Yale in NY Presents Sleeping Giant at LPR; Announces 2010-11 Season

On Monday, October 11, 2010 at 7:30pm, the adventurous Yale in New York series opens its fourth season with Sleeping Giant at (Le) Poisson Rouge, the celebrated music club in Greenwich Village (158 Bleecker Street between Thompson St. and Sullivan St.). Visit http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1455.

Twenty years ago the new music world got a shot of energy from a Yale composers collective known as Bang on a Can. Today Yale graduates are again at the forefront with the "mighty handful" of Sleeping Giant, five emerging New York-based composers who are quickly gaining notoriety in the music world: Timothy Andres (Shy and Mighty), TEd Hearne (Katrina Ballads), Christopher Cerrone (Invisible Cities), Jacob Cooper (Timberbrit), and Robert Honstein (ASCAP Young Composer Awards).

The composers' works have appeared in clubs and concert halls throughout the U.S. and Europe, with performances by ensembles ranging from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Minnesota Orchestra to New York City Opera and the JACK Quartet.

Sleeping Giant presents music that prizes vitality over a rigid aesthetic. Its fall showcase at LPR features a healthy variety of music from its composers. The world premiere of Jacob Cooper's austere and time-bending Cello Octet is pit against TEd Hearne's rhythmic and metallic duet for piano and percussion One of Us, One of Them. Christopher Cerrone's strikingly visual Averno: A Fragment, set with voracity and longing to texts by Louise Glück, will be played alongside Timothy Andres's gracious Clamber Music and Robert Honstein's rock-inspired song-without-words Why Are You Not Answering.

Christopher Cerrone describes Sleeping Giant as "a network of interrelated and interconnected styles more than one united by a single aesthetic. Jacob and I write music influenced by the translation of electronic music into acoustic music; Jacob and Ted have a strong interest in rock instrumentation. Ted and Timo have a strong interest in pulsation; Timo and Robert write music of extreme gentleness. So while there's not one interconnecting thread, each of us have common interests that draw us together."

PROGRAM INFO
Yale in New York presents Sleeping Giant at LPR on Oct. 11:
Timothy Andres: Clamber Music (2010) (NY Premiere)
Christopher Cerrone: Averno: A Fragment (2006)
Jacob Cooper: Cello Octet (2010) (World Premiere)
TEd Hearne: One of Us, One of Them (2005)
Robert Honstein: Why Are You Not Answering (2010)

Performers:
Timo Andres, piano
Joe Bergen, percussion
Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano
Arnold Choi, cello
Owen Dalby, violin
Lisa Dowling, double bass
David Friend, piano
Mary MacKenzie, soprano
Tema Watstein, violin
Owen Weaver, percussion
Alvin Wong, cello

And members of the Yale Philharmonia

THE COMPLETE 2010-2011 YALE IN NEW YORK SEASON:

Monday, October 11, 2010 at 7:30PM at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Sleeping Giant
Timothy Andres • Christopher Cerrone • Jacob Cooper • TEd Hearne • Robert Honstein

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 8:00PM in Weill RecitAl Hall
Yale Guitarists Play Yale Guitar Music
A wildly eclectic program featuring works for classical and electric guitars.
Premieres by Ezra Laderman, Jack Vees, David Lang, Samuel Adams, Kathryn Alexander, and Benjamin Verdery,
plus works by Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, and Aaron Jay Kernis.
Featuring guitarists Benjamin Verdery, Ian O'Sullivan, and more.

Sunday, December 12, 2009 at 8:00PM in Zankel Hall
Yale Percussion Group
Robert Van Sice, director
The virtuoso Yale Percussion Group-called "something truly extraordinary" by Steve Reich-
presents a dazzling and theatrical concert with works by Thierry de Mey, Steve Reich, James Wood, and Mauricio Kagel.
YPG recently played in Central Park for the Make Music New York Xenakis festival, and in Carnegie Hall as part of last year's Yale in New York series.

Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:30PM in Zankel Hall
"Concertante": rarely-performed twentieth-century concerti grossi
Yale Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra
Shinik Hahm, conductor
This program brings the acclaimed Yale Philharmonia into the intimate space of Zankel Hall to focus on rarely-performed concerti grossi from the twentieth century.
The orchestra-with celebrated soloists David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, and Frank Morelli-will perform works by Ernest Bloch, Richard Strauss, Alberto Ginastera, and Frank Martin,
whose Second Ballade for flute, string orchestra, piano, and percussion will receive its American premiere 70 years after its composition.

Monday, April 25, 2011 at 8:00PM in Weill RecitAl Hall
"Stylus Fantasticus"
The Yale Baroque Ensemble
Robert Mealy, director
Seventeenth-century composer-violinists broke new ground with an inventive and flamboyant style called Stylus Fantasticus.
Acclaimed baroque violinist Robert Mealy-"New York's world-class early music violinist" (The New Yorker)-directs the period instrument Yale Baroque Ensemble from the first violinist's chair in a program of extravagant and experimental music.

YALE IN NEW YORK
Yale in New York is the acclaimed series in which distinguished faculty members-many of them famous soloists-share the limelight with exceptional alumni and students on Carnegie Hall's stages, capturing the intense collaboration found on every level at the Yale School of Music. The 2009-10 season showcased the classical legacy of Benny Goodman; undiscovered Prokofiev works; the Oral History of American Music project; and Penderecki conducting Penderecki. The series is curated by David Shifrin.
"The performance combined youthful energy and adult mastery.
The playing had the kind of precision that can come only from painstaking, arduous rehearsal, yet it remained constantly fresh and surprising, with the spontaneity of improvisation.
It was chamber music at its best."
- Chamber Music Magazine about Yale in New York last season

THE YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The Yale School of Music, established in 1894 and one of four graduate schools in the arts at the University, has a long tradition of leadership in the training of performers and composers. It is a graduate-professional school and the only school of music in the Ivy League. The school is highly selective, with approximately 200 students who come from the finest American and international conservatories and universities to study with a distinguished faculty. The school's alumni are found in major positions in virtually every sphere of music making and administration. Yale graduates perform in most of the major American symphony orchestras, and voice alumni have enjoyed great success in joining professional opera companies throughout the world, with over a dozen Yale graduates on the artist roster of the Metropolitan Opera. The list of composition alumni, faculty, and guest professors is a virtual Who's Who of the creators of new music of the past century. Along with artistic accomplishment, Yale School of Music graduates have demonstratEd Strong leadership in guiding the course of numerous academic and cultural institutions. The Yale School of Music engages in cooperative partnerships with several leading international conservatories and schools, including: the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China), Korean National University of the Arts-School of Music and Seoul National University-College of Music (Seoul, Korea), Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia), Royal Academy of Music (London), and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary). The Yale School of Music offers the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts, and Master of Music degrees, as well as the Artist Diploma and the Certificate in Performance. In Fall 2005, the Yale School of Music received an unprecedented gift of $100 million, allowing the school to solidify its international position of leadership by expanding programs, renovating facilities, and offering full-tuition scholarships to all students.

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