Small Plates: A Mélange

The Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance is celebrating its 11th anniversary season and over 10 years of presenting contemporary classical music to audiences in New Orleans. This year’s festival will feature Institute Artists from past seasons including violinist Rhiannon Banerdt, clarinetist Nicholas Davies, and cellist Zhihao Wu. They will be joined by violinist Emelyn Bashour as well as the Institute’s Assistant Artistic Director, acclaimed pianist Wesley Ducote.

The festival opens with a program that bridges musical traditions across the 20th and 21st centuries, featuring composers that reflect the Institute’s mission to celebrate both established and emerging voices in contemporary classical music, including works by Unsuk Chin, Mario Davidovsky, György Ligeti, Augusta Read Thomas, Igor Stravinsky, and Andrew Waggoner.

György Ligeti – Études for Piano: L'escalier du diable
Mario Davidovsky – Synchronims 9
Unsuk Chin – Advice from a Caterpillar
György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Cello
Igor Stravinsky – Elegy
György Ligeti – Études for Piano: Fém
Augusta Read Thomas – Dancing Helix Rituals
Johnson, Johnson, and Cole – Didn’t He Ramble
György Ligeti – Études for Piano: White on White
Andrew Waggoner – Summer

The year's Institute Artists are:
Rhiannon Banerdt, violin
Emelyn Bashour, violin
Nicholas Davies, clarinet
Zhihao Wu, cello

Accompanied on piano by Assistant Artistic Director, Wesley Ducote

Host or Publisher Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance