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Owen Underhill - Looking Back, Looking Forward
NOVO Ensemble celebrates the music of Vancouver's highly acclaimed composer, Owen Underhill. He has been lauded as "one of the most thoughtful and effective of West Coast composers," while his music has been described as "sensuous, decidedly lyrical in inspiration, and intensely appealing, while very much in the contemporary idiom."
NOVO and some of the city's foremost interpreters of new music, join forces to take a look back at some of Underhill's finest compositions for small ensemble. Looking forward, NOVO will give the world premiere of Ten Miniatures by Underhill, commissioned by the ensemble especially for the occasion.
Join us for an afternoon of music and fete the composer's birthday (Jan 26!) with a cake following the concert!
Performers include:
Laura Vanek, flute, and Marina Hasselberg, cello, of NOVO Ensemble
Janna Sailor, violin (Cordei)
Albertina Chan, harp (Cordei)
Daniel Tones, vibraphone (Fringe Percussion)
Clare Yuan, piano
Owen Underhill, piano
NOVO Ensemble:
NOVO Ensemble is a group of classically trained musicians dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music in Vancouver and the lower mainland. Co-directors Laura Vanek (flute) and Marina Hasselberg (cello) invite guest instrumentalists to join them to present unique programs of seldom heard modern pieces. Besides exploring the existing repertoire, NOVO works closely with Canadian composers to create new music, with the intention of expanding the Canadian chamber music repertoire but also of bringing music to people that has just been composed, in many cases composed in the same city where it's being performed: Vancouver.
NOVO has recently participated in Redshift Music Society's chamber music extravaganza, ChamberCon, and is Vancouver Pro Musica's Ensemble in Residence for the 2013/2014. Past performance venues include the Silk Purse Performing Arts Centre, Alliance Française Vancouver, Tapestry UBC, the Canadian Music Centre Creative Hub, the Orpheum Annex, St. Mark's Anglican Church, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Kay Meek Centre and the Roy Barnett Recital Hall at UBC.
Owen Underhill
Owen Underhill lives in Vancouver where he is active as a composer, conductor, artistic director and faculty member in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.
As a composer, Underhill writes for diverse combinations including orchestra, voice and choir, and a wide variety of chamber music ranging from traditional ensembles to groupings of unusual instrumentation. He has a special interest in large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations, having composed a number of works for dance as well as his 1994 opera The Star Catalogues. Among his most recent compositions are String Quartet #4: The Night written for the Quatuor Bozzini, Three Sitka Songs commissioned by the Vancouver Bach Choir with poetry of Robert Davis Hoffmann, and Slender Gold for an ensemble comprising Chinese and western instruments. In addition to the Ten Miniatures performed this evening, his work Curio Box will be premiered in April by Vancouver New Music and a new piece for the clarinet and piano duo of François Houle and Jane Hayes will be premiered in May. His music has many different expressions and has been described as dense and interesting, colourful, lyrical in inspiration, exuberant and witty, subtle, and thoughtful. His music has been included on several recordings including his recently released disc Still Image including music for string quartet, clarinet and trombone.
As a conductor, Underhill is a member of the Turning Point Ensemble, one of Canada's most distinctive and accomplished large-size chamber ensembles. In addition, he has made conducting appearances with orchestras and ensembles including the Vancouver Symphony, CBC Radio Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Ensemble, and musica intima. He has conducted well over 150 premieres by Canadian composers and has worked in collaboration with several prominent international composers including Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, James MacMillan, Steve Reich, Toru Takemitsu, and Judith Weir. Underhill's discography as a conductor includes recordings on ATMA, Centrediscs, CBC Records and Artifact.
Active as a programmer and promoter of contemporary music, Underhill was Artistic Director of Vancouver New Music from 1987 to 2000. He is currently Artistic Co-Director of the Turning Point Ensemble, a large chamber ensemble of outstanding Vancouver musicians dedicated to the celebration of twentieth century music and new music. He has been active as an arts advocate and supporter of Canadian music organizations, and has been active for many years with the Canadian Music Centre, serving as the President since 2010.
Underhill has been an SFU faculty member since 1981, serving as Director of the School for the Contemporary Arts, and as Director of the SFU Woodward's Cultural Unit. He was recently named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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843 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 3L4
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