The LA International New Music Festival brings together composers and their works from all over the globe to rest in the heart of LA: the Grand Avenue Arts Corridor downtown.
All concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talks begin at 7:00 p.m.
Programs and artists subject to change.
4 Concerts – 30% off regular ticket price
$105 general
$75 senior
$25 student
SINGLE TICKETS
$38 general admission
$28 seniors over 65
$10 student admission *student ID required at the door
For tickets or information:
(800) 726-7147
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5 commissions / 14 compositions
10 LA premieres / 3 world premieres
Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain
Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States
Los Angeles – Two-time Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music announces the
2013 Los Angeles International New Music Festival (LAINMF) taking place January 26,
February 3, February 23, and March 2 at 8:00 p.m. at The Colburn School. The festival was
inaugurated in May of 2012 and celebrated the ensemble’s 25th anniversary season. Each 2013
LAINMF concert will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. by a discussion with visiting composers and
musicians moderated by legendary radio personality Martin Perlich and Southwest Artistic
Director Jeff von der Schmidt.
Composers featured during the 2013 LAINMF include Lei Liang, Unsuk Chin, Toru Takemitsu,
Charles Wuorinen, Roger Reynolds, Anne LeBaron, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Ortiz, Adina Izarra,
Alberto Ginastera, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
The Festival presents 14 works including 3 world premieres, 3 U.S. premieres and 7 Los Angeles
or West Coast premieres. Southwest commissioned five of these new works: It Happens Like This by Charles Wuorinen (co-commisioned with the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston
Symphony); Some Things Do Not Move by Anne LeBaron; Positings by Roger Reynolds;
Unsuk Chin’s Cosmigimmicks (co-commissioned with the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam and the
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik); and Lei Liang’s Listening to Blossoms (co-
commissioned with the Cicada Players, lead by members of the New York Philharmonic).
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt reflects, “With each passing season, LA continues to
become THE place on the map, and the LAINMF is part of the process in shifting attention to the
West Coast. I had been searching for a way to integrate Southwest experiences from Vienna to
Vietnam, Phnom Penh to Washington D.C., Angkor Wat to UNAM in Mexico City, all connected
by the reputation resulting from two Grammy Awards and seven nominations, three from the Latin
Academy. Over time our group biography has come to reflect the community of Los Angeles in all
its complexity, a civic responsibility our colleagues on the East Coast or in Europe do not embrace.
After the successful launch of the festival in May of 2012 I’m looking forward to creating a place
where a lot of important ideas in music come together for our audiences here in Los Angeles.”
In addition to 5 Southwest commissions anchoring the LAINMF, other highlights include a trio of
vocal works from Central and South American composers: Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico, Adina
Izarra from Venezuela and a revival of a challenging work by Argentinean master Alberto
Ginastera. Ortiz‘s Elegia for four sopranos and ensemble is a setting of the Kyrie from the Latin
Mass and inspired as a response to the death of the composer’s mother. From Caracas, Adina
Izarra will be featured with her Oratorio Profano, a cantata inspired by the work of Venezuelan
visual artist Felipe Herrera with texts by Fernando Fernández. The soloists for this important U.S.
premiere will be mezzo soprano Laura Mercado Wright and baritone Abdiel Gonzalez. To
conclude this triptych of Latin composers, the poems of Pablo Neruda inspire an extremely
audacious work by Alberto Ginastera of Argentina, the haunting Serenata, sung by Abdiel
Gonzalez.
“I believe that we’re at a unique position in time,” continues von der Schmidt. “There is honestly
so much important music from the 20th century that rarely penetrates standard programming that
I’m consequently not obsessed with a singular focus on recent work from young composers. New
music shouldn’t be age discriminatory – it’s important for me to balance continuity and change
while remaining on the cutting edge of new music.”
Underscoring this situation, LAINMF will offer the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter’s
Luimen in celebration of the composer’s 104th birthday. Two works by Britain’s Peter Maxwell
Davies will focus on his multiple personality as the festival combines his recent Lux in Tenebris with a Davies reworking of John Dowland’s Farewell a Fancye. The festival will open with a
mysterious work in tribute to Japan’s Toru Takemitsu.
