Music Program Presents
Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrates Shulamit Ran's 65th birthday
The Naumburg Award–winning Da Capo Chamber Players will present a program of works by the extraordinary Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Shulamit Ran, in honor of her 65th Anniversary Year. The concert will feature Hyperbolae, for solo piano (1977); Moon Songs (2011), for soprano, flute, cello and piano; A Due (2011), for violin and cello; For an Actor: Monologue for Solo Clarinet (1978); Mirage (1990) – (written for the Da Capo Chamber Players); and Petroushkates by Joan Tower.
This season, core Da Capo members Patricia Spencer, flute, Meighan Stoops, clarinet, Curtis Macomber, violin, and Blair McMillen, piano officially welcome Jay Campbell, cellist, to the ensemble. Da Capo will also be joined by guest soprano Lucy Shelton for this celebratory concert honoring Shulamit Ran.
Further information and advance program notes available at: www.da-capo.org
Da Capo’s long and musically inspiring collaboration with Ran has included commissioning her Mirage, with a major grant from the NEA for Da Capo’s 20th Anniversary, and Private Game, written for Da Capo’s 10th Anniversary. Mirage has become a classic in the field, receiving performances by ensembles throughout the country and beyond, including tour performances in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Minsk by Da Capo. Da Capo’s acclaimed CD of six of Ran’s chamber works (Bridge BCD 9052) was perhaps the first all-Ran CD.
The Da Capo Chamber Players is an American contemporary music "Pierrot ensemble" founded in 1970. Da Capo has been in residence at Bard College for three decades and since 2006, has been Ensemble in Residence with the Composition Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. National Public Radio named Da Capo’s CD, Chamber Music of Chinary Ung on Bridge Records, as one of the 5 Best Contemporary Classical CDs of the year 2010. In May 2012, the Naumburg Foundation invited Da Capo to premiere works by their first ever composition winners. Da Capo was a “Composers Now” 2014 Festival participant and was recently recommended for a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant.
Admission: FreeFor more information, call 917-816-3060, or e-mail [email protected].
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building