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Carnegie Hill Concerts presents:
Anaïs Maviel's listen to the rain: earth & sky
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Anaïs Maviel, Voice/N'goni
Pauline Kim Harris, Violin/Voice
Conrad Harris, Violin/Voice
Chieh-Fan Yiu, Viola/Voice
Chris Gross, Cello/Voice
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Approaching listening as performative and performance as meditative, listen to the rain weaves Afrocentric with Western music traditions, written and oral. Grounded in the study of the Taoist meditation called fusion of the 5 elements, the music explores the cyclical relations between body, earth and cosmos, as a structural base. The ensemble will play 2 of the 8 movements corresponding to the 8 forces/trigrams of the bagua, called by their ancient Chinese names: Earth & Sky. Anaïs will open with a traditional song inspired by the ocean to invoke the element of water, and will invite the quartet on an arrangement of Glory to the Sun, as to bring the fire in, thus invoking 4 pillars of the 8 forces.
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listen to the rain was made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum, with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation. It was commissioned and premiered by the Rhythm Method Quartet featuring Anaïs Maviel.
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Du haut de la falaise (trad. French arr. AM)
Du haut de la falaise, la mer est belle
From the top of the cliff, the sea is beautiful
Vue d'ici, vue de la terre, elle a un goût amer
Seen from here, from the earth, she tastes bitter
La lune a mouillé la dune, la brume passe
The moon wetted the dune, mist passes by
L'arbre blessé de dans le pré, il est là, il a tout vu
The wounded tree from the meadow, it is here and saw it all
Glory to the Sun
Glory to the sun that burns desire and hope
letting us face naked light
While in the shadows our deepest wounds are healed
No hide from the dark as it grows out of light
The blind night guides us through our fears
until we take them to the burning sun
Everything will end everything will burn
waiting for the sun to die
and rise again over the clear night
kun 坤 – earth
drawing a circle 3
kan 坎 – water, li 離– fire, zhen 震 – thunder, dui 兌– rain, marsh, lake, kun 坤 – earth, gen 艮 – mountain, sun 巽 – wind, qian 乾 – sky
qian 乾 – sky
when sky
becomes you
space fuses light
time dilates play
particles on?
gestate epiphany
implode atoms
sculpt one?
drawing a circle 5
coda
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I am Anaïs Maviel. My work as a vocalist, composer and cross-disciplinary artist focuses on the function of art as essential to addressing Relation. With sound, I intend to dissolve myths of separation and to lay common grounds for utopian futures. I seek harmony, connecting intimacy and subconscious narratives with commonality and large scale principles. I navigate song form, choral, instrumental music and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. My works tend to hold space for actualization and transformation. With timeless and contemporary languages, traditional and experimental approaches, I investigate the power of sound to shape reality. I care for the stakes of hybridity in culture, working towards opening up the interstices between genres, for a multiple, inclusive-yet-sacred experience of music.
Violinist Conrad Harris has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and New York's Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra and Ensemble LPR.
He has performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. His recordings of the Lejaren Hiller Violin Sonatas with pianist Joseph Kubera will be released in 2018 on New World Records. He has also recorded for Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, and Vinyl Retentive Records.
Violinist Pauline Kim Harris, aka PK or Pauline Kim, is a GRAMMY®-winning recording artist, composer. curator and producer. She has appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director. Known for her work with classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise, she has also toured extensively with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and continues to collaborate with leading new music ensembles in New York City.
Active in the experimental music scene, Pauline’s work extends into interdisciplinary worlds, crossing boundaries and integrating visual art, electronics, media, film and dance to music. She has premiered and recorded works by Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, John Zorn, Philip Glass, Tyondai Braxton, Catherine Lamb, Steve Reich, George Lewis, David Lang, Du Yun, and more.
Pauline’s debut album, Heroine — a reimagining of the Bach Chaconne and Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias was released in 2019 on Sono Luminus with worldwide distribution. Her second album, Wild at Heart, was released on Sono Luminus in 2021. Pauline has also recorded for Decca, Tzadik, Northern Spy, Nonesuch, New Focus Recordings, Infrequent Seams, New World Records, Chaikin Records, Unseen Worlds, and Cold Blue Music, and has been heard on PBS, BBC, NPR, WQXR, WNYC, WKCR and WFMU.
