Shared Madness with Jennifer Koh
Every weekday from June 5 through July 14 at q2music.org
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Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang
David Lang joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his Shared Madness piece "low resolution" and discuss a more meditative approach to virtuosity. Jul 14, 2017
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MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe
Composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss American folk traditions in her Shared Madness piece, "Spinning Jenny." Jul 13, 2017
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Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon
Gordon joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his shared madness piece "kwerk" and the changing definition of virtuosity. Jul 12, 2017
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Composer & Sound Designer Mark Grey
Grey joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the influence of Grey’s experience with technology on his approach to composition, and his re-construction of material from Paganini’s 20th caprice. Jul 11, 2017
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Grawemeyer Award Winner Andrew Norman
Norman joins Jennifer Koh to discuss performed silence as exemplary of delicate virtuosity, and the “deconstruction of technique.” Jul 10, 2017
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Bedroom Community's Daníel Bjarnason
Bjarnason joins Jennifer Koh to discuss compositions as self-contained universes and the challenges inherent in maintain many disparate voices in a work scored for a solo instrument. Jul 7, 2017
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Finnish Icon Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the tricky relationship between intricacy and virtuosity, and the extent to which extended techniques are (and aren’t) actually extended. Jul 6, 2017
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Transatlantic Composer David Bruce
British composer David Bruce joins Koh to discuss the vulnerability and humanness that both Bruce and Koh find in folk music tradition, and the concept of a “gift.” Jul 5, 2017
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Sante Fe Composer Marc Neikrug
Marc Neikrug is a composer and pianist whose career has spanned thirty years. He joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his first solo violin work, "Flash," written for Shared Madness. Jul 4, 2017
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Curtis Institute's David Ludwig
David Ludwig joins Jennifer Koh to discuss elemental sounds in instrumental music, use of palindrome, Paganini, and the geometric phenomena of the mobius strip. Jul 3, 2017
