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Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde at DiMenna Center
NYU Composer Concert
New works for brass by
Cecilia Lopez & Trevor Van de Velde
Saturday, April 27, 2024
6:00pm
DiMenna Center – Cary Hall
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
TILT Brass premieres two new works for brass and live-electronics and sound projection by NYU graduate composer’s Cecila Lopez and Trevor Van de Velde. This is a shared program with our friends in Talea Ensemble.
TILT Personnel
Chris DiMeglio, Joe Moffett – trumpet
Jen Baker, Chris McIntyre – trombone
James Rogers – tuba
Heather Kravas overly merry
May 3, 4, & 5, 2024
5/3 – 7:00pm
5/4 & 5 – 2:00pm
Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City
TILT Brass Kravas Band
Jen Baker, Terry Green II, Sam Kulik, Chris McIntyre – trombone; Kavi McIntyre – trumpet; Ryan Sawyer, Dennis Sullivan – perc.
Drawing by Valentina Starkie, inspired by Remy Charlip
Huang Ruo, composer
David Henry Hwang, librettist
Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Chay Yew, director
Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Performance #1, 3pm
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 – Performance #2, 7pm
Thursday, May 16, 2024 – Performance #3, 7pm
Saturday, May 18, 2024 – Performance #4, 8pm
Sunday, May 19, 2024 – Performance #5, 3pm
PAC Event Page
On October 3, 2011, Chinese-American Army Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in a guard tower at his base in Afghanistan. Based on his story and the ensuing courts-martial of Chen’s fellow soldiers, this New York City premiere opera tells the powerful true story of a young soldier from Manhattan’s Chinatown who sought to serve his country, only to find his biggest threat was the very people who swore to protect him.
Told through the multidimensional music of Huang Ruo (M. Butterfly, Book of Mountains and Seas) with libretto by Tony and Grammy winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Soft Power), and directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Cambodian Rock Band, Sweatshop Overlord), An American Soldier is a powerful and unforgettable experience.
Co-Produced by PAC NYC, Boston Lyric Opera, and American Composers Orchestra.
The 2024 version was co-commissioned by PAC NYC and Boston Lyric Opera.
I have been pursuing quality material for the tenor trombone my entire career. This on-going investigative process has led quite naturally to my engagement with the composer community in New York and beyond, and to my activities as a curator and organizer. And since 2005, I've been adding to that "material" as a composer. This list is an aesthetic bibliography, informing all that I do. [CJM]
* = world premiere
** = US premiere
SOLO
Richard Barrett – Basalt
Luciano Berio – Sequenza V for solo trombone
Kitty Brazelton – La Vida Como Una Tromba Larga (1998) (with fixed media)
Earle Brown – November 1952 (realization by McIntyre)
John Cage – Solo for Sliding Trombone (from Concert for Piano and Orchestra)
Anthony Coleman – The Thingliness of the Thing (2012)*
Philip Glass – 1+1 (realization for trombone by McIntyre)
Tom Johnson – Sequenza Minimalista (1993)
Christopher McIntyre – stuplimity no.3 for trombone and laptop*
Phill Niblock – A Trombone Piece for solo trombone and tape
Phill Niblock – A Third Trombone for solo trombone and tape
Folke Rabe – Basta for solo trombone
Bernard Rands – Memo 2 for solo trombone
Fredric Rzewski – Last Judgment for solo trombone (also trb. ensemble)
Iannis Xenakis – Keren for solo trombone
WITH PIANO (selected)
Paul Creston – Fantasy (piano reduction)
Noel Da Costa – 4 Preludes (1973)
Henri Dutilleux – Prelude, Cadence, et Fugato
Launy Grondahl – Concerto (piano reduction)
Talib Rasul Hakim – Prelude (ca.1965)
Paul Hindemith – Sonate
Kazimierz Serocki – Sonatina
Stjepan Sulek – Sonata (Vox Gabrieli)
Jean-Michel Defaye – Deux Danses
Jacques Castéréde – Sonatine
MISC. ENSEMBLE (selected)
Richard Barrett – EARTH for trb, perc**
Lea Bertucci – Our Collective Cynicism is a Product of Failed Revolution (2016) trb, tape, delay*
Anthony Coleman – Seven at The Golden Shovel for trp, trb, vln, vlc, pno*
Heiner Goebbels - Herakles 2 for 2 trp, hrn, trb, tba, perc, smplr
Jon Gibson – Untitled for fl, vln, trb
Talib Rasul Hakim – Profiles (1964) for cl, trp, trb, vlc
Talib Rasul Hakim – Four (1965) for cl, trp, trb, pno
Christopher McIntyre – stuplimity no. 1 for trombone septet*
Christopher McIntyre – stuplimity no. 2 for 5 or more trombones*
Vincent Persichetti – Serenade for trb, vla, vlc
Stephen Rush – Rebellion for trb, pno, perc
Charles Wuorinen – Trombone Trio for trb, pno, perc
Lois V. Vierk – Jagged Mesa for 2 trp, 2 ten. trb, 2 bs. trb
Peter Zummo – Instruments for trp, trb, vlc, marimba