On Saturday February 23 the LAINMF will present two major West Coast Premieres from two
titan composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Plans include a work from
Stockhausen’s KLANG cycle, a series of works celebrating the hours of the day. And in
collaboration with the John Cage Trust, a performance of Cage’s Muoyce II one of his last major
works and inspired by James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This 1992 work will celebrate Cage’s
centennial year and continue Southwest’s Cage 2012 series.
Guest artists include Helenus de Rijke, guitar, and Hans Wesseling, mandolin, from the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam; vocalists Elissa Johnston and Sharon Harms, sopranos, Laura Wright
Mercado, mezzo soprano, Steven Brennfleck, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass and Abdiel Gonzalez,
baritone .
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Toru Takemitsu
Lei Lang
Elliott Carter
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Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Toru Takemitsu
Bryce
Lei Liang
Listening for Blossoms (World Premiere)
Elliott Carter
Luimen (West Coast Premiere)
Adina Izarra
Oratorio Profano (U.S. Premiere)
Unsuk Chin
Cosmigimmicks (U.S. Premiere)
Guest Artists
Abdiel Gonzalez, Laura Mercado Wright, Helenus de Rijke, Hans Wesseling
Unsuk Chin
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5 commissions / 14 compositions
10 LA premieres / 3 world premieres
Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain
Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States
Los Angeles – Two-time Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music announces the 2013 Los Angeles International New Music Festival (LAINMF) taking place January 26,
February 3, February 23, and March 2 at 8:00 p.m. at The Colburn School. The festival was
inaugurated in May of 2012 and celebrated the ensemble’s 25th anniversary season. Each 2013 LAINMF concert will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. by a discussion with visiting composers and
musicians moderated by legendary radio personality Martin Perlich and Southwest Artistic
Director Jeff von der Schmidt.
Composers featured during the 2013 LAINMF include Lei Liang, Unsuk Chin, Toru Takemitsu,
Charles Wuorinen, Roger Reynolds, Anne LeBaron, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Ortiz, Adina Izarra,
Alberto Ginastera, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
The Festival presents 14 works including 3 world premieres, 3 U.S. premieres and 7 Los Angeles
or West Coast premieres. Southwest commissioned five of these new works: It Happens Like This by Charles Wuorinen (co-commisioned with the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston
Symphony); Some Things Do Not Move by Anne LeBaron; Positings by Roger Reynolds;
Unsuk Chin’s Cosmigimmicks (co-commissioned with the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam and the
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik); and Lei Liang’s Listening to Blossoms (co-
commissioned with the Cicada Players, lead by members of the New York Philharmonic).
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt reflects, “With each passing season, LA continues to
become THE place on the map, and the LAINMF is part of the process in shifting attention to the
West Coast. I had been searching for a way to integrate Southwest experiences from Vienna to
Vietnam, Phnom Penh to Washington D.C., Angkor Wat to UNAM in Mexico City, all connected
by the reputation resulting from two Grammy Awards and seven nominations, three from the Latin
Academy. Over time our group biography has come to reflect the community of Los Angeles in all
its complexity, a civic responsibility our colleagues on the East Coast or in Europe do not embrace.
After the successful launch of the festival in May of 2012 I’m looking forward to creating a place
where a lot of important ideas in music come together for our audiences here in Los Angeles.”
In addition to 5 Southwest commissions anchoring the LAINMF, other highlights include a trio of
vocal works from Central and South American composers: Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico, Adina
Izarra from Venezuela and a revival of a challenging work by Argentinean master Alberto
Ginastera. Ortiz‘s Elegia for four sopranos and ensemble is a setting of the Kyrie from the Latin
Mass and inspired as a response to the death of the composer’s mother. From Caracas, Adina
Izarra will be featured with her Oratorio Profano, a cantata inspired by the work of Venezuelan
visual artist Felipe Herrera with texts by Fernando Fernández. The soloists for this important U.S.
premiere will be mezzo soprano Laura Mercado Wright and baritone Abdiel Gonzalez. To
conclude this triptych of Latin composers, the poems of Pablo Neruda inspire an extremely
audacious work by Alberto Ginastera of Argentina, the haunting Serenata, sung by Abdiel
Gonzalez.
