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21C MUSIC FESTIVAL

A FESTIVAL OF NEWLY-MINTED MUSIC BY THE WORLD’S FOREMOST STARS

OF INDEPENDENT MUSICAL THINKING AND INNOVATION

7 CONCERTS 5 DAYS 26+ PREMIERES

Kronos Quartet Brad Mehldau Tanya Tagaq James Ehnes

Jherek Bischoff Dawn of Midi

The Visit Laurie Anderson

Continuum Contemporary Music John Oswald

Anna Pidgorna Andrew Norman Rodney Sharman Barry Shiffman

Aaron Jay Kernis James Newton Howard

Bramwell Tovey Okeanos

Nicole Lizée Ana Sokolović

Element Choir

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“ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANNUAL FESTIVALS IN THE CITY.” MUSICAL TORONTO

“INNOVATIVE COMPOSERS MAKING NEW WORKS ARE THE STARS.”

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21C MUSIC FESTIVAL

21C Music Festival returns for a third year to The Royal Conservatory of Music from May 25 to May 29, 2016. The festival will once again run over five days and consist of seven concerts, featuring music composed mostly during the 21

st century, which crosses boundaries and genres: classical, Inuit throat singing, jazz, contemporary

Japanese sounds, progressive rock, atmospheric orchestral, and electro-acoustic music. “This 3

rd edition of the festival has allowed us to attract an even richer array of talent than in previous years.

Opening the festival with the boundary-breaking Kronos Quartet, a stalwart of the contemporary music scene,

exemplifies exactly what the festival seeks to do: continually search for the new, experiment, take risks, and bring

new partners under our tent,” said Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts at The Royal

Conservatory.

In this festival of newly-minted music, audiences have an opportunity to experience fresh new sounds and ideas

from the greatest musical minds of today and hear works by Canadian as well as international composers and

musicians who are mining new musical territories, breaking down barriers, and introducing us to new virtuosic music

creations. This year, The Conservatory is thrilled to be expanding its commissioning activities with new works by

Polaris Music Prize-winning throat singer Tanya Tagaq, jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau, award-winning

BC composer Rodney Sharman, Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist, and dancer John Oswald,

Ukrainian-Canadian composer and media artist Anna Pidgorna, and Japanese/Canadian composer Hiroki

Tsurumoto. The new piece by Tagaq is commissioned as part of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning

Repertoire, a collection of 50 new works (10 per year for five years) aimed at creating a body of new work for the

string quartet, and Three Pieces After Bach is a new work co-commissioned by The Royal Conservatory of

Music/Koerner Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Dublin National Concert Hall, and Wigmore Hall. In partnership with

Continuum Contemporary Music, we celebrate Japan: NEXT, which will include a world premiere by Hiroki

Tsurumoto, co-commissioned by The Conservatory and Continuum.

Festival benefactor, Michael Koerner remarked during the inaugural year: “Charles Ives, the American composer-

iconoclast wrote outrageously courageous music about 100 years ago and when asked what he was up to, he would

say ‘I want to stretch your ears.’ This 21C Music Festival is just about that: ear stretching.”

The festival opens on May 25 with Kronos Quartet with special guest Tanya Tagaq. The evening includes

Canadian premieres of Nicole Lizée’s The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) and

Mark Applebaum’s Darmstadt Kindergarten, a new work titled Regs (Dance) by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, and a highly-

anticipated world premiere, titled Sivunittinni (The future children), by the incomparable Tanya Tagaq commissioned

as part of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. The evening also features Tagaq and Kronos

Quartet performing their piece Nunavut alongside Fodé Lassana Diabaté’s selections from Sunjata’s Time,

Aleksandra Vrebalov’s My Desert, My Rose, and the Ontario premieres of Geeshie Wiley’s Last Kind Words,

Laurie Anderson’s Flow, and Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Bombs of Beirut. A Post-concert Talk with artists will follow

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On May 26, 21C Music Festival partner, Continuum Contemporary Music, presents Japan: NEXT. Curated by

Continuum Artistic Director Ryan Scott and conducted by 21C Music Festival artistic advisor Brian Current,

instruments from East and West merge in new ways in extraordinary works by the next generation of internationally

acclaimed Japanese composers, including Dai Fujikura, Hikari Kiyama, and Misato Mochizuki. Visiting UK artists

from Okeanos join an extended Continuum ensemble for a sensational experience from the sonic fringe, and

highlights of the evening will include two world premieres: Canadian composer Michael Oesterle’s Look on Glass

(premiere of a new arrangement) and a world premiere piece by Hiroki Tsurumoto, co-commissioned by

Continuum and The Royal Conservatory. The concert will be preceded by a Pre-concert Talk at 7:15pm.

