Profiles + PROGRAM NOTES program note Nausea
program note Reactions
Nausea takes a bunch of short ideas inspired equally by grindcore and new complexity, throws them at each other at high velocity, and watches them bounce around crazily. It was written for Gleb Kanasevich, whose personality (and amazing clarinet covers of death metal songs) helped inspire the piece.
Reactions is a densely textural journey to bizarre places, inspired by my love of unusual combinations of timbres, long melodic lines, and surreal experiences. Treating each instrument as an important character in the dramatic scope, the logic of the piece is based on each character reinterpreting material that another instrument has already presented. Thus, the flow of the piece, though only abstractly programmatic, is influenced by imagery of chain reactions like the combustion of chemicals that creates something unique, complex, and unified, though organically related to their respective origins.
biography Jesse Limbacher Jesse Limbacher is an award-winning composer of lyrical, dramatic concert music that draws on a multitude of ever changing influences. Honors include an ASCAP Morton Gould Award and the Donald Erb Prize for Excellence in Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Limbacher’s music has been performed throughout the country by ensembles such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and Fifth House Ensemble and at such venues as the Ravinia Festival, the University of Wisconsin, Roosevelt University, and the Chicago Fine Arts Building. He has received commissions from Latitude 49, Andrew Williams, Eric Snoza, and the Fresh Inc Festival. Mr. Limbacher’s woodwind trio, Air, will be released this spring on an album by Fifth House Ensemble on Cedille Records. Jesse received a BM in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a student of Keith Fitch. He has presented his work in masterclasses with Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, and Derek Bermel, among others. He is currently a graduate student at the Yale School of Music where he has worked with David Lang and Hannah Lash.
biography Paul Kerekes Paul Kerekes was born in Huntington, New York. His music has been described as “striking …ecstatic…dramatic” (WQXR), “highly eloquent” (New Haven Advocate), and able to create “an almost tactile picture” (The New York Times). He has had the privilege of hearing his music performed by many outstanding ensembles, including TwoSense, American Composers Orchestra, and Dinosaur Annex, in such venues as (le) poisson rouge, The Dimenna Center, and Symphony Space. He has also attended notable programs such as Aspen Music Festival, MusicX, Yale’s New Music Workshop in Norfolk, Connecticut; California Summer Music, the Young Artists Piano Program at Tanglewood, and Stony Brook Summer Music Festival. Additionally, he has participated in master classes both as a composer and pianist with Lisa Moore, Lisa Kaplan, Steven Stucky, and John Corigliano. In June 2012, Paul joined forces with five of New York City’s top pianists to form Grand