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Pianist Denk to perform Jan. 21
Pianist Jeremy Denk will open the Department of Music’s concert schedule for the spring semester with a performance on Jan. 21.
A visit to UB by up-and-coming pianist Jeremy Denk will open the Department of Music’s spring 2011 concert schedule.
Denk, who has steadily built a reputation as one of today’s most compelling and persuasive artists, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus.
The concert program will feature old—Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations, BWV 988—and new—György Ligeti, Etudes, Books I & II—material.
Advanced tickets are $12 for general admission, $9 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens, and $5 for students.Tickets at the door are $20, $15, and $8.
The following day, Denk will present a master class from 10 a.m. to noon in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.During this class, Denk will coach four UB music students studying at the graduate level. The Jan. 22 master class is free and open to the public.
Denk has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras, including the Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, New World, St. Louis and San Francisco symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and London Philharmonia. Last season, he played Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments under the direction of John Adams, first with the London Symphony Orchestra in London and Paris, and then as part of Carnegie Hall’s City Noir. He appears often in recital in New York, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia.
The artist’s widely read blog, “Think Denk,” is highly praised and frequently referenced by many in the music press and industry. In the blog, Denk writes about his touring, practicing and otherwise unrelated experiences, as well as delving into fairly detailed musical analyses and essays.
The January concert schedule also will feature the music department’s first faculty recital of the semester, “Rated X II,” a collaboration of clarinetist Jean Koppperud and percussionist Tom Kolor.
The recital will take place at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in Lippes Concert Hall and feature world-premiere performances of newly commissioned works by five composers, including UB faculty composer Jeffrey Stadelman.
It is a sequel to last year’s “Rated X” project, a similar collaboration between Kopperud and pianist Stephen Gosling.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for UB faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens. Students are admitted free with ID.
A graduate of The Juilliard School and former student of Nadia Boulanger in France, Jean Kopperud has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, the Caribbean and Australia as concert soloist and chamber musician. She currently is performing with the New York New Music Ensemble, Omega, Ensemble 21, Washington Square Chamber Players and UB’s Slee Sinfonietta.
Kopperud also a performer on the cutting edge of the music-theater genre, earning national acclaim for her presentations of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Harlekin,” the demanding performance work for dancing clarinetist.
A professor of music at UB, Kopperud also teaches a class called “On the Edge,” both at UB and in the evening division at Juilliard.
Percussionist Tom Kolor specializes in 20th- and 21st-century music, and is one of New York City’s most in-demand chamber musicians. An assistant professor of music at UB, Kolor directs the Percussion Ensemble, teaches private lessons and is principal percussionist with the Slee Sinfonietta.
He appears throughout the United States and Europe as a member of Talujon Percussion, Manhattan Sinfonietta, Ensemble 21, Sospeso, American Modern Ensemble and Newband. He also is a frequent guest of such ensembles as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York New Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Continuum, Da Capo Chamber Players, Group for Contemporary Music and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
As a soloist, Kolor has premiered dozens of works by such composers as Milton Babbitt, John Zorn, Wayne Peterson, Tania Leon and Jerome Kitzke.
Tickets for all Department of Music events can be obtained at the Slee Hall box office, the Center for the Arts box office or at any Ticketmaster outlet, including Ticketmaster.com.
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