03.26.2019 ENS New Music Series

New Music at WCU Jacob Cooper and Van Stiefel, directors

Bearthoven Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building 8:15 PM

PROGRAM Silk (2017) ...................................................................................................... Shelley Washington b. 1991

Trio (2018)* ................................................................................................................. Katie Balch b. 1991 – brief intermission – American Dream (2016) ................................................................................ Scott Wollschleger b. 1980 * World Premiere. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

Bearthoven [ \'bâr-toh-vən\ ] is a piano trio creating a new repertoire for a familiar instrumentation by commissioning works from leading young composers. Karl Larson (piano), Pat Swoboda (bass), and Matt Evans (percussion) have combined their individual voices and diverse musical backgrounds, coming together to create a versatile trio focused on frequent and innovative commissioning of up-and-coming composers. Bearthoven is rapidly building a diverse repertoire by challenging composers to apply their own voice to an instrumentation that, while common amongst jazz and pop idioms, is currently foreign in the contemporary classical world.

Formed in 2013, Bearthoven has quickly established themselves as a forerunner in the New York City contemporary music scene. Commissioning over 30 new works in their first six seasons, the trio has created its own diverse repertoire ranging from the driving, post-minimal voices of Ken Thomson, Brooks Frederickson, and Shelley Washington to the atmospheric and abstracted offerings of Sarah Hennies, Scott Wollschleger, and Anthony Vine. Bearthoven’s commitment to collaboration and innovation has garnered both critical and peer acclaim and has led to featured performances on notable series including the MATA Festival, the Bang On a Can Marathon, the Music/Sound Series at EMPAC, the Princeton Sound Kitchen, and the Ciclo de Conciertos de Música Contemporánea in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The group's debut album Trios was released on Cantaloupe Music in May of 2017. Their second album, American Dream, features the works of Scott Wollschleger, and will be released in February of 2019 on the same label. Bearthoven was recently selected as 1 of 24 ensembles to be a part of the inaugural New Music USA Impact Fund cohort.

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UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit www.wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 7:00 PM Guest Artist Recital: Staff Sergeant Hiram Diaz, euphonium Jonathan Fowler, faculty liaison Philips Autograph Library Philips Memorial Building Thursday, March 28, 2019, 7:30 PM Guest Artist Recital: PEN Trio Karen Dannessa, faculty liaison Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Friday, March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM Senior Recital: Benjamin Brubaker, piano Carl Cranmer, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Friday, March 29, 2019, 6:00 PM Senior Recital: Casey Dziuba, percussion Ralph Sorrentino, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Friday, March 29, 2019, 7:30 PM *Opera Production: Copland's "The Tender Land" Emily Bullock, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center *Tickets required for this event.

Steinway & Sons Piano Technical, Tuning and Concert Preparations by Gerald P. Cousins, RPT A majority of performances are available to watch via live stream at Facebook.com/ArtsAtWCUPA and LiveStream.com/wcupa.

Mr. Robert Rust, Audio & Visual Technician Events at the Wells School of Music are often supported by individual sponsors and organizations.

Contributions to the Wells School of Music may be made out to: West Chester University Foundation 202 Carter Drive, West Chester, PA 19382

For further information, please call (610) 436-2868 or contact Dr. Christopher Hanning, Dean.

If you do not intend to save your program, please recycle it in the baskets at the exit doors.

The Wells School of Music | West Chester University of Pennsylvania Dr. Christopher Hanning, Dean