Americas Society presents an entire program of exciting new music by the áltaVoz composers, performed by the JACK Quartet.
Praised for its “powerhouse playing” by The Chicago Sun-Times and “extraordinary precision” by The Boston Globe, the JACK Quartet has quickly established a reputation for giving high-energy performances of today’s most demanding works for string quartet.
áltaVoz, described as “a group to watch” by New Music Connoisseur, is a group of five Latin American, cutting-edge composers living in United States and Europe who work together to organize concerts, lectures and workshops around the world.
Programme
L’ardito e quasi stridente gesto — José Luis Hurtado
Cuarteto No. 3, Música fúnebre y nocturna — Jorge Villavicencio Grossman
Every new volition a mercurial swerve, Cuarteto No.3 — Mauricio Pauly
Corde Vocale — Felipe Lara
As part of the University of Manchester’s MANTIS Festival, Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem present a collaboration with Italian virtuoso Francesco Dillon in an evening of contemporary music for cello and electronics in the heart of Manchester’s vibrant Northern Quarter.
Programme
To what depths of dark pigment, for cello and diffused audio — Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem
Double Contour, for cello and computer — Kumiko Omura
Psalm, for cello and electronics — Juste Janulytė
Oog, for cello and soundtrack — Michael Van der Aa
Curve with plateaux, solo cello — Jonathan Harvey
Raise Your Voice Collective’s very own in-house band perform their very first concert, featuring new works from acoustic and electroacoustic, Manchester-based composers, and an improvisatory collaboration with special guest Richard Scott. All this and more in the cosy confines of Centro Bar in the Northern Quarter (next door to Matt & Phred’s).
Programme
Laptop set – Heather Bamforth
focus in focus out focus in focus out, for flute, clarinet, drum kit and cello – Hannah Ashman
Public Bodies, fixed media – Sam Salem
New work, for ensemble – Steve Pycroft
Waves on the ebb, for ensemble – Francesca le Lohé
This is Water!, for ensemble and tape – Chris Swithinbank
Clinamen clinamen clinamen, for clarinet and string quartet – Mauricio Pauly
Onomatopoeia, improvisations for ensemble & electronics – Richard Scott
Collaboration with Manchester-based acousmatic composer, Sam Salem.
Written for Francesco Dillon. First version premiered at the Nexus Art Café in Manchester on February 27th 2010.
Four Lukas Epigrams: Manzanillo, mancuneo by Mauricio Pauly
written to attend the Centre Acanthes
workshop with Orchestre National de Lorraine (Formation B), conducted by Jean Deroyer
July 2009
One of the four
ob, cl, bsn, vln, vla, cb, pn, perc
performed by Alea III, conducted by Theodore Antoniou
as part of 19 Epigrams written by students of Lukas Foss.
March 2nd 2010, Boston
This performance now available on CD/download as part of the Altavoz Composers compilation album released October 2010. You can get it here: CDBaby, Amazon, iTunes.
(current score 20090101)
Written for and premiered by the Ikarus Chamber Players at the WMP Concert Hall in New York. October 30th, 2008.
Sarah Beaty – cl
Julia MacLaine – vc
Margaret Dyer – vla
Owen Dalby, Jonathan Chu – vlns
Mauricio Pauly is a Costa-rican composer and electric bass player based in the UK. He is co-director and founder of the Distractfold Ensemble and of the Altavoz Composers.
October 18th 2011
A Greater Horror
Alex Todd, drums
Rodrigo Constanzo, piano
Mauricio Pauly, electric bass
...also,
the Dan Brew Quartet
8pm at Sand Bar, Manchester, UK
120 Grosvenor Street, M1 7HL
£3
