Join composer-performer duo Evan Fein & Luke Severn for an evening of chamber music. Fein (Faculty, The Juilliard School) and Melbourne-based Severn revive their collaboration after a tour of Australia in July 2019 for the first in a series of performances in New York and Los Angeles. 60 minute program; no intermission.

Program:

• Severn — “…when the world was young” (2018) (US Premiere)

• Fein — Cello Sonata, Op. 11a (2010)

• Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-65)

Luke Severn, cello
Evan Fein, piano

Join composer-performer duo Evan Fein & Luke Severn for an evening of chamber music. Fein (Faculty, The Juilliard School) and Melbourne-based Severn revive their collaboration after a tour of Australia in July 2019 for the first in a series of performances in New York and Los Angeles. 60 minute program; no intermission.

Program:

• Severn — “…when the world was young” (2018) (US Premiere)

• Fein — Cello Sonata, Op. 11a (2010)

• Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-65)

Luke Severn, cello
Evan Fein, piano

Join composer-performer duo Evan Fein & Luke Severn for an evening of chamber music. Fein (Faculty, The Juilliard School) and Melbourne-based Severn revive their collaboration after a tour of Australia in July 2019 for the first in a series of performances in New York and Los Angeles. 60 minute program; no intermission.

Program:

• Severn — “…when the world was young” (2018) (US Premiere)

• Fein — Cello Sonata, Op. 11a (2010)

• Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-65)

Luke Severn, cello
Evan Fein, piano

Join composer-performer duo Evan Fein & Luke Severn for an evening of chamber music. Fein (Faculty, The Juilliard School) and Melbourne-based Severn revive their collaboration after a tour of Australia in July 2019 for the first in a series of performances in New York and Los Angeles. 60 minute program; no intermission.

Program:

• Severn — “…when the world was young” (2018) (US Premiere)

• Fein — Cello Sonata, Op. 11a (2010)

• Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-65)

Luke Severn, cello
Evan Fein, piano

Performances by Kyle Blaha, Joanna Chao, Evan Fein, Gregory Knowles, Christina Lee, Jae Lee, Joseph Mohan, Daniel Ott, Kevin Quill, and Eric Sessler

45-minute program: Free, no tickets required

Violinist Andrew Sords and pianist Elizabeth DeMio perform a program of chamber music including Fein’s “Untranslatable” [Sonata No. 1 for violin & piano] and Franck’s beloved Sonata in A Major.

City of Ashes — An opera in one act

In the waning days of the Second World War, Lotte and Lili find themselves stranded in the devastated capital of the former Third Reich. Faced with their own guilt and unspeakable atrocities committed by the occupying Russian forces, the two women discover the price of survival and find a new strength in abandoning hope.

By Evan Fein & Emily Anderson
Presented by Marble City Opera

City of Ashes — An opera in one act

In the waning days of the Second World War, Lotte and Lili find themselves stranded in the devastated capital of the former Third Reich. Faced with their own guilt and unspeakable atrocities committed by the occupying Russian forces, the two women discover the price of survival and find a new strength in abandoning hope.

By Evan Fein & Emily Anderson
Presented by Marble City Opera

The Raven’s Kiss (Koss Hrafnsins) — An opera in two acts

By Evan Fein & Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson

When a ravishing woman with a mysterious past arrives one misty morning, the inhabitants of a small Icelandic town learn that change can be both painful and joyful. Set against a land of austere beauty, this tragic love tale challenges us to examine our motivations carefully and to deal with ourselves honestly.

Gísli — Ólafur Freyr Birkisson
Anna — Berta Dröfn Ómarsdóttir
Hélène — Hildur Evlalía Unnarsdóttir
Baldur — Egill Árni Pálsson
Gunnar — Bergþór Pálsson

Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson, Director

 Sigurður Helgi Oddsson, Music Director
Sóley Þrastardóttir, flute
Charles Ross, violin
Ragnar Jónsson, cello

The Raven’s Kiss (Koss Hrafnsins) — An opera in two acts

By Evan Fein & Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson

When a ravishing woman with a mysterious past arrives one misty morning, the inhabitants of a small Icelandic town learn that change can be both painful and joyful. Set against a land of austere beauty, this tragic love tale challenges us to examine our motivations carefully and to deal with ourselves honestly.

Gísli — Ólafur Freyr Birkisson
Anna — Berta Dröfn Ómarsdóttir
Hélène — Hildur Evlalía Unnarsdóttir
Baldur — Egill Árni Pálsson
Gunnar — Bergþór Pálsson

Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson, Director

 Sigurður Helgi Oddsson, Music Director
Sóley Þrastardóttir, flute
Charles Ross, violin
Ragnar Jónsson, cello

Guitarist Louis O’Neill gives the World Première of “Daydream Interrupted” at the 48th Hauser International Guitar Seminar in Reisbach, Germany.  O’Neill has commissioned three works for solo guitar from Fein, of which this is first to be performed.

The International Guitar Seminar Reisbach (Das Internationales Guitarrenseminar Reisbach) was founded by the legendary luthier Hermann Hauser II in 1967.  It is the second oldest guitar festival in Europe and attracts performers and students from around the world.

Composer-Performers Luke Severn (cello) and Evan Fein (piano) present an afternoon of music for Cello & Piano featuring their own works and the evergreen Sonata for Cello & Piano in E minor by Brahms.

Join us for a wonderful evening of music, enjoy champagne on arrival and the warmth of our two fireplaces.

PROGRAMME

• SEVERN – New Work**

• BRAHMS – Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38

• FEIN – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 11a (2010)*

*Australian Premiere
**World Premiere

Composer-Performers Luke Severn (cello) and Evan Fein (piano) present an afternoon of music for Cello & Piano featuring their own works and the evergreen Sonata for Cello & Piano in E minor by Brahms.

PROGRAMME

• SEVERN – Nox**

• BRAHMS – Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38

• FEIN – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 11a (2010)*

*Australian Premiere
**World Premiere

Un film documentaire d’Anne Georget (2019 – 52′)

produit par Octobre Production et Hue Dada Productions

Une troupe ambulante de chanteurs lyriques se produit dans des lieux insolites (usines, châteaux, écuries) et apporte des classiques du répertoire, des œuvres de jeunesse des grands compositeurs, et des opéras contemporains, écrits pour cette formation, à un public qui, souvent, vit ainsi ses premières émotions d’opéra.

De l’Allier, où l’aventure a pris sa source, jusqu’à Carnac, Bléré, Paris, Shanghai, plus de 35.000 spectateurs ont assisté à ces spectacles pleins d’inventivité et de poésie.

Featuring scenes from the 2018 production of Fein’s opera City of Ashes.

Karlakórinn Esja and Karlakórinn Ernir (Esja and Ernir Mens’ Choruses ) join forces in a program of Icelandic choral music at Ísafjarðarkirkja in Ísafjörður. Program to include Fein’s “Áfram Ísland um öld og aldir” — a new Icelandic “national anthem” with lyrics by Hannes Þórður Þorvaldsson.

The Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University is pleased to announce The Keyboard in the 21st Century, an international conference for composers to be held 4-5 April 2019.  Featuring performances by outstanding Hong Kong pianists and guest performers, the conference will showcase the breadth of creative voices working with a range of new and historic keyboard instruments.  In addition to performances and roundtable discussions by participating composers, we are pleased to feature lectures and performances of music by George Tsontakis, Kennedy Wong Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Music at HKBU and Distinguished Composer-in-Residence at Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Featured Guest Composer and Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music.

 Stephen Wong, pianist performs the premiere of Fein’s “Two Icelandic Landscapes”

Un film documentaire d’Anne Georget (2019 – 52′)

produit par Octobre Production et Hue Dada Productions

Une troupe ambulante de chanteurs lyriques se produit dans des lieux insolites (usines, châteaux, écuries) et apporte des classiques du répertoire, des œuvres de jeunesse des grands compositeurs, et des opéras contemporains, écrits pour cette formation, à un public qui, souvent, vit ainsi ses premières émotions d’opéra.

De l’Allier, où l’aventure a pris sa source, jusqu’à Carnac, Bléré, Paris, Shanghai, plus de 35.000 spectateurs ont assisté à ces spectacles pleins d’inventivité et de poésie.

Soprano Victoria Browers performs an recital of American art song highlighting texts by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Jane Kenyon. Included are works by Ernst Bacon, Libby Larsen, André Previn, Christian Carey, and world premieres of two new songs by Evan Fein.

Ms. Browers is joined by pianist JJ Penna, composer and pianist Evan Fein and cellist Khari Joyner.

Nicole León gives the European première of Fein’s Violin Sonata No. 1 (“Untranslatable”) at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre in Paris, France  (Belgium-Luxembourg House at Cité Universitaire).

Collaborative Pianist Guillaume Sigier.  Program also includes works by Ravel and Debussy.

The Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song. In the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances, and cash prizes are awarded.

Evan Fein and soprano Tory Browers will premiere Fein’s setting of Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the thing with feathers”

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