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“A force in the New York new-music world” – The New York Times

Exploring Inside the Box with Conrad Tao Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center Online | Monday, December 21, 2020 at 7pm ET

CONRAD TAO Performing Live-From-Home with Face the Music Graeme Buehrer, trumpet; Leon Leveau & George Williams, alto saxophone; Dorian Vaughn, tenor saxophone; Robbie Mathews, baritone saxophone; Joseph Brooks, electric bass; Titus Daniels, drumset

With Conrad Tao, Kaufman Music Center Artist-In-Residence

Conrad Tao’s Artist Residency is generously underwritten by The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust.

AAKASH MITTAL Breathe With text by Jasmine Wilson

Lucija Budinski & Ilaria Hawley, flutes; Toby Poole & Tyler Worrell, clarinets; Suren Reddy, alto saxophone; Ray Nobuhara & Dorian Vaughn, tenor saxophones; Aidan Gottdiener-Tan, electric guitar; Arvindh Senthilvelan, piano; Isai Rabiu, drumset; conducted by Titus Daniels

JP MORENO The Joker (world premiere) ELLA VERMUT chance may crown me (world premiere) Devin Mendez & Georgia Parachini, flutes; Arlo Bivins, clarinet; Ray Nobuhara & Dorian Vaughn, tenor saxophones; Thanas Sinaya, trumpet; Kamron Norasteh & Joseph Shupp, keyboards; Malachi Cherubini, harp; JP Moreno, vibraphone; Miles Dhalwala, drumset; Ella Vermut, voice and violin; coached by Aakash Mittal

ALHAJI BAI KONTE Alla L'aa Ke (Gambian Traditional Song) (Arr. Bloom) Isabella Carucci, flute; Moxé Meiri, violin; Oriana Hawley, viola; Aidan Gottdiener-Tan, acoustic guitar; coached by David Bloom

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ISABELLA CARUCCI Bipolar (world premiere) Oriana Hawley, solo viola

MEREDITH MONK Airport from ATLAS (Arr. Bloom) Isabella Carucci & Lucija Budinski, flutes; Ben Goodman, Toby Poole, & Tyler Worrell, clarinets; Enzo Cetti & Matlock Millar, trumpets; Erin Lee, Mary Lee, & Gem Nakamura, violins; Teddy Diamond, viola; Felix Mattick & Charlotte Weinstein, celli; Marina Zurita McKinnon, acoustic guitar; Eliana Kushner, piano; conducted by David Bloom; additional coaching by Hattie Bestul and Adrianna Mateo

Alexandra Daniels….......... Ruby Pine, Face the Music Alumna Chen Qing………………... Ben Goodman Erik Magnussen…………... Lucas Mann Soprano Voice……………. Julia Ching Bass Voice………………… Brendon Rapushaj

DORIAN VAUGHN 1 AM (world premiere) Sadie Pine & Moxé Meiri, violins; Teddy Diamond, viola; Felix Mattick, cello; coached by Mark Serkin With Conrad Tao, Kaufman Music Center Artist-In-Residence

The New Face of 21st Century Music Face the Music is Kaufman Music Center’s contemporary music education program for teenagers and the country’s only youth program dedicated to studying and performing post-genre music by living composers. Praised for “stunning performances” by the New York Times, Face the Music features a collection of ensembles including a chamber orchestra, a jazz big-band, an improvisation collective, string quartets and mixed chamber-ensembles, all dedicated to studying and performing experimental, new-classical, new-jazz & avant-garde music written exclusively by living composers.

Hattie Bestul, Program Manager; Luke Scales, Production Coordinator

Face the Music invites new members to join in 2021! Are you a musician who would like to try Face the Music? Do you know a teen who may be interested? Face the Music meets on Sunday afternoons, and musicians age 12-18 may register online to audition at KaufmanMusicCenter.org/FTM/Registration. Teen musicians (members and non-members) are also welcome to sign up for Face the Music’s Electronic Music Workshop running January to February, 2021. For more information, email facethemusic@kaufmanmusiccenter.org or call 929 265 8412.

Visit KaufmanMusicCenter.org/FTM to read more, find out how to register and audition, and learn how your support can provide transformative experiences for young musicians when you donate.

Face the Music: Exploring Inside the Box with Conrad Tao The teen musicians of Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music new music program are delving into the possibilities of musical learning and performing within the structure of modern technology. With rehearsals and activities entirely online this fall, students have shown their strength, creativity, adaptability and musical passion through their performance projects featured in this online concert. Tune in to find out how these teens have pushed the limits from within their homes and devices in order to continue connecting, exploring and innovating! Plus, you won't want to miss their collaboration with Kaufman Music Center Artist-In-Residence Conrad Tao! A dynamic pianist and composer leading a new generation of classical music, Conrad has also embraced the experimental and innovative possibilities of interaction through the online realm. Please tune in to hear Conrad perform live and socially-distanced with Face the Music teens as they interact with latency as a musical element and discover in real time the fusion of acoustic instruments, Zoom and digital audio workstation effects.

"I'm exploring the musical possibilities of latency with the Face the Music students, processing the cumulative Zoom sound. Basically, experimenting to see if the unpredictability (and, let's be real, the

challenges) of playing music collaboratively over the Internet can be activated as a musical component." – Conrad Tao

Audio Mixing for this concert by Luke Scales and Ben Young Video Editing by Hattie Bestul and Luke Scales

Thank You to Face the Music's Supporters Face the Music is made possible, in part, by The ASCAP Foundation, Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation, Inc., The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust, The Hearst Foundations, Inc., The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc., The Lester & Grace Maslow Foundation, Tatiana Piankova Foundation, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, The Rea Charitable Trust, Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts, and The Weininger Foundation, Inc.

Music education programs at Kaufman Music Center are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.