New Chamber Music at the Calumet Art Center
Friday, August 3, 2012, 7:30 pm, $8
The 2012 New Chamber music Concert at the Calumet Art Center in Calumet Michigan, will feature some of the composers and performing artists from last year as well as some new additions. Returning performers include Sylvia Ensminger, violin, Paul Seitz, viola, Pat Quimby, cello, Tom Bjoraker, percussion, Bryan Suits, flute, Robyn Johnson, clarinet, Jon Enseminger, piano, Christine Seitz, soprano and John Peiffer, horn and baritone voice. Joining these returning performers will be Janis Shier Peterson and Michael Adler, violins, and Alexandra Signor, trumpet. Janis is well known as an outstanding music educator in Marquette, conductor of the Blue Lake International Youth Orchestra and as concert master of the Marquette Symphony. Michael Adler is a student in Physics and Applied Computatinal Mathematics at MTU and is active in the Keweenaw and Marquette Symphonies and other musical activities. Michigan native and NMU alum Alexandra (Lexie) Signor is a member of the University of Missouri Faculty Brass Quintet and co-lead trumpet for the MU Concert Jazz Band.
We will again be performing very recent compositions, including several world premieres, by composers with ties to the Upper Peninsula. Anticipated world premieres include a new (2012) piece for marimba and strings composed by Tom Bjoraker, and a new (2012) work by Ishpeming composer Brandon Nelson, commissioned by Ms. Signor, for trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano, Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, piano, bass and drums, a new work for viola and piano by Sylvia Ensminger and a vocal duet with clarinet and piano by John Peiffer. In addition, we plan to perform music composed in 2011-12 by Houghton native (and recent graduate from Amherst College) Robert Suits, plus the Michigan premieres of Within Your Private Sky for solo marimba by Paul Seitz (2008) and other recent pieces. Of course, some of these pieces are still being written, so the program information will be updated as we approach the date of the concert. Admission to the event is $8.00.
We are ALSO offering a WORKSHOP for Middle School through High School Students on August 2 at 10 am. Please click link, below, for more information:
WORKSHOP: Improvisation - Making New Music
TENTATIVE August 3 Concert PROGRAM:
Reflecting, for viola and piano, by Nathan R. Barber^
Reconciliation, for soprano and piano, by Robert Suits^
Riverside, for string quartet, by Robert Suits^
Within Your Private Sky, for marimba solo, by Paul Seitz^
Mission, for marimba and string quartet, by Thomas Bjoraker*
Intermission
Curious Elision, for viola and piano, by Sylvia Ensminger*
Dusk Refrains Over Quincy Mine, for trumpet and sextet, by Brandon Nelson*
A Sketch for Summer, for trumpet and piano, by Robert Suits^
Dance Again Medley, by John Peiffer*
Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, trombone, piano, bass and drums, by Alexandra M. Signor*
* indicates world premiere
^ indicates Michigan premiere
A slide show of photos from the 2011 rehearsals and concert are posted, below.
We will again be performing very recent compositions, including several world premieres, by composers with ties to the Upper Peninsula. Anticipated world premieres include a new (2012) piece for marimba and strings composed by Tom Bjoraker, and a new (2012) work by Ishpeming composer Brandon Nelson, commissioned by Ms. Signor, for trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano, Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, piano, bass and drums, a new work for viola and piano by Sylvia Ensminger and a vocal duet with clarinet and piano by John Peiffer. In addition, we plan to perform music composed in 2011-12 by Houghton native (and recent graduate from Amherst College) Robert Suits, plus the Michigan premieres of Within Your Private Sky for solo marimba by Paul Seitz (2008) and other recent pieces. Of course, some of these pieces are still being written, so the program information will be updated as we approach the date of the concert. Admission to the event is $8.00.
We are ALSO offering a WORKSHOP for Middle School through High School Students on August 2 at 10 am. Please click link, below, for more information:
WORKSHOP: Improvisation - Making New Music
TENTATIVE August 3 Concert PROGRAM:
Reflecting, for viola and piano, by Nathan R. Barber^
Reconciliation, for soprano and piano, by Robert Suits^
Riverside, for string quartet, by Robert Suits^
Within Your Private Sky, for marimba solo, by Paul Seitz^
Mission, for marimba and string quartet, by Thomas Bjoraker*
Intermission
Curious Elision, for viola and piano, by Sylvia Ensminger*
Dusk Refrains Over Quincy Mine, for trumpet and sextet, by Brandon Nelson*
A Sketch for Summer, for trumpet and piano, by Robert Suits^
Dance Again Medley, by John Peiffer*
Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, trombone, piano, bass and drums, by Alexandra M. Signor*
* indicates world premiere
^ indicates Michigan premiere
A slide show of photos from the 2011 rehearsals and concert are posted, below.