Nina Dante joins the 113 Composers Collective for the fourth time to participate in the Twin Cities New Music Festival. Featuring the music of Anthony R. Green, Joe Horton, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Dieter Schnebel, Steven Takasugi, Bethany Younge, and more.
During her three-month residency, Freya Powell continues developing her performance project Only Remains Remain, which uses the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County, Texas. Working with an ensemble of 15 performers , Powell explores the mournful potential of the voice. Through a collaborative process, the work utilizes pitch, intonation, breath, movement, and silence to embody a contemporary tragedy drawn from the story of Antigone. An in-process presentation marks the culmination of the residency.
Only Remains Remain is made possible, in part, by Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
During her three-month residency, Freya Powell continues developing her performance project Only Remains Remain, which uses the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County, Texas. Working with an ensemble of 15 performers , Powell explores the mournful potential of the voice. Through a collaborative process, the work utilizes pitch, intonation, breath, movement, and silence to embody a contemporary tragedy drawn from the story of Antigone. An in-process presentation marks the culmination of the residency.
Only Remains Remain is made possible, in part, by Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Experience the world premiere of Always Already, a composition for voice, fixed electronics, keyboards, and vibraphones by Ben Vida; Vida is joined by soprano Nina Dante and the ensemble Yarn/Wire. Vida’s hypnotic work examines the materiality of language through repetition and variation, inspired by the text-sourcing methods of the conceptual writing movement and the rhythmical essays of Gertrude Stein. Dante has worked with Vida on several projects and is the cofounder of Fonema Consort. Yarn/ Wire is a celebrated percussion and piano quartet that includes Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger, and Ning Yu.
Cosponsored with Lampo, which received support for this program from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
Fonema Consort’s third album, Vistas furtivas, is a portrait album of their long-time collaborate, Ecuadorian composer Juan Campoverde. Campoverde’s music is full of deep, secretive, and lush magic. Spiritually, it is birdlike: lyrical, rapidly changing between textures, constantly on the wing. Released with New Focus Recordings, and supported generously by a City of Chicago DCASE grant.
The Dante + Chin Duo presents “Stories”, a concert experience merging storytelling and music. Works by Juan Campoverde, Nina Dante, Stratis Minakakis, Angélica Negrón, Bethany Younge, and a world premiere by Iván Sparrow. Stories told in English and Spanish by Madelyn Marcella and Rossy Perrotta.
Composer Peter Ablinger and Chicago-based new music group Fonema Consort will delve together into an array of meanings of the human voice that preoccupy both parties – a clash of artistic worlds having in common the challenge of performative and perceptual notions in music. With Fonema, the sexagenarian composer – one whose creative output intersects the modernist and conceptual, performative and technological – will expand one of his iconic artistic undertakings, “Voices and Piano” by premiering two new movements based on the voices of Diamanda Galas and George Bataille; and will create a new piece for the ensemble, drawing from previous reflections on the meaning of song.
The soundscape of cities are songs in his Cityopera; recordings of speeches by iconic 20th century personalities are songs in his "song cycle of sorts" “Voices and Piano”; and in his “Weiss/Weisslich 17” (2015) for soprano and noise, the singer takes on an instrumental role, only uttering sustained notes of various durations against morphing backgrounds of white noise. The “Weiss/Weisslich” series explores noise as a source of massive information upon which the listener can extract or carve their own "song."
The project is made possible with the generous support of the Goethe Institut, the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Amphion Foundation.
Fonema is proud to present the world premiere of Yuunohui'sa the final piece in Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s monumental work, the Yuunohui cycle. Yuunohui’sa was commissioned with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. The program also features an exceprt from Estrada’s opera Murmullos de Páramo, “Mictlan”, as well as a rarely heard work by Argentinian composer Graciela Paraskevaídis (Sin ir más lejos) and Pabo Chin’s Three Burials. We are grateful for the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C. for presenting and supporting this performance.
Program
Three Burials – Pabo Chin
Ensemble Yuunohui: Yuunohui’sa’ehecatl’nahui’tlapoa – Julio Estrada
Mictlan – Julio Estrada
Sin ir más lejos – Graciela Paraskevaidís
On Saturday, November 16, Fridman Gallery will host a discussion at 5pm with Anton Ginzburg and Dasha Shishkin, who will speak about their current exhibition, "Partial Eclipse." Following the talk will be an improvised performance with saxophonist Tamio Shiraishi and vocalist Nina Rosalind Dante, starting at 6pm. https://www.fridmangallery.com/partial-eclipse-artist-talk
Limited Resources presents vocalist Nina Dante and percussionist Ellery Trafford along with sets by Weston Olencki and Dario Fariello.
Premieres of five movements of Dante’s large-scale solo work “Éntheos” alongside sets by Gabriel Zucker, Aaron Roche, and Very Still Life.
In ancient Greek, the word éntheos means to be possessed by or to become one with a god. In Dante’s large-scale, ecstatic solo work “Éntheos”, each movement channels a place in the natural world where she experienced a guttural pull to the sacred and ritualistic, and a sense of being ‘enthused ‘by the world.
