2017-2018 — Season 16

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

NEW MUSIC for STRINGS (#52)

Benzaquen Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music


Frederick Boyle — Gorman Quartet

  • Klang String Quartet

Tamara Cashour — Love Is Not a Subaru: Musical Meditations on 21st-Century Libidinal Economy, Greed Technomia, American Healthcare and the Rationing of Knowledge

  1. Awareness = Consciousness
  2. There Is Too Much Information
  3. “Let’s Go Places” (Toyota)
  4. Waltz of the 1%
  5. “Educated Sheep” Fail to Stump Trump
  6. Healthcare 1: Obamacare — A Maze of Forms
  7. Healthcare 2: Obamacare — Lost: My Family Doctor: Please Call xxx-xx-xxxx If Seen
  8. Healthcare 3: Trumpcare — Peel Off and Replace
  9. Healthcare 4: Big Pharma — “Side Effects Include Death,” but Both Your Heartbreak of Psoriasis and Your Opioid-Induced Constipation Will Be Cured!
  10. Love Is Not a Subaru (Sung by Al)
  • Klang String Quartet, with Grant Swift Glidden, guitar

Jinhee Han — Hyssop

  • Gregor Kitzis, violin

Peter Kelsh — String Quartet No. 2

  1. Moderato
  2. Allegro molto
  • Klang String Quartet

Debra Kaye — Ikarus — Duo for Binya (rev. 2017)

  • Gregor Kitzis, violin, Artie Dibble, viola

Eric Heilner — SQrt: Series 1, Episode 2

  • Klang String Quartet

Craig Slon — String Quartet No. 2

  • Klang String Quartet


Klang String Quartet

  • Gregor Kitzis, violin, Katie Thomas, violin, Artie Dibble, viola, Dave Eggar, cello



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Thursday, January 25, 2018

CRAIG HULTGREN performs NEW MUSIC for CELLO (#53)

Marc A Scorca Hall at the National Opera America Center


Dana Dimitri Richardson — Sonatina

  • I.
  • II.
  • III.

Peri Mauer — September 16th, for cello

Carl Kanter — Cello Song

Kevin McCarter — Tacking

Dary John Mizelle — Suite II for Unaccompanied Cello

  1. A Touch of Spring — Lento
  2. Sour Cherry — Andante
  3. Creamy and Crunchy — Allegro
  4. Fragments — Moderato
  5. Dance — Allegretto

Hubert Howe — Chimera

Monroe Golden — Pinhoti, for cello and fixed media

Debra Kaye — Dialogue With the Ghost

Max Giteck Duykers — Black Meadow

Tamara Cashour — KC: Queen of Hoards

  • 5th movement of Queens’ Suite


Craig Hultgren, cello



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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

NEW MUSIC for VOICE and ENSEMBLES (#54)

Advent Lutheran Church, New York City


Timothy Lee Miller — The Bird Lady

  • I. Mourning Dove, Watching Me
  • II. The Hummingbird
  • Lauren Ishida, soprano, Artie Dibble, viola, Christopher Sahar, piano

David Picton — Tabiji (Travels in Japan)

  • I. Kurobe Gorge
  • II. Mountain River Rapids
  • III. Gold Leaf Tea
  • Craig Ketter, piano

Jacob Elkin — Dance Music in Seven Movements

  • William Birkbeck, clarinet; Ayana Ouchi, clarinet; Alex Yu, clarinet; Tony Park, bass clarinet

Frank Retzel — Three Songs of Seamus Heaney

  • I. The Poplar
  • II. The Swing
  • III. St. Kevin and the Blackbird
  • Jacqueline Milena Thompson, soprano, Craig Ketter, piano

Andrey Komanetsky — String Quartet in Five Movements

  • Winner of the 2017 John Eaton Memorial Competition
  • Klang String Quartet: Gregor Kitzis, violin, Katie Thomas, violin, Artie Dibble, viola, Jillian Blythe, cello

Roger Blanc — Brief Encounter

  • Tony Park, bass clarinet, Christopher Sahar, piano

Craig Slon — Ode to Hölderlin

  • Jillian Blythe, cello

Monroe Golden — Winona's Lesson

  • Miolina Duo: Lynn Bechtold, violin, Mioi Takeda, violin

Kevin McCarter — Stars Above and Earth Below

  • I. Evening: New York
  • II. Leaves
  • III. Winter Dusk
  • IV. April
  • Margaret O'Connell, mezzo-soprano, Michael Laderman, flute, Artie Dibble, viola