“I believe that we’re at a unique position in time,” continues von der Schmidt. “There is honestly
so much important music from the 20th century that rarely penetrates standard programming that
I’m consequently not obsessed with a singular focus on recent work from young composers. New
music shouldn’t be age discriminatory – it’s important for me to balance continuity and change
while remaining on the cutting edge of new music.”
Underscoring this situation, LAINMF will offer the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter’s Luimen in celebration of the composer’s 104th birthday. Two works by Britain’s Peter Maxwell
Davies will focus on his multiple personality as the festival combines his recent Lux in Tenebris with a Davies reworking of John Dowland’s Farewell a Fancye. The festival will open with a
mysterious work in tribute to Japan’s Toru Takemitsu.
On Saturday February 23 the LAINMF will present two major West Coast Premieres from two
titan composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Plans include a work from Stockhausen’s KLANG cycle, a series of works celebrating the hours of the day. And in
collaboration with the John Cage Trust, a performance of Cage’s Muoyce II one of his last major
works and inspired by James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This 1992 work will celebrate Cage’s
centennial year and continue Southwest’s Cage 2012 series.
Guest artists include Helenus de Rijke, guitar, and Hans Wesseling, mandolin, from the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam; vocalists Elissa Johnston and Sharon Harms, sopranos, Laura Wright
Mercado, mezzo soprano, Steven Brennfleck, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass and Abdiel Gonzalez,
baritone .
Peter Maxwell Davies
Gabriela Ortiz
Charles Wuorinen
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Saturday, February 2 at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Lux in Tenebris
John Dowland, arr. Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell – a Fancye
Gabriela Ortiz
Elegía (U.S. Premiere)
Charles Wuorinen
It Happens Like This (West Coast Premiere)
Guest Artists
Sharon Harms, Elissa Johnston, Laura Mercado Wright, Ayana Haviv, Steven Brennfleck, Douglas Williams
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5 commissions / 14 compositions
10 LA premieres / 3 world premieres
Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain
Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States
Los Angeles – Two-time Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music announces the 2013 Los Angeles International New Music Festival (LAINMF) taking place January 26,
February 3, February 23, and March 2 at 8:00 p.m. at The Colburn School. The festival was
inaugurated in May of 2012 and celebrated the ensemble’s 25th anniversary season. Each 2013 LAINMF concert will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. by a discussion with visiting composers and
musicians moderated by legendary radio personality Martin Perlich and Southwest Artistic
Director Jeff von der Schmidt.
Composers featured during the 2013 LAINMF include Lei Liang, Unsuk Chin, Toru Takemitsu,
Charles Wuorinen, Roger Reynolds, Anne LeBaron, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Ortiz, Adina Izarra,
Alberto Ginastera, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
The Festival presents 14 works including 3 world premieres, 3 U.S. premieres and 7 Los Angeles
or West Coast premieres. Southwest commissioned five of these new works: It Happens Like This by Charles Wuorinen (co-commisioned with the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston
Symphony); Some Things Do Not Move by Anne LeBaron; Positings by Roger Reynolds;
Unsuk Chin’s Cosmigimmicks (co-commissioned with the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam and the
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik); and Lei Liang’s Listening to Blossoms (co-
commissioned with the Cicada Players, lead by members of the New York Philharmonic).
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt reflects, “With each passing season, LA continues to
become THE place on the map, and the LAINMF is part of the process in shifting attention to the
West Coast. I had been searching for a way to integrate Southwest experiences from Vienna to
Vietnam, Phnom Penh to Washington D.C., Angkor Wat to UNAM in Mexico City, all connected
by the reputation resulting from two Grammy Awards and seven nominations, three from the Latin
Academy. Over time our group biography has come to reflect the community of Los Angeles in all
its complexity, a civic responsibility our colleagues on the East Coast or in Europe do not embrace.
