Matthew Barnson, composer

do c tor of m usical art s r e ci tal

Matthew Barnson composer

morse recital hall May 10, 2012 Thursday at 8 pm

With Katie Hyun, Taka Kigaway, Arthur Moeller, Jessica Osborne, and the Orfeo Duo

Robert Blocker, Dean

MATT H E W B ARN S ON May 10, 2012 • Sprague Memorial Hall • Doctor of Musical Arts Recital

Matthew Barnson b. 1979

Shattered Lines / Points of Horizon (2009) U.S. premiere Taka Kigawa, piano

Violin Sonata No. 1 (2008) Fragile: q = 54-60 (e= 108–120) Gymnopédie–Passacaglia: h=36 Scherzo: Quick q = 156 Epilogue: Fragile (but dream-like) q = 54–60 the orfeo duo Vita Wallace, violin • Ishmael Wallace, piano

intermission

Violin Sonata No. 2 (2009) world premiere Cantabile q = 66 Fast q = 120–126 Katie Hyun, violin • Jessica Osborne, piano

Violin Sonata No. 3 (2011) world premiere Arthur Moeller, violin •Jessica Osborne, piano

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

About the Composer

and Yale University (with Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, Ezra Laderman, and David Lang). At festivals, he has worked extensively with Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, and Toshio Hosokawa.

His vocal works have been performed by Erin Morley, Ian Howell, and Nicole Cabell, and by choirs Seraphic Fire and the New York Virtuoso Singers. Peter Eötvös, Sarah Hicks, and Jacque Mercier have conducted his instrumental music; the Arditti and JACK Quartets play his three string quartets; and Third Coast Percussion commissioned his quartet for percussion ensemble.

The music of Matthew Barnson has been celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has been featured at the ISCM World New Music Days in Stuttgart and New York’s MATA and Sonic Festivals, and at the Aspen Music Festival, the Centre Acanthes, Ostrava Days, and June in Buffalo. In 2002, he became the youngest recipient of a Barlow Commission, and he received a second in 2007. Other honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), and the Aaron Copland Prize.

Matthew Barnson is the chairman of the theory and composition department at the Third Street Music School Settlement and is on the faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado. Born in southern Utah, he now lives in New York.

He has studied at the Eastman School of Music (with Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Steven Stucky, and Augusta Read Thomas), the University of Pennsylvania (Anna Weesner, James Primrosch),

This performance is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

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