A Four-Day New Music Festival in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY, June 22- June 25
Featuring:
ensemble mise-en, EXCEPTET and The Phoenix Quartet
Performances and Events will be hosted by:
the cell (June 22),
The DiMenna Center (June 23),
Scandinavia House (June 24),
Taipei Cultural Center in New York (June 25)
Concerts
June 22: Opening Night / ensemble mise-en @ the cell (8pm)
June 23: MICHAEL JARRELL Portrait / ensemble mise-en @ The DiMenna Center (8pm)
June 24: Americas + Europe / ensemble mise-en @ Scandinavia House (6pm)
June 25: New Music Marathon (ensemble mise-en / Exceptet / Pheonix Quartet) @ Taipei Cultural Center in New York (4-10pm)
Workshops
June 22: Workshop I @ MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick (11am-12:30pm)
June 25: Workshop II @ Taipei Cultural Center in New York (12PM-1:30PM)
NEW YORK, NY — ensemble mise-en will be presenting a new music festival across 4 days at various venues in the New York City area. After hosting a call for scores which received 792 submissions, ensemble mise-en has selected 31 works by composers from across the globe to be performed.
Following the success of last year’s MISE-EN Festival, ensemble mise-en is enthusiastic and excited to present another festival of music by some incredibly talented composers from all over the world. Last year’s festival featured primarily pieces that already composed, but this year will include world premieres written specifically for ensemble mise-en. This festival is not just a series of performances – it as a composer-performer community event developed through mise-en’s close engagement to each composer involved.
In total, mise-en music festival will feature three curated concerts, one marathon concert (total 6 hours, comprising 6 sectional concerts), and two workshops.
About ensemble mise-en
ensemble mise-en is an innovative and versatile New York-based contemporary music collective led by composer Moon Young HA. Drawing its roster from New York’s most talented young new music performers, mise-en’s multi-national personnel strive to bring a repertoire of challenging, new sounds to diverse audiences. The ensemble wishes to impart an experience that is simultaneously multi-cultural, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically pleasing (“mee” in Korean means “beauty”, and “zahn” means “to decorate”), promoting large-scale composition projects and intense performances of contemporary music with programs featuring the works of many established and budding composers alike. (http://www.mise-en.org/)
About the Taipei Cultural Center
(1 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017)
The Cultural Center has played a significant role in enhancing Taiwan’s cultural image and promoting international cultural exchanges. To cope with the new trend of global cultural competition, the Taipei Cultural Center, breaking the regional boundary of New York City, has been actively bringing Taiwan’s cultures to North America and has strengthened cultural promotion considerably since July 2002. Its head office is the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan.
Visiting Composers from Taiwan
Lily Chen, born in Taiwan, is a composer exploring timbral potentials of both acoustic and electronic music. In her recent works, she creates counterpoint of timbre by synthesizing sound gestures with subtlety, shaping imaginative and poetic atmosphere in her music. Lily is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is studying with Ken Ueno, Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, and Cindy Cox. For more information, please visit – http://chenlily.com
Shih-Wei Lo’s work is often informed by the diverse articulations of time and space in various domains such as art, literature, culture, and politics, and may be viewed as a process of transfiguring these into music, providing audience with a contemplative medium. Currently a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University, he is pursuing a DMA in Composition. He received his MM in Composition from the University of Washington. He was recently awarded First Prize in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition and Honorable Mention in the 2015 American Composers Forum-s National Composition Contest. For more information, please visit –http://shihweilo.com/
Tai-Kuang Chao is a musical storyteller and sonic painter. Chao employs notes fused with acoustic timbres to blend his musical pigments onto the palette, which becomes the paintbrush that leads the audience’s imagination to create an image within the realm of their fantasies. Chao’s music often collaborates dance, lighting and costume design, which creates a visual stunning performance, thus commanding attention and musical involvement from the audience.
Mr. Chao is pursuing his doctoral degree in composition-theory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chao’s other principal teachers include Erin Gee, Reynold Tharp, Erik Lund, and Kyong Mee Choi.