The Miller Theatre's 2014-15 Composer Portraits Series Ends With ANNA CLYNE Tonight

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts presents the 2014-15 Composer Portraits series finale: ANNA CLYNE featuring Ensemble Signal, Lauren Radnofsky, cello, Adrián Sandí, clarinet, and Brad Lubman, conductor.

Tonight, April 23, 2015, 8:00 p.m.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)

Tickets: $20-$30 • Students with valid ID: $12-$18
www.millertheatre.com/events/anna-clyne

From Miller Theatre Executive Director Melissa Smey:
"This season's Composer Portraits series has been a wonderful affirmation of the diverse and talented composers making music today, and I cannot think of a better way to conclude it than by celebrating Anna Clyne. Her riveting work gives the members of Ensemble Signal the chance to shine in this final Portrait of the 2014-15 Season."

COMPOSER PORTRAITS

"Miller Theater's invaluable marquee series of deep dives,
a single living composer at a time." - The New York Times

One of New York City's "strongest new-music series" (The New Yorker),Composer Portraits at Miller Theatre allow audiences to become immersed in one composer's singular style, as well as hear from them in-person during an onstage discussion. The 2014-15 season includes a wealth of world premieres and performances from cutting-edge artists such as the JACK Quartet, ICE, Third Coast Percussion, the Brentano String Quartet, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.

Composer Portraits

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 8:00 p.m.
Anna Clyne

Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)
Though her earliest published pieces are still little more than a decade old, Anna Clyne is quickly becoming one of the most sought after electro-acoustic composers active today. Since 2009, she has been Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, whose music director, Riccardo Muti, praised her as "an artist who writes from the heart, who defies categorization." Clyne frequently collaborates with filmmakers, visual artists, and choreographers to transform her "dazzlingly inventive" (Time Out New York) compositions into multi-sensory experiences.

PROGRAM:
As Sudden Shut (2012-13)
1987 (2008)
Rapture (2005)
Fits + Starts (2003)

ARTISTS:
Ensemble Signal
Lauren Radnofsky, cello
Adrián Sandí, clarinet
Brad Lubman, conductor

Anna Clyne

www.annaclyne.com

London-born Anna Clyne is a composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music, combining resonant soundscapes with propelling textures that weave, morph, and collide in dramatic explosions. In August 2013, Clyne's Masquerade, a BBC Radio 3 commission, had its world premiere on the famed Last Night of the Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. Other recent premieres include The Violin, a multimedia collaboration with artist Josh Dorman and violinists Cornelius Dufallo and Amy Kauffman; The Lost Thought, performed by Trio Mediæval with conductor Julian Wachner; and A Wonderful Day for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Clyne recently served as Composer-in-Residence for Brazil's Festival Inverno do Campos do Jordão, the Mizzou New Music Festival with Alarm Will Sound, 21c Liederabend, and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. She was appointed Composer-in-Residence for the Orchestre National d'Ile de France from 2014-16.

Commissions include works for the American Composers Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Houston Ballet, London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Metropolis Ensemble. Appointed by Music Director Riccardo Muti, Clyne is currently the Chicago Symphony's Mead Composer-in-Residence through the 2014-15 season. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awards from Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and prizes from ASCAP and SEAMUS.

Recent releases include Night Ferry and Prince of Clouds, featuring Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra on Cedille Records. In September 2014, VIA Records will release The Violin. Clyne holds a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Edinburgh University and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Marjan Mozetich, Marina Adamia, Julia Wolfe, and Nils Vigeland.

Ensemble Signal

signalensemble.org

Ensemble Signal, described by The New York Times as "one of the most vital groups of its kind," is a New York-based ensemble offering the broadest possible audience access to a diverse range of contemporary works through performance, commissioning, recording, and education. Since its debut in 2008, the Ensemble has performed over 100 concerts, has given the New York, world, or U.S. premieres of over 20 works, and co-produced five recordings.

Signal was founded by Co-Artistic/Executive Director Lauren Radnofsky and Co-Artistic Director/Conductor Brad Lubman. Lubman, one of the foremost conductors of modern music and a leading figure in the field for over two decades, is a frequent guest with the world's most distinguished orchestras and new music ensembles. A "new music dream team" (Time Out NewYork), Signal regularly performs with Lubman and features a supergroup of independent artists from the modern music scene. Signal is flexible in size and instrumentation-everything from solo to large contemporary ensemble in any possible combination-enabling it to meet the ever-changing demands on the 21st century performing ensemble.

At home in concert halls, clubs, and international festivals alike, Signal has performed at Lincoln Center Festival, BIG EARS Festival, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, Tanglewood Music Festival of Contemporary Music, Ojai Music Festival, Miller Theatre, (le) Poisson Rouge, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Wordless Music Series, and the Bang on a Can Marathon.

