(New York, NY – May 9, 2005) Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University, announces the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP) from Tuesday, June 14 – Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at Mannes, 150 West 85th Street, NYC. The Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance brings together a diversity of approach, talent, and experience for a week and a half of workshops, master classes, lectures, symposium and daily concerts featuring some of the major performers, composers, and thinkers working today in contemporary music. For more information on the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, call (212) 580-0210, ext. 4838 or visit the Web site at www.mannes.edu.
This year’s guests include Charles Rosen, Sophie Cherrier, Rolf Schulte, Robert Dick, Stephen Drury, Nicolas Miribel, Joel Lester (Dean of Mannes College of Music), and Marc Ponthus. Participating composers include Pascal Dusapin, Louis Karchin, and David Tcimpidis, and participating ensembles include Speculum Musicae, Quatuor Diotima, and Wet Ink Ensemble.
Marc Ponthus, Director of IFCP, has championed some of the most significant works of our time, including the complete piano works by Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez. He was the Director of ProjectWebern at the Morgan Library, including concert, symposium, exhibit of manuscripts, and conducted the ProjectWebern Ensemble. He was the conductor and artistic director of the Lower Eastside Ensemble, a group working with twentieth century Music, where he also created stagings and was stage director. Marc Ponthus received the Tanne Award for achievement in the Arts. He has also performed extensively the referential works of the past. His CD of Xenakis's piano music for NEUMA records has been released this season.
The Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance is made possible with major support from The Florence Gould Foundation; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from SACEM and BMG Publishing; The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University; The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and The Kanter-Plaut Foundation and Joan Gale and Charles Merrill.
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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world’s major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean of Mannes. For further information on Mannes College of Music, call (212) 580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu.
FOR LISTINGS:
Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP) at Mannes College of Music
Joel Lester – Dean
Marc Ponthus – Founder/Director of IFCP
Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
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| 6:00 p.m. | Lecture: Marc Ponthus on Pierre Boulez and Robert Dick on his own music |
| 8:00 p.m. | Concert: Marc Ponthus (piano), Rolf Schulte (violin), Robert Dick(flute) Music by Donald Martino, Pierre Boulez, Robert Dick, Toru Takemitsu |
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
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| 6:00 p.m. | Lecture: Robert Dick on Improvisation |
| 7:30 p.m. | Concert: All Pascal Dusapin Concert with Quatuor Diotima, Marc Ponthus(piano), Robert Dick(flute), Haleh Ahgbadi(voice) (Talk with Dusapin.) |
Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Lecture: Joel Lester on Schoenberg Phantasy |
| 8:00 p.m. | Concert: Stephen Drury (piano), music by Frederic Rzewski Fountain Chamber Music Society, music by Harbison |
| Friday, June 17, 2005 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Symposium & Concert, Symposium - Against Ghetto Concert: Wet Ink Ensemble Music by Alex Mincek, Sam Hillmer, Brendan Connelly, Christian Wolff Electronic music by David Tcimpidis (Talk with David Tcimpidis.) |
| Sunday, June 19, 2005 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Concert, Sophie Cherrier(flute), music by Luciano Berio, Andre Jolivet IFCP Commission by Louis Karchin Marc Ponthus(piano), Rolf Schulte(violin) (talk with Louis Karchin) |
| Monday, June 20, 2005 | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Lecture, Charles Rosen on Elliott Carter |
| 8:00 p.m. | Concert, All Elliott Carter Concert Charles Rosen (piano), Rolf Schulte(violin), Sophie Cherrier(flute), Allen Blustine(clarinet) IFCP Ensemble, Marc Ponthus (conducting) |
| Tuesday, June 21, 2005 | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Symposium & Concert Symposium - oeuvre/performance Concert - Speculum Musicae (with select institute participants) Music by Jacob Druckman, Mario Davidovsky |
| Wednesday, June 22, 2005 | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Institute Participants Concert |
Ticket prices: $20 for concert, $10 for student (includes free admission to master class or lecture)
$8 for individual master class and lectures,
$150 Auditor (Access to all concerts, master classes and lectures.)
For further information, call (212) 580-0210, ext. 4838.
All events take place at the Concert Hall at Mannes College of Music, 150 West 85th St., New York, NY