Paula Matthusen, Composer-in-Residence ~ Lecture / Demonstration
Lecture / Demonstration by Composer-in-Residence Paula Matthusen
Award-winning composer and Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, Paula Matthusen’s works often consider discrepancies in musical space-real, imagined, and remembered.
“Paula Matthusen’s vivid imagination was evident from the first sound heard.” - New York Times
The Walden School Choral Concert
The Walden School Choral Concert
Sarah Riskind, director
*note location: All Saints’ Church in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Singing in chorus is a daily musicianship and community building event for everyone on campus at The Walden School. Making music all together is an important part of the Walden experience.
Enjoy traditional and contemporary music from Norway, Estonia, England, Ireland, Bulgaria, and the US, along with madrigals by Wilbye and Monteverdi, and sacred works by Schütz, Rheinberger, and Zumaya. We're also bringing you improvisatory new music by Paula Matthusen, Amanda Feery, and Sam Pluta. You won't want to miss this culminating event.
PRISM Quartet concert featuring Walden student Jane Lange
PRISM Quartet concert featuring Walden student Jane Lange
PRISM presents an enticing program of world premieres of new saxophone quartets by UPenn faculty members: Goddard Lieberson and Guggenhiem Fellow James Primosch; Pew and Guggenhiem Fellow Anna Weesner; and Jay Reise, whose work has been supported by the Fromm Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. The program also includes a new work by UPenn alumna Kyle Bartlett, of counter)induction fame; Ben Hjertmann, winner of the 2014 Barlow Prize; and Jane Lange, winner of the PRISM/Walden School Commissioning Award.
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A Celebration of Walden featuring Miranda Cuckson
Save the Date!
Saturday, February 27, 2016
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Baltimore, Maryland
Please join us for a fundraising reception celebrating Walden's unique music education program and its supporters. Come for fun, food, drinks, and a performance by acclaimed violinist Miranda Cuckson!
"undeniable musicality...she plays with such beauty and assurance." (Allan Kozinn, New York Times)
"Violinist Miranda Cuckson reaffirms her standing as one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music." (Downbeat Magazine)
Write to us at events@waldenschool.org for more information.
Pianist Blair McMillen opens Walden School series
Summer music camps, combining focused isolation and self-contained richness, channel something of Henry David Thoreau’s joy in realizing that his Walden retreat “was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers . . . a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.
Piano recital featuring Blair McMillen
Claude Debussy, John Cage, David Rakowski;
as well as George Crumb's epic Makrokosmos Vol II.
A concert of new music with Wet Ink Ensemble - updated date!
The 2015 Creative Musicians Retreat Ensemble-in-Residence in concert
Program will include:
Martin Bresnick – Josephine the Singer
Sam Pluta – ATD V
Kate Soper – The Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Eric Wubbels – Katachi
Alex Mincek – Of Concentric Circles
Lecture/Demonstration by Martin Bresnick
Dr. Martin Bresnick, our 2015 Composer-in-Residence, Creative Musicians Retreat, will present and discuss some of his own compositions, which include operas, chamber and symphonic music, film scores and computer music
Piano recital featuring Teresa McCollough
The Music of Ecstasy:
Works for piano, and piano and electronics, based upon sacred texts and imagery by composers George Crumb, Scott Blasco, Olivier Messiaen and Martin Bresnick.
