2019-2020 Season
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 POSTPONED
Rob Voisey and Friends: Electronic Music POSTPONED
Price Music Center, 7pm
With caution and the health of our audience in mind and in accordance with recently announced University policies, we announce that this show will be postponed and will be part of our 2020-2021 season. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Rob Voisey composes electroacoustic and chamber music. His aesthetic oscillates from the Romantic to the Post Modern Mash-Up. His work has been performed in venues throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, the World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium, and Stratford Circus in London. Voisey has been profiled and his music broadcast on HEC-TV public television in St Louis, Elektramusik in France, as well as radio stations all around the world including Cityscape – NPR St. Louis Public Radio; Arts & Answers & Art Waves on WKCR, Upbeat with Eva Radich on Radio New Zealand; and Kol Yisrael, Israeli Radio.
Voisey has curated a program of electronic works, which is being presented around the country and premiered in the Chicago area. The program includes works by Voisey and pieces by some of his friends,
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Timothy Holley, cellist
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre in Thompson Hall 7pm
Timothy Holley is a proponent of new music and has a special interest in the music of African-American composers. He has collaborated with the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra since 1997.
His doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan focused on the cello music of African American composers, and he has given premiere performances of works by T. J. Anderson, William Banfield, Trevor Weston and Adolphus Hailstork –including the Sonata for Solo Cello, which was composed by Prof. Hailstork for Dr. Holley.
He has performed Valerie Capers’ Song of the Seasons for soprano, cello and piano with Louise Toppin in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. He can also be heard on commercial recordings with Nneena Freelon (Homefree), Oral Moses (Songs of America), and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (American Spectrum).
Dr. Holley will perform works by Adolphus Hailstork and Trevor Weston. We will also honor that late NCSU poet, Gerald Barrax, by showing a short video about his life and work and by reading some of his poems. In addition, there will be electroacoustic music and works for voice.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
The Difficulties
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre in Thompson Hall 7pm
The Difficulties is an anti-meta, neo-beat, electronic, garage, gospel quartet/band that brings laptop wizardry together with two saxophonists, a percussionist, and an ironist wordsmith.
Mark Engebretson, computer, keyboards, baritone saxophone
Eric Willie, percussion
Brian Lampkin is an unreliable narrator of his own history, but you can be sure of this: his poems were written in between other acts of every day heroism and embarrassment.
Susan Fancher is an internationally-recognized concert saxophonist known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations. A much sought after performer of new music, she has inspired and premiered over 100 new works for saxophone. She is an active soloist and chamber musician, performing regularly with pianist Inara Zandmane, the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Blue Mountain/Forecast Music, and the Women’s Woodwind Ensemble. She teaches saxophone at Duke University and at Wake Forest University.
Eric Willie has a varied career as a percussion soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher. As a chamber musician, Dr. Willie performs with Nief-Norf and the Legal Wood Project. An avid promoter of new music, he has commissioned or premiered works by over a dozen composers. He is Director of Percussion Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Mark Snyder and Friends
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre in Thompson Hall 7pm
Mark Snyder is a composer, performer, video artist and teacher living in Jacksonville, Florida. Snyder’s multimedia compositions have been described as “expansive, expressive, extremely human, ….Snyder’s compositions attract performers who resist works with electronics as well as audiences who don’t think they want to hear computer processing.” Dr. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Music Business and Production at Jacksonville University teaching courses in music business, audio production and music technology. He earned his D.M.A. from the University of Memphis and an M.M. from Ohio University. Also performing are clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman, guitarist Taylor Neal, and soprano Emily O’Neal.