A note from MATA’s Executive Director:
Dear MATA community,
I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe during these uncertain times. I’m writing today to share an important update regarding the MATA Festival. Following the implementation of new and necessary quarantine measures in New York, MATA is postponing the 2020 MATA Festival, originally planned for April 17-20.
While this is a sad development, it is not an unexpected one, and MATA has been working closely with both ICEensemble and the New School over the last few weeks to prepare for this outcome. MATA has also been working to ensure that our musicians and other creative partners are taken care of during this difficult time. We are continuing to monitor the situation closely, and look forward to rescheduling the Festival for a time when our audience, composers, performers, and production team can safely participate.
While the Festival won’t take place as intended this spring, we remain committed to furthering MATA’s core mission: to promote and support early-career composers. To this end, we are working with our partners to develop digital content that we can share in the interim. We hope to share more news about this in the coming days. MATA is also moving forward with our 2021 Call for Submissions, and encourages all composers and sound artists to apply.
The music community is as resilient as it is compassionate, and I am confident we will emerge from this crisis stronger and more creative than ever. In the meantime, please stay safe and stay healthy.
Sincerely,
Loren Loiacono
Executive Director, MATA
8:00 PM | The New School – Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall (55 W 13th St, NYC)
On Sunday, April 19, guitarist Jordan Dodson, percussionist Colleen Bernstein, and “daredevil” soprano Charlotte Mundy join members of ICEensemble for Vox Populi, Vox Machina, which reimagines the garage band aesthetic for an age of technological anxiety. Voice, guitar, and drum set are deconstructed and remixed with autotune, PVC pipes, and more, exploring the struggle of human individuality in a digital world. This intimate evening includes the American premiere of Maurizio Azzan’s Geometrie nelle mani, a performance of Her Disappearance by Mundy and composer-vocalist Bethany Younge, and excerpts from Alex Dowling’s Reality Rounds, performed by the composer alongside vocalists Annika Socolofsky, Emma O’Halloran, and Chris Douthitt. Additional works by Lawrence Dunn, Yvette Janine Jackson, and Anna Korsun.
Program
Maurizio Azzan (Italy): Geometrie Nelle mani (2016, American Premiere)
Lawrence Dunn (UK): While we are both (2016/17, New York Premiere)
Anna Korsun (Ukraine/Germany): Tollers Zelle (2017)
Alex Dowling (Ireland/USA): Excerpts from Reality Rounds (2019, New York Premiere)
Bethany Younge (USA): Her Disappearance (2015)
Yvette Janine Jackson (USA): Deliberate (Afraid of Nothing) (2019, New York Premiere)
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.