CONCERT | ARGENTO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE | MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2009

Program:

Elizabeth Hoffman, PR for electronic sounds (WORLD PREMIERE)
Georg Friedrich Haas, Ein Schattenspiel for piano and electronics
Michael Klingbeil, Subterrain for clarinet, 3 strings and electronics
Beat Furrer, Fama Scene VI for soprano and contrabass flute (U.S. PREMIERE)
Bernhard Lang, Morendo for bass flute and electronics (U.S. PREMIERE)
Furrer, Aria for soprano, clarinet, percussion, piano and strings

Soprano Sharla Nafziger and flutist Erin Lesser perform the U.S. premiere of Scene VI from Beat Furrer’s recent opera Fama. In this isolated movement, the vocal line is accompanied by a contrabass flute, an extremely rare instrument that is taller than the performer and wraps around her entire body. Ms. Lesser will also perform the U.S. premiere of Bernhard Lang’s Morendo for bass flute and electronics. Lang constructed Morendo from an unfinished work by tragically neglected composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. Ms. Nafziger sings and Michel Galante conducts the closing work on the program, Beat Furrer’s fast-paced Aria.

The program further includes a world premiere of PR by American acousmatic composer Elizabeth Hoffman; Subterrain, an electroacoustic concerto for clarinet, strings, and electronics, by Argento’s resident composer Michael Klingbeil, featuring clarinettist Carol McGonnell; and Austrian spectral composer Georg Friedrich Haas’s Ein Schattenspiel (A Shadow), a work for piano and electronics in which a piano dialogues with a microtonal electroacoustic rendering of itself, performed by pianist Joanna Chao.

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