Pauline was the first Music Director for the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company and has been the featured solo artist for choreographers David Parker of The Bang Group, Pam Tanowitz and John Heginbotham. Most recently, she was an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, had her debut residency at the Stone - New School, resident artist fellow at The Mabel Residency, and is the recipient of the EtM Con Edison Composer Residencies at Bloomingdale School of Music. She serves on the board and is co-curator of Carnegie Hill Concerts.
Cellist Christopher Gross' performances have been praised by The New York Times ("beautifully meshed readings....lustrous tone") and The Strad Magazine (“...the tone of Gross’ cello enveloped the crowd [as he] showed energy and intonational accuracy, even when racing around the fingerboard”). He is a founding member of the Talea Ensemble, a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players, and has appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe including Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Disney Hall, Darmstadt Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, Wien Modern, the Composers Conference and many others. As a soloist and ensemble member his premieres of new works are numerous, including works by Pierre Boulez, Milton Babbitt, Charles Wuorinen, Georg Friedrich Haas, Brian Ferneyhough, Olga Neuwirth, James Dillon, Augusta Read Thomas, and many others. He has appeared on recordings on various labels, including Bridge, New Focus, Tzadik, and New World. As an orchestral musician, he has played with the New York Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony. An active educator, he is a Teaching Artist with the New York Philharmonic and has given classes and lectures at Harvard University, Peabody Conservatory, Sydney Conservatory, Cleveland Cello Society, Brooklyn College, and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He is also the creator of Cello Solos Today (www.cellosolostoday.org), which commissions new works for young cellists and creates online educational resources. He received his doctoral degree from Juilliard in New York and teaches at Lehigh University.
Triple-prized winner of the Lionel Tertis Competition, including Yuri Bashmet’s President Of The Jury Prize, Taiwanese-born Canadian Chieh-Fan Yiu has established himself as one of the most exciting young violists on the international stage today.
Artist-in-residence in Brooklyn Art Song Society, Philosonia, Lisker Music Foundation, and New Asia Chamber Music Society, Dr. Yiu's performances have also taken him around the world in festivals such as Carbondale Arts, Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, Málaga Clásica, Music@Menlo, Moritzburg, Verbier, Aspen, and Sarasota Music Festivals. He is also a founding member of Ben Feng Music Festival in Taiwan, now in its ninth season. His solo engagements have included Aspen Festival Orchestra, New York Classical Players, Vancouver Academy Symphony, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Stony Brook Symphony, and UBC Chamber Orchestra. He has collaborated with Thomas Bergen, Colin Carr, David Cohen, Nicholas Cords, Pedro R. Díaz, Chad Hoopes, Alan Kay, Tessa Lark, Matthew Lipman, Frank Morelli, Alfredo Muro, Paul Neubauer, Daniel Phillips, Sasha Sitkovetsky, Josu De Solaun, Carol Wincenc, as well as the Volta Piano Trio, Emerson and Tesla Quartets.
As a violist of Ensemble For The Romantic Century, an acting/music ensemble that combine fully staged plays with live chamber music and elaborate visual designs, Dr. Yiu has starred in ‘The Dreyfus Affair’, 'Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter With Emily Dickinson', and ‘Van Gogh’s Ear’, has played more than 70 performances to date.
Dr. Yiu is the violist of the Deka Quartet, serving as Artists-in-Residence at the State University of New York Rockefeller Institute of Government, where they teach and mentor college students at SUNY Schenectady as well as children in the Empire State Youth Orchestra’s CHIME program.
As a recipient of the coveted Jerome L. Greene Fellowship, Dr. Yiu completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, followed by Doctorate of Music degree from Stony Brook University, having been under the tutelage of mentors like Toby Appel, Heidi Castleman, Hsin-Yun Huang, Kim Kashkashian, as well as the great Emerson Quartet.
Media coverage of Dr. Yiu’s performances and interviews include Music@Menlo Live, medici.tv broadcast from Switzerland, and BBC News in the UK. Mr. Yiu’s live recording of Nataliya Medvedovskaya’s Fantasy for Viola and Piano can be heard on WQXR Radio and ArkivMusic.
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Free Admission
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