3-DAY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ON THE EDGE
Concerts of contemporary classical concert hall music by composers from around the country as well as from the Cascadia region featuring one of Portland's premiere contemporary music ensembles fEARnoMUSIC and guest musicians plus FREE Symposia (lecture/deomonstration performances) on music by featured composers

Festival Day 1

      Symposia sessions
Wed., March 10 (11 AM - 5 PM)
Sherman Clay & Moe's Pianos  [get map]

   11:00 am - 12 noon - Tomas Svoboda - Portland-based internationally renowned composer and pianist - performs at the piano, selections from his soon-to-be-released CD: "Charms" for harp
   12:00 noon - lunch
   1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Gary Noland - Portland-based composer - discusses his ninety-minute work in progress: "39 Variations on an Original Theme" for piano (Op. 96) - pianist Kaori Katayama Noland performs selected variations - pianist Ruta Kuzmickas performs Noland's "Etude" from his "Twenty Piano Pieces" Op. 1 (West Coast Premiere)
   4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Greg Steinke - "Santa Fe Trail Echoes and the use of visual images in my compositional process" - a brief discussion of the images used in Santa Fe Trail Echoes and of other images used in other compositions. Discussion will be illustrated with brief musical examples

      Concert - 1
Wed., March 10 @ 8 PM
Sherman Clay & Moe's Pianos  

   Martin Blessinger - Duo for Saxophone and Pianofor alto sax and piano
      2508 NACUSA Young Composers Competition Winner
   David Cortello - Three Movements for Flute
   Mark Vigil - Five preludes for Violin and Piano
   Nick Sibicky - Fireflies for stereo audio playback alone
   Alden Jenks - Ghost Songs for soprano and piano
   Bonnie Miksch - Man Dreaming butterfly dreaming man for violin and piano
   Chris Penrose - Sextuple Entendre for stereo audio playback alone
   John G. Bilotta - Petroushka Dreams for clarinet, cello, and piano

Festival Day 2

      Symposia sessions
Thrus., March 11 (11 AM - 6 PM)
Sherman Clay & Moe's Pianos  [get map]

   11:00 am - 12 noon - Jack Gabel - THE FALL '01 - video & discussion: scoring dance theatre into film, on the empire at the precipice of its fall
   12 noon - lunch
   1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Jeff Winslow -The Art Song Buzz - one view from Cascadia - What composer can resist writing a song? There's a new burst of creativity hidden well away from the top of the charts. Come hear mine, in songs of love, loss, and liars.
   3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - David S. Bernstein - AS SNOW BEFORE A SUMMER SUN - video from live performance of oratorio inspired by Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" explicated by the composer
   4:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Tan Hainu - Chinese-American composer - "The Natural Sights and Sounds Flowing in Sound of Wind" - She uses Expressionist gesture and technique in this quintet, to present the aesthetic feelings of purity and beauty and to create music as a metaphor to depict human life.

      Concert - 2
Thrus., March 11 @ 8 PM
The Old Church  [get map]

   Kristin Shafel - Caoineadh for flute
   Elizabeth Dyson - High Fructose Corn for mezzo-soprano and piano
   Trent Hanna - A Tiburon Panorama II, III and IV for piano
   Nancy Bloomer Deussen - Solstice Circle for flute, cello and piano
   Bob Priest - Cirque de Deux for basson/contra and cello
   David Lefkowitz - Eli, Eli for solo violin
   J.K. Chang - OM - video with stereo audio playback
   Paul Safar - Five for violin and piano
   David S. Bernstein - Winter Sunlight and Shadow for piano trio

Festival Day 3

      Symposia sessions
Fri., March 12 (11 AM - 2 PM)
Sherman Clay & Moe's Pianos  [get map]

    11:00 am-12 noon - Vienna's Sacred Spring: The Path to Wozzeck Keith Clark previews this summer's Northwest premiere of Wozzeck at the Astoria Music Festival and discuses aspects of Berg's masterpiece: Buchner's remarkable play Woyzeck, the social milieu of Jugendstil Vienna, the classical forms, Leitmotifs, and religious themes in Wozzeck, and a glance at "the other Wozzeck" by Manfred Gurlitt, premiered just four months after Berg's opera but now forgotten despite its high quality.
   12 noon - lunch
   1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Steve Ettinger - The Art of Grace - short social services pomotional video & discussion: scoring for short films

      Concert - 3
Fri., March 12 @ 8 PM
The Old Church  [get map]

   Greg Steinke - Santa Fe Trail Echoes for viola solo
   Ingrid Stölzel - The Road is ALL for violin, viola, cello
   Andrew Seager Cole - Sound Timbre and Density III for flute + video with stereo audio playback
     2508 NACUSA Young Composers Competition Winner
   Andrew Sigler - Four Movements for Flute, Viola and Piano
   Bryce Cannell - Capital Vices for piano
   Doug Ovens - Improvisation #6 for percussion with stereo audio playback
   Dan Senn - Prague Songs for string trio, marimba, soprano

What to expect

NW Reverb Review   WW Review    +   streaming media from March 2009 - The Old Church

Contact and ticketing

info: 800.757.7384
email: ArtixPdx@comcast.net
www.url = www.cascadiacomposers.org

TICKETS AT THE DOOR:

$20 general admission
$50 series admission
$15 seniors
$10 working artists
$5 full-time students (with student ID)
children under age 13 admitted free of charge
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The lecture/presentations by composers are funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program. Concerts are made possible in part due to generous funding provided by The National Association of Composers/USA.