da capo chamber players
35th Anniversary Season -- 2005-06

David Bowlin, violin
André Emelianoff, cello
Patricia Spencer, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Blair McMillen, piano

Duality
Yass Hakoshima Movement Theatre

DA CAPO's special collaboration with
world-renowned mime, YASS HAKOSHIMA,
in works by George Crumb and Joan Tower

Guest artists:
Yonah Zur, violin
Maiya Papach, viola

Peter Norton Symphony Space Tuesday, November 8, 20058:00 PM
2537 Broadway at 95th Street

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Da Capo on "Shuffle"

Guest artists:
Dennis DeSantis, dj
Kyle Gann, keyboard
Bernard Gann, electric bass
Matthew Cody, conductor

Come hear our hectic-eclectic mix of works that run the gamut of pop, jazz, techno, minimalism, microtonality, and sonic sketch comedy.

*World Premiere, written for the Da Capo Chamber Players

The Knitting Factory Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:30 PM
74 Leonard Street

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The Russians Are Coming:
New Sounds from Moscow and St. Petersburg

World premieres by visiting Russian composers, for Da Capo's jubilant 35th Season! 

Guest artists:
Elena Antonenko, soprano
Lois Martin, viola

Works by:

• Elena Antonenko, Words*+
• Boris Filanovsky, We Can't Perform It*+
• Dmitri Ryabtsev, Enchanted Lake II*+
• Alexander Radvilovitch, Pierrot's Dreams*+
• Vladimir Tarnopolski, Impression-Expression III*
• Kirill Umansky, Winter Landscape*+

+World Premiere, written for the Da Capo Chamber Players

*All composers will be in attendance!

Merkin Concert Hall Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:00 PM
129 West 67th Street
Tickets $20 ($10 students/seniors).
Available at Merkin Concert Hall box office, 212 501-3330.

The Russians Are Coming will also be performed
Sunday, March 5, 2006 3:00 PM
Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Admission Free

Composer biographies (links below take you to more detailed composer biographical information)

1. Elena Antonenko - composer and singer, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the highest degree, Post Graduate, in the class of Professor Slonimski;
2. Boris Filanovski - graduate of the Rimski-Korsakov State Conservatoire, and currently artistic leader of eNsemble, contemporary music group in St.Petersburg;
3. Alexander Radvilovitch - founder and director of the St. Petersburg Sound Ways festival, a graduate of the St.Petersburg Conservatory where he studied piano and composition under Sergey Slonimsky;
4. Dmitri Ryabtsev - known for his work in jazz and quasi-folk idioms and for extensive performances, in Moscow, St. Peterburg, Novgorod, Novosibirsk; USA, Finland, Israel, Estonia and other venues;
5. Vladimir Tarnopolsky - professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory, and a frequent guest of such Western contemporary music festivals as: ISCM World Music Days, Berliner Festwochen, Munchener Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Tage fur Neue Musik (Zurich), Make Music Together (Boston), among others;
6. Kirill Umansky - graduated from the composition class of Nikolai Sidelnikov at the Moscow Conservatory, now frequently performed at music festivals in Russia and abroad, particularly in the USA, Holland, Austria, England, and Norway.

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Arts and Technology Symposium at Connecticut College

March 30, 2006
program details TBA

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Da Capo:  Ears to the East

Guest artists:
TBA, mezzo soprano
TBA, tabla

*World Premiere (number one hundred!) -- written for the Da Capo Chamber Players.
 

Merkin Concert Hall  Tuesday, June 6, 2006 8:00 PM
129 West 67th Street

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The concerts of the Da Capo Chamber Players are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  They are also made possible with private funds from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation and generous individuals.

The Visiting Russian Composers program is made possible with a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.