2014-15 Season
STUDIO SERIES
Click here to purchase tickets. All shows @ 7:30 pm.
All Studio Series concerts generously funded by Dave & Julie Machado
Alchemy
Thu & Fri Oct 16 & 17, 2014 @ 7:30 PM
Studio2@Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont
Third Angle New Music String Quartet goes to extremes with John Zorn’s intense, manic The Alchemist and Philip Glass’s meditative, minimalist String Quartet No. 3. The program also features the world premiere of Online Communion Kerrith Livengood.
Generously supported by Marilyn Crilley & George Rowbottom
Afield
Thu & Fri Nov 6 & 7, 2014 @ 7:30 PM
Studio 2@Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont
We present fresh works by a new generation of NW composers, inspired by nature and incorporating field recordings. Three young Northwest composers offer their unique perspectives on nature and natural sounds as inspiration for new musical compositions. The program features three world premieres by Justin Ralls, Andrew Stiefel, and Nayla Mehdi.
Generously supported by The Collins Foundation
Blown Opportunity
Thu & Fri Jan 22 & 23, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Studio 2@Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont
Brahms first combined horn, violin and piano in an emotional homage to his mother.Third Angle New Music offers that seminal work alongside the avant-garde horn trio of György Ligeti and a new horn trio commissioned by Third Angle New Music from Thai composer Narong Prangcharoen.
Mozart, Revisited
Thu & Fri Feb 12 & 13, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Studio 2@Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont
We hearken back to the Classical era with music for flute quartet by Mozart and contemporary American composer Steve Mackey. The fluid program alternates between Mackey’s Humble River and movements from Mozart, in an approach that generates what Mackey calls “a river with Mozart islands”.
Generously supported by Work For Art
Silver Threads
Thu & Fri Apr 16 & 17, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Studio 2@Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont
Third Angle presents new-music phenomenon Jacob Cooper and soprano Mellissa Hughes in the Portland premiere of Cooper’s Silver Threads, a multimedia song cycle featuring otherworldly electronica and poetry inspired by Basho.
Timber
When: Fri, Sept 12, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Where: The Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St
What: We open our 30th anniversary season on the cutting edge with the Oregon premiere of Michael Gordon’s Timber, a concert-length work performed on dimensioned lumber. Third Angle New Music Percussion Ensemble collaborates with New York’s Mantra Percussion.
Sponsors: Generously funded by Marilyn Crilley & George Rowbottom
Read:
Songs from the Wood: Third Angle New Music & Mantra Percussion’s Timber
artslandia.com, September 15, 2014
With rich overtones and complex rhythms, Michael Gordon’s ‘Timber’ sees the infinite possibilities of a board meeting
OregonLive.com, September 13, 2014
Made in Italy
When: Sat Mar 7, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Kridel Ballroom, Portland Art Museum
What: In our third collaboration with Portland Art Museum, we present post-WWII Italian chamber works in conjunction with Portland Art Museum’s exhibit Italian Style, Fashion Since 1945.
Program
Program will be performed without an intermission
Tartiniana II (1951)
by Luigi Dallapiccola
Pastorale
Tempo di Bourrée
Presto: leggerissimo
Variazioni
La Fabbrica Illuminata (1964)
by Luigi Nono
Parte I - Chorale
Parte II - Giro del letto (Around the bed)
Parte III - Tutta la citta (The whole city)
Parte IV - Finale
(performed without pause between movements)
O King (1968)
by Luciano Berio
Ganimede (1986)
by Fausto Romitelli
Ultime Rose (from Vanitas, 1981)
by Salvatore Sciarrino
Gr… (2010)
by Oscar Bianchi
Performers:
Catherine Olson, soprano
Ron Blessinger, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, cello
Zachariah Galatis, flute
Mark Dubac, clarinet
Maria Garcia, piano
Hearing Voices
When: Fri May 1, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
Where: Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St
What: In a landmark event, Third Angle teams up with The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, author of the bestselling 20th-century music history The Rest is Noise. Ross will read the story of the West Coast avant-garde, complemented by Third Angle’s performance of works by Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams.
Repertoire:
Quartet Euphometric, Henry Cowell
Bitter Music XX - Leaving Santa Barbara, Harry Partch
It’s Gonna Rain, Steve Reich
Bowl Bells from Varied Trio, Lou Harrison
Imaginary Landscape No. 1, John Cage
The Wind in High Places, John Luther Adams
Performers:
Ron Blessinger, violin
Greg Ewer, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Nancy Ives, cello
Susan DeWitt Smith, piano
Chris Whyte, percussion
Sponsor: Generously supported by The M.E.N.S.C.H. Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund
Bang on a Can
Third Angle New Music makes its New York debut at the prestigious Bang on a Can Marathon on June 21, and we invite you to experience this truly unique opportunity right alongside Artistic Director Ron Blessinger and all of our performers.
The annual Marathon concert is the heart and soul of Bang on a Can and has become one of the most diverse, open, and exciting music events in the world. “Imagine Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage,” writes Vanity Fair. “There are other places to hear new contemporary music, but it is seldom offered with such a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon.”
We’ve designed an anything-but-ordinary itinerary of music, performance art, architecture, and art events just for you.
Click here for details about this exciting 4-night experience, which takes place June 19 - 23. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in accompanying us to the Big Apple. The total number of guests is limited to only 20 people. Airfare is not included to provide maximum flexibility.
Porch Music 2015
Sat June 27, 2015
Irvington neighborhood
3:00pm
Usher in the summer with Third Angle New Music as Portland’s Irvington neighborhood gets its very own soundtrack. Five porches and five mini-previews of Third Angle’s 2015 / 2016 season, performed outdoors at some of Portland’s most beautiful homes.
