Q2 Music Presents “Meet the Composer” Launch Party
From left to right: John Luther Adams, Andrew Norman (top), Donnacha Dennehy (bottom), Caroline Shaw and Marcos Balter
Overview
Watch live beginning 7pm:
Funded recently by a successful Kickstarter campaign, Meet the Composer mines the brains of today’s most exciting composers. Equal parts interview, expert commentary and compelling sound design, the podcast brings the music and stories of today’s composers to life with passion, curiosity and humor. Our launch party features on-stage interviews with all five Season 1 composers, who happen to include the two most recent Pulitzer Prize winners, John Luther Adams (2014) and Caroline Shaw (2013), as well as fellow innovators Andrew Norman; Marcos Balter; and, via Skype from Ireland, Donnacha Dennehy.
Hosted by Q2 Music’s Nadia Sirota, the party also includes a star-studded array of dynamic, award-winning performers: flutist and International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director Claire Chase performs Balter’s Pessoa; Hotel Elefant performs Adams’s Red Arc/Blue Veil; Attacca String Quartet performs excerpts from Norman’s Peculiar Strokes; Cellist Hannah Collins performs Shaw’s in manus tuas; and Bang on a Can All-Star pianist Vicky Chow, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Todd Reynolds perform Dennehy’s Bulb.
Join us to celebrate Meet the Composer: Season 1 and launch the podcast in style!
Q2 Music’s Meet the Composer pays homage to the landmark show of the same name hosted by WNYC’s Tim Page in the mid to late ’80s. Thanks to New Music USA for their flexibility with the use of the “Meet The Composer” name, which became famous though their legacy organization founded by composer John Duffy.
Photo credits: John Luther Adams (Evan Hurd), Andrew Norman (Timo Andres), Donnacha Dennehy (Crash Ensemble), Caroline Shaw (Dashon Burton) and Marcos Balter (Kat Keers)