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UNC Ensemble/Iceblink
World premiere of "Iceblink," a multimedia work commissioned by RCMG from Allen Anderson based on journals and images from Antarctica as conceived by flutist, journalist & photographer Brooks de Wetter-Smith during a December 2006 expedition.
ARTISTS: Brooks de Wetter-Smith, flute; Michael Votta,conductor; Jacqueline Bartlett, Harpist; Terry Rhodes, soprano; Tonu Kalam, narrator; Donald Oehler, clarinet; Hsiao-Mei Ku, Violin; Hugh Partridge, Viola; Timothy Holley, Cello; Martin Stam, Double Bass; Peter Zlotnick, percussion
DATE: Sunday, April 27 2008, 3 PM (2 PM Talk)
SITE: NC Museum of Natural Sciences
11 W. Jones St. Raleigh (Note the special location for this concert!)
PROGRAM: See also the detailed program and program notes .
Please note: At 2 PM prior to the concert, Allen Anderson and Brooks de Wetter-Smith will give a talk about their work. During the actual performance of Iceblink images from Antarctica will be projected on a large screen behind the players.
| Flash! Saturday, April 26 at 3 PM (2:30 PM Talk)
We have added an extra performance — an open rehearsal of Iceblink only (not the full concert), with a 2:30 PM talk by Allen Anderson and Brooks de Wetter-Smith. All seats are $5. |
TICKETS: $10 General Public; $8 NCMA and NCMNS Members & Students
ATTENTION: Advance tickets for the Sunday performance are sold out. Any vacant seats will be sold at 2:55 PM on a first come, first served basis.
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- NCMA website: www.ncartmuseum.org
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
UNC Ensemble/Iceblink
Brooks de Wetter-Smith is in great demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist and masterclass teacher, having performed in 20 nations (Eastern- and Western Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America) and nearly all 50 states. His recordings are available on the Albany, Aurophon, Centaur, Christophorus, Crystal, and Paulinas labels, spanning baroque, romantic, and twentieth-centuries, and jazz-inspired repertoire. Many of his recordings include world premieres and works commissioned by or dedicated to him. His performances have been broadcast live on radio and television, including Radio Bremen, Bavarian Radio, Salzburg Radio, Radio/Television Hong Kong, and PBS affiliates in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, North Carolina, California and Nebraska. In the Spring of 2006 he joined tenor Frederico, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony to record four new CD's of arias, seasonal, patriotic and spiritual works. He has been featured at the festivals at Tanglewood, Salzburg, Carmel, and St. Malo, as well as numerous contemporary music festivals.
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In addition to his distinguished career as a performing and recording artist, he is also in considerable demand as an authority on avant-garde techniques. Recently, he has been actively engaged in exploring traditional Arabic improvisation techniques, an outgrowth of his long-standing interest in jazz. This search has led him to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Israel. Dr. de Wetter-Smith has combined his work in the Middle East with the study of Brazilian jazz/folk elements, suggesting a close connection between both Arabic music and western jazz traditions via West Africa. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Professorship to teach at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and Cologne as well as the Escola Superior in Lisbon, Portugal, and he is former President of the National Flute Association. Brooks de Wetter-Smith's editions of 19th-century repertoire are published by International Music Company and Southern Music Company. His principal teachers include James Galway, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Karlheinz Zöller, Walfrid Kujala and James Pappoutsakis. He holds a DMA degree from the Eastman School of Music and is the James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Allen Anderson, UNC Associate Professor, received a Bachelor of Music (1973) from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters of Arts (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1984) in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University. A composer and Head of the Composition Area, he teaches composition, counterpoint and 20th Century music to undergraduates, along with theory and analysis courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Current composition projects include a piece for two pianos, a choral work on a fragment of Schoenberg's, and a piece for gamelan and two electric guitars.
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Dr. Anderson joined the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1996. Before that he taught at Columbia University, Wellesley College and Brandeis University. He received the Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC in 1999 and is a Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Dr. Anderson has composed works for Speculum Musicae, the Empyrean Ensemble, the UNC Chamber Singers, Aleck Karis and Daniel Stepner among others. His work has been acknowledged with awards or commissions from the Guggenheim, Fromm and Koussevitsky foundations, Chamber Music America, BMI and League of Composers/ISCM (both the National and Boston chapters). His music is published by C. F. Peters, Margun Music and APNM, and is available on recordings from the CRI label.