EMF ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION - NEW YORK
EAR TO THE EARTH A UNIQUE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC, SOUND ART AND ECOLOGY
OCTOBER 9 – 23, 2008 NEW YORK
MADELEINE SHAPIRO CELLO SOLOIST
NEW YORK FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE - OCTOBER 9TH, 20TH, AND 22ND, 8PM
15 RUTHEFORD PLACE, NEW YORK CITY
(ENTRANCE ON 15TH STREET BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD AVES)
Music without beginning or end loses its limits and becomes part of the world around it.
In this place, where Silence is the beginning of Wisdom, the essential state from which all things are born, a music emerges that finds its primary nourishment in stillness.
A work formed by three parts separable but not separated, A whole (Intero) that draws us in to a distinct experience of silence.
Ecstatic Static is a composition created expressly for this place, the Meeting House, where silence is sustenance. It is a quiet voyage through the silences within this place of worship, the sounds of the surrounding city, and the music that weaves through them. The work begins and ends with a few minutes of silence. Please refrain from applause at its conclusion.
Duration: 45 minutes
Listen to the music through the environment and the environment through the music.
ModernWorks, Madeleine Shapiro cello/director
and
PalindromePerformanceGruppe, Robert Weschler, director
in
An evening of Interactive Cello and Dance Performance
Dan Hosken, music and sound design
Tuesday, September 23 8:00 PM
The Construction Company
10 East 18th Street, third floor buzzer
(Between 5th Avenue and Broadway)
212 924-7882
Admission: $15.00, $10.00 students/seniors (tickets at the door)
View a sneak preview of what PalindromePerformance Gruppe is taking to
Istanbul, Turkey in November.
Cello, dance, electronics and eye-popping technology combine for an informal evening, with a Q and A included.
This demonstration and public showing of a new work-in-progress features ModernWorks' cellist/director MadeleineShapiro, and dancers of the PalindromePerformance Gruppe from Stuttgart, Germany. Composition and interactive music programming is by Dan Hosken.
Using infrared technology, motion tracking technology and real-time digital signal processing the stage environment is influenced by the performers. Stage lighting and music are controlled by the movements of musicians and dancers in seldom-seen ways.
Robert says......................
“its about voice....
human and cello: both are sounds that are made up of small pellet-like vibrations of air. The cello string (or vocal cord) is stretched soundlessly, and is then released, causing a short click-like noise. It is only when these clicks are strung together and heard in tight succession that we hear the rich and soft voice of these respective instruments. So, to make a long story short, we are extracting these pellets of sound and then (again) are controlling them with human motion.
Thus the cellist, for example, can play her instrument with her bow, or she can use larger movements to go beyond the physical / acoustic limitations of the bow. The results are at times organic, human and emotional, but at other times may extend somewhere beyond. So the piece, or this section of it, concerns the voice, its possibilities for expression and its limitations.”
This work is part of; The OKLO PHENOMENON which premieres in Istanbul in
November.
More information is available here
May 20, 2007
East-West
East meets West in an evening of works by Asian composers, many of whom now live in the US, and an American composer with a fascination for the East. The program highlights two string quartets by the colorful and dynamic composer Ge Gan-ru, and also includes Zhou Long's "Wild Grass" for cello with a taped recitation in Chinese, and Three Chinese Songs by Lawrence Moss, recently released on Albany Records performed by Madeleine and Judith.
Madeleine Shapiro, director/cello
Judith Kellock, soprano
Airi Yoshioka, violin
Asmira Woodward-Page, violin
Veronica Salas, viola
May 20, 2007
8:00 PM
The Construction Company
10 East 18th Street, 3rd floor buzzer
(between 5th Avenue and Broadway)
New York City
Admission: $10.00 general, $5.00 students/seniors
The reservation phone number is: 212 924-7882 http://www.theconstructioncompany.org
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Wild and wired, ModernWorks is cranking up the volume at Eastern CT College.
The ensemble will present both acoustic and electronic works for violin, cello and accordion by the mystical Russian Sofia Gubaidulina, Cuban-American Tania Leon, Germany's Wolfgang Rihm, and Alabama's Charles Norman Mason, last year's Rome Prize winner. The concert will highlight the regional premiere of Spiral Jetty for violin, cello, accordion and live computer electronics (Meet the Composer Commission) by CT's own Anthony Cornicello.
