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Cornish Music Series Presents Seattle Modern Orchestra: Delirious Serialism
Program
Bruno Maderna, Serenata No. 2 for eleven instruments (1957)
Luigi Nono, Polifonica-Monodica-Ritmica (1951)
Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître for solo mezzo-soprano and six instruments (1953, 1955)
Led by Co-Artistic Directors Julia Tai and Jeremy Jolley, the Seattle Modern Orchestra is dedicated to presenting musical masterpieces of the 20th and 21st centuries in both traditional and innovative, unconventional venues. The Orchestra's mission is to provide Seattle audiences with live performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, music seldom if ever performed in Seattle until now.
Julia Tai has established herself as one of the most capable young conductors on the international stage. Her career has led to acclaimed performances and rehearsals with professional and youth orchestras around the world, including the American Youth Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Estonian National Youth Symphony, New Symphony Orchestra, and Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Carlos Chávez. She was a conducting participant in the renowned Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory, and a quarter finalist in the fourth Eduardo Mata Conducting Competition in Mexico. A champion of contemporary music, Tai is the founder and artistic director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra, and premiered many works with the Seattle Chamber Players, Seattle Experimental Opera, and the Affinity Ensemble of the Washington Composers Forum. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Tai began her violin studies at age four and piano at eight. She gave many recitals and performed concerts with choirs and orchestras, which toured extensively in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, United States, Japan, and Taiwan. Tai received her BMus and MM degrees from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was honored with the departmental award of "Outstanding Graduate of 2004." She obtained her DMA degree from the University of Washington, where she served as the principal conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble, the assistant conductor of the University Symphony, and conducted the University of Washington Opera in their productions of Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Kurt Weill's Die sieben Todsünden.
French-American composer Jérémy Jolley was born in Lyon, France, and grew up in the French Alps where he played guitar in rock and fusion bands. He moved to Seattle to pursue composition studies and received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degrees in Composition from the University of Washington. During these years, he studied composition primarily with Joël-François Durand, electronic music with Juan Pampin, and classical guitar with Steven Novacek. Mr. Jolley has been the recipient of the Brechemin Scholarship in Music in 2006 and 2007, as well as the William Bergsma Endowment for Excellence in Music Composition in 2006. He was awarded a residency in the 2008 Jack Straw Artist Support Program for his work in the improvisation and experimental ensemble, Unused Lexical Variable. His music has been played by celebrated contemporary music performers such as the Dutch pianist and ensemble ASKO|SHOENBERG member René Eckhart and the JACK Quartet. He followed the master classes of Brian Ferneyhough, Chaya Czernowin, Pierluigi Billone, and Mark André at the 2010 Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse, where he wrote a new work for cello solo for Fathom Trio's Moritz Müllenbach, and a clarinet and voice duo for Chirstie Finn and Felix Behringer.
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LocationPONCHO Concert Hall (Kerry Hall, Cornish College of the Arts) (View)
710 E. Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98102
United States
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