Soundforms Chamber Series: Facing the Unknown, Imagination in Time of Pandemic
About this Event
Join us on March 20, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST for an evening filled with beautiful and colorful chamber music featuring Brian Hong, Rannveig Marta Sarc (violins), Caeli Smith (viola), and Julian Müller (cello).
Suggested donation: $10
Program:
Strum, Jessie Montgomery (1981)
String Quartet No. 3, Victor Ullman (1898-1944)
String Quartet No. 3, Eleanor Alberga (1949)
Event hosted by Lightforms Art Center
Soundforms Chamber Series was inaugurated at Lightforms Art Center, in Hudson New York in the fall of 2020. Soundforms and Lightforms are dedicated to bridging music and visual arts to create a dynamic and immersive experience for all. The programming for the chamber music series is designed in relationship to the art that is shown at the time.
Soundforms focuses on bringing world-class artists and composers of our time to the forefront to foster societal change. Artists who perform in the Soundforms chamber music series are all committed to bringing their work into the community by working with students of public and private schools in the area, as well as bringing music to nursing homes and other community venues. The artistic directors of Soundforms, Tamara Winston and Julian Müller are freelance musicians based in New York City. They appear frequently with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Orchestra of St. Lukes, and hold degrees from The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
The upcoming string quartett concert is going to feature music by Eleanor Alberga, Jessie Montgomery and Viktor Ullman.
Eleanor Alberga is a contemporary Jamaican pianist and composer of international stature whose music has been performed by the BBC Symphony and Orchestra. Her serious music has drawn comparisons to Berg’s and Debussy’s music while her lighter works are rooted more obviously in her Jamaican heritage.
Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, language, and social justice, placing her squarely as one of the most relevant interpreters of 21st-century American sound and experience. Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).
Viktor Ullman was an Austrian Jewish composer who perished in the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.Thirteen printed items, which Ullmann published privately and entrusted to a friend for safekeeping, have survived.