Posted by ChamberBridge
ChamberBridge is the San Francisco-based musical partnership of American soprano Lara Bruckmann and Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann.
Soprano Lara Bruckmann is a versatile performer whose career has spanned the operatic, concert, and theatrical stages. She has been praised for “her fine, strong voice and cabaret-honed acting abilities” (Opera News) and "vibrant, on the money performance" (SF Weekly). Her roles include Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Masha (Pikovaya Dama), Arsena (The Gypsy Baron), Aldonza (Man of La Mancha), Minnie Belle (Weill’s Johnny Johnson), and many others. On the concert stage, she has served as soprano soloist for works including Bach’s Mass in B minor and St. John Passion, Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, Bruckner’s Requiem, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Lara is a founding member of the cabaret trio Girlkulture and co-founder and Board President emeritus of Arts First Oakland. She holds degrees from Rice University (BM) and The New England Conservatory (MM), where she graduated with academic honors. Lara is Development Director for ChamberBridge.
Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann maintains a career on two continents through performances that are “breathtakingly intense” (Der Bund, Switzerland) and “brilliant and sensitive” (Berner Oberländer). Her solo appearances include recitals as well as concerto performances with major symphony orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Winner of the prestigious Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, Eva-Maria has appeared at international festivals in Israel, the US and Europe including the “Festival Piano en Saintonge” in France, the “Sommerfestspiele Murten” in Switzerland, the “Yerba Buena International Music Festival” and the “Other Minds Festival for New Music” in San Francisco. Eva-Maria has studied with many distinguished musicians such as Leon Fleisher, György Sebök, Leonard Hokanson and Dominique Merlet. Collaborations include projects with the Del Sol String Quartet (Del Sol – Del Seoul: premiers of Korean women composers in Seoul, 2005) and bass-baritone René Perler (Festival du Lied, Fribourg, Switzerland). Eva-Maria graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory of Geneva, and she currently lives in San Francisco. She is Program Director for ChamberBridge.
ChamberBridge first came together musically in the Spring of 2007 to explore art song of the 20th and 21st Centuries. In their first season, they performed in recital at Old First Concerts and the Berkeley Piano Club (among others), and booked future performances at Noe Valley Music Series and Berkeley Chamber Performances as well as their European debut in Bern, Switzerland in Summer 2009. The duo is applying their shared passion for 20th Century and newly composed music and their unusually easy musical connection to a series of annual festivals, each exploring the impact and influence of a single composer. Their first such event, ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated, will take place on November 15th at Old First Concerts in San Francisco.
This project is deeply rooted in ChamberBridge’s stated mission:
Piano and voice duo ChamberBridge promotes and fosters the performance, enjoyment, and advancement of 20th and 21st century chamber music through adventurous programming, musically and theatrically gripping performances, and the commissioning of new works.
The festival and its associated commissions are intended to forward ChamberBridge’s vision:
ChamberBridge curates, presents and performs 20th and 21st Century chamber music in formats that bring audiences to deeper understanding and appreciation of the material explored while maintaining the highest musical standards. ChamberBridge’s unique approach reaches beyond the traditional audience for both chamber music and new music and is highly respected in and beyond the musical community.
ChamberBridge is a fiscally-sponsored Affiliate of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
Soprano Lara Bruckmann is a versatile performer whose career has spanned the operatic, concert, and theatrical stages. She has been praised for “her fine, strong voice and cabaret-honed acting abilities” (Opera News) and "vibrant, on the money performance" (SF Weekly). Her roles include Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Masha (Pikovaya Dama), Arsena (The Gypsy Baron), Aldonza (Man of La Mancha), Minnie Belle (Weill’s Johnny Johnson), and many others. On the concert stage, she has served as soprano soloist for works including Bach’s Mass in B minor and St. John Passion, Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, Bruckner’s Requiem, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Lara is a founding member of the cabaret trio Girlkulture and co-founder and Board President emeritus of Arts First Oakland. She holds degrees from Rice University (BM) and The New England Conservatory (MM), where she graduated with academic honors. Lara is Development Director for ChamberBridge.
Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann maintains a career on two continents through performances that are “breathtakingly intense” (Der Bund, Switzerland) and “brilliant and sensitive” (Berner Oberländer). Her solo appearances include recitals as well as concerto performances with major symphony orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Winner of the prestigious Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, Eva-Maria has appeared at international festivals in Israel, the US and Europe including the “Festival Piano en Saintonge” in France, the “Sommerfestspiele Murten” in Switzerland, the “Yerba Buena International Music Festival” and the “Other Minds Festival for New Music” in San Francisco. Eva-Maria has studied with many distinguished musicians such as Leon Fleisher, György Sebök, Leonard Hokanson and Dominique Merlet. Collaborations include projects with the Del Sol String Quartet (Del Sol – Del Seoul: premiers of Korean women composers in Seoul, 2005) and bass-baritone René Perler (Festival du Lied, Fribourg, Switzerland). Eva-Maria graduated with highest honors from the Conservatory of Geneva, and she currently lives in San Francisco. She is Program Director for ChamberBridge.
ChamberBridge first came together musically in the Spring of 2007 to explore art song of the 20th and 21st Centuries. In their first season, they performed in recital at Old First Concerts and the Berkeley Piano Club (among others), and booked future performances at Noe Valley Music Series and Berkeley Chamber Performances as well as their European debut in Bern, Switzerland in Summer 2009. The duo is applying their shared passion for 20th Century and newly composed music and their unusually easy musical connection to a series of annual festivals, each exploring the impact and influence of a single composer. Their first such event, ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated, will take place on November 15th at Old First Concerts in San Francisco.
This project is deeply rooted in ChamberBridge’s stated mission:
Piano and voice duo ChamberBridge promotes and fosters the performance, enjoyment, and advancement of 20th and 21st century chamber music through adventurous programming, musically and theatrically gripping performances, and the commissioning of new works.
The festival and its associated commissions are intended to forward ChamberBridge’s vision:
ChamberBridge curates, presents and performs 20th and 21st Century chamber music in formats that bring audiences to deeper understanding and appreciation of the material explored while maintaining the highest musical standards. ChamberBridge’s unique approach reaches beyond the traditional audience for both chamber music and new music and is highly respected in and beyond the musical community.
ChamberBridge is a fiscally-sponsored Affiliate of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
| Starts | Sat Nov 15 15:00:00 UTC 2008 |
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| Location | 1751 Sacramento at Van Ness, San Francisco |
| Venue | Old First Concerts |
Description
ChamberBridge presents
ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated
Lara Bruckmann, soprano, and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
with special guests
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Concerts at 3pm, 5:30pm, and 8pm
ondes Martenot demonstration at 4:30pm
In the tradition of the French salons of the early 20th Century, the musicians of the voice and piano duo ChamberBridge (Lara Bruckmann, soprano, and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano) have invited some of their favorite creative minds to join them for a day of music, poetry, art, and innovation on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at Old First Concerts. At this one-time special event, ChamberBridge’s unique signature twist on the traditional recital will treat their audience to an insider’s guided tour of one specific neighborhood in the vast ocean of “classical” music: the work of French composer Olivier Messiaen and his profound influence on later composers.
ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated will be a one-day festival featuring three full concert programs, a visual art exhibit, artist receptions, and a hands-on demonstration of the ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments and one championed by Olivier Messiaen. Guests may choose to attend any single concert or the entire series. The concert programs will feature works by a whole family tree of composers branching from Messiaen, reaching from his teachers Paul Dukas and Maurice Emmanuel through to the 2nd and 3rd generations of his students, including Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith and George Benjamin. Of special note are rare performances of song cycles by Messiaen’s first wife Claire Delbos (both composed on texts by Messiaen’s mother, the accomplished poet Cécile Sauvage), and the premieres of two newly commissioned works by hot young composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Mei-Fang Lin.
