Presented by Collage New Music Ensemble, David Hoose, conductor, with Nina Guo, soprano, this concert is dedicated to the memory of MIT composer, Edward Cohen, who died at the early age of 61 in 2002. The program features works by: MIT alumna Nina Young ‘07, Tethered Within (2013); Edward Cohen, Elegy (1977); Seymour Shifrin, In Eius Memoriam; Peter Child, Clare Cycle (1984); Roger Sessions, Piano Sonata No. 3, third movement (Lento e molto tranquillo) and short solo compositions written in honor of Ed Cohen including: Fantasy Prelude by Marjorie Merryman, ED by John Harbison, and Pomme by Charles Shadle.
COLLAGE NEW MUSIC:
Cathy French, violin
Ronan Lefkowitz, violin
Anne Black, viola
Joel Moerschel, cello
Don Palma, bass
Chris Kreuger, flute
Bob Annis, clarinet
Peggy Pearson, oboe
Nina Guo, soprano
Chris Oldfather, piano
Craig McNutt, percussion
David Hoose, conductor
ABOUT EDWARD COHEN:
Cohen 60th Birthday Concert (2001)
Tenth Anniversary Concert 2012
About Collage New Music
Collage New Music, directed by David Hoose, comprises some of the most experienced and exciting instrumentalists skilled in the intricacies, virtuosity and emotional depth of new music. Members include musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, highly respected musicians from Boston’s freelance community, and musicians from New York and beyond. Throughout Collage’s four decades of distinguished and engaging performances of compelling programs, the ensemble has stood as a leader in the community of adventurous music makers, providing a vital arena for the union of composer, performer and listener.
About MIT alumna Nina Young
New York-based composer Nina C. Young writes music characterized by an acute sensitivity to tone color, manifested in aural images of vibrant, arresting immediacy. Her experience in the electronic music studio informs her acoustic work, which takes as its given not melody and harmony, but sound itself, continuously metamorphosing from one state to another. Young's music has garnered international acclaim through performances by the American Composers Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Orkest de ereprijs, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Either/Or, Ensemble de Musique Interactive, the JACK Quartet, mise-en, the Nouveau Classical Project, Sixtrum, Yarn/Wire, and the New Fromm Players of the Tanglewood Music Center. In addition to the 2015 Rome Prize in Musical Composition, Young has received a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Award, Aspen Music Festival's Jacob Druckman Prize, and honors from BMI, The International Alliance for Women in Music, and ASCAP/SEAMUS. Her orchestral work Remnants received the Audience Choice Award at the ACO's 2013 Underwood New Music Readings. Young has held fellowship residencies at the Aspen Music Festival, The Atlantic Music Festival, the Bennington Chamber Music Conference, the Nouvel Ensemble Modern's 2014 FORUM, and the Tanglewood Music Center.
About Peter Child
Peter Child, Chair of Music and Theater Arts, Class of 1949 Professor of Music, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Ph.D., Composition, Brandeis University. Peter Child was League of American Orchestras’ “Music Alive” composer-in-residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra (2005-08) and composer-in-residence with the New England Philharmonic Orchestra (2005-11). He was born in England and has lived in the US since enrolling at Reed College through a junior-year exchange program. Child’s composition teachers include William Albright, Bernard Barrell, Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, Jacob Druckman and Seymour Shifrin.
His work has earned awards and commissions from the University of Southern California, Chorus pro Musica, the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Foundation, the Jebediah Foundation, Bank of America Celebrity Series, Music of Changes, the Fromm Foundation, the Harvard Musical Association, Tanglewood, WGBH Radio, East and West Artists, the New England Conservatory, League/ISCM, and the MIT Council for the Arts, as well as two Composition Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. He has received fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the MacDowell and Yaddo Artists Colonies, and the Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College, and four ‘New Works’ commissions from the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities. Child's music has been extensively recorded on the Lorelt, New World, Naxos, CRI, Albany, Innova, Centaur, and Rivoalto labels.
About Seymour Shifrin
Seymour Shifrin (1926-1979) began his musical studies at the age of six, and he soon demonstrated a precocity that was recognized by the composer William Schuman, who was at that time still in the employ of G. Schirmer. In 1942, when Shifrin was a pupil at the city's High School of Music and Art, Schuman (who three years later would become the influential president of the Juilliard School) offered the youth private study in composition. Two years later Shifrin entered Columbia University, where in 1947 he earned a B.A. and in 1949, an M.A. in composition. At Columbia his principal instruction was from the highly original and experimental composer Otto Luening, whose meticulous attention to structural and linear detail can often be heard echoing in Shifrin's music.
