Mannes College The New School for Music Announces
Summer 2007 Institutes, Festivals and Seminars

(Revised press release with concert dates for the Institute and Festival
for Contemporary Performance)

New York, NY, June 4, 2007—The city’s classical music scene heats up this summer at Mannes College The New School for Music, which will present a number of noteworthy classical music institutes, festivals, and seminars that go beyond the usual “light” summer fare.  These include The Seventh Annual Mannes Beethoven Institute, June 3–10; The Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, June 13-22; The Seventh New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, June 28–July 1; and The Ninth Annual International Keyboard Institute and Festival, July 15–29.  This summer also marks the inauguration of the Mannes Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish, June 26–July 2, the first annual summer institute at a major U.S. conservatory to promote art song in Spanish as a standard element of the art song genre.

Except where noted, all events will be held at Mannes College The New School for Music, 150 West 85th Street.
Ticket prices vary for each series, and are indicated below.
For more information about all the institutes and festivals, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/summer

The Seventh Annual Mannes Beethoven Institute
June 3 – 10, 2007
Thomas Sauer, Director
Sarah Hatler, Program Coordinator

The seventh annual Mannes Beethoven Institute explores Beethoven’s sonatas, piano trios, and string quartets in a week of intensive study. A distinguished faculty offers students a mixture of private lessons, master classes, lectures, and public concerts. Participants perform public concerts at the conclusion of the session.  

All Mannes Beethoven Institute Master Classes (Monday, June 4–Friday, June 8, 2-4:30 p.m.) are open to the public free of charge, as are the participant performances at the end of the week (Saturday and Sunday, June 9 & 10, beginning at 2 p.m.).

Notable public performances of the Mannes Beethoven Institute include faculty concerts on June 4 and June 8: 

Monday, June 4, 8 p.m.
Location: Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Tickets: $20, available at the door beginning one hour before the performance
Program:  All Beethoven: Piano Sonatas in G major, Op. 14, No. 2 and Op. 31, No. 1; Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3; Piano Quartet, Op. 16.
Performers: Pianists Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Yuri Kim, and Thomas Sauer; and members of the Brentano String Quartet

Friday, June 8, 8 p.m.
Location: Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Tickets: $20, available at the door beginning one hour before the performance
Program: All Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1; Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109; String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127.
Performers: Pianists Claude Frank and Thomas Sauer; violinist Soovin Kim; cellist Peter Stumpf; Brentano String Quartet

For more information on the Mannes Beethoven Institute, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/bi
or call 212.580.0210 x4879.

Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP):
Focus on Strings, Piano, and Voice
June 13 – 22, 2007
Marc Ponthus, Founder/Director
Troy Etter, Associate Director

The IFCP 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 most significant performers, composers, and thinkers working today in contemporary music.  Performers at this year’s festival include the noted sopranos Susan Narucki and Donatienne Michel-Dansac from Paris, and festival programming will be on the avant-garde and atonal end of the spectrum.

The Institute and Festival aims not only at presenting concerts at the highest level of accomplishment, within a forum of ideas and an educational support, but also at integrating the younger generation of performers within the larger New York cultural reservoir and its multifaceted possibilities.

Concert Schedule
Location: All IFCP concerts take place in Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Tickets: available at the door, open one hour prior to each concert
Ticket Prices: $20 for each concert, $10 for students (includes admission to a master class or lecture of your choice); $8 for individual master class or lecture; $150 auditor (access to all events)

Friday, June 15, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Yan Maresz, Lerdahl, Keith Fitch (world premiere), Xenakis, and Vladimir Tarnopolski performed by Susan Narucki, Mathew Gold, Ibrahim, Rose, Jill Sokol, Stephen Gosling, Allen Blustine, Rolf Schulte and Marc Ponthus

Saturday, June 16, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Camarero (world premiere) and Torres performed by the Plural Ensemble and conducted by Panisello

Sunday, June 17, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Lanchares, Panisello, Arias, López, Vallejo, Rueda, del Puerto, and de Pablo performed by the Plural Ensemble and conducted by Panisello

Monday, June 18, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Nancarrow, Helps, and Kagel performed by Alan Feinberg; music of Kurtag performed by Susan Narucki; second half: music of Mario Davidovsky performed by Allen Blustine, Rolf Schulte, Jill Sokol, and the IFCP Ensemble, conducted by Marc Ponthus

Tuesday, June 19, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Carter and Kurtag performed by Emelianoff; second half: music of Ravel, Karchin, Pintscher, Pesson, and Berio performed Donatienne Michel-Dansac and Vincent Laterme

Wednesday, June 20, 8:00 p.m.
Music of Wolpe, Kurtag, and Mario Davidovsky performed by Speculum Musicae

Thursday, June 21, 8:00 p.m.
Program TBA, performed by IFCP participants

Friday, June 22, 2007
Program TBA, performed by IFCP participants

For more information on the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/ifcp or call 212.580.0210 x4884.

