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(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
Join Metropolis Ensemble cellist Ashley Bathgate in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based composer collective Sleeping Giant (Timo Andres, Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Andrew Norman) as she premieres an entirely new series of reflections inspired by the Unaccompanied Cello Suites of J.S. Bach
Throughout the twentieth century, composers such as Benjamin Britten, George Crumb, and Iannis Xenakis built upon the form established by Bach, expanding the instrument’s technical and sonic capabilities while paying homage to his legacy. Sleeping Giant represents a young, stylistically diverse, and daring composer-collective well-suited to redefine the cello as a solo instrument. Each member of Sleeping Giant will compose one movement of the new suite, basing it loosely on a corresponding movement of their choice from the original Bach suites, but free to use the music as an inspiration for expressing and expanding his personal compositional voice. Bach Unwound will incorporate extended performance techniques, live electronics, and external media resulting in a radical deconstruction and re-imagination of the original music. Collectively forming a single, concert-length work, this multi-composer collaboration will juxtapose contemporary and historical practice to create a new recital experience. About the Series The Resident Artist Series offers a platform for Metropolis Ensemble performing artists and composers to initiate and realize commissioning projects and produce concerts events, giving our core members unique opportunities collaborate with those who inspire them. Bach Unwound, a commissioning project conceived by cellist Ashley Bathgate in collaboration with Sleeping Giant and Metropolis Ensemble, is the sixth concert in this series. To date, 36 new works have been commissioned and premiered as part of this series with pianist David Kaplan, harpist Bridget Kibbey, violinist Kristin Lee, composer Ricardo Romaneiro, pianist Conor Hanick (commissioning Elliot Cole), violinist Rachel Lee Priday and Matthew Aucoin, and percussionist Ian Rosenbaum. Special thanks to June Wu, and Amy Kessler and Daniel Bertram, for their major support of this season’s Resident Artist Series at LPR. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit: http://bit.ly/1Nv3lky |
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