2020 Cortona Sessions Program Booklet

2020 has been marked by so much di culty and so many important discussions that it feels at once both silly and incredibly important to make music. e Cortona Sessions for New Music is committed to pursuing equity and diversity through a spirit of Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate that we hope will permeate the teaching, performing, and composing of all of our faculty, fellows, and musical partners. We recognize our own weaknesses and failings in these areas and pledge to work to o er more opportunities and exposure to those artists who have been marginalized or not been given the same opportunities in the past. e 2020 Cortona Sessions, being o ered online this year due to the omnipresent specter of COVID-19, continues to dream that making music and friendships based on the spirit of love and respect can creat positive change for the world, and can help all of those who become part of the Cortona Family nd peace in these troubled times. All of us at the Cortona Sessions welcome you to the family and we remind you that we are all in this together, and that no matter wher you go, the spirit of la dolce vita is not far away!

Michael Kirkendoll Founder and Artistic Director of the Cortona Sessions

THE 2020 CORTONA SESSIONS - SEASON 11

dedicated to the memories of my father, Mike Kirkendoll, my mother-in-law Marie Spanier, my friend and companion Mr. Sam.

2020 CORTONA FELLOWS

Composition

Jean Patrick Besingrand* Alberto Carretero Andrew Dana*

Turkar Gasimzada* Joseph Foster Harkins Adam Holmes John Kosch

Allison McIntosh Jeremy Rosenstock* Monte Taylor Emma Cardon Liam Dougherty Philip Foster

Francesca Hilditch Kevin Kay Noah Magnus Benjamin Martin

Lila Meretzky* Chris Ruenes*

Pranav Sivakumar

Samuel Stanley Ford Fourqurean

Garrison Gerard

Conducting

Nikhil Bartolomeo* Eun Cho

Kallie Ciechomski

Marco Crispo* Isabel De Berrie Kristine Dizon Garrison Gerard Erica Glenn

Lorenzo Guggenheim Chad Emry Heltzel

Joshua Shepherd Emmanuel Rojas

Jonathan Spatola-Knoll Long Tao Tang Ubaldo Valli Naomi Woo Sunny Xuecong Cia

Performance

Andrew Allen Lucy Collins Ford Fourqurean Andrew Ga ey Humay Gasimzade Lauren Gordon Eric He Andrew Hosler Sijia Huang Kelsey Kish Matthew Leo Adrianne Munden-Dixon Joyner Myers

Lara Miofsky Neuss* Jessica Schury

Brian Stuligross Alina Tamborini Kathryn Vetter* Peter White

Jack Yarbrough* Lauren Zwonik

2019

*returning fellow

Alejandro Avila

Nikhil Bartolomeo

Jean-Patrick Besingrande Andrew Dana

Maddy Dethlo

Wesley Ducote Daniel Farrell Seare Farhat Sam Friedman Eli Geruschat Michael Giunta

Kyriaki Gkoudina Aleia Gonzalez Jack Hamill Erik Helstrom Robert Hess*

James Dongbin Hyun

Anika Kildegaard Seika van Keuren Brendan Jacklin

Jerrica Jenkins Sara Kang

Kelly Lovelady*

Zachary McDonald Lila Meretzky Cody Myre

Lara Mitofsky Neuss Rachael Owens* Nicholas Politi* Yibing Qian Joshua Reinier Leah Rosales

Jeremy Rosenstock* Chris Ruenes Michelle Di Russo

Dylan Scroggins Barry Sharp Matthew Shorten Austin Smith

Annika Socolofsky

Emerson Sudbury

Morgan Sutherland* Nupur akkar Alissa Voth

Daijana Wallace* Olivia Ward Joshua Weinfeld Kendra Wheeler

Rachel Lanik Whelan*

Shannon Leigh Williams

Will Yager

Yi Zhang

PAST CORTONA FELLOWS

2018

*returning fellow

Emily Azzarito*

Aislinn Bailie

David N. Baker Luke Bentley

Sebastian Buhts

Felicia Chen Kenneth Cox Andrew Dana

Teresa Diaz de Cossio

Luke Ellard

omas Faulkner* Gavin Goodwin Tristan Greeno* Olivia Harris

Rose Hegele

Eric Hessel

Mai Hessel

Noel Holloway Clark Hubbard

Paul Hwang

Laure Irene

Kathryn Irwin* Brett Keating Sungwoo Kim Tony Kirk

Kelly Lovelady

Will Marchetti

Brianna Matzke

Lukas McIlhaney

Bonnie McLarty

Claire Niederberger

Rachel Owens

Emma Piazza

Keri Lee Pierson

Nicholas Politi Alexandra Porter* Stefanie Proulx

Jeremy Rosenstock

Kaela Scheidemantle

Christopher Schoelen Gabriel Soileau

Emily Strachan Kin Siu

Jenn omas

Kathryn Vetter

Magnus Villanueva Trevor Villwock

Lu Wang

Jack Yarbrough* Kristen Zelenak

2017

*returning fellow

David Abraham

David Angelo*

Mikey Arbula Lisa Atkinson

Emily Azzarito

Madeline Barrett

Megan Baumann

Sonya Belaya Mattie Brister Crystal Buck

Flora Campbell-Tiech

Aidan Cook Marco Crispo

Jovana Damnjanovic Brian Daurelle

Amber Evans

Yijia Fang

Nadja Geier Nave Graham* Charlie Hackemer Mimi Harding Colin Hinton Karl Hirzer

Ben Justis Todd Kitchen Forrest Lam Margaret Lambie Pascal LeBouef Alexis Mitchell Lauren Murphy Jena Nahnsen Dudley Raine IV

Jeremy Rosenstock Brandon Snyder Philip Snyder Om Srivastava Morgan Sutherland Mari Takeda

Matthew Umphreys Michael Vince Garrett White

2016

*returning fellow

Camila Agosto Alex Alfaro Brian Allred Amir Bitran Natalie Calma Luke Carlson Oliver Chang Yu-Han Chen Caitlyn Chenault Viet Cuong Moose Davis Brian Denu Ariel Downs omas Faulkner Samuel Gabay Nave Graham

