AUGUST 18, 5 pm – PS21 HOUSE BLEND I
Conor Hanick plays Johannes Brahms and Galina Ustvolskaya

AUGUST 19, 7 pm – PS21 HOUSE BLEND II: A double bill

Skylighght, Gelsey Bell (voice) & Erin Rogers (saxophone). Plus, composer/multi-instrumentalist  Patrick Higgins (guitar, drums, electronics), improvisations on five tracks from Versus, his latest record

AUGUST 21, 7 pm – PS21 HOUSE BLEND IV: A double bill

Bonnie Whiting performs Wang Lu‘s Stages for solo speaking/singing percussionist, with stage design by Polly Apfelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski‘s To the Earth for speaking percussionist and four flower pots (text from the Homeric Hymn to Gaia, Mother of All). Plus bass-baritone Davóne Tines singing Eastman Evensong

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Miranda Cuckson is a “fearless, visionary and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza21), an internationally acclaimed soloist and collaborator on the violin and viola, whose repertoire  extends from early classics to 21st-century experimental pieces. She has been a featured artist at the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Teatro Colón, the Cleveland Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the 92nd St Y, and elsewhere. 

Miranda recorded her first album, of the Ponce and Korngold concertos with the Czech National Symphony, in 2001. She has since released ten highly praised albums, including Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura for violin and electronics, a New York Times Best Recording of 2012; the Bartók, Lutoslawski, and Schnittke sonatas; and her live performance of the Ligeti Violin Concerto with the UC Davis Orchestra. She has recorded Ross Lee Finney, Donald Martino, and Ralph Shapey, the Roger Sessions solo Sonata, duos by Elliott Carter and Jason Eckardt; the wreckage of flowers by Michael Hersch; Melting the Darkness, solo microtonal and electro-acoustic pieces; and violin music by a who’s who of composers.  

A member of AMOC*, Miranda engages with the full gamut of musical expression. She has appeared at numerous festivals, including National Sawdust’s multimedia Ferus Festival, Ojai, Bard, Marlboro, Portland, Music Mountain, West Cork, Grafenegg, Wien Modern, and others;  performed the Stravinsky Duo Concertant with the State Ballet of Georgia, the Barber Violin Concerto with the New York City Ballet, Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with NYCB soloists for the Balanchine centennial, and collaborated with the New York Choreographic Institute and New Chamber Ballet. 

Miranda holds BM, MM, and DMA degrees from the Juilliard School. She teaches violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music and has led workshops and master classes at Juilliard, the Manhattan School of Music, UC San Diego, UC Davis, the Peabody Institute, Brown University, Williams College, Rice University, and other leading conservatories and universities.

One of the current generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music from every period, Conor Hanick is a pianist whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master” (The New York Times). He has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Orchestra Iowa, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, been presented by the Gilmore Festival, New York Philharmonic, Elbphilharmonie, De Singel, Caramoor, Cal Performances, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Park Avenue Armory, and worked with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ludovic Morlot, Alan Gilbert, and David Robertson.

A fierce advocate of today’s the music, Hanick has premiered over 200 pieces and collaborated with composers ranging from Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, and Steve Reich, to younger figures  including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, Samuel Carl Adams, and Anthony Cheung. This season Hanick presents recitals in the US and Europe, including performances with Julia Bullock, Jay Campbell, Joshua Roman, Seth Parker Woods, AMOC*, of which he is a founding member, and the Takt Trio. He will also make his San Francisco Performances debut at Herbst Theater, join Sandbox Percussion at 92NY, return to the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and, the California Festival at Ojai.

Hanick is the director of Solo Piano at the Music Academy of the West, and serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Mannes College, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Conor Hanick

CONOR HANICK

One of the current generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of music from every period, Conor Hanick is a pianist whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master” (The New York Times). He has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Orchestra Iowa, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, been presented by the Gilmore Festival, New York Philharmonic, Elbphilharmonie, De Singel, Caramoor, Cal Performances, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Park Avenue Armory, and worked with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ludovic Morlot, Alan Gilbert, and David Robertson.

A fierce advocate of today’s music, Hanick has premiered over 200 pieces and collaborated with composers ranging from Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, and Steve Reich, to younger figures  including Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, Samuel Carl Adams, and Anthony Cheung. This season Hanick presents recitals in the US and Europe, including performances with Julia Bullock, Jay Campbell, Joshua Roman, Seth Parker Woods, AMOC*, of which he is a founding member, and the Takt Trio. He will also make his San Francisco Performances debut at Herbst Theater, join Sandbox Percussion at 92NY, and return to the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and, the California Festival at Ojai.

Hanick is the director of Solo Piano at the Music Academy of the West and serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Mannes College, and the CUNY Graduate Center.