Marcus Center For the Performing Arts Presents UNRULY MUSIC 4/15-4/18

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts are excited to present Unruly Music. This four-night audio and visual experience includes concerts by chamber music ensemble C2 and compositions and performances by Peck School of the Arts faculty and students. The festival runs April 15-18 at 7:30pm in Vogel Hall.

Unruly Music has been producing virtuoso performances of postclassical music in Milwaukee since 2006. Under the direction of composer and Peck School faculty member Christopher Burns, the festival spans a wide variety of genres and styles, exploring contemporary trends in chamber music, improvisation, and electronic sound.

The program for the spring 2010 festival is:

C2: Duo/Solo
Thursday, April 15, 7:30pm 
Chamber music ensemble C2 returns to Milwaukee for the second phase of their residency with Unruly Music. Lisa Cella (flute) and Franklin Cox (cello) join precision, energy, and intense musicality to create compelling sonic exploration and musical communication. This recital features a kaleidoscopic array of virtuosic solo and duo works.

Sound and Image 
Friday, April 16, 7:30 pm 
UWM and Milwaukee artists present cutting-edge new works combining sound and video. The program features Physical Changes, a thunderous and hypnotic collaboration between percussionist Jon Mueller and filmmaker David Dinnell. Julie Murray presents her intensely charged video short YSBRYD (spirit). Brent Coughenour juxtaposes cool, mathematical, synthesized sound with warm, representational and emotive video imagery in a live laptop performance.

Electric Counterpoint
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 pm
The ElectroAcoustic Music Center, a research, teaching and performance center allied with the Music Composition and Technology program at UWM, presents a pair of plugged-in classics. Speech gradually transforms into music in a live realization of Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room, slowly revealing the sonic fingerprint of Vogel Hall. This concert includes a rare guitar ensemble realization of Steve Reich's pulsing Electric Counterpoint, directed by René Izquierdo and featuring 13 performers from the UWM guitar program.

C2: Made in Milwaukee
Sunday, April 18, 7:30 pm
The C2 duo closes the festival with a program featuring new works by UWM graduate students in composition created especially for them-and taking advantage of their precision, power and authority. This is an extraordinary opportunity to experience a collaboration between the next generation of concert composers and two of today's finest musicians.

Tickets are now on sale at the Marcus Center Box Office by calling 414-273-7206 or at www.MarcusCenter.org. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $7 for students. The cost to see all four concerts is $48.

About C2
In January 2006 flautist Lisa Cella and cellist Franklin Cost formed the duo C2. Together they have commissioned numerous new works from composers and have performed throughout the United States and in Mexico.

Dr. Lisa Cella is a champion of contemporary music, having performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. She received her DMA in contemporary flute performance from the University of California-San Diego. Dr. Cella is as an assistant professor of music at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and a founding member of its faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus. She is also on the faculty of Soundscape, a festival of new music in Pavia, Italy.

Dr. Franklin Cox has received numerous fellowships, prizes, and commissions from leading institutions and festivals of new music and performed with many new music groups, including SONOR, the Group for Contemporary Music, Exposé, Surplus, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Köln. He received B.M. degrees in cello and composition from Indiana University, and composition degrees from Columbia University (M.A.), and the University of California - San Diego (Ph.D.). In 2007 he joined the faculty of Wright State University. He is co-editor of the international book series, New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century. His works are published by Rugginenti Editions and Sylvia Smith Publications, and his works can be heard on Rusty Classica, Neuma Records, Solitude Edition, and Centaur Records.

About Christopher Burns
Christopher Burns composes chamber and electroacoustic music that explores simultaneity and multiplicity: textures and materials are layered one on top of another, creating a dense and energetic polyphony. Burns is also active as a concert producer. In addition to Unruly Music, he co-founded and produced the strictly Ballroom series at Stanford University and is currently a co-director of the San Francisco-based sfSoundSeries. These concerts are an outlet for Christopher's interest in the realization of classic music with live electronic or mechanical components: recent projects include the creation and performance of new versions of works by Cage, Ligeti, Lucier, Nancarrow, and Stockhausen. Burns teaches composition and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

About the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is owned and partially funded by Milwaukee County. The Marcus Center has been the premier entertainment destination for Milwaukee and Wisconsin since 1969. It provides the setting for outstanding cultural experiences, where the arts come to life for current and future generations. Located in the heart of the Downtown Theater District, the Marcus Center is a community facility that offers live performance of opera, ballet, children's theater, symphony and first-class national touring productions. For more information, visit http://www.marcuscenter.org/.

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