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.
Flutist Paolo Bortolussi is a soloist, chamber artist and new music pioneer. Raised in Halifax, NS, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across Canada, the US and abroad. A specialist in contemporary music, Bortolussi is the flutist and co-director of the Nu:BC Collective, a new music and multimedia arts ensemble in residence at UBC. To date he has premiered over one hundred and fifty solo and chamber works. In 2016, Bortolussi released his first solo album, Israfel – music for flute and electronics, on the Redshift label, which includes works by Keith Hamel, Larry Lake, John Oliver and Kaija Saariaho. Currently principal flutist with the Vancouver Island Symphony, Bortolussi has appeared as soloist with the VIS as well as the Albany (NY) Symphony and the Turning Point Ensemble, and has performed with the Aventa Ensemble, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, as well as the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony Orchestras. Bortolussi is on the music faculty of the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Trinity Western University. He holds a BMus in performance from the University of Ottawa as well as Masters and Doctoral degrees from Indiana University. He is currently director of the UBC Contemporary Players.
Join us for a concert by the UBC Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery. Ensemble Director Paolo Bortolussi along with TA coaches Ramsey Sadaka and Susan Xia present a program that celebrates the Belkin Art Gallery’s current exhibition Beginning With the Seventies: Collective Acts.
All are welcome. Admission is free.
PROGRAM
Frederic Rzewski, from 13 Studies for Unspecified Instrumentation (1977), including Study 8 and Study 10, Bousculade
Denny Ho (viola), Claire Patience (euphonium), Ramsey Sadaka (cello), Spencer Service (trumpet), Shilpa Sharma (flute/piccolo), Ayumi Yaesawa (violin)
György Kurtág: The Little Fix (1979), including I. Fanfare in the manner of Moussorgsky-attacca, II. Hymn in the manner of Stravinsky, III. Scherzo and IV. Nachtstück
Phillip An (guitar), Devon Atkinson (trombone), Clara Shi (piccolo)
Harry Somers, Kuyas for soprano, flute and percussion (1967)
Jesse Guo (percussion), Kathleen Isaza (soprano), Caara Yeung (flute)
Download the English translation of Kuyas
Jordan Nobles, Undercurrents (2011)
Jesse Guo (vibraphone), Denny Ho (viola), Valerie Kim (bass clarinet), Shilpa Sharma (flute), Clara Shi (flute), Ayumi Yaesawa (violin)
Stephen Chatman, Wild Cat (1971, rev. 1974)
Kelly Li (flute)
Keith Bissell, Trio Suite for Brass (1973), including I. Allegro and II. Allegretto
Devon Atkinson (trombone), Claire Patience (horn), Spencer Service (trumpet)
Frederic Rzewski, from 13 Studies for Unspecified Instrumentation (1977), including Study 3 and Study 5
Denny Ho (viola), Claire Patience (euphonium), Ramsey Sadaka (cello), Spencer Service (trumpet), Shilpa Sharma (flute/piccolo), Ayumi Yaesawa (violin)
Concert at the Belkin, November 28, 2018. (48m 59s)
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.
Flutist Paolo Bortolussi is a soloist, chamber artist and new music pioneer. Raised in Halifax, NS, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across Canada, the US and abroad. A specialist in contemporary music, Bortolussi is the flutist and co-director of the Nu:BC Collective, a new music and multimedia arts ensemble in residence at UBC. To date he has premiered over one hundred and fifty solo and chamber works. In 2016, Bortolussi released his first solo album, Israfel – music for flute and electronics, on the Redshift label, which includes works by Keith Hamel, Larry Lake, John Oliver and Kaija Saariaho. Currently principal flutist with the Vancouver Island Symphony, Bortolussi has appeared as soloist with the VIS as well as the Albany (NY) Symphony and the Turning Point Ensemble, and has performed with the Aventa Ensemble, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, as well as the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony Orchestras. Bortolussi is on the music faculty of the University of British Columbia, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Trinity Western University. He holds a BMus in performance from the University of Ottawa as well as Masters and Doctoral degrees from Indiana University. He is currently director of the UBC Contemporary Players.
As part of the exhibition Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts, the Belkin is honoured to present an afternoon symposium addressing key issues in feminism related to collective organizing, mobilization and individual resistance. How does attention to the archive affect everyday experience and acts of resistance to hegemonic inequality? Attending to struggles with racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other intersecting oppressions, this program will address the exhibition and the stubborn frustrations that persist in perpetuity. Please join us in conversation with Candice Hopkins and Marilyn Dumont.
[more]Collective Acts taps into the generative potential of archival research by artists into experiments with collective organizing and cooperative production, presenting new work by Dana Claxton, Jeneen Frei Njootli and the ReMatriate Collective, Christine D’Onofrio and Heather Kai Smith, alongside work by Salish Weavers Guild members Mary Peters, Adeline Lorenzetto and Annabel Stewart. Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts is curated by Lorna Brown and is the third of four exhibitions based upon the Belkin Art Gallery’s research project investigating the 1970s, an era when social movements of all kinds – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, Indigenous rights, access to health services and housing – began to coalesce into models of self-organization that overlapped with the production of art and culture. Noting the resurgence of art practice involved with social activism and an increasing interest in the 1970s from younger producers, the Belkin has connected with diverse archives and activist networks to bring forward these histories, to commission new works of art and writing and to provide a space for discussion and debate.
[more]The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice will host a study group on the work of Judith Butler at at Pollyanna 圖書館 Library, 221A. This six-session study group is convened in anticipation of her academic visit and public lecture at UBC in the Winter of 2019.
[more]Join artist and educator Kim Soo Goodtrack and learn about the practice of making Ribbon Skirts. In conjunction with the exhibition, Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts, these workshops are part of a new collaborative installation by Dana Claxton and Jeneen Frei Njootli titled, The Sew In (2018). This work of art considers the sharing of Indigenous cultural knowledge, care, connection, labour and pleasure as integral components to the process of making art.
[more]Join artist and educator Kim Soo Goodtrack and learn about the practice of making Ribbon Shirts. In conjunction with the exhibition, Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts, these workshops are part of a new collaborative installation by Dana Claxton and Jeneen Frei Njootli titled, The Sew In (2018). This work of art considers the sharing of Indigenous cultural knowledge, care, connection, labour and pleasure as integral components to the process of making art.
[more]As part of Collective Acts, we invite you to visit the newly-launched Intuition Commons, a space that aims to facilitate an archive of female influences in creative practice that lie outside of conventional citations.
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