Alarm Will Sound returns to Saint Louis and the Sheldon Concert Hall on May 9 to perform new music by DJ/producer King Britt, Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater), and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi. These musical artists collaborate with Alarm Will Sound to create new work that brings together the diversity of their backgrounds, from electronica to classical from jazz to noise. This push to mix styles and defy genres is part of our Alarm System project whose world-class participants over the last four years have included jazz/avant-garde trio Medeski Martin & Wood, Warp Records artist Mira Calix, Brian Reitzell (composer of the soundtrack to the television show Hannibal), and St. Louis Native Ryan McNeely, to name a few.

King Britt (arr. Stark), The Intention;
King Britt (arr. Mayo), The Cosmos Feel Me;
King Britt (arr. Peck), The Moment of the Fall;
Eartheater, When Fire is Allowed to Finish;
Eartheater (arr. Parker), Iridescence of this Char;
Eartheater (arr. Winslow), The Slow Burning Chamber of My Heart;
Eartheater (arr. Parker), Frustra Incandescent;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Late Blooms in Fertile Ash;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Arson of Comfort or Claustrophobia;
Eartheater (arr. Snowden), Candied Inferno;
Oren Ambarchi (arr. Winslow), Quixotism Part 5;
Oren Ambarchi (arr. Balter), new work;

World premiere of Bloody Lyre, a new song cycle with texts by celebrated poet Adrienne Rich.

PROGRAM
Conrad WINSLOW* (featuring Justine Aronson)
Brian PETUCH*
Caroline MALLONÉE*+
Christian WOLFF

*World Premiere
+ Call for Scores Winner

Doors 6pm
Show 7pm

$10

Performance of Outline.

Metropolis String Quartet Festival

March 26 & April 10

For their first of two appearances at the Metropolis String Quartet Festival, Mivos celebrates the 7th Annual Mivos/Kanter Prize Winner Jon Yu. Yu's winning work o reche modo will be featured alongside quartets by Carl Kanter, Conrad Winslow, and Patrick Higgins.

Pianist Miki Sawada embarked on her Gather Hear Alaska tour this summer, in which she traveled for three weeks in Alaska with a piano in a van. Accompanied only by a filmmaker, she gave 25 performances in community hubs such as cafes, bars, parks, schools, mostly focusing on rural communities. The project explored the idea of the piano as a central object of a gathering place - how we as humans can't help but be drawn to a piano to sing, play, listen, and gather - and to also explore the social possibilities of classical music when taken out of a concert hall and into community gathering spaces.

On October 15 at Spectrum, Miki will share footage and stories from the tour as well as newly gained insight into what it is about classical music that moves people. Her performance will simulate a tour concert and will include solo works by Ariel Friedman, Paul Kerekes, Brendon Randall-Myers, Charlie Usher, and Conrad Winslow. In Gather Hear Alaska style, the program will also include works from the standard repertoire, but the exact selections and program order will be undecided until the concert begins. The program will be threaded together by Miki's commentary. 

*Admission $15 at the door*

About Miki:
In the 2016-17 season, Miki presented a solo recital on the Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago, broadcast live on WFMT radio. Other season highlights include a debut recital with cello partner Lukas Stasevskij at Helsinki Music Centre, solo recitals in Japan, Belgium, and the U.S., and contemporary music performances in New York City at venues including Spectrum, Dimenna Center, and Roulette. Miki’s performances in the past have been featured at venues and occasions such as: Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center Stage on Holland America Line, the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at Yale, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Aurora Music Festival (Sweden), Music on Main (Vancouver), Chicago Symphony Center’s Macy’s Day of Music, the Banff Centre, and radio stations WQXR (NYC) and WFMT (Chicago). In the summers, she teaches and performs as a faculty member of Point CounterPoint Camp and Catskill High Peaks Festival. iki holds degrees from Yale School of Music, Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University.

The Aspen Music Festival Fellowship Brass Quintet gives the world premiere performance of Coming Around, a miniature with a prominent tuba solo.

The Aspen Music Festival chose the string quartet Outline to be repeated on this chamber concert.

Jimin Lim, violin
Jecoliah Wang, violin
Seido Karasaki, viola
Leo Singer, cello

Donald Weilerstein , violin
Alisa Weilerstein , cello
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein , piano

ACE

Alex Klein , oboe
Hugo Lee , oboe
Joaquin Valdepeñas , clarinet
JJ Koh , clarinet
M. Taylor Eiffert , clarinet
Eddie Sundra , basset horn
Per Hannevold , bassoon
Sean Maree , bassoon
John Zirbel , horn
Simon Poirier , horn
Brian Mangrum , horn
Alec Michaud-Cheney , horn
Sam Loeck , bass

IVES: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, op. 86
CONRAD WINSLOW: Outline

SARAH GIBSON: I prefer living in color
MOZART: Wind Serenade in B-flat major, K. 361, “Gran Partita”

AMFS artist-faculty, representing the best teachers and players from the country's top orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories, enjoy a chance to come together each summer to play chamber music. Always a joyful and creative ninety minutes of exquisite music-making.

String fellows from the Aspen Music Festival give the world premiere of Outline for string quartet.

Miki Sawada performs The Same Trail on a preview program for her Gather Hear Alaska Tour. 

Felix Mildenberger and Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra conduct an open rehearsal of Leaving a Space.

The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä performs The Old Motion Parade on its Future Classics concert on Friday 3 February.

Adam Holmes performs Ellipsis Rules in a new version with electronics at the Echo Chamber winter Fundraiser/Party.

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The Hoff-Barthelson Viola club performs my pedagogical piece Good Working Order—commissioned in 2014 by the Hoff-Barthelson Music School—at Oberlin Conservatory during the 2016 American Viola Society Festival.

Conrad Winslow presents new work developed during the Brooklyn Youth Chorus residency period. The program includes the world première of Chaperone, a solo for violin & foot percussion composed for and premiered by Andie Springer, the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28, performed by Conrad Winslow, and Carry the Tune, a flute, violin and piano trio composed in 2015.

Alarm Will Sound gives the world premiere of Conrad Winslow's arrangement of Rashad Becker's Themes 7.

Program:

MW (arr. Orlando), Anonymous Skulls
Rashad Becker (arr. Vine), Themes 4
Rashad Becker (arr. Winslow), Themes 7
Rashad Becker (arr. Kim), Dnc 2
Mira Calix, ut tensio sic vis
Tyondai Braxton, Common Fate

Cadillac gives the 4th performance of The Perfect Nothing Catalog at St. Francis College, alongside works by Timo Andres, and Sam Crawford.

The concert is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

Orchestra of Southern Utah, STEAM Concerts, February 12.

Performance of Carry the Tune and discussions with students.

Pieces of Snow - Contemporary Music Festival, Snow College, UT, February 9

Performance of Carry the Tune and discussions with students.

Cadillac peforms the Perfect Nothing Catalog alongside music by Viet Cuong, Caleb Burhans, and Rick Burkhardt.