About the Show
In its season finale, Contemporaneous joins forces with Face The Music, the nation’s only youth ensemble dedicated to performing music by living composers, to present a collaborative performance of new works by alumnae of LUNA Lab — the groundbreaking mentorship program for young women composers directed by Missy Mazzoli, Ellen Reid, and Reena Esmail, and within Face The Music. Contemporaneous will also offer the premiere of several songs from TREADING WATER, an in-progress song-cycle from Sarah Goldfeather on the ways we experience cognitive distortions, commissioned by Contemporaneous as part of Contemporaneous IMAGINATION.
This show unleashes the wildest dreams of the artists who are the faces of a more inclusive, more talented future.
Featuring music by:
Michelle David
Owen Carter
Violet Barnum
Yusei Hata
Samuel Boyce
Dylan Mattingly
Sarah Goldfeather
About Contemporaneous IMAGINATION
Contemporaneous IMAGINATION (www.contemporaneous.org/imagination) is a new initiative which seeks to foster a culture of radical creative openness for composers and musical artists. Contemporaneous IMAGINATION is an open call which asks composers to share their wildest creative dreams, and then commissions, develops, produces, and presents the most meaningful of these works, with a commitment to select projects entirely based on their artistic merit and the effect they will have on the community, without regard for conventional restraints which often discourage the creation of work of such imagination and scale.
This collaborative presentation with Face The Music, LUNA Lab, and Sarah Goldfeather represents a major landmark in Contemporaneous’s continued pursuit to develop, produce, and share the most meaningful work of young musical artists.
About the Artists
Contemporaneous
CONTEMPORANEOUS is an ensemble of 21 musicians whose mission is to bring to life the music of now. Recently recognized for a “ferocious, focused performance” (The New York Times), Contemporaneous performs and promotes the most exciting work of living composers through innovative concerts, commissions, recordings, and educational programs. Based in New York City and active throughout the United States, Contemporaneous has performed at a wide range of venues, including Lincoln Center, (le) poisson rouge, Merkin Concert Hall, Park Avenue Armory, St. Ann’s Warehouse, National Sawdust, and the Bang on a Can Marathon. The ensemble has worked with artists as diverse as David Byrne, Donnacha Dennehy, Julia Wolfe, and Dawn Upshaw and has premiered over 100 new works. The ensemble has held residencies at Simon’s Rock College, the University of New Orleans, Williams College, and Bard College, where the group was founded in 2010 by co-artistic directors David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly. contemporaneous.org.
