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June 5-10 , 2006

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June 5-10 , 2006

Da'vid Felder, Artistic Director

Resident Composers David Felder

Bernard Rands Harvey Sollherger

Augusta Read Tbomas Cbarles Wuorinen

Special Gues t Composer Guntber Scbuller

Res ident Ensembles Ensemble SnrPius

New York New Music Ensemble Slee Sinf onietta

Presented by the Department of Music, June in Buffalo, a fes tival and confe rence dedicated to composers, will take place from June 5-l a, 2006 at the University at Buffalo. An extraor(Unary opportunity to work \\~th professional musicians and a distinguished faculty, June in Buffalo offers an intensive schedule of seminars, lectures, master classes, panel discussions and open rehearsals as wel1 as aft ernoon workshopl performances and evening concerts open to the general public and critics. Each of the invited composers can have one piece read oj' performed in an ahernoon workshop presentatio n and receives a record ing for fu ture study and demonstration purposes. Performances feature resident ensembles and solOists renowned internationally as interpreters of cu ntemporary music .

CON TENTS

Page Event

Lecture Schedule

9 Mondoy. june 5

10 Tuesdav, June 6

II Wcdncsday, Junr 7

II Thllrsd~IY, June 8

12 Friday,.Iunc 9

14 - 18 Resident Senior Artist Biogr.tphics

18 Gues! Composer Biography

22 Resident Ensemble Biographies

l.l Acknowlcdgemellis

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Monday, June 5

Lectures will take place ill Baird Recila l Hall Chamber Music Featuring works ojJlB portieipallts

Baird Recital Hall , 4:30pm

PROGRAM

Monday, June 5 NO lllnHl Spat.:ccrafl or Interplanetary Spore Chri slOpher Bi~s Magnus AJldorsson. guifnr

10am-12pm

GUntbel' Sc/mller Forests neata Golec.:

Beata Golec. jJitlllO

Tuesday, June 6 I Chiucr Cha((cr Thomas Fi tzge rald

Ericb Jr!aWJeJ: clorinel : UeIJer/e.l' Ellis, cello

10am-12pm In Ida 's Mirror Stan Unk

I Augusta. Rea.d Tboma.s Mar l illa ~ol/), flftl (J

Theill es. Vari<lti ons :l11 d an Jnvention Jonalh:l1l Northrop

Wednesday, June 7 Mngnus Anderssoll, gtl il(/ I'

-10am-12pm

Cba.rles lVllorinen New York New Music Ensemble james Bakel; cOlldllc /OJ'; jt/Y" Rosellfeld, jlllles;

Thursday, June 8 jeoll Koppenul, clarinets; Unda QUail , violin;

CIJI"islopber Fillckel, cellu; Stepbell Gosling. piallo:

10am-12pm To m Kolm; percussion

Berna.rd Ra.nds Lippes Concert Hall ill Slee Hall , 8pm

PROGRAM Friday, June 9 A ROllqUl'1 for Cull a~e Glllliher St:huller

10am-12pm Memo 4, for solo n lilC Bemanl Rands

Harvey Sollberger Nolturno Donald Marlino

Intermiss ion

Six Piano ElUdcs AuguS1:1 Read Thomas I. Orbilal tk:H.:on~ - Il o lll :l g(~ Iu R~ri o

II. Fire Wtlll z - Homage 10 Bartok Ill. C~uhedr,, 1 W:l le rf;i! I - Hnnlag,c 10 Mess iaen IV. On Twi light - Homage to BO l1l ez v, Rain :It f Ulleral March - llomagc to l;cldman VI. 1\vill cr·Machincs - ilomage In Rakowski

The' Advancing M01JlCIII Harvey Sol lbe r~er

Ii I f/ -? r jI /, /:/" ;:Y'?JI,!}6,Y r? I I' 'fl'_ ?/~Y'rfft_y r( 'A././' ___ ( ,y./~

