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April 14. 2012 Saturday 8:00PM

* Free Admission

Tenri,43A West 13th St.NY, NY 10011

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Officers & Board of DirectorsMoon Young HA, artistic directorAkiva G. Zamcheck, assistant directorYoon-Ji Lee, secretaryTrevor New, development directorAnn Sunwoo, art director

Advisory BoardLouis Karchin, composer/conductorReiko Fueting, composer

Sarah Yunji Moon, flute Stuart Breczinski, oboe Brad Cherwin, clarinet Anna Morris, bassoon Alma Maria Liebrecht, horn Nicholas Walls, horn Nathaniel Center, trumpet Nick Grinder, trombone Dorothy Chan, pianoYumi Suehiro, pianoAndy McBeath, percussion Patti Kilroy, violinMaya Bennardo, violinTrevor New, violaAlexandra Jones, violoncello Christopher Nolte, contrabassMoon Young HA, baton

ensemble mise-en promotes large-scale composition projects and intense performances of contemporary and new music in New York City. The fifteen-plus member ensemble has the breadth of a “chamber orchestra”, but defies the associated hierarchies of power, developing collective long-term programming and performance goals that interrogate canonicity in the contemporary scene. As a collective, the multi-national personnel has coalesced around a real aesthetic agenda, crystalized in the name mise-en; “mee” in Korean, means “beauty”, and”zahn”, “to decorate”, and the group unabashedly promotes “beautiful” artwork to increasingly diverse audiences of contemporary sounds. For more information, please visit our website (http://www.mise-en.org).

program

*Please, turn off your electronic devices.

Stolen Moments / 2008 by David Rakowski

Pulse Sampler for oboe and claves / 1981 by Harrison Birtwistle

Pulau Dewata / 1977 by Claude Vivier

“Gyp the Blood” or Hearst!? Which is Worst?! / 1912 by Charles Ives

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Korean Flutist Sarah Yunji Moon made her solo debut at age 11 with the Seoul Philharmonic and went on to perform with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and to give her New York debut recital in CAMI hall as part of the New York Flute Club concert series. Ms.Moon is an enthusias-tic advocate of new music, and her broad interest in music also includes jazz and free improvisa-tion. As an orchestral player, Ms.Moon won the Principal Flute position in Symphony Nova Scotia in Haliafax, Canada, at age 21, making her the youngest member of the orchestra. Sarah is now pursuing her master’s degree in Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music where she studies with Tara O’Connor. Sarah completed her under-graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, as a scholarship student of Jeanne Baxtresser.

Stuart Breczinski is a New York based oboist, improviser, educator, and occasional composer whose early interest in making unusual sounds on the oboe has developed into a full-blown passion for creating and sharing original audio with people of all walks of life. An advocate for new music, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA, Performance 20/20 at The Hartt School, the Sorcerers Double Reed Quartet, and the Hartt Symphony Orchestra.He holds degrees from The Hartt School and The University of Iowa, and he is currently studying contemporary performance at Manhattan School of Music.

Brad Cherwin is a clarinetist from Johnson City, Tennessee.  He currently attends at the Manhattan School of Music, in the studio of Mark Nuccio.  Brad has also studied with Richard Hawkins and Steve Cohen, and performed in masterclasses for Charles Neidich, Alan Kay, Frank Cohen and Eli Eban, among others. Brad is a past participant in music programs at the Banff Centre, Sarasota Music Festival, and Brevard Music Center.  He has also performed as part of the New York String Orchestra Seminar and Kennedy Center Conservatory Project Chamber Ensemble. Brad also plays with the contemporary music groups Contemporaneous and Ensemble Moto Perpetuo

Anna Morris has performed in Costa Rica, Spain, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, and has performed in the Sherman Symphony Orchestra, the Chelsea Symphony, and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and toured and recorded with the North Texas Wind Symphony. Anna currently plays with the Brooklyn Wind Symphony, and Washington Square Winds Quintet, and is Adjunct Instructor of Bassoon and Oboe at NYU. She received a MM in Performance from NYU Steinhardt and a BM in Performance from the University of North Texas. Teachers include Charles Veazey, Kathleen Reynolds, Deb Fabian, Matt Sullivan, Robert Botti, and Leonard Hindell.

Nicholas Walls, originally from Nairobi Kenya, began playing horn in the Nairobi Orchestra as one of only a handful of horn players in East Africa. He

attended the North Carolina School of Arts and the University of California Santa Barbara where he received a Bachelors of Music. Before moving to New York, Nicholas was a active horn player in the Los Angeles area playing in the the Topanga Canyon Symphony Orchestra. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Music at Mannes The New School for Music where he is a student of Erik Ralske.

Since moving to New York in 2009, Nathaniel Center has had the privilege of with performing with Joe Lovano, Lenny Pickett, Ralph Alessi, Stephon Harris, Chris Potter, and Mike Richmond at venues like The Blue Note, The Jazz Gallery, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola and even had the opportunity to play on the 2010 Half Note Records release “Christmas from the Blue Note” featuring jazz legend McCoy Tyner. He was recently honored to perform his own compositions both at the 2011 Note Bianca festival in Florence Italy and the esteemed Ferrara Jazz Club. Nathaniel is currently a jazz studies major at NYU.

Nick Grinder, Trombone, has performed all across the United States in jazz, orchestral, and chamber settings. He is a recent transplant from California, where he was raised in San Francisco and subse-quently went on to study in Los Angeles. He has performed with such notables as Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, and Andy Martin and studied with Slide Hampton, Ralph Sauer, Michael Dease, and Ralph Alessi, among others. Nick holds a BFA from Cal State Northridge and is currently pursuing a master’s degree from New York University. He is currently active on the New York music scene, and you can visit www.nickgrinder.com for updates on performances.

