TUE SEPT 16 2014
Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT UBC 1
Welcome to the 2014/15 Chan Centre Presents Series!
Music as a Place Composer Philip Glass thoughtfully concluded that “music is a place” as he spoke to the audience this past season from the Chan Centre stage. In fact, there are cultures that define a musical performance as both an event and a place. As I curated this upcoming season, I imagined – what places will be evoked for Chan Centre audiences? Picture a place of delight and amazement as we eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between a mandolin and double bass expressed through the skills of musical geniuses Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer. Or perhaps we’ll find ourselves in that most tender part of our souls reached through the passion of one of Spain’s finest flamenco singers, Diego El Cigala. Or that place could be a by-gone era–an intimate jazz club with smoky-voiced singer Cecile McLorin Salvant. There are so many places to go with the exceptional artists in our 2014/15 Chan Centre Presents series. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC is a place for curious newcomers and seasoned connoisseurs alike. There is much to experience this year, from innovative Beyond Words performances, to the remarkable talent emerging from the UBC School of Music, to the diverse programming of our arts partners. Fellow Co-Managing Director, Cameron McGill, and I are thilled to welcome you here this evening for the opening concert of our 2014/15 Chan Centre Presents series. Joyce Hinton Co-Managing Director & curator of the Chan Centre Presents series
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Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Welcome Professor Arvind Gupta, the 13th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia Concert 8:00pm - Chan Shun Concert Hall Chris Thile mandolin Edgar Meyer double bass Set list will be announced from the stage. The performance will consist of two 45-minute sets and one 20-minute intermission.
Please remember to turn off your cell phones, and note that photography and/or recording of any kind is not permitted. Thank you!
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PHOTO: BRANTLEY GUTIERREZ
Chris Thile mandolin In a review of his quintet Punch Brothers’ latest Nonesuch recording, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, London’s Independent called Chris Thile “the most remarkable mandolinist in the world.” The MacArthur Foundation echoed that assessment when it named Thile one of its 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2012—a recipient of its prestigious “genius grant.” In honoring Thile, the MacArthur Foundation noted that his “lyrical fusion of traditional bluegrass with elements from a range of other musical traditions is giving rise to a new genre of contemporary music.”
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Prior to recording Punch Brothers’ acclaimed new disc, Thile completed an album of tradition-upending interpretations of bluegrass classics with guitarist Michael Daves, Sleep With One Eye Open, which garnered a 2011 GRAMMY nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. He also recorded The Goat Rodeo Sessions with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Stuart Duncan, and Thile’s mentor and frequent collaborator Edgar Meyer, which won the 2012 GRAMMY for Best Folk Album.
After a lengthy 2012 Punch Brothers tour, Thile, always up for another challenge, immediately embarked on a series of duo dates with fellow virtuoso, the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Said the Washington Post, “Their complex work translated to plain-faced beauty: simple, direct and exquisite.” In between his Punch Brothers shows, Thile also found time to present his Mandolin Concerto: Ad astra per alas porci with several chamber orchestras around the United States, including a date at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. A child prodigy, Thile first rose to fame as a member of award-winning trio Nickel Creek, with whom he released three albums and sold two million records. As a soloist he has released five albums, as well as performing and recording extensively as a duo with Edgar Meyer and with fellow eminent mandolinist Mike Marshall. Other stellar musicians with whom Thile has collaborated include Béla Fleck and Hilary Hahn. Nonesuch Records released Thile’s most recent recording, Bach: Partitas and Sonatas, Vol.1, produced by Meyer, on August 6, 2013.
“The great musics of the world are great for very similar structural reasons: good melody, good harmony and a balance of feminine and masculine energy. What makes one music classical and one bluegrass and one folk–these things aren’t what’s important. My thesis statement would be - Bach didn’t write Baroque music. He wrote great music.” – Chris Thile (Wall Street Journal, 2013)
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PHOTO: MICHAEL WILSON
Edgar Meyer double bass and composer In demand as both a performer and a composer, Edgar Meyer has formed a role in the music world unlike any other. Hailed by The New Yorker as “...the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument”, Meyer’s unparalleled technique and musicianship in combination with his gift for composition have brought him to the fore, where he is appreciated by a vast, varied audience. His uniqueness in the field was recognized by a MacArthur “genius grant” Award in 2002.