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November ~ky

Walcoll Songs

Thesday, June 6 Slee Sinfonietta

PeaturinE works oJjIBfacll.il), Lippes Concert Hall ill Slee Hall , 8pm

PROGRAM

David Felder

Rernard Rands

Bubble: Rainbow - (spirilleycl) ,>\ugusta Read Thomas

Inte rmission

Duo Sonata CharlL'!i Wuorincn

Arch<teopteryx Ch:u'les Wllorinen

Wednesday, June 7 New York New Music Ensemble

Fealuring works a/JIB participants

Baird Recital Hali , 3:30 pm

James Bakel: conductor: Ja)'n Rosen /eld, jlules; jean Kopporud, clarinets; Linda Quan, violin;

Chrislopher huckel, cello; Slephell Coslillg, jJiano: TOIn KolOJ; percu:,sion

PROGRAM lJcYiatiolls

COlltini Paolo Cava li onc

For 1.'lute ,IUd Piano Dougl;t~ Fisk

a quiet way Eun Young l.ee

Vocis Secundae Ono Muller

Alilarrada al recuen.lo 'Z Nora Pontc

Quatuor a Royaumou lH Johan Talgrenn

Ensemble SurPlus Fealu7'ing IIIIlsic o/jlB Focult)'

Lipl,es COlleert Hall in Slee Hall , 8pm

James AVe/y. cOllductor; MartiJUi Rotb, jlufe; Cbristi(1Il Kempm; oboe; Erich Wagl1m; clarinel; Svell 71JOmas Kieblel; pia1lo;

Pbilipp Rebmann, Il'ttmpet;James Patrick Cross/and, fmmbone; SOllj{11lIglefield hatf!; Olt!fTzsciJoppe, /leI'CIISs;OIl: jOll Hepfel: peI'WSSiOIl; Ste/all Hael~"'/BI: violin;

Cbal'les Haupt, v;olin; Bodo Fliedl'idJ, viola; Beverle)' Ellis, v;olollcello

PROGRAM Ca nnon Sky

MO/lses Prwossian. {Iiolill soloist Augusta Read Tho1\l ,lS

H idin~ Ihe Willd I Han:cy Sol/bel'ger.l'ufe sofoist

](arvcy SoJJbcr~er

p:ll'liaJ IdistJ rcs /:; IIO l'atioll David FeJder

Intermissiort

fellton Song:.- I, 1/ Charles Wuorinen

COll ccrtino

l'OI1}1 Amold, .mpranu ~iuloisl

Chris/ifW Kempe'l: oboe soloist

Thursday, June 8 Ensemble SurPlus

Featuring works a/jiB Participants Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hali , 4pm

Bern:mJ (~ands

.fames Aroy, conductor; Martillo Roth, jtule; Cbl'istian Kempel; oboe: Erich If'llgncl; c/mine/; SOOIl Thomas Kieblm; pilillO:

Philipp Rebm01w, ImmjJel;}nmes Patrick Crosslllnd, trombone: SOlljtl Inglefield, btllP; OIa/7'zscboppe, percussion;

JOIl Rep/el; percussiol1; Stefoll RaeussleI; violil1; Cbades HalljJt, violill; Bodo Friedricb, viaitl; Bell"fie), Ellis, Vi%l1cel/o

Elusions

Yi 6i - A Lotus flower Fr:lCll1rt' No. 2

Ilito Ihe Wind

Ornamentation

PROGRAM lJavid Hanller

Stephen Yip

Daniel Swilley

N<lthall D:wis

Jean Ahn

Ensemble SurPlus Featuring works ojJIB Participants

Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, 7pm }amesAoel}" conductoJ'; Martina Roth . ./lule; Chris/ian Kempel; oboe: Erich

lVagnel; clarinet; Sven Thonws Kieble!: piano; Philipp Rebmann, trumjJet;james Patrick Crossland, trombone:

Sonja Inglefield, "mp; OlajTzschoppe, percussion; jon Hep/el; percussion; Stejan Haeusslel; oiolin: Char/es Haupt, violin; Bodo

Fl'iedricIJ, '{Jio/a; Beverley Ellis! violoncello

Haw Item

Praeludiunl

Being I. May, 4:00pm Ill. June, 6:00am

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PROGRAM

Music for Fivc Instruments

"'iJ~n (Chashrnal)

Friday, June 9 Project Isherwood

CFA Black Box Theater, 4pm

PROGRAM

Au CO)l11llCnCement .. Bcnschil

LamellLo uelillolare frustrato

Intermission

Phollopilonie

Marcos Balter

John (3crncrs

Joseph Michaels

Hoberl Phillips

Arislides Llaneza

David Felder

Florence Rasche!

