2024 - 2025 Season
PAST
Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 6:30pm
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn
Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial
The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
Program:
Phill Niblock - Exploratory, Rhine version "Looking for Daniel"
American premiere of a work for large orchestra, composed for Petr Kotik and the festival Ostrava Days 2019
As part of "Phill Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial"
12-hour continuous event from noon to midnight
Friday, October 11, 2024
Aula Maxima, School of Film, Music and Theatre, University College Cork (Ireland)
Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
with special guests
Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Alex Petcu, percussion
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello
Program:
Martin Smolka - Oh, My Admired C-Minor
Donnchach Mac Aodha - Music for Flute and a Two Handed Pianist
Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus I
Phill Niblock - Petr’s Charm
Sunday, October 13, 2024
The Guesthouse, Cork (Ireland)
Ostravská banda with members of S.E.M. Ensemble
Petr Kotik, Conductor
with special guests
Irena Troupová, soprano
John Godfrey, electric guitar
Susan Stenger, flute
Yseult Cooper Stockdale, violoncello
Program:
Concert I, 3:00pm
Karen Power - Bats of Namibia (2020)
Luboš Mrkvička - Quartet, Part A (2019)
Jonathan Mangle - Granular Dusk (2022)
Danny McCarthy - XXXXII (2010)
Isabel Mundry - Balancen (2006)
Morton Feldman - Structures for string quartet (1951)
Rudolf Komorous - Olympia (1964)
Concert II, 6:00pm
Christian Wolff - Flutist
Danny McCarthy - Five Leave Falling
John Godfrey - Bus Piece
George Brecht - Drip Music
Petr Kotik - Many Many Women Plus II
Closing Event, 7:30pm
Pauline Oliveros - From Unknown Silences
PROJECTED
Thursday, November 21, 2024
DOX+, Prague
Sciarrino Orchestra
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Christmas concert
January 28, 2025
Phillip Glass + Petr Kotik
February 8-13, 2025
Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn
Emerging Composers Workshop/Readings
Friday, February 13, 2025
Willow Place Auditorium, Brooklyn
Orch. Performance of Workshop composers
Wednesday, April 8, 2025
Bohemian National Hall, New York
Major concert for ensemble or orchestra
August 11-30, 2025
Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Ostrava Days 2025
With special thanks to The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, and Consul General Arnošt Kareš. We would also like to thank the Czech Center in New York for their support.
S.E.M. Ensemble’s 2023-24 season has been made possible with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts in partnership with Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Amphion Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music, The Low Road Foundation, Sheldon Berlow, Stephen J. Deutsch, Virginia Dwan, Martina Forman, Philip Foster, Allegra Fuller Snyder, Beth Greenberg and Jim Wright, Charlotta Kotik, Raymond Learsy, Julian Lethbridge, Rotraut Moquay, and Noni Pratt. Special thanks to Paula Cooper, Jasper Johns, Werner Kramarsky, and Brooklyn District 33 Councilman Lincoln Restler.
