Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Nuiko Wadden, & Brittany J. Green present a program focused on the different meanings of "Home."
About this Event
International Contemporary Ensemble members Isabel Lepanto Gleicher (flute) and Nuiko Wadden (harp), and composer-performer Brittany J. Green present a program focused on the different meanings of “Home” through the lens of fractured and fractal experiences during this time of COVID-19. With different soundscape samples, improvised pieces, and interview segments, “Home” explores how sounds of home are shaping our aural landscapes in the present moment. In the past year, each performers’ relationship with their physical space and sound-scape has evolved into an intimate portrait of the quotidienne. Different versions of Brittany J. Green’s Intersections work as musical exemplifiers of how creators are living currently; a score with no set beginning or end that still allows convergence.
RSVP to receive YouTube link shortly before the performance.
Flutist and music creator Isabel Lepanto Gleicher has been called “excellent” by The New York Times. Isabel is an artist member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, new music sinfonietta Ensemble Echappe, the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, and the band ShoutHouse. She is also a founding member of woodwind quintet SoundMind, and Song Sessions Collective. Isabel has been called a “rising talent and stand out performer in the new music scene” by Miller Theatre. In 2018, she was featured in a solo recital on Miller Theatre’s Pop Up series. In 2020 Isabel has presented several solo performances that included original works: International Contemporary Ensemble series Tues@7, ChamberQUEERantine Virtual Festival, Recital Stream and George Mason University’s Mason Arts at Home. Isabel has earned an MM in Contemporary Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an MM from the Yale School of Music, and a BM from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.
Brittany J. Green (b. 1991) is a North Carolina-based composer, creative, and educator. Described as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing” (Chicago Classical Review), Brittany’s music is centered around facilitating collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersection between sound, movement, and text serves as the focal point of these musical spaces, often questioning and redefining the relationships between these three elements.
Her music has been featured at concerts and festivals throughout the United States and Canada, including the Society of Composers National Conference, New York City Electronic Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, the West Fork New Music Festival, Music by Women Festival, and Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival. Recent projects include collaborations with the JACK Quartet,, Mind on Fire, Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio, and an artist residency with TimeSlips. Brittany is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Music Composition as a Dean’s Graduate fellow at Duke University.
Nuiko Wadden
In the past year, Nuiko Wadden, harpist, has been actively exploring what it means to be a performer with no in-person outlets. Wadden, formerly an active orchestra member, chamber musician and soloist, has been learning rudimentary recording skills, eschewing pants and makeup, tiling her one functional shower, and caring for an elderly but still spry housemate, Christopher. In a moment when business-as-usual is anything but, she is grateful and excited to have such outlets as this collaboration with Isabel Lepanto Gleicher and Brittany J. Green.
Credits
We are grateful for the support of the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust in making this program possible.
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2020-21 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, 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, 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 the International Contemporary Ensemble.