Stefano B,lssancse

Mauricio Kagel

Chamber Music Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, 8pm

PROGRAM

KalKa Fragments Gyiirgy Kurlag

Tony Arnold, soprano,: lvIouses Pogossian, violin

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SENIOR COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES

David Felder has lonA been recogni,ed as a leader in his generalion of Ameri can comlloscrs. His works have been {e.uured at milny of the leading inlernaliollal festivals for new music including Holland, I-Iuddersfield, Darmstadt, AI's Electronica, Grussels, ISCM, Norlh American New Music, Geneva, Ravinia, Aspen, Music Facfory, BOllrRcs. Vienna Modern , and Illany olhers, and earns cOlllinlling recognition through performance ,Ind commissioning progr:ulls by such organiZ:UiOlis as the New York New MUSiC Ensemble, lmc OrcheS(l"d, Arditli Quanel, Amcril.:an Colllposers (hchcslra, Buffalo rhilharmonic, American Brass Quintet, ~n selllb le IlllerColllemporain and m,uw olhers. Felder's work h,IS heen hroadly characterized by its highly cll crRetic p~ofile , through its frequent employment o'f lechnologic~.tI ex tensiOll <I l1 d elahoration of nJusk:al materials (including his Cl'o!i!ifire video series), and its lyrical qualities.

Felder has received 1111llH~rOW:i grants and commissions including mjUlY awards frolll the National Endowment [or the Ans, two New York Slate Council Commissions, a New York foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim, Koussevitzky, and two FrOlll1ll Foulluation fellowships, two awards from the I~ockcre\ler Foundatioll , Meet the Composer "New Residencies" (1993~J996) with the Buffalo Philharmonic, two comnlissions from the Mill)' flagler Cary Trust , ,Uld many more. Recently cOln pleled commissions include 1997's a pl'essltre triggering dreams, a premiere by the American Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Hall , In Between for solo elect ronic percussion and chamber orchestra for a 2000 premiere by percussionist Daniel Druckman; Inncl' St.'!)' (1999) for fiutist (doubling pice., allo and bass) and chamber string orchestra with percussion and piano plus computer clles; and Shredder and Illcelltlio , fwo works for virtuoso brJSS ensemble in 200 1. Current commissions include <I sextet, partial {disl/l'esjs/tom/ioJl for the New York New Music Ensemble (cofll lllissjoned by lhe Fromlll Foundation, and premiered first in jtlile 2002, with revisions to the electronics in 20U3) , a work for Oute plus ensemble, niOl1)1,~iacs, cOlllm issioned by lhe Bnlllnen-Cooper I:'und and "whoosh" for Chervl Gobbetti-Hoffman (premiere in FalJ 2003) , and:l Cary Trust COlli mission for the Nc~v York Vi rtuoso Singers, MemeNto mori (Winter 2004 premiere). New projet.:ts for 2004 and 200S will include a second quartet for the Anliui Quartet, and a work for cllumhcr orchestra with sopmno :.md bass voices olltexlS of Neruda and Dallmal.

Currently, Felder is Professor of Composition <l.t the University at Buffalo, wherr he has held the Birge-Cary Chair in Composition since 1992. and has been Artistic Director of the June ill Buffalo Festival [rom 1985 to the present.ln 20U2, he received one of the first aw:trds from the SUNY-system wide Chancellor's Office for Exce llence in Research and Creative Activity. From 1992 to 1996 he was Meet the Composer "Nev,! Residencies", Composer-in- Residence to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and WBfO-FM. In 1996, he formed Ihe professional chamber orch.sl ro, Ihe Slee Sinfoniettll, and has been Art istic OireclOr since that time. 1·le bas taught previously at the Cleveland lnstilllte of Music, the Uni versity of California, S;m Diego, ~u ld California State University, long Beach, and earned a Ph.O. from the Uoiversily of California, San Diego in 1983. HiS works are published by Theodore Presser, and a first fil II CD of his works was rele~lsed to intcrnaliOll ttittcclaim (incl ud ing "disc of the year"

