Dolce Suono Ensemble – 2011-2012 Season
DSE PRESENTS Home Series Concerts indicated
[Tickets: General $20 / Senior $15 / Student $10, available online, by phone 267-252-1803, and at the door]
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Dolce Suono Trio and Percussion
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 12:00pm
World Café Live Philadelphia, LiveConnections.org presents a Classical Brunch (11:00am)
Bach, Vivaldi, Gaubert, Bolling, Brazilian chôros, Sephardic and Yiddish songs
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“In Nature’s Realm” – Mimi Stillman performs Shulamit Ran’s Voices with Delaware County Symphony and Jeremy Gill, conductor; music of Beethoven and Sibelius
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 3:00pm
Meagher Theatre, Neumann University, Aston, PA
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“A Place and a Name: Remembering the Holocaust”
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 3:00pm
Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, 1726 Locust Street, Philadelphia
- Lucy Shelton, soprano joins Dolce Suono Ensemble in a program which brings together music by composers from Terezin, those who fled Germany children, and composers of later generations commemorating the Holocaust in their music. Music by Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Erwin Schulhoff, Shulamit Ran, and Tzvi Avni
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Holiday Family Concert: Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors
Co-presented by Dolce Suono Ensemble, Choral Arts Philadelphia, and First
Baptist Church of Philadelphia
Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 3:00pm
First Baptist Church, 123 S. 17th Street, Philadelphia
- Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors – the Philadelphia revival after 15 years in First Baptist Church, the historic venue where the work was first performed outside of the television broadcast in the 1950s.
- Centennial of Menotti’s birth; 60th anniversary of the premiere of Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Music by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Salomone Rossi, and traditional Ashkenazic and Sephardic music completes the program
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Dolce Suono Trio
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 2:00pm
Delaware Valley Music Club, Trinity Episcopal Church, Solebury, PA
Weber, Gaubert, Danielpour, Gershwin, Bernstein
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“Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Flute and Piano” CD – In-store performance and CD-signing at FYE, Philadelphia
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 1:00pm
Mimi Stillman, flute and Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, percussion
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Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 [Year 2]
Feb. 3: Marshall Auditorium, Roberts Hall, Haverford College, Haverford, PA at 8:00pm
Feb. 5: Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia at 3:00pm
- Lucy Shelton, soprano sings Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, her signature role, and premieres a new work by Shulamit Ran
- Mahler’s Piano Quartet, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and world premiere by Shulamit Ran
- The continuation of DSE’s 2-year Mahler 100 / Schoenberg 60 project, marking the 2011 anniversaries of Mahler and Schoenberg. The highly praised Year 1 concerts in May 2011 featured Eric Owens, bass-baritone and premieres by composers Steven Stucky, Steven Mackey, Fang Man, David Ludwig, and Stratis Minakakis
- Concert surrounded by educational and community outreach events by artists and composer-in-residence Shulamit Ran
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Dolce Suono Ensemble Commissions – world and New York Premieres
Composers Now Festival, Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space, New York City
Monday, February 6, 2011 at 7:30pm
- Composers: Steven Stucky, Shulamit Ran, Richard Danielpour, Steven Mackey, Fang Man, David Ludwig, Stratis Minakakis
- Soloists Lucy Shelton, soprano & Randall Scarlata, baritone
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Russian Roots
Friday, April 13, 2011 at 7:30pm
Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia
- Chamber music by Russian composers and composers of Russian ancestry: Sergei Prokofiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, Mauricio Kagel, Shulamit Ran
- Conversation with Shulamit Ran about her “Perfect Storm” for solo viola, which will receive its East Coast Premiere
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Dolce Suono Trio Plays American Masterworks
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:30pm
Community Concerts at Second, Baltimore, MD
Rorem, Danielpour, Abramovic, Gershwin, Bernstein
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Mozart & Schubert Spring Festival
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia