Mar. 11, 2012 Sunday Evening [$30 at the door] Circles & Sketches                         Details Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP Parking Info 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with program annotator Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert Fabian Panisello:   Etudes - Chroma I,II,III,IV (solo piano) John Luther Adams:   Red Arc / Blue Veil (piano, mallet percussion, and processed sounds) James Matheson:   Falling (piano trio) Gabriela Lena Frank:   Four Pre-Inca Sketches Luciano Berio:   Circles (soprano, harp, and two percussion)

	May 6, 2012 Sunday Evening [$30 at the door] Season Finale with Claude Baker Featuring special guest composer Claude Baker Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP Parking Info 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with Claude Baker & Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert Claude Baker:   Elegy for Violin Martin Kennedy:   Four songs for flute and piano Claude Baker:   Three Fantasy Pieces for viola and percussion Bohuslav Martinû:   Duo #1 for violin and cello Claude Baker:   Tableaux Funebres (piano quintet)

 

	Oct. 9, 2011 Sunday Evening [$30 at the door] Runes & Ritual: Joelle Wallach 0:60 Featuring special guest composer Joelle Wallach Pre-concert forum in O’Donnell Hall in Owen Arts Center Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with Joelle Wallach & Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert Tania Leon:   De Memorias (woodwind quintet) Stacy Garrop:   Little Bits (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) Joelle Wallach:   Revisitation of Myth (piano, viola, mezzo-soprano) Faye-Ellen Silverman:   Conversations (alto flute, clarinet) Conversations Continued David Lang:   Stick Figure [from “Child”] (clarinet, piano, cello, percussion and 1-2 other non-percussionists) Joelle Wallach:   Spiritual Joelle Wallach:   Runes and Ritual (piano quartet)

	Nov. 6, 2011 Sunday Evening [$30 at the door] Spirals 0:60 with Special Guest Composer, Arthur Levering Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP Parking Info 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with program annotator Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert Alan Hovhaness:   Quartet #1, op. 8 (string quartet) Vincent Persichetti:   Parable XIV for solo trumpet André Jolivet:   Suite en Concert pour flute et percussion (4 percussion) Aaron Jay Kernis:   Air for Violin and Piano Chinary Ung:   Spiral VI (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) Arthur Levering:   Cloches II (flute/picc., clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass) with conductor

Voices of Change is the Southwest's premiere professional chamber music ensemble dedicated to the performance of music of our time. Now in its 36th year, Voices of Change fills a unique niche in the music world by performing small ensemble works by 20th and 21st century composers, encouraging and preserving the impulse of musical creativity and imagination.

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Founded in 1974 by pianist Jo Boatright and clarinetist Ross Powell, Voices of Change is one of the longest-lived and most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States. In 1999, Voices of Change was a finalist for the prestigious Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Small Classical Ensemble. The CD, Voces Americanas, features works of five living composers of Hispanic descent. The Grammy nomination is a first for any Dallas/Fort Worth area chamber music ensemble. Voices of Change has been awarded the annual ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming an unprecedented five times and has recorded LPs and CDs on the CRI, Crystal, Innova, Albany, Centaur, and Redwood labels.

The artists are first-tier professional musicians playing music written by well-known and up-and-coming professional composers. The music of living composers is challenging and requires the skill and dedication of accomplished classical musicians to be played.

The ensemble has been privileged to host more than one hundred composers who have come to hear, discuss, and often participate in the performance of their pieces. Voices of Change has presented over 75 world premieres (more than 25 of which were commissioned by the ensemble), performed music by over 300 composers, and made numerous recordings, including five CDs. Voices of Change is also dedicated to commissioning new works and recording them. The ensemble co-produces an annual young composers competition to introduce and support the music of promising college and high-school composers.

Voices of Change is supported by: The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, Target Corporation, the EPIK Foundation, TACA, Automotive Advertising, Inc., The Dallas Foundation, the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Times Ten Cellars and WRR-101.1 FM.

“The Beethoven, the Debussy, the Corigliano of tomorrow – they are all out there. We deserve to hear them, and they deserve to be heard …Voices of Change, Dallas’ enduring new-music chamber music ensemble, has built its reputation and educated area audiences with an eclectic approach, programming a strong mixture of 20th-century classics and new, innovative works by living composers.”
— Wayne Lee Gay, FW Star Telegram

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