Season 14: ELEMENTS

Season 14: ELEMENTS will consist of 5 programs of contrasting instrumentation, drawing from the chamber music repertoire for winds, strings and piano including works by Valerie Coleman, Jared Miller, Reena Esmail, Kenji Bunch, Caroline Shaw and World Premieres by Jessica Meyer and Brad Balliett.

Each program will showcase elements that inspired composers in their creative process.

Density

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 7pm

Marc A. Scorca Hall

National Opera Center

330 7th Avenue, 7th floor

New York City

Musical textures of contrasting densities are at the core of this program starting with the eerie Shifting Landscapes by Vivian Fung followed by Scott Wheeler's celestial work Traveling Light. Limestone and Felt by Caroline Shaw offers a light, pizzicato interlude before ending with the lush and romantic Sextet in C Major by Ernö Dohnányi.

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Program (with time index)

(23:00) Vivian Fung: Shifting Landscapes (2018)

(30:00) Scott Wheeler: Traveling Light (2020)

(46:00) Caroline Shaw: Limestone and Felt (2012)

(57:00) Ernö Dohnányi: Sextet in C Major (1935)

I. Allegro Appasionato

II. Intermezzo. Adagio

III. Allegro con sentimento

IV. Finale. Allegro vivace, giocoso

Pascal Archer, Clarinet

Eric Huckins, French Horn

Suliman Tekalli, Violin

Ramón Carrero-Martínez, Viola

Caleb van der Swaagh, Cello

Amir Farid, Piano

Elements

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 7pm

Marc A. Scorca Hall

National Opera Center

330 7th Avenue, 7th floor

New York City

This concert will feature Forces of Nature, a world premiere by Jessica Meyer inspired by the Four Elements (earth, water, ai, and fire). This composition is part of a special collaboration with the students of David West from The Celia Cruz Bronx High School.

Other works on this program will explore different types of natural cycles, such as the Earth's revolution around the Sun with Post Winter Solstice by Gilad Cohen.

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Program (with time index)
 

(15:00) Christopher Cerrone: New Addresses (2020)

I.       To Breath

II.      To My Heart at the Close of Day
III.     To “Yes”                       

(26:00) Gilad Cohen: Post Winter Solstice (2022)
 
(41:00 ) Valerie Coleman: Maombi Asante (2006)
 
(50:00) Charles Wuorinen: Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch (1962)
 
I.       Pauli de Broda Carmen
II.      Dy Ezels Crone
III.     Der Notter Schwantcz
IV.     Der Enterpris
V.      Helas le Bon Temps
VI.     Gross Ssenen
 
(59:00) Jessica Meyer: Forces of Nature (2024)*
 
I.       Menacing Waves
II.      Mystery of Fire
III.     Shifting Winds and Mountain Air
IV.     Spirit

*World Premiere 

Exponential Ensemble is a recipient of a 2024 grant from Chamber Music America’s Artistic Projects program, funded through the generosity of The Howard Gilman Foundation, for Forces of Nature by Jessica Meyer. 
 
Special thanks to David West and his students from The Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music for their participation in this project.
 
 Anna Urrey, Flute

Pascal Archer, Clarinets

Suliman Tekall, Violin

Caleb van der Swaagh, Cello 

Windswept

Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 7pm

Marc A. Scorca Hall

National Opera Center

330 7th Avenue, 7th floor

New York City

This program for woodwind quintet and piano will take your breath away with works inspired by the great outdoors, including a World Premiere by Brad Balliett inspired by wild birds living in New York City's Central Park.

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Program (with time index)
 

(16:00) Divertissement Op. 6 (1906) by Albert Roussel

(24:00) Variable Winds (2015) by Daniel Ott
 
(40:00) Wild Birds of New York* (2025) by Brad Balliett 
 

Introduction
I.       Red-Tailed Hawk
II.      Green Heron
III.     Baltimore Orioles
IV.     Northern Waterthrush
V.      Spotted Sandpiper
VI.     Barred Owl

VII.    Prairie Warbler
 
(1:00:06) Summer Hours (2018) by Kenji Bunch
 
I.       Early calm
II.      Quick and lively
III.     Slow, simple
IV.     With anticipation

V.      Sunny

*World Premiere 

Anna Urrey, Flutes

Kemp Jernigan, Oboe & English Horn

Pascal Archer, Clarinets

Joshua Butcher, Bassoon

Eric Huckins, Horn

Amir Farid, Piano