BK/ In Motion: New Music by Marginalized Voices at Brooklyn Art Haus

Award-winning San Francisco chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) comes to Brooklyn with a program featuring the East Coast Premieres of three works for piano trio E4TT commissioned and premiered in 2024:

•  “And I Made My Own Way, Deciphering That Fire” (inspired by Pablo Neruda) by NYC native/ Columbia graduate Ursula Kwong-Brown;
• “Ubi Lux Floret” by queer Brooklyn composer Darian Donovan Thomas;
• “Cavities” by Iranian-American composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh to a new video by filmmaker Pegah Pasalar.

Three more works round out the program:

• “the motion between three worlds” for cello by non-binary Quechua/Latinx Brooklyn composer inti figgis-vizueta for cello;
• “Forget Your Scarf in My Life” (inspired by a Mikko Harvey poem) for piano trio by Luna Composition Lab alum Call for Scores winner, Madeline Clara Cheng;
• Jodi Goble’s song cycle “Twelve Chairs,” setting US Poet Laureate Rita Dove's cycle of 13 short poems about personal identity and the U.S. judicial system.

The concert is part of E4TT’s two-year project exploring women’s immigration, transitions, and identity, “Women Crossing.”

Contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) consists of soprano, Artistic Executive Director, and co-founder Nanette McGuinness, cellist and season graphic designer Megan Chartier, and pianist Margaret Halbig, joined for their East Coast tour by Brooklyn resident and new music specialist, violinist Mia Nardi-Huffman. E4TT focuses on 20th and 21st century music that is relevant, engaging, original, and compelling, music that resonates today and will speak to tomorrow; the group strongly believes in the power of artistic beauty, intelligence, wit, lyricism, and irony to create a deep understanding of our times and the human condition, with women creators an ongoing primary focus.