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Follow on Google News | Phantoms of New Music in New York -- October 30 at 3 PM!Max Lifchitz leads the GRAMMY nominated North/South Chamber Orchestra in first performances of works inspired by Halloween.
Carla- The event will feature the Grammy nominated North/South Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Max Lifchitz performing premieres by Canadian Robert Rival and Americans Jennifer Castellano, Edmund Cionek, Stephen Yip and Barbara Wesby. Soprano Carla Wesby will appear as soloist. All participants in the event are available to the press for interviews and may be contacted through our office at ns.concerts@ North/South Consonance’s 2011-12 season is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; grants from Columbia University’s Ditson Fund; the Zethus Fund; and the American Federation of Musicians (Local 802); as well as contributions by many generous individuals. For further information about all North/South activities including concerts and recordings please visit http://www.northsouthmusic.org/ About the Performers Soprano Carla Wesby recently returned from Europe where she performed at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. She has appeared as soloist with the NY Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. A graduate of Valparaiso University and the Manhattan School of Music, Ms. Wesby is a cantor and soloist at St Patrick’s Cathedral and is a co-founder of Opera Collective. Max Lifchitz , composer/conductor, is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Harvard University. He was awarded first prize in the 1976 International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Twentieth Century Music held in Holland. The New York Times music critic Allan Kozinn praised Mr. Lifchitz for his "clean, measured and sensitive performances” Since 1980, NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE has brought to the attention of the New York public over 900 different works by composers from every corner of the world. The press has favorably acknowledged the many attractive CD albums issued by NORTH/SOUTH RECORDINGS. "Enthusiastic performances...enough to express the boiling power of the music" is how The Philadelphia Inquirer greeted North/South Recordings No. 1003. The Washington Post declared that N/S R No. 1004 contains "intriguing instrumental works, works that span the emotions from pain to ecstasy.” Fanfare Magazine remarked as follows on the recently released Carnaval/Carnival (N/S R 1028): “Recorded within days of the September 11 attack, the performances all glow.” About the Composers and their Music The program will open with the first US performance of Scherzo by the young Canadian composer Robert Rival. Critics have described his work as “well crafted…engaging and immediately appealing.” Born in Calgary, Rival was educated at New York University and the University of Toronto and recently was appointed composer-in- Jennifer Castellano’s Revelations will be heard for the first time. A recent graduate from Purchase College, Ms. Castellano is active as a pianist and chamber musician and recently released a recording of her piano music on the Imagine label. A member of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss, Ms. Castellano is a member of the music therapy staff at Sunshine Children’s Home & Rehabilitation Center. The composer writes that her new work completed in May of this year was inspired by the music of the late Alan Hovhaness, The work’s title refers to the fact that its themes appeared to her in a kind of dream-like state. The first half of the program will close with the performance of a newly minted song cycle by Barbara K. Wesby, the composition teacher and choral accompanist at Wagner College in Staten Island. A graduate from the Eastman School of Music where she studied composition with Samuel Adler, Websy’s works have been performed throughout the US and Central America. Wesby has received grants from the Kentucky Council for the Arts and the Staten Island Arts Council. Inspired by the evocative sea-side poetry of Brooklyn-based Mark Weiss, the five songs that comprise this recently completed cycle was imagined for the color and timbre of the composer’ daughter instrument -- soprano Carla Wesby. The second half of the program will open with the premiere performance of Reverberation by Stephen Yip, the Chinese-American composer. Yip studied at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts before earning a doctorate in composition from Rice University. His works have been performed at various festivals in China, Israel, Europe and throughout the US. Cast in a single movement, Reverberation is full of daunting, almost forbidding instrumental sonorities and effects. Yip’s Spirit Labyrinth II was recently recorded by harpist Megan Levin accompanied by the North/South Chamber Orchestra and can be heard on the recently released album Crosscurrents (N/S R 1055). The afternoon’s concert will conclude with the first performance of Three Apparitions by Edmund Cionek whose post-modern music reflects a deft blend of classical design, pop elements and humor. Cionek studied with William Bolcom at the University of Michigan and with Max Deutsch at the Ecole. He is the composer-in- # # # A non-profit organization devoted to the promotion, performance and recording of music by living composers. End
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