Tristan Greeno Laura Hundert Robert Hess Zhihua Hu Kathryn Irwin Marshall Jones Sophie Kass Yuan-Keng Ling Benjamin Montgomery Stephen Moratto Daniel Morel Isabel Ong Wen-Ting Ong Walter Park Nicole Parks Colin Payne Zachary Pierce Alexandra Porter Jay Rauch Diana Rodriguez Benjamin Sledge Leia Slosberg Jason Stetler Tina Tallon David Vess

Xinyang Wang Kaitlyn Williams

Jack Yarbrough*

2015

Je rey Allardyce

Hayden Anderson David Angelo Daniel Beilman David Berrios Alex Betsold Grant Bingham Sunny Byun Mary Cervantes Kanako Chikami Richard Chowenhill Megan Cooney Amy Dauphinais Jenny Davis Tom Dempster Kate Duncan Kristen Dye Jacob Egli Matthew Ernster Francesca Ferrara Nina Fronjian Jonathan Graybill Robbie Harvey Will Healy Audrey Herren Jake Hewitt Alice Hinshaw Ashlin Hunter Zach Jones William Kenlon Bin Li Kerrith Livengood Jordan Lullo Connor Mikula

Chrsty Muncey

Wen-Ting Ong Eden Rayz

Jeremy Rapaport-Stein Jonathan Russ Aaron Singleton Eliza Smith

Tai-Jung ‘Fofo’ Tsai David Vess Katherine von Bernthal Rachel Lanik Whelan Jack Yarbrough

2014

Clay Allen Grant Bingham

Sean Bradley Yu-Hsin Chang Andrew Cole

Ariel Downs

Kate Duncan Frederick Evans

Antoine Fachard Stella Fiorenzoli Edo Frenkel

Turkar Gasimzada Caitlin Gilmore Ana María Hernandez Jake Hewitt Peter Katz

William Kenlon Aaron Kirschner Chelsea Komschlies

Steven Kowaleski Lindsay Laird Dana Malseptic

Curren Myers Lauren Parks

Samuel Parilla Alexandra Porter

Dave Reminick Jonathan Russ

Aaron Singleton Tina Tallon

Catalina von Wrangell Andrew Yoon

2013

Kelley Barnett

Adam Borecki

Brendan Faegre

Patrick Gutman

Alice Hinshaw

Devinder Kumar

Kyle Malone Lisa Neher Kelly Lynn Pierce eresa Silveyra Nick Virzi

Dakota Wayne Yiguo Yan Chun-Ju-Yen Mary Young

2012

Michael Catania

Jason Charney Caitlin Foster Jason Gerraughty Alice Hinshaw Anna Hoard Kevin Laba Yayu Li Daniel Liu Yangzhi Ma Paige Martin Ryo Nakayama Chris Prosser Jared Redmond Kim Rivera

Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie eresa Silveyra Tom Strauser Tina Tallon Mallory Turlington MoJiao Wang Sharra Wagner Dave Waugh

Jennifer Weiman

2011 Ron Amchin

Jason Barabba Kelley Barnett Julian Day Kristen Dye Caitlin Foster Jacob Gunnels Kay He Dana Limpert

Cesar Mantufar

Paul Poston

Ramteen Sazeghari Björn Sikström

Michael Spicer Matthew Taylor

Erin Tomkins

Ryan Woodhouse

2010

Stephen Bachicha

Jason Barabba

Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer Breanna Ellison Gilbert Galindo Anne Guzzo

Leo Hurley Laura Marsh Nicholas Omiccioli Marcílio Onofre Julie Penner

Christopher Prosser Jessica Rudman Julia Snell Hainu Tan Sophia Tegart Jeanette Wong

THE CORTONA COLLECTIVE

2020 faculty marked with *

ute | sarah brady* mary fukushima clarinet | gregory oakes* saxophone | h2 quartet geo rey deibel* je rey loe ert kimberly loe ert jonathan nichol violin | ari streisfeld* cello | kivie cahn-lipman* piano | amir khosrowpour michael kirkendoll* brianna matzke* percussion | ji hye jung* michael compitello voice | laura bohn, soprano* rachel calloway, mezzo-soprano* amber evans, soprano

je rey gavett, baritone sarah tannehill-anderson, soprano* conductor | chris younghoon kim* je ery meyer jake wallace tim weiss composers | gabriela lena frank suzanne farrin forrest pierce* kay rhie tina tallon* stevan tickmayer

2020 DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS

2020 Ensemble Fellow: Sputter Box

2020 Resident-Fellow in Piano: Jack Yarbrough

2020 Cortona Prize Composition Fellow: Kevin Kay Winne of the 2020 Cortona Contemporary Performance Competition: Humay Gasimzada

SARAH ANDERSON, SOPRANO

Sarah Tannehill Anderson is a versatile musician, excelling as a singer of opera, oratorio, choral music, contemporary works, and art song; she is also a pianist and violinist. Having performed at companies including Opera Company of Philadelphia, Boston Lyric, Opera Omaha, Fort Worth Opera, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sarah is now thrilled to make her career in the vibrant Kansas City music scene.

Sarah is excited to return for her second season with the Bach Aria Soloists. She is also a member of the Lyric Arts Trio and the Kansas City Chorale ~ she has recorded three albums with the Chorale, and is a featured soloist on the Grammy Award winning recording, “Life and Breath”.

Sarah has performed with many other local and regional ensembles including the Kansas City Symphony, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the New Ear Ensemble, the Kansas City Ballet, the Heartland Men’s Chorus, and the Messiah Singalong, at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral.

She teaches private voice in Kansas City, and resides in Union Hill with her husband, Sam Anderson.

SARAH BRADY, FLUTE

Called “enchanting” by the Boston Globe, utist Sarah Brady is sought a er across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher. An avid promoter of new music she has premiered and recorded new music from many of today’s top composers. Recent projects have included premieres of new solo ute and electronic music from Elena Ruehr, Andy Vores and John Mallia, Curtis Hughesas well as music for ute and strings from Marcos Balter, Nicholas Vines and Johnathan Bailey Holland. Her solo, chamber and over 40 orchestral recordings can be heard on the Albany, Naxos, Oxingale, Cantalope and BMOP/Sound music labels. As a leading interpreter of contemporary music, she was invited to read and record new music commissioned by Yo Yo Ma for his Silk Road Project at Tanglewood.

Sarah lives in Boston and performs regularly as principal ute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera. She can also be heard performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera. As a chamber musician she has been described as “clairvoyantly sensitive” (New Music Connoisseur), and has collaborated with the Fromm Players at Harvard, the Firebird Ensemble, the Radius Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, e Talea Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon and NotaRiotous. She is a member of the Michigan based new music ensemble Brave New Works a group that is dedicated to promoting new music throughout the US and Canada by premiering new music and educating young composers through a college residency program. e ensemble has been in residence at Cornell, Bowling Green University, the University of Michigan, Tu s University, University of Puget Sound, Williams, Western Washington University and the Boston Conservatory.

In competition she was awarded second place in the National Flute Association 2006 Young Artist Competition, where she also won an award for the best performance of the newly commissioned work by Paul Drescher. She was a Semi- nalist in the Myrna Brown Competition Flute Competition, Heida Herman Woodwind Competition, Eastern Connecticut Young Artist Competition, and twice received second place in Boston’s prestigious Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. As a soloist Sarah enjoyed a sold out debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with pianist Oxana Yablonskaya. Sarah is Associate Professor of Flute and Head of the Contemporary Classical Music Program at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

GREGORY OAKES, CLARINET

Gregory Oakes is an exciting and energetic clarinetist and a passionate champion of the music of our time. From his Carnegie Hall debut with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Boulez to his performances as a member of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Oakes has been praised by critics for his “outstanding performance” (New York Times) and “jazzy ourishes” (Denver Post). American Record Guide says “Oakes is the rare player who has both excellent classical training and a mastery of the otherworldly procedures demanded by non-traditional repertoire,” and Fanfare Magazine lauds the “formidable technical armamentarium at his command.”

A exible and versatile musician, Mr. Oakes has performed with notable musicians in prestigious venues around the world. He has been a concerto soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Denver Brass, performed with Grammy® Award-winner Terence Blanchard at the Telluride Jazz Festival, and appeared at the Chicago Arts Club. His recordings have been released on Bridge, Centaur, CRI, Gothic, Karnatic Lab Records, and Naxos and broadcast on National Public Radio. His recent CD, Aesthetic Apparatus: Clarinet Chamber Music of Helmut Lachenmann, appears on the New Focus Recordings label.

As a soloist, Mr. Oakes has performed at multiple International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests, the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, the New Music Gathering, the International Computer Music Conference, the Crested Butte Chamber Music Festival, Boulder’s Modern Music Festival (M2F), and the Pendulum New Music Series. An international artist, Mr. Oakes has performed frequently in the Netherlands at Amsterdam’s venerable new music hall De IJsbreker, Gaudeamus Music Week, Concerten Tot en Met, the Karnatic Lab concert series, De Badcuyp, STEIM, and Utrecht’s eatre Kikker. He has been a featured soloist at the prestigious MaerzMusik festival in Berlin. He has also toured Brazil—performing in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, and Campinas—and conducted masterclasses at notable Brazilian universities UnB, UNIRIO, and UNICAMP. He was in residence as a guest artist at the MUPA Festival of Contemporary Music in Bangsaen, ailand. In the summer, Mr. Oakes is on the faculty of e Cortona Sessions festival for new music in Tuscany, Italy.

Mr. Oakes has been a member of several orchestras including the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Ballet, Central City Opera, and the Colorado Music Festival. He is currently the principal clarinet of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. He is also an active chamber musician. As a founding member of the new music and creative arts ensemble Non Sequitur, he has been in residence at Princeton University, Harvard University, Dartmouth College, and the Aspen Music Festival. Oakes has also performed as a member of the woodwind quintet Category 5 and the award-winning clarinet quartet Ensemble Syzygy.

Mr. Oakes holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from DePaul University, and a doctorate from the University of Colorado. His teachers include Bil Jackson, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, and John Bruce Yeh. He has been honored as an Aspen Music Festival Fellow, a Tanglewood Music Festival Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar Finalist. Mr. Oakes has presented masterclasses at numerous institutions including the University of Michigan, University of California Berkeley, Peabody Conservatory, the Amsterdam Conservatory, and the Aspen Music Festival. He has previously taught at the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS) and Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN). Mr. Oakes is on the faculty of Iowa State University (Ames, IA).

Gregory Oakes is a Bu et Group USA and a Vandoren Performing Artist.

GEOFFREY DEIBEL, SAXOPHONE

A Washington, D.C. native, Geo rey Deibel is emerging as an important voice for the saxophone and contemporary music. He maintains a multi-faceted career as performer, teacher, and researcher. Recent concert highlights include performances with the Athens Saxophone Quartet (Cyprus), International Contemporary Ensemble at the Park Avenue Armory (NYC), concerts at Merkin Hall and Zankel Hall (NYC), and recitals in Brooklyn NY, Stuttgart, Germany, Cortona, Italy, and in Wichita, KS. Geo has been an invited guest lecturer at Die Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, at University College Cork, Ireland, and many Universities in the US. He has appeared at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, the International Iannis Xenakis Festival in Athens, Greece, and World Saxophone Congresses in the UK, Europe, and ailand. Geo has commissioned new works by both established and emerging composers, including Drew Baker, Nathan Davis, Claudio Gabriele, Martin Iddon, Robert Lemay, Marc Mellits, Joseph Michaels, Forrest Pierce, David Rakowski, David Reminick, Jesse Ronneau, and Eric Wubbels. He has also premiered the music of Louis Andriessen, Jason Eckardt, Hiroyki Itoh, Pierre Jodlowski, Marc Mellits, Elliott Sharp, Jagoda Szmytka, Mari Takano, Hans omalla, and Amy Williams. Geo is a member of the critically acclaimed h2 quartet, rst prize winners at the Fischo Competition, recent nalists at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and recipients of multiple Aaron Copland Fund Grants. e American Record Guide has hailed h2 as a group of “artistic commitment...boasting superb blend, solid technique, [and] tight rhythm.” h2 has six recordings available. Geo holds degrees in history and music from Northwestern University, and a doctoral degree from Michigan State University. His principal teachers have included Joseph Lullo , Frederick Hemke, Leo Saguiguit, and Reginald Jackson. Geo has held teaching positions at the University of Florida and Wichita State University, where he was the recipient of the 2015 College of Fine Arts Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity, and the 2016 WSU Faculty Award for Excellence in Creative Activity. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Florida State University. He also serves on the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop. Geo is a Yamaha and Vandoren performing artist, and performs on Yamaha Saxophones, and Vandoren reeds, ligatures, and mouthpieces exclusively.

