New York – Ostrava: Influences & Initiatives
New York – Ostrava
Influences & Initiatives
Lucier, Vítková, Brown, Wolff, Heflin, Kotík
May 28, 2019
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Bohemian National Hall
321 E 73rd St, NYC
6pm: Screening
8pm: Concert
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Program:
Lucie Vítková* - Nine (2018)
Christian Wolff - Trio I (1951)
Christian Wolff - Trio VI (2014)
Alvin Lucier - Navigations for Strings (1991)
Anna Heflin* - Included / Excluded (2019)
Petr Kotik - Congo (1962)
Petr Kotik - Nine+1 (2012)
Earle Brown - Available Forms I (1961)
*Student-Residents of Ostrava Days
Two Evenings at The Willow Place Auditorium
Morton Feldman (1984) & Alvin Lucier (1994)
Alex Mineck (2016) & Alex Huddlestone (2018)
SEM • Mivos Quartet • Yarn/Wire
March 22 & 23, 2019
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Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place, Brooklyn NY
Friday, March 22nd 5pm-10pm
Morton Feldman - For Philip Guston
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, flutes
Joseph Kubera, keyboards
Chris Nappi, percussion
The S.E.M. Ensemble will perform Morton Feldman’s magnum opus “For Philip Guston,” on March 22nd. SEM has been associated with Feldman since the early 1970’s, while both were based in Buffalo, NY. Feldman composed “Instruments I” for Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1973 (Jan Williams, Julius Eastman and Petr Kotik were among the performers who premiered the piece). In 1987, Petr Kotik commissioned a new work by Feldman, but Feldman died in the fall of 1987 before he could compose this new work. Instead, in February 1988, SEM performed “For Philip Guston,” for the first time. The performers in 1988 are the same as they will be in 2019: Kotik, Kubera and Nappi. Alex Ross in the New York Times commented: “… the performance by the S.E.M. Ensemble is no less gigantic than Mahler's Eighth Symphony.”
Saturday, March 23rd 7:30pm-9:30pm
Alvin Lucier - Disappearances
Alex Mincek - Torrent
Alex Huddlestone - I found a few configurations//some stripes
Improvisation with Mivos Quartet & Yarn/Wire
Mivos Quartet
Olivia De Prato, violin
Maya Bennardo, violin
Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Tyler J. Borden, cello
Yarn/Wire
Laura Barger, piano
Ning Yu, piano
Ian Antonio, percussion
Russell Greenberg, percussion
As part of their 10th Anniversary Season celebrations, Mivos Quartet is joined by their friends and colleagues Yarn/Wire for an exciting evening of new music. The program will be centered around Alex Mincek’s expansive octet Torrent. The program also includes a beautiful quartet from Alvin Lucier and the 2018 Mivos/Kanter Prize winner Alex Huddleston in a scintillating spatial quartet. Both ensembles will join forces in improvisation as well. The concert is a demonstration of the myriad ways that Mivos champions new music.
The March 23rd concert is supported in part by a grant from the Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research at the Eastman School of Music.
www.mivosquartet.com
Emerging Composers & Henry Threadgill: Reading Workshop Concert
Emerging Composers Workshop Concert
Wednesday February 13
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Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place, Brooklyn NY
S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Director
Thomas Buckner, Baritone
Program
Ian Davis - Additive Counterpoint Study
Henry Threadgill - Poems for Voice
Greg McRae - whose that (dedicated to Henry Threadgill)
Cory Bracken - Brux
Anna Heflin - Included / Excluded
Jonathan Delazer - Crhyps
Judith Berkson - Mineurj
Jon Myers - Daniel in Chicago
Looking Back & Onward: SEM in 1986 & 2018
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SEM: 1986 & 2018 Wednesday December 19, 8:00 pm 524 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001 Preview Concert Sunday December 16, 8:30pm - at - 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201 
S.E.M. Ensemble Petr Kotik, Director Program Petr Kotik - Wilsie Bridge (1986) Ben Neill - Money Talk (1986) Michael J. Schumacher - Variations (2018) Miya Masaoka - States of Being, States of Becoming (2018) Ben Neill - Horizonal (2015) Petr Kotik - Now Distance (2018) 
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