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MATA is proud to present its annual festival of new music by emerging artists from around the world. Over four nights, audiences will hear music by some of today's best up-and-coming young composers performed by So Percussion, NOW Ensemble, The Knights, Ne(x)tworks, Bing and Ruth and Sawako. Under the new leadership of Executive Director Missy Mazzoli and Artistic Director Christopher McIntyre -- dynamic composer/performers in their own right -- MATA's programming is more audacious and exciting than ever. The 2009 MATA Festival features six world premieres (including four MATA commissions), two U.S. premieres, and four New York premieres. |
$15 tickets | $10 students & seniors | $50 festival pass Purchase tickets on the LPR website |
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Mike Vernusky - [website] > The Hidden (new sound work) 2009 MATA commission A collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado |
 Mike Vernusky |
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LPR Main Space 7:30pm AFTER THE KNIGHTS SHOW... we invite you to stay at (Le) Poisson Rouge for a very special performance by MATA Alum Carla Kihlstedt's band 2 FOOT YARD! 2 Foot Yard will be performing with members of the Knights Orchestra. 2 Foot Yard is a songwriting collective (Carla Kihlstedt- violin, voice, Marika Hughes- cello, voice, Shahzad Ismaily- drums, guitar). With their willfully limited instrumentation, they create intimate yet rich and dramatic worlds that elegantly maneuver between art song, rock song, and pop song. Their first cd was released on Tzadik, and their most recent, Borrowed Arms, was self-released and is available at www.CDBaby.com They will be joined on several of their songs by New York's most exciting young string quartet, Brooklyn Rider. (www.brooklynrider.com) 10:00 pm, $15 |
 The Knights |
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LPR Main Space 7:30pm
Sawako- [website] Electronic works by Sawako featuring: Miguel Frasconi - glass instr., Cornelius Dufallo & Ariana Kim - violin then, opening again faucet and water drop for laptop, faucet and glass sign and sigh for two violins and sine tone coda INTERMISSION Ne(x)tworks- [website] Kate Moore Sensitive Spot from Music Out of The City [2007] Christopher McIntyre Raster for Quintet [2008-9] Shelley Burgon Josephine's Tiger [2008] Cornelius Dufallo mindscape 2 [2009] LPR Main Space - 6:50 to 7:30 Mike Vernusky - [website] > The Hidden (new sound work) 2009 MATA commission A collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado |
 Sawako  Ne(x)tworks |
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LPR Main Space 7:30pm
NOW Ensemble [website] Jascha Narveson Nice Boots [2008] Patrick Burke Hypno-germ [2006] Greg Spears Quiet Songs [2006] David Crowell sCrAmBLe SuIt [2007] Missy Mazzoli Magic With Everyday Objects [2007] INTERMISSION Bing and Ruth [website] Music by composer/leader David Moore Put Your Weight Into It [2007]* City Lake/Tu Sei Uwe [2009]* 2009 MATA commission Rails [2008] Broad Channel [2005] In This Ruined House [2008] ...and then it rained [2007] Little Line in a Round Face [2009] * with projected original film by Sebastian Cros LPR Main Space - 6:50 to 7:30 Mike Vernusky - [website] > The Hidden (new sound work) 2009 MATA commission A collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado |
 NOW Ensemble  David Moore of Bing and Ruth |
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LPR Gallery Bar - 4:30 to 6:00
Playing In The Band: Performer/Composers Speak Panel Discussion >>FREE<< Panelists: Sawako - solo laptop composer/performer Cornelius Dufallo - Director and violinist, Ne(x)tworks Marc Dancigers - guitarist, NOW Ensemble; MATA alumni Annie Gosfield - composer/performer; MATA alumni Richard Carrick - Co-Director and pianist, Either/Or; MATA alumni Moderator: Chris McIntyre - MATA Artistic Director; trombonist, Ne(x)tworks One of the most powerful currents in today's concert music scene is the renewed prominence of composer/performers -- creators who interpret their own music, bringing new life to a once-dormant tradition. The 2009 MATA Festival features a number of such works, most often in groups committed to presenting the work of their ensemble colleagues. Moderated by MATA Artistic Director Chris McIntyre, PLAYING IN THE BAND will informally examine current trends in the field, their relationship to past attitudes, and how they inform the panelists' work. In addition to the artists taking part in the 2009 Festival (Sawako, Dufallo, Dancigers, and McIntyre), the panel includes MATA alumni Annie Gosfield and Richard Carrick, both of whom have forged successful careers writing and playing their own music. |
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Main Space 7:30pm
SO Percussion - [website] Cenk Ergün proximity [2007-9] Jason Treuting Selections from amid the noise and music for trains Nicole Lizée new work 2009 MATA commission LPR Main Space - 6:50 to 7:30 Mike Vernusky - [website] > The Hidden (new sound work) 2009 MATA commission A collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado |
 SO Percussion |
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Made possible
with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
a state agency.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. MATA is also supported by the Greenwall Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The BMI Foundation, the ASCAP Foundation, the Edward T. Cone Foundation and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. Support for Andrew Hamilton's commission comes from the Elias Tanenbaum Fund for New Works, established in memory of composer Elias Tanenbaum. |
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