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soundON Festival of Modern Music
June 19, 20 and 21, 2008


2007 Noise Festival

Following 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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