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The 35th Annual Stony Brook Premieres! Concert takes place on April 18th, 7:30 pm at Stony Brook and April 19th, 7:30 pm at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. This annual new music tradition features a multitude of cutting-edge premieres by Adam Roberts, David Feurzeig, and Joseph “Butch” Rovan as well as Stony Brook’s own composition faculty Margaret Schedel, performed by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players under director Eduardo Leandro.
Adam Roberts’s premiere, Tz’akah (“outcry” in Hebrew), pulls together microtonally-inflected harmonies, pulsating rhythms, and sinuous lines into a world that at turns screams, dances, flutters, and sings out. The title reflects the piece’s opening sonic burst, a sound which contains multiple layers of meaning: an archaeological foundation of a-minor is camouflaged with extended tonal debris, glissandi, and scratch tones, evoking the experience of gazing at a memory through overlaid layers of paint similar in style to a Gerhard Richter painting.
Directed by distinguished performer and educator Eduardo Leandro, Stony Brook’s Contemporary Chamber Players has been called “a small army of musicians who demonstrate consistent accomplishment” by the New York Times. The group has commissioned over 100 scores by composers in various stages of their careers, including those by Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipients. Composers selected for commissioning represent a wide range of styles, geographical locations, and ages, from talented young composers to established masters.