In a society where music often exists simultaneously as a document – for example a score or recording – and as a potential live performance, the performing artist is confronted with a question:  what are the unique offerings of live performance? Tonight’s concert offers five pieces and their diverse answers to this question.

Moving from the physical manifestation of sound to the emotional motivation behind it, the full realization of these works is only available in the moments they are exchanged between the performer and audience.  A case for live performance is made not with the risk for failure or presentation of the performer as hero, but with compositional ideas that live fully only within the moment of performance.

Program:

Helmut Lachenmann's Pression

Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons

Martin Bresnick's Songs of the Mouse People

Jay Mikelman's It rains when you're here and it rain's when you're gone

Jackson Mac Low's Asymmetries 94 and 409

FREE!

Quartet Nouveau presents Borodin's Quartet No.2, Schumann's Quartet No.3, and Shostakovich's Elegy and Polka as part of the Classics at the Merc concert series. 

$12 Adults

$5 Students w/ID (No Senior Discounts)

The Helena Pierrot Project celebrates the 100th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with a Montana premiere of the masterwork. The evening will include lectures by Carroll college professors - a historian, a philosopher and a composer - each addressing how Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire came to be and how the masterpiece impacted music in the future. Following the lecture will be a complete performance of the piece, and a question and answer session with reception.

FREE!

As a part of the University of San Diego's chamber music series, Quartet Nouveau performs Haydn's Sunrise Quartet Op.76, Schumann's Quartet No.3, and Shostakovich's Elegy and Polka.

$10 General Admission, $8 Students

Rand Steiger curates PALIMPSEST featuring computer music compositions and instrumental collaborations.  Featured composers include: Wojtek Blecharz, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, and John Luther Adams. 

FREE

Soprano Heather Barnes and celebrated USF alumna cellist Jennifer Bewerse tour nationally and internationally as the duo Diagenesis (Webster's:  1. The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock).  They continue to commission works, with recent world premieres by James Kallembach, Lynn Petersen, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Scott Ordway, Aaron Myers, and Sarah Hersh.  Performances at soundSCAPE in Maccagno, Italy, Banff Centre in Canada, and concerts in the United States in Boston, Chicago, San Diego, Montana, Florida and beyond!

Admission: $15 general, $10 students and seniors, Free for USF music studentsStudents 

Diagenesis Duo presents new works for cello and voice including the world premiere of Sarah Hersh's In Continuous Dreams of New York.

FREE!

Diagenesis Duo performs new works for cello and voice in this second concert on their Florida Tour. Reception to follow.

FREE!

Diagenesis Duo presents new music for cello and voice as part of the Orlando Public Library's Music in the Library concert series. 

FREE!

Quartet Nouveau's concert series “Revive” brings chamber music into a relaxed, social atmosphere including fine food and drink. The event will include performances of quartets by Beethoven, Glass, and Haydn

$15 cover (for The Back Room–no cover for the lower lounge or bar area), 21+ only.

Food and drinks served beginning at 6:00; $10 minimum per person.