American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau returns to Koerner Hall for a solo concert on May 27. Combining his signature

technical ability with command of structure and rhythm, he presents his Three Pieces After Bach, a new work co-

commissioned by The Royal Conservatory of Music/Koerner Hall, Carnegie Hall, The Dublin National Concert Hall,

and Wigmore Hall. In the balance of the program, he juxtaposes several canonical pieces from Johann Sebastian

Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, featuring his own jazz compositions for solo piano – a rarity of expression by

this masterful improviser. The Guardian has called Mehldau “[a] superb classical technician, someone who can turn

jazz standards into Bach-like fugues.”

The second concert on May 27, titled 21C After Hours: Blackout, follows the mainstage Brad Mehldau concert, at

approximately 10:30pm in Conservatory Theatre. Blackout, based on the Pitch concert series started in the 1970s

by John Oswald and Marvin Green, will include four world premieres by Oswald and feature the Element Choir

(Christine Duncan, conductor) and the Radiant Brass Ensemble, a group formed by Oswald 10 years ago. It will

also include mystery guest cameos and a mystery guest pianist. This electro-acoustic musical experience will be

performed in complete and absolute darkness – only for those not afraid of the dark!

The afternoon Cinq à Sept concert on May 28 includes one world and two Toronto premieres. The world premiere,

titled Drown in the Depth, is by Anna Pidgorna (commissioned by The Royal Conservatory) and the concert will

also include her Bridal Train. Two pieces by Rodney Sharman will receive their Toronto premieres: Notes on

“Beautiful,” a solo piano work from Anthony De Mare’s highly acclaimed Stephen Sondheim project Liaisons, and a

new work co-commissioned by Philip and Eli Taylor and Music in the Morning (Vancouver), performed by violinist

Barry Shiffman and pianist Jeanie Chung, who are both on the faculty at The Conservatory. The work is dedicated

to the memory of mathematician and arts patron James Stewart. Also on the program are Sharman’s In Deepening

Light for piano and bass, a piece for eight violins by Andrew Norman titled Gran Turismo, and two pieces by Ana

Sokolović, titled Serbian Tango and Portrait Parle. Violinist Andréa Tyniec, a recent Glenn Gould School graduate,

plays in both pieces by Sokolović as well as both pieces by Pidgorna, along with members of the 21C Festival

Ensemble. Most of the composers will be in attendance and will speak about their works before they are performed.

Ambient orchestral music composer Jherek Bischoff makes his Toronto debut on May 28 as he shares the evening with Brooklyn-based trio Dawn of Midi and Toronto’s own The Visit. Hailed a “pop polymath” by The New York Times and a “phenom” by The New Yorker, Bischoff has blazed an unconventional path in creating an impressive body of work in his 30-odd years. After starting his career with indie rock and experimental groups, he eventually turned to orchestral music and composing. He has been commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Lincoln Center, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and has collaborated with the likes of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. The concert will serve as a Canadian CD release event for Bischoff’s highly anticipated new album Cistern, coming out in May of 2016. Dawn of Midi is a trio of piano (Amino Belyamani), bass (Aakaash Israni), and drums (Qasim Naqvi), from

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Pakistan, India, and Morocco respectively, now living in Brooklyn, whose sound has been described by The

Guardian as “more boundary-pushing than the sort of freeform noodling that sometimes give the term “jazz trio” a

bad name. Here, rhythms are delivered, repeated and built with a fractal precision that makes for music as

menacing as it is meditative. It's exploratory without ever seeming uncertain; it sounds like nothing else right now

and listening to it is to experience a very welcome warping of time.” Cello-piano duo The Visit, who thrilled

audiences during the 2015 installment of 21C Music Festival, conjures sounds from the Middle East, progressive

rock, and classical chamber music. Presented in association with Wavelength, this indie music triple-bill is one of

the highlights of the Festival. The concert will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists in The Leslie & Anna

Dan Galleria.

Canadian superstar violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong return to Koerner Hall on May 29, to

close out the festival with a program that includes the Canadian premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Two Movements

(with Bells) and the Toronto premiere of a new work by Bramwell Tovey, alongside James Newton Howard’s 133

… At Least, Händel’s Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 13, HWV 371, and Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata. The

Washington Post states: “James Ehnes is my kind of musician — fastidious, conscientious and unconcerned with

showmanship.” A Pre-concert Talk at 2:15pm will precede the concert.