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Monday, March 19, 2018

CRAIG KETTER performs NEW MUSIC for PIANO (#55)

Marc A Scorca Hall at the National Opera America Center


Madelyn Byrne — Conversations with Michael

Emiko Hayashi — Sonata for Piano

Raoul Pleskow — Fantasy of Fragments

Peri Mauer — A Little New Year's Flair

Max Giteck Duykers — Arborescence

Scott D. Miller — The Major Scale in Octaves

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Piano Variations

Dary John Mizelle — Blues for Sal – in memoriam Sal Mosca

Christopher Sahar — Three-Card Monte Suite

  • I.
  • II.
  • III.


Craig Ketter, piano



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Wednesday, April 17, 2018

A CONCERT OF NEW MUSIC (#56)

St. Peter's Chelsea Episcopal Church


Joseph Pehrson — Trombone Explorations

  • Jacob Elkin, trombone; David See, piano

Richard Brooks — Swansong Suite

  • I. Andante
  • II. Allegro
  • III. Moderato
  • Erin Lensing, English horn

Catherine Neville — The Witch

  • I. The Witch
  • II. I am a Bird
  • III. Dance
  • Sammy Lesnick, clarinet, Gregor Kitzis, violin, David See, piano

Frederick Boyle — Hippolopolus

  • Dave Eggar, cello

Hubert Howe — Expansions

  • Hubert Howe, electronics

Robert Cohen — Love Triangles

  • I. Danw at Nookies Bar
  • II. Next Morning
  • III. What Were We Thinking???
  • Hansol Choi, Juan Herrera, and Patrick Kennedy, percussion

Eric Heilner — Exercise for Looped Cello

  • Dave Eggar, cello and looping pedal

Carl Kanter — Piano Trio

  • I. Allegro
  • II. Andante
  • III. Allegro Vivace
  • IV. Allegro
  • Gregor Kitzis, violin, Dave Eggar, cello, Craig Ketter, piano



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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

NEW MUSIC by NYCC (#57)performed by C4

"Little Church Around the Corner" Church of the Transfiguration


Timothy Lee Miller — Jubilate Deo

  • SAATTB chorus a cappella, Perry Townsend, conductor

Frederick Boyle — Four Prayer Songs

  • I. Lift Up a Song
  • II. Song of Deborah
  • III. Lumen Center
  • IV. Rejoice
  • SATB chorus a cappella, Melissa Wozniak, conductor

Tamara Cashour — Five Introits

  • I. As a Heart Longs
  • II. Jacob Said
  • III. Be Strong and of Good Courage!
  • IV. Hymn of Resurrection
  • V. O Sing Unto the Lord a New Song
  • SSAATTBB chorus, Hannah Carr, conductor, Tamara Cashour, piano

Kevin McCarter — When the Dawn

  • SSAATTBB chorus, Perry Townsend, conductor, Tamara Cashour, piano

David See — The Kiss: A Dialogue

  • SATB chorus a cappella, Timothy Brown, conductor

Richard Brooks — Yeats Triptych

  • I. The Everlasting Voices
  • II. To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No
  • III. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  • SATB chorus a cappella, Jacob Gelber, conductor

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Remembrance

  • SSA chorus, Hannah Carr, conductor, Tamara Cashour, piano

Dary John Mizelle — Requiem and Kyrie

  • I. Requiem
  • II. Kyrie
  • for chorus and four soloists, piano four-hands, and electronics
  • Soloists: Rebecca Ehren, soprano; Hilary Purrington, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Rubinstein, tenor; Brian Mountford, baritone; Dary John Mizelle, conductor; Tamara Cashour & Jinhee Han, piano

Robert S. Cohen — Peter Quince at the Clavier

  • I. Andante
  • II. Adagio
  • III. Moderato ridicoloso
  • IV. Larghetto
  • SSAATTBB chorus a cappella, Timothy Brown, conductor


Composers and Conductors Choral Collective (C4), Perry Townsend, Melissa Wozniak, Hannah Carr, Timothy Brown, and Dary John Mizelle, conductors



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2017-2018 — Season 16