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Young Women Composers Camp: World Premieres Concert (2/2)

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Don't miss the second of TWO world premieres concerts featuring works composed by the members of the 2020 Young Women Composers Camp! The cohort this year spans across the United States, as well as Canada, Asia, and Australia, all of whom have composed new works for solo instrument or voice for members of the International Contemporary Ensemble or Variant 6.

The second concert goes live at 2pm eastern on Friday, July 31st - just tune in to Young Women Composers Camp’s Facebook page to catch the livestream. Link: www.facebook.com/youngwomencomposers

The second performance will feature solo works by composers Sarah Adams, Abby Harris, Liliia Iskhakova, Isabel Goldstein, Nanaiya Hester, Lillian Kraft, Jamie Hammer, Rose Marone, Cece Olszewski, Selin Gökova, Elizabeth Mathiesen, Natalie Penn, Alina Childers, Madeline Goldsborough, Shirley He, Chloe Thomas, Anna Patti, Sophia Schiffer, Madeline Cheng, Zoe Fischthal, Kimberly Fish, and Lily Koslow.

Performers for the second concert include Jessica Beebe (soprano), Lizzie Burns (double bass), Jasmine Daquin (oboe), Wendy Richman (viola), Phyllis Chen (piano, toy piano), Jen Baker (trombone), and Isabel Lepanto Gleicher (flute).

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Program Order (approx. duration 1.5 hours):

Set I: Flute (Isabel Lepanto Gleicher)
Madeline Clara Chang, "Words Are Last to Fall Asleep"
Kimberly Fish, "what's left behind"
Zoe Fischthal, "a robot learns to play"
Lily Koslow, "bloodline"

Set II: Piano (Phyllis Chen)
Shirley He, "I Am Smoke I Am Paper"
Alina Childers, "All Aboard 'The Pipe Dream' Express"
Madeleine Goldsborough, "disonnected:connected"

Set III: Double Bass (Lizzie Burns)
Lillian Kraft, "the impermanence..."
Isabel Goldstein, "Dance of the Elephants"
Nanaiya Hester, "Untitled"

Set IV: Soprano (Jessica Beebe)
Abby Harris, "Cicatrix"
Liliia Iskhakova, "Your choice"
Sarah Adams, "Remembering Autumn"

Set V: Trombone (Jen Baker)
Sophia Schiffer, "Midnight Cathedral"
Anna Lisa Patti, "Cicada Jazz"

Set VI: Oboe (Jasmine Daquin)
Cecelia Olszewski, "isolate"
Rose Marone, "Dryads at Dawn"
Jamie Hammer, "Earthwaterfireair"

Set VII: Viola (Wendy Richman)
Selin Gökova, "Wanderer"
Elizabeth Mathiesen, "Burnout"
Natalie Penn, "The Voyager's Tale: Theme and Variations"

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.