ARI STREISFELD, VIOLIN

Violinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. Praised for his “dazzling performance” by the New York Times and “scintillating playing” by New York Classical Review, Dr. Streisfeld is a founding member of the world renowned JACK Quartet. Recent season highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall (London), La Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Argentina), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Carriage Works (Sydney, Australia), Venice Biennale (Italy), Carnegie Hall, e Library of Congress, e Morgan Library (New York), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and the Salzburg Festival (Austria). He has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent composers including John Luther Adams, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, Steve Reich, and Salvatore Sciarrino. He has recorded for Mode, Albany, Carrier, Innova, Canteloupe, and New World Records.

Together with his wife, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, Dr. Streisfeld formed Duo Cortona, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of new works for the unique instrumentation of mezzo-soprano and violin. Recent and upcoming performances include the Resonant Bodies Festival, SONiC Festival, e Stone (NY), Contemporary Undercurrents of Song Project (Princeton, NJ), New Music on the Point (VT), and e Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He is also a member of Shir Ami, an ensemble dedicated to the performance and preservation of Jewish art music. Dr. Streisfeld frequently collaborates with some of today’s leading ensembles, including Ensemble Signal, Worldless Music Orchestra, and Weekend of Chamber Music.

Hailed as “imaginative” by the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Streisfeld’s arrangements of madrigals and motets for string quartet by Machaut and Gesualdo have been performed to acclaim both at home and abroad. A recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Dr. Streisfeld most recently premiered his Machaut arrangements for voice and violin at e Stone (New York). A passionate and committed music educator, Dr. Streisfeld serves on the faculty of New York’s Special Music School, Face the Music, New Music on the Point and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). Ari is a member of the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Music and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music), Northwestern University (Master of Music), and Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts). His teachers include Zvi Zeitlin, Almita Vamos, and Peter Zazofsky.

KIVIE CAHN-LIPMAN, CELLO

While all the other kids were learning addition in rst grade, Kivie Cahn-Lipman was running around the classroom singing that he was a yeti. His kindly teacher said he was very musical, so Kivie was allowed his choice of instruments along with the therapy. He told his parents he wanted to play the drums, so they asked him what instrument he REALLY wanted to play. “ e tuba,” he replied, and they handed him a violin. e violin teacher was all “you have to respect the violin before you can touch the violin,” but in their third lesson Kivie picked his nose and wiped it on the violin, and then that teacher went away and Kivie’s parents gave him a cello. And when he picked his nose and wiped it on the cello, the new teacher was like “ewww gross don’t do that, here’s a tissue, clean that up and let’s play music,” and that seemed like a good idea.

Eventually Kivie went to Oberlin and then Juilliard, and a er awhile each school gave him a fancy document written in Latin that hopefully indicates that he graduated. He nished up his education at the University of Cincinnati, and he’s a doctor now. Not that kind of doctor. Since its foundation in 2001, Kivie has been a cellist with the International Contemporary Ensemble (and don’t call it ICE anymore), and he still tours all over the world performing with them. He taught at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and e College of New Jersey, and he’s now on the faculty of the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. Whatever you think you know about Youngstown is probably true, but it also has a really pretty park and a surprisingly good artisanal hot dog shop.

Kivie started his own Baroque ensemble called ACRONYM (www.acronymensemble.com), and he nds seventeenth-century music in old manuscripts and transcribes it, and they give the rst performances of it in hundreds of years; they’ve got nine CDs of modern premieres released and more on the way. He also plays viola da gamba for some reason and performs and records with LeStrange Viols. Kivie’s 2014 solo recording of J.S. Bach’s cello suites got a nice blurb in a trade publication called e Strad, but he’s way more proud of the warm personal letter praising the disc which he received from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kivie’s mom also claims to like the recording, but she thinks that some of the tempos are too fast. You can nd it on sale wherever you can still nd music on sale, and the discs make great coasters.

Also, a recent review in the New York Times noted that “his long, owing hair o en covered his face as he played.” Seriously, the New York Times printed that. Kivie mostly stopped picking his nose in 1985.

JI HYE JUNG, PERCUSSION

Praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star, the Times describes percussionist Ji Hye Jung as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once.”

Ms. Jung began concertizing in her native South Korea at the age of nine where she performed more than 100 concerts including solo appearances with every major orchestra in Korea. Soon a er coming to the United States in 2004, Ms. Jung garnered consecutive rst prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.

With percussion repertoire still in its formative stages, Ms. Jung feels strongly about collaborating with composers to further the creation of a new voice for the art form. She has commissioned and premiered works by several important composers including, Kevin Puts, Alejandro Viñao, Paul Lansky, John Serry, Lukas Ligeti, and Jason Treuting. In 2013 she made the premier recording of Michael Torke’s marimba concerto Mojave and in 2014 recorded Phillip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra for the Naxos label.

Ms. Jung frequently performs with many of today’s most important conductors and instrumentalists. For six years she has served as principal percussionist with the west coast-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Paci ca, with whom she has premiered works by Bright Sheng and Huang Ruo. She has also recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces with JoAnn Falletta at the Virginia Arts Festival, performed as soloist with David Robertson conducting an all Messiaen program at Carnegie Hall, and made her concerto debut with the Houston Symphony under the baton of Hans Graf in 2005.

Other performance credits include appearances at Portugal’s Tomarimbando Festival, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, e Intimacy of Creativity in Hong Kong, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and the Grachtenfestival in Holland.

In 2015 Ji Hye Jung was named Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. She previously served as Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Kansas for six years. An active educator and clinician, Jung has presented masterclasses at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Rice University, Beijing’s Central Conservatory, and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland.

Ji Hye Jung completed a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, both under the tutelage of Robert van Sice. As an artist endorser, she proudly represents Pearl/Adams instruments, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Zildjian cymbals.

