The 2010 L.A. Composer Project
The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
ensemble in residence
The LAPQ is: Nick Terry, Eric Guinivan, Rachard Baughman, and Matthew Cook.
Concluding
their second concert season, the Los
Angeles Percussion Quartet has been
a welcome addition to chamber music in our city, having been enthusiastically
received by audiences, critics, and composers throughout Southern California.
As the region’s only chamber ensemble dedicated to new and experimental
works for percussion, the LAPQ has recently performed at the Monday Evening
Concerts, Music & Conversations, the Pasadena Arts &
Ideas Festival, USC, CalArts, and Chapman University. Concert season
2010/2011 will feature the release of multiple video and audio recordings,
an extensive tour of the Southwest (made possible by a recent award by the
Presser Foundation), and conclude with a première by composer Sean Heim,
whose commission was made possible by an award from the FROMM Foundation.
For updated information, please visit www.lapercussionquartet.com.
Pianist Vicki
Ray performs internationally as a soloist and collaborative artist. She is a member of the award-winning California E.A.R. Unit and Xtet.
As a founding member of PianoSpheres, an acclaimed solo piano series dedicated to exploring the less familiar
realms of the piano repertoire, her playing has been hailed by the Los
Angeles Times for "displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and technical panache that puts a
composer's thoughts directly before the listener." A long-time champion of new music,
Ms. Ray has worked with Gyorgy Ligeti, John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Elliot Carter, Morton Subotnick,
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Thomas Ades, Oliver Knussesn and many others. Ms.Ray has been featured in the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the German ensemble
Compania and the Blue Rider Ensemble of Toronto with whom she made the first Canadian recording of Pierrot
Lunaire.
featured guest artists
Christopher Elchico, Ryan Weston, Andrew Barnhart, Umut Dursun
Founded
in the fall of 2008, the award winning Angeles
Saxophone Quartet consists of undergraduate and graduate saxophone students from
the University of California–Los Angeles studying under Dr.
Doug Masek. The group has competed in the finals for the 2009
Coleman Chamber Music Competition, the semifinals for the 2009
Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the finals for the 2010
North American Saxophone Alliance Quartet Competition and,
most recently, won the Gold Medal at the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.
The Angeles Saxophone Quartet has also performed at the U.S. Navy Band
Saxophone Symposium in Fairfax, Virginia as part of their collegiate
quartet recital series, and participates in the Gluck Outreach
Program at UCLA, performing and educating the public about
classical saxophone at schools, libraries, convalescent homes,
and other public venues all over the Los Angeles area.
2010 L.A. Composers Project Musicians
Sarah Parnicky, soprano
Michael Matsuno, Rachel Mellis, Lauren
Osaka, flute
Stephanie German, oboe
Emilio Borghesan, Carmen Izzo, Eric Jacobs, clarinet
Michael Kato, Krista Wodelet, bassoon
Paul Curtis, contrabassoon
Allen Fogle, Steven Newbold, French horn
Josh Roach, Caster Teoh, trumpet
Matthew Karatsu, Nicole Wisneskie, trombone
Matthew Howard, Yuri Inoo, Benjamin Phelps,
Jonathan Rush, TJ Troy, percussion
Alison Balbag, Jane Grothe, Jillian Risigari-Gai ,
harp
Aurelien Eulert, Nic Gerpe, piano
Armen DerKevorkian, Naomi Florin, Kayla Moffett, John Stulz,
Sakura Tsai, violin
Sophia Acheson, Alejandro Duque, John Stulz, viola
Stella Cho, Sunny Yang, cello
Jonathan Richards, double bass
Alex Miller , Edward Trybek, Scott Wolf, Eva Beneke, guitar
Isaac Schankler, sound engineer
Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor