HOMMAGES TO JANÁČEK AND KURTÀG
MONICA SCOTT + KATE STENBERG + LINDA GREEN + HADLEY MCCARROLL + KYMRY ESAINKO
Subtle colors, quiet nuances and intense communication - György Kurtág and Leos Janáček's music for pianos and strings will draw you into a magical world where every sound, every gesture conjures up memories or heightens awareness of the present.
Cellist and composer MONICA SCOTT has transcribed Janáček's piano work "The Overgrown Path" for violin, viola and cello, inspired by the unique way the composer transforms melodies through harmonic experimentation, and how he treats rhythms drawn from speech patterns and nature. Interspersed with the 10 short pieces in that series, are György Kurtág's exquisite miniatures "Signs, Games and Messages" - in versions for piano four hands, two pianos and string trio.
The trio is: violinist KATE STENBERG, who has appeared numerous times at the Dresher Studio, most recently in a commission by
Pamela Z, alongside
Sarah Cahill; violist LINDA GREEN, whose career spans teaching music in OUSD, performing with the Oakland Symphony and many other local orchestras, and frequent chamber music collaborations throughout the Bay Area; cellist MONICA SCOTT - who is a member of sfSound, oakland reductionist orchestra and duo martha & monica - all of whom perform often at the Dresher Studios and West Oakland Sound Series. Pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL (of martha & monica and sfSound) is joined by KYMRY ESAINKO - another pianist well known to Bay Area audiences - for the works by Kurtág and his transcriptions of Machaut and Bach.
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he program also includes two short works, “Hommages to Janáček and Kurtàg," composed by Monica Scott.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)