“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR AUGUST— MUSIC IN THE GARDEN PERFORMANCE BY EVAN ZIPORYN
Sunday, August 8, 2010 (All day)
Department:
Public Programs
This summer, Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum co-present Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden. The third performance in the series will feature composer and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, one of contemporary music’s preeminent practitioners. Mr. Ziporyn will perform pieces that he composed—Tsmindao Ghmerto, Honshirabe, Notes to Self, and Walk the Dog—as well as Press Release, by David Lang, and New York Counterpoint, by Steve Reich.
Evan Ziporyn is a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, with ZIPORYN whom he has toured since 1992. He is also founder and artistic director of Boston’s Gamelan Galak Tika, a group dedicated to new music for Balinese gamelan, which Mr. Ziporyn has studied for thirty years.
Mr. Ziporyn is the recipient of the 2007 USA Artists Walker Award and the 2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship. His music has been commissioned and performed by Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, the American Composers Orchestra, the American Repertory Theater, Maya Beiser, So Percussion, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, among others.
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Ziporyn is currently working on a tabla concerto for Sandeep Das and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which will premiere in November 2010.
With its unparalleled musical sensibility, award-winning recordings, and far-ranging commissioning programs, Bang on a Can is one of the world’s best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music.
Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music.
Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can, composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, along with the group’s managing director, Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe’s goal is to further the mission of Bang on a Can, and to provide a home for “music that slips between the cracks.”