 

The First Mannes Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish (ASIS)
June 26 – July 2, 2007
Nan Maro Babakhanian, Director

Art song in Spanish has been woefully overlooked on recital stages and in American conservatories.  That’s why it’s notable that this June marks the inauguration of the Mannes Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish.  Through its collaboration with Project Canción Española (based in Granada, Spain), Mannes will offer the first course of its kind at a major U.S. conservatory to promote art song in Spanish as a standard element of the art song genre.  Most of the works performed in the Institute’s public concerts — which range from little-known works by Manuel de Falla to contemporary compositions by members of the Institute’s faculty — will be receiving their New York premieres.

Designed for singers, pianists, and guitarists, this course will be a seven-day experience that includes master classes and coachings with masters of the repertoire, along with basic courses in Flamenco rhythm and movement. Jorge Robaina (piano), José María Gallardo del Rey (guitar), Nan Maro Babakhanian (voice), and the flamenco faculty, Juan Miguel Jimenez and Antonio Vallejo — direct from the historical Albaicin of Granada — will share their art with young musicians in New York.

June 26, 6 p.m.
Inaugural Faculty Concert
Location: Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, 684 Park Ave, NYC
Tickets: $15; $10 for QSSI members. Contact Natalie Mrak (212) 628-0420 or email [email protected]
Program: Juan Ramón Jimenez in Granada
Works by Rodrigo, Mompou, Falla, Lorca, JL Turina and an American Premiere of works by Julio Gomez and José María Gallardo del Rey
Performers: Jorge Robaina, Piano; Jose María Gallardo del Rey, Guitar; Nan Maro Babakhanian, Mezzo Soprano

June 27, 7:30 p.m.
Flamenco Alhucema: Granada meets the Upper West Side
Location: Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Tickets: $10, available at the door starting at 7 p.m.  Reserve at [email protected] or by phone at 212.580.0210 x4887
Program:  The Institute Flamenco Faculty, straight from the Albaicin, a magical Moorish neighborhood in Granada, heats up the Mannes Concert Hall for an event that also serves to inaugurate the Mannes Guitar Institute, which will occur simultaneously at Mannes this summer (see the listing below).
Performers: Juan Miguel Gimenez, Guitar; Antonio Vallejo, Baile, Canto; Kiko Anaya, Baile, Cajon; Vanessa Vargas, Baile

July 2, 3 p.m.
Location: Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Admission: $10, available at the door starting at 7 p.m.  Reserve at [email protected] or by phone at 212.580.0210 x4887
Program: An afternoon of art song in Spanish offered by participants of the Summer Institute‹young professional singers, pianists, and guitarists who have come to New York to perfect their interpretation of the vast and varied repertoire.

For more information on the Mannes Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/asis or call 212.580.0210 x4887. 

The Seventh New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes
June 28 – July 1, 2007
Laura Oltman and Michael Newman, Artistic Directors

The New York Guitar Seminar is a four-day gathering of students, faculty, and guest artists interested in immersing themselves in classical guitar. All activities at New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes are designed with one goal in mind: developing musicianship.  Activities of the seminar include master classes, improvisation, composition and arranging classes, pedagogy forums, career development workshops, and performances.

New York Guitar Seminar Faculty Concerts:

Thursday, June 28, 7:30 – 10 p.m.
Performers: Arthur Kampela & Band; Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo with Daedalus String Quartet

Friday, June 29, 7:30 – 10 p.m.
Performers: Jorge Caballero; Zvi Migdal Tango Ensemble

Saturday, June 30, 7:30 – 10 p.m. 
Performers: Cavatina Duo; Amadeus Guitar Duo

Sunday, July 1, 7:30 – 10 p.m.
Performers: Andrew York; CYGNUS Ensemble

Location: Mannes Concert Hall, 150 West 85th Street, NYC
Tickets: $15, available at the door

For more information on the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/gi
or call 212.580.0210 x4883.

