CONTACT:

Rick Whitaker

212 854 1623

rw2115@columbia.edu

 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S

ITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

PRESENTS ITS

SPRING 2011 CONCERT SERIES:

 

THREE 2nds with

LUCY SHELTON

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

 

Vocal chamber music with

LUCY SHELTON, soprano

and

Fred Sherry, Steve Taylor, Charles Neidich, Curt Macomber, Marcy Rosen, Meighan Stoops, Chris Goddard, Felix Behringer, Carlos Cordeiro, and Hannah Levinson

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

AT 8:00 PM

IN THE TEATRO OF THE ITALIAN ACADEMY

1161 AMSTERDAM AVENUE, NYC

 

New York, NY— January 10, 2011 — The Spring 2011 concert series at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies will commence on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 with soprano Lucy Shelton in a program of vocal chamber music by Warren Benson, Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Luigi Dallapiccola, Morton Feldman, and Domenico Gabrielli. Guest artists will include Fred Sherry on cello, Steve Taylor, oboe, Charles Neidich, clarinet, Curt Macomber, violin, and others.  Admission to the concert, which begins at 8 p.m., is free. The Italian Academy is located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th Streets.

 

With support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

 

Wednesday, February 2

With Steve Taylor, Charles Neidich, Meighan Stoops, Curt Macomber, Julia Lichten, Marcy Rosen, Fred Sherry, Chris Goddard, Felix Behringer, Carlos Cordeiro and Hannah Levinson

Works by Domenico Gabrielli, Morton Feldman, Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, and Luigi Dallapiccola

 

Later this season:


Wednesday, March 2
Berio: “Circles”

Sciarrino: “La Perfezione di uno spirit sottile” with Matteo Cesari, flute (NY premiere)


Saturday, April 2
Messiaen: “Harawi” with Cristina Stanescu, piano

Winner of two Walter W. Naumburg Awards – as chamber musician as well as solo recitalist – soprano Lucy Shelton enjoys an international career singing repertoire of all periods, with a primary focus on contemporary music. Notable among her numerous world premieres are works by Carter, Knussen, Davidovsky, Del Tredici, Grisey, Ruders, Schwantner, Albert and Wuorinen. An avid chamber musician, Shelton has been a guest artist with ensembles such as the Emerson, Brentano, and Guarnieri string quartets, the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Speculum Musicae, Sospeso, New York New Music Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, eighth blackbird, the Nash Ensemble, Klangform Wien, Schoenberg-Asko, Ensemble Moderne and Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Highlights of recent seasons include her Zankel Hall debut with the Met Chamber Orchestra and Maestro James Levine in Carter’s A Mirror On Which To Dwell, numerous performances of Pierrot Lunaire; A Cabaret Opera in collaboration eighth blackbird and Blair Thomas Puppets, and the release of six new CD’s with works by Alberto Ginastera, Anne Le Baron, Virko Baley, Louis Karchin, Chinary Ung and Charles Wuorinen. She has taught at the Third Street Settlement School in Manhattan, Eastman School, New England Conservatory, Britten-Pears School and the Cleveland Institute. She joined the resident artist faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center in 1996. In the fall of 2007 she joined the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance faculty.