09/27/2014
New Frontiers: The Laramie Contemporary Music Project
CONCERTS
Monday, Oct. 6, 2014: Apprentice Concert
UW Student Composers and Performers present music from the last 50 years.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Fine Arts Concert Hall
7:30pm, FREE
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014: The Art of Allégresse
Allégresse – Annie Gnojek, flute; Margaret Marco, oboe; Ellen Bottorff, piano
New Frontiers performers-in-residence and classical recording artists Allégreese, perform music by New Frontiers composer-in-residence, Gabriela Lena Frank and others.
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Main Gallery
7:30pm, FREE
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014: The Micro Concert—Sparkling new chamber music with guest performer and composer-in-residence, Gabriela Lena Frank
Includes arias from UW composer Anne Guzzo and Ron Frost’s geologically inspired opera-in-progress, Clinker: Between an Opera and a Hard Place. The concert also includes a verbally fluent flute and piano work by Jason Barabba, music about chickens, and more from composer Gabriela Frank.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Fine Arts Concert Hall
7:30pm, FREE
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014: The Macro Concert—UW Large Ensembles
Featuring the Collegiate Chorale, directed by Nicole Lamartine; the Wind Symphony, directed by Robert Belser, and Ben Markley’s Wyoming Jazz with a world premiere, music by G. Frank on a theme of the October holiday, Dia de los Mu***os, and more.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Fine Arts Concert Hall
7:30pm, FREE
CLASSES AND TALKS – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Wed. October 8, 10:00am – 10:50am, Gabriela Frank talks about her compositional methods
10:50, Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Room 128 (Choir Room)
Thurs. Oct. 9, 1:10 – 2:00pm, panel discussion, with Gabriela Frank
“Commissions and Collaborations – making new music come to life”
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, Fine Arts Concert Hall
New Frontiers 2014 is supported by the Music Department, the Douglas B. Reeves Composition Endowment, the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute, and the Wyoming Excellence Fund
