Music

John Luther Adams

Event information:
Thursday, November 20 at 7 pm
World Financial Center's Winter Garden (Battery Park City on the Hudson River)
Admission is free
Information available at (212) 945-0505 or at the WFC's Winter Garden website
This concert will be recorded for broadcast on Dec. 22 at 11PM on New Sounds

Join John Schaefer for the latest WNYC commission. John Luther Adams descends from Alaska with a new piece called "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies," for solo percussion and computer-processed sounds. Written for and performed by percussionist Steven Schick, this 70-minute soundscape is designed to fill the space with sound. Commissioned by WNYC, the LA County Museum, and the South Florida Composers Alliance, through the Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program.

About John Luther Adams:
For the past twenty-five years composer John Luther Adams has made his home in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. From there he has created a unique musical world grounded in the elemental landscapes and indigenous cultures of the North. His music includes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, percussion and electronic media, and is recorded on the Cold Blue, New World and New Albion labels.

Adams has worked with many prominent performers and venues, including Bang On A Can, Almeida Opera, the California E.A.R. Unit, FLUX Quartet, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Percussion Group Cincinnati, the Sundance Institute and Arena Stage. He has received awards and fellowships from Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, Lila Wallace Arts Partners, the Rockefeller Foundation, Opera America, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.

About Steven Schick:
Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past twenty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music.

Steven Schick has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival among many others. He has recorded many of those works for SONY Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI and will release a new solo CD with Neuma Records.

Steven Schick is the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Other important ongoing collaborations include work with pianist James Avery, the percussion group "red fish blue fish" and the Maya Beiser/Steven Schick Project.


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