Composer Portrait: Georges Aperghis | Conducted by Ludovic Morlot

May 24, 2012 | 7:59pm
Columbia Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway
New York, NY
$25

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
Tony Arnold, soprano
Ludovic Morlot, guest conductor
Georges Aperghis, composer

The music of experimental Greek-born composer Georges Aperghis -- a sometime pupil of Xenakis, though largely self-taught -- is often theatrical and always provocative. Prolific, unfailingly inventive, and not easily categorized, he has written for a wide array of instruments and ensembles. The International Contemporary Ensemble gives a tour of his works from the 70's to the present day—from duo to trio to quartet to chamber ensemble—led by conductor Ludovic Morlot, a rising star and the newly appointed Music Director of the Seattle Symphony.

Georges Aperghis (b. 1945)

Signaux, for two violins and two violas (1978)
Les Guetteurs de Son for three percussionists (1981)
Teeter-Totter for flutes, clarinets, tenor sax, percussion, piano, 2 cellos, bass (2008)
The Iliad and the Odyssey for violin and clarinet (2009)
Shot in the Dark for flutes, clarinet, horn, trumpet, piano, percussion, strings, and soprano (2011), WORLD PREMIERE, ICE and Miller Theatre co-commission

Leading support provided by The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, CulturesFrance and the Florence Gould Foundation.

photo by Armen Elliott