2009-10 Concert Season

Concert Schedule:

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Twenty-Seventh Int'l. Composition Competition
Sunday, October 4, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

Generations
Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

A Young Composers' Workshop
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

Celebrating Lukas
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

Saxes and Horns
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

All concerts are held at the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University. The venue is accessible via the MBTA Green Line and is wheelchair-accessible.

This season is funded by Boston University, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the George Demeter Realty and individual contributions.

Rehearsals are free and open to the public. You are welcome to come and observe the interaction between composers, conductor and musicians in preparing new music for performance. For times and dates please email aleaiii@bu.edu or call (617)353-3340.

Twenty-Seventh Int'l. Composition Competition

Sunday, October 4, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

Theodore Antoniou

ALEA III

Free admission

Works:

Juan José Bárcenas Cardona (Mexico) | Who lights the hearth of dawn...
Janet Jieru Chen (Taiwan) | Beyond Distance
Constantinos Chizaris (Greece) | November Rain
Young-Shin Choi (Korea) | Lines of Hues
Otto H. Muller (USA) | Eyrydissos
Simone Scazzocchio (Italy) | Sensations from a Faded Dream
Miguel Farías Vásquez (Chile) | Convergencias

Theodore Antoniou | Conductor

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Generations

Monday, November 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

John Heiss

Karyl Ryczek

Free admission

Chamber music by senior and younger composers from around the world.

Works:

Elliott Carter | Poems of Louis Zukofsky
Robert DiDomenica | Hebrew Melodies
Giorgos Dousis | Impetus *
John Heiss | Whimsies
David Ianni | Inter Nos
Francois-Bernard Mache | Kengir, Five Sumerian Love Songs (excerpts)
Lawrence Moss | Korea for Kwartludium
Altin Volaj | Gazing at the Inaccessible *

* ALEA III commission

Soloists:

Karyl Ryczek | Soprano
Elissa Alvarez | Mezzo Soprano
Fenwick Smith | Flute
Katherine V. Matasy | Clarinet
Philipp A. Stäudlin | Saxophone
Thomas Schmidt | Percussion
Yuko Yoshikawa | Marimba
Yukiko Shimazaki | Piano
Krista Buckland Reisner | Violin

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A Young Composers' Workshop

Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

Yukiko Shimazaki

Iakovos Konitopoulos

Free admission

New works for large ensemble by talented young composers from around the world, specially written for ALEA III.

Participating Composers:

Graham Dixon | United Kingdom
Aaron Krerowicz | USA
Lina Tonia | Greece
Eun Young Lee | Korea
Antonis Anestis | Greece
Sunggone Hwang | Korea
Mohammed Fairouz | United Arab Emirates
Miles Bergsma | USA

Iakovos Konitopoulos | Conductor

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Open rehearsals to the public:

Come and see how new music is prepared for performance.

Sunday, January 24, 6:30 - 10:30 pm - Room 167

Monday, January 25, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm - Room 167

Location: 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Celebrating Lukas

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 7:30 p.m.

Lukas Foss

Yukiko Shimazaki

Admission is free!

ALEA III, the Boston University Chamber Chorus and 18 former composition students of Lukas Foss join forces to celebrate the life and work of Lukas Foss (1922-2009), one of the greatest American Composers of the 20th century.

Conducted by Theodore Antoniou

Special guest: Boston University Chamber Chorus, Ann Howard Jones, conductor

Works:

Echoi (I, II)
For Toru
Elegy for Anne Frank
For Aaron
The Prairie (VIa, VII)
Behold! I Build an House

Plus: Nineteen Epigrams, a new work for large ensemble written by eighteen of Lukas Foss' former composition student (all now accompliced professionals), commissioned by ALEA III in honor of their teacher: