Four Corners Ensemble Presents STROLLING ON A WORLD MAP

Four Corners Ensemble presents four dynamic mini-concertos from its "World Map Concerti Series." Composed by award-winning composer Shuying Li, "World Map Concerti" is a multi-cultural and multi-national collection with virtuosic soloists and a soloist-level "orchestra". These concertos focus on each soloist's unique geographical, cultural and personal identities.

Come meet the amazing soloists, Erika Boysen, Siyuan Li, Joshua Anderson, and Jinn Shin; and enjoy premieres of flute concerto "Click Song," based on South Africa's "Quongqothwane;" clarinet concerto "American Variations," on an original theme in various American music styles; piano concerto "Canton Snowstorm," an imagination of a heavy snowstorm in the warmest place in China; and cello concerto "Matilda's Dream," a fantasy based on Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda."

In addition, Four Corners will present works by Paul Chihara, Larry Alan Smith, Victoria Bond, Marcel Chyrzynski and Jakub Polycczyk, with guest performers Wojtek Komsta and Jakub Polaczyk, a dive-in of some of the most dynamic contemporary repertoire by living composers.

Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strolling-on-a-world-map-tickets-51070973657

About Four Corners Ensemble:

The Four Corners Ensemble (4CE) was founded to promote new music and cultural diversity. With each member of the group originally came from a different country and cultural background (Australia, China, France, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, & United States), we are dedicated to the mission of cultivating diversities and international collaboration through creating and performing new music with musicians from different cultures, and bringing high-quality concert experience to our audience.

4CE has been featured in venues such as the New in November 8 festival by the Hartford Opera Theater, the Shanghai Conservatory Composition Department Studio Concert, and the Concerti X Operas series in Ann Arbor, etc. 4CE also initiated the first Operation Opera festival at the University of Michigan where the ensemble workshopped and performed contemporary operas with musicians coming from all over the world.

In 2018, 4CE was proud to announce a formal collaboration with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China where the ensemble will endeavor to introduce more high-quality contemporary concert music from China to the U.S. 4CE future engagements include residency in the 20th International Chopin and Friends Festival sponsored by New York Dance & Arts Innovations and the 4CE World Map series in which 4CE composer will compose a set of pocket concerto for each member to feature his/her cultural identity, as well as individual experience and reflection upon living in a world of mass globalization.

*"World Map Concerti Series" graphics are designed by Tanner Porter.