Brazilian-born composer Marcus Balter and Ensemble Dal Niente will be the featured guests at 44th New Music Festival presented Oct. 19-21 at BGSU by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music.
The festival begins Thursday, Oct. 19, at 1:30 p.m. with Balter presenting the Composer Talk, the festival’s keynote.It concludes Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. with concert featuring he Collegiate Chorale, the Modern Dance Ensemble, and the Bowling Green Philharmonia.
The New Music Festival features seven concerts performed by BGSU faculty and students. Seven of Belter’s compositions have been programmed.
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Marcos Balter
Balter’s music has been called “minutely crafted” and “utterly lovely by the Chicago Tribune, ” “whimsical” and “surreal,” by The New York Times and “dark and deeply poetic,” The Washington Post.
His work is is at once emotionally visceral and intellectually complex, primarily rooted in experimental manipulations of timbre and hyper-dramatization of live performance.
Ensemble Dal Niente
Now in its second decade, Ensemble Dal Niente has performed concerts across Europe and the Americas, performs new and experimental chamber music with dedication, virtuosity, and an exploratory spirit. Flexible and adaptable, Dal Niente’s roster of 26 musicians presents an uncommonly broad range of contemporary music, guiding listeners towards music that transforms existing ideas and subverts convention. Audiences coming to Dal Niente shows can expect distinctive productions—from fully staged operas to multimedia spectacles to intimate solo performances—that are curated to pique curiosity and connect art, culture, and people.
The ensemble will perform Friday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. The program includes the world premiere of Michelle Lou’s “To care for the bodies of the dead.”
The final concert will include the Philharmonia performing Balter’s “Orun” and Samuel Adler’s Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra with David Saltzman as the tuba soloist.
All concerts are free except for the Saturday night performance. Click for tickets.
(Information from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music)
