ZSUZSANNA ARDÓ TEARS, APPLES AND STONES

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  2012                   

music: jonathan david tears, apples and stones vocalise for somorja http://www.jonathandavidmusic.com/ The piece (title is Hungarian for “Tears, Apples and Stones”) was written for Zsuzsanna Ardó’s eponymous sculpture installation running from September 2 through October 2, 2012 at the At Home Gallery/Synagogue Šamorín, Slovakia. (Šamorín is an ethnic Hungarian city on the north bank of the Danube). The work is a vocalise (no consonants), setting 3 Hungarian vowel sounds. The installation explores the religious-political history of the building, and my piece uses a popular Jewish High Holidays melody as an elaborated cantus firmus. Thanks to recording vocalists Amy Bartram, Melissa Bybee, and Karen Siegel, as well as Chris Baum who prepared the singers. J.D. SHORT BIO The 2011-12 season featured eight world premieres for New York composer Jonathan David, five of these commissions: The Tightened String, a 9/11 memorial work for Central City Chorus (NYC, Dec. 2011); a Stabat Mater for Carroll University (WI, April 2012, Italian tour in May); Little Drops of Water for the Marble Collegiate Church Cherub Choir (NYC, April 2012); Gitchee Gumee, for baritone Daniel Neer and harp (NYC, April 2012) and Azrael, a song for Jay Barksdale to honor the 10th anniversary of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Foundation (NYC, Oct. 2011; UK premiere, June 2012). In May 2012, C4 and members of the Fireworks Ensemble debuted Jonathan’s extended work, The Hounds of Spring, for chorus, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums. The Gay Men’s Chorus of Asheville and the Young Men’s Chorus of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy also premiered works. Commissioners for 2012-13 include the Manhattan Wind Ensemble and saxophonist David Wozniak. Jonathan has served as Composer-in-Residence for The Greenwich Village Singers, Music Director for the chamber chorus, Howl!, and is a core member of New York’s pioneering new music group, C4. He is on the judging panel for the 44th Annual ASCAP/Deems Taylor Awards for the best music writing of the past year. Jonathan’s music is published by Oxford University Press and also available through his website, www.jonathandavidmusic.com. (June 2012)

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„Realizované s finančnou podporou Úradu vlády SR – program Kultúra národnostných menšín 2011“

article:

http://ujszo.com/napilap/kultura/2012/09/04/konnyek-almak-es-kovek

music: daniel andor ardó

cello chiaroscuró


Daniel Andor-Ardó 

is an Award-winning composer, conductor, working from Manhattan of NY City. He started playing piano at four and studied composition, piano and trombone at The Purcell School of Music, London. His compositions won a number of awards and have been performed internationally. He was selected as featured composer by the Society for the Promotion of New Music during 2000–2002. As he felt drawn to making music with others, he took up trombone and conducting. Orchestral conducting a wide range of music kept him busy during his years at the University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in physics in 2005. Daniel continued his research in hearing and its neuro-science at the Rockefeller University, and is currently  doing research  for a New York tech startup. Daniel’s been an active member of the C4 Ensemble’s, conducting committee as its chair. His is currently working on his composition called ‘Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter. Then’

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