Thursday, January 6, 2022
7:30 PM
San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present the soundON Festival (formerly known as soundON Festival of Modern Music), featuring the ensemble in residence, NOISE, coming together after a long hiatus due to the pandemic. The members of NOISE have curated a festival exploring the surreality of the gradual return to “normalcy” and the irreversible perspective of a world transformed and that will never be “normal” again. The program features winning selections from the pandemic-delayed 2020 soundON Call for Scores and highlights an internationally diverse lineup of composers including Uri Kochavi (Israel), João Pedro Oliveira (Portugal), Jinhee Han (Korea), and Peter Hager (Philippines). World premieres by Luke Schultze and NOISE member Franklin Cox will be debuted. The eclectic and international collection of works embraces imperfection, liminality, chimeric adaptations, tension, and the cautious return to the illuminated beauty of the world welcoming us back.
Housing for artists is generously provided by Ann Craig and Garna Muller.
PROGRAM
Mikel Kuehn, Chimera
Philippe Manoury, Le Livre des Claviers IV
Jinhee Han, Paysage on Danube
Stuart Saunders Smith, Here's the Sun
Uri Kochavi, Obsessive Compulsive [dis] Order **
** winning selections from the 2020 soundON Call for Scores
PARTICIPANTS
NOISE (Ensemble in Residence)
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Colin McAllister, guitar, electric guitar, and conductor
Morris Palter, percussion
Christopher Adler, piano and khaen
Robert Zelickman, conductor
SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
Russ Callison, guitar
Derek Keller, countertenor
Bernadette Rose Mondok Keller, soprano
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Thank you to our Friends of soundON — Julia S. Falk, Ph.D., Drs. Sally and Einar Gall, Christian Hertzog and Susan Dorin, Garna Muller, Catherine and Robert Palmer, Erika and Fred Torri, Eric Starr and Sarah Skuster — and to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library for their continued support. Thank you to Ann Craig and Garna Muller, to San Diego State University for providing rehearsal space and instruments, and to the University of San Diego for providing audio equipment.
Face coverings are required for attendees, regardless of vaccination status. This event will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of the concert. Event capacity is limited to 70% for now.