Composer D'Arcy Reynolds Cloven Dreams to Be Performed by Sontonga Quartet
in Grass Valley, California on June 17
California-based composer D'Arcy Reynolds' Cloven Dreams will be presented
by South Africa's Sontonga String Quartet on Saturday, June 17 - 8 PM
at Gallery 305, located at 305 Miners Trail Road in Grass Valley,
California.
Cloven Dreams, which was commissioned by East/West Continuo of Portland,
Oregon, after a group member visited Helen Martins' Owl House in South
Africa in the Summer of 2002, is a programmatic work in three sections,
which takes the listener from the exterior Camel Yard to the interior
of Owl House, followed by the transmutation of this material when the
Little Devil Enters the Camel Yard in the third and final section of the
piece. The third section represents the integration of the "inner" and
"outer" aspects of Ms. Martins' home and inner life. Other composers
on the program will include Peter Louis van Dijk, Juistinian Tamusuza
and Priaulx Rainier.
Tickets for this concert are $10 and will be available at the door.
For reservations or other information, please call 530 478-0572.
Formed in 2002, the Sontonga Quartet was immediately engaged to tour
internationally with Confessions of Zeno,a multimedia collaboration with
the renowned Handspring Puppet Company, the internationally acclaimed
artist William Kentridge, and Kevin Volans, one of South Africa's most
lauded composers. The quartet has established itself as one of the
finest exponents of both the classical and contemporary repertoire. In
its first 3 years, it gave world premieres of works by more than a dozen
South African composers to South African premieres of works by Arvo Part,
Peter Louis van Dijk and Henryk Gorecki. Their repertoire list already
includes more than 30 works by South African composers, who they perform
throughout South Africa as well as abroad, so that these composers might
receive the international recognition. Visit them online at
http://www.sontongaquartet.com
D'Arcy Reynolds is a well-known composer on the West Coast where her
compositions have been premiered at numerous concert halls and music
festivals. She has written works for orchestra, chamber orchestra,
chorus, chamber ensemble, voice and piano. Recent premieres include
"Cloven Dreams" for flute and string trio, performed by Tessa Brinckman
& the East/West Continuo in Portland, Oregon, "Elegy" by the San Jose
Chamber Orchestra, "21" for piano, and "The Past Keeps Changing", performed
at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. In recognition
for her outstanding work, D'Arcy has won several grants from such
prestigious organizations as ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, American
Music Center and Meet the Composer. In addition to her work as a composer
and pianist, Ms Reynolds studies North Indian Raga Music with Terry
Riley. She is the founding Director of the American Composers Forum San
Francisco Chapter, and serves on the Board of the San Francisco Friends
of Chamber Music. Visit her website at http://www.darcyreynolds.com/.
For more information about D'Arcy Reynolds, please contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask]
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel: 516-586-3433
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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