After the successful launch of the festival in May of 2012 I’m looking forward to creating a place
where a lot of important ideas in music come together for our audiences here in Los Angeles.”
In addition to 5 Southwest commissions anchoring the LAINMF, other highlights include a trio of
vocal works from Central and South American composers: Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico, Adina
Izarra from Venezuela and a revival of a challenging work by Argentinean master Alberto
Ginastera. Ortiz‘s Elegia for four sopranos and ensemble is a setting of the Kyrie from the Latin
Mass and inspired as a response to the death of the composer’s mother. From Caracas, Adina
Izarra will be featured with her Oratorio Profano, a cantata inspired by the work of Venezuelan
visual artist Felipe Herrera with texts by Fernando Fernández. The soloists for this important U.S.
premiere will be mezzo soprano Laura Mercado Wright and baritone Abdiel Gonzalez. To
conclude this triptych of Latin composers, the poems of Pablo Neruda inspire an extremely
audacious work by Alberto Ginastera of Argentina, the haunting Serenata, sung by Abdiel
Gonzalez.
“I believe that we’re at a unique position in time,” continues von der Schmidt. “There is honestly
so much important music from the 20th century that rarely penetrates standard programming that
I’m consequently not obsessed with a singular focus on recent work from young composers. New
music shouldn’t be age discriminatory – it’s important for me to balance continuity and change
while remaining on the cutting edge of new music.”
Underscoring this situation, LAINMF will offer the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter’s Luimen in celebration of the composer’s 104th birthday. Two works by Britain’s Peter Maxwell
Davies will focus on his multiple personality as the festival combines his recent Lux in Tenebris with a Davies reworking of John Dowland’s Farewell a Fancye. The festival will open with a
mysterious work in tribute to Japan’s Toru Takemitsu.
On Saturday February 23 the LAINMF will present two major West Coast Premieres from two
titan composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Plans include a work from Stockhausen’s KLANG cycle, a series of works celebrating the hours of the day. And in
collaboration with the John Cage Trust, a performance of Cage’s Muoyce II one of his last major
works and inspired by James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This 1992 work will celebrate Cage’s
centennial year and continue Southwest’s Cage 2012 series.
Guest artists include Helenus de Rijke, guitar, and Hans Wesseling, mandolin, from the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam; vocalists Elissa Johnston and Sharon Harms, sopranos, Laura Wright
Mercado, mezzo soprano, Steven Brennfleck, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass and Abdiel Gonzalez,
baritone .
Karlheinz Stockhausen
John Cage |
Saturday, February 23 at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Nebadon aus KLANG (West Coast Premiere)
James Joyce
The Æolian Episode from “Ulysses”
John Cage
Muoyce II: Writing Through "Ulysses"(West Coast Premiere)
Guest Artists
Andrew Pelletier
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5 commissions / 14 compositions
10 LA premieres / 3 world premieres
Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain
Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States
Los Angeles – Two-time Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music announces the
2013 Los Angeles International New Music Festival (LAINMF) taking place January 26,
February 3, February 23, and March 2 at 8:00 p.m. at The Colburn School. The festival was
inaugurated in May of 2012 and celebrated the ensemble’s 25th anniversary season. Each 2013
LAINMF concert will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. by a discussion with visiting composers and
musicians moderated by legendary radio personality Martin Perlich and Southwest Artistic
Director Jeff von der Schmidt.
Composers featured during the 2013 LAINMF include Lei Liang, Unsuk Chin, Toru Takemitsu,
Charles Wuorinen, Roger Reynolds, Anne LeBaron, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Ortiz, Adina Izarra,
Alberto Ginastera, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
The Festival presents 14 works including 3 world premieres, 3 U.S. premieres and 7 Los Angeles
or West Coast premieres. Southwest commissioned five of these new works: It Happens Like This by Charles Wuorinen (co-commisioned with the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston
Symphony); Some Things Do Not Move by Anne LeBaron; Positings by Roger Reynolds;
Unsuk Chin’s Cosmigimmicks (co-commissioned with the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam and the
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik); and Lei Liang’s Listening to Blossoms (co-
commissioned with the Cicada Players, lead by members of the New York Philharmonic).