MICHAEL KIRKENDOLL, PIANO

Called “the very model of a 21st Century musician” by critics of the Indianapolis Star, pianist Michael Kirkendoll has established himself at the forefront of contemporary pianism. A dedicated advocate for the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, Michael seeks out repertoire that combines beauty, adventure, and meaning to create musical journeys in the recital setting. A specialist in the theatrical piano music of Frederic Rzewski and others, critics have described Kirkendoll’s theatrical performances as “tours de force of skill, comprehension, and energetic, intelligent theatricality,” and also said “…to hear Mr. Kirkendoll perform Sun ower Sutra [by Jerome Kitzke] was an absolute wonder. Rarely have I seen any musician able to deliver text and poetry - all whilst playing insanely di cult music - with such natural dramatic sensibility.” Michael was a nalist n the 2009 American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship Awards, where his performances were heralded as “inspired” showcasing “extraordinary” technical gi s and “superior intelligence.” In 2018, with support from New Music USA, Michael released Acting Like a Pianist, Volume 1 direct to YouTube. is represents the rst commercial video release of Rzewski’s De Profundis and Marriage. e album has also been released as a limited-edition vinyl LP on Meyer Media, and digital audio providers. His previous CD, Bison Circles: Music of Forrest Pierce, is currently available on Meyer Media, and multiple collaborations with members of the h2 Quartet can be found on Blue Gri n Records.

Michael’s contemporary programming has been featured in concert venues around the U.S., including New York’s Bargemusic, Spectrum, and Carnegie Hall, and on major recital series in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Michael is a frequent artist-in-residence at major universities and conservatories, presenting recitals, masterclasses, and lectures on topics including entrepreneurship, contemporary repertoire and performance, building a virtuosic technique, and classes for composers. Internationally, Michael is a frequent guest in China and presented the opening recital for the rst MTNA China Conference in Guangzhou in 2018. He has been named a Visiting Professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and has performed and taught at both the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Michael is the founder of the Cortona Sessions for New Music in (www.cortonasessions.org), which has produced over 500 world premieres and encouraged dozens of young performers and composers since 2010. Annually, members of the Cortona Collective (the faculty performance ensemble) present concerts featuring major contemporary repertoire alongside works of Fellows at universities and concert halls around the U.S. is new-music band includes members of the JACK String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, h2 Saxophone Quartet, Boston Modern Orchestra, and other innovative and exciting soloists. In concert, they perform works by Cortona Sessions Fellows, and diverse repertoire spanning all aspects of contemporary composition. Michael is also president of the International Foundation for Contemporary Music, a 501(c)(3) nonpro t organization which supports the creation and performance of contemporary music through commissioning awards and concert events around the U.S. e IFCM oversees both the Cortona Sessions, and also Concerts @ the Hammert – a series bringing renowned contemporary musicians to the small town of Eudora, Kansas for intimate concerts and educational outreach presentations.

Michael is Associate Professor and Chair of Piano at the University of Kansas, where he earned his doctoral and bachelor’s degrees. He also holds a masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music. In addition to teaching at the Cortona Sessions for New Music, Michael is also on the faculty of the prestigious International Institute for Young Musicians. When not at the piano, Michael can be found enjoying ne wine, cooking, gol ng, or falling over in his wife’s yoga classes. Michael is also the author of the food and wine blog, e Uncorked Pianist, and can be followed on Twitter and Instagram @UncorkedPianist. Michael Kirkendoll is proud to be a Yamaha Artist.

BRIANNA MATZKE, PIANO

Dr. Brianna Matzke’s dynamic pianism shows “a sense of re nement, air, and technical prowess” (clevelandclassical.com). An avid performer and commissioner of new music, she has collaborated with many composers, including Michael Fiday, Elliot Cole, Marc Mellits, Mark Mothersbaugh, Douglas Knehans, Molly Joyce, Alexandra Du Bois, D. J. Sparr, Nate May, Tyler Eschendahl, Dylan Sheridan, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Paul Schuette, Danny Clay, Jennifer Jolley, Carrie Magin, Evan Williams, Paul Poston, Bryan Percoco, Trevor Gomes, and Lindsey Jacob. She has appeared in concert at TriBeCa New Music, ETHOS New Music, Malone University, the BOP Stop, Kendall at Oberlin, Christ Church Cathedral, Cli on Cultural Arts Center, and the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.

Her ongoing commissioning initiative, called e Response Project, asks composers to write music for piano in response to a pre-existing artwork or idea. e project has premiered and recorded twelve new works, including ve works for solo piano written in response to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I (1964) and seven works for violin+piano written in response to the phrase “on behalf”. In 2018, e Response Project premiered thirteen new works for solo piano, written in response to Bob Dylan’s 1964 album Highway 61 Revisited.

In addition to performing, Brianna is a dedicated music educator and pedagogue. A Nationally Certi ed Teacher of Music (NCTM), she serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Wilmington College. She has also served on the faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory, Interlochen Arts Camp, Wilmington College, omas More College, and the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music Preparatory Department. As an educator, Brianna believes in the power of music to incite positive social change, and she encourages that change by working on the executive board of the Ohio Music Teachers Association Southwest Division.

She holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and the University of Kansas.

LAURA BOHN, SOPRANO

American Soprano Laura Bohn, lauded for her “powerfully sung“ performances and “skillful” stagecra (Opera News), brings a vivid presence and “lush” vocalism to her wide ranging repertoire, embodying the cutting edge of operatic performance. Laura has been featured in performances with the LA Philharmonic, e Industry, e Mostly Mozart Orchestra, Het Residentie Orkest (Netherlands), I Solisti del Vento (Belgium), Operadagen Rotterdam, Syracuse Opera, West Edge Opera, Festival Opera, e Center for Contemporary Opera, e Millennium Jazz Orchestra, the Grand Harmonie Orchestra and Silbersee Opera. She has been heard on major stages on both sides of the Atlantic, from Lincoln Center in New York to Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, e Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA to the Berlin Konzerthaus. Laura had her Benaroya Hall solo debut with members of the Seattle Symphony in early 2020 in her hometown of Seattle.

Ms. Bohn’s repertoire spans Baroque to present day, but she has a special a nity for works of the 20th and 21st century. Recent highlights include her Lincoln Center debut as soprano soloist (singing and dancing) in Bernstein’s MASS under the baton of Louis Langrée, a reprise of the role which marked her debut with the LA Philharmonic in early 2018 under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. e soprano returned in 2018 to e Dallas Opera where she had covered the role of the Governess in e Turn of the Screw to cover Iris Marinus in Michel Van der Aa’s 3-D opera, Sunken Garden. Laura was the soloist of e Bernstein Celebration Tour with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in major theaters throughout the Netherlands in 2018-19 and was seen and as de Juf in Lev, with Silbersee Opera touring the Netherlands in 2019.