Hope to see you there!
Madeleine
May 5, 2007 2:30 p.m.
Johnson Room, Smith Library
Admission: Free
Eastern Connecticut State University is part of the Connecticut State University (CSU) system and is the state's public liberal arts university. ECSU serves more than 5,000 students each year on its Willimantic campus.
April 11,2007
Continental Drift: Works by Italian and American composers
Madeleine Shapiro, cellist
Riccardo Piacentini, piano
Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano
Guest Artists:
Mara Plotkin, clarinet
Michael Dobson, percussion
An evening of classic works by New York School composers mixed with recent works by eminent Italian composers, including two premieres.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
8:00 PM
Christ and St. Stephen's Church
120 W. 69th Street (east of Broadway)
Suggested donation: $10.00, Students $5.00
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South
WILD AND WIRED!
Works for violin, cello, accordion and dancer with both taped and interactive electronics and video. A wired and visual evening with works for violin, cello and accordion by Anthony Cornicello, Spiral Jetty-world premiere-Meet the Composer Commission; Judith Shatin, El Grito Del Corazon- inspired by Goya's Black paintings; and the moving and mystical Silenzio by Sofia Gubaidulina. Plus, Burton Beerman's work for cello, computer electronics, dancer and video, "A Still, Small Voice;" and "Many Times Madeleine" by EMF founder Joel Chadabe.
Madeleine Shapiro, director/cello
Airi Yoshioka, violin
William Schimmel, accordion
Celeste Haraszti, dancer
ModernWorks in a collaboration with Joel Chadabe's Electronic Music Foundation. The concert will feature the world premiere of Anthony Cornicello's new work for Violin, cello, accordion and electronics, made possible through a Meeth the Composer Commissioning Grant.
Airi Yoshioaka, violin
Madeleine Shapiro, cello
William Schimmel, accordion
Madeleine is in residence at UMKC and performs with the New Ear ensemble. Works by Reza Vali, Narong Pranchareon, Judith Shatin and the premiere of a new work for cello and electronics by Kansas' own Paul Rudy!
Madeleine's fifth Italian tour pairs her with the Duo Alterno in concerts in Rome, Genoa and Torino. Repertoire includes the world premiere of a new work for cello and electronics written for Madeleine by the current Rome Prize winner, Charles Norman Mason; the world premiere of a new work for cello and piano written for Madeleine and Riccardo by Marcello Panni, noted Italian composer and conductor, plus works by Ada Gentile, Ge Gan-ru, Earle Brown and others.
October 26, 2006-American Academy in Rome
October 28, 2006-Berio Library, Genoa
October 29, 2006-Galleria Arte Moderne, Torino
Madeleine will be presenting an eclectic solo program on one of her favorite series, Take 5, at University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
"The mission of the Take 5 series is to provide audience members with a "backstage pass" to the arts. We strive to create a fun, laid back atmosphere in which they can experience new art forms at their purest level."
Tuesday, October 3rd
Guildenhorn Recital Hall
5:30-7:00 PM
Free admission
Works by John Cage, Salvatore Sciarrino, Chinary Ung, David Tcimpidis, Mario Davidovsky, Mario Lavista.
Madeleine and dancer Celesta Haraszti premiere Burton Beerman's work for cello, electronics, dancer and video. The work was composed, in part, through a Barlow Fund grant and is being presented as part of ACA's American Music Festival.
American Music Festival 2006
Wednesday June 7, 2006, 8:00 p.m.
SYMPHONY SPACE 95th & Broadway
THALIA THEATRE
Tickets $15.00 can be purchased online
http://www.symphonyspace.org/
or 212 864 5400
Reception to follow.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Join us for ModernWorks final concert of the season.
As usual, music, talk and food.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Around the World With ModernWorks
Madeleine Shapiro, director
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Second Presbyterian Church
6 West 96th Street (corner of Central Park West)
8:00 PM
Suggested donation: $10.00 (proceeds go to the church organ fund)
A concert of works for flute, cello and percussion featuring composers whose work draws from their native roots. The concert will highlight Iranian Reza Vali's haunting Folk Songs for flutes, cello, crystal glasses and percussion, and an improvisation by percussionist Eric Phinney on the African Gyil (xylophone), an instrument that Eric brought back from his travels in West Africa last summer. The evening will also present two special guests appearing as ModernWorks first "young performer" showcase. There will be a Q &A, discussion, and a reception to follow.
