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2024 - 2025 Season

PAST

 

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 6:30pm

Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn

Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial

 

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor

 

Program:

Phill Niblock - Exploratory, Rhine version "Looking for Daniel"

American premiere of a work for large orchestra, composed for Petr Kotik and the festival Ostrava Days 2019

 

As part of "Phill Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial"

12-hour continuous event from noon to midnight

 

 Friday, October 11, 2024

Aula Maxima, School of Film, Music and Theatre, University College Cork (Ireland) 

 

Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble

Petr Kotik, Conductor

with special guests 

Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Alex Petcu, percussion
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello 

 

Program:

Martin Smolka - Oh, My Admired C-Minor 

Donnchach Mac Aodha - Music for Flute and a Two Handed Pianist 

Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus I 

Phill Niblock - Petr’s Charm 

 

 

Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Guesthouse, Cork (Ireland)

 

Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble

Petr Kotik, Conductor

with special guests 

Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello 

 

Program:

Concert I, 3:00pm
Karen Power - Bats of Namibia (2020)
Luboš Mrkvička - Quartet, Part A (2019)
Jonathan Mangle - Granular Dusk (2022)
Danny McCarthy - XXXXII (2010)
Isabel Mundry - Balancen (2006)
Morton Feldman - Structures for string quartet (1951) 

Rudolf Komorous - Olympia (1964) 

 

Concert II, 6:00pm
Christian Wolff - Flutist
Danny McCarthy - Five Leave Falling
John Godfrey - Bus Piece
George Brecht - Drip Music
Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus II  

 

Closing Event, 7:30pm
Pauline Oliveros - From Unknown Silences

 

 

PROJECTED

 

 

Thursday, November 21, 2024

DOX+, Prague    

Sciarrino Orchestra

 

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Christmas concert

 

January 28, 2025        

Phillip Glass + Petr Kotik

 

February 8-13, 2025

Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn    

Emerging Composers Workshop/Readings

 

Friday, February 13, 2025

Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn    

Orch. Performance of Workshop composers

 

Wednesday, April 8, 2025

Bohemian National Hall, New York

Major concert for ensemble or orchestra

 

August 11-30, 2025

Ostrava (Czech Republic)

Ostrava Days 2025

With special thanks to The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, and Consul General Arnošt Kareš. We would also like to thank the Czech Center in New York for their support.

S.E.M. Ensemble’s 2023-24 season has been made possible with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Amphion Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music, The Low Road Foundation, Sheldon Berlow, Stephen J. Deutsch, Virginia Dwan, Martina Forman, Philip Foster, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Beth Greenberg and Jim Wright, Charlotta Kotik, Raymond Learsy, Julian Lethbridge, Rotraut Moquay, and Noni Pratt. Special thanks to Paula Cooper, Jasper Johns, Werner Kramarsky, and Brooklyn District 33 Councilman Lincoln Restler.