Ensemble Échappé
a sinfonietta for the 21st century
2018-19: A Season of Song
Season Opener: Song Offerings
5:00 PM | Sunday, October 28, 2018
The Italian Academy - Teatro
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, United States
Ensemble Échappé's 4th season revolves around the use of voice and text within chamber music and sinfonietta repertoire, Join us at the Italian Academy for our season opening concert featuring guest soprano Charlotte Mundy and the musicians of EÉ conducted by Benjamin Grow.
Tickets:
$25 / $15 students (at the door)
$20 / $10 students (advanced sale through10/27/18, 11:59pm)
Program:
HARVEY - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
HARVEY - Song Offerings
XENAKIS - Akanthos
GÖNCÜ - dimINNUENDO (NY premiere)
SAARIAHO - Lichtbogen
Bouchara
8:00 PM | Tuesday, May 14, 2019
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street, New York, NY
NYC based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé, led by conductor Ben Grow, pairs up with guest soprano Alice Teyssier to present a set of 21st century large ensemble works programmed around Claude Vivier sonically captivating 1981 masterpiece, the love song Bouchara.
Tickets:
$25 / $15 students (at the door)
$20 / $10 students (advanced sale through05/13/19, 11:59pm)
(for tickets, follow this link)
Program:
Selim Göncü - Post Pandemonium
Aaron Helgeson - Notes on a page (of Sappho), ft. Alice Teyssier
Takuma Itoh - Arrow of Time
Tina Tallon - Sear
Claude Vivier - Bouchara, ft. Alice Teyssier
Reaching for the Distant
Sam Jones (trumpet) & Han Chen (piano)
Ensemble Échappé Spotlight Performances
8:00 PM | Tuesday, May 17, 2019
MISE-EN_PLACE CURATOR SERIES
679 Hart Street, #1B, New York, NY 11221
Tickets:
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$25 General / $10 students
Program:
Antoine Tisne: Heraldiques, for trumpet and piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata #8, 1. Andante dolce
Meng Wang: All the best times I can remember*, for solo trumpet
Sofia Gubaidulina: Song Without Words, for trumpet and piano
— short pause —
Han Chen: Takashi III*, for trumpet and piano
Sergei Prokoviev: Piano Sonata #8, 2. Andante sognando
Liza Lim: Wild winged-one, for solo C cornet with Whacky Whistle
Louis Karchin: Postlude*, for trumpet and piano
Sergei Prokoviev: Piano Sonata #8, 3: Vivace
Alexander Glazunov: Album Leaf, for trumpet and piano
*World premiere
Pop-Up, Miller Theatre debut
6 PM | Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
2960 Broadway (@116th), New York, NY
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/ensemble-echappe
Bring a friend, grab a drink, and join some of today’s most interesting performers onstage at Miller Theatre's Pop-Ups Concerts series on select Tuesday evenings.
The NYC-based Ensemble Échappé makes their Miller debut with a program highlighting their focus on collaboration with living composers, including a world premiere by their composer-in-residence, Selim Göncü. In a chamber music configuration for this performance, their commitment to virtuosity in the contemporary concert experience will be on full display.
All concerts start at 6 p.m. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis, and doors open at 5:30 p.m. No tickets required. Come early to guarantee your seats onstage.
Program:
Nina C. Young - l'heure bleue
Sean Shepherd - the birds are nervous, the birds have scattered
Katherine Balch - Music About Glowworms
David Serkin Ludwig - Flowers in the Desert
Selim Göncü - Widerklang II *world premiere