New Music Festival
Music by David Kechley
Monday, Feb. 3, 2014
7:30 pm
Beckwith Recital Hall, Cultural Arts Building on Randall Drive
$5.35 general public (includes tax) / free to students with valid UNCW ID
Tickets are not sold in advance and will be available at the Cultural Arts Building Box Office one hour prior to performance.
Guest Composer: David Kechley
Performances by:
Susan Fancher, saxophone / Robert Nathanson, guitar
Nancy King, soprano / Robert Nathanson, guitar
Mary Jo White, flute
North Carolina Guitar Quartet: Justin Hoke, Robert Nathanson, Ed Stephenson, Chris Wear
This program features two new works by guest composer David Kechley:
Points of Departure: Five Pieces for Guitar and Saxophone, commissioned and performed by Susan Fancher (saxophone) and Robert Nathanson (guitar)
Waking Sparrows: Five Haiku Songs, commissioned and performed by Nancy King (soprano) and Robert Nathanson (guitar)
Summer’s Passing, performed by Mary Jo White, flute
Voices from the Garden, performed by the North Carolina Guitar Quartet
Comments by the composer will precede each piece.
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
David Kechley, formerly of UNCW, is professor of music at Williams College. His early work, including Second Composition for Large Orchestra, is chromatic and expressionist. His music took a decidedly lyrical and modal turn in the 1970s, and displayed almost minimalist tendencies in the 1990s. His current music draws on all these, as well as classic works of the twentieth century, music of the distant past, and current forms of vernacular, popular, and ethnic music. Kechley’s music has been commissioned and performed throughout North America and abroad by major orchestras, chamber groups, and at college and universities. His work has been recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Carolina Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Barlow Foundation, among others, and has been awarded a number of prizes.
Colliding Objects, released by Innova Recording, features music from 1982 to the present. Sea of Stones, a concerto for saxophone and guitar with orchestra, was recorded with the Ryoanji Duo (Frank Bongiorno and Robert Nathanson) and the Filharmonia Sudecka in Walbrzych, Poland, and is scheduled for release in 2014.
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The UNCW New Music Festival is presented by the
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International Programs in partnership with the Departments of
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Film Studies, and Women’s Studies.