An avid champion of modern music Laura has worked closely with many composers including Ellen Reid, Anne LeBaron, Erling Wold, Jherek Bischo , Kamala Sankaram, Doug Balliett and Forrest Pierce. Other career highlights include DJ Moz’art, a pastiche dance-opera celebrating the life and works of the composer which played over 40 performances in 2014 in major theaters throughout northern Europe to great critical acclaim. Ms. Bohn toured the Netherlands and Belgium in the fall of 2013 as Nerone in the reprise of MonteverdISH, a hiphopera adaptation of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea which premiered in major theaters throughout northern Europe in 2011-12, including Amsterdam’s Stadsschouwburg and Berlin’s Konzerthaus. Bohn’s singing and dancing Nerone was met with wide acclaim; “Laura Bohn is truly formidable. . . it seemed as if the whole production were conceived for her . . .” (Voi-Z Festival).

A Seattle native, Ms. Bohn has studied voice and theater extensively in Rome and Reggio-Emilia, Italy respectively. She is a graduate of the Dell ‘Arte International School of Physical eater, holds a BFA in Vocal Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She currently lives in Amsterdam with her husband and baby.

MEZZO-SOPRANO

As an internationally recognized leading interpreter of contemporary and modern music, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway brings versatility and compelling insight to stages worldwide. Her work has been praised by the New York Times for “penetrating clarity” and “considerable depth of expression” and by Opera News for her “adept musicianship and dramatic air.”

is season’s highlights include a debut with the Orlando Philharmonic in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, the music of John Zorn at November Music in the Netherlands, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and a continued collaboration with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with Ensemble Signal at the Library of Congress. At the University of South Carolina, Calloway will sing Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the USC Symphony and a world premiere by David Garner with the USC Wind Ensemble. Duo Cortona, Calloway’s duo alongside violinist Ari Streisfeld, appears in concerts and residencies at the University of South Carolina, Concerts at the Hammert and Kansas University, the University of Miami, and the Delaware Valley Community College New Music Concert Series. Calloway is a frequent collaborator with today’s leading ensembles including the Amernet Quartet and ird Coast Percussion, and she has appeared in opera and concert with Opera Philadelphia, Gotham Chamber Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Series, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.

Ms. Calloway serves on the faculty of the University of South Carolina as Instructor of Voice and Associate Director of Spark, Carolina’s Music Leadership Laboratory. She joined the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy) in 2014 and Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard (Switzerland) in 2016. She is a founding member of Shir Ami, an ensemble dedicated to the preservation and performance of lost and unknown Jewish art music. Ms. Calloway holds degrees from e Juilliard School (BM) and Manhattan School of Music (MM) and can be heard on Albany Records, Tzadik Records, BCMF Records, and Toccata Classics. www.rachelcalloway.com

AMBER EVANS, SOPRANO

Amber Evans is a vocalist, composer and conductor based in New York. Winner of the inaugural Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Advancement Award for Interpreters of Contemporary Music, she premiered over thirty new vocal works and became wellversed in modern contemporary classic works of the last few decades.

A recent graduate of the contemporary classical Masters at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Lucy Shelton, Ms. Evans is also a featured soloist and chorusmaster on the CD of Poul Ruders’ new opera e irteenth Child due to be released in conjunction with the Santa Fe Opera premiere in the summer of 2019 on the Bridge Records label.

Previous summer engagements have included the Cortona Sessions for New Music, Darmstadt Summer Music Festival, Melbourne International Singer’s Festival and the Contemporary Performance Institute as part of Mario Davidovsky’s Composer’s Conference. Upcoming performances for 2019 include joining the Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble for their performance season, presenting a concert of Marta Gentilucci’s works with the Talea Ensemble and Steve Reich’s Tehillim at Manhattan School of Music for the Contemporary Performance Program’s tenth anniversary celebrations.

In addition to her masters in vocal performance, she completed her choral conducting degree at University of Cambridge, and has conducted performances of Australian contemporary choral works in the US, UK and Europe.

CHRIS YOUNGHOOM KIM, CONDUCTOR

Chris Younghoon Kim has been at Cornell University as the director of orchestras and associate professor of music, since 2004. e League of American Orchestras and ASCAP have awarded the rst place award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music to the Cornell Orchestras among all collegiate orchestras in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. He has premiered over 200 works by contemporary composers worldwide. Cornell Symphony Orchestra has hosted two Meet the Composer New Partnership residencies. e American Prize recognized his work in 2014 in three di erent categories; Winner of the the American Prize in Orchestral Programming, 2014—Vytautas Marijosius Memorial Award, Winner of the American Prize in Conducting, 2014—College/University Orchestra Division and nalist in the American Prize in Orchestral Performance—college/university orchestra. At Cornell University he directs the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, teaches conducting and works closely with the DMA composers in presenting their work in concert. With the Cornell Orchestras he has led international tours and joint collaborations with the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. In 2017 he will take the orchestra to Argentina to continue to multi year collaboration with Sinfónica del Neuquén and the conservatory in the city of Neuquén. He has appeared with orchestras in the United States and abroad, including ensembles such as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Delta Festival Ballet, Symphoria based in Syracuse, NY, Divertimento Ensemble of Milan, Italy. He has also appeared in music festivals such as, Kinhaven Music Center, Skaneateles Music Festival, and International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary among others. Recently he has been active in Asia guest conducting at Ewha Womans University, Shieh Chien University in Taiwan and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

JEFFERY MEYER, CONDUCTOR

An accomplished conductor, pianist, and educator, Je ery Meyer launched his career as a champion of contemporary orchestral music and innovative collaborations. He currently holds positions as the Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic as well as the Director of Orchestras at Arizona State University. In recent concert seasons, he has performed as a conductor and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, China, Russia, and Southeast Asia.

Called “one of the most interesting and creatively productive conductors working in St. Petersburg” by Sergei Slonimsky, Meyer’s work with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic has been noted for its breadth and innovation. In 2010, he led the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in its United States debut with three performances at Symphony Space’s “Wall-to-Wall” Festival in New York City which the New York Times called “impressive”, “powerful”, “splendid”, and “blazing.” His programming in the United States has been recognized with three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. He has been distinguished in several international competitions and was a prizewinner in the 2008 International Conducting Competition “Antonio Pedrotti” and the winner of the 2013 American Prize in Conducting.

