FREE ADMISSION for SEGi STUDENTS only on 5/9/14 (friday) workshop, to gratitude SEGi College sponsor the venue for first day event! SMCC is honoured to have renowned composers, Prof. Liza Lim and Prof. Aaron Cassidy, and cellist, Mr. Seth Woods, all from the University of Huddersfield (UK), to join us for a workshop and concert! The event will take place from 5-6 September, 2014. The mentors will be delivering lectures on their research topics and up to six composers will have two hours of open reading sessions of their pieces, as well as individuals lessons with the mentors, culminating in a concert by Woods. Schedule for September 5: 10:00 - 13:00 (for the six chosen composers only): * Individual composition lessons with Prof. Lim & Prof. Cassidy (1 hour each) 13:00 - 14:00 * Break 14:00 - 15:30 * Lecture by Aaron Cassidy 15:30 - 17:00 * Lecture by Liza Lim on her music and the postgraduate program at the University of Huddersfield 17:00 - 17:30 * Break 17:30 - 19:00 * Lecture by Seth Woods on new techniques on the cello and the translation of the choreography and expressive gestures from the cello to the electronic interface 19:30 * Dinner ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule for September 6: 14:30 - 15:30 * Open masterclass for the 6 selected composers with Liza Lim and Aaron Cassidy, during which the six new works will be read by Seth Woods 18:00 - 19:00 * General rehearsal for Seth Woods’s solo concert 19:00 * Dinner 20:30 * Concert Concert program * Ge Gan-Rus Yi Feng Lost Style for solo cello (11’) * Edward Hamel’s Gray Neon Life for speaking cellist (5’) * All works by the selected composers! Fees: i) 100RM for all the public events (50RM for SMCC members) ii) 20RM for each event (10RM for SMCC members) For tickets or reservation, please kindly contact: Ms. Tee Xiao Xi Tel: 012-3849590; or Mr. Wong Chee Wei Tel: 012-9400625 Venue: Petaling Street Art house 55 1A Jalan Sultan Petaling Street Kuala Lumpur 50000 Tel: 03 3326 2295 facebook/petalingstreet.arthouse // Biographies of the mentors: AARON CASSIDY Aaron Cassidy is an American composer and conductor based in England since 2007. His work has been programmed by leading international contemporary music specialists including ELISION, Ensemble SurPlus, musikFabrik, EXAUDI, Ictus Ensemble, ensemble recherche, 175 East, Talea Ensemble, the Kairos, Diotima, and JACK string quartets, and soloists including Garth Knox, Ian Pace, Mieko Kanno, Ryan Muncy, and Christopher Redgate, at major international festivals and venues including Donaueschingen, Ultraschall, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, Bludenz, June In Buffalo, the ISCM World Music Days, Southbank Centre, Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, Le Poisson Rouge, and Monday Evening Concerts. The work has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Radio France, Deutschlandradio Kultur, SWR-2, Kulturradio rbb, Österreichischer Rundfunk, and Polish National Radio. In July 2008, ELISION presented a portrait concert of his work for broadcast on ABC Classic FM, and in 2009-10 the ensemble completed an extensive recording project of his work in conjunction with Radio Bremen. He has received grants, stipends, and commissions from Südwestrundfunk, allerArt Bludenz, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, Haupstadtkulturfonds Berlin, New York Foundation for the Arts, ASCAP, the American Music Center, Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Council, and PRSF 20×12/London Cultural Olympiad 2012. Recordings of his work are available on NEOS, NMC, HCR, and New Focus Records. As an author his contributions include chapters in the first, second, and sixth volumes of Wolke Verlag’s New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century series and journals including Sonic Ideas/Ideas Sónicas, Search Journal for New Music and Culture, and Contemporary Music Review. He is the co-editor of the book Noise In And As Music, published in 2013 by Huddersfield University Press. Additionally, he has been increasingly active as a CD producer, most notably with EXAUDI’s critically acclaimed releases of Finnissy, Fox, and Skempton on NMC and Mode and ELISION’s Ferneyhough disc on Kairos. Cassidy joined the staff of the University of Huddersfield in 2007 and currently serves as Reader in Composition, Research Coordinator for Music and Music Technology, Coordinator of the MA by Research, and part of the Directorate of the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM). He previously served as Lecturer of Composition at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Buffalo State College. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), where he studied principally with David Felder as a recipient of a Presidential Fellowship. LIZA LIM Liza Lim is Professor of Composition and Director of the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield. Her work ranges from operatic and orchestral scores to site-specific installations commissioned by leading festivals and ensembles in Australia, Europe and the US. Her recent major work Tongue of the Invisible has been widely acclaimed and the CD was selected for ‘best of 2013’ lists in The New Yorker and Sunday Times. She is currently working on her fourth opera: Tree of Codes, commissioned Ensemble musikFabrik, Cologne Opera and Hellerau, European Centre for Contemporary Art for a premiere in 2016. Future project include works for the International Contemporary Ensemble and sheng player Wu Wei; for recorder player Jeremias Schwarzer and the Minguet Quartet; and Speak Percussion. Themes of cultural transmission, of pathways for memory and memory-loss; different cultural ideas of time and space; and material translation, intuition and empathy in an ecology of collaboration are explored in her work. Her compositions are published by Casa Ricordi (Milan, London & Berlin) and on CDs with Hat Hut, ABC-Classics, Neos, WERGO and Dischi Ricordi. SETH WOODS Critiqued as possessing mature artistry and willingness to go to the brink, Seth Woods has established a reputation as a versatile artist straddling several genres. Outside the chamber and solo setting, he has played with the Ictus Ensemble, Ensemble LArsenale, New York City Ballet and Orchestra of St. Lukes. A fierce advocate for contemporary arts, he has collaborated and worked with a wide range of artists ranging from the likes of Heinz Holliger, Elliott Carter, and Klaus Lang to Peter Gabriel, Sting, Lou Reed, Dame Shirley Bassey, Aldo Tambellini and Jack Early. Seth Woods has a Masters in Contemporary Music from the Basel Academy in Switzerland studying with Lucas Fels and Thomas Demenga and a Bachelor of Music from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, New York. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield and in 2013-2014 gives papers and performances at: INTER/actions Symposium (Bangor), NIME Conference (London), Sound and Body Festival (Brussels), Warsaw Autumn, NY Sound Circuit (NYC) amongst others. Recent awards include: McGill University-CIRMMT/IDMIL Visiting Research Scholar (Montreal), Centre Intermondes Artist Residency, (La Rochelle, France) and the Paul Sacher Stiftung Research Scholarship (B
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