SONiC: Sounds of a New Century Announces Schedule In NYC

SONiC - Sounds of a New Century - a brand new festival of 21st century music by more than 100 composers age 40 and under, will take over New York from Friday, October 14 through Saturday, October 22, 2011. Events will range from a daylong marathon to a DJ/VJ night, from a free symphony concert at the World Financial Center Winter Garden to collaborations between emerging choreographers and composers. SONiC concerts will take place at ten different venues throughout New York, and will include performances by 16 extraordinary ensembles featuring at least 18 world premieres, eight US premieres, and eight New York premieres. SONiC is co-curated by composer Derek Bermel and pianist Stephen Gosling, and is a production of American Composers Orchestra and The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University. SONiC is presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall and Miller Theatre at Columbia University. New York Public Radio's online radio station, Q2, is the media partner and digital venue.

SONiC: Sounds of a New Century Schedule (Subject to Change)

OPENING CONCERT: Friday, October 14, 2011, 7:30pm
American Composers Orchestra - Orchestra Underground: 21st Firsts
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; 7th Ave. and 57th St., NYC
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Kenji Bunch, Amplified Viola
Mellissa Hughes, Soprano & Electronics
Daniel Iglesia, Videographer

Christopher Stark: ...and start west (World Premiere, ACO/Paul Underwood commission)
ANDREIA PINTO-CORREIA: Elegia a Al-Mu'tamid (World Premiere, ACO/Patricia Wylde commission)
ALEX TEMPLE: Liebeslied for female voice, electronics, and chamber orchestra (World Premiere, ACO commission)
WANG LU: Flowing Water Study II for orchestra and video (World Premiere, ACO/Jerome Foundation commission)
KENJI BUNCH: The Devil's Box (World Premiere, Mary Rodgers Guettel/Meet The Composer commission)

Tickets: $39, $50 ($31, $40 with SONiCpass) at www.carnegiehall.org or from CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800

Saturday, October 15, 2011, 7:30pm
eighth blackbird: Fractured Jams
Miller Theatre at Columbia University; 2960 Broadway at 116th St., NYC

FABIAN SVENSSON: Two Sides (NY Premiere)
AMY BETH KIRSTEN: Pirouette (NY Premiere)
CALEB BURHANS: Lullaby for Madeline
DAN VISCONTI: Fractured Jams
MAYKE NAS: DiGiT #2
TIMOTHY ANDRES: Crashing Through Fences
BRUNO MANTOVANI: Chamber Concerto No. 2 (NY Premiere)

Tickets: $25 ($20 with SONiCpass) at www.millertheatre.com or 212.854.7799

Sunday, October 16, 2011, 12pm-12am
Extended Play - A Marathon Event
Miller Theatre at Columbia University; 2960 Broadway at 116th St., NYC

12pm-3pm
JACK Quartet
ALEX MINCEK Mincek: String Quartet No. 3 (lift-tilt-filter-split)
Talea Ensemble
HECTOR PARRA: String Trio (US Premiere)
ANTHONY CHEUNG: Roundabouts (US Premiere)
VICTOR ADAN/DOUGLAS REPETTO: Tractus (World Premiere/Meet the Composer Commission)
JACK Quartet
VYKINTAS BALTAKAS: b(ell tree) (US Premiere)
AARON CASSIDY: Second String Quartet (NY Premiere/JACK Quartet commission by Südwestrundfunk/Donaueschinger Musiktage)
The New York Virtuoso Singers
JENECE C. GERBER: Je me delace
NICHOLAS REEVES: In Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich
Michael Fletcher: H
THOMAS LAVOY: White Stones
Yotam Haber: I Am (with JACK Quartet) (World Premiere)

4:30pm-7:30pm
JACK Quartet
HANNAH LASH: Filigree in Textile with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis (World Premiere)
Prism Quartet
DAVID LAGANELLA: Leafless Tree
ROSHANNE ETEZADY: Inkling
KEN UENO: July 23, from sunrise to sunset, the summer of the S.E.P.S.A. bus rides destra e sinistra around Ischia just to get tomorrow's scatolame
LEI LIANG: Yuan
KATI AGOCS: Coloratura
KRISTIN KUSTER: Breath Beneath
JACK Quartet
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Standing/Forward (World Premiere)
Young People's Chorus of New York City: Cantare Chorus
ELIZABETH ZIMAN: Beauty in a Moment
NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM: Two Songs from Days Of Innocence
BORA YOON: Semaphore Conductus
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Picaflor Esmeralda from Two Mountain Songs
JACK Quartet
GREGORY SPEARS: Buttonwood (NY Premiere)
Young People's Chorus of New York City
TARIK O'REGAN: The Taxi
Rufus Wainwright: Hope is the Thing with Feathers (World Premiere arrangement)

9:00-12:00am
JACK Quartet
JASON ECKARDT: Subject (World Premiere)
Imani Winds
VALERIE COLEMAN: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: Wind Quintet (I. March) (NY Premiere)
Philip Taylor: Prelude and Scherzo
JASON MORAN: Cane
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN: Five Chairs and One Table
JACK Quartet
MATTHEW BARNSON: String Quartet No. 3 (World Premiere)
Dither Electric Guitar Quartet
PAULA MATTHUSEN: but because without this
JASCHA NARVESON: The Driving One
CHES SMITH: Metal Vacation
LISA R. COONS: Prolix
LAINIE FEFFERMAN: Tongue of Thorns
JACK Quartet
CHRISTOPHER OTTO: Algol
NOW Ensemble
Patrick Burke: Awake
MARK DANCIGERS: Burst
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER: Pale As Centuries (World Premiere)
Judd GreenSTEIN: Change

Tickets: All-Day Pass $25 ($20 with SONiCpass), each 3-hour block $15 ($12 with SONiCpass) at www.millertheatre.com or 212.854.7799

Monday, October 17, 2011, 7:30pm
Either/Or
Miller Theatre at Columbia University; 2960 Broadway at 116th St., NYC

RAPHAËL CENDO: In Vivo part I
HANS THOMALLA: Piano Counterpoint
RICHARD CARRICK: à cause de soleil
ERIN GEE: Mouthpiece I / Yamaguchi Mouthpieces / Akiguchi Mouthpiece
KEERIL MAKAN: Resonance Alloy
JONNY GREENWOOD: smear (US Premiere)

Tickets: $25 ($20 with SONiCpass) at www.millertheatre.com or 212.854.7799

Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 7pm
Camerata Aberta
Americas Society; 680 Park Ave., NYC

MARCÍLIO ONOFRE: Estudo sobre os arrependimentos de Velázquez (World Premiere)
VALÉRIA BONAFÉ: Lan (World Premiere)
TATIANA CATANZARO: Kristallklavierexplosionsschattenspliter (US Premiere)
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER: Shining Forth
JOÃO VICTOR BOTA: Zenite (World Premiere)
JOHN ORFE: New Work (World Premiere)
CLINT NEEDHAM: Color Study (NY Premiere)
IGOR LEÃO MAIA: Caminantes III (World Premiere)