Originally formed as a quartet comprising flute, cello, guitar and mallets in the 1980's, Signs of Life is reimagined and reunited for this October concert curated by Alan Duff Berman.
Celebrating two decades of one of Southern California's most exciting, adventurous and beloved ensembles. Featuring a world premiere piece by Niloufar Shiri for quartet and komancheh.
Join us for an evening celebrating the legacy of beloved and pioneering algorithmic composer Clarence Barlow. Curated by Nick Norton and Brandon Rolle, the program will include a varied retrospective of Barlow's work.
Conductor, Music Director, and Bassoonist Anthony Parnther curates an evening at T@MS for conducted string orchestra featuring music inspired by courage, strength, and resistance to oppression.
Please note new date: Monday, May 15! In its second installment of its Emerging Artist Series, T@MS presents violin duo The Furies (Maiani da Silva and Kate Outterbridge) and percussionist and composer Jordan Curcuruto.
Mattie Barbier, Tim Feeney, Stephanie Cheng Smith and Cassia Streb invite the audience to explore a site specific, collectively-conceived project blurring the sonic boundaries between the indoor and outdoor, the live and recorded.
April 15, 2023 | First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
Brightwork Ensemble, Lyris Quartet with Jessica Giuderi and Mike Kaufman, and Anthony Parnther, conductor, perform works by William Kraft, Gabriella Smith, Sarah Gibson, Thomas Kotcheff, and Mark Grey.
Brightwork Ensemble and People Inside Electronic present their annual collaboration on the Hear Now Festival to showcase recent electro acoustic works by local composers.
April 5, 2023 | Cal State University Fullerton - Meng Concert Hall
Brightwork Ensemble members Shalini Vijayan (violin), Brian Walsh (clarinet), and Aron Kallay (piano) tackle one of the 20th Century’s most iconic works, Bela Bartok’s “Contrasts,” in addition to some favorite trios from the present and recent past. The program will also include Aram Khachaturian’s folk tune infused “Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano,” Pamela Madsen’s evocative “Sea Change,” and “Dash” by Jennifer Higdon, which has the players move with as much intensity and forward motion as the title implies. Brightwork will be joined by the CSUF New Music Ensemble to perform Dr. Pamela Madsen't "Singing of the Waves". Brightwork will also perform a student composition by Lorna Katz on the second half of the program.
Composer Nina Shekhar curates an evening of chamber music composed by herself and friends and performed by herself and friends, including Brightwork Ensemble and Lyris Quartet
Brightwork Ensemble members Shalini Vijayan (violin), Brian Walsh (clarinet), and Aron Kallay (piano) tackle one of the 20th Century’s most iconic works, Bela Bartok’s “Contrasts,” in addition to some favorite trios from the present and recent past. The program will also include Aram Khachaturian’s folk tune infused “Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano,” Pamela Madsen’s evocative “Sea Change,” and “Dash” by Jennifer Higdon, which has the players move with as much intensity and forward motion as the title implies.
Join us for an evening in celebration of Yoko Ono's 90th birthday, her genre-defying career, and her indelible influence on art and popular culture. This collaboratively curated group show will feature art and sound installations, realizations of Ono's scores, and new works inspired by Ono and themes that permeate her art including feminism, domesticity, and world peace.
Chris Castro's song cycle Cançoes dos Desassosego is the centerpiece of this program featuring the soprano Sharon Harms and the Lyris Quartet, one of LA's most exciting chamber music groups.
Brightwork ensemble presents day full of presentations, student readings, and open rehearsals followed by a concert accompanied by students from the University of Redlands Dance Department.
A tribute to the music of Alvin Lucier, who deftly explored the physical properties of sound and the eerie resonances of spaces and objects. This concert will feature classic, rarely performed works by Lucier, as well as new music inspired by his discoveries.
Join Brightwork newmusic as we present the music of Helmut Oehring, composer, director, choreographer. One of "the most influential audiovisual composers alongside John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Björk and Robert Ashley". -New Yorker
Composer, performer, cutting-edge technologist, educator. To say that both Ian Dicke and Mari Kimura inhabit multiple spaces at any given moment would be an understatement. In this concert, they share with the T@MS audience what they've been working on. Don't miss this unique concert!
Six noted librettists and six composers are teaming up to create six original pieces inspired by and amplifying the in-between cultures of the city, which will be performed by the nationally recognized chamber ensemble Brightwork newmusic and renowned vocal sextet HEX.
Join us for a mini-concert and garden party at a Mid-City home to celebrate the premiere of "Interstitial: A Book of Musical Stories" next month at USC.
September 17, 2022 | Cal State University Fullerton - Meng Concert Hall
Brightwork Ensemble and soprano Stacey Fraser give the world premiere of Dr. Pamela Madsen's Opera America and NEA Awarded Opera: Why Women Went West, with video/texts by Quintan Ana Wikswo.
Percussionist and composer Nick Terry presents a 60-minute guided meditation intended as a duet between the performer and readings of several contemplative texts, evoking kaleidoscopic and ritualist soundscapes that invite the audience to stillness and reflection.
Twelve world premieres written by the students in Brightwork's High School Composer Initiative, performed by the fearless musicians of Brightwork Ensemble.
In its second installment of its Emerging Artist Series, T@MS presents violin duo The Furies (Maiani da Silva and Kate Outterbridge) and percussionist and composer Jordan Curcuruto.
Tuesdays @ Monk Space presents the ensemble debut of MILLER || PHELPS in Public Domain, a concert of music questioning and challenging the limits of intellectual rights and ownership.
Featuring pianist Nic Gerpe performing Crumb's Makrokosmos alongside newly commissioned works by Juhi Bansal, Viet Cuong, Eric Guinivan, Julie Herndon, Vera Ivanova, Gilda Lyons, Alex Miller, Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Thomas Osborne, Timothy Peterson, and Gernot Wolfgang.
Members of Brightwork Ensemble will be joined by the Lyris Quartet and soprano Stacey Fraser to present both well-known and lesser-known masterpieces by Johnston, including the Suite for Microtonal Piano, Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace), Calamity Jane to Her Daughter, and Ponder Nothing.
Southland Ensemble: The Koan Quartet & Christine Tavolacci present works by Carolyn Chen for string quartet, bass flute, speakers, and singers -- exploring nature and how we invent it.
December 1, 2019 | Cal State Northridge - Recital Hall
Brightwork performs George Crumb's Dream Sequence and Robert Paterson's Hell's Kitchen alongside works by Noah Meites, Stephen Lias, and Vicki Ray. With a new work from Liviu Marinescu. FREE!
November 1, 2019 | Pomona College - Little Bridges
Brightwork joins Pomona College faculty to perform Steve Reich's Pulitzer Prize winning Double Sextet. Also on the program is Louis Andriessen's iconic Workers Union and two piano duos by Meredith Monk.
Brightwork is in residence with the Hear Now Festival and People Inside Electronics for this concert featuring Los Angeles composers.
Program:
Alex Miller: To Oblivion (Belmont Tunnel)
Ian Dicke: Latest And Greatest
Anthony Paul Garcia: If It Stops
Dominique Schafer: Cendre
Wen Liu: Echoes In Petals Falling
Mu-xuan Lin: Pale Fire
With special guest artists Shalini Vijayan, violin, Alex Miller, guitar, Scott Worthington and Eric Shetzen, bass, and Alma Fernandez, viola.