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As a solo classical bassist, Meyer has recorded with Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, in addition to a number of solo recordings. In 2007, recognizing his wide-ranging recording achievements, Sony/BMG released a compilation of The Best of Edgar Meyer. In 2011, Meyer joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and fiddler Stuart Duncan for the Sony Masterworks GRAMMY Award-winning recording The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
As a composer, Meyer has carved out a remarkable and unique niche in the musical world. His works have been performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Alabama Symphony, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Edo de Waart and the Minnesota Orchestra, the Emerson String Quartet and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra led by Hugh Wolff. Collaborations are a central part of Meyer’s work. His longtime collaboration with Chris Thile continues in 2014 with the release of their new album Bass and Mandolin, a follow up to their very successful 2008 recording on Nonesuch. Meyer’s previous collaborations include a duo with Béla Fleck; a quartet with Joshua Bell, Sam Bush and Mike Marshall; a trio with Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall; and a trio with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor. Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father and continued further to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994 he received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize. Currently, he is Visiting Professor of Double Bass at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
“ Music, as much as it is about ideas, is also always about communication and connection. That just seems central. It fundamentally is about communicating and connecting with other humans, both people we play with and the people who hear it.” - Edgar Meyer (Music & More, 2013)
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2014/15 Chan Centre Presents Subscription Performances: Diego El Cigala: Sat Oct 25 2014 at 8pm The Gloaming: Sat Nov 15 2014 at 8pm Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project and Cécile McLorin Salvant: Sun Feb 15 2015 at 7pm Zakir Hussain’s Celtic Connections: Sat Mar 21 2015 at 8pm Gilberto Gil: Sun Apr 12 2015 at 7pm Lila Downs: Sun Apr 26 2015 at 7pm Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet: Sat May 9 2015 at 8pm Please note that the March 15 Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock concert is a special add-on performance and is not included in any subscription packages. Complete eight-concert series subscribers will be invited to an exclusive, intimate post-show reception with artist Lila Downs following her concert on April 26, 2015. 8
Lila Downs
Upcoming Events at the Chan Centre Full details at chancentre.com Sun Sept 21 at 7:30pm: Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Annual Campaign Opening featuring Joshua Malina Presented by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver
Sat Sept 28 at 3pm: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society as part of the Classic Afternoons series at the Chan Centre
Fri Oct 3 at 8pm: UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble & UBC Concert Winds Presented by UBC School of Music. FREE
Thu Oct 9 at 8pm: UBC Symphony Orchestra Presented by UBC School of Music. FREE
Thu Oct 16 at 7:30pm + Fri Oct 17 at 7:30pm: Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Tanya Tagaq Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts as part of the Beyond Words series at the Telus Studio Theatre
Fri Oct 17 at 8pm + Sat Oct 18 at 8pm: Adam Golka and Joshua Weilerstein Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Classical Traditions series at the Chan Centre
Wed Oct 22 at 7pm: CBC 2014 Massey Lecture: Adrienne Clarkson Presented by CBC
Fri Oct 24 at 8pm: UBC Choirs Presented by UBC School of Music. FREE
Sat Oct 25 at 8pm: Diego El Cigala Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Tanya Tagaq
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“…you just want to leave the world with more good music than it had before you got there.”
- Chris Thile (PBS, 2013)
“ I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I’m playing.” - Edgar Meyer (LA Times, 1999)
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Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer Tue Sept 16 2014 I Diego El Cigala Sat Oct 25 2014 The Gloaming Sat Nov 15 2014 I Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project and Cécile McLorin Salvant Sun Feb 15 2015 I Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock Sun Mar 15 2015 Zakir Hussain’s Celtic Connections Sat Mar 21 2015 I Gilberto Gil Sun Apr 12 2015 Lila Downs Sun Apr 26 2015 I Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet Sat May 9 2015
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