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Innovative electronic works for voice and bass clarinet
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project will continue its collaboration with the Kansas City Electronic Arts and Music Alliance (KcEMA) by presenting KcEMA Newbie Commissions, a concert of new works on Saturday, December 5.
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project will continue its collaboration with the Kansas City Electronic Arts and Music Alliance (KcEMA) by presenting KcEMA Newbie Commissions, a concert of new works on Saturday, December 5, 7:30pm at UCP's la Esquina venue, 1000 West 25th Street.
Inaugurating its electronic commissioning program, KcEMA commissioned three Kansas City area composers relatively new to the electronic medium. KcEMA selected Zhou Juan, Caroline Miller, and Yaun Peiying to receive KcEMA Newbie Commissions because each had shown great compositional facility in general and promise writing music with technology. In order to support local performers KcEMA commissioned the works for Kansas City based performers Jedd Schneider, tenor voice, and Brad Baumgardner, bass clarinet. In addition to these new works, the concert includes pieces by Jorge Sosa, Scott Blasco, Tim Eshing, and international award-winning composer Jason Bolte.
The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) was founded in 2007 to encourage and develop understanding and appreciation of electronic music and to create an expansive sense of community for electronic musicians and other artists in the Kansas City Area. KcEMA organizes concerts of electronic music and collaborative projects with generative and performing artists. KcEMA provides a forum for electronic musicians and artists in other media to collaborate, exchange ideas, and grow as an interactive, supportive community.
The Newbie Commissions program features three World Premieres. Tenor, Jedd Schneider will perform Zhou Juan's That night, 195 people were killed, a response to the violence that took place on July 5th in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, where the composer was born, and Caroline Miller's setting of John Donne's sensual Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed. Bass Clarinetist Brad Baumgardner will perform Peiying Yuan's Fractal Excursions, a piece structured around the inspiration of fractals.
KcEMA NEWBIE Commissions Concert
Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Urban Culture Project's La Esquina
1000 West 25th Street, KCMO
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