Event Info:

Inaugural Concert

EMPAC has built a 21st Century concert hall, one that looks deep into the possibilities of the future without breaking with the achievements of the past. The hall is a one-of-a-kind space for communal listening, ideal for the widest range of approaches to sound creation, diffusion, and reception — but extends far beyond this — and is capable of transforming itself into an environment for sonic, visual, and spatial explorations by artists and scientists alike.

Curators: Johannes Goebel & Micah Silver

Tickets are REQUIRED for this event

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Images: ASO: Gary Gold Photography, Vajda: Supplied by Dispeker Management, Inc, Vox: Hiroyuki Ito, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

The Inaugural Concert will breathe into this unique space for the first time using purely acoustic sound – a seventy minute sonic event that focuses and guides the ear across 400 years of music composition through spatial and timbral combinations of nearly 150 instruments.

Come experience a one-time fusion of sound and space to Inaugurate the most unique concert hall in America, featuring the The Albany Symphony with David Alan Miller and soloist Per Tengstrand, Vox Vocal Ensemble with George Steel, and chamber orchestra ICE with Gregory Vajda.

Credits:

Founded as an optimistic response during the Great Depression by an Organist and Choirmaster from Cohoes, The Albany Symphony Orchestra is one of this region’s oldest and most revered music and cultural organizations. Under artistic Director and Conductor David Alan Miller, the Orchestra has become nationally renowned for programming, commissioning and recording the work of living composers while bringing new vision to time-honored classical music. This marriage of new and old attracts a variety of music lovers, from seasoned devotees to curious listeners discovering symphonic music for the first time. As part of this special event, they will be joined by star Swedish piano soloist Per Tengstrand.

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is a uniquely structured chamber music ensemble comprised of thirty dynamic and versatile young performers who are dedicated to advancing the music of our time. Through innovative programming, inter-disciplinary collaborations, commissions by young composers, and performances in nontraditional venues, ICE brings together new music and new audiences. For this special performance at EMPAC, one of the most renowned young conductors, Hungarian Gregory Vajda will lead the ensemble.

The Vox Vocal Ensemble, called “superb” by The New York Times, was founded by George Steel in 1992 and is one of the few choirs in the United States who are equally at home performing music of the 14th and 21st Centuries. Since that time, Vox has become one of the most sought-after vocal ensembles in New York, performing in such varied contexts as an all-Penderecki concert in the presence of the composer, music of Messiaen at the Lincoln Center Festival, and ancient Greek chant on Maurizio Pollini’s Carnegie Hall Perspectives series. Vox Vocal Ensemble performs an annual concert of holiday music at the Guggenheim Museum, was a featured ensemble in the MATA Festival, and attracts sell-out audiences for Miller Theatre’s Early Music series.


More Information:

Performance Dates/Times

Saturday, October 4, 7:30 PM | Concert Hall

Links:

» www.albanysymphony.com

» http://www.iceorg.org

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