Ensemble Connect shares classical music with 91精简版, Saratoga Springs
Ensemble Connect February 2025 Program
Friday, February 7, 2025
7:30 PM Performance
Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall
Arthur Zankel Music Center
CONCERT PROGRAM
SCHUBERT |"Quartettsatz" in C Minor, D. 703
KATHERINE BALCH | musica spolia (arr. for chamber ensemble; NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
KATHERINE BALCH | musica nuvola (NY premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
BERIO | Ricorrenze per quintetto a fiato - a Pierre Boulez per il suo sessantesimo compleanno
BEETHOVEN | Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Experience the versatility of Carnegie Hall鈥檚 Ensemble Connect in this intimate performance. The program begins with Schubert鈥檚 unfinished 鈥淨uartettsatz,鈥�
which endures today as a striking single movement and one of music鈥檚 great 鈥渨hat-ifs.鈥�
Two New York premieres follow by Katherine Balch, an exciting contemporary composer
whose works have been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic,
Ensemble Modern, and Carnegie Hall, among others. Berio鈥檚 Ricorrenze, written for the composer鈥檚 friend Pierre Boulez, is featured as part of Carnegie
Hall鈥檚 ongoing Boulez centennial celebration. The concert closes with Beethoven鈥檚
Septet in E-flat Major, one of the septet format鈥檚 quintessential works during Beethoven鈥檚
lifetime and ours.
This event is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Presented by the Department of Music and the Office of Special Programs
The biannual residency is made possible by the generous support of David and Beverly Sanders Payne '59 (October residency) and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation (February residency).
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Described as 鈥渟ome kind of musical Thomas Edison 鈥� you can just hear her tinkering
around in her workshop, putting together new sounds and textural ideas鈥� (San Francisco
Chronicle), composer is interested in the intimacy of quotidian objects, found sounds, and natural processes.
A collector of aural delights, field recordings are often at the heart of her work,
which ranges from acoustic to mixed media and installation. Katherine is Assistant Professor of Composition at Yale School of Music and holds a D.M.A. from Columbia University. When not making or listening to music, she can be found building windchimes, hiking, cooking, or taking cat naps with her feline sidekick, Zarathustra. www.katherinebalch.com. |
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