Event Schedule

New Music Festival 2015

Guest composer: Kaija Saariaho

Chamber Music Concert
Tuesday, November 10  • 8:00 pm • Comstock Hall
Program will include Penderecki'sSextet and Saariaho's
Six Japanese Gardens

Wind Ensemble, New Music Ensemble Concert
Wednesday, November 11 • 8:00 pm • Comstock Hall
Program will include Penderecki’s Entrata, Quartet for Clarinet and
String Trio, Cello Octet
and Saariaho’s Dust

Louisville Orchestra Concert
Thursday, November 12 • 8:00 pm • Comstock Hall
Featuring music by Lutoslawski, Saariaho, Penderecki, Salonen and Adams

University of Louisville Orchestra Concert
Friday, November 13 • 8:00 pm • Comstock Hall
Including premiere performance of Elegy, Soliloquy, and Epilogue
by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich as well as music by Penderecki and Saariaho and Rene Orth

Electronic Music Concert
Saturday, November 14 • 8:00 pm • Comstock Hall
Audio-visual performance of Music by Kaija Saariaho and Jean Baptiste Barriere
performed by flutist Camilla Hoitenga

Collegiate Chorale, Cardinal Singers
Sunday, November 9 • 7:30 • Comstock Hall
Featuring a selection of contemporary choir music including music for choir by Kaija Saariaho

Special event:
Nox Borealis, an audio-visual installation by Jean-Baptiste Barrière
and Kaija Saariaho will be presented at Rauch Planetarium on:
Th, Nov 12 (starting times: 1:00, 1:20, 1:40, 2:00)
Fri Nov 13 (starting times 2:00, 2:20, 2:40, 3:00)
Sun, Nov 15 (starting times 3:00, 3:20, 3:40. 4:00)

Other New Music Festival events and presentations:

Monday, Novmeber 9

11:00-12:00
Open rehearsal of Penderecki’s Sextet (Comstock Hall)

Tuesday, November 12

4:00-5:30
Composition Seminar with Jakob Kullberg (MB125)

Wednesday, November 11

2:00-3:20 pm
Jean Baptiste Barrière will present a lecture
at the Computer Music Class (LL26)

4:00-5:30 pm
Composition Seminar with Kaija Saariaho (MB125)

Thursday, November 12

3:00-4:00
Kaija Saariaho, convocation Lecture (Comstock Hall)

Friday, November 13

11:00-12:30
Composition Seminar with Jean Baptiste Barrière (MB125)

3:30-5:00
Camila Hoitenga will present contemporary flute techniques at the composition seminar (MB125)

Saturday, November 14

10:30-12:00
Composition Masterclass with Kaija Saariaho  (MB135)

Sunday, November 15

1:30-3:00
Composition Masterclass with Kaija Saariaho (MB135)