New Music Ensemble Concert featuring works by Gabriela Lena Frank
New Music Ensemble
Gabriela Lena Frank joins conductor Nicole Paiement and the New Music Ensemble for a concert culminating her residency as the Andrew W. Imbrie Visting Chair in Composition at SFCM. The concert also features works by Composition students, selected by the faculty to write works for the ensemble to premiere in this program. The collaboration highlights Paiement’s continued initiative with NME in featuring the school’s composers, from students to faculty and alumni.
Program
Gabriela Lena Frank: Danza de los Saqsampillos
Mukil Narayanan: Looking Out the Window
Wei Zhao: 朝雾 / Walk in the mist, 为室内乐而作 / for chamber
Cooper Grosscup: Pastorale
Sam Mason: Reverie for Chamber Ensemble
Claire Stephenson: Cloudland
Xingyue Song: Antiphonal
Zoe Yost: Theme and Variations [Or, A Tone Row' s Weekend Sojourn]
Max Marcus: Three Miniatures for Chamber Ensemble
Tyler Kinnaman: “The Starry Night"
from Johanna and Vincent
Adellyn Geenen, mezzo-soprano
JJ Trimble, tenor
Artist
Gabriela Lena Frank, Andrew W. Imbrie Visiting Chair in Composition
Nicole Paiement, conductor
New Music Ensemble
Jacques Desjardins
Nicole Paiement
About SFCM’s New Music Ensemble
SFCM’s New Music Ensemble places students in the classical music of their own time and recent generations. As a member of the ensemble, you’ll perform a variety of works written in the 20th and 21st centuries in concert each year. Personal contact with visiting composers is provided whenever possible to strengthen the bond between performer and composer, a vital aspect of today’s performing landscape today. We also present several concerts and readings of works by student composers each year.