Painter Srimongkol Darawali (“JAX” - work featured in banner above), who is deeply fascinated with 20th Century and contemporary experimental music, works while listening to composers such as Messiaen, Boulez and Stockhausen. At receptions between the concerts, he will display and offer for sale some works made while listening to these and other composers in Messiaen’s compositional family tree. JAX states, “I regard Messiaen as one of the most influential figures in the second half of the 20th Century to our civilization. Imagine - if Stockhausen had not heard "Mode de valeurs et d'intensités", we would find his music in the jazz section.” The receptions will also offer guests the opportunity to share a glass of wine with the musicians and ask composers Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith, and Mei-Fang Lin about their work and connections to Messiaen.
ChamberBridge is collaborating with several artists to enrich the program well beyond works for voice and piano. The festival programs will include performances by the Del Sol Quartet, sfSoundGroup, Mary Chun (ondes Martenot), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Diane Grubbe (flute), Graeme Jennings (viola), Charlton Lee (viola), and Kate Stenberg (violin). As a special treat, Mary Chun will offer a hands-on demonstration of her rare vintage instrument, the ondes Martenot, during the reception between the first and second concerts.
ChamberBridge; Messiaen Illuminated is made possible through grants by the Zellerbach Foundation, American Composers Forum, the Ross McKee Foundation, and through generous gifts by individual supporters of ChamberBridge.
ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated
Lara Bruckmann, soprano, and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
with special guests
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Concerts at 3pm, 5:30pm, and 8pm
ondes Martenot demonstration at 4:30pm
In the tradition of the French salons of the early 20th Century, the musicians of the voice and piano duo ChamberBridge (Lara Bruckmann, soprano, and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano) have invited some of their favorite creative minds to join them for a day of music, poetry, art, and innovation on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at Old First Concerts. At this one-time special event, ChamberBridge’s unique signature twist on the traditional recital will treat their audience to an insider’s guided tour of one specific neighborhood in the vast ocean of “classical” music: the work of French composer Olivier Messiaen and his profound influence on later composers.
ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated will be a one-day festival featuring three full concert programs, a visual art exhibit, artist receptions, and a hands-on demonstration of the ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments and one championed by Olivier Messiaen. Guests may choose to attend any single concert or the entire series. The concert programs will feature works by a whole family tree of composers branching from Messiaen, reaching from his teachers Paul Dukas and Maurice Emmanuel through to the 2nd and 3rd generations of his students, including Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith and George Benjamin. Of special note are rare performances of song cycles by Messiaen’s first wife Claire Delbos (both composed on texts by Messiaen’s mother, the accomplished poet Cécile Sauvage), and the premieres of two newly commissioned works by hot young composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Mei-Fang Lin.
Painter Srimongkol Darawali (“JAX” - work featured in banner above), who is deeply fascinated with 20th Century and contemporary experimental music, works while listening to composers such as Messiaen, Boulez and Stockhausen. At receptions between the concerts, he will display and offer for sale some works made while listening to these and other composers in Messiaen’s compositional family tree. JAX states, “I regard Messiaen as one of the most influential figures in the second half of the 20th Century to our civilization. Imagine - if Stockhausen had not heard "Mode de valeurs et d'intensités", we would find his music in the jazz section.” The receptions will also offer guests the opportunity to share a glass of wine with the musicians and ask composers Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith, and Mei-Fang Lin about their work and connections to Messiaen.
ChamberBridge is collaborating with several artists to enrich the program well beyond works for voice and piano. The festival programs will include performances by the Del Sol Quartet, sfSoundGroup, Mary Chun (ondes Martenot), Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Diane Grubbe (flute), Graeme Jennings (viola), Charlton Lee (viola), and Kate Stenberg (violin). As a special treat, Mary Chun will offer a hands-on demonstration of her rare vintage instrument, the ondes Martenot, during the reception between the first and second concerts.
ChamberBridge; Messiaen Illuminated is made possible through grants by the Zellerbach Foundation, American Composers Forum, the Ross McKee Foundation, and through generous gifts by individual supporters of ChamberBridge.
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