Choreography by Al Evangelista, featuring student dancers from Oberlin Dance Company. Read more here.
Choreography by Al Evangelista, featuring student dancers from Oberlin Dance Company. Read more here.
Vanguard Reed Quintet returns for our first live concert in over a year! We've missed performing for you all and we cannot wait to make music together in person.
Purchase a ticket here to attend our concert in person!
We'll also have a livestream available, if you can't make it in person or would like to watch from home. Buy a livestream ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vanguard-reed-quintet-ypsilanti-freighthouse-livestream-tickets-158330742513
The concert program is as follows:
J.S. Bach, arr. Sean Meyers - Prelude from Partita No. 3, BWV 1006
Karalyn Schubring - Red Leaf Collection
Becky Turro - Thaw
Douglas Hertz - From Lidless Eyes (time knows no bounds)
Kurt Weill, arr. Raaf Hekkema - Dreigroschen-Suite - I. Ouverture; II. Moritat von Mackie Messer
Jeff Scott - Homage to Paradise Valley - IV. Paradise Theater Jump
Pianist Annie Jeng will perform Harlem River Drive as part of her recital on the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Faculty Artist Series. The performance will be live-streamed, link TBA.
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Hertz will be performing an improvised ambient electronics and piano set as part of the Prattsville Arts Center’s 2020 Winter Holiday show. Performance will be livestreamed (link TBA).
The Portland Percussion Group will be performing Fixtures in the Fold on a program of percussion music at the GAIDA Festival of Contemporary Music in Vilnius, Lithuania.
More information here.
Livestream performance of An Ecology of Caring, for solo cello, by Josh DeVries at Stamps Auditorium at the University of Michigan.
Vanguard Reed Quintet will be releasing their debut album, Red Leaf Collection (named after composer Karalyn’s Schubring’s wonderful quintet), on May 22. As part of the livestreamed event, Hertz will be discussing his work, “From Lidless Eyes (time knows no bounds),” which is featured on the album.
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Pianist Annie Jeng premieres Harlem River Drive on Nief Norf’s Norf Space series.
Tune into the livestream here.
New work for ballet scored for String Quartet to be premiered by Converge String Quartet with Verb Ballets in Cleveland Ohio with choreography by Janice Rosario.
For more info: https://verbballets.org/performances/
Portland Percussion Group performs Fixtures in the Fold as part of the nienteForte Festival in New Orleans, LA. More information here.
Up/Down Percussion performs Fixtures in the Fold in Bates Recital Hall at UT Austin.
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Front Porch gives a second performance of Our Place, for violin, bassoon, piano, and vibraphone.
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New percussion trio will be read by Cisum Percussion as part of their 2019 Composing for Percussion Workshop.
For more info: http://www.cisumpercussion.com/2019-composers
The Vanguard Reed Quintet performs From Lidless Eyes (time knows no bounds) on a guest artist recital at the University of Missouri - Kansas City Conservatory.
As winner of their call for scores, Fixtures will receive its west coast premiere by the Portland Percussion Group.
For more info: http://www.portlandpercussiongroup.com/home/2019-20/fixtures/
Premiere of Our Place, for violin, bassoon, piano, and percussion commissioned by and for Front Porch at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).
For more information: https://www.umma.umich.edu/events/5074/front-porch-presents-our-place
Performance of A Measure of Warmth as part of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music by soprano Jessica Rivera, baritone Matthew Worth, and pianist Molly Morkoski at Meyer Sound in Berkeley, CA. Also on the program are works by composers Dawn Norfleet, Olivia Davis, Nicky Sohn, and Grey Grant.
As part of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, A Measure of Warmth will be premiered at the Paul Dresher Studio in Oakland, CA by soprano Jessica Rivera, bariton Matthew Worth, and pianist Molly Morkoski. Also on the program are works by composers Dawn Norfleet, Olivia Davis, Nicky Sohn, and Grey Grant.
Culminates in premiere performances of new work for soprano, baritone, and piano in Berkeley, CA on Sept. 30 (public) and Oct. 1 (private). Please contact me for details.
Premiere of Radio Horizon for flute, horn, and guitar, as part of The Walden School's faculty commissioning program in Dublin, NH.
Premiere of 2 - 1, created in collaboration with choreographer Janice Rosario, as part of the Periapsis Music and Dance Emerging Artist Residencies in New York, NY.
Cellist Dave Eggar will be performing An Ecology of Caring at a Walden School benefit concert in San Francisco, CA.
Premiere performance of An Ecology of Caring, for solo cello in at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Workshopping new work for soprano, baritone, and piano as part of Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, CA.
Performance of From Lidless Eyes (time knows no bounds) by the Vanguard Reed Quintet at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, MI.
Performance of From Lidless Eyes (time knows no bounds) by the Vanguard Reed Quintet at National Sawdust, along with performances of works by Michigan composers Daniel Zlatkin, Nina Shekhar, and Gala Flagello by VRQ, Khorikos, and saxophonist Jeff Siegfried.
Performance of Distacco, for tuba and percussion by Evan Zegiel and Anthony DeMartinis.