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in chamber llInsic from the American Record G"ide) on the Bridge label (Bridge #0049) during 1996. A second di~c containing orchestral work was released by Mode Records (Mode #89; 'Editor's Besl of the Yea..-' selection, Fmifare Magazine, 2002) in Spring 2000, and EMF #033 was released inJuly 2001 , containing premiere recordings of orchesu'al works hy Morton Feldman and David Felder (two works (or each composer) to v~ry enthusiastic critical review. A fourth full length disc of his music feuturjng works with electronics Wll" released in 200.? , and will be followed by a fifth recording projecl, a DVD-muhi-chaJlnel disc in 2004.

Through more than 1I hundred published works and many recordings, Bernard Ra nds is establbhed as a major figure in conlempor:llY music. flis work Callti del Sole, premiered hy Paul Speny, Zuhin Meilla and Ihe New York Philharmonic. won the 1984 Pulitze r Prize in Music. His large orchestral suite Le Tambouri11 won the 1986 Kennedy CCOler Freidhcim Award. Conductors in cl udi ng Barenboilll, Boulez, Berio, Maderna, M:tlTiller, Mehta, Mllti , Ozawa, Ril.ling, Salonell, Suwall isch, Schiff, Schuller, St.:hw~lrl. , Silverstein , $ino(lOli , Slatkin, von Dohnanyi, and Zinman, among others, have programmed his music. Coml>oser- in­Residence with the Phi ladelphia Orchestra for seven years, from 1989 to 1995, as part of the Meet The Comroser Residency Program for the first three years, with 4 years continued hlnding by the Philadelphi:t Orchestra, Rands made a wonderful and dedicated contribution to the music of our lime. Rands' works are widely performed and frequently commercially recorded. His wo rk Conti D'AmoT, recorded by Chanticleer, won a Grammy Award in 2000.

Born in England in 1934, Rands emigrated 10 Ihe United Sla,es in 197; becoming an Am~rican Citizen in 1983. He has bten honored by the American Academy and Institute or Arts and LeiterS; B.M. 1. ; the Guggenheim Foundalion: the National Endowment for the Arts; Meet the Composer; tbe Barlow, I:'romm and Koussevitzky Foundations, among many others. Recent commissions have come from the Sunlory Concert Hall in Tokyo; the New Yo rk Philharmonic; Carnegie Hall ; the Doston Symphony Orchestrtt; the Cincinnati Symphony; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Ihe Philadelphia Orcheslra; Ule B.B.C. Symphony, London; Ihe Nalional SympllOny Orchestra; (he In tcrnaUonalc Bach Akadcmic, Stuuga rt; the Eastman Wind Ensemble and (he Chicago Symphony OrchestrA. Many cham her works havc rcsuhell frolll commiSS ions from major ensembJes and festivals around the world, !-lis Chamber Opera Belladonna was commissioned and prcmiercd by lhc Aspen Festi val for its fiftieth anniversaJ~ in 1999. In 2003 Ihe II rsl act was performed as pari of vox 2003 of the New York City Opera.

Upcoming projects include commissions from The Institute [or American Music 10 write a string qUaJ1et for the Ying String Quartet; a Meet the Composer consortium commission to compose a guitar conceJ1o for EUol Fisk and three c1HUllber orchestras; a solo piano work fOf Robert Levil!. Rands continues his long lerm project of cnmposing a full scaJe opera, enli tl ed Vincelll , hosed on the Ufe and work of Van Gogh. A dedicated and passionate teacher, Rands has been guest composer at many international fe~tivals and Composer in Residence at the Aspen

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and Tanglewood festivals. Rands is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University where he teaches with distinction. The originality and distinctive character of his mllsic have heen varioLlsly described as "plangent lyricism" with a "dramatic intensity" and a "musicality and clarity of idea allied to a sophisticated and elegant technical mastery" - qualities developed from his studies with Dallapiccola and Berio. Rands was elected and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.