Madeleine Shapiro, director/cello
Patricia Spencer, flute
Eric Phinney, percussion
Guests:
Ieva Siukstaite, violin
Cathlene Pineda, piano
ModernWorks
Madeleine Shapiro, director/cello
Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6:15 PM
EcoMusic: Nature's New Sounds in collaboration with the Museum of Arts & Design
Composers celebrate the earth in a concert to accompany the museum's current exhibition "Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art." Join us for an unusual evening of both acoustic and electro-acoustic music inspired by the Adirondack Mountains, the Yellowstone ecosystem and arctic Alaska.
Madeleine Shapiro, cello
Paul Rudy, amplified cactus
Peter Zummo, didjeridoo
Museum of Arts & Design
40 West 53rd Street (between 5th-6th avenues)
Pre-concert viewing of exhibit, 5:30 PM
RECEPTION FOLLOWING
Tickets: $20.00 general, $15.00 Museum members, students, and seniors
For reservations and information:
212-956-3535 ext. 126
www.madmuseum.org
Madeleine will be at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville performing at the TechnoSonics VI festival. She will play three works, two written for her by UVa composers Judith Shatin and Matthew Burtner, plus Petals by Kaija Saariaho. The program, which looks fascinating, focuses on works having to do with ecology and the environment.
Thursday, November 3rd, 8:00 p.m.
UVA's Old Cabell Auditorium, Charlottesville, VA
TechnoSonics VI, Emusic and Ecology
Also catch Madeleine in New York when she performs Wild grass by Zhou Long November 11th, 8:00 PM, Composer's Concordance, Christ and St. Stephen's Church, 69th Street between Broadway and Columbus Avenues; and at the American Accordion Association's annual concert, December 9, 2005 8:00 PM at CUNY Grad Center, 34th street and Fifth Avenue.
Catch Madeleine in a solo recital and masterclass at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Wednesday, September 28th.
September 28, 2005 8:00 PM
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Fine Arts Recital Hall
Admission free
info: 410- 455-MUSC
ModernWorks Madeleine Shapiro, director/cello
Continental Drift: Works by Italian and American composers
Guest Artists:
Duo Alterno of Turin, Itlay
Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano
Ricardo Piacentini, piano
Works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Elliott Carter, Earle Brown and featuring Quattro Canti su antichi testi napoletani by the Turinese composer Gergio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965)
Christ and St. Stephen's Church
120 W. 69th Street (east of Broadway)
suggested donation, $10.00, students/seniors $5.00
Special thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute, The Alice M.Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Performance and dialogue with Madeleine Shapiro, a cellist specializing in avant-garde music. Madeleine will discuss and perform works for cello and electronics; several new, and several of which are on her newly released CD, which Time Out New York recently called "a polystylistic collection of pieces that individually push both the instrument and technology in unique ways." Come early for a pre-performance reception at 5:30 PM. For directions visit www.hvcca.com/visit.html
Modernworks is starting off the new year in New York City with a return to the NorthRiverMusic series at Greenwich House in the Village.
STRINGING 'ROUND THE WORLD, will include
the ModernWorks string quartet,
Peter Zummo on Didjeridoo and
Patricia Spencer on flute.
Come join us for an exotic, colorful evening. Details below.
Stringing Round the World is set to include From Ubirr for string quartet and didgeridoo by Peter Sculthorpe (Australia); a new work for viola and cello (world premiere) by Mario Lavista (Mexico); Koaia for solo cello by Ana Lara (Mexico); Folk Songs for flute and cello by Reza Vali (Iran/USA) and Memorias Tropicales by Roberto Sierra (Puerto Rico/USA).
The cost of admission is $15 and $10 for students and seniors. This performance will be held in Greenwich House Music School's Renee Weiler Concert Hall, which is located at 46 Barrow Street, NYC (between Seventh Ave. South and Bedford St.).
For more information, visit http://www.gharts.org/modernworksjan272005.pdf
If you miss this, we'll be appearing once more in NY on Friday, April 8th at Christ and St. Stephen's Church (West 69th Street) when Madeleine will be joined by the Duo Alterno from Turin, Italy for a program of works by Italian and American composers. Works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Earle Brown, Georgio Federico Ghedini and Eliott Carter.
