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Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble consists of some of the finest and most adventurous singer/instrumentalist/performers active in new music. Founded in 1978 to further expand Monk’s groundbreaking exploration of the human voice, the Ensemble has received multiple awards and critical acclaim, including a 2008 GRAMMY nomination for impermanence. Featured in many of the world’s most lauded festivals, theaters and concert halls, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble can also be heard on numerous recordings on the ECM New Music Series label. For more information, please visit www.meredithmonk.org.
In contrast to the Ensemble’s Cabaret Concert (7:30pm show), this performance features music selections from Monk’s music theater work impermanence, a moving and celebratory meditation on the passages of life. Embodying a broad spectrum of emotions, impermanence combines voice, piano, woodwinds and percussion to create a haunting and mysterious reflection on the delicacy and power of the human spirit. Monk is joined in performance by Ching Gonzalez, Theo Bleckmann, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Emily Eagen, Peter Sciscioli (voices), Allison Sniffin (voice and piano), Bohdan Hilash (woodwinds) and David Cossin (percussion).
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble consists of some of the finest and most adventurous singer/instrumentalist/performers active in new music. Founded in 1978 to further expand Monk’s groundbreaking exploration of the human voice, the Ensemble has received multiple awards and critical acclaim, including a 2008 GRAMMY nomination for impermanence. Featured in many of the world’s most lauded festivals, theaters and concert halls, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble can also be heard on numerous recordings on the ECM New Music Series label. For more information, please visit www.meredithmonk.org.
In contrast to the Ensemble’s Cabaret Concert (7:30pm show), this performance features music selections from Monk’s music theater work impermanence, a moving and celebratory meditation on the passages of life. Embodying a broad spectrum of emotions, impermanence combines voice, piano, woodwinds and percussion to create a haunting and mysterious reflection on the delicacy and power of the human spirit. Monk is joined in performance by Ching Gonzalez, Theo Bleckmann, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Emily Eagen, Peter Sciscioli (voices), Allison Sniffin (voice and piano), Bohdan Hilash (woodwinds) and David Cossin (percussion).
Artists
Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble: Music from impermanence
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, choreographer, filmmaker, and
creator of new opera and music theater works. During a career spanning
five decades, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a
major creative force in the performing arts and a pioneer in what is now
called “extended vocal technique”. In 1965, she began her innovative
exploration of the voice as a multifaceted instrument and subsequently
composed and performed many solo pieces for unaccompanied voice and
voice/keyboard. In 1978, she formed Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble
to further expand her musical textures and forms. Her vocal music is
an eloquent language in and of itself which expands the boundaries of
musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings,
energies, and memories for which there are no words. In addition to her
groundbreaking vocal and music theater pieces (which include Book
of Days, Dolmen Music, mercy, impermanence, and ATLAS), she has
created vital new repertoire for orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo
instruments. Her music has also appeared in motion pictures by Jean-Luc
Godard and the Coen Brothers, among others. Celebrated internationally,
her music has been presented by Lincoln Center Festival, Houston Grand
Opera, London’s Barbican Centre, and at major venues in countries from
Brazil to Syria.
Meredith Monk’s numerous honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With a discography featuring more than a dozen recordings, mostly on ECM, her CD impermanence was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award. In 2005 her 40th year of performing and creating new music was celebrated by a four-hour marathon at Zankel Hall. Another marathon, Meredith Monk Music @ the Whitney, was presented at the Whitney Museum in 2009, followed by the site-specific Ascension Variations at the Guggenheim Museum, featuring over 120 performers. Her new music theater work, Songs of Ascension, was performed at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in October 2009 and recently won the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival. In March 2010, her newest commission, WEAVE for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, had its world premiere with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, followed by an April 2010 West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall.
For information on the Vocal Ensemble, please click here.
Meredith Monk’s numerous honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With a discography featuring more than a dozen recordings, mostly on ECM, her CD impermanence was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award. In 2005 her 40th year of performing and creating new music was celebrated by a four-hour marathon at Zankel Hall. Another marathon, Meredith Monk Music @ the Whitney, was presented at the Whitney Museum in 2009, followed by the site-specific Ascension Variations at the Guggenheim Museum, featuring over 120 performers. Her new music theater work, Songs of Ascension, was performed at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in October 2009 and recently won the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival. In March 2010, her newest commission, WEAVE for Two Voices, Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, had its world premiere with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, followed by an April 2010 West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall.
For information on the Vocal Ensemble, please click here.