Augusta Read Thomas (born in 1964 in New York) is Composer-in­l{esidence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1997 -2006) and, until 2008, Chair of the Board of the American Music Center, all which she has served for the past five years. This year Thomas resigned from her position as the Wyatt Professor of Music at Nortlnvestern University to devote her time exclusively to composition. At the age of 33, she received tenure from the Eastman School. Her \vork is currently published by G. Schirmer Inc. She studied at NOJ'tlwvestern University, Yale University and at the Royal Academy of Music. Seven years after graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, she was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM, honorary degree). In 1998 she received the Distinguished Alumni Association A\\'ard frolll SI. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1999, she received the Award of Merit from the President of Northwestern University.

Conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Oza\va, Hans Vonk, Gerard Schwarz, Hanllll Lintu, Oliver Kllusscn, Marin Alsop, David Robertson, Ludovic Morlot, Leonard Slatkin, Dennis Russell Davies, Sir Andrew Davis, Hugh Wolff, Cliff Colnot, Norman Scribner, John Nelson, Apo Hsu, .lahja Ling, Keith Lockhart, [awrence Leighton Smith, George Manahan, Jac Van Steen, Gianpiero Taverna, David Gilbert, Bradley Lubman, Grant Llewellyn, and David Loebel have programmed her work.

Premieres taking place during the 2005-2006 season include t\I.-'o ne\v concerti for the Chicago Symphony: Astral Canticle for violin, flute and orchestra featuring the principal players Robert Chen and Matthieu DuFour; and Caril/on Sky for violin and large ensemble. Other new works are ,)hllkin' for orchestra (a tribute to Elvis Presley and Igor Stravinsky), commissioned by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the Music Library Association in honor of its 7511

' A.nniversary; The Rett!aking for male chorus commissioned by Cornell University Glee Club; Berkshire Songs for chorus commissioned by the Nebraska Choral Arts Society: and Angel Tears and Earth Prayers for organ and trumpet commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for their national convention. Two ne\v solo piano etudes join the existing four and the full set is first presented by Stephen Gosling in ,r--.,lew York City.

Highlights of her international performances this season arc feature COncerts at Helsinki's Music Nova Festival; and the French premiere of Ceremonial with the Orchestra National of Bordeaux Acquitania, conducted by Hannu Lintu. She also participates in artist residences and festivals at Cornell University, Bov.-·ling Green State University, Nortll\vestern University, Smith ColleRe, New England Conservatory, and June in Buffalo, among others. Augusta Read Thomas studied

SENIOR COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES

with Jacob Druckman at Yale UniverSity, and with AJan Stout and Bill Kariins at Northwestern University.

Harvey Sollberger, M.A. Columbia University. Composer, conductor, flautisl. SoUberger is the conductor for SONOR, the faculty new music ensemble, and for SIRlUS, the graduate student new music ensemble at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded (with Charles Wuorinen) the Group for Comemporal), Music in New York and directed that ensemble for 27 years. He has been Composer­in-l{esidence at both the American Academy in Rome and with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Sollberger's work in composition has been recognized by an award from the National Institute of Arts and letters, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and by commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation, the San Francisco Symphony, the Fromm Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walter W. Nauillberg Foundation, Music from Japan, and the New York State Council for the Arts. Before jOining the UCSD faculty, SoUbergel' taught at Columbia University, the Manhattan School of Music, and Indiana UniverSity.

Charles Wuorinen (b. June 9, 1958, New York City) has been composing since he was five and he has been a forceful presence on the American mllSical scene for more than four decades. In 1970, W'lIorinen became the youngest composer to \yin the Pulitzer Prize in music, the specific work being Time's Encomium, an electronic composition written 011 commission from Nonesllch Records. The Pulitzer and the MacArthur Fellowship are just two among many awards, fellowships and other honors to have come his way.

