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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
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
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.