The MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and the BGSU College of Musical Arts will host the 45th annual Bowling Green New Music Festival featuring guest composer Paola Prestini from Thursday, Oct. 17 to Saturday, Oct. 19 in Moore Musical Arts Center.
The six concerts feature performances by guest artists and BGSU music faculty and students. Works of Prestini and dozens of other composers including BGSU faculty will be featured. Performances also will be livestreamed on the College of Musical Arts’ YouTube channel. Prestini’s compositions will be performed on each concert.
Prestini will deliver the Composer Talk Thursday 1:30 p.m. at Bryan Recital Hall to open the festival. Prestini has cultivated an expansive and humanistic musical voice, through pieces that transcend genre and discipline, and projects whose global impact reverberates beyond the walls of the concert hall.
Guest performers are:
The Parker Quartet, which will perform on quartets by Prestini, Anthony Cheung, and Beethoven on Friday at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall,
Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler who will perform Prestini’s “Houses of Zodiac” Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Kobacker Hall.
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The festival concludes on Saturday with a performance featuring the Collegiate Chorale, and the Bowling Green Philharmonia at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall
All performances and events are free except for the closing concert. Tickets are available for purchase at BGSU.edu/the-arts/tickets.
For a full list of events and performances, visit BGSU.edu/Festival.
Organized by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (MACCM) and the BGSU College of Musical Arts, the festival supports the creation of new works while engaging the university and surrounding communities in musical appreciation and awareness.
(Information provided by BGSU)
