Presented by the Department of Music and The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers, will take place from May 31- June 6, 2010 at the University at Buffalo. June in Buffalo offers an intensive schedule of seminars, lectures, workshops, professional presentations, participant forums and open rehearsals as well as afternoon and evening concerts open to the general public and critics. Each of the invited composers will have one of his/her pieces performed during the festival. Evening performances feature faculty composers, resident ensembles and soloists renowned internationally as interpreters of contemporary music..

Senior Faculty

David Felder
Olivier Pasquet
Bernard Rands
Steve Reich
Roger Reynolds
Augusta Read Thomas

Resident Ensembles

Arditti Quartet
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Ensemble Laboratorium
Ensemble SurPlus
SIGNAL
Slee Sinfonietta

Special Guests

Irvine Arditti
James Baker
Julia Bentley
Stephen Gosling
Francois Eckert
Tom Kolor
Brad Lubman
Yuki Numata

CONCERT SCHEDULE

Monday May 31st 4:00pm
Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
Signal Ensemble
Workshop/Performance of JiB Participants works

Intimate Rejection - Ashley Wang
Warrior Dance - Shiuan Chang
Illicit Trysts - Matthew Heap
circum perceptio - Emily Koh
Magana - Peter Van Zandt Lane

 

Monday May 31st 7:30pm
Center for the Arts Drama Theater
*An evening with Steve Reich*
Signal Ensemble, Brad Lubman, conductor

Sextet - Steve Reich
Double Sextet - Steve Reich

 

Tuesday June 1st 7:30pm
Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
Ensemble SurPlus
Concert featuring works of JiB Senior Faculty

Euterpe's Caprice - Augusta Read Thomas
Music for Six - Lukas Foss
The Viola in My Life II - Morton Feldman
FIDELIO TRIO - Alvin Lucier
Spinoff Violin, Contrabass and Congas - Charles Wuorinen
Coloratura - Brian Ferneyhough

 

Wednesday June 2nd 4:00pm
Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
Ensemble SurPlus
Workshop/Performance of JiB Particpants works

Los Limites moviles del agua - Juan Garcia Escudero
Diagram of a Polymathic Persona/Diagram of a Failure to Diversify - Ray Evanoff
The Ruined Edifice - Jacob Gotlib
Piano Trio - Jordan Kuspa
Apparent Motion - Huck Hodge
This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you - Joe Lake
Bellows Pumped, The Bottom Approaches - Mischa Salkind-Pearl
Bless This Mess - David Wightman

 

Wednesday June 2nd 7:30pm
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
*Slee Sinfonietta, James Baker, conductor*
Tom Kolor, percussion soloist; Irvine Arditti, violin soloist

Tweener - David Felder
Kasper - Olivier Pasquet
6 Piano Etudes - Augusta Read Thomas
Aspiration - Roger Reynolds

 

Thursday June 3rd 10:00am
Baird Recital Hall
Arditti Quartet
Workshop/Performance of JiB Particpants works

Typographies II: Livre pour cordes (in memoriam Ph. L. - L) - Daniel Bassin
Il y a l'Océan - Carl Christian Bettendorf
'til no Sorrow - Chun Ting Pang

 

Thursday June 3rd 7:30pm
Center for the Art Drama Theater
Ensemble Laboratorium

Transparente - Oscar Bianchi
Glint - Jacob Druckman
Influence Liquide from Laboratorium - Vinko Globokar
Assonance VI - Michael Jarrell
déja - Bernard Rands
from behind the unreasoning mask - Roger Reynolds

 

Thursday June 3rd 9:15pm
Center for the Arts Screening Room
Screening of Haxan
Soundtrack by Mauro Lanza, Olivier Pasquet

 

Friday June 4th 10:00am
Baird Recital Hall
Arditti Quartet
Workshop/Performance of JiB Particpants works

instante soturno - Felipe de Almeida Ribeiro
Resurgences - David Hudry
Oszillationen - Benjamin Scheuer

 

Friday June 4th 4:00pm
Center for the Arts Drama Theater
Ensemble Laboratorium
Workshop/Performance of JiB Particpants works

A Fragmented Landscape - John Bacon
For Bass - Matthew Goodheart
January Miniatures - Joshua Groffman
A Matter of Truth - Hannah Lash
Cross-sightedness - Diana Soh
Chiaroscuro - Gabriele Vanoni
Night Spiral - Christopher Walczak
Cleave Orestes - Stephen Wilcox

 

Friday June 4th 7:30pm
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
*Slee Sinfonietta, Brad Lubman, conductor*
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano soloist; Yuki Numata, violin soloist

New Millennium Memo - Harvey Sollberger
Partial [Dist]res[s]toration - David Felder
Carillon Sky - Augusta Read Thomas
Canzonne XXXI - David Felder
Now again-fragments from Sappho - Bernard Rands

 

Saturday June 5th 7:30pm
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
*Arditti Quartet*

String Quartet No. 2 - Jonathan Harvey
Not Forgotten - Roger Reynolds
Third Face - David Felder
Structures - Morton Feldman
Tetras - Iannis Xenakis

 

Sunday June 6th 2:30pm
Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall
*Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor*
Concert featuring works by Felder, Rands, Thomas

Terpsichore's Dream - Augusta Read Thomas
La Tambourin Suite No. 2 - Bernard Rands
Six Poems from Neruda's "Alturas" - David Felder

 

All concerts are free and open to the public, except those marked with *asterisks*. Tickets to those concerts are now on sale.

$12 in advance for general audience ($20 at the door)
$9 in advance for Seniors, and UB faculty/staff/alumni ($15 at the door)
$5 in advance for UB students ($8 at the door)

To purchase tickets, please contact
Lippes Concert Hall, (716) 645-2921.
Concert dates and times are subject to change.

 

For general information, contact J.T. Rinker
phone: (716) 645-0624
fax: (716) 645-3824
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