UB Composers Studio Concert with Wooden Cities

Name: UB Composers Studio Concert with Wooden Cities
Start: 2025-04-07T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Schedule

Mon, 07 Apr, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center | Buffalo, NY

**NOTE TIME CHANGE, NOW BEGINNING AT 7:30**
The University at Buffalo Graduate Composition Studio is pleased to partner with Wooden Cities to present a program of PREMIERES written especially for Wooden Cities. Come hear a wide variety of musical styles exploring a wide variety of moods, from meditative to frenetic, from fully improvised to notated in exquisite detail, from contemporary jazz to noise-based and everything in between.
Wooden Cities is both an ensemble and a collective of performers and composers seeking to help increase the performance and awareness of contemporary music in the Western New York area through unique concerts and educational presentations. Formed by director Brendan Fitzgerald in 2011 as a structured improv orchestra, the ensemble has since garnered a reputation for their dynamic performances of both improvised and notated works of new and experimental music from a wide variety of composers. In 2019, Wooden Cities released its first album, WORK, which features works by Cornelius Cardew, Julius Eastman, and Frederic Rzewski. The following year saw the release of the eponymous documentary about the album, made by the Buffalo Documentary Project.
In 2023, the ensemble released a followup, PLAY, featuring dynamic graphic score realizations and absurdist sound poetry.
Performers
Megan Kyle, oboe/English horn
Ethan Hayden, trombone
Zane Merritt, guitars
Michael McNeill, piano/keyboard
Evan Courtin, violin
Katie Weissman, ‘cello
Brendan Fitzgerald, conductor
Program (subject to change):
Brian Caswell, No Interfearing (piano, e. Gtr, Eng. Horn, tbn)
Lihuen Sirvent, Somatically Restored (off-stage ob, tbn, vln, vlc)
Andres Bonilla-Garcia, Graphic Study II (Eng. H, vln, vlc)
Sohwa Lee, Symmetrical Variants (ob, vln)
Chi-Yen Huang, Gl(k)iss (tbn, scordatura vlc)
Jackson Roush, rearedistbled (e. gtr)
~~Intermission~~
Giovanni Maraboli, In-Between (ensemble, but no tbn)
William Brobston, Broken Bond (ens.)
J. P. A. Falzone, Shortest Shadow (ens. no oboe)