Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival presents the Cassatt String Quartet & Pianist Ursula Oppens
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival presents the world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet with guest pianist Ursula Oppens.
The highlight of the program is Victoria Bond’s “Blue and Green Music,” which the quartet recorded for Albany Records and is based on a Georgia O’Keefe painting of the same title. Other works on the program include Tania Leon’s “Ethos” and Joan Tower’s “Dumbarton” piano quintets and Wang Jie’s “Songs for Mahler in the Absence of Words” for piano quartet.
The concert will explore facets of contemporary music by living composers, all of whom will be present to discuss their works on stage with host and creator Victoria Bond.
ABOUT CUTTING EDGE CONCERTS
Inspired by Pierre Boulez’ series “Perspective Encounters,” composer and conductor Victoria Bond founded Cutting Edge Concerts in 1998. With 26 years of concerts, Cutting Edge Concerts has presented over 300 new works by more than 200 composers. Each program highlights the music of living composers, all of whom attend the concert. Along with performances by world-class ensembles and soloists, each program features on-stage discussions between host Victoria Bond and the composers.
ABOUT VICTORIA BOND
A major force in 21st century music, composer Victoria Bond is known for her melodic gift and dramatic flair. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and opera have been lauded by The New York Times as “powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding.” Her compositions have been performed by the New York City Opera, Shanghai, Dallas and Houston Symphonies, members of the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and the Cassatt and Audubon Quartets. Ms. Bond is also an acclaimed conductor, and is the principal guest conductor of Chamber Opera Chicago, and has held conducting positions with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Opera, Roanoke Symphony, and Bel Canto and Harrisburg Operas.
