Eastman Broadband Returns To NYC, Highlights Music Of Mexican Performers

This May, Eastman BroadBand, a contemporary chamber ensemble from the Eastman School of Music - one of the nation's premier music institutions, named "Hottest School for Music" by Newsweek - will return to New York City for back-to-back performances. The first performance will be held at the Americas Society on Friday, May 13 at 7:00PM and will feature the New York premiere of Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez's Trio Variations. The second performance will be held at Symphony Space on May 14 from 5:00PM to 7:00PM as part of its Wall to Wall Sonidos program. Both performances will showcase the work of BroadBand conductor Juan Trigos, and artistic directors Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and will explore each composer's imaginative interaction with the art of Paul Klee, the music of Bartók, the literature of Juan Rulfo and Italo Calvino, and the vernacular music of México.

Following last year's highly acclaimed Mexican tour that took the ensemble to the prestigious Festival Internacional Cervantino and Silvestre Revueltas Hall in Mexico City, Eastman BroadBand is "very pleased to return to New York City, and to share our passion for contemporary art music," remarked BroadBand artistic director Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez. "The sextets and trios by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Juan Trigos and myself that will be performed, will showcase a more intimate side of the Eastman BroadBand in works that demand virtuosic ensemble interplay. They will also reveal our distinct artistic voices against the background of the shared "poetic" threads that bind the works as a cohesive program."

Following last year's highly acclaimed Mexican tour that took the ensemble to the prestigious Festival Internacional Cervantino and Silvestre Revueltas Hall in Mexico City, Eastman BroadBand is "very pleased to return to New York City, and to share our passion for contemporary art music," remarked BroadBand artistic director Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez. "The sextets and trios by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Juan Trigos and myself that will be performed, will showcase a more intimate side of the Eastman BroadBand in works that demand virtuosic ensemble interplay. They will also reveal our distinct artistic voices against the background of the shared "poetic" threads that bind the works as a cohesive program."