Now you can watch Felipe Lara's lecture for the NEC YCF.
NEC YCF Session 3: Felipe Lara and Zosha Di Castri
The NEC Young Composers Forum is proud to present the music of visiting composers Felipe Lara and Zosha Di Castri.Felipe Lara was born in the state of São Paulo, Brazil in 1979. His music has been recently performed in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Luxemburg, Switzerland, and the United States by ensembles such as the Arditti String Quartet, Duo Diorama, Ensemble Recherche, International Contemporary Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Hilversum, and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. Lara is currently a PhD candidate at New York University (GSAS) where he studied with Louis Karchin, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Mario Davidovsky. Additional studies in composition, computer-music, and orchestration with Tristan Murail at Columbia University, as well as lessons with Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Marco Stroppa, Michael Jarrell, Wolfgang Rihm, and Yan Maresz. His second string quartet
Zosha Di Castri (b. 1985) is a Canadian composer/pianist living in New York. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in composition at Columbia University, studying with Fred Lerdahl. After completing a B.Mus. in composition and piano performance at McGill University, Zosha moved to Paris to pursue further musical studies. Her composition teachers have included Brian Cherney, Philippe Hurel, Fabien Lévy, and Tristan Murail. Zosha’s compositions have been performed in Canada, the US, and Europe by such ensembles as the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, l’Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, JACK Quartet, and the Orchestre National de Lorraine. She has also participated in residencies at the Banff Center, the New Music Session at Domaine Forget, and the National Arts Centre’s composition program. She was recently named a laureate of the 3rd International Composer’s Competition for the Hamburger Klangwerktage Festival, and is currently composer in residence for Ensemble Portmantô. Zosha is interested in creating interdisciplinary works, and composes both instrumental, mixed, and purely electronic music....
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
10am - noon
10am - noon
NEC Pierce Hall
241 St. Botolph Street
Boston, MA 02115
241 St. Botolph Street
Boston, MA 02115
NEC YCF Session 2: Trevor Bača and Diana Soh
The NEC Young Composers Forum is proud to present the music of visiting composers Trevor Bača and Diana Soh.Trevor Bača was born outside Los Angeles in 1975. His concerns as a composer include lost and secret texts; broken and dismembered systems; sorcery, divination and magic; and the effects, action and beauty of light. Bača's music has been played in the US, Europe and Japan, with recent performances in New York, Berlin, Tokyo and elsewhere. Works include Aracılık (2010) for percussion trio; Mon Seul Désir (2009) for flute, clarinet, violin and cello; Lidércfény (2008) for flute, violin and piano; a cycle of works for unaccompanied flute, including Sekka (2007), dedicated to Reiko Manabe, and Čáry (2006), dedicated to Carin Levine; and Poème récursif (2005) for 64 pieces of percussion. Bača's music has been anthologized as part of Notations 21, edited by Theresa Sauer, and Bača's scores have been exhibited as art at the Chelsea Gallery in New York City and at the Hutchins Gallery on Long Island. Recent publications include an analysis of electroacoustic music by composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi in the Search Journal of New Music and Culture. Recent lecture engagements at the University of California at San Diego; University College Cork in Ireland; the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM) in Paris; and the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. Bača is the first-place recipient of the 2008 Ježek Prize in Composition. In August 2009 Bača completed a two-week residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart with performances by Ensemble SurPlus. Bača is now a PhD student at Harvard University studying with Hans Tutschku and Chaya Czernowin.
Diana Soh (b. 1984) is a young Singaporean composer whose musical interest is currently directed at exploring performance interactivity. Her music tends to be characterized by interruptive oppositions between surface activities and passivity. Her music has been performed in venues as varied as Takefu International Festival (Japan), LSO St. Luke's (United Kingdom), Royaumont and Acanthes (France), Donaueschinger Musiktager and Unerhorte Musik Series (Germany), June in Buffalo (USA), as well as throughout Singapore and New York. Her music has also been broadcasted recently on the BBC Radio 3. She has had the good fortune of working with musicians such as James Avery, Magnus Andersson, NEO Norbotten, Tony Arnold, Berlin Piano and Percussion, New York New Music Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, and the SYC Ensemble Singers. She is currently working towards her PhD at the University of Buffalo under the tutelage of David Felder. She is employed by the Center for 21st Century Music in Buffalo and aids in the organization of concert events. For more information, please visit http://www.dianasoh.com/....
Monday, December 13, 2010
12pm - 2pm
NEC Pierce Hall
241 St. Botolph Street
Boston, MA 02115
NEC YCF Session 1: Paul Clift and Alec Hall
The NEC Young Composers Forum is proud to present the music of visiting composers Paul Clift and Alec Hall.
Paul Clift was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1978. He currently lives in New York, where he is undertaking a doctorate in composition at Columbia University, receiving tuition from Tristan Murail, Fred Lerdahl & Fabien Lévy. He obtained a Master of Music at King's College, London, under the tutelage of George Benjamin. In Paris he studied with Jean-Luc Hervé & Philippe Leroux, and from 2007-09, participated in the New Music Technology & Composition Cursus programme at IRCAM, under the direction of Yan Maresz; this culminated in the premier of a new work for 6 musicians and dancer, With my limbs in the dark, created in collaboration with French choreographer Alban Richard and performed by Ensemble l'Instant Donné & Laurie Giordano during the Agora Festival.
Paul has also participated in festivals such as Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Centre Acanthes, Domaine Forget, IMPULS & Darmstadt Ferienkurse allowing him further study with eminent composers Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Michaël Levinas & Gerard Pesson among others. His works have been performed in many countries throughout the world by ensembles such as Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Contrechamps, Lontano Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble & Klangforum Wien. Paul also maintains his own web-site: www.paulclift.net
Slavishly committed to an idealistic concept of engagement, Alec Hall creates things with uncertain outcomes, designed to provoke moments where subjectivities are challenged to interact with each other in unusual contexts. Motivated by the dynamics of 21st century paradoxes, his work is an attempt to reconcile the tensions between the interpretation of the art-object as a singular liaison to the Real, and the hidden paths to the same place that relationships between individuals can produce, independently of a piece. Based in New York City, Alec is currently studying composition in the doctoral program at Columbia University. He has written pieces for a number of groups and individuals, with performances throughout Canada, Germany and the United States by such renowned musicians as Charles Curtis, Anthony Burr, the International Contemporary Ensemble and the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble. Alec has studied principally with Tristan Murail and Philippe Manoury, and taken part in lessons and masterclasses with such composers as Helmut Lachenmann, Pierluigi Billone, Wolfgang Rihm, Roger Reynolds, Toshio Hosakawa, Chris Paul Harman and Enno Poppe. In addition to composition studies, Alec has also worked with a wide array of violinists, including Mark Fewer, Yehonatan Berick and Ellen Jewett, as well as improvisation studies with David Borgo. Alec holds an M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego and a B.Mus in composition and violin performance from McGill University.Monday, November 15, 2010
12pm - 2pm
NEC Pierce Hall
241 St. Botolph Street
Boston, MA 02115
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