Music by ten fabulous women composers of today, featuring:
The reprise of “Matrix” (2020), by beloved Bay Area composer Elinor
Armer (b. 1939), for soprano and piano, to texts by two other
Bay Area icons, Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) and Rella Lossy (1944-1996).
Listen to the world premiere:
Listen to an interview with Armer from E4TT's summer 2020 "Meet the Artist" series.
PLUS
Rhapsody No. 1 by Metropolitan Opera / Lincoln Center Theater New Works composer Jessie Mongtomery (b. 1981) for solo violin. Listen to it here:
"Tumbao" by New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement
Award recipient Cuban-American composer Tania León (b. 1943) Listen to it here:
"Buenos Aires en Tres" for piano trio by Argentinean Latin Grammy winner Claudia Montero (1962-2021)*. Listen to her Ausencias for string orchestra:
In manus tuas (2009) for solo cello by 2013 Pulitzer Prize composer Caroline Shaw (b. 1982). Listen to it here:
"Echo Dash" (2013) for violin and piano by 2010 Pulitzer Prize composer Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962). Listen to it here:
"Heartbreaker" (2013) for solo piano by Grammy winner Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980). Listen to E4TT play her "Map of Laughter":
"Rest These Hands" (2014) for solo violin and spoken voice by 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellow Anna Clyne to a text by Colleen Clyne. Listen to E4TT perform it here:
"Primitive Dance and Folksong" (2011) for solo piano
by Canadian 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Vivian Fung. Listen to E4TT play her "Keeping Time":
And also:
"Mazovian Dance" for cello and piano by Polish composerGrażyna
Bacewicz (1909-1969). Listen to her Quartet for Four Violins:
Virtual pre-concert composer talk at 7:30 p.m. with Armer, plus an intro video from Montgomery
The concert will be available at no cost via livestream on the Center for New Music's YouTube and Facebook channels.
*We were devastated to hear that Claudia Montero passed away suddenly on Saturday, January 16, 2021, and will perform the trio and this concert in her memory.
This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.
