Upcoming events.
La Crosse New Music Festival
Quince performs “Three Voices” by Morton Feldman as part of University of Wisconsin La Crosse’s New Music Festival. Free and open to the public.
Cappella Performing Arts Center
721 King St., La Crosse, WI
https://lacrosselocal.com/event/live-music-la-crosse-new-music-festival-concert-3-time-uwl-lowe-center-for-the-arts/
Three Voices in Chicago
Quince performs “Three Voices” by Morton Feldman at the Horatio N. May Chapel located at the Rosehill Cemetery. Free and open to the public.
5800 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL
Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival
Quince performs as part of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival in Washington.
More information: https://www.wwcmf.org
Cleveland Institute of Music
Quince performs Courtney Bryan’s “Requiem” alongside the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Contemporary Ensemble.
QUINCETITUTE!
Quince Ensemble’s second annual contemporary and experimental voice workshop will take place September 19-22, 2024 at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL. This program invites singers and creative voice-users to delve into their craft in a supportive and inspiring environment.
Miller Theatre Portrait: Courtney Bryan
A 2023 MacArthur Fellow, Courtney Bryan is a brilliant pianist and groundbreaking composer who received her doctorate in composition at Columbia University in 2014. Her music is layered with musical genres including jazz, gospel, and experimental music. Two stellar groups—International Contemporary Ensemble and Quince Ensemble—join together to perform a program of recent works, including Requiem, a powerful five-movement work bridging end-of-life rituals from a spectrum of traditions.
Asuka Kakitani Portrait Album Release
Album release of “A Room of One’s Own” by Asuka Kakitani on Innova Recordings. Recorded at Wild Sound Recordings in Minneapolis, MN. Supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Paul Pinto "THE APPROACH" Recording Session
Recording Paul Pinto’s surreal musical-drama “THE APPROACH” at the Robert Ashley Studio in New York.
Johnstone Fund - Columbus Ohio
The Johnstone Fund for New Music presents Quince Ensemble at the Short North Stage in Columbus, OH. Featuring the World Premiere of This space has echoes by Leah Blankendaal (Australia).
PROGRAM
Evan Williams - Dust Bowl (2021)
Leah Blankendaal - Your space has echoes (2022, world premiere)
Your body holds time
Against
Vessel
Divergence & Inertia
Courtney Bryan - Dust to Dust (2019)
Liz Gre - Frgmntd (2022)
Annika Socolofsky - her lover’s hand (2020)
These Songs
Knoxville Boy
She Knows
Banks of the Ohio
Bowling Green State University - KEAR Residency
An educational residency, performance, and recording session featuring music by students at Bowling Green State University. More info:
The Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency provides opportunities for composers to explore, experiment, and create for two weeks in Bowling Green State University's 10.2 multi-channel/first order Ambisonic studio. More recently the residency has welcomed new music new music performance ensembles , who present a concert and seminars in the fall and then return in the spring to read and record student works.
Colorado College
Quince performs music by Eliza Brown, Annika Socolofsky, and premieres works for voices by Andres Carrizo, at Colorado College’s Packard Performance Hall.
Recording Music By Asuka Kakitani
Quince records Songs of One’s Own by Asuka Kakitani for a portrait album of her work.
Supported by a Minnesota State Arts Board grant
Eastman School of Music
Quince performs Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Destierros, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation.
With guest artist Anna Elder.
Binghamton Community Orchestra
The Binghamton Community Orchestra presents Requiem by Courtney Bryan, along with several stunning orchestral works with voice.
Richard Strauss – "Im Abendrot" from Vier Letzte Lieder
Courtney Bryan – Requiem
Grisey – "In der Frühe" and "Um Mitternacht" from Wolf Lieder
Laura Steenberge – TheFour Winds
https://binghamtoncommunityorchestra.org/index.php?id=concert-schedule
Kaufman Music Center
Quince Ensemble teams up with composer-performer Paul Pinto and “unbearably moving” (Gramophone) avant folk vocalist Annika Socolofsky to bring modern perspectives to traditional vocal genres including murder ballads, shanties, art song cycles and 1960s girl groups.
ANNIKA SOKOLOFSKY – her lover’s hand (2021)
Solo performance by Paul Pinto
PAUL PINTO – The Approach (2021)
More info at:
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/quince-ensemble-with-paul-pinto-and-annika-k-socolofsky/
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Quince and Ensemble Dal Niente perform Requiem by Courtney Bryan.
Learn more at
https://www.hydeparkjazzfestival.org/quinceensemble-courtneybryans
Music at the Forefront - Bowling Green State University
Music for voice and electronics at Quince’s Alma Mater where we founded the group in 2010. Works by Evan Williams, Milton Babbitt, Elainie Lillios, Aida Shirazi, and Paul Pinto.
FREE and open to the public!
More info at
https://events.bgsu.edu/event/music_at_the_forefront_quince?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=Bowling+Green+State+University
Quince Institute Participant Concert
Participants in the inaugural “Quincetitute” for contemporary vocal chamber music will perform ensemble works and group improvisations. This is the culminating event of the 5-day workshop featuring the workshop participants.
