Friday, April 20, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

MATA Festival – SIGNS AND SIGNALS

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We finish off the Festival with a tour-de-force of new works for large and small ensembles featuring SIGNAL, called “one of the most vital groups of its kind” by the New York Times, and led by the phenomenally astonishing conductor Brad Lubman. MATA presents the final commission of 2012: a large-scale work by Francesco Filidei, a Paris-based Italian composer who is taking Europe by storm. Also featured: the vicious, heart-stopping Viola Quartet by Eric Wubbels, David Coll’s Position,Influence for soprano and electronics based on the speeches of Charles de Gaulle, Alex Freeman’s gorgeous work for solo Kantele (the Finnish folk instrument, played by Eva Alkula, who swoops in from Finland especially for this performance);and the Spanish-based Mexican composer Ivan Orozco’s glittering, salsa-influenced work for player piano and live pianist (the inimitable Kathleen Supové).

Jacob Cooper, Tryptich III: Alla stagion dei fior (2012), video
Eric Wubbels, Viola Quartet (2007)
Francesco Filidei, Ballata n.2, MATA Commission (2012) World Premiere SIGNAL Ensemble
David Coll, Position, Influence (2010), for soprano and electronics. Mellissa Hughes, voice.
Alex Freeman, Magnolia (2002), for kantele. Eva Alkula, kantele.
Ivan Ferrer-Orozco, Traces IV: Anamnesis (2009), for piano and tape. Kathleen Supove, piano.

For more info visit matafestival.org/mata-festival/

Priority Seating $25 (Front rows of the house and balcony, all other seating is General Admission)
General Admission $20
Students and MATA Alumni $15 (General Admission Only)

$100 (MATA Festival Pass includes VIP seating at all three nights of the festival at Roulette and a pass to the off-site Opening Night Salon at the Paula Cooper Gallery located at 534 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011)

 

Thursday, April 19, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

MATA Festival – RESPONSIBLE PARTIES II: composer/performers today

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The second evening of the Festival is a stunning collection of composer/performers and is highlighted by two works that deal with large-scale installations as sculptural elements and massive hand-constructed instruments: Cecilia Lopez’s Mechanical Music for Sheet Metal and Eli Kezler’s Cold Pin, using a monumental collection of piano mechanisms taken apart and re-organized as a motorized, whirring, machine – in both cases, live musicians resonate and play against these giant structures. Matt Marks presents a sneak preview of his new pop opera on love and religion in America, The Little Death: Vol. 2, with Mellissa Hughes; and Kate Soper presents her gripping ten-minute microdrama, Only the words themselves mean what they say. Jacob Cooper presents the second installation of his newly-created video work, Triptych: II. Black or White.

Jacob Cooper, Triptych: II. Black or White
Cecilia Lopez, Mechanical Music for Sheet Metal
Kate Soper, Only the words themselves mean what they say
Lesley Flanigan, from AMPLIFICATIONS
Matt Marks, sneak preview of The Little Death: Vol. 2 with Mellissa Hughes
Eli Keszler, Cold Pin with loadbang

For more info visit matafestival.org/mata-festival/

 

Priority Seating $25 (Front rows of the house and balcony, all other seating is General Admission)
General Admission $20
Students and MATA Alumni $15 (General Admission Only)

$100 (MATA Festival Pass includes VIP seating at all three nights of the festival at Roulette and a pass to the off-site Opening Night Salon at the Paula Cooper Gallery located at 534 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011)

 

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

MATA Festival – FACE OFF: JACK QUARTET + QUARTET NEW GENERATION

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The first night of the festival pits two extraordinary quartets: the JACK string quartet, (David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being “among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience,” and NPR listed their performance as one of “The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010″; and Quartet New Generation, a recorder – yes, recorder! – collective, the likes of which you have not heard, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “mind-blowing” and First Prize Winners of the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Competition. MATA commissions two talented young composers: Huck Hodge, the 2011 Rome Prize winner, to write a new work from the JACK Quartet, and the Shanghai-based Yi Qin to write for QNG. We begin each night of the festival with one part of  Jacob Cooper’s newly-created hypnotic video series, Triptych.

Jacob Cooper, Triptych, I: Commencer Une Autre Mort
Huck Hodge, MATA Commission, JACK
Gordon Beeferman, Passages, QNG
Hugi Gudmunsson, Matins, JACK
Yotam  Haber, New Work for JACK and QNG
Yi Qin, MATA Commission, QNG
Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Atemlos, QNG with handmade electric motors
José Luis Hurtado, L’ardito e quasi strigente gesto, JACK
Oscar Bianchi, Crepuscolo, QNG

For more info visit matafestival.org/mata-festival/

 

Priority Seating $25 (Front rows of the house and balcony, all other seating is General Admission)
General Admission $20
Students and MATA Alumni $15 (General Admission Only)

$100 (MATA Festival Pass includes VIP seating at all three nights of the festival at Roulette and a pass to the off-site Opening Night Salon at the Paula Cooper Gallery located at 534 West 21st Street New York, NY 10011)