Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers





















Hugh Levick, Artistic Director
HEAR NOW FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC 

BY CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES COMPOSERS

 

Friday through Sunday, May 1, 2, and 3, 2015

 

 

Fifth Annual Festival Collaborates with 

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 

and PIE 

 

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Seating is limited.

 

The fifth annual HEAR NOW Music Festival brings you music by the great composers living and working in Los Angeles including:  a Friday night electro-acoustic concert, a Saturday marathon chamber concert with food trucks provided for your dinner break, and a Sunday afternoon chamber concert.  Some of Los Angeles' most superb performers take part in HEAR NOW which reveals the wealth of musical imagination in our city.  

 

'...rapturous chamber music...' (Mark Swed, LA Times)

 

Friday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.

Pasadena Neighborhood Church

Hear Now and People Inside Electronics present

Electroacoustic concert featuring Brightwork newmusic 

 

HEAR NOW collaborates for a second year with People Inside Electronics (PIE) to bring you a Festival program of electroacoustic music. Composers Adam Borecki, Tom Flaherty, Daniel Rothman, Nicholas Deyoe, Scott Worthington and Bill Alves . Musicians include Brian Walsh, Tereza Stanislav, Margaret Parkins, Aron Kallay, Alma Lisa Fernandez, Nick Terry, Joe Thel, Brian Head, Matt Barbier and others.

                         
                          Borecki                                   Flaherty                       Rothman   
                 

                          Deyoe                               Worthington                      Alves                                

 

"The level of composition and performance was equal to any fine contemporary music concert in the world today." (Russell Steinberg blog)

 

Saturday, May 2 at 4:00 pm  

First Lutheran Church of Venice

Saturday Marathon Chamber Concert

In collaboration with the superb Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

and Daria van den Bercken, LACO guest artist

Featuring the Lyris Quartet, Hear Now ensemble in residence

 

 


Part I begins at 4 and there's a dinner break between 6:00 and 7:45.  Food trucks galore. Part II begins at 8. One ticket price -- 15 composers. 
Burt Goldstein, Drew Schnurr, Bryan Curt Kostors, Andrew Moses, T ristan Xavier Koester, Joan Huang, Jonathan Beard, William Kraft, Andrew Norman, Ted Hearne, Phillip Golub, Hugh Levick, Jack Van Zandt, Tomas Peire Serrate, Jeffrey Parola.  With performers Daria van den Bercken - LACO guest artist, the Ray-Kallay Duo, Nadia Shpachenko, David Brennan, Curt Miller, Alison Bjorkedal, Shalini Vijayan, Nico Abondolo, Joanne Pearce Martin, Alyssa Park, Timothy Loo, Brightwork newmusic, Nik? St. Clair, Sarah Thornblade, Giovanna M. Clayton, Helen Goode-Castro, Thomas Buckner, Lyris Quartet, Alma Lisa Fernandez, Sidney Hopson, Judith Farmer.

   
        Goldstein                       Schnurr                        Kostors                     Moses        

                   
                Koester                     Huang                      Beard                           Kraft

                  
                 Norman                    Hearne                      Golub                          Levick 

                         

               Van Zandt                             Serrate                            Parola

 

"A diverse display of new music it was, spanning nearly four generations of living Los Angeles composers and a cross-section of idioms.... the performances were technically top-notch, often reaching deep into the music for that something extra..."  (Richard Ginell, Out of the West))

 

 

Sunday, May 3 at 5:00 p.m.