Signal's fearless programming ranges from minimalism or pop-influenced to the iconoclastic European avant-garde. Signal has worked with artists and composers including Steve Reich, Helmut Lachenmann, Irvine Arditti, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Oliver Knussen, Hilda Paredes, and Charles Wuorinen. Signal's recording are available on Philip Glass's Orange Mountain, New Amsterdam Records, Mode, and Cantaloupe.

Recent highlights include a headliner performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musiciansand Radio Rewrite at the 2014 BIG EARS Festival in Knoxville, TN. Upcoming highlights include the co-commission of a new work for large ensemble by Steve Reich and the performance of Reich's video opera Three Tales, as well as David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe's video opera Shelter at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May 2015. Additionally, Signal makes its harmonia mundi debut in May 2015 with the release of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians.

Lauren Radnofsky

Lauren Radnofsky is founding Co-Artistic/Executive Director and cellist of Ensemble Signal. In Radnofsky's triple role, she is responsible for program curation, general management, development, and also serves as the main producer, in addition to being a regular performer in the ensemble. Under her leadership - within the span of just 5 years - Radnofsky has overseen Signal distinguish itself as an ensemble of exceptional versatility, its ambitious range of activities including over 90 performances, five recordings, and the New York, world, or U.S. premieres of over 20 works to date.

As a cellist with Signal, Lauren has worked with composers and artists including Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Irvine Arditti, Oliver Knussen, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. She has appeared at venues and festivals including the The Lincoln Center Festival, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Ojai Music Festival, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Guggenheim Museum (NY), Miller Theatre, The June in Buffalo Festival, and The Bang on a Can Marathon.

As a soloist, Lauren has appeared with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performing Kaija Saariaho's Amers and the Wordless Music Orchestra in Jonny Greenwood's Doghouse for string trio and orchestra. Radnofsky's recordings with Signal include Philip Glass'sGlassworks and Music in Similar Motion (Glass's Orange Mountain label); Sarah Kirkland Snider's Penelope (New Amsterdam); a CD & DVD of music by Lachenmann, with the composer as soloist in Zwei Gefühle, including Radnofsky performing Pression for solo cello (Mode); Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe's Shelter (Cantaloupe); and Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and Double Sextet.

Adriaán Sandí

Adrián Sandí is currently a freelancer in the NYC metro area. As an active solo recitalist, Adrián has given numerous chamber music and solo performances throughout his musical career in different cities in Costa Rica, Panama, the United States, Canada, and China.

As an avid performer of new music, Adrián has worked closely with conductor Brad Lubman as part of Ensemble Signal. He has had the opportunity to work with artists such as Oliver Knussen, John Zorn, and Tristan Murail. He is a founding member of the reed quintet REED5, which has had the opportunity to collaborate and premiere new works by young composers from Brazil and Japan.

Adrián has performed as the principal clarinetist of Wichita Symphony Orchestra for their 2011-2012 season and with ensembles such as Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific; performing in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Teatro Nacional de Panama, Teatro Melico Salazar, and Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica.

Born and raised in San José, Costa Rica, Adrián began his clarinet studies at the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica. He obtained his BM magna cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University, his MM with distinction from DePaul University, and his Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music. His main professors have included Ken Grant, Jon Manasse, Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, Dr. Charles West, and Jose Manuel Ugalde.

Brad Lubman

Brad Lubman, conductor/composer, is founding Co-Artistic Director and Music Director of Ensemble Signal. He has played a vital role in contemporary music for more than two decades. A frequent guest conductor of the world's leading ensembles, he has gained widespread recognition for his versatility, commanding technique, and insightful interpretations.

Conducting a broad range of repertoire from classical to contemporary works, Lubman has led major orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Dresden Philharmonic, DSO Berlin, RSO Stuttgart, WDR Symphony Cologne, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the National Symphony.

In addition, he has worked with some of the most important European and American ensembles for contemporary music, including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, Musik Fabrik, LA Phil New Music Group, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, and Steve Reich and Musicians. Lubman has conducted at new-music festivals across Europe, including those in Lucerne, Salzburg, Berlin, Huddersfield, Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Oslo.

Lubman has conducted numerous world premieres, including Steve Reich's Three Tales, Daniel Variations, Radio Rewrite, and Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings. Additional world premieres given by Lubman include Helmut Lachenmann's Concertiniand Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe's Shelter, as well as works by Philip Glass, Charles Wuorinen, John Zorn, and Hilda Paredes.

His own music has been performed in the USA and Europe, and can be heard on his CD,Insomniac, on Tzadik. Brad Lubman is on faculty at the Eastman School of Music and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.

Photo Courtesy of the Miller Theatre

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