The Ninth Annual International Keyboard Institute and Festival (IKI)
July 15 ­– 29, 2007
The International Keyboard Institute, founded by Mannes alumnus and faculty member Jerome Rose, features world-renowned pianists in performance, master classes, and symposia. The IKI is open to pianists of all ages and backgrounds. 

Faculty and artists for 2007 include Joaquin Achucarrro, Eteri andjaparidze, Magdalena Baczewska, Alessio Bax, Michel Beroff, Stephen Beus, Alexander Braginsky, Andrew Brownell, Pedro Carbone, Sa Chen, David Dubal, Akiko Ebi, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Boris Giltburg, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Benjamin Hochman, Olga Kern, Alexander Korbrin, Denis Kozhukhin, Emanuel Drasovsky, Janina Kuzmas, Nina Lelchuk, Ivan Martin, Steven Mayer, Irina Morozova, Jean-Frederic Neuburger, Quynh Nguyen, Alberto Nose, Michael Oelbaum, Haesun Paik, Dmitry Rachmanov, Matti Raekallio, Jerome Rose, Victor Rosenbaum, Jose Ramos Santana, Vladimir Shakin, Yuan Sheng, Antti Siirala, Mykola Suk, Jeffrey Swann, Xiayin Wang, Eduard Zilberkant.

Tickets: All events are $20. Festival Concert Pass is $250 (includes 28 events: 25 concert events, 1 lecture, MacKenzie Award semis and finals July 15-29).   Week One Concert Pass is $125 (includes 13 concert events July 15-21).  Week Two Concert Pass is $125 (includes 12 concert events, 1 lecture, MacKenzie Award semis & finals July 22-29). For tickets and more information, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/iki

Location for all IKI concerts: Mannes College The New School for Music, 150 West 85th Street, NYC

The Prestige Series concerts at 6 p.m. feature accomplished young artists from around the world, each at the beginning of an international career, many of them recent winners of major international competitions, including Cliburn, Leeds, Rubinstein, and Bachauer.

The Masters Series concerts at 8:30 p.m. feature distinguished concert artists who will also teach master classes during the Festival.
Sunday, July 15
8:30 p.m. Masters Series Concert: Jerome Rose
Beethoven: Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3; Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17; Beethoven: Yehudi Wyner:  Fantasy  (NY Premiere); Chopin:  Sonata No. 2 in B Flat minor, op. 35

Monday, July 16
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Denis Kozhukhin
Beethoven: Variations on a theme of A. Salieri, WoO 73; Hindemith: Sonata No. 3 in B Major; Szymanowski: Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, op.10; Scriabin: Sonata No. 3
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Iván Martín
Scarlatti:  Four Sonatas; Haydn: Sonata in E Flat Major, L.62 Hob. XVI: 52; Pilar Jurado:  Entre las sombras de los sueños; (Dream Shadows) - World Premiere; Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. 72, No. 1; Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27, No. 2; Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante, op. 22
Liszt:  Nuages Gris, S. 199; Liszt:  Funerailles S. 173:7

Tuesday, July 17
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert:  Alexander Gavrylyuk

Bach-Busoni:  Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Schubert:  Sonata in A Major, D.664, op. 120; Rachmaninoff:  Etudes Tableaux, op. 39 no. 1,2,4,5,6,9
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert and Lecture: Jeffrey Swann
Currents of the 20th Century:  Neo-Romanticism & Neo-Classicism; Berg:  Sonata Op. 1 (1908); Stravinsky:  Sonata (1924); Hindemith:  from Ludus Tonalis (1943); Crumb:  Makrokosmos, Vol. 1, part 3 (1974); Del Tredici:  Virtuoso Alice (1989); Ligeti:  Etudes for piano, Book I (1985)

Wednesday, July 18
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert:  Benjamin Hochman

Bach:  Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828; Debussy:  Des pas sur la neige (from Preludes Book I); Les collines d'Anacapri (from Preludes Book I); Webern:  Variations Op. 27; Bach: Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert:  Eteri Andjaparidze
Schumann:  Carnaval, Op. 9; Chopin:  Four Ballades

Thursday, July 19
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Boris Giltburg

Bach  (arr. Liszt):  Fantasy and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542; Beethoven:  Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101; Franck:  Prelude, Fugue and Variation, Op. 18 (arr. Bauer); Rachmaninoff:  3 Preludes, op. 23; Prokofiev:  Sonata No. 7
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Matti Raekallio
Haydn: Sonata; Beethoven:  Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”; Chopin:  12 Etudes, Op. 25

Friday, July 20
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Antti Siirala