Recent and upcoming activities include appearances throughout Southeast Asia including the Tianjin May Festival, the 2016 Singapore International Festival of Music, and concerts with the Philippine Philharmonic, Tianjin Symphony, Sichuan Symphony, and ailand Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as appearances with the Phoenix Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa, Orquesta Sinaloa de las Artes, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble X, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Chamber Orchestra, Alia Musica, and the MiNensemblet (Norway).

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CONDUCTOR

Timothy Weiss has earned critical acclaim for his performances and bold programming throughout the United States and abroad. His repertoire in contemporary music is vast and fearless, including masterworks, very recent compositions, and an impressive number of premieres and commissions.

For more than two decades, Weiss has directed the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, bringing the group to a level of artistry and virtuosity in performance that rivals the nest new music groups. Recent engagements include the Arctic Philharmonic in Norway, Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, Eastman Broadband Ensemble, BBC Scottish Symphony, Britten Sinfonia in London, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and the Melbourne Symphony in Australia.

A committed educator, Weiss helped create and mentor the ensembles Eighth Blackbird and ICE. He also serves as a faculty member and conductor of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and he is music director of the Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta in Bodø, Norway.

FORREST PIERCE, COMPOSER

Forrest Pierce is an American composer, poet, and student of the mysticism of sound and music. Raised in eastern Washington State, his music o en re ects the vast emptiness of that high desert landscape. Composer of ercely tuneful, virtuosic chamber music, as well as many dozens of works for voices, he enjoys working with texts by the world’s great mystical poets of all faith traditions. He serves as faculty at the University of Kansas, where he teaches composition and counterpoint alongside his brilliant and jovial colleagues. He has been performed and recorded by renowned professional ensembles and soloists, as well as by small church choirs and enthusiastic amateurs. Winner of the Barlow Prize, among others, his long-ago teachers were Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, and Don Freund. At one time or another a student of piano, cello, tango, and Hindustani classical music, and still a student of Inayati Su sm, Pierce drinks espresso and leads Su Dancing and Zikr in Lawrence, Kansas. Pierce’s music is published at musicspoke.com.

COMPOSER

Tina Tallon (b. 1990) is a Boston-based composer, computer musician, vocalist, educator, and arts documentarian completing her doctoral studies in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Her music has been performed around the world by such esteemed musicians as Ensemble Intercontemporain, wild Up, Talea, HOCKET Duo, Tony Arnold, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Calder Quartet, members of the JACK Quartet, h2 quartet, and Transient Canvas. She has received major awards from organizations such as ASCAP, the Barlow Endowment, the La Jolla Symphony, NewMusicUSA, and others. Recent commissioners include the LA Philharmonic, Guerilla Opera, wild Up, Steven Schick and the La Jolla Symphony, HOCKET Duo, a 10-college wind ensemble consortium led by San Jose State University, pianist Michael Kirkendoll, and Transient Canvas. Her work has been presented internationally at festivals, conferences, and workshops including IRCAM’s ManiFeste, the LA Philharmonic’s National Composers Intensive, New Music Gathering, International Saxophone Symposium, N_SEME, the PARMA Music Festival, Cortona Sessions for New Music, soundSCAPE festival, New Music on the Point, and the UC Davis Composition Workshop. Academically, her research interests include technological mediation of the human voice, embodied music cognition, physical paradigms of sonic expectation generation, computational modeling of energetic relationships between various musical parameters based upon Newtonian mechanics, development of so ware for spectral analysis and composition, algorithmic composition, and computational approaches to musicological inquiry. In addition to research grants from Brandeis University, she won one of four inaugural Katzin Prize Fellowships to fund her research at UC San Diego, where she is currently ABD. Ms. Tallon holds B.S. degrees in Biological Engineering and Music from MIT and an M.F.A in Composition and Music eory from Brandeis University. Her primary composition teachers include Peter Child, David Rakowski, and Lei Liang, and she has studied computer music with Tom Erbe and Miller Puckette. She is also the owner and lead documentarian of SALT Arts Documentation, a company that specializes in artistically-informed audiovisual recordings of the performing arts with a specialization in contemporary music, visual arts, theater, and dance. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Clark University.

august 8 | 3pm

incidendo/ uido (2000)

Lemma - Icon - Epigram (1981)

Olga Neuwirth

Brian Ferneyhough

e Cortona Sessions Contemporary Performance Competition began during the 2012 Sessions as a way to highlight the talented perofrmers in attendance, and to further encourage collaboration between Fellows a er the Sessions end. e winner of the Contemporary Performance Competition is awarded the HIEBERT PRIZE, named for Dave and Gunda Hiebert whose generosity and support of the IFCM, the Cortona Sessions, and music and art in the community has proved invaluable to so many. e Hiebert prize is a two-part award, giving the winning performer a small cash prize, and also a small stipend to be used by the Cortona Sessions to commission a Cortona Fellow to write a new solo work for the winning performer.

PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE HIEBERT PRIZE

2019 | Shannon Leigh Williams, clarinet & Michael Giunta, percussion

2018 | Kathryn Vetter, clarinet

2017| Amber Evans, soprano

2016 | Brian Allred, ute

2015 | Connor Mikula, saxophone

2014 | Grant Bingham, bassoon

2013 | Kelley Barnett, ute

2012 | Jennifer Weimann, mezzo-soprano

Humay Gasimzade, piano winner of the 2020 Cortona Contemporary Performance competition

august 9 | 8pm

Sarah Anderson, soprano | Michael Kirkendoll, piano

Forrest Pierce: e Burning Harp (selections) (2016)

I. Forget the world

IV. ose who don’t feel this love

IX. I was dead then alive

X. On the day I die

XII. ere is some kiss

Gregory Oakes, clarinet

Helmut Lachenmann: Dal Niente (1970) Suzanne Farrin: ma dentro dove (2010)

Composer Feature: Tina Tallon

excision no. 2 for viola and live electronics (2019) Kurt Rhode, viola

Gregory Oakes, clarinet | Geo rey Deibel, saxophone

Forrest Pierce: Prima materia (2018)

