Tippet Rise Art Center launches its ninth concert season on Friday, August 16. Running through September 15, it offers more than 25 indoor and outdoor performances over five weekends, including free pop-up concerts and family concerts and repertoire.
The season features four world premieres and the opening of a new outdoor performance venue, the Geode, designed by Arup. To mark this occasion, two special concerts are planned, including the world premiere of Àkweks Katyes (The Eagle Flies) (2024), a Tippet Rise commission by Grammy-nominated world music composer Dawn Avery, which the cellist Arlen Hlusko will perform, and flutist Claire Chase performing alongside shamisen player Hidejiro Honjoh in the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Reizei for flute and shamisen (2021).
The audience at the Geode will have a unique sonic and visual experience, experiencing music as if set indoors while amidst a breathtaking backdrop of seven surrounding mountain ranges.
The August 17 concert also presents the world premiere of Paul V. Cortez’s Hyacinth Garnishes from Bouquet Suite (2024), a work written as part of his participation in a Weill Music Institute program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. On August 18, mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Kunal Lahiry make their Tippet Rise debuts with the North American premiere of composer and pianist Nahre Sol’s Apperceptive Algorithms (2022).
In addition to the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Reizei on August 24, Valentyn Silvestrov’s Twelve Waltzes of the Moment and One Serenade for violin and piano will be unveiled by Jennifer Frautschi and Evren Ozel on August 30 and 31. This is the eighth of ten works commissioned by Tippet Rise in 2022 from Silvestrov, Ukraine’s leading living composer.
The Wander series returns, which moves musicians and audience members among sculptures, returns on September 14. This year, the concert visits Ai Wei Wei’s Iron Tree and Patrick Dougherty’s Daydreams and Cursive Takes a Holiday. A group of wind players perform music by György Ligeti, Endre Szervánszky, Astor Piazzolla, and Samuel Barber.
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 