Directed by Paolo Bortolussi, the UBC Contemporary Players ensemble includes graduate and undergraduate students from the School of Music focusing on music and performance of our time. Programs blend masterworks by internationally acclaimed composers with world premieres of works written expressly for the ensemble by UBC composition majors.
Once again, we are pleased to welcome the UBC Contemporary Players to the Belkin Art Gallery for a concert inspired by the exhibition Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993. Led by Directors Corey Hamm and Paolo Bortolussi, this graduate and undergraduate student ensemble from the UBC School of Music will animate the Gallery for an afternoon program celebrating themes from the exhibition.
All welcome. Admission is free.
John Adams, Road Movies (Mvt. 1), 1995
Sarah Ho, violin
Fidelia Lam, piano
Lowell Liebermann, Gargoyles (Nos. 1-4), 1989
Nicole Linaksita, piano
Frederic Rzewski, 13 Studies for Instruments (Nos. 1, 10, 11), 1977
Paul Hung, flute
Krishan Power, clarinet
Theresa Lei, horn
Lucas O’Fee, trombone
Van Le, violin
Matthew McPhalen, cello
Aaron Graham, percussion
Scott Edward Godin, 2009, 2010
Rebecca Clarke, Michelle Leung, four hands piano
Frederic Rzewski, Spots (Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12), 1986
Kallie Tuxbury, clarinet
Sharon Li, trumpet
Katie Ho, violin
Sunny Chan, cello
John Oliver, Little Music Box, 1981
Krishan Power, clarinet
Paul Hung, flute
Directed by Paolo Bortolussi, the UBC Contemporary Players ensemble includes graduate and undergraduate students from the School of Music focusing on music and performance of our time. Programs blend masterworks by internationally acclaimed composers with world premieres of works written expressly for the ensemble by UBC composition majors.
Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983–1993 consists of 227 black-and-white photographs taken by the artist during the decade that he resided in New York City, his first time away from China. The photographs were personally selected by the artist from over 10,000 negatives that are housed at Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing and together represent a single work of art—no one image is more important than another. The exhibition is complemented by a 43-minute video interview with Ai Weiwei by Zheng Shengtian and videographer Don Li-Leger that discusses his growing up during the Cultural Revolution and his time in New York.
[more]Join leading UBC scholars, artists, curators and critics in a series of midday conversations. We invite two prominent, disciplinarily distinct voices into the Gallery to discuss productive intersections of their own work and the current exhibition, followed by a discussion that includes the audience.
[more]In conjunction with The Cinémathèque, we are pleased to present Alison Klayman’s award-winning documentary film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, which examines the complex intersection of artistic practice and social activism as seen through the life and art of the artist. Please join us immediately before the film for an introduction by Carol Lu, artistic director and chief curator of OCAT Shenzhen.
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