2007 Noise FestivalFollowing the success of last year’s inaugural soundON Festival of New
Music, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library and San Diego New
Music will present this year’s installment June 19-21 at the
Athenaeum.
This homegrown new music festival features high-caliber performances
of the most innovative new music being written by young composers
today worldwide. The NOISE Ensemble, resident ensemble of San Diego
New Music, and guest artists will perform concerts, conduct open
rehearsals with resident composers, present panel discussions with
composers and performers, and lead an exploratory community workshop
in the performance of music with the sounds of everyday life.
Click here for a complete schedule.
Composers in attendance at the festival, whose works will be featured
in performance include Juan Campoverde Q. (Ecuador/U.S.), Ingrid
Stolzel (Germany/U.S.), Nathan Brock (U.S.), Madelyn Byrne (U.S.),
Steve Hoey (U.S.), Derek Keller (U.S.) and NOISE composer-in-residence
Christopher Adler. NOISE will be joined by the internationally acclaimed
new music interpreter Mark Menzies (violin), Ashley Walters (cello),
Kathy Pisaro (oboe), Robert Zelickmann (clarinet), and Derek Keller
(guitar).
The members of NOISE are Colin McAllister, one of America’s
leading contemporary music guitarists, Lisa Cella, a flutist heralded
internationally for commissioning new works and Assistant Professor
at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Morris Palter, an
internationally acclaimed percussionist and former member of red
fish blue fish, and Christopher Adler, an innovative cross-cultural
composer and pianist and Associate Professor at the University of
San Diego.
San Diego New Music is funded, in part, by the City of San Diego
Commission for Arts and Culture. soundON is funded, in part, through
Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program. Funding
has also been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.
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