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Objets Trouvés (2018)

for flute and piano

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…Right at the Moment…

Our CD was reviewed!

Waking the Sparrows is going to be an album you fall in love with or really don’t get. Stylistically this is a flawless album. The production is impressive and King and Nathanson’s performances are captivating. But – and for some this will be a big “but” – some of the tracks are just not melodic, being a little too avant-garde. This would be fine if the entire album were like this, but there are also several incredibly moving pieces too.

It opens with the beautiful ‘Out of Darkness into Light’ by William Neil. This is probably the one track that really showcases King’s incredible vocal range to its full. ‘Waitin’ is another beautiful song, and it’s quite clear to see that, given the right situation, King’s voice has the ability move you to tears.

Personally, I enjoyed the conventionally melodic tracks and took quite some time to get my head around the rest. While interesting, they can be a little distracting, not to mention a tad grating, if this isn’t your thing. Darren Rea REVIEW GRAVEYARD

RAVELLO
DUO SURENO/Waking the Sparrows: A different kind of contemporary classical outing, this voice and guitar duo has been together for 20 years and this set is like a sum total of the hot spots. Making a lot more sound that you would expect from a duo working with simple and basic tools, they take you to places you’ve only heard in dreams as you’d never mistake them for some coffeehouse folkies out on a lark. Heady stuff for the art/classical set that like surprises in the mix at their recitals. MIDWEST RECORD
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher

Ravello Recordings will release Waking the Sparrows in July! More info…

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Future Events

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2019

November 11th, Six Preludes for Piano Solo, , Live from WFMT, Martin Jones, piano WFMT Radio in Chicago,

June 10th, Six Tangos for Piano Solo, , Live from WFMT, Giacomo Dalla Libera, piano WFMT Radio in Chicago,

May 15th, Commission, South Point High School, for symphonic band, Belmont, NC

April 11th, Love poem with a Knife, Pro Musica Concert Series, for two guitars, violin and soprano, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC

April 6th, Objets Trouvés for Flute and Piano, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Jonathan Borja, flute and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

January 27th, 27 Birds and Canis Lupus: Lamentation for piano and saxophones and digital acoustics, with Laurent Estoppey, saxophonist, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC.

2018

November 9th, 6 Preludes for Piano, Martin Jones, piano, Radford University, Radford, VA

November 4th, (3pm) Cabaret Songs, Out of Our Minds Chamber Series, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

October 12th and 13th, 12:15 PM Canis Lupus, International Wolf Symposium, Minneapolis, MN

October 7th, 7PM Six Tangos for Solo Piano, TheComposerStudio.Com-HouseConcerts, with Tom Gullion, April Dahl, and Bassem Elhassan, Castle La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

April 21 (7:30pm) The Waters are Shaking the Moon, Down to Earth,Out of This World, Ann Schoenecker, soprano and Mary Ellen Haupert, piano. Nola Starling Recital Hall, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI

March 22nd (7:30pm) Out of Darkness into Light, UNCW New Music Festival, Univ. of NC, Wilmington, NC

March 18th (3pm) Spiritual Adaptation to Higher Altitudes, Corey Mackey, Clarinet, & Keith Leinert, vibraphone, Brodbeck Hall, Univ. WI, Platteville Performing Arts Center

March 11th (5PM) 3 Tangos, Between Italy and America, Giacomo Dalla Libera, piano, Sala SOSAT, Trento, Italia

2017

October 8th, (6pm) Four Tangos for Piano, Tango Society of Rochester, MN, William Neil, piano, Rochester, MN

September 23rd Premiere of A Feather in a Shell, a cycle of 6 songs on original poems, Paola Velvet, alto, William Neil, piano, Auditorium Convento dei SS Apostoli, Rome, Italy

July 15th (7:30PM) Concerto for Piccolo Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra, Fàtima Boix Canto’, Clarinet, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA

May 27th (4PM) Prelude No. 3, Tango No. 1, and Nocturne No. 1, Giacomo dalla Libera, pianist
Morley College, London, UK

March 30th, Out of Darkness Into Light,
Pro Musica Ensemble
Cameron Art Museum
Wilmington, NC

2016

December 23rd, 8PMApril 11th, 2015 Project FourthStream Nostras Voces Concert Broadcast
, WFMT Radio in Chicago

November 13th, Project FourthStream CD Release Concert
Letihold Music, La Crosse, WI

November 6th Tango No. 1 for Piano and Clarinet
Mark Tollefsen, piano and Corey Mackey, Clarinet
Viterbo University Recital Hall
La Crosse, WI

September 18th, New Work
Project FourthStream with Issam Rafea, Oud
Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugee
In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

2015

November 1st Twenty Seven Birds, Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano, William Neil, piano and digital acoustics
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL

October 24th Sinfonia delle Gioie, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, La Crosse, WI

June 27th Green,White and Red Concert, William Neil piano,
Accademia della Musica
Santa Sofia d’Epiro, Italy

June 18th Piano Trio “Notte dei Cristalli”, Trio Malipiero, Padua, Italy

April 11th Nostras Voces with Project FourthStream, St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, IL

2014
November 11th Project FourthStream, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI

September 26th Sound Design for Glass
Menagerie, Tandem Theatre Milwaukee, WI

January 27th Notte dei Cristalli, Cadoneghe, Italy

2013
November 26th We All Sing, Citywide Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, St. John’s Catholic Church Charlotte, NC

November 6th Where There is No Autumn, La Crosse, WI

August 25th Tango for Malgosia for guitar and cello, Gargnano, Italy

June 17th – World Premiere of Notte dei Cristalli , Crespano sul Grappa (VI), Italy

March 1-24th Sound Design for Beast on the Moon, In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

February 2013 Twenty Seven Birds with Project FourthStream, Viroqua, WI

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