Beethoven: Sonata in E Major, Op. 109; Sonata in C minor, Op. 111; Bartok:  Im Freien; Szymanowski:  Variations on a Polish Folk Song, Op. 10
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Olga Kern
Works of Rachmaninoff and Chopin

Saturday, July 21
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Sa Chen

Xiaohan Wang:  Inspiration from Chinese Painting; Bach:  French Suite No. 5; Beethoven:  Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest”; Granados:  Spanish Dances, No. 2, 5, 6; Chopin:  Mazurkas (selections); Scherzo No. 3
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Michel Béroff
Debussy: Preludes, Book I; Messiaen: From “Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus,” No. 5 & 15; Janacek: In the mist; Bartok: Dance Suite, Sz.77 / BB 86b

Sunday, July 22
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert:  Alberto Nosè

Beethoven:  Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1; Sonata in C Sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 “Moonlight”; Prokofiev:  Sonata No. 6, Op. 82
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert:  Faculty Artists
      Alexander Braginsky, Pedro Carbone, Emanuel Krasovsky,
      Janina Kuzmas, Nina Lelchuk, Steven Mayer,
      Irina Morozova, Michael Oelbaum, HaeSun Paik,
      Dmitry Rachmanov, Victor Rosenbaum, José Ramos Santana,
      Vladimir Shakin, Mykola Suk, Eduard Zilberkant,
      Adjunct Faculty:  Magdalena Baczewska, Quynh Nguyen

Monday, July 23
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Andrew Brownell

Schubert:  Sonata in C minor, D. 958; Debussy:  Preludes, Book II
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Lecture: David Dubal
Music, Madness, and Mortality

Tuesday, July 24
6 p.m.  Prestige Series Concert: Stephen Beus
Bach-Liszt:  Prelude and Fugue in A minor; Mendelssohn:  Sonata in E Major, Op. 6; Griffes:  Barcarolle, Op. 6 #1; The Night Winds, Op. 5 #3; Barber:  Sonata in E-flat Minor, Op. 26
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert:  Yuan Sheng
All-Bach:
2 Preludes & Fugues from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I; Aria and Ten Variations in the Italian Style, BWV 989; Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971; English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808; Andante, from Sonata in D minor, BWV 964; Toccata in D Major, BWV 912

Wednesday, July 25
6 p.m. Prestige Series Concert: Xiayin Wang

Rachmaninoff: Preludes Op. 23, No. 2, 4, 5; Scriabin: Poeme, Op. 32, No. 1 & 2; Waltz, Op. 38; Vers La Flamme, Op. 72; Ravel: La Valse
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Joaquín Achúcarro
Chopin:  24 Preludes, Op. 28; Albeniz: Granada; Albeniz:  El Albaicin (Iberia); Debussy:  La Puerta del Vino; La Soiree dans Grenade; Falla:  Hommage a Debussy; Fantasia Baetica

Thursday, July 26
6 p.m. Prestige Series Concert: Alessio Bax

Beethoven:  Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”; Ravel:  La Valse
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Akiko Ebi
Bach: Partita No. 1 in B Flat Major; Beethoven: Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”; Mendelssohn:  Fruhlingslied, Op. 62, No. 6; Mendelssohn: Spinnerlied, Op. 67, No. 4; Chopin: TBA

Friday, July 27
6 p.m. Prestige Series Concert: Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

Beethoven:  Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31, No. 1; Brahms:  Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Liszt:  Sonata in B minor
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Alexander Kobrin
Mozart:  Sonata in D Major, K. 311; Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in E flat Major, Op. 7; Schumann:  Kreisleriana

Saturday, July 28
8:30 p.m.  Masters Series Concert: Marc-André Hamelin

Haydn: Sonata in F major, Hob. XVI: 23; Sonata in B flat major, Hob. XVI: 41; Alexis Weissenberg: Sonate en état de jazz (Sonata in a state of jazz)  (1982); Chopin: Barcarolle, op. 60; Third Ballade, op. 47; Hamelin:  Etude no. 8 -- 'Erlkoenig' (after Goethe) (2007) (New York Premiere); Etude no. 7 (2006); Leopold Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Johann Strauss’ “Wine, Women and Song”

Sunday, July 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. & 2-4 p.m. 
Finals: Dorothy MacKenzie Awards – Mannes Concert Hall. Through the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Awards the Institute distributes $10,000 in scholarship awards.

For more information on the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/iki or call 212.580.0210 x4858.

 

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Please note that all programs are subject to change.