Tuesday Night New Music: Kim, Ha, Wei, Li, Chaves, Gu, Lanning, Boxley, Bian
The newest works from the next generation of composers.
Tuesday Night New Music is a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series directed by student composers Andrew Minoo Dixon '23 and ChangJin Ha ’24 under the supervision of composition chair Michael Gandolfi.
View the concert program here.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live.
Dohyun Kim | The Great Wave (2022)
Artists- Anna Kevelson, flute
- Sherry Chang, oboe
- Sarah Cho, clarinet
- Andrew Salaru, bassoon
- Mattias Bengtsson, French horn
Changjin Ha | Chiaramentissimo (2022)
Program note
Chiaramentissimo is my first piano solo work, meaning ‘very clearly.’ I was imagining a polyphonic scene with exceedingly bright lights; the rhythm and pitches are determined by very intuitive process within somewhat loose whole tone/octatonic framework for quasi-arbitrary and where-are-we-going experience.
This piece is commissioned/dedicated to Wanjoong Kim for his graduation recital.
– Changjin HaArtists- Wanjoong Kim, piano
An-Ni Wei | Frozen Land Suite (2021)
Dancing on ice
Listen! It’s the whisper of the elves
Sound, Sunshine, CrystalArtists- Pei Hsien Lu, vibraphone
Yunqi Li | Kan 坎 (2022)
Program note
Like,
An iron chain.
Like,
A sharp knife.
Pierces the skin,
Spills out the blood,
In the sea of charcoal flowers,
It is the place for dreams.
– Yunqi LiArtists- Xiaoqing Yu, Tong Chen, violin
- Aadam Ibrahim, viola
- Nicholas Tsang, cello
Ethan Antonio Chaves | Septet
Program note
Each movement of this septet has a different goal, though some unifying themes prevail. In the first movement, I wanted to write a contrapuntal piece in a new style, while still retaining some Baroque characteristics. One of these characteristics is the idea of switching to an inversion of the main theme at around the half-way point and combining it with the original motif. Augmentation and diminution also present themselves throughout the movement, though often in less-than-obvious ways that do not rely on standard 1:2 relationships.
The second movement concerns itself with nostalgic, almost overly-sweet melodic lines that are meant to evoke the film music of Hollywood’s Golden Era.
The final movement is a perpetuum mobile that is fixated on a single winding motive presented at the opening of the movement. The form is a non-strict rondo, with sections inspired by popular music, jazz, Steve Reich’s phase music, and traditional American fiddling.
All in all the piece is light-hearted yet deadly serious.
– Ethan Antonio ChavesArtists- June Lee, flute
- Veronica Li, clarinet
- Michelle Stern, violin
- Sean Yu, cello
- Catherine Deskur, double bass
- William Xu, percussion
- Felicia He, piano
- Ethan Chaves, conductor
Didi Gu | Ci Cycle (2021)
如梦令 The Dream-like Song
江歌子 The Riverside City
点绛唇 The Rouged LipsArtists- Anne Chao, flute
- Adam Chen, bassoon
- Stephen Kim, violin
- Jowen Hsu, viola
- Miruna Eynon, cello
- Iverson Eliopoulos, conductor
Mathew Lanning | Three Arias (2022)
Rigaudon
Lullaby
SofiattoArtists- Isabel Evernham, flute
- Mathew Lanning, piano
Ethan Boxley | Envelopes (2020)
Program note
The piece is inspired partly by stress and partly by the free interplay of water between stones, with itself and around obstacles. The multiphonics represent the pellucid appearance of water under light while at rest or rippling gently.
– Ethan BoxleyArtists- Nikita Manin, clarinet
Yuchen Bian | Insomnia (2022)
Program note
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
– Leonard CohenArtists- Anne Chao, flute
- Nikita Manin, clarinet
- Xiaoqing Yu, violin
- Miruna Eynon, cello
- Qizhen Wang, piano
- Julian Gau, conductor