Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet and Bozzini Quartet Set for TIME SPANS Festival This August

The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust (EBMF) has announced the TIME SPANS Festival in New York City.

Scheduled from August 1 to 5, 2017, TIME SPANS 2017 will include five concerts, performed by three of the best North American specialized groups for new repertoire: Talea Ensemble (NYC), JACK Quartet (NYC), and Bozzini Quartet (Montreal).

TIME SPANS is dedicated exclusively to the presentation of twenty-first century music. The events will take place at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan. The festival is produced and presented by EBMF. Artistic Director for TIME SPANS is Thomas Fichter. The name TIME SPANS is taken from the title of an orchestra piece by the American composer Earle Brown.

FESTIVAL CONCERTS:

August 1, 2017, 8:00 pm, Talea Ensemble

Mayu Hirano, Bloom (2017)
Hunjoo Jung, GESTALT I: Discursive Unities (2017)
Chaya Czernowin, Ayre:Towed (2016)
Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Psychasthenia B: Panic Architecture (2017)
Martin Bauck, nightmares. bonaria (2017)
Steven Takasugi, Diary of a Lung (2017)

August 2, 2017, 8:00 pm, Talea Ensemble

Sam Salem, The Lovers (2017)
Christine Burke, half murmur (2017)
Weston Olencki, browser/cache (2017)
Jeffery Shivers, Minimum Enclosure (2017)
Hans Tutschku, periods of existence (2016)

All works presenTed August 1 and 2 composed by the participants of the EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers. Led by a faculty of Prof. Chaya Czernowin, Dr. Steven Takasugi, and Dr. Hans Tutschku, the EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers is a collaboration between The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust and Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

August 3, 2017, 8:00 pm: JACK Quartet

John Luther Adams, Everything That Rises (2017)

August 4, 2017, 8:00 pm: Bozzini Quartet

Jürg Frey, Unhörbare Zeit (2004-06)

(string quartet and percussion)

Jürg Frey, String Quartet 3 (2010-2014)

Bozzini's CD featuring these two masterpieces has already become a critically acclaimed recording. TIME SPANS brings the music live to New York City.

August 5, 2017, 8:00 pm: Talea Ensemble

Georg Friedrich Haas, Hyena (2016)

Ms. Mollena Lee Williams-Haas, storyteller

The final concert of the festival presents the USA premiere of this intense work. Storyteller Ms. Mollena Lee Williams-Haas will be the soloist, performing her own autobiographical text in this composition by her husband, Georg Friedrich Haas.

Festival Pass - $50: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2800549
General Admission $20/$10: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2785863

You can find out more information about EBMF and the 2017 TIME SPANS Festival at earle-brown.org.