Chirp: NEC's Music Technology Showcase | Night 6 - Music Beyond the Threshold: A Concert of Computer-Assisted Music

New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.

Tonight's concert was curated by faculty member Stratis Minakakis. Join Minakakis and students for a pre-concert lecture from 7-8 p.m. 

Program includes my For Felipe M. for solo amplified saxophone, with video design and programming by Ben Eidson, I will also be conducting notes, echoes, too, from that veiled realm by Xiaofeng Jiang.

Boston area friends: it gives me great pleasure to invite you to the US premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's seminal "Quaderno di Strada", with baritone Tyler Bouque, the Alinéa Ensemble and me at the podium. Also on the program works by Isang Yun and Betsy Jolas, performed by members of Steve Drury's [nec]shivaree.

Alinéa gives the US Premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s expansive “Quaderno di Strada” for baritone and chamber orchestra. Accompanied by projected photography of urban street scenes that compliment the variety of texts and collage effect of Sciarrino’s “Notebook”, the premiere highlights Alinéa as an ensemble of soloists in a forty-five minute journey from extreme sound to extremely fragile silence. Conducted by Stratis Minakakis at New England Conservatory’s Brown Hall.

Efstratios Minakakis - Conductor
Tyler Bouque - Baritone
Xiaoyu Lin - Flutes
Gillian Bobnak - Oboe/English Horn
Aleksis Martin - Clarinets
Jensen Bocco - Bassoon
Ryan Jung - Piano, Celeste
Alex Garde, Tennison Watts - Percussion
Emma Burge, Emma Carleton - Violin
Jason Butler - Viola
Robbie Bui - Cello
Matthew Henson - Bass

Find out more: https://www.alineaensemble.org/schedule/sciarrinos-quaderno-di-strada

NEC Contemporary Ensemble
John Heiss, director

Stratis will conduct György Ligeti’s Nouvelles Aventures (1963) in the NEC Contemporary Ensemble’s Spring concert.

MORE INFO HERE

György Ligeti: Nouvelles Aventures (1963)

Efstratios Minakakis, conductor
Chelsea Baccay, soprano
Wei En Chan, countertenor
Tyler Bouque, baritone
Xiaoyu Lin, flute
Reese Williams, French horn
Ryan Jung, piano
Matthew Monaco, harpsichord
Alex Garde, percussion
Robert Bui, cello
Matthew Henson, double bass