Stanford piano students from the studios of George Barth and Kumaran Arul perform a selection of substantial works on this evening program:
Voice students are featured in this noontime concert.
"March Mattess" features two eclectic evenings of multichannel electronic and acoustic music. Both concerts are curated by Matt Wright – CCRMA's new Technical Director – and demonstrate the various aspects of his musical career and his many performance and research activities. From new instrument designer to computer music researcher, from samba to oud performance, from network audio concerts to improvising electronic ensembles – Matt has collaborated and performed with an amazing variety of world-class musicians and artists.
Friday program:
The Stanford Flute Ensemble is directed by Karen Van Dyke (program TBA).
"March Mattess" features two eclectic evenings of multichannel electronic and acoustic music. Both concerts are curated by Matt Wright – CCRMA's new Technical Director – and demonstrate the various aspects of his musical career and his many performance and research activities. From new instrument designer to computer music researcher, from samba to oud performance, from network audio concerts to improvising electronic ensembles – Matt has collaborated and performed with an amazing variety of world-class musicians and artists.
Saturday program:
Justin Cavazos performs songs by Handel, Schubert, Ravel, and Sondheim, with accompanist Steven Lightburn at the piano.
The St. Lawrence String Quartet will give a free performance of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. In this seven-section work, lasting just over an hour, Haydn is at his most reflective. Evoking the last hours of Christ’s life, the work’s individual sections carry tempo markings of Largo, Adagio, Lento, Grave.
A cornerstone of the rich English choral tradition since the 1670s, this renowned ensemble is one of the world’s greatest men’s and boys’ choirs. Admired for its full, expressive sound and expansive repertoire, the choir is heard often on BBC Radio, with England's finest orchestras, and in concerts worldwide. Andrew Nethingsha leads the choir in a unique program featuring Bach and Poulenc in Memorial Church.
A cornerstone of the rich English choral tradition since the 1670s, this renowned ensemble is one of the world’s greatest men’s and boys’ choirs. Admired for its full, expressive sound and expansive repertoire, the choir is heard often on BBC Radio, with England's finest orchestras, and in concerts worldwide. Andrew Nethsingha leads the choir in a program of their own repertoire, and then conducts the Choir, the Stanford Chamber Chorale, and members of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Philharmonia in Leonard Bernstein's stirring Chichester Psalms.
Christopher Costanza, cellist for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello in two programs. The first program features No. 4 in E-flat Major and No. 5 in C minor.