Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s contemporary classical music ensemble, contraBAND, presents new chamber works by Anna Clyne, Reena Esmail, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Helena Tulve, and Annea Lockwood that take inspiration from water. Under the direction of Associate Professor of Flute and Contemporary Music Sarah Brady, this program will explore our relationship with this essential resource, which continues to be a bellwether for climate change.
How to Watch
This performance will be livestreamed from Ipswich 106, starting at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Program
BRYCE DESSNER:
Murder Ballades (2013),
IV. Wave the Sea Emma Rose Bauman, alto flute Walter Yee, clarinet
Jack Yarbrough, piano
Matthew Carey, percussion
Brian Stuligross, violin
Alan Hlozek, cello
MISCHA SALKIND-PEARL: A Poppy of Erasure (2015)
Walter Yee, bass clarinet
Brian Stuligross, violin
Elizabeth Han, viola
ROBERT HONSTEIN: Olmsted (2017), I. Jamaica Pond
Brian Stuligross, violin
Jack Yarbrough, piano
ANNA CLYNE: Steelworks (2006)
Walter Yee, bass clarinet
Emma Rose Bauman, flute, piccolo
Wesley Fowler, percussion
Luke DuBois, video artist
INTERMISSION
HELENA TULVE: stream 2 (2006/2009)
Emma Rose Bauman, flute, piccolo, bass flute
Walter Yee, clarinet, bass clarinet
Jack Yarbrough, piano
Matthew Carey, percussion
Brian Stuligross, violin
Alan Hlozek, cello
REENA ESMAIL: Nadiya (2017)
Emma Rose Bauman, flute
Elizabeth Han, viola
ANNEA LOCKWOOD: Immersion (1998)
Matthew Carey and Wesley Fowler, percussion
RENEE BAKER: Rainfall (2014)
Emma Rose Bauman, flute
Walter Yee, clarinet
Jack Yarbrough, piano
Matthew Carey, percussion
Wesley Fowler, percussion
Brian Stuligross, violin
Elizabeth Han, viola
Alan Hlozek, cello
Director's Note
Water seems an obvious place to start when we think about the health of our planet. This program travels from local waterways such as Jamaica Pond and Gloucester Bay through streams as imagined in Estonia and rivers in India. Thank you for taking this sonic journey with us through the watery depths.
Special Thanks:
To the Boston Conservatory AV team for making this happen, with a special shout-out to Wesley Fowler for going above and beyond. We are grateful to Renee Brown and Misha Salkind-Pearl for their amazing music and for the generosity of their time. To contraBAND: Thank you for staying healthy, socially distanced, and playing your hearts out. You have given me quite the gift of live music all semester and I am thankful for the life in every single note!
Sarah Brady
Artistic Director
Associate Professor of Flute and Contemporary Classical Music
Orchestra
Sarah Brady, artistic director
FLUTE
Emma Rose Bauman, B.M. '21
CLARINET
Walter Yee, M.M. '21
PIANO
Jack Yarbrough, M.M. '21
PERCUSSION
Matthew Carey, M.M. '21
Wesley Fowler, M.M. '21
VIOLIN
Brian Stuligross, P.S.C. '21
VIOLA
Elizabeth Han, M.M. '22
CELLO
Alan Hlozek, B.M. '21
Featured Artist Bio
SARAH BRADY, Artistic Director
Sarah Brady joined the Conservatory in 2006 and is an associate professor of flute and contemporary music.
Called “enchanting” by the Boston Globe, Brady is sought after across the country as a soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher. An avid promoter of new music, she has premiered and recorded music from many of today’s top composers. Her solo, chamber, and over 40 orchestral recordings can be heard on the Albany, Naxos, Oxingale, Cantaloupe, and BMOP/sound music labels. As a leading interpreter of contemporary music, she was invited to read and record new work commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma for his Silkroad Project at Tanglewood.
As principal flute with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera, Brady can also be heard performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and Boston Lyric Opera. As a chamber musician, she has been described as “clairvoyantly sensitive” by New Music Connoisseur and has collaborated with the Fromm Players at Harvard, the Firebird Ensemble, the Radius Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Talea Ensemble, the Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon, and NotaRiotous. She is a member of the Michigan-based new music ensemble Brave New Works.
In competition, she was awarded second place in the National Flute Association's 2006 Young Artist Competition, where she also won an award for the best performance of newly commissioned work by Paul Drescher. She has been a semifinalist in the Myrna Brown Competition flute competition, Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition, and Eastern Connecticut Symphony's Young Artist Competition, and she twice placed second in Boston’s prestigious Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. As a soloist, Brady enjoyed a sold-out debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with pianist Oxana Yablonskaya.
Brady received an M.M. and a full-tuition scholarship from the University of Connecticut as well as an A.D. from the Longy School of Music, where she studied with famed teacher Robert Willoughby. In addition to Boston Conservatory, Brady is professor of flute at UMass Lowell and UMass Boston.