Home Days," conducted by Den Albright of the President’s Own Marine Band, and a world premiere of Jim Self’s "Mo’ments". This event is free and open to the public.
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Previous concerts in this series:
Friday, February 11, 8 p.m.: Rosch Recital Hall will welcome the New York City-based NOW Ensemble (see photo below). A dynamic group of young performers and composers dedicated to making new chamber music for the 21st century. The Ensemble will bring their fresh sound and new perspective to classical tradition as they perform two major song cycles by composers Missy Mazzoli and Corey Dargel. Admission is $2 students, $5 general admission at the door.
Friday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.: A free performance by renowned soprano, Tony Arnold, will feature this singer performing the works of student composers and poets in Rosch Recital Hall.Read the news release>>
Wednesday, February 16, 8 p.m.: Columbus, Ohio-based flute soloist Lindsey Goodman will perform in Rosch Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Her concert will premiere new work by SUNY Fredonia professor Rob Deemer and Piano Professor Jonathan Mann will accompany her. The performance will also feature work for flute and electronics by Russell Pinkston, Matthew Rosenblum, Randall Woolf, and Grant Cooper. The event is free and open to the public.
A strong advocate for emerging composers and electro-acoustic or multimedia works, Goodman has given over forty-five world premieres, throughout the United States and Canada, including thirteen solo and chamber compositions written especially for her.
As an orchestral musician, she is in her tenth season as the flutist for the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and is featured on their most recent CD release, Against the Emptiness. She holds the Martha Gaines Wehrle Chair, for having completed her fourth season as the principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, where she can be heard on the ensemble's first-ever CD release. She has also preformed with the Toledo and Lima (Ohio) Symphony Orchestras, the Fort Wayne (Ind.), Erie (Pa.), and Tuscarawas (Ohio) Philharmonics, the Ohio Valley Symphony, and with the New World Symphony (Fla.).
She received her master’s degree from Northwestern University, her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Duquesne University, and a professional studies diploma from the Manhattan School of Music’s orchestral performance program.
This year she plans adding singer to her muscial repotoire with her classical mezzo/soprano vocal debt with two commissioned works for singing flutist and singing pianist, and can be heard in recital events throughout central Ohio.
Friday, February 18, 8 p.m.: The Ethos NewSound Festival will present the Florestan Recital project, featuring baritone Aaron Engebreth and pianist Allison d’Amato on Friday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The concert will premiere songs created by SUNY Fredonia student composers and poets, and features, "The Strange Case of DR. H. H. Holmes," by Libby Larsen. Admission is $2 students, $5 general admission at the door. The concert is sponsored in part by the SUNY Fredonia Convocation Committee.
In its ninth season, the Florestan Recital Project, founded in 2001, aspires to explore and promote a full spectrum of song repertoire in concerts, master classes and educations residencies. Drawing from a vast range of established and unfamiliar collection of songs the project creates timely and stimulating programs for audiences. They continue to expand with the addition of new artists who regularly perform with leading opera companies, orchestras, and music festivals around the world.
In 2010 they were named one of the five best American Contemporary Classic Albums of 2010, by National Public Radio (NPR), for their album: Complete Songs of Daniel Pinkham. “If we've learned anything from Pinkham's settings, it's that his oeuvre should receive attention and respect within the pantheon of American song composers. Florestan's performances give credit and more, with beautiful diction and assured interpretation, “as quoted by NPR.
Saturday, February 19, 8 p.m.: Rosch welcomes the League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS) from Mercyhurst College. The ensemble will make their debut public performance, featuring works by David Smooke, Augusta Read Thomas, Ken Ueno, Sofia Gubaidulina, and premiering work by Ruby Fulton, Michael Formanek, and SUNY Fredonia faculty Rob Deemer. The concert is free and open to the public.
