April 25-26, 2023
Nunc revisits Williams College to work with student composers and give a concert of new and recent chamber music.
Program:
Talib Rasul Hakim: Duo
Ileana Perez Velasquez: The road not taken *premiere*
Scott Wollschleger: Brontal Symmetry
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Gala Flagello: In a Past Life
Michael Pisaro: fields have ears [4]
Annie Nikunen, flute
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Andrew Janss, cello
Blair McMillen, piano
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, April 26, 7:30pm
Nunc and Miranda Cuckson visit the Shepherd School of Music in Houston to perform and work with student composers and players.
January 15: Hear and Now concert by student ensemble, conductor Jerry Hou and Miranda Cuckson
including “Anahit” by Giacinto Scelsi
January 16 Nunc quintet concert:
Emi Ferguson, flute
Sammy Lesnick, clarinet
Blair McMillen, piano
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
chamber music by Christopher Trapani, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Jürg Frey, Franco Donatoni, Magnus Lindberg
January 17
Nunc readings of nine student composers’ works
January 19
Miranda Cuckson recital
music by Anthony Cheung, Rozalie Hirs, Anna Meredith, Reiko Füting, Aida Shirazi, Iannis Xenakis
Nunc will be in residence at Williams College in Massachusetts from April 5-7 2018. We will give a concert of recent music, student composition readings and instrumental masterclasses.
April 6 8pm concert in Chapin Hall:
music by Christopher Bailey, Sebastian Hilli, Harold Meltzer, Nina C. Young, a premiere by Ileana Perez Velasquez
Nunc visits the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, giving a concert of recent chamber music on February 24 and working with student and faculty composers on the 25th. Nunc director Miranda Cuckson plays a solo violin recital on Feb 23rd.
Barry Crawford, flutes
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinets
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Claire Bryant, cello
Ning Yu, piano
Feb 23 program:
violin music by David Dzubay, Wang Lu, Georg Friedrich Haas, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Hersch
Feb 24 program:
chamber music by Patricia Alessandrini, Sebastian Currier, James Erber, Stefano Gervasoni, Jeffrey Mumford
Nunc will be in residence at Williams College, MA from April 17-19. In addition to masterclasses and composition readings, we will give a concert on April 18 featuring two works by Williams faculty Ileana Perez Velasquez and two works by Shulamit Ran (who will be present): Inscriptions and her new quartet Birkat Haderekh, which was premiered last year at the Tanglewood Festival. The Perez-Velasquez works will be conducted by Ben Grow and recorded during the residency for release on her next album.
Shulamit Ran: Birkat Haderekh – Blessing for the Road
Shulamit Ran: Inscriptions
Jay Schwartz: Music for Violin, Violoncello and Piano
Tôn Thất Tiết: Three Intermezzi
Ileana Perez Velasquez: Night Songs
Ileana Perez Velasquez: Lightning Whelks *premiere*
In Nunc’s only New York event this year, Nunc will perform on January 24th at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This state-of-the-art venue opened in October 2015. The show on January 24 features stringed instruments, both bowed and plucked, along with the distinctive sounds of the oboe, bassoon and the soprano voice. There will be two world premieres – a sextet by Argentine composer Diego Tedesco and a piece for voice and string trio by Jonathan Dawe, featuring soprano Mary Mackenzie – and the New York premiere of a string octet by David Fulmer. Also, works by Elliott Carter’s and Michael Jarrell, and Iannis Xenakis’ “Aroura” for 12 strings, involving remarkable NYC musicians and college students from Mannes and Juilliard.
Performers:
Mary Mackenzie, soprano
June Han, harp
Joseph Brent, mandolin
Arthur Sato, oboe
Brad Balliett, bassoon
Miranda Cuckson, violin and director
Christopher Otto, violin
Yuri Namkung, violin
Mengyi Cao, violin
Isabel Ong, violin
Clare Semes, violin
Jeremias Sergiani Velasquez, violin
John Pickford Richards, viola
Melissa Reardon, viola
Jacob Shack, viola
Julia Bruskin, cello
Chris Gross, cello
Christine Chen, cello
Doug Balliett, bass
David Fulmer, conductor
Program:
Jonathan Dawe: Roventi (2015, premiere)
David Fulmer: Silence of the Sirens (2015, NY prem.)
Elliott Carter: Four Lauds (1984-2001)
Michael Jarrell: Eco III (1994)
Diego Tedesco: Divertimento II (2015, premiere)
Iannis Xenakis: Aroura (1971)
Nunc visits the School of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a residency March 21-23. The concert in Mills Hall on March 22 features – as part of UW’s four-day George Crumb festival – Crumb’s “Eleven Echoes of Autumn” and “Four Nocturnes”, trios by Augusta Read Thomas and Sebastian Currier, and Laura Schwendinger’s “The Violinists in my Life”, a five-movement violin/piano duo composed for a consortium of performers including Miranda Cuckson.
Nunc will work with student composers on March 22 and give instrumental masterclasses on March 23.
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Blair McMillen, piano
Ben Fingland, clarinet
Nunc is thrilled to perform two concerts of Mario Davidovsky’s music at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Celebrating Davidovsky’s 80th birthday, the program will include ensemble and solo works, including pieces with voice and with electronics. In addition to these concerts, there will a talk and performance on August 17.
August 15 and 16, 2014
8:30pm
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Richard O’Neill, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
Donald Palma, bass
Barry Crawford, flute
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Aleck Karis, piano
Programs include:
Romancero for voice and enesmble
Quartetto No. 1 for flute and strings
Quartetto No. 3 for piano and strings
Festino for guitar, viola, cello, bass
Duo Capriccioso for violin and piano
Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and electronics
Synchronisms No. 10 for guitar and electronics
Synchronisms No. 12 for clarinet and electronics
