Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.
Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.
Special announcement: we are thrilled to be able to present online YouTube premieres of the works from our recent concert with Ember Choral Arts. Please join us each evening, January 17-27, at 7:30 PM, and show us some love by leaving likes and comments!
Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.
Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble.
World premiere chamber ensemble version of the song cycle In Real Life II, featuring Jorell Williams, baritone, with In Real Life I (formerly In Real Life), featuring Marnie Breckenridge, soprano, both written by Robert Paterson, with words by David Cote.
Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble, now celebrating their 15th season in 2019/2020. Wine, Beer & Snack Bar opens @ 7 PM. $6 Drinks make this the best deal in Saratoga Springs!
Program
ROBERT PATERSON* – Quintus
EUGENE MARLOW – Quirky**
ALPHONSO RAMIREZ – Tango Pierrot**
LEAH OFMAN – Never Anyone But You**
LEONID GALAGANOV – Transient Values**
STEPHEN CABELL* – The Distance to the Moon
NATHANIEL HEYDER – premonitions**
Program order subject to change
*MMF Composition Faculty
**World Premiere
Artists
Lindsey Goodman, flute
Tasha Warren, clarinet
Charles McCracken, bassoon
Joseph Rebman, harp
Matthew Ward, percussion
Esther Noh, violin
Philip Peyton, viola
Dave Eggar, cello
Blair McMillen, piano
2019 Institute Conductors
Alex Arellano, JaeEun Kim, Renée Anne Louprette, John McKeever, Austin Philemon, Andreas Salazar
Festival composers and faculty from all over the United States and abroad, come together for a night of brand-new works and premieres, featuring the beloved American Modern Ensemble, now celebrating their 15th season in 2019/2020. Wine, Beer & Snack Bar opens @ 7 PM. $6 Drinks make this the best deal in Saratoga Springs!
Program
ANNE LEBARON – Noh Reflections, Part 1
MORGAN EASTERDAY – Rumination**
I. failure to realize
II. overthinking
III. meditation
JEREMI EDWARDS – Dream Sequence**
TIMOTHY LEE MILLER – Something More**
JACOB SNIDER – One Cricket Song**
THOMAS WELSH – Inward**
ROBERT PATERSON* – Star Crossing
PHILIP FOSTER – Mashup 2
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III.
*MMF Composition Faculty
**World Premiere
Program order subject to change
Artists
Sato Moughalian, Flute
Keve Wilson, Oboe
Tasha Warren, Clarinet
Charles McCracken, bassoon
Matt Ward, Percussion
Joseph Rebman, Harp
Esther Noh, Violin
Victoria Paterson, Violin
Dave Eggar, Cello
Anthony de Mare, Piano
2019 Institute Conductors
Duane Andrews, Jonathan Kirby, JaeEun Kim, Renée Anne Louprette, John McKeever, Austin Philemon, Alfonso Piacentini
Works by Hannah Lash, Robert Paterson, William Anderson, Grayson Jarvis, Timothy Kiah, Katie Madonna Lee, Kevin McCarter, John McCarthy, Joseph Rebman, Ari Sussman, and Gregg Welcher.
Works by Stephen Cabell, Robert Paterson, John Patitucci, Kyle Brown, Kenneth Eggert, William Hawkins, Suzanne Kosowitz, Chris Meiner, Timothy Lee Miller, Marlene Radice, and Daniel Slatkin.
An evening of vocal music featuring the music of Robert Paterson, including In Real Life, Batter's Box, Crossing the Hudson, and three world premieres: Night Songs, CAPTCHA (version for mezzo soprano and piano), and Spring Songs.
AME Awards Night at National Sawdust, featuring works by David Feurzeig and Robert Paterson, and works by AME award winners Aaron Mencher, Pierce Gradone, and Texu Kim.
Join AME for our annual fundraiser, featuring special guests Duo Scorpio, and AME. Complimentary open bar and hors d'oeuvres included with ticket purchase!
ChamberMusicNY presents AME in an evening of vocal works by composers who are (or were) percussionists. Program includes works by Andy Akiho, Warren Benson, David T. Little, Robert Paterson, and Marta Ptaszynska. Robert Paterson's Summer Songs was commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund.
AME performs works by Keene State College faculty members Heather Gilligan and Christopher Swist, as well as works by Robert Paterson, Joseph Schwantner, and Spencer Topel at Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College, New Hampshire.
AME presents the world premieres of brand new orchestrations of Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, libretto by David Bamberger, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley. Program includes a post-intermission onstage chat with Stewart Copeland, Mark Campbell, Stephen McCauley, and Robert Paterson.
AME presents the world premieres of brand new orchestrations of Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, libretto by David Bamberger, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley. Program includes a post-intermission onstage chat with Stewart Copeland, Mark Campbell, Stephen McCauley, and Robert Paterson.
AME presents the world premieres of brand new orchestrations of Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, libretto by David Bamberger, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley. Program includes a post-intermission onstage chat with Stewart Copeland, Mark Campbell, Stephen McCauley, and Robert Paterson.
AME presents the world premieres of brand new orchestrations of Stewart Copeland's (from The Police) The Cask of Amontillado based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, libretto by David Bamberger, and Robert Paterson's The Whole Truth, libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley. Program includes a post-intermission onstage chat with Stewart Copeland, Mark Campbell, Stephen McCauley, and Robert Paterson.
Program
Victoria Bond: Instruments of Revelation**
Paul Frucht: The Visitor
Robert Paterson: Skylights
Carl Schimmel: Road Show for Otto*
Nicolas Sherzinger: Fractured Mirrors*
Mark Winges: ShapeShifter*
*NYC premiere / **World premiere of this version
Music by Jacob Bancks, Sidney Boquiren, Chinary Ung, Jessie Montgomery, John Zorn, Robert Paterson, & John Luther Adams
Performances by JACK, Del Sol, PubliQuartet, & AME
Guest conducted by Delta David Gier
