THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
HERITAGE HALL | 3102 MAIN STREET (AT EAST 15th, IN EAST VAN) VANCOUVER |Google map
Bar opens at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 8:00PM
featuring: Calder Quartet
Richard Reed Parry, piano
Rachel Iwaasa, piano
Mark McGregor, flute
Müge Büyükçelen, violin
Melanie Adams, mezzo-soprano
Bergmann Piano Duo
Richard Reed Parry’s music For Heart and Breath combines a mesmerizing, still beauty with the human pulse. Discover another side of this Arcade Fire member through performances of his Duet, Quartet and Sextet featuring Los Angeles’ boundary-smashing Calder Quartet in their Vancouver debut.
Opening Night will also set your pulse racing with three world premieres: two by British legend Michael Finnissy alongside Music on Main’s new Composer In Residence Jocelyn Morlock’s Tom Cone Songs. And the concert closes with the majestic beauty of Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de L’Amen, the rarely heard masterpiece for two pianos.
programme
Set One
Richard Reed Parry’s Quartet for Heart & Breath
with the Calder Quartet
Richard Reed Parry’s Duet for Heart & Breath
with Richard Reed Parry (piano) & Jon Moerschel (viola)
Michael Finnissy’s Mercy and Mankind (World Premiere)
with Mark McGregor (flute) & Müge Büyükçelen (violin)
Michael Finnissy’s Sesto Libro di Gesualdo (World Premiere)
with Mark McGregor (flute) & Müge Büyükçelen (violin)
Jocelyn Morlock’s Tom Cone Songs
with Melanie Adams (mezzo-soprano) & Rachel Iwaasa
Richard Reed Parry’s Sextet for Heart & Breath
with Calder Quartet, Richard Reed Parry (piano) & Rachel Iwaasa (piano)
Set Two
Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Amen
with Bergmann Piano Duo
The 2012 Modulus Festival is generously sponsored by Bryan Price.