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt reflects, “With each passing season, LA continues to
become THE place on the map, and the LAINMF is part of the process in shifting attention to the
West Coast. I had been searching for a way to integrate Southwest experiences from Vienna to
Vietnam, Phnom Penh to Washington D.C., Angkor Wat to UNAM in Mexico City, all connected
by the reputation resulting from two Grammy Awards and seven nominations, three from the Latin
Academy. Over time our group biography has come to reflect the community of Los Angeles in all
its complexity, a civic responsibility our colleagues on the East Coast or in Europe do not embrace.
After the successful launch of the festival in May of 2012 I’m looking forward to creating a place
where a lot of important ideas in music come together for our audiences here in Los Angeles.”
In addition to 5 Southwest commissions anchoring the LAINMF, other highlights include a trio of
vocal works from Central and South American composers: Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico, Adina
Izarra from Venezuela and a revival of a challenging work by Argentinean master Alberto
Ginastera. Ortiz‘s Elegia for four sopranos and ensemble is a setting of the Kyrie from the Latin
Mass and inspired as a response to the death of the composer’s mother. From Caracas, Adina
Izarra will be featured with her Oratorio Profano, a cantata inspired by the work of Venezuelan
visual artist Felipe Herrera with texts by Fernando Fernández. The soloists for this important U.S.
premiere will be mezzo soprano Laura Mercado Wright and baritone Abdiel Gonzalez. To
conclude this triptych of Latin composers, the poems of Pablo Neruda inspire an extremely
audacious work by Alberto Ginastera of Argentina, the haunting Serenata, sung by Abdiel
Gonzalez.
“I believe that we’re at a unique position in time,” continues von der Schmidt. “There is honestly
so much important music from the 20th century that rarely penetrates standard programming that
I’m consequently not obsessed with a singular focus on recent work from young composers. New
music shouldn’t be age discriminatory – it’s important for me to balance continuity and change
while remaining on the cutting edge of new music.”
Underscoring this situation, LAINMF will offer the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter’s
Luimen in celebration of the composer’s 104th birthday. Two works by Britain’s Peter Maxwell
Davies will focus on his multiple personality as the festival combines his recent Lux in Tenebris with a Davies reworking of John Dowland’s Farewell a Fancye. The festival will open with a
mysterious work in tribute to Japan’s Toru Takemitsu.
On Saturday February 23 the LAINMF will present two major West Coast Premieres from two
titan composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Plans include a work from
Stockhausen’s KLANG cycle, a series of works celebrating the hours of the day. And in
collaboration with the John Cage Trust, a performance of Cage’s Muoyce II one of his last major
works and inspired by James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This 1992 work will celebrate Cage’s
centennial year and continue Southwest’s Cage 2012 series.
Guest artists include Helenus de Rijke, guitar, and Hans Wesseling, mandolin, from the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam; vocalists Elissa Johnston and Sharon Harms, sopranos, Laura Wright
Mercado, mezzo soprano, Steven Brennfleck, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass and Abdiel Gonzalez,
baritone .
Alberto Ginastera
Anne LeBaron
Roger Reynolds |
Saturday, March 2 at 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Carlos Chávez
Invención III
Alberto Ginastera
Serenata on Poems of Pablo Neruda
Anne LeBaron
Some Things Do Not Move (World Premiere)
Roger Reynolds
Positings (World Premiere)
Guest Artists
Abdiel Gonzalez, Elissa Johnston, Andrew Pelletier
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5 commissions / 14 compositions
10 LA premieres / 3 world premieres
Japan, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain
Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States
Los Angeles – Two-time Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music announces the
2013 Los Angeles International New Music Festival (LAINMF) taking place January 26,
February 3, February 23, and March 2 at 8:00 p.m. at The Colburn School. The festival was
inaugurated in May of 2012 and celebrated the ensemble’s 25th anniversary season. Each 2013
LAINMF concert will be preceded at 7:00 p.m. by a discussion with visiting composers and
musicians moderated by legendary radio personality Martin Perlich and Southwest Artistic
Director Jeff von der Schmidt.
Composers featured during the 2013 LAINMF include Lei Liang, Unsuk Chin, Toru Takemitsu,
Charles Wuorinen, Roger Reynolds, Anne LeBaron, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Ortiz, Adina Izarra,
Alberto Ginastera, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.
The Festival presents 14 works including 3 world premieres, 3 U.S. premieres and 7 Los Angeles
or West Coast premieres. Southwest commissioned five of these new works: It Happens Like This by Charles Wuorinen (co-commisioned with the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston
Symphony); Some Things Do Not Move by Anne LeBaron; Positings by Roger Reynolds;
Unsuk Chin’s Cosmigimmicks (co-commissioned with the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam and the
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik); and Lei Liang’s Listening to Blossoms (co-
commissioned with the Cicada Players, lead by members of the New York Philharmonic).
Artistic Director Jeff von der Schmidt reflects, “With each passing season, LA continues to
become THE place on the map, and the LAINMF is part of the process in shifting attention to the
West Coast. I had been searching for a way to integrate Southwest experiences from Vienna to
Vietnam, Phnom Penh to Washington D.C., Angkor Wat to UNAM in Mexico City, all connected
by the reputation resulting from two Grammy Awards and seven nominations, three from the Latin
Academy. Over time our group biography has come to reflect the community of Los Angeles in all
its complexity, a civic responsibility our colleagues on the East Coast or in Europe do not embrace.
After the successful launch of the festival in May of 2012 I’m looking forward to creating a place
where a lot of important ideas in music come together for our audiences here in Los Angeles.”
In addition to 5 Southwest commissions anchoring the LAINMF, other highlights include a trio of
vocal works from Central and South American composers: Gabriela Ortiz from Mexico, Adina
Izarra from Venezuela and a revival of a challenging work by Argentinean master Alberto
Ginastera. Ortiz‘s Elegia for four sopranos and ensemble is a setting of the Kyrie from the Latin
Mass and inspired as a response to the death of the composer’s mother. From Caracas, Adina
Izarra will be featured with her Oratorio Profano, a cantata inspired by the work of Venezuelan
visual artist Felipe Herrera with texts by Fernando Fernández. The soloists for this important U.S.
premiere will be mezzo soprano Laura Mercado Wright and baritone Abdiel Gonzalez. To
conclude this triptych of Latin composers, the poems of Pablo Neruda inspire an extremely
audacious work by Alberto Ginastera of Argentina, the haunting Serenata, sung by Abdiel
Gonzalez.
“I believe that we’re at a unique position in time,” continues von der Schmidt. “There is honestly
so much important music from the 20th century that rarely penetrates standard programming that
I’m consequently not obsessed with a singular focus on recent work from young composers. New
music shouldn’t be age discriminatory – it’s important for me to balance continuity and change
while remaining on the cutting edge of new music.”
Underscoring this situation, LAINMF will offer the West Coast premiere of Elliott Carter’s
Luimen in celebration of the composer’s 104th birthday. Two works by Britain’s Peter Maxwell
Davies will focus on his multiple personality as the festival combines his recent Lux in Tenebris with a Davies reworking of John Dowland’s Farewell a Fancye. The festival will open with a
mysterious work in tribute to Japan’s Toru Takemitsu.
On Saturday February 23 the LAINMF will present two major West Coast Premieres from two
titan composers, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. Plans include a work from
Stockhausen’s KLANG cycle, a series of works celebrating the hours of the day. And in
collaboration with the John Cage Trust, a performance of Cage’s Muoyce II one of his last major
works and inspired by James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. This 1992 work will celebrate Cage’s
centennial year and continue Southwest’s Cage 2012 series.
Guest artists include Helenus de Rijke, guitar, and Hans Wesseling, mandolin, from the Nieuw
Ensemble in Amsterdam; vocalists Elissa Johnston and Sharon Harms, sopranos, Laura Wright
Mercado, mezzo soprano, Steven Brennfleck, tenor, Douglas Williams, bass and Abdiel Gonzalez,
baritone .
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