Viachec: Quintet of Passing Time The Quintet of Passing Time is an exploration of sound with contemporary brass. The first movement starts with a lively, but mysterious rhythmic motif that is explored and passed around the ensemble. The second movement is a slow exploration of modal harmonies with an overarching theme. – Chase Viachec, composer Seok, Ogando, Guerrero: Levels Levels explores the idea of breaking the constraints found in a traditional score. The piece was inspired one day in a practice room, when the three of us started singing and improvising, thinking about what we could come up with from absolutely no knowledge of material or planning. Sounds were coming out of our instruments, and there was a point where we held instruments that we never played before. From this experiment, we came up with several questions: How do you create musical material out of simple gestures? How much planning do you need for a composition? How much as performers are we constrained by a score? etc. We focused on the last part of those questions, recalling the liberating feeling throughout the experiment as we continued; starting from several seconds to eventually full minutes of material that has never been planned but sounds we recognized as music. We hope this piece offers you a moment to free yourself, as it did for us.
presents the
Composition Studio Recital Students of Clifton Callender, Eren Gümrükçüoğlu, and Liliya Ugay
Monday, February 9, 2025 7:30 p.m. Dohnányi Recital Hall
PROGRAM Merry Humming Tune (2021)
– March Jeongmin Seok, Darcie Ogando, Sergio Ramirez Guerrero, composers Remember (2025)
It Was a Lover and His Lass (2025)
Marbles on Glass (2026) I.
Jacob Grice, viola Elizabeth Grice, piano
Brandon Mecklenburg, baritone Emma Anderson, piano
Mariah Moran, soprano Daniel Farias, piano
Alex Barton, piano
Quintet of Passing Time (2026) Adam Lyn, Emma Willadsen, trumpet; Eliana Gold, horn Valiere Cobb, trombone; Xavier Gauthier, tuba
Jacob Grice (b. 1998)
Andrés Gallo (b. 1987)
Daniel Farias (b. 2004)
Random Goethe (b. 2005) Chase Viachec (b. 2003)
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