Miller Theatre Presents A Composer Portrait Of TYSHAWN SOREY

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts presents a Composer Portrait of TYSHAWN SOREY. New music superstars ICE and JACK Quartet perform recent works by Sorey including a world premiere commissioned by Miller Theatre. Sorey also guests as conductor and percussionist. The event is Thursday, March 28, 2019, 8:00 p.m. at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)

Tickets: $20-$30; Students with valid ID: $7-$18

Tyshawn Sorey is a visionary artist who is erasing the lines of musical preconceptions. The 2017 MacArthur Fellow has a wide-ranging creative practice, embracing the roles of composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, scholar, and educator. This Portrait features two new works, written for ensembles with which Sorey has close ties.

PROGRAM:
Autoschediasms for Creative Chamber Orchestra (2019),
world premiere, Miller Theatre commission
...Changes (2018), New York premiere
Violin and Glockenspiel, in Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams (2018)
Bertha's Lair (2016)
Ornations (2014)

ARTISTS:
JACK Quartet
International Contemporary Ensemble

Newark-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Claire Chase, Steve Coleman, Steve Lehman, Robyn Schulkowsky, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, and Myra Melford, among many others.

Sorey has received support for his creative projects from The Jerome Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, and Van Lier Fellowshi and was a 2015 recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Award. The Spektral Quartet, Ojai Music Festival, and ICE have commissioned his works. As a percussionist and resident composer, he collaborates regularly with ICE. As a leader, he has released six critically acclaimed recordings that feature his work, including his latest Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017).

Sorey received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition in 2017 from Columbia University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Creative Music at Wesleyan University, where he received his Masters in Composition in 2011.