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Friday, February 18th | 7:30pm | Concert | @ AF de Miami

FIU NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Friday, February 18th at 7:30pm
At The Alliance Francaise

The FIU New Music Ensemble specializes in the performance of contemporary chamber,experimental, and electronic music, with an emphasis on music of the last 50 years. Over the course of the present program, the musicians of the NME, alongside FIUprofessors, will explore the vast array of musical aesthetics created in America and by American composers during the second half of the twentieth century. We welcome youon this travelogue through American musical modernism and hope you enjoy it!

PROGRAM
Magic Labyrinth - Aurelio de la Vegan (b. 1925)
Two Studies - Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 – 1975)
Clapping Music - Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Mirrors, Stones and Cotton - Charles Norman Mason (b. 1955)
In C - Terry Riley (b. 1935)

IU New Music Ensemble
Isaac Corzo, piano
Jelena Djukic, piano
Jovan Haji-Djurich, piano
Paul Poston, piano
Edrick Subervi, guitar
Paul Tulloch, violin
Alvaro Velasquez, horn
Andres Villa, viola
Yuko Yoshikado, violin

Jason Calloway, cello and director of the FIU New Music Ensemble, has performed to acclaim throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East as soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared at festivals including Lucerne, Spoleto, Darmstadt, and Casals, and gave his Carnegie Hall recital debut under the auspices of Artists International. A devoted advocate for new music, Mr. Calloway has premiered hundreds of works and collaborated intensively with many of today’s leading composers, including Birtwistle, Carter, and Lachenmann. He values his work with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain, and is also artistic director of Shir Ami, an ensemble devoted to Jewish art music. Mr. Calloway currently serves as cellist of the Amernet String Quartet, in which capacity he is Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University, where he teaches cello and chamber music.