Composer Elainie Lillios is special guest at the 33rd Annual Ussachevsky Festival
Hear the fifteen Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber on February 22
Faculty and friends present a Fête Musicale on February 7
This year's Ussachevsky Festival will include a site-specific performance at Skyspace
Jan 31/Feb 1 – Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electroacoustic Music
Igor Santos*, visiting director
The 33rd annual Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electronic Music explores music and technology in relation to the human voice: weaving together speech, breath, narrative, and sound. This year's featured guest composer is .
Guest Lecture: Fri, Jan 31, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Thatcher Music Building Room 109
Composer Elainie Lillios discusses her own work
Site-Specific Performance: Fri, Jan 31 & Sat, Feb 1 at sunset (c. 5:20-5:30 p.m.)
James Turrell (PO ‘65) Skyspace, 6th Ave and College Way
Located in Draper Courtyard, Lincoln and Edmunds Buildings
“Night-Sky” by Elainie Lillios, a site-specific composition. Presented in collaboration with the Benton Museum of Art.
Concert - “Breathing Rooms”: Sat, Feb 1, 8:00 p.m., Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
Music by special guest Elainie Lillios, Peter Ablinger, Igor Santos, and Hildegard Westerkamp
Performers: Rachel Rudich*, flute; Igor Santos* and Genevieve Feiwen Lee*, piano; Yuri Inoo, vibraphone; and others
12 – Student Recital
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
Students perform a variety of selections that they have studied with faculty during the semester
22 – The Complete Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber
Saturday, 7 p.m., Bridges Hall of Music
, baroque violin; Malachai Komanoff Bandy*, viola da gamba and G violone; , baroque harp; , organ and harpsichord
A rare performance of all 15 virtuosic works, each demanding a different scordatura tuning for the violin, presented alongside engraved Rosary images from Biber’s seventeenth-century manuscript
23 – Fête Musicale
Sunday, 3 p.m., Bridges Hall of Music
Carolyn Beck*, bassoon; Stephen Klein*, euphonium; , trumpet; Kira Blumberg*, viola; Maggie Parkins*, cello; Jennie Jung*, piano; and Phillip Young*, piano
An eclectic selection of works, from Robert Schumann to klezmer and more, performed by faculty and friends of the Music Department
28 – Student Recital
Friday, 4 p.m., Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
Students perform a variety of selections that they have studied with faculty during the semester
*91 Music Department faculty performers
All performances are free with open seating.
No tickets are required unless noted.
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