E4TT will kick off the season on November 8, 2024 at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, with “In Motion,” a far-reaching musical conversation about kinesis in all of its forms, beginning with three World Premieres—“And I Made My Way, Deciphering My Fire,” for piano trio by emerging Chinese-American composer Ursula Kwong-Brown, “ubi lux floret” by Black queer composer Darian Donovan Thomas, and an oboe/piano duo by Mary Bianco—plus moto perpetuo movements by 20th century British composers Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and York Bowen (1884-1961)—from Cello Sonata, Op. 65 and Suite Mignonne, Op. 39, for piano, respectively—and “Synopsis #10: I Know This Room So Well” (2006-2009) for solo English horn, by Guggenheim Fellow Lisa Bielawa, “Ominous Machine” (2020-21) for piano trio by JUNO award-winning Chinese-Canadian composer Vivian Fung, “composure” (2021) for piano trio by emerging composer Sage Shurman, and “Majestic Bells” (2022) for solo piano by Grammy nominated Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian. Guest artists will include oboist/English hornist Laura Reynolds, violinist Lylia Guion, and cellist Megan Chartier, who will join E4TT pianist Margaret Halbig. The concert will also be livestreamed on O1C’s YouTube channel.
Ensemble for These Times – “In Motion”
E4TT will kick off the season on November 8, 2024 at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, with “In Motion,” a far-reaching musical conversation about kinesis in all of its forms, beginning with three World Premieres—“And I Made My Way, Deciphering My Fire,” for piano trio by emerging Chinese-American composer Ursula Kwong-Brown, “ubi lux floret” by Black queer composer Darian Donovan Thomas, and an oboe/piano duo by Mary Bianco—plus moto perpetuo movements by 20th century British composers Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and York Bowen (1884-1961)—from Cello Sonata, Op. 65 and Suite Mignonne, Op. 39, for piano, respectively—and “Synopsis #10: I Know This Room So Well” (2006-2009) for solo English horn, by Guggenheim Fellow Lisa Bielawa, “Ominous Machine” (2020-21) for piano trio by JUNO award-winning Chinese-Canadian composer Vivian Fung, “composure” (2021) for piano trio by emerging composer Sage Shurman, and “Majestic Bells” (2022) for solo piano by Grammy nominated Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian.
Guest artists will include oboist/English hornist Laura Reynolds, violinist Lylia Guion, and cellist Megan Chartier, who will join E4TT pianist Margaret Halbig. The concert will also be livestreamed on O1C’s YouTube channel.