Wuorinen h~L';; \vliuen more th,Ul 200 compositions to date. His newest works include his FOlU1h Pi,mo Concerto for pianist PeterSerkin, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Junes J.e\·ine's first season as Music Director, Ashbel:)'ctna, a setting of poems by John Ashbery, G)iclojJs (2000) for the London $infonietta, ,S)mljJbony Seven, Fourtb String Quartet, for the Brentano QUaJiet, September 1 J, 2001, a setting of W.If. Auden for tenor ,md pimlO. His opera based on Salman Rushdie's Ha1"Qun and the Sea oj Stories \V,L'i given its world prentiere in Fall 2004. An indication ofWuolinen's histmical importance can be seen in the fact that in 1975 StraVinsky's widow gave WUOlinen the composer"s last sketches for use in A Reliqualyfor Igor Stravinsky. Wuorinen \vas tJ1e first composer commissioned by the Clcve!;wd Orchestra under Cluistoph von Dohnanyi (Movers and Shakers); and likewise ule first to compose for Michael Tilson Thomas' New World Symphony (Bamboula Beach). FractJ..l geometry and the pioneeling \vor]< of Benoit Mandelbrot have played a clllciai role ill several of his works incluwng Hamboula Squared and the iVatural Fanta,~y, a work for organ.

His works have been recorded on nearly a dozen labels including several releases on Albany Hecords (Charles Wuorinen Series), two recent discs on the Tzac1ik label, LejJton and On Alligators, :md a disc of solo pi<ulO works performed by Alan Feinberg on Col Legno. Wuorinen's works are pubUshed exclUSively by C.F Peters COllJOration. He is the author {)f Simple ComjJosition, used by composition students throughout the world. An eloquent writer and speaker, WUOl'inen has lectured at universities

SENI OR COMPOSER BIOG RAPHIES

throughout lite United States and abroad, and has served 0 11 the faculties of Columbia, Princeton , and Yale Un iversities, the University of Iowa, University of California (S<1Il Diego), Manhauan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Slate University of New York at Buffalo, and Rutgers University.

Wuorinen has al so been active as performer, an excellent pianist :md a distinguished conducto r of his own works as well as other twentieth century repertoire. His orchestral appearances have inclmled the Clcvel<U1d Orcheslnl, Chicago Symphony, New York PhWlarmonic, San Francisco SYlilphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the American Composers Orchestra. In 1962 he co-founded the Group for Co ntemporary Music, onc of America's most prestigious ensembles dedicated to peliormance of new chamber Tllllsic. In adwl ion to cultivating a new generation of performers, commisSioning and ~remi erjng hundreds of new works, the Gro up has been a model for many similar organizations which have appeared in Ihe United States since its fOLlIlding. Wuorincn is a member of both the American Academy of ArlS and Letters ,uld the A.melic.'Ul Academy of Arts ,md Sciences.

GUEST COMPOSER BIO GRAPHY

Gunther Schuller is a wo rld-renowned cumposer, conductor, performer, ed ucator, record producer, anti until recellliy, music publisher. Perfo rming profeSSionally sin ce the age oC sixteen, he playcLi with the New Yo rk Philharmonic and was principal horn in the Cincinnati Symphony. He was also aClive in the \c\v York bebop scene and recorded \>,lith Dizzy GHlespie, Miles Davis, the Modern Jazz Quanet. and Ornelle Coleman , among others. At the age of twe nlY­five he started his leaching career at the Manhattan School of Music, and Weill 011 to be professor o[ composition at Yale University':>; School of Music, Presidenl of the New England Con:-;crva tory of Music , and Artisti c Director of the Tanglcw'ood Berkshire Music Cente r. Gunther Schuller has written more than 160 original compositions in Virtually e\'e ry musical genre, authored five books, and started hi s own recording company, GM Reco rdings, i ll 1980. He has also won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Ma CArthur "Gen iu s" Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Go ld Medal for Music, 8Ml lifetime Achievement Award, and Columbia Cniversity's Wi lli am Schuman Awa rd .