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FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE

9 WORLD PREMIERES

Michael Oesterle John Oswald Anna Pidgorna Look on Glass 4 world premieres Drown in the Depth as part of Blackout

Tanya Tagaq Hiroki Tsurumoto The Visit ♪ Sivunittinni (The future children) Title TBA Title TBA

Canadian composer ♪ The Royal Conservatory of Music faculty/student/alumnus

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10+ CANADIAN PREMIERES

Mark Applebaum Jherek Bischoff Aaron Jay Kernis

Darmstadt Kindergarten A number of new works Two Movements (with Bells)

Nicole Lizée Brad Mehldau The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Three Pieces After Bach Workshop Fibre-Optic Flowers) After Bach 1: Rondo; After Bach 2: Ostinato After Bach 3: Toccata; Improvisation on Bach I & II

4+ ONTARIO PREMIERES

Laurie Anderson Dawn of Midi Mary Kouyoumdjian Geeshie Wiley Flow A number of new works Bombs of Beirut Last Kind Words (arr. Jacob Garchik) (arr. Jacob Garchik)

3 TORONTO PREMIERES

Bramwell Tovey Rodney Sharman: Title TBA Notes on “Beautiful” Title TBA

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OTHER WORKS

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Regs (Dance) Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, “Spring” Fodé Lassana Diabaté: Selections from Sunjata’s Time Dai Fujikura: Breathing Tides; Cutting Sky; Okeanos Breeze; Touch of Breeze Georg Friedrich Händel: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 13, HWV 371 Hikari Kiyama: Death Metal Rock With Head Bang Misato Mochizuki: Silent Circle James Newton Howard: 133 … At Least Andrew Norman: Gran Turismo Anna Pidgorna: Bridal Train Rodney Sharman: In Deepening Light Ana Sokolović: Serbian Tango Ana Sokolović: Portrait Parle Tanya Tagaq & Kronos Quartet: Nunavut The Visit: works from their Through Darkness Into Light CD ♪ Aleksandra Vrebalov: My Desert, My Rose

ARTISTS

Ensembles 21C Ensemble ♪ Continuum Contemporary Music ♪

Dawn of Midi (USA) Element Choir Kronos Quartet (USA) Okeanos (UK) Radiant Brass Ensemble

The Visit ♪ Soloists Andrew Armstrong, piano (USA) Jherek Bischoff, bass (USA) Jeanie Chung, piano ♪ Brian Current, conductor ♪

Christine Duncan, Element Choir conductor James Ehnes, violin Brad Mehldau, piano (USA) Ryan Scott, Continuum Contemporary Music Artistic Director Barry Shiffman, violin ♪ Tanya Tagaq, vocals Andréa Tyniec, violin ♪ Canadian artist ♪ The Royal Conservatory of Music faculty/student/alumnus

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF EVENTS AND WORKS

Kronos Quartet with special guest Tanya Tagaq Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 8pm; Post-concert talk; Koerner Hall

Nicole Lizée: The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) (Canadian premiere) * ♪

Mark Applebaum: Darmstadt Kindergarten (Canadian premiere) *

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Regs (Dance) * ##

Fodé Lassana Diabaté: Selections from Sunjata’s Time * ##

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Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni (The future children) (world premiere) * ##

Tanya Tagaq & Kronos Quartet: Nunavut *

Aleksandra Vrebalov: My Desert, My Rose * ##

Geeshie Wiley: Last Kind Words (arr. Jacob Garchik) (Ontario premiere) +

Laurie Anderson: Flow (arr. Jacob Garchik) (Ontario premiere) +

Mary Kouyoumdjian: Bombs of Beirut (Ontario premiere) *

* Written for Kronos / + Arranged for Kronos / ## Composed for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Sivunittinni (The future children) by Tanya Tagaq commissioned by The Royal Conservatory/Koerner Hall as part of

Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.

Tanya Tagaq’s appearance generously supported by Joanne Tod.

21C Music Festival Opening Night generously supported by Kris Vikmanis and Denny Creighton.

Continuum Contemporary Music presents Japan: NEXT Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 8pm; Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm; Mazzoleni Concert Hall

Dai Fujikura: Breathing Tides Dai Fujikura: Cutting Sky Dai Fujikura: Okeanos Breeze Dai Fujikura: Touch of Breeze Hikari Kiyama: Death Metal Rock With Head Bang Misato Mochizuki: Silent Circle Michael Oesterle: Look on Glass (world premiere of a new arrangement) Hiroki Tsurumoto: new work (world premiere) New work by Hiroki Tsurumoto co-commissioned by Continuum Contemporary Music with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and The Royal Conservatory/Koerner Hall for the 21C Music Festival, 2016.

Canadian composer ♪ The Royal Conservatory faculty/student/alumnus

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Brad Mehldau – Solo Friday, May 27, 2016 at 8pm; Koerner Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 848, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Brad Mehldau: Three Pieces After Bach (Canadian premiere)

After Bach 1: Rondo

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue No. 16 in G Minor, BWV 885, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

Brad Mehldau: Three Pieces After Bach (Canadian premiere)

After Bach 2: Ostinato

Improvisation on Bach I

Two additional pieces TBA from the stage

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Brad Mehldau: Three Pieces After Bach (Canadian premiere)

After Bach 3: Toccata

Improvisation on Bach II

Two additional pieces TBA from the stage

Three Pieces After Bach co-commissioned by The Royal Conservatory of Music/Koerner Hall, Carnegie Hall, The

Dublin National Concert Hall, and Wigmore Hall.