Geo rey Deibel, saxophone

Alex Mincek: Ali (2010)

monday | august 10 | 3pm

Curiosity Lara Mitofsky Neuss

Lara Mitofsky Neuss, clarinet with omas Kurtz, saxophone

e Darkness of the Womb Niloufar Nourbakhsh

Alina Tamborini, soprano with Sarah Young, piano

hybrid in the wild Alan eisen Andrew Hosler, saxophone

Five Etudes, No. 1 ‘Andante’ Andrew Mead Andrew Hosler, saxophone

Quiver | Static Ford Fourqurean Ford Fourqurean, clarinet

monday | august 10 | 8pm

Brianna Matzke, piano

Elliott Cole: Facets (2014)

Carrie Magin: Welcoming (2013)

Bradley Harris: Opened Window (2018)

Sarah Brady, ute

Allison Loggins-Hull: Homeland (2018)

Alissa Voth*: Skyggen (2020)

Sungji Hong: Fruscio (2016)

Michael Fiday: Jim and John (2015)

* Cortona Fellow

tuesday | august 11 | 3pm

Platforms

Adam Holmes Adam Holmes, percussion

Who Am I Ali Balighi Kathryn Vetter, clarinet

Voicelesness (the snow has no voice) Beat Furrer Jack Yarbrough, piano

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Daijana Wallace* Ford Fourqurean, clarinet

* Cortona Fellow

tuesday | august 11 | 8pm

Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello

Caroline Shaw: In manus tuas (2009)

Mario Diaz de León: Sumna (2015)

Amber Evans, soprano

Luciano Berio: Sequenza III (1965) Ari Streisfeld, violin

Stefano Scodanibbio: My New Address (1988/99)

Duo Cortona

Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano Ari Streisfeld, violin

Hilda Paredes: Papalote (2000) Robert Morris: Sappho Cycle (2019)

wednesday | august 12 | 3pm

Zikr Turkar Gasimzada* Humay Gasimzade, piano

* Cortona Fellow

2020 Ensemble Fellow Sputter Box

Kathryn Vetter, clarinet | Alina Tamborini, soprano | Peter White, percussion

scatola di sputacchiare

Doublespeak (2014) by Bethany Younge

Selections from Sputter (SHRINKS THE) Box (2020)

All I Wonder by Josh Trentadue

A Divine Image by Mario Godoy

Trapped by Mavis MacNeil

I Tried to Make Love on Zoom, but Something Got Lost in Translation by Kyle Lewis

rough Distance by Daijana Wallace*

Sept Crimes de l’Amour (1979) by Georges Aperghis Encore: Mask PSA

* Cortona Fellow

wednesday | august 12 | 8pm

Ji Hye Jung & W. Lee Vinson, vibraphones

Suzanne Farrin: this mind made war

Laura Bohn, soprano

Forrest Pierce: What Keeps Us Still (2020)

Ji Hye Jung, percussion

Andy Akiho: Pillar IV (2014) with Gwendolyn Dease, Ayano Kataoka Ian Rosenbaum, Svet Stoyanov

Ji Hye Jung, marimba | Michael Kirkendoll, piano

Hannah Lash: C (2011)

Amber Evans, soprano

Stephen Leek: Kondalilla (2007) Lisa Atkinson*: fac ut ardeat (2018)

Jean Patrick Besingrand*: Tombée de la branche une eur y est retournée (2019)

Georges Aperghis: Trio Funambule (2014)

* Cortona Fellow

Geo rey Deibel, saxophone | Ji Hye Jung, percussion | Michael Kirkendoll, piano

thursday | august 13 | 3pm

Taking Charge

Joseph Schwantner

Lauren Zwonik, ute with Islei Correa, piano Paige Zalman, percussion Ian Riely, percussion

Sum of its Parts Emma O’Halloran Andrew Hosler, saxophone

is Living Hand Chelsea Loew Alina Tamborini, soprano with Jennifer Gersten violin Dasha Bukhartsev, piano

Plenum I Elisabeth Lutyens Jack Yarbrough, piano

7pm

TBA

e Cortona Sessions is made possible through the generous support from our friends and the following organizations and people. ank you!

Dave and Gunda Hiebert

Adams Percussion

e International Foundation for Contemporary Music

Yamaha Corporation of America

CORTONA GUIDE

WINE BUYING GUIDE

Where to buy: Enoteca Molesini (Piazza Repubblica)

What to buy - good bets listed below

*denotes Romeo wines, available at Romeo enoteca to right of Piazza Repubblica splurges in italics

Cortona Syrah

Bramasole | Achelo | Tenuta d’Alessandro Stefano Amerighi | Il Bosco

Chianti Classico

Monsanto | Dievole | Antinori Peppoli

Nipozzano | Castell’in Villa | Vitticio | Felsina San Felice | Badia a Passignano

Rosso di Montalcino

Casanova di Neri | Fanti | Barbi | Valdicava Poggio di Sotto | Salvioni

Brunello di Montalcino (all are splurges - bigger splurges in italics)

Canallichio di Sopra | Col d’Orcia | Barbi | Terralsole Poggio Antico | Romeo* | Casanova di Neri Poggio di Sotto | Antinori

Rosso di Montepulciano Poliziano | Romeo* | Avignonesi

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Poliziano | Romeo* | Bramasole | Avignonesi

IGT Super-Tuscan Wines (blends of cabernet/merlot/syrah/sangiovese) Falesco Montiano | Guidalberto | Le difese

La volte | Crognolo

also: Limoncello at Romeo*

DINING GUIDE

FuFluns (pizza)

Mercato Molesini (sandwiches)

Pozzo Antico (Anna and Franco)

La Loggetta (overlooking piazza)

La Bucaccia (fancier - amazing pici)

Osteria del Teatro (fancier - fun)

Ambrosia (fancier - cool spot)

Ca é Tuschar (great burger and co ee)

A.D. Braceria (seafood and meat)

La Grotta (stinco di maiale and vegetables))

Pane e Vino (great wine/cured meat)

La Saletta (nice co ee and lunch)

Bar 500 (deserts and co ee)

SHOPPING GUIDE

Terrabruga (pottery)

USEFUL PHRASES

I would like... | Vorrei...

May I have... | Posso avere...

Where is the bathroom? | Dov’è il bagno? ank you | Grazie

Still water | Aqua naturale - (senza gas)

Sparkling water | Aqua frizzante - (con gas)

House wine | Vino della casa

Very good | Molto bene