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Virtuoso Series Concert In Partnership with the School of Music
Wild Up “We the People”
Christopher Rountree Artistic Director and Conductor
Saturday, February 2, 2019 • 7:30PM Libby Gardner Concert Hall Please turn off all cell phones, pagers and other noisemakers. The taking of photographs, and audio or video recordings is strictly prohibited.
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Andrew Tholl, violin Adrianne Pope, violin Linnea Powell, viola Derek Stein, cello Claire Chenette, oboe Archey Carey, bassoon Matt Cook, percussion Jodie Landau, percussion/voice Christopher Rountree, conductor Wild Up is a modern music collective; a Los Angeles-based group of musicians committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking happenings. Wild Up believes that music is a catalyst for shared experiences, and that a concert venue is a place to challenge, excite and ignite a community of listeners. Wild Up has been called “Best in Classical Music” and “…a raucous, grungy, irresistibly exuberant… fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic family” by Zachary Woolfe of the New York Times, “Searing. Penetrating. And thrilling” by Fred Child of Performance Today and “Magnificent” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. The group began in 2010 as a self-funded, grassroots project of Wild Up’s Artistic Director and Conductor Christopher Rountree: after graduate school, Rountree returned to Los Angeles wanting to create an ensemble made up of young musicians, a group that would reject classical music’s most outdated traditions and embrace unusual venues and programs that throw the classical repertoire into the context of pop culture, new music and performance art. The group’s first few concerts at art studios and rock clubs around L.A. created a fervent fanbase of true believers. Then UCLA’s Hammer Museum tapped Wild Up as the museum’s first ever Orchestra in Residence, and after dozens of concerts in the Hammer’s halls, courtyards and galleries, the L.A. Times proclaimed the group “Best Classical Music of 2012.” It was off to the races as Wild Up began working with musical and cultural institutions around the world. Wild Up has been Group in Residence at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Education Ensemble in Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Ensemble in Residence with Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at the Laguna Beach Music Festival. They played numerous programs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic including the Phil’s Brooklyn Festival, Minimalist Jukebox Festival, Next on Grand Festival, and a twelve-hour festival of Los Angeles new music hosted by the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall called Noon to Midnight. They started a multi-year education partnership with The Colburn School, 6
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taught Creativity and Consciousness at Bard’s Longy School, led composition classes with the American Composers Forum and American Composers Orchestra, created a new opera workshop with The Industry, and founded an ongoing intensive educational program with the LA Philharmonic in which ten young composers and a faculty of eight legendary composers meet to collaborate on new work. This year Wild Up premieres new pieces of Julianna Barwick and Andrew Greenwald at Walt Disney Concert Hall; unveils an evening length program with Ted Hearne about religion, space and the internet called “of Ascension”; makes their debut on the Ecstatic Music Festival with new work by William Brittelle and Zola Jesus; plays a live radio show at the ACE Hotel with Nadia Sirota, Andrew Norman, and Caroline Shaw; takes a second U.S. tour with residencies in Salt Lake City, Chapel Hill, and Sonoma; joins LA Chamber Orchestra and Four Larks for a show at Hauser and Wirth; and plays a new program called “Eve” with Martha Graham Dance Company at The Soraya. In the past few seasons Wild Up premiered hundreds of new pieces, including David Lang and Mark Dion’s “anatomy theater” at L.A. Opera. The group threw a Bach-B-Q at the Hammer Museum; helped to resurrect works of Graham, Barber, and Chavez with the Martha Graham Dance Company; joined Bjork at the FYF Festival in Los Angeles; headlined Noon to Midnight at Walt Disney Concert Hall premiering the works of Tyshawn Sorey, avant-pop composer Scott Walker, and others; created a concert for elephants with Allora and Calzadilla; improvised with Steve Coleman; reimagined “In C” with the LA Master Chorale alongside a world premiere with Luna Lab Founder Ellen Reid; completed an educational residency at UCLA; pounded on eight bass drums on the street outside Walt Disney Concert Hall in a public art installation; headlined the Carlsbad Music Festival; taught classes on spatial music and John Cage for a thousand middle school students at The Colburn School; featured our artists in four solo shows at The Getty; celebrated John Adams 70th birthday with a show called “Adams, punk rock and player piano music” in the San Fernando Valley at The Soraya; and brought the culture of LA new music on tours of the U.S. including stops in Colorado, Montana, Indiana, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. While the group is part of the fabric of classical music in L.A., Wild Up also embraces indie music collaborations. The group has an album on Bedroom Community Records with Bjork’s choir Graduale Nobili, vocalist Jodie Landau, and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland; they premiered a new opera with Julia Holter; played with composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and UTAHPRESENTS.ORG
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rock band San Fermin under a tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles; premiered and recorded an opera by Lewis Pesacov of afrobeat band Fool’s Gold about the end of the Mayan Calendar; they performed Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes’ score of the Scarlett Johansson film “Under the Skin” at the Regent Theater, performed Jon Brion’s score to “Punch Drunk Love” with Joanna Newsom at the ACE Hotel, premiered an orchestral work of Scott Walker at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and played FYF 2017 with Bjork. Wild Up has been featured at numerous West Coast cultural spaces including the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures, the Broad Stage, Valley Performing Arts Center, Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Beyond Baroque, the Armory Center for the Arts, Santa Ana Sites and Echo Park’s Jensen Rec Center. Their recordings of Shostakovich, Rzewski, Messiaen, and Los Angeles composers have been featured on KUSC, WNYC, Q2, KPFK, Alex Ross’s blog The Rest Is Noise and American Public Media’s Performance Today, among many others.
