Author: jmodney

MIVOS reviewed in The Strad Magazine

Concert Reviews, News

We’re really excited to report a very nice review of our March show at Galapagos Art Space in The Strad magazine, quoted below!  You can also view the original article here.

The Strad – June Issue
Reviews/Concerts/New York

“The next evening (10 March) brought the young MIVOS quartet to the Galapagos Art Space . . . this group has been making the rounds of the downtown arts venues while preparing its first recording, on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, of Ned Rothenberg’s Clarinet Quintet. That work was the centerpiece of the programme here and it offered an appealing compendium of gentle jazz grooves and lush blues harmonies, which the MIVOS players played with spontaneity and dexterity as the composer played the soulful clarinet part.MIVOS’s approach is refreshingly undogmatic. Its sound became narrowly focused and intense in György Kurtág’s epigrammatic Microludes, just as it took on a slightly metallic, spiky edge for Evan Ziporyn’s Be In . . . In an arrangement of Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame, the group summoned subtle gradations of tone, before the final moments dissolved into eerie, translucent sonic mist.”

CD Release show coming up!

Shows

MIVOS quartet + Ned Rothenberg on Tzadik

Ned Rothenberg and MIVOS celebrate the release of Rothenberg’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings originally commissioned by Roulette through NYSCA and now out on John Zorn’s Tzadik Composer’s series.  We are very excited to have our first CD together, please join us!

June 14, 2010, 8:30pm

Roulette
20 Greene Street
purchase CD at the show or @ http://www.tzadik.com

Solo performance on Monday

Shows

This Monday, 5/10, I will be performing Daniel Colson’s “Vitulatory Strains” for solo violin at the CUNY Elebash Recital Hall in midtown Manhattan.  Looking forward to playing solo in such a gorgeous space!

If you’d like to come out, here are the details:

5/10/2010, 8pm, free admission

CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave)

Ferneyhough solo performance

Shows

I hope you can join me for my next performance with Talea Ensemble on Sunday, April 25th, 4pm, @ the Roger Smith Hotel.  It will be a brief but intense program including works by Jason Eckardt and Brahms.  I’m very excited to be giving my solo debut with Talea Ensemble, performing Brian Ferneyhough’s ferocious “Unsichtbare Farben.”

Roger Smith Hotel, 47th and Lexington

$15/$10 student

Harvard Debut

Concert Reviews, News, Shows

I recently returned from an extremely rewarding residency at Harvard University with Talea Ensemble which culminated in a concert at Paine Hall on February 27th.  All of the graduate composers whose compositions I performed (Hannah Lash, Bert Van Herck, Sivan Cohen Elias, Trevor Baca) were an absolute pleasure to work with.

My most memorable experience from this past month with the Harvard folks, both by its tremendous challenges and incredible rewards, was rehearsing and performing Trevor Baca’s Lidércfény, for flute, violin, and piano.  Trevor’s input on the piece was inspirational, and I was pushed to grow as a musician in ways I did not think possible.  It was also a distinct honor to perform with Elizabeth Janzen on flute and Steve Beck on piano.

Please check out this wonderful review of the performance by Piraye Yurttas.