Musiqa Presents Free Loft Concert at CAMH, 5/9

Musiqa, winner of the 2013 Chamber Music America/American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, will present a free Loft Concert, Parallel Practices, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on Thursday, May 9. The concert, held in collaboration with CAMH's exhibition Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, is Musiqa's final concert of the current season.

The concert showcases virtuosic, dynamic and haunting works by Morton Feldman, Elena Kats-Chernin, Pauline Oliveros, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener, composers who were inspired and influenced by visual and performance art movements of the late 20th century. The works, featuring voice, cello, harp and taped music, include elements of performance and visual art that parallel elements of works in the exhibition.

The program's featured artists include Karol Bennett, soprano; Meghan Caulkett, harp; Barrett Sills, cello and Chapman Welch, sound design.

Part of the Musiqa Loft series of informal, intimate concerts, Parallel Practices is presented in conjunction with CAMH's exhibition Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane, which brings together a selection of works by two artists born a short time apart who are renowned for their foundational contributions to the field of performance art. Jonas and Pane were proto-feminist artists, working in New York and Paris respectively, who worked across disciplines. Through selections of their sculpture, photography, video, drawing, installation, and live arts, the exhibition celebrates the shared and complementary aspects of Jonas' and Pane's art, and highlights the differences that characterize their unique bodies of work.

Musiqa's Parallel Practices
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose
6:30 p.m., admission is free
More information is available at www.musiqahouston.org