The Princeton Sound Kitchen, directed by professor Dan Trueman, announced its lineup of performers for the 2014-15 season.
The PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Fidelio Trio, Amernet String Quartet, and folk ensemble This is How we Fly, among others, are set to bring works by Princeton University graduate students to life.
The Princeton Sound Kitchen provides a forum for Princeton composers to realize their musical visions onstage, cultivating a spirit of exploration and inquiry.
Each season the next generation young composers, students in Princeton’s celebrated Ph.D. Program in Composition, create acoustic, electronic, improvised and theatrical works, bringing them to life in collaboration with today’s leading performers of contemporary music.
Princeton Sound Kitchen concerts are free and open to the public.
The season is set to kick off 8 p.m. Sept 16 with the Black Box Project in Whitman College Class of 1970 Theatre. The program features newly-devised performance works by Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Florent Ghys, Wally Gunn, Dave Molk, Josh Quillen, Jason Treuting, and Sō Percussion with director Laura Sheedy.
PRISM Quartet, made up of four saxophonists, is set to present the music of Viet Cuong, Alex Dowling, Noah Kaplan, Steven Mackey, Emma O’Halloran, Chris Rogerson and Gabriella Smith 8 p.m. Oct. 10 at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall.
Irish piano group Fidelio Trio is set to perform new works by Quinn Collins, Cruttwell-Reade, Viet Cuong, Amanda Feery, O’Halloran, and Treuting 8 p.m. Nov. 18 in Taplin Auditorium.
Various artists and ensembles are scheduled to perform the music of Elliot Cole, Collins, Cruttwell-Reade, Ghys, Gunn, Treuting and Andrew Lovett 8 p.m. Dec. 2 in Taplin Auditorium.
American Modern Ensemble is set to perform 8 p.m. Feb. 10 in Taplin Auditorium. Founded by composer Robert Paterson, this dynamic ensemble plans to play new works by composers Cuong, Cenk Ergün, Gunn, Noah and Ju Ri Seo.
Movie Night, an evening of video works and multi-channel audio works by Princeton composers, is set for 8 p.m. March 3 in Taplin Auditorium.
Amernet String Quartet is set to play new works by Ergün, Feery, Jon Russell, Seo, Smith and Dmitri Tymoczko 8 p.m. March 24 in Taplin Auditorium.
This is How we Fly is scheduled to perform 8 p.m. April 21 in Taplin Auditorium. Comprising of fiddle and hardanger fiddle, clarinets and live electronics, percussive dance, drums and percussion, This is How We Fly plans to perform music by Dowling,Feery, Kaplan, Molk, O’Halloran, Jeff Snyder, Treuting, and Dan Trueman.
Various artists and ensembles are set to perform new works by Princeton’s second tear graduate student composers 8 p.m. April 28 in Taplin Auditorium.
The season is set to close with Princeton’s Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, So Percussion, performing works by student composers. concerts are scheduled for 8 p.m. May 19 and 20 in Taplin Auditorium.
More information is online at princetonsoundkitchen.org.
