Klarinet Archive - Posting 000045.txt from 2007/06

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] New England Conservatory Presents Sound Encounters 2007 Performance
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:22:02 -0400

June 9, 2007
For Immediate Release
Press Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

New England Conservatory Presents Sound Encounters 2007 Performance
Workshops for Contemporary Music from June 13 to 17 – Faculty Includes
Clarinetist Michael Norsworthy, Violist Carol Rodland, Composer Kenji
Bunch and Other Distinguished Music Educators

New England Conservatory will present Sound Encounters 2007, a
performance workshop for contemporary music, as part of their Summer
School programs, from June 13 to 17 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Co-Artistic Directors Michael Norsworthy, clarinet, and Carol Rodland,
viola, will be joined by Kenji Bunch, composer in residence, Ariadne
Daskalakis, violin, Scott Kluksdahl, cello, Renee Krimsier, flute and
Max Levinson, piano for an intensive performance workshop exploring 20th
and 21st century music. The seminar will open on June 13 with a faculty
concert featuring the music of Kenji Bunch along with works by Elliott
Carter, Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho. Participants will
receive daily coachings and masterclasses with members of the faculty on
selected solo and chamber music repertoire culminating in two student
concerts on Sunday, June 17 at 12 noon and 3 PM. The repertoire will
encompass a broad range of contemporary chamber and solo music with
special emphasis on the works of Kenji Bunch, who will offer a Friday
evening lecture in addition to coachings on his music throughout the
workshop.

All concerts and the Friday evening lecture are free and open to the
public.

For a complete performance schedule, faculty bios and more, please visit
http://www.soundencounters.info/. For more information, call the NEC
Summer School at (617) 585-1126.

A dedicated and persuasive champion of the music of our own time,
Michael Norsworthy has given premieres of over 80 works in collaboration
with composers Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough,
Michael Finnissy, Lukas Foss, Hans Werner Henze, Magnus Lindberg, Ralph
Shapey and Marc Anthony Turnage, among many others.

As soloist, Michael Norsworthy has performed an extensive repertoire of
concerti, ranging from Mozart to Ferneyhough, with the Aspen
Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, NEC Contemporary Ensemble,
Pottstown Symphony, Soria Chamber Players, Southern Illinois Symphony
and Symphony Pro Musica, while audiences have heard his numerous
recitals in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago and St. Louis. He has also
collaborated with Tony Arnold, Patrick Demenga, Stephen Drury, Aleck
Karis, John Zorn, the Borromeo String Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Conductors he has worked with
include Boulez, DePriest, Knussen, Levine, Muti, Robertson, Ozawa,
Tilson Thomas and many others. Michael Norsworthy plays on Buffet
Clarinets and mouthpieces by Kalmen Opperman.

For more information about clarinetist Michael Norsworthy, including a
bio, reviews and much more, please visit
http://www.michaelnorsworthy.com/. You can also contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com

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