FREE and open to the public
Held on campus at the University of Washington
Meany Performing Arts Center - Room 268
PROGRAM:
Gilda Lyons - Bone Needles
Carrie Henneman Shaw - the smallest gap
Evan Williams - Dust Bowl
Aida Shirazi - Portrait
Carrie Henneman Shaw -the smallest gap
Jennifer Jolley - Prisoner of Conscience
Amanda Feery - Squarepusher
Quince Institute - Faculty Concert
The “Quincetitute” faculty, Carrie Henneman Shaw, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, and Liz Pearse, will perform a public concert alongside University of Washington faculty members Michael Lim (violin) and Melia Watras (viola, composer).
FREE and open to the public
Held on campus at the University of Washington
Meany Performing Arts Center - Room 268
Quince Institute for Contemporary Vocal Chamber Music
Our first annual summer intensive for contemporary vocal chamber music will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle. Intended for vocalists who are ready to explore the potential of their voice and artistry in a supportive environment, the “Quincetitute” will present a variety of topics including contemporary vocal ensemble repertoire, vocal pedagogy, improvisation, composition, career development, and music technology.
2023 Guest Artists: The phenomenal Gilda Lyons and Aida Shirazi will give lectures, workshops, and coachings for all participants.
Singers will be placed in groups to develop a performance of a contemporary vocal ensemble piece and will also develop improvised performances to present at a public concert.
Festival Cultural de Mayo in Guadalajara
Quince Ensemble premieres music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon at the Festival Cultural de Mayo in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Festival Cultural de Mayo is an international festival that brings arts from around the world and across a variety of disciplines to the people of Guadalajara. Quince will premiere Destierros (“uprootments”), written for the vocal quartet Quince, and staged by La Coperacha, a puppet and theater company in Guadalajara.
https://www.festivaldemayo.org
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon Foundation.
David Lang's 'love fail' at Long Play Festival 2023
Quince Ensemble performs David Lang’s iconic ‘love fail’ on the 2023 Long Play Festival!
Quince Ensemble in Brooklyn
Quince Ensemble gives the world premiere of Gilda Lyon’s ‘Velada 1949’ and the NYC premiere of Paul Pinto’s ‘The Approach’!
Coffey Street Studio - 153 Coffey Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
TICKETS:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quince-ensemble-at-coffey-street-studio-tickets-579630760207
Quince Ensemble in Chicago
Quince Ensemble performs new repertoire and recent commissions at Epiphany Center for the Arts. More info soon!
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
Quince Ensemble Winter Residency
Quince Ensemble convenes to workshop new commissions by composers from around the world.
University of Washington Guest Artist Concert
Quince Ensemble will premiere Chamber Music America commission by Paul Pinto, and a multi-movement work by Annika Socolofsky, and perform songs by David Reminick. The program will range from supernatural Brooklyn shanty-singing and queer feminist rage ballads to dreamscapes both freaky and beautiful.
https://music.washington.edu/events/2022-11-07/guest-artist-concert-quince-ensemble
Opera Premiere by Julia Werntz with Kamratōn
Quince will premiere “Strange Child” by composer Julia Werntz and librettist Kim Adrian with Pittsburgh-based new music ensemble Kamratōn.
More info and tickets here: https://www.kamraton.org/the-strange-child.html
Quince is proud to be supported by the New Music USA Organizational Development Fund!
University of Miami - Frost School Residency
Quince will work with student composers at the University of Miami Frost School of Music to workshops and premiere new works for treble voice ensemble
University of Florida Gainesville Residency
Quince will work with student composers at the University of Florida Gainesville to workshop and premiere new works for treble voice ensemble
Quince Back in the Twin Cities
Quince will perform the Twin Cities world premieres of Asuka Kakitani’s “Songs of One’s Own” and Evan Williams’ “Dust Bowl” as well as performing works by Courtney Bryan, Carrie Henneman Shaw, Eliza Brown, and Michael Miller!
www.studiozstpaul.com/quince-031922.html
Studio Z
275 East Fourth Street
Saint Paul, MN
Quince is proud to be supported by the New Music USA Organizational Development Fund!
Quince at Carleton College
We will be giving the world premieres of Asuka Kakitani’s “Songs of One’s Own” and Evan Williams’ “Dust Bowl” as well as performing works by Courtney Bryan, Carrie Henneman Shaw, Eliza Brown, and Michael Miller!
Carleton College
Kracum Hall
Northfield, MN
Residency at the University of Chicago
Quince Ensemble will work with composers at the University of Chicago to workshop and record new works for contemporary treble voice quartet.
University of Wisconsin La Crosse New Music Festival
The La Crosse New Music Festival is a celebration of new music from the tri-state area of Wiconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Female vocal ensemble Quince, composer Steve Danyew, and jazz bandleader Andrey Gonçalves will headline the festival, and over 20 regional composers will receive performances of their works and participate in the festival. All are welcome to attend festival activities.
https://www.uwlax.edu/calendar/?e=24447
Quince is proud to be supported by the New Music USA Organizational Development Fund!
