2009-2010 Concert Season

Upcoming

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place, Brooklyn Heights 8pm

Works by following emerging composers will be read/performed: Jason Brogan*, Chicago, IL (b. 1983); Paul Fraser*, Los Angeles, CA (b. 1982); Taylan Susam*, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (b. 1986); Ji Sun Yang, Seoul, Korea (b. 1979); David Kant*, Brooklyn, NY (b. 1986); Sam Sfirri*, Charleston, SC (b. 1987).

Also

The Passion, a new work, composed in 2009, by the Tokyo based Japanese composer Somei Satoh* will be part of the workshop-reading.

* Will be present at the workshop and performance

Program:

Jason Brogan	some breaths
Paul Fraser	zzzzz
Taylan Susam	mille regretz
Ji Sun Yang	Melody, notes, five
David Kant	Variations for Functions and Partitions of Time
Samuel Sfirri	the undulating land
Somei Satoh	The Passion

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
8pm

S.E.M. Ensemble
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Petr Kotik, conductor

Program:

Somei Satoh	The Passion (2009)
Petr Kotik	There is Singularly Nothing for instruments and voices (1973)

Past Performances

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Roulette
20 Greene Street

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

Performance of Yusef Lateef’s Concerto for Percussion
as part of Thomas Buckner’s Interpretations Series

Thursday, December 3, 2009

ISSUE Project Room
232 3rd Street, Brooklyn
8pm

S.E.M. Ensemble at ISSUE Project Room
Performance of Petr Kotik’s
There is Singularly Nothing for instruments and voices (1973)
as a part of Darmstadt’s Essential Repertoire Festival

also on the program:

Connie Beckley	Sound Split (1976)
	Tiptoe (1979)
	Showdown (1976)
“Blue” Gene Tyranny	Harvey Milk (Portrait from “How to Do It”/A circuit to help generate the feeling of meaning) (1978)
	The White Night Riot (1979)
	Electronic sound pieces prepared by the composers (in attendance)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
8pm

S.E.M. Ensemble (Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim, Gregory Hesselink , Max Mandel) Petr Kotik, Director
Christian Wolff, special guest
TimeTable Percussion (Alex Lipowski, Matthew Gold, Matt Ward)

Program:

Christian Wolff	Flutist (and) Percussionists(2003)
	For John / Material (2007)
Petr Kotik	In Four Parts (2009) (Premiere)\
	3, 6, & 10 for John Cage (2009)
J.S. Bach	Sonata in B-Minor (circa 1720)
Lejaren Hiller	String Quartet No. 5 I (1962)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Auditorio Nacional de Música
Sala de Cámera, Madrid
7:30pm

Ostravská banda
Daan Vandewalle, piano (Ghent)
Conrad Harris, violin (New York)
Arne Deforce, violoncello (Ghent)
Petr Kotik, conductor (Ostrava/New York)

Program:

Galina Ustvolskaya	Grand Duet for Cello and Piano
	Duet for Violin and Piano
	Composition No. 1
	Symphony No. 4
	Symphony No. 5