Concert ticket drawing opens March 22 JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: songbirdsongs Wood Thrush Morningfieldsong Meadowdance August Voices Mourning Dove Apple Blossom Round Not-quitespringdawn Evensong For this performance, musicians and audience members will mingle outdoors among the rustling trees, birds calling, and crickets chirping in Cathy’s Meadow, located a short distance from the art center’s Cottonwood Campus. While surrounded by nature, each participant will have the opportunity to hear their own unique version of songbirdsongs, an early composition by the Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Barcelona String Quartet Biennale Giacinto Scelsi: String Quartet No. 4 (1964) 12' Núria Giménez-Comas: Von contrapunctus VI (2018) 4' Daniel Apodaka: New work (2022) 20' – World premiere, commissioned by L'Auditori and Barcelona Creació Sonora Fausto Romitelli: Natura morta con fiamme (1991) 9' - Erin Gee: New work (2022) – National premiere Joan Arnau Pàmies: New work (2022) – World premiere, commissioned by L'Auditori John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places (2011) 16' Eric Wubbels: New work (2022) –…

Ravenna Michalsen will present a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave. The concert is supported by a grant from the 2022 Artists Respond program from the State of CT. “I’m a cellist based in New Haven and believe climate change and the biodiversity crisis are the most pressing issues of our times, and that there are so many complex emotions accompanying the changes we are both witnessing and participating in,” said…

Ravenna Michalsen will present a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave. The concert is supported by a grant from the 2022 Artists Respond program from the State of CT. “I’m a cellist based in New Haven and believe climate change and the biodiversity crisis are the most pressing issues of our times, and that there are so many complex emotions accompanying the changes we are both witnessing and participating in,” said…

AUXART combines creative energies with percussionist and composer Christopher Whyte to host a colossal percussion summit as the finale of its To The River sculpture and sound-art residency at Zidell Yards. Whyte will direct a gathering of dozens of percussionists from around the region to perform John Luther Adams' Inuksuit in a roving dynamic across the entirety of the project’s 150-yard-long waveform installation. Adams, who composes evolving soundscapes that respond to natural forces, created Inuksuit to be performed among audiences…

DEIAN ROWLANDS (HARP) AND SARA TRICKEY (VIOLIN) Programme John Luther Adams Five Yup’ik Dances Harp, 12’ Huw Watkins Partita Violin, 15’ Mared Emlyn Perlau yn y glaw (Movements 1-4) Harp, 8’ Interval Huw Watkins Suite for Harp 8’ Freya Waley-Cohen Unveil Violin, 10’ John Luther Adams Five Athabascan Dances Harp & Percussion, 16’ Deian is joined by percussionist Rhydian Griffiths for Five Athanascan Dances.

OUTI TARKIAINEN Songs of the Ice ANNA CLYNE Restless Oceans JOHN LUTHER ADAMS Become Ocean We honour the voice of Mother Nature with music dedicated to the critical ecological milestones our planet faces, including two works from ground-breaking female composers Anna Clyne and Outi Tarkiainen. British composer Anna Clyne wrote Restless Oceans for Marin Alsop and the all-women Taki Concordia Orchestra for performance at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2019. In addition to playing their instruments, the musicians…