Contemporaneous
Contemporaneous is a versatile, entirely youth-run new music ensemble based in New York, devoted to presenting programs of music by both emerging and established composers. Now in its inaugural season, Contemporaneous will debut with four concerts in the spring of 2010 — two on the campus of Bard College, one at the Hudson Opera House, and one at a venue to be announced in New York City. The ensemble seeks to showcase the transition from contemporary music, the music most often associated with the word "modern" — Schoenberg, Stravinsky, even Boulez — to music which is "contemporaneous," the music of our generation.
Hailing from four continents, the over 25 members of Contemporaneous are avid entrepreneurs and enthusiasts for the promotion of awareness and appreciation of new music among audiences of all types. Though most of our musicians study at Bard College, Contemporaneous is an independent ensemble not supported financially by the College. We are a not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of New York, and we are currently applying for federal tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Artistic Directors
DIOGO AHMED is Artistic Director and Conductor of CAMERATA ELECTRA, a new music ensemble based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has worked on a research project entitled Brazilian Composers and directed the project The Book’s Sound, both of which were supported by the National Library of Brazil.
As a composer, his orchestral and chamber works have been played throughout Brazil, Europe, and the United States. He has also written more than twenty-five theater and film scores.
Ahmed is currently enrolled in the Master’s Degree program at the Conductors Institute at Bard, where he studies with Maestro Harold Farberman. He holds a B.M. in composition and conducting from the University of Rio de Janeiro. He has attended conducting masterclasses with Kurt Masur, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Donald Portnoy, Aleco Bocchino, Guiherme Bernstein, Ricardo Tacuchian, and Daisuke Soga.
DAVID BLOOM is a second-year student at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he studies with John Halle, George Tsontakis, and Joan Tower and participates in the dual-degree program, pursuing Bachelor’s Degrees both in composition and philosophy.
Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, David has worked with many other established composers such as David Ludwig, Stephen Coxe, Melinda Wagner, Christopher Theofanidis, Charles Norman Mason, and several others.
Among the performers who have played hisworks are David Shifrin, Hsin-Yun Huang, Jeewon Park, Peter Miyamoto, Chris Nappi,and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
DYLAN MATTINGLY was born March 18th, 1991 in Berkeley, California. He began playing cello at the age of 5, and began writing music at the age of 7. He currently studies composition at the Bard College Conservatory of Music with George Tsontakis, Joan Tower, and Kyle Gann. His music has been performed in such cities as Sydney, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and numerous other locations all over the world.
He has studied conducting with David Ramadanoff and Nathan Madsen, and has worked with David Tcimpidis,
Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Katrina Wreede, and John Adams, as well as taken part in the John Adams Young Composer's Program.
His work is influenced alike by John Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Magnus Lindberg, Joni Mitchell, and the old American blues and folk field recordings of the Lomaxes. For two years he was the co-director of Formerly Known as Classical, a San Francisco bay area new music ensemble consisting of young musicians playing only music written in their lifetimes.
Dylan is also a painter, playwright, and a pitcher for Bard College's first ever club baseball team. In the past he has played cello in an improv string quartet called the Superdelegates, and guitar and vocals in a blues/funk/classic rock band entitled Funky Bus & the U-Turns. Dylan is a first-year at Bard College, double majoring in music composition and classics.
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Concerts, Spring 2010
In Real Time
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College
Join contemporaneous for our debut event, featuring works by eight established and emerging composers from all over the world, brought to you 100% live — in real time.
Garage Sale – Everything Must Go
Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm
New York City (venue TBA)
A program including two world premieres and many works never heard in the area, our New York City debut is as diverse and eclectic as the city where we present it.
Burn After Listening
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Bard College
"If we told you, we'd have to kill you..." Don't miss this one of a kind experience, with a world premiere choreography and a sonic adventure meant for your ears only.
Dream Sequence
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hudson Opera House, West Room
With five highly renowned featured composers from very different backgrounds, the works on the program of this season's final concert all have a story to tell, piecing together like a collage of dream-like memories.
Repertoire 2010
Diogo Ahmed (b. 1980): Fiel Herzog (2005) †
Preben Antonsen (b. 1991): vermiform aggregates (2009) **
Albert Behar (b. 1991): Catch and Release (2009) *
Mario Ferraro (b. 1965): New Work (2010) ††
Dylan Mattingly (b. 1991): Going to Where the Rain Falls (2009) **
Ingram Marshall (b. 1942): Fog Tropes II (1994)
Paul Moravec (b. 1957): Music for Chamber Ensemble (1983) *
Lukáš Oljeník (b. 1987): Tibi et Igni, Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (2009) ††
Daniel Shapiro (b. 1985): Garage Sale (2009) *
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): A Soldier’s Tale (1918)
Luís Tinoco (b. 1969): Sundance Sequence (1999) †
Alyssa Weinberg (b. 1988): Night Images (2009) *
Julia Wolfe (b. 1958): Lick (1994)
* New York premiere
** East Coast premiere
† United States premiere
†† World premiere
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