BRIDGING ERAS: THEN AND NOW
Featuring eminent composers with whom Da Capo has collaborated from the beginning of our half-century of music-making, plus younger composers with whom we have had recent exciting collaborations.
ARTISTS
Patricia Spencer, flute
Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
Curtis Macomber, violin
Chris Gross, cello
Steven Beck, piano
Guest artist: James Baker, percussion
PROGRAM
BRUCE ADOLPHE, Portraits**
GEORGE PERLE, Sonata a quattro*
JOAN TOWER, Looking Back*
SHEN YIWEN, Guo Shang: Hymn to the Fallen and Li Hun: Recessional*
SID RICHARDSON, Astrolabe*
*Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
**World premiere, 50th-anniversary commission
Interim for trio and electronics (2022)
New Thread Quartet
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, soprano saxophone
Erin Rogers, alto saxophone & mentor
Zach Herchen, baritone saxophone
The recipient of the 2022 Composers Now First Commission Award is Ebun Oguntola. Ebun is a 16-year-old contemporary classical composer, violinist, pianist and saxophonist living in upstate New York. Her music was brought to the attention of Composers Now by the founders of Luna Composition Lab, Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid. With mentorship from composer/saxophonist Erin Rogers, Ebun will create a chamber work for the New Thread Quartet that received its world premiere as part of the Opening Event of the 2022 Composers Now Festival.