First Lutheran Church of Venice

Chamber Concert

 
In the beauty of the candlelit First Lutheran Church, HEAR NOW presents works by 
Walter Arlen, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Isaac Schankler, Gernot Wolfgang, 
Daniel Kessner, and Daniel Alcheh.   With performers Jamie Chamberlin, Victoria Kirsch, Joanne Pearce Martin, The New Hollywood String Quartet, Shalini Vijayan, Luke Maurer, Timothy Loo, Stuart Clark, and Alyssa Park
                    
               Kroll-Rosenbaum                      Schankler                            Arlen                  


                                                       Wolfgang                             Kessner                                  Alcheh     

 

"...a host of L.A.'s finest composers and musicians ... a very successful Hear Now Music Festival ..." (Rodney Punt , LA Opus)

 

Program:
Friday, May 1 at 8 PM  - Electroacoustic Concert
Pasadena Neighborhood Church

Adam Borecki: Study for Clarinet and Imaginary Pianos (2013) 

(with clarinet)

Tom Flaherty:  Looking for Answers (2011) 

(with violin, cello, piano)

Daniel Rothman: Fool Wind (1997) (US Premiere)  

 (with oboe, viola, piano, percussion)

Nicholas Deyoe: Grey Oval Smoke (2013) (US Premiere) 
  (with  electric guitar, percussion)
Scott Worthington: A Different Infiniteness (2013) 
(with bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, baritone voice)

Bill Alves: The Question Mark's Black Ink (1986)

(with piano, percussion)

 

Saturday, May 2 at 4 pm - Marathon Chamber Concert: 1 ticket for both parts!

First Lutheran Church of Venice
Part I: 4:00 pm

Burton Goldstein: Two Pieces for Piano Quintet (2014) (World Premiere

(flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

Drew Schnurr: Hyperventilations of a Fire Dragon  (2014) (World Premiere
(piano, four hands)

Bryan Curt Kostors: Imaginary Dances (2013)

(violin, viola, cello, piano)

Andrew Moses: Distemper and Chalk on Canvas  (2014) (World Premiere)

(clarinet, string quartet)

Tristan Xavier Koester: Die Badende (2014)

(alto sax, bass clarinet, harp, violin, viola, cello)

Joan Huang: Four Madrigals of Li Bai (2004) (contrabass, piano)

Jonathan Beard: Ioso (2012) (violin, cello)

William Kraft: Kaleidoscope  (2014) (West Coast Premiere)

(flute, clarinet violin, cello, piano, percussion) 


 

(Dinner break)

 
Part II: 8:00 pm

Andrew Norman: Lullaby (2007)

(mezzo-soprano, piano)

Ted Hearne: Parlor Diplomacy (III and V) (2011)

(piano solo)

Phillip Golub: Fireflies (2014) (West Coast Premiere)

(violin, cello, clarinet, piano)

Hugh Levick: Tierra del Fuego  (2014-15) (World Premiere)

(baritone and string quartet)

Jack Van Zandt: Stoicheia: Five Etudes for solo viola I, II, IV (2014) (World Premiere)

(viola and tape loop)

Tomas Peire Serrate: Awake  (2013) (US Premiere)

(flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion)

Jeffrey Parola: Three Divertimenti (2014)

(bassoon, string quartet)

 

Sunday, May 3 at 5:00 p.m.

First Lutheran Church of Venice

Walter Arlen: Songs of Love and Yearning (I, II, III, V) (1986)

(soprano and piano)

Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum: Ouija  (2009) (US Premiere)

(piano solo)

Isaac Schankler: Oscillations (2005)

(piano solo)

Gernot Wolfgang: String Theory (I, III, IV) (2013)

(string quartet)

Daniel Kessner: Undercurrent/Current (2008) (World Premiere)

(violin, viola, cello, piano)

Daniel Alcheh: Septet (2012) (US Premiere)

(clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, contrabass)

 

Tickets: 

$80 - Festival Pass, all 3 concerts

$60 - Two-concert Pass

$35 - Single tickets

$30 - Senior tickets

$15 - Student tickets with valid ID (1 ticket per ID)

                                                   

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Locations:

 

 

Pasadena Neighborhood Church: 301 No. Orange Grove,  Pasadena (Just north of 134-210 convergence) Easy parking  in church parking lot.



First Lutheran Church of Venice: 815 Venice Blvd. Venice (3 blocks west of Lincoln.   Click here for parking information. 



The HEAR NOW Music Festival is supported by the Colburn Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund, and from contributions from wonderful people like you! Every donation - large or small - makes a difference.  Please support our programs!

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