Fonema’s sixth annual residency at Saint Xavier University features a performance by soprano Nina Dante and flutist Dalia Chin. Works by Pablo Chin, Nina Dante, Stratis Minakakis, Angélica Negrón, and Bethany Younge.
The voiceviolin / violinvoice duo NINAMARINA performs on the Lucerne Festival Alumni Showcase. NinaMarina is comprised of Nina Dante and Marina Kifferstein. Their work together flows out of a shared background in new classical music and experimental impulses.
The Frequency Series presents Fonema Consort and Ursa Ensemble as they join forces to present Cassandra Miller’s Bel canto, a time-melting sonic portrait of Maria Callas’ voice throughout her career. Fonema Consort will also performed beloved works by Juan Campoverde and Ivan Sparrow, as well as a new work by Nina Dante. Ursa Ensemble will close the evening with Jean Cras’ string trio.
Nina Dante (voice), Felix del Tredici (trombone), Madison Greestone (clarinet), and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass) join Alexandria Smith (trumpet) for her residency at The Stone.
The Brackish series presents NINAMARINA and Siesta. NinaMarina is a voiceviolin+violinvoice duo comprised of Nina Dante and Marina Kifferstein. Their work together flows out of a shared background in new classical music and experimental impulses. S I E S T A A A A / Makes a great excuse to go to the beach / Takes a seat on the train just to read from the next person’s book / Is great for laying down on a couch on the street for a minute / Sounds like dozing off and waking up at the last stop. (Jean Carla Rodea, Vered Engelhard, Ana Rivera)
Roulette presents the premiere of Mary Prescott’s song cycle for three vocalists and ensemble, Songs Between Life and Death. Ft. Vocalists Nina Dante, Ariadne Greif, and Sera Serpa; instrumentalists Nick Dunston (bass), Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet) and Mary Prescott (piano).
Fonema Consort give the world premieres of works by Columbia University composers at Symphony Space.
De Construkt presents the latest installation of Home Audio. Vocalist Nina Dante and guitarist Matteo Liberatore unite classical training and experimental aesthetics in their improvisational work together. The evening also features performances by cellist/vocalist Ethan Philbrick, violin duo Du.0, and performance artist(s) OM. RSVP on Artery, $10-$20.
Dante performs this music of the 113 Composers Collective, James Dillon, and Chaya Czernowin at UCBerkeley’s CNMAT alongside violin duo Duo Gelland, saxophonist Kyle Hutchins, and violist Maria Ritzenthaler.
The University of Florida presents Nina Dante (voice), Dalia Chin (flute), and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass) of Fonema Consort in a concert of works featuring the premiere of sections of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s newest work, Yuunohui’sa. Additionally featuring the world premieres of works by University of Florida faculty.
New Music Miami presents Nina Dante (voice), Dalia Chin (flute), and Kathryn Schulmeister (bass) of Fonema Consort in a program that features the premiere of sections of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada’s newest work, Yuunohui’sa. Pre-concert talk at 7:00pm, music at 7:30pm. Works by Katherine Balch, Pablo Chin (premiere), Julio Estrada, Louis Goldford (premiere), Stratis Minakakis, and Irene Quero.
On Friday March 22nd, you are invited inside the head of composer Bethany Younge. You will be TRANSPORTED BY A STRANGE BEAUTY. You will be EXCITEDLY DISORIENTED. You will experience the balance of RISK AND STUDIED PURPOSE.
Live performances by flutist Laura Cocks and soprano Nina Dante playing works written for them by Younge (Oxygen and Reality, ALAMARGO); a screened performance of Fonema Consort performing Bodyscape; a performance by Bethany Younge herself; and concluding with Yourselves playing the role of a hoard of Bethanies in her work for leader and crowd, If I am here than surely we’d know it. And of course, there will be discussion.
Dante improvises solo on a bill that includes clarinetist John McCowen and trombonists Weston Olencki and Kalun Leung.
Nina Dante (voice) and Jeffrey Siegfried (saxophone) present a concert of duos exploring the liminal space between life and death, ft. works by Joey Crane, Nina Dante (premiere), Toshio Hosokawa, Philippe Leroux, and Robert Reinhart (premiere).
The voice and flute duo comprised of Nina Dante and Dalia Chin performs solos and duos on the New England Conservatory Faculty Recital of composers Stratis Minakakis and Bert van Herck, ft. the works premiere of Minakakis’ duo Cassandra Fragments.
A workshop performance of pianst/composer Mary Prescott’s newest song cycle “Songs Between Life and Death” at the Horance Mann School.
Cellist Okkyung Lee and Nina Dante play duo at the Peter Freeman Gallery in Soho.
Elastic Arts presents Fonema Consort’s “The unknown, my flaws, your building…” ft. works inspired by Latin American creators. World premieres by Pablo Chin and Fernanda Aoki Navarro; and ft. Richard Barrett’s Coïgitum and Tiffany Skidmore’s no stars.
The Poetry Foundation and the Experimental Sound Studio presents Fonema Consort in a lecture-concert on the topic of the relationship between poetry and music in new music. Discussion led by composers Pablo Chin and Fernanda Aoki Navarro, and performers Nina Dante and Jonathan Thompson.
