Members of the International Contemporary Ensemble join composer Pamela Z in Florida State University’s celebration of new music.

This concert, one of six associated with the 20th Biennial Festival of New Music, will feature compositions and performances by the Ensemble and Pamela Z, including The Unraveling for string quartet, voice, and electronics (feat. Pamela Z and the Burgin String Quartet, the College of Music’s resident student quartet), and Four Movements for solo cello and electronics (feat. Pamela Z with Professor of Cello Gregory Sauer). Works by Brittany J. Green, Mario Diaz de Leon, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir will also be performed by members of the Ensemble and FSU Faculty/Students.

Members of the Ensemble will also be reading through FSU composer works on February 3rd.

Tickets for this event are $10 general admission and may be purchased online at tickets.music.fsu.edu.

The Florida Board of Governors and Florida State University expect masks to be worn by all individuals in all FSU facilities. Dates, locations and times are subject to change based on University and CDC guidelines regarding COVID-19.

PROGRAM

Mario Diaz de Leon: Mysterium (2016)
Brittany J. Green: Intersections (2017)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Sequences (2015)
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Firing Squad (2018)
Pamela Z: Twenty Answers (2007)

PAMELA Z

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Ethel, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Her interdisciplinary performance works have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as the Whitney (NY), the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She’s a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, United States Artists, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, the Guggenheim, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. www.pamelaz.com

FROM THE ENSEMBLE

Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, flute
Michelle Farah, oboe
Joshua Nathan Rubin, clarinet
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Ross Karre, electronics