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RESIDENT EN SEMB LE BI OGRAPHIES

Ensemble Surplus was founded in Frciburg in 1992. lIS primary objective is 10 interp ret new or unknown works, regardless of their lechni c~ll or intellectual dem;:lIlds. II works nOI only within the framework of Ir~uJili on<l1 concerls, but also in acoustic and spatial experimentation. improvisation and jnsl rumenlaJ

thea ler, and performs in combinations ranging from duos to large chamber cJl scmble. LIS close collaborati on wilh Akademie Schluss Solitude Sluugarl since 1994 has resulted in the release of CDs with works by 20 composers who we re in residence there.

for [wenty-nine years, [he New York New Music Ensemble has commissioned, performed, recorded, taught, and fiercely advocaled the music of OLl f time . Described as "pulsating with life and timbral excitement," (los Angeles Times) the group is sought out by composers and audiences wishing thoughtful and passionate performances. The Ensemble 's interests spnll music of the twentieth and twenty-first centu ries, 'classics', emerging composers) an d music involving eXlcndcd instrumental and electronic techniques, thea tre, interaclive nnd Uve electroniCS. and graphics. NYNME has performed ac ross th(;' counll1' and in Europe, South AnlCrica, Chi na, }al)110 and Hawaii . Previous years' residencies iucJuded Brandeis University, Emory Uni versity and the June in Buffalo Festival. The group h'ls released (wenty record iugs LO dalC, among which arC Music of Artbur Kre;'~el' (A lbany Record$: TROV609) . Music oj Wayne Peterson (Koch International: :17498-2HJ) ; New Electro-Acoustic Music: f'1'imo,w:h. RuLon. Stei,f!,er (CcllIaur CD:2:,38) , IJ:Ju..sic oj Carler, Davies and Dru.ckman (GM Recordings: GM2047CD); and Schoenherg's Pierro! /unairl! (GM Recordings: GM20'-;OCO) . This season begins an ambitious, five-ycm commissioning program, starting witli works by Eleanor COlY, Morris Rosenzweig, Mario Petusi, Stephen Ricks, RoJv Yttrehus, and Harvey Sollbergcr. In addition to tlie New York season and thc two· week tour to California and Utah, residencics at Illinois Wesleyan and SUNY Buffalo :lIe planned.

The Slee Sinfoniella was formed in 1996 hy compnser Davicl Felder and conductor M:lgnlls Martcnssoll. As the profeSSional chamber orchestra in residence at UB, it performs a series of concerts cltch yea r devoted to lesser known repertOire, part icularly thai of the prc-classic cra and Ihe most rccent cO lllcmporaql mUSic Advanced students in performance ~Ire invited to participate along wilh f;Kuhy artists, soloists, and regional professionals in the producti on or these unique concerts. Listeners art' invileiJ to join wilh us in the ex ploralion of newer musical worlds availab le at the bcginuing of Ihe twe nty-first century.

June in Buffalo is made possible by the generous support of the following organizations:

Cameron Baird Foundation

Aaron Copland Fund for Music

BMI Foundation

Birge-Cary Chai r in Music

Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University

Proj ect Isherwood Coproduction: Dialoge-Neue Musik auf dem Forum Neues MusikteaterlStaatsoper Stuttgart - Vorlice Associazione

Cll ltllralefComune di Venizia Risonanze et Rassegna di nuove JIlusiche contcmporanee/Unionc Musicalefforino - Grame,

centre national de creation mllsicalefLyon

Robert G. Morris and Carol L. Morris

ColJegc of Arts & Sciences Creative Design Sen'ices (Renee Ruffino, Director)

Univers ity at Buffalo Department of Music (Stephen Manes, Chairman)

College of Arts and Sciences (Uday Sukhatme , Dean)

lIB 2020 Scholars' Fund: Dr. Jorge Jose, Vice Provost for Research

David Felder, Artistic Director

Eileen Felder, Administrative Associate for Development

Sandy Fairchild , Fiscal Officer

JT Rinker, Managing Director

Christopher Jacobs, Audio Technical Director

Chris Reba and Sam Tymorek, Audio Assistants

Gary Shipe, Piano Technician

Philip Rehard, Concert Manager

AlanaJagodzinski, Assistant Concert Manager

Greg Schneider and Ryan Yaeger, Concert Crew