The musicians in residence and Harriet Hale Woolley scholars are looking forward to seeing you in the Grand Salon on Sunday, October 31 for the next Rendez-vous Musical. These concerts, which are an opportunity for the musicians to perform works they are studying or creating, are renowned for their open and friendly atmosphere. Members of audience, delighted to (re)discover classical, contemporary and new works, often stay behind to talk with the musicians. The musicians take great pleasure in these exchanges, always speaking about music and their specific disciplines with great passion.
This concert will be a continuation of the October 17th program featuring many compositions by alumni and new composers living at FEU. At the end of the concert, you will be given a final opportunity to discover the Madison Vander Ark exhibition.
Practical Information
Date : October 31 | Time : 5pm | Facebook Event
Covid : Please respect the general physical distancing guidelines. Hand sanitizer will be available at the entrance. According to the government’s announcement, you will be asked for your vaccination passport or a negative PCR test done within the last 48h.
Last reservation on Friday, October 29th at 5:30pm. If you did not get any ticket, yo can come at the door and we will let you in, depending on the remaining seats.
Program
Tom Gurin
Thin Space (2021)
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Sarah Grace Graves
Both/And (2018)
Sarah Grace Graves and Virginia Guidi, voice
Sarah Grace Graves
Night Vision (2019)
Sarah Grace Graves and Virginia Guidi, voice
Sarah Grace Graves
Embrace (2020)
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
Jon Yu
Begone Dull Care (2021)
Sarah Grace Graves, voice
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330
I. Allegro Moderato
Edgar Jaber, Piano
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Prendero Quel Brunettino from Così Fan Tutte
Sarah Grace Graves and Solange Adamson, sopranos
Edgar Jaber, piano
About the artists
Canadian lyric soprano, Solange Adamson combines her background in research and performance to bring to life the works of historical female composers. A current Harriet Hale Woolley scholar, she is using this year to study and perform Catherine ou la Belle Fermière, a one-woman opera by Julie Candeille, performed by her to great acclaim during the French Revolution. Since moving to Paris, Solange has performed regularly in concerts at the Fondation des États-Unis and Salle Cortot. Most recently, she performed at the Vienna Volksliedwerk and Festival Centenaire des Écoles d’Arts Américaines de Fontainebleau. With Opera UCLA, Solange created the roles of Sor Andrea in Carla Lucero’s opera Juana, and the Queen in Nicki Sohn’s The Emperor’s New Clothes. Among other roles, she has portrayed the Abbess in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the Center for Opera Studies in Italy, Dardano in Handel’s Amadigi with Opera UCLA, and prepared the role of Michaela in Carmen at Ecole Normale de Musique. Solange has graduate degrees from École Normale de Musique de Paris and UCLA where she studied with Olga Toporkova and Vladimir Chernov.
Sarah Grace Graves is a singer and composer of experimental music living in Paris, France. Her music contextualizes voice and instrument within the performer’s internal landscape of emotion, physical sensation, and sense memory. Her festival appearances include Voix Nouvelles Academy at Royaumont, IlSuono Contemporary Music Week, and Estalagem da Ponta do Sol Residency for contemporary music and electronics. She performs Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung with the Italian contemporary vocal ensemble Fragmente and is a founding member of Mockingbird and Magpie, an experimental voice/cello duo with Toronto-based composer and cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich. Sarah Grace holds a Master of Arts in Composition from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Rice University. From 2021 until 2022 Sarah Grace will be a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellow at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris. She studies voice with Nicholas Isherwood.
Born in Boston and raised in Bucharest, Edgar Jaber is currently finalizing a master’s degree in Mathematics and Engineering at CentraleSupélec/Université Paris-Saclay. He is a pupil of the Romanian pianists Toma Popovici and Viorica Rădoi at the National University of Music in Bucharest. His repertoire focuses mainly on classical and romantic german composers as well as early XXth century modernism.
Guest Musicians
Virginia Guidi studied Lyrical Singing and Vocal Chamber Music at Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome where she graduated cum laude with a focus on Vocal Chamber Music with Silvia Schiavoni, with a dissertation about the relationship between performer and composer in electroacoustic music. She studied also electronic music with M° M. Lupone and M° N. Bernardini. She also studied lyrical singing with Stefania Magnifico and contemporary singing with Alda Caiello, Silvia Schiavoni and Nicholas Isherwood. She won the IV edition of Michiko Hirayama’s Scholarship at Fondazione Scelsi. She has been part of Voxnova Italia since 2015; she founded CumTempora Ensemble and EVO Ensemble in 2017. She has been teaching a workshop about the voice in electroacoustic music with Federico Placidi at Saint Louis College of Music in Rome since February 2020. She is the artistic director of festival Note tra i Calanchi in Bagnoregio (VT). She is also a writer and has written two books: Una Storia senza nome and Frammenti, respectively published by Edizioni Ensemble in 2013 and Empirìa in 2018.