Please note that this event has taken place.

presents

New Music from Scandinavia
May 4, 2006 at 8 pm

featuring works by

Magnus Lindberg
Jon Øivind Ness
Eivind Buene
Sven Lyder Karhs
Bent Sørensen
Øyvind Torvund

Where: The Norwegian Seamen’s Church,
317 East 52nd Street (between 1st and 2nd avenue)
When: Thursday, May 4th, at 8 p.m.

PROGRAM:
Magnus Lindberg, Ablauf (for clarinet and percussion), 8'
Jon Øyvind Ness, Odnupo (for violin and cello), 1'42''
Eivind Buene, Micromusic (for violin and cello), 7'
Sven Lyder Kahrs, Sonata for percusson a2, 10'
Bent Sørensen, Bells of Vineta (for solo trombone), 4'
Øyvind Torvund, Krull Quest, animation by Risto Holopainen
(for solo cello, electronics, and video), 5'
Øyvind Torvund, premiere (for clarinet, violin, cello, trombone, percussion, and tape), 10'

BIOS:

Bård Monsen started to play at the age of five at Barratt Due's Music Conservatory. During his childhood he was twice a prize winner in the Norwegian National String Competition. He has appeared as a soloist with various chamber orchestras, and played in all of the major chamber music festivals in Norway. He has collaborated with Truls Mørk and Henning Kraggerud among others. He is currently studying at Indiana University , where he also works as an assistant for his professor, Mr. Mauricio Fuks.

Rane Moore is a free-lance clarinetist in Boston. She holds degrees from Indiana University, Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, and the University of California at Berkeley where she was a winner of the annual concerto competition and recipient of the Hertz Fellowship to conduct research abroad. An enthusiastic interpreter of contemporary repertoire, Ms. Moore has given numerous premiers of new works and in 2005 attended the Lucerne Festival Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez. She also recently appeared with Boston's Firebird Ensemble. As an orchestral musician Rane has performed with the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Owensboro Symphony in Kentucky, and the New England Philharmonic. Rane also maintains a busy teaching schedule with a studio of nearly forty clarinet and saxophone students.

Joakim Munkner works as a free-lance cellist in Oslo, Norway. As a performer with a particular interest in new music, Joakim has played contemporary works at the Borealis Festival, the Happy Days Festival in Bergen , and will appear on a program at Oslo's Ulitma Festival in the fall. Munkner has worked with composers Terry Riley, P.Q. Phan, Don Freund, David Lang, jazz pianist Fred Hersch and this summer will be attending the Lucerne Festival Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez. In 2004 his quartet was featured at the Kennedy Center on the Millennium Stage. Joakim's major teachers include Janos Starker and Aage Kvalbein.

Øyvind Torvund graduated from The Norwegian State Academy and Universitet der Künste i Berlin. He is currently working with the Oslo Sinfonietta as composer in residence. Torvund uses his background as a free improv guitarist as a foundation for his ensemble compositions. His artistic goal is to present powerful, concentrated expression in free form. Øyvind's list of works includes several pieces combining improvised and notated music, solo pieces based on Norwegian folk music, orchestral works, sound installations as well as collaborations with several visual artists. The new piece presented in this concert is specially composed for Ensemble, Inc. and is based on wolf sounds recorded by Lars Erik Olsson from the vast forests of Sweden.

Michael McCurdy, percussion, plays with several groups in New York including ensemble, inc., Hi Red Center, and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players. Mike is a founding member of the Musicians' Alliance for Peace (MAP), an international community that promotes empathy, ethical thought and critical social involvement through music. As a result of their annual Music for Peace Project, MAP has sponsored 251 concerts in 30 countries on every continent over the past two years.

Russell Greenberg, percussion, is an avid proponent of new musical expression in all of its various forms, ranging from electronic media to improvisational structures and rock music. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, he has performed with ensemble, inc., Hi Red Center, Ensemble Pamplemousse and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players. In the Bay Area, he has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the SFsound Group and Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, among others. Past teachers include William Winant and Raymond DesRoches. Mr. Greenberg holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the Stony Brook University and is currently pursuing his doctorate of musical arts in percussion with Eduardo Leandro at Stony Brook.

Benjamin Lanz, trombone, is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical arts degree at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Michael Powell, with whom he also completed the Master of Music degree. During his time at Stony Brook, Benjamin was awarded a full scholarship and teaching assistantships, and currently holds a position as an instructor in the Department of Music. Prior to this, Ben studied for four years with John Swallow towards the completion of a BFA in music at Purchase College. He performs regularly with new music ensembles, such as ensemble, inc., The Leafcutter Collaborative, and the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, as well as with jazz and non-classical personalities such as Anthony Braxton, Sufjan Stevens, and Hi Red Center. Ben is currently working on projects focused on the expansion of contemporary trombone repertoire through his commissions of new works by young composers, and has premiered four solo pieces and five ensemble pieces in Stony Brook and Manhattan in the past year.