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UtahPresents Thanks NANCY PEERY MARRIOTT GORDON AND CONNIE HANKS
for supporting this performance of Wild Up: We the People
The School of Music and UtahPresents thank Virtuoso Series Sponsor
for supporting educational opportunities with Virtuoso Artists School of Music students and community members will participate with musicians from Wild Up in tonight’s performance of “We The People”. The concert promises to deliver a reflection on issues of social justice with music as the performance medium. The material is improvisational in nature, and has required a quick turnaround from rehearsal to the stage for the student and community performers. They have spent this past week in rehearsal with Wild Up musicians in preparation for tonight’s performance. The student and community involvement for tonight’s performance was led by Kris Johnson, Director of Jazz Studies for the School of Music. Professor Johnson is an award-winning jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. He has appeared on an impressive list of albums including two Grammy-nominated releases: Tony Bennett’s “A Swingin’ Christmas” and Karen Clark Sheard’s “All In One”. Kris is a trumpeter and arranger with the Count Basie Orchestra. In 2013 he was featured in the standup-comedy film “Make Me Wanna Holla” starring Sinbad.
ANNA AKANA • DAVID P GARDNER LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS February 5 • Kingsbury Hall
Anna Akana started her YouTube channel in 2011, jumpstarting her career as an actress, producer, filmmaker, and writer. In 2013, she wrote and starred in the digital series “Riley Rewind,” which garnered over 25 million views across YouTube, Facebook, and Netflix. Now with over 1.7 million subscribers, Anna produces shorts films, sketches, and series for her channel, in addition to her weekly YouTube show, which features semi-autobiographical comedic stories that offer life advice. Her conversation with University Professor Sarah Projansky about the media arts and celebrity is sure to inspire and entertain.
BOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD Add on a preshow dinner at Saffron Valley! February 15 • Kingsbury Hall
Bollywood Boulevard — a harmonious fusion of live music, dance, and film — leads you from the birth of Hindi cinema to present day. Bollywood Boulevard will have you falling in love with the vibrancy, emotions, and heart-pounding beat that inspires the world’s largest entertainment industry. Inspired by the music of R.D. Burman, Lata Mangeshkar, and A.R. Rahman, the dance moves of superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra, and romance as captured by Raj Kapoor and Yash Raj Chopra, experience Bollywood as never before. BANFF FILM FESTIVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 19-21, March 4 THE OTHER MOZART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 22-23 GINA CHAVEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 28-29 COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET: “FROM BACH TO BOWIE” . . . . . . . April 5 SCOTT SILVEN: “WONDERS AT DUSK” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 6-7 SCOTT SILVEN: “AT THE ILLUSIONIST’S TABLE” . . . . . . . . . . . April 12-13 “ALICE” - PERFORMED BY U OF U YOUTH THEATRE . . . . . . . . . . April 12-13 “DIALOGES DES CARMELITES” - PERFORMED BY UNIV LYRIC OPERA ENSEMBLE . . . April 19-20 Tickets and information at utahpresents.org
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Donors
UtahPresents $25,000+ Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Salt Lake County Cultural Facilities Support Program Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks $10,000 - 24,999 The Bar Method George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Chet and Carrie Goodwin Hampton Inn & Suites /Salt Lake City – University/Foothill Phil and Mauri Hansen The House John and Marcia Price Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New England Foundation for the Arts Alice and Kevin Steiner UtahPresents Advisory Board University of Utah Guest House & Conference Center $5000-9999 Peter Ashdown Brent Daines Chuck and Kathie Horman Lone Rock Clothing / Design Ink Shaun and Wendy McCardell Chrissy and Kurt Micek Prince Yeates & Geldzahler Renters Legal Liability Salt Lake City Arts Council The Sam and Diane Stewart Family Foundation
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In the event of an emergency, please walk to the nearest exit and follow instructions given by theatre personnel and ushers. Auditorium exits are clearly marked with lighted exit signs above each door. Move away from the building to a safe place.
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Ticket office is located on the lower plaza at Kingsbury Hall, east of the main staircase. For ticket information, call 801-581-7100.
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