On View: December 9-December 11, 2021
512 West 19th Street
Time:
Various Hours
Celebrated flutist Claire Chase returns to The Kitchen to perform the world premieres of new compositions by composers Ann Cleare, Matana Roberts, and Wang Lu, commissioned by Chase as part of her twenty-four-year Density 2036 project to find radical new musical terrain for the flute and its community in the twenty-first century.
Pre-show discussion on December 9 at 7:30 pm led by Ara Guzelimian with the composers Ann Cleare, Matana Roberts, and Wang Lu. Free for ticket holders!
PROGRAM
Content Warning: this event includes strobing
lighting effects.
Liza Lim: Throat-Song from Sex Magic,
Density 2036: part vii (2019–20)
For solo ocarina and voice
Wang Lu: Aftertouch (2021)
For flute,
piccolo, bass flute, contrabass flute, electronics and video
Video by
Polly Apfelbaum
WORLD PREMIERE
Ann Cleare: anfa (2021)
For contrabass
flute, bass flute, electronics and video
Video by Ailbhe Ní
Bhriain
WORLD PREMIERE
Matana Roberts: Auricular Hearsay (2021)
For
flute, video + optional collaborating performers*
Video by Matana
Roberts
WORLD PREMIERE
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965): Density 21.5
(1936)
For solo flute
Claire Chase, flutes
*Guest performers on Matana
Roberts' composition:
Senem Pirler, live electronics
(December 9, 10, 11)
Nathan Wooley, trumpet (December
10)
Susie Ibarra, percussion (December 11)
Levy Lorenzo, live sound
Nicholas
Houfek, lighting and production design
Monica
Duncan, projection design
Kelly Levy, stage
manager
Organized by Matthew Lyons, Curator
BIOS
Claire Chase is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time, Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of artists, and in 2013 launched the twenty-four-year commissioning project Density 2036. Now in its eighth year, Density 2036 reimagines the solo flute literature over a quarter-century through commissions, performances, recordings, education, and an accessible archive at density2036.org. Chase co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chase is Professor of the Practice of Music at Harvard University’s Department of Music, a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School, and a Collaborative Partner with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. She lives in Brooklyn.
FUNDING SUPPORT & CREDITS
Claire Chase: Density 2036, part viii is made possible with commissioning support from NYSCA Restart NY: Rapid Live Performance Grant program; endowment support from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; annual grants from The Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Howard Gilman Foundation, and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; and in part by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Season programming is made possible in part with support from The Kitchen’s Board of Directors and The Kitchen Leadership Fund. Learn more about the Leadership Fund.
Image: Claire Chase. Photo by Karen Chester. Courtesy of the artist.
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