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TILT Brass turned 10 in January 2013! To celebrate, they are presenting TILT 10, a month-long festival of performances featuring a cadre of brand new commission works and other premieres by a diverse roster local and international composers. Tonight’s program at Roulette presents an exciting set local and world premieres (Enno Poppe, Mario Diaz de Leon, Lainie Fefferman, Andrew Hamilton, Filippo Perocco, Chris McIntyre), works dedicated “To TILT” from its first 10 years (Anthony Coleman, Dave Ballou), and an open form gem from the early 70’s (Jon Gibson). This performance presents the culmination of a 2-week workshop residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Other events during TILT 10 include the premiere of Nate Wooley’s complete Seven Storey Mountain at ISSUE Project Room, and the presentation of a new site-specific work by TILT Director Chris McIntyre during the annual Make Music New York summer solstice event (June 21st).

Personnel includes:

Gareth Flowers, Russ Johnson, Tim Leopold, Chris DiMeglio - trumpet; Chris McIntyre, Will Lang, Jen Baker, James Rogers - trombone; Joe Exley - tuba;David Shively - percussion

Dave Ball0u - for three trumpets (2003)
Lainie Fefferman - World Premiere, TILT Brass Sextet
Chris McIntyre - World Premiere, TILT Brass Sextet
Anthony Coleman - Acute Corzya (2009), TILT Brass Sextet
Enno Poppe (DE)- Zug (2008) (US Premiere), TILT Zug Septet
Mario Diaz de Leon - World Premiere, TILT Zug Septet
Andrew Hamilton (IR) - World Premiere, TILT Creative Brass Band
Filippo Perocco (IT) - World Premiere, TILT Creative Brass Band
Jon Gibson - Multiples (1972), TILT Brass tutti

TILT 10 Festival was developed in part during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY. TILT 10 Festival is made possible in part by New Music USA’s Cary New Music Performance Fund.

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Join us after the concert for a Q & A with John King!

John King, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet, Red {an orchestra}, ETHEL, the Albany Symphony/”Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Mannheim Ballet, New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo, as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam). His quartet Crucible has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007) and The Kitchen (April 2009)

Kosmos (World Premiere) with live electronics

for Crucible Quartet
Conrad Harris, Cornelius Dufallo - violins
John King - viola
Yves Dharamraj - cello

Astral Epitaphs

for TILT Brass
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Thomas Bergeron, Garreth Flowers, Timothy Leopold – trumpets

and featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun director

Work written for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s final concerts at the Park Ave. Armory

(climax in) The Deserts of Love

For large ensemble and soprano, featuring Melissa Fogarty. A poetic reduction of the Arthur Rimbaud text.

JOHN KING, composer, guitarist and violist, has had his string quartets performed by the Kronos, Ethel, Eclipse and Mondriaan quartets, as well as his own group Crucible. Since 1985 he has been a composer and musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and in 2011 he was commissioned by MCDC to compose Astral Epitaphs for brass sextet, choir and live electronics for their final performances at the Park Avenue Armory

He has written 3 operas: herzstück/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller; la belle captive based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, and  his most recent opera, Dice Thrown, based on a Stéphane Mallarmé poem, which was premiered in LA in April 2010. King has also written 3 short pieces for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus using Ancient Greek texts, used within the composition Astral Epitaphs.

He has 3 recent CD releases of music for string quartet; 10 Mysteries and AllSteel (Tzadik); and Ethel (Cantaloupe). And he was also the recipient of the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music.

Funded in part through New Music USA's Metlife Creative Connections program.