Dal Niente closes this year’s Frequency Festival with a program centered around two world premieres by two of the ensemble’s favorite composers: Aida Shirazi and Hilda Paredes. This is the second of Dal Niente’s large-ensemble Chicago concerts. The ensemble first worked with Tehran-born Aida Shirazi in 2018, with the workshop and premiere of The Shadow […]
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in "With Love, from Scotland," a program of works by Thea Musgrave, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Felix Mendelssohn. With faculty guests Carrie Shaw, soprano, and Frederick Reece, narrator.
Festival co-organizer Shaw will make appearance as part of festival proceedings. More details to come!
The mission and purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF) is to promote excellence in the performance of chamber music throughout the greater Walla Walla Valley area, to embody these qualities as members of a greater community, and to raise the general level of interest in classical music, especially chamber music, in the […]
Nicknamed the “anonymous 4 of contemporary music,” Quince is a vocal ensemble specializing in the music of our time. They are four female vocalists relentlessly pushing boundaries of style and sound. This performance will feature Courtney Bryan's Requiem (2019), originally written for and premiered by the ensemble. Admission is free, but a reservation is required.
Members of acclaimed Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente—Connie Volk, flute, and Katie Jimoh, clarinet—join faculty soprano Carrie Shaw in performing works for voice and winds by Volk, Luis Naòn, Jérôme Combier, and a newly commissioned work by Sky Macklay. Shaw is joined by soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah in performing duets for voice by Farzia Fallah.
A 2023 MacArthur Fellow, Courtney Bryan is a brilliant pianist and groundbreaking composer who received her doctorate in composition at Columbia University in 2014. Her music is layered with musical genres including jazz, gospel, and experimental music. Two stellar groups—International Contemporary Ensemble and Quince Ensemble—join together to perform a program of recent works, including Requiem, a powerful […]
Born in Tehran (Iran), Farzia Fallah is currently based in Cologne, working internationally with various orchestras, ensembles, and musicians. She’s lived in Germany since 2007, having studied composition at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, as well as the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She has been a fellow of […]
Quince Vocal Ensemble releases a new album, Madrigales del Río, featuring the music of Tomás Gueglio.
Julia Tai leads the Seattle Modern Orchestra and members of the UW Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director) in a program featuring the West Coast premiere of Clocks for Seeing by guest composer Anthony Cheung and world premieres by UW graduate students Justin Zeitlinger, Joe Krycia, Melissa Wang, and Yonatan Ron.
The Johnstone Fund for New Music presents Quince Ensemble at the Short North Stage in Columbus, OH. Featuring the World Premiere of This space has echoes by Leah Blankendaal (Australia).
An educational residency, performance, and recording session featuring music by students at Bowling Green State University. More info: The Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency provides opportunities for composers to explore, experiment, and create for two weeks in Bowling Green State University's 10.2 multi-channel/first order Ambisonic studio. More recently the residency has welcomed new music new music performance […]