Season 9: Inspo-nential
INSPO 1
AME & Exponential Ensemble @ Opera America
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 - 7pm
Marc A. Scorca Hall
National Opera Center, NYC
Our first concert of Season 9, Inspo-nential, featured "Relative Theory", a brand new work written for the Exponential Ensemble by American composer Robert Paterson. This piece was inspired by four famous mathematicians and scientists. Relative Theory is made possible through a grant we received from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
INSPO 1 is a co-production with the American Modern Ensemble (AME).
Program
Ellen Taaffe Zwillich: Divertimento
Bohuslav Martinu: Oboe quartet
Robert Paterson: Relative Theory*
Robert Paterson: Autumn Songs*
*World Premiere
Relative Theory is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Blythe Gaissert, mezzo soprano
Anna Urrey, flute & piccolo
Sato Moughalian, flute
Lillian Copeland, oboe & english horn
Pascal Archer, clarinet & bass clarinet
Esther Noh, violin
Dave Eggar, cello
Matt Ward, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
INSPO 2
Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 3pm
Soapbox Gallery
636 Dean street, Brooklyn, NY
INSPO 2 at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn will feature a program by composers inspired by social justice.
Program
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Benjamin Britten: Two insect pieces
Valerie Coleman: Portraits of Langston
Robert Paterson: Relative Theory
Guest musician
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
INSPO 3
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 7pm
Marc A. Scorca Hall
National Opera Center, NYC
INSPO 3 will feature works for woodwinds, strings and harp by composers inspired by nature.
Program
Gilad Cohen: Firefly Elegy
Robert Paterson: Embracing the Wind
Amy Brandon: Coronae*
Daniel Ott: Camera Oscura
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Quintette instrumental
*World Premiere
Guest musicians
Igor Pikayzen, violin
Caeli Smith, viola
Eric Stephenson, cello
Kristi Shade, harp
INSPO 4
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
INSPO 4 will feature brand new works written for the Exponential Ensemble by student composers from Fordham University, students of Dr. Daniel Ott.
This concert will be our fifth edition of the Fordham Composers program.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this concert was prerecorded remotely.
Click here to watch this concert
INSPO 5
This concert was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
INSPO 5 will feature brand new works written for the Exponential Ensemble by the Composers collective, a group of 10 emerging composers from New York City.
For more information about the composers collective, visit: http://www.composerscollective.org/
Mostly Modern Festival 2020
Zankel Hall, Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
This concert was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Logo: Haisam Hussein