New York based contemporary percussionist Andy McBeath is currently pursing a Masters of Music Degree at New York University Steinhardt and holds a Bachelors of Music Degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Andy has performed at Merkin Concert Hall, the Bali Arts Festival in Bali, Indonesia, the Chicago Jazz Showcase, and the Chicago Symphony Center among others. In addition to his classical studies Andy has studied West-African drumming with Moussa Bolokada Conde, Balinese Gamelan with I Ketut Gede Asnawa, Afro-Cuban drumming with Marvin Diz, steel pan with Josh Quillen, and organ with Dana Robinson.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Pianist Yumi Suehiro started piano at age 6, and started marimba a year later. Ms. Suehiro has given the piano performance at venues such as Carnegie Weill recital hall and Stein way hall, and she was featured as the guest marimba player for Latin Percussionist, Victor Rendon’s recording. Ms. Suehiro holds Master of Music form Manhattan School of Music where she won the 2nd prize at piano concerto competition under tutelage of Zenon Fishbein and Peter Vinograde. Her teacher includes Morris Lang for percussion and John Corigliano for composition.

Patti Kilroy is a violinist based in New York City devoted to the advancement of new music by emerging composers. Her flute-violin-cello-percus-sion quartet Cadillac Moon Ensemble has commis-

sioned two-dozen works to date. As a freelancer she plays with groups like the Nouveau Classical Project, Newspeak, Alarm Will Sound, Signal, Argento New Music Project, Wordless Music Orchestra, among others. She is working on her MM at NYU where she enjoys playing new music, exploring the library, thinking about cats and studying with her teacher Naoko Tanaka. She will begin doctoral studies at NYU next fall. Read more at pattikilroy.com.

Maya Bennardo, violin, is pursuing a Master of Music from NYU where she is studying with Gregory Fulkerson. She recently graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied with the same teacher. Maya is passionate about contempo-rary music and has collaborated with both student and established composers to premiere new works. Maya is also an active teacher in the New York City area teaching through NYU, at the Riverdale Music Studio, and with the Harmony Program. When not involved in music Maya is an avid baker and can be found mixing up something delicious in the kitchen.

Trevor New has performed with members of the Oregon Symphony in Portland and Astoria, Oregon, under the direction of Keith Clark. He currently teaches at 3 locations in New York and New Jersey, has taught private lessons for advanced viola students for the last 6 years. Trevor has taken various profes-sional engagements during his years of training, including the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the Columbia Symphony. He also plays in Mason Jar Music video productions for artists such as the Wood Brothers and Feist. Currently his band Passion Project is finalizing a recording project and will be releasing their latest album at the end of October.

Alexandra Jones holds a Bachelor of Music from New York University. Jones began playing cello through a local community program in her hometown of Brainerd, Minnesota. She currently freelances in New York. Ms. Jones’s primary teachers include Grant Wilcox, Joshua Koestenbaum, Marion Feldman, and Eric Jacobsen. Jones enjoys her work playing with the Ureuk Symphony and the Chelsea Symphony, teaching cello students, and recording with Steinhardt’s Film Scoring department, Dig North Music, Mason Jar Music, Jullian Harris, Moon Lab Studios, and The Lodge. Alexandra performs often with her colleagues in the Mercer Street Trio, a piano trio who formed at NYU in 2008.

Christopher Nolte is a Double Bassist based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BM in Commercial Music from Millikin University, & his MM & DMA (ABD) in Jazz Studies from the University of Illinois. He has performed in numerous musical settings ranging from Jazz & Classical to Pop and World music, including the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, the University of Illinois Chamber & Studio Orchestras, Slide Hampton, David “Fathead” Newman, Chuchito Valdez, Jim Pugh, Cecil Bridgewater & Benito Gonzales. In June 2008, Christopher performed in Bali, Indonesia with the University of Illinois East-West Ensemble, a group that was formed to combine elements of Western music with Gamelan.

Moon Young HA is a composer from Seoul, South Korea, currently living and working in New York City. His music has focused on combining traditional instruments with electronics and video to affect relevant and meaningful experiences for diverse audiences. His work has been presented at festivals and concerts in Europe, Asia and the Americas by ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, Empyrean Ensemble, LOOS Ensemble, Ensemble s21, Lithuanian Oboe Quintet among others. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in music composition at New York University. (http://www.moonyoung.net)

Composers

David Rakowski grew up in St.Albans, Vermont and studied at New England Conservatory, Princeton, and Tanglewood. He has received a number of awards and fellowships, including the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Rome Prize, and he has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. His music has been commissioned, recorded, and performed widely and is published by C.F. Peters. He is currently the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, having also taught at New England Conservatory, Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford. He has two cats named Sunset and Camden.

Harrison BirtwistleSir Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington in the north of England in 1934 and studied clarinet and composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music, making contact with a highly talented group of contemporaries including Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth. (Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes)

Claude VivierMany consider Claude Vivier the greatest composer Canada has yet produced. At the age of 34, he was the victim of a shocking murder, leaving behind some 49 compositions in a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestral works, and chamber pieces. György Ligeti once called Vivier “the finest French composer of his generation.” (Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes)

Charles Ives , born 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut, now universally revered as the quintessen-tial American musical modernist though still underplayed, made his mark revealing the tran-scendental potential of hymns and traditional and popular songs, alongside a life-time inquiry into juxtapositions of all sorts. Schooled as a church organist, the son of a civil war band leader and great American small town musical eclecticist, Ives conducted musical experiments as a passionate “amateur” throughout much of his life, conveni-ently overlooked by all but the great visionaries of his time. (Written by A.G. Zamcheck)

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