[nec]shivaree: Saariaho, Kurtág, Ligeti & Czernowin
[nec]shivaree, the NEC Avant-Garde Ensemble directed by NEC faculty Stephen Drury, is the attack wing of NEC's new music program, performing the modern, the new, and the avant-garde. Sounds are provided by such composers as John Cage, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Galina Ustvolskaya, and Giacinto Scelsi. The players of [nec]shivaree have worked with composers John Zorn, John Luther Adams, Christian Wolff, and Frederic Rzewski. The group gives concerts both inside and outside of the Conservatory, and has performed regularly at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge and Tonic and The Stone in New York.
WATCH LIVESTREAM FROM WILLIAMS HALL:
- Stephen Drury, artistic director, [nec]shivaree
Kaija Saariaho | Sept Papillons (2000)
Artists- Robert Bui, cello
György Kurtág | In Nomine-all'Ongherese (2001) from "Signs, Games, and Messages"
Artists- Julian Seney, viola
György Ligeti | Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976)
Monument
Self-portrait with Reich and Riley (with Chopin in the background)
In a gentle flowing movementArtists- Shalun Li and Ariel Mo, piano
Chaya Czernowin | Adiantum Capillus-Verneris (Maidenhair fern) (2015)
etude in fragility for voice and breath
Artists- Tyler Bouque, voice