Brave New Works and Kerrytown Concert House present:

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory's MUSIC 2002--On the
Road...

The MUSIC 2002 festival is a
highly influential contemporary music festival hosted by the
Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.  Led by noted composer Joel
Hoffman, the festival has attracted the most important figures in
contemporary music, including Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, Steve Reich,
Milton Babbitt, Eighth Blackbird, and Frederic Rzewski, among others.
August 27th's concert features Tim O'Neill, a prize-winning interpreter
of contemporary music, and Robert Auler, a University of Michigan grad
who is now pursuing a concert performing career while finishing his
doctorate at CCM.  They will perform works of Carter, Corigliano,
Bolcom, Sheng, and Hoffman.

Concert is Tuesday, August 27th at 8:00 p.m. at Kerrytown Concert House
in Ann Arbor.  This concert is possible due to the generous support from
the  Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music 2002 and its artistic
director Joel Hoffman.

The program will feature guest artists Robert Auler [piano] and Tim
O'Neill [violin].

Program will be as follows;

Fantasia Fiorentina (16')                 Joel Hoffman
   Mr. Auler                (1953--)
   Mr. O'Neill

"The Stream Flows"    (10')               Bright Sheng
   Mr. O'Neill               (1955--)

Sonata for Violin and Piano (14')       William Bolcom
   Mr. O'Neill             (1938--)
   Mr. Auler

  INTERMISSION

Two Diversions for Piano               Elliott Carter
   Mr. Auler               (1908--)

Sonata for Violin and Piano           John Corigliano
   Mr. Auler               (1938--)
   Mr. O'Neill

Founded in 1997 by Christopher Froh, Chris Younghoon Kim and Eli Shapiro,
Brave New Works is an Ann Arbor-based performing organization dedicated to
the work of composers across the entire aesthetic spectrum.  Their mission
is to foster new music through creation and performance by working with and
on behalf of contemporary composers.  Brave New Works also seeks to expand
the audience for new music through performances, workshops and
collaborations with the arts.

Kerrytown Concert House is located at 415 North Fourth Avenue in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.  More information about this concert can be found online at
www.kerrytownconcerhouse.org.  Tickets $15 ($5 students).  Reservations
suggested:  769-2999.

      *****  (notes to follow)

Joel Hoffman is a professor of composition at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music.  He is also director of Music 2002, a
contemporary music festival at the College-Conservatory, which attracts top
composers and performers for a two-week celebration of contemporary music,
including master classes, concerts, lessons, and lectures.  Past invitees
have included Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski,
and Milton Babbitt.  He is a highly repsected composer whose awards include
the BMI award, 15 ASCAP awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His "Fantasia
Fiorentina" is a work which fuses tonality with atonal elements, and which
places equal technical and musical demands on each instrument.

Last October, Bright Sheng was named a MacArthur Foundation "Genius"
Fellow, one of only two musicians to receive the highly prestigious award.
He is currently professor of composition at the University of Michigan.
Recent projects have included "Nanking!  Nanking!", an orchestral work
commemorating the Rape of Nanking, and "Red Silk Dance", a piano concerto
premiered by Emmanuel Ax with the Boston Symphony.  His work for solo
violin, "The Stream Flows", derives from a famous southern Chinese folk
song.  Written in two parts, the first part attempts to recreate the sound
of a female singer, while the second is a fast country dance.  The text of
the folk song is as follows:

   The Stream Flows

     The Rising moon shines brightly
     it reminds me of my love in the mountains
     Like the moon, you walk in the sky
     as the crystal stream flows down the mountain.

     A clear breeze blows up the hill.
     My love, do you hear I am calling you?

William Bolcom, distinguished professor of composition at the University
of Michigan, has won awards from every era of his compositional career.
In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his "Twelve New Etdues for Piano".
His compostional style represents a junction point between tonal, atonal,
and vernacular elements including jazz and ragtime.  His Fourth Sonata
for Violin and Piano, written in 1994, demonstrates many of these eclectic
elements:  the first movement is fast, motivic, and employs atonal melodies
and rapid-fire technical work for both performers.  The second derives its
lyrical, tonal material from a Danish folk tune, which is then distorted
throug the perception of memory.  The third, entitled, "Arabesque", uses
a repetitive displaced octave figure in the piano, while the violin soars
above this accompaniment.  The fourth movement, "Jota", is a very fast
dance movement, again demonstrating virtuosity and flair on the part of
both performers.

Elliott Carter, born in 1908, is regarded as one of the most important
American composers since Copland, and has won most of the awards avaiable
to a composer.

He is perhaps best-known for his innovative use of metric modulation, a
rhythmic technique in which the pulse shifts seamlessly from one tempo to
another, sometimes even many times in the course of a phrase.  His "Two
Diversions for Piano", written in 1999, exhibit this tendency, as well as
extremes in dynamics and textures, which range from sparse, economical
writing to soaring, lyrical melodies.

John Corigliano is perhaps best known to audiences as the Oscar-winning
composer of the film score to the "Red Violin".  He has also written two
Symphonies, an Opera, "The Ghosts of Versailles", important concertos for
Clarinet and Piano, and a host of other solo, chamber, and vocal works.
In 1964, he won the Spoleto Chamber Music Prize for his Sonata for Violin
and Piano, written in memory of his father, John Corigliano, Sr., then
Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.  The Sonata is a highly
lyrical, nostalgic work, which effectively employs atonaity, but which
is nonetheless rooted in tonality.  The first movement's feverish violin
writing coupled with a toccata-like piano part is extremely exciting.  The
second movement is a sweeping, lyrical interplay between the violin and the
piano.  Following the third movement's more static quality, the fourth once
again returns to the feverish pitch of the opening, ending with an
extraordinary race to the end between the violin and the piano.

Notes by Robert Auler

BIOGRAPHY for Robert Auler

Robert Auler has won numerous national and international piano
competitions, including the Stravinsky Awards, the Young Keyboard Artists
Awards, the Society of American Musicians Prize, and the Joanna Hodges
Competition's Grand Prize.  He has performed throughout the Netherlands,
Germany, France, and Denmark, and has recently returned from solo and
chamber music appearances throughout Venezuela.  He has performed on
Chicago's Dame Myra Hess Recital Series, with a live simulcast on WFMT,
98.7.  This spring, he will return to Europe to perform in Vienna,
Salzburg, Prague, Leipzig, and Bayreuth.  This season he will also present
concertos in Cincinnati, Greensboro, NC, and with the North Florida
Symphony in Pensacola, Florida.

BIOGRAPHY for TIMOTHY O'NEILL
Timothy O'Neill is a gifted and versatile musician, equally comfortable
interpreting Brahms, Paganini, Rzewski, or his own compositions.  Last
spring, he was featured with the Starling Chamber Orchestra on their
month-long tour of the Far East.  He was also featured as concerto soloist
with CCM's Philharmonia Orhcestra, performing the Sibelius Concerto.

Chris Younghoon Kim
Artistic Director, Brave New Works
http://www.bravenewworks.org