Tuesday, December 13 at 8:00pm
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street, New York
NY Premiere by Kate Soper with works by Luigi Nono, John Cage, Petr Kotik, and
the Venetian Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli
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The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Kate Soper, Voice
Conrad Harris, Violin
Tom Chiu, Violin
Petr Kotik, Conductor The S.E.M. Ensemble will give its annual concert at Paula
Cooper Gallery this December 13, 2011, with a premiere of a new work by Kate
Soper. The program takes into account the spatial situation of the main
gallery, which will host a large steel sculpture by Mark di Suvero. The music
will be performed around the sculpture, using the distances between individual
musicians and groups of players divided into various parts of the large main
gallery. In addition to works by John Cage, Luigi Nono, Kate Soper and Petr
Kotik, the program also includes two compositions by the Renaissance composer Giovanni
Gabrieli (1597), whose music was designed for the spatial situation of the San
Marco cathedral in Venice, placing musicians in various corners of the church’s
gallery. The Ensemble will also perform John Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis”
simultaneously with “Aria” and “Fontana Mix,” Luigi Nono’s duo for violins “Hay
que caminar soñando,” and Petr Kotik’s “Kontrabandt” (1967), for four-channel
electronic music. Kate Soper will be the soloist in Cage’s “Aria” as well as in
her own work.
Petr Kotik Kontrabandt (1966)
Giovanni Gabrieli Sacrae Symphonie (1597)
Kate Soper cipher (2011) New York Premiere
Kate Soper, voice; Joshua Modney, violin
John Cage Atlas Eclipticalis, Aria, Fontana Mix
Kate Soper, voice
Luigi Nono “hay que caminar,” soñando
Conrad Harris & Tom Chiu, violins
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble is: Natacha Diels (flute); Bohdan Hilash
(clarinet); Tim McCarthy, Jill Van Nostrand (horns); Thomas Verchot, Terry
Szor, Timothy Schadt (trumpets); William Lang, Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker
(trombones); Jay Rozen, Joe Exley (tubas); Chris Nappi, Ian Antonio, G.
Douglass Barrett (percussion, electronics); Kate Soper (voice); Conrad Harris,
Pauline Kim Harris, Tom Chiu, Joshua Modney (violins); Liuh-Wen Ting (viola);
Brian Snow (cello); Troy Rinker (contrabass)
Tickets are $15 at the door / $10 for students and seniors
For reservations, write to pksem@semensemble.org
or call 718-488-7659
