2007 NewMusic@ECU Festival

February 28-March 4, 2007
Location: East Carolina University, School of Music
Greenville, North Carolina
The Sixth Annual Festival of New Music at East Carolina University
For more information, contact: Edward Jacobs, 252-328-4280

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, February 28

8:00 PM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Jonathan Bagg, viola and Donald Berman, piano

Arthur Levering (b. 1954): Tesserae (2003)
Toru Takemitsu (1930-96): A Bird came down the Walk (1994)
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Four works for solo piano
Impression of the “St Gaudens” in Boston Common
Study #2
Study #19
Study #23
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006): Solo Sonata (1991-94)
Stephen Jaffe (b. 1954): Four Pieces Quasi Sonata (2006)*

Thursday, March 1

8:00 PM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
East Carolina University Wind Ensemble
Scott Carter, Director
Sharon Munden, mezzo-soprano

Matthew Tommasini (b. 1978) Three Spanish Songs (2005)

A special introduction to Ancient Voices of Children
Dr. Mark Richardson

George Crumb (b. 1929): Ancient Voices of Children (1970)

Friday, March 2

10:00 AM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Flux Quartet
Reading of student composers’ works

2:00 PM (Rm. 216, Fletcher Music Building)
Martha Horst, composer
Composition seminar

8:00 PM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Ticketed event; $10, $5 students/seniors; 252-328-4788 for tix
Flux Quartet

Conlon Nancarrow (1912-97): String Quartet No. 3 (1987)
Roscoe Mitchell (b. 1940): 9-9-99 (The Card Version) (1999)
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-88): String Quartet No. 2 (1961)
Edward Jacobs (b. 1961): Crossing…over (1991)*
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001): Tetora (1990)

Saturday, March 3

10:00 AM (Fletcher Music Building, B105, B110, B126, A265)
Flux Quartet
Master classes for strings, chamber music

1:00 PM (Rm. 200, Fletcher Music Building)
Lembit Beecher, composer
Composition seminar

3:00 pm (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
ECU New Music Camerata

Benjamin Britten: Songs from the Chinese (1957)
Richard Rodney Bennett: After Syrinx I (1982)
Mark Taggart: Concerto for Chamber Ensemble (1986)
J. Manuel Berard, conductor

8:00 PM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Ticketed event; $10, $5 students/seniors; 252-328-4788 for tix
Tony Arnold, soprano, and Jacob Greenberg, piano

Anton Webern (1883-1945): Four Songs, Op. 12 (1915-17)
Hugo Wolf (1863-1903): from Mörike Lieder (1889)
Im Frühling
Auf ein altes Bild
An den Schlaf

from Goethe Lieder (1890)
Gleich und Gleich
Ganymed

György Ligeti (1923-2006): Der Sommer (1989)

Three Weöres Songs (1947)
Táncol a hold fehér ingben
Gyümölcs fürt
Kalmár jött nagy madarakkal

György Kurtág (b. 1926): The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza, Op. 7 (1963-68)

Sunday, March 4

11:00 AM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Tony Arnold & Jacob Greenberg
Reading of student composers’ works

1:00 PM (A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall)
Tony Arnold
Master Class for voice students

3:00 PM (Wright Auditorium)
East Carolina University Symphony Orchestra
Jorge Richter, Director
Christine Gustafson, flute

Lembit Beecher: Don’t Go There (2006)
Winner, Second Annual Orchestra Composition Competition

Martha Horst: Two Nocturnes (2006)*

John Corigliano: Pied Piper Fantasy, (1982)
featuring Christine Gustafson, flute

Festival Performers

Rachel Arnold, flute
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jonathan Bagg, viola
Jeff Bair, saxophone
Elizabeth Bean, “boy” soprano
J. Manuel Berard, conductor
Donald Berman, piano
J. Christopher Buddo, contrabass
Scott Carter, conductor
Allison Faulkenberry, bassoon
Elliot Frank, guitar
Catherine Garner, piano
Alisa Gilliam, piano
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Christopher Grymes, clarinet
Christine Gustafson, flute
Brandon Hults, piano
Alex Jackson, trumpet
Matt Landon, percussion
Nikki Lee, bass clarinet
Kelly Longmire, oboe
Kevin Meyer, percussion
Sharon Munden, soprano
Bo Newsome, oboe
Pablo Nieves, trombone
John O’Brien, harp
Andy Paolantonio, clarinet
Steve Petrucci, percussion
Sarah Philips, oboe/english horn
Keyondra Price, horn
Jorge Richter, conductor
Perry Smith, tenor
Britton Theurer, trumpet
Christopher Ulffers, bassoon
Jared Wofford, mandolin

Flux Quartet;
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Dave Eggar, cello

East Carolina University Orchestra, Jorge Richter, conductor

Festival Composers in Attendance

Lembit Beecher, University of Michigan
Martha Horst, Illinois State University
Mark Richardson, East Carolina University
Edward Jacobs, East Carolina University
Mark Alan Taggart, East Carolina University

Works Performed: [*=world premiere]

Beecher, Lembit, Don’t Go There (2006)
WINNER of the 2007 ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION

Bennett, Richard Rodney, After Syrinx I (1982)

Britten, Benjamin, Songs from the Chinese (1957)

Corigliano, John, Pied Piper Fantasy (1982)

Crumb, George, Ancient Voices of Children (1970)

*Horst, Martha, Two Nocturnes (2006)

Ives, Charles, Impression of the “St. Gaudens” in Boston Common
Study #2
Study #19
Study #23

*Jacobs, Edward, Crossing…over (1991)

*Jaffe, Stephen, Four Pieces Quasi Sonata (2006)

Kurtag, Gyorgy, The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, Op. 7 (1963-68)

Levering, Arthur, Tesserae (2003)

Ligeti, György, Der Sommer (1989)
Táncol a hold fehér ingben (1947)
Gyümölcs fürt (1947)
Kalmár jött nagy madarakkal (1947)
Solo Sonata (1991-94)

Mitchell, Roscoe, 9-9-99 (The Card Version) (1999)

Nancarrow, Conlon, String Quartet No. 3 (1987)

Scelsi, Giacinto, String Quartet No. 2 (1961)

Takemitsu, Toru, A Bird Came Down the Walk (1994)

Taggart, Mark, Concerto for Chamber Ensemble (1986)

Tommasini, Matthew, Three Spanish Songs (2005)

Webern, Anton, Four Songs, Op. 12 (1915-17)

Wolf, Hugo
Im Frühling (1889)
Auf ein altes Bild (1889)
An den Schlaf (1889)
Gleich und Gleich (1890)
Ganymed (1890)

Xenakis, Iannis, Tetora (1990)

2007 NewMusic@ECU Festival

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, February 28

Thursday, March 1

Friday, March 2

Saturday, March 3

Sunday, March 4

Festival Performers

Festival Composers in Attendance

Works Performed: [*=world premiere]

Sponsors

Individual Donors

Artist Sponsor ($1000 and above):

NewMusic Seeds ($100 and above)

NewMusic Friends