2009-2010 Concert Season


Upcoming



Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:30pm
Auditorio Nacional, Sala Sinfonica

Orquesta de la Cominidad de Madrid
Daan Vandewalle, Piano (Ghent)
Heldur Harry Polda, Voldemar Kants, Voices (Tallinn)
Yurii Galatenko, Voice/Narration (Ostrava)
Petr Kotik, Conductor (New York/Ostrava)

Music by Galina Ustvolskaya (St. Petersburg 1919-2006)

Symphony no. 3 “Jesus Messiah, save us!” (1983)
Octet (1949)
Concert for Piano, Strings and Timpani (1946)
Intermission
Symphony no. 1 (1955)
For 2 boy-soprano Voices and orchestra
Composition no. 3 “Benedictus, Qui Venit” (1974-5)
Symphony no. 2 “True and eternal Bliss” (1979)

Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 8pm
Philharmonic Hall, Rudolfinum
Prague, Czech Republic

S.E.M. Ensemble with Ostravska banda orchestra
Daan Vandewalle, Piano (Ghent)
Jean-Paul Dessy, Violoncello (Brussels/Mons)
Jan Triska, Narrator (Los Angeles/Prague)
James Presley, Narrator (Plymouth/Ostrava)
Petr Kotik, Conductor (New York/Ostrava)

Petr Balka Material and Dreams (2009) (Prague premiere)
Jean-Paul Dessy Oree-Oraison-Hors-Raison (2000) (Czech premiere)
Gyorgy Ligeti Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1985-88) (Prague premiere)
Petr Kotik Letters to Olga (1989-91) On text by Vaclav Havel




Past Performances


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
7:30pm

S.E.M. Ensemble
in collaboration with Interpretations 21
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Gregory Purnhagen, Baritone
Conrad Harris, Violin
Petr Kotik, conductor

Program:

Somei Satoh The Passion (2009)
Iannis Xenakis Mikka “S” (1976)
Petr Kotik There is Singularly Nothing for instruments and voices (1973)


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


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



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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




>Composition No. 1


Symphony No. 4


Symphony No. 5




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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