Absalon, fili mi: New Chamber Works for Voice, Winds, and Strings
Absalon, fili mi: New Chamber Works for Voice, Winds, and Strings
$10 Student & IMSS Members (With ID) Presale
$15 GA Presale
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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With ID) at Door
$20 GA at Door
This concert features contemporary chamber works for soprano, reeds, and strings. Built around three works by the acclaimed American composer Michael Hersch, including two world premieres, the program also features a new work by David Bird and Korean composer Isang Yun’s Rondel. Ritual Action, the Chicago-based reed trio made up of Andrew Nogal (oboe), Andy Hudson (clarinet), and Ben Roidl-Ward (bassoon) is joined by the award-winning soprano Ah Young Hong and Hannah Christiansen (violin), Lena Vidulich (violin and viola) and Isidora Nojkovic (cello).
Called “a natural musical genius who continues to surpass himself,” by the Washington Post, Michael Hersch is a leading American composer with whom the members of Ritual Action have collaborated extensively since 2018. Ah Young Hong has been the composer’s closest collaborator in the past 10 years, and each member of the trio has performed alongside her extensively. The impetus for this particular program was Hersch’s desire to write a new work that would bring together Ritual Action and Hong to collaborate as a quartet. The resulting piece Absolon, fili mi inspired another work for the same quartet with three string players added (the second Hersch premiere on the program).
Hersch’s intense and expressive style is complimented by Isang Yun’s reed trio Rondel (1975), which has been a core part of Ritual Action’s repertoire since 2018. David Bird’s Ambient Machine for bassoon and cello serves as a bridge between the string and wind voices on the program. Hersch’s Of Sorrow Born, a solo violin work written in 2014, is the program’s haunting centerpiece.
Program
Absalon, fili mi* - Michael Hersch
Rondel - Isang Yun
Of Sorrow Born - VII - Michael Hersch
Ambient Machine* - David Bird
Absalon, fili mi (after Josquin)* - Michael Hersch
*denotes World Premiere
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