Three Pieces After Bach are generously supported by Philip and Eli Taylor.

21C After Hours: Blackout Friday, May 27, 2016 at 10:30pm; Conservatory Theatre

Works include four world premieres by John Oswald for ensembles, choir, and piano.

New works by John Oswald commissioned by The Royal Conservatory of Music/Koerner Hall.

Cinq à Sept Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 5pm; Conservatory Theatre

Andrew Norman: Gran Turismo

Rodney Sharman: new work (Toronto premiere)

Rodney Sharman: Notes on “Beautiful” (Toronto premiere)

Rodney Sharman: In Deepening Light

Anna Pidgorna: Drown in the Depth (world premiere)

Anna Pidgorna: Bridal Train

Ana Sokolović: Serbian Tango

Ana Sokolović: Portrait Parle

New work by Rodney Sharman co-commissioned by Philip and Eli Taylor and Music in the Morning (Vancouver).

Drown in the Depth by Anna Pidgorna commissioned by The Royal Conservatory of Music/Koerner Hall.

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Jherek Bischoff, Dawn of Midi, and The Visit Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 8pm; Koerner Hall

The Visit: new work (world premiere) ♪

Dawn of Midi: new works (Ontario premieres) Jherek Bischoff: new works (Canadian premieres)

James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 3pm; Pre-concert talk at 2:15pm; Koerner Hall

Georg Friedrich Händel: Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 13, HWV 371

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, “Spring”

James Newton Howard: 133 … At Least

Aaron Jay Kernis: Two Movements (with Bells) (Canadian premiere)

Bramwell Tovey: new work (Toronto premiere)

Generously supported by David G. Broadhurst

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Continuum Contemporary Music presents Japan: NEXT: Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 8pm | MCH; $21

Brad Mehldau – Solo: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 8pm | KH; $21-$75

21C After Hours: Blackout: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 10:30pm | CT; $21 ($10 with the purchase of a ticket to Brad Mehldau at 8pm)

Cinq à Sept: Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 5pm | CT; $21 ($10 with the purchase of a ticket to the Saturday evening concert)

Jherek Bischoff, Dawn of Midi, and The Visit: Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 8pm | KH; $21-$50

James Ehnes & Andrew Armstrong: Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 3pm | KH; $21-$90

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Continuum Contemporary Music

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Formed in 1985, Continuum Contemporary Music is committed to presenting and promoting contemporary chamber music through unique and compelling programming. Under Artistic Director (and ensemble percussionist) Ryan Scott and Operations Manager Josh Grossman, Continuum each year presents a series of diversely themed concerts, often involving interdisciplinary collaborations. Over the past 30 years, Continuum has been responsible for commissioning over 175 new works from emerging and established Canadian and international composers; drawing from a collective of some of Canada’s top contemporary music performers, the organization has earned international acclaim: De Telegraaf wrote “Ensemble Continuum performs magic with sound;” Bragbants Dagblad hailed the ensemble as “sublimely skilled.” Continuum has performed across Canada and has toured twice to Europe. In 2012 Continuum served as resident ensemble for the new music series at Chamberfest Ottawa; in 2015, Continuum was featured at the opening gala concert for Classical: NEXT in Rotterdam. Past special projects have included SHIFT, a festival of Canadian and Dutch music, film, and literature that took place in Amsterdam and in Toronto; Contes pour enfants pas sages, settings of Jacques Prévert’s children’s stories by Victoria composer Christopher Butterfield; and Singing the Earth, a collaboration of Anna Höstman (composer), Dylan Robinson, Patrick Nickelson, and Marion Newman. During the 2014-2015 season Continuum celebrated its 30th anniversary with two sold-out concerts including Collide, a collaboration with Subtle Technologies bringing together scientists, media artists, and composers in search of new meanings in music. The 2015-2016 season is the first curated entirely by newly appointed Artistic Director Ryan Scott, and it is action-packed: ten concerts, nine premieres, a tour to British Columbia for a collaborative project with Ballet Kelowna, a concert in Montreal produced by the SMCQ, and two concerts featuring Okeanos (UK) – including one as part of the 21C Music Festival celebrating the music of next generation Japanese composers. Additional activity includes a return and expansion of our education collaboration with the Toronto District School Board and participation in New Music 101, a lecture recital series in collaboration with the Toronto New Music Alliance. Continuum has recorded three full-length CDs, was awarded the 1994 Chalmers Award, and in 2014 was shortlisted for the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Roy Thomson Hall Award of Recognition. Continuum is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and many private donors. Continuum is a member of the Canadian New Music Network and the Toronto New Music Alliance.