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September 2010 - May 2011
Artist Residencies and Public Performances Yellow Barn Residencies provide the unique opportunity for musicians to develop projects of their own choosing in an environment conducive to undistracted study. All too often for performing musicians such opportunities come to an end once their formal training is completed. In a field where artistic growth continues and deepens with experience and age, Yellow Barn offers a much-needed haven fostering focused exploration. Residencies are open to musicians of any age and at any stage of their career, and are fully subsidized for resident musicians. Over the course of the 2010-11 academic year Yellow Barn musicians will be in residence in Putney, VT for a total of five weeks, interacting with both the town and The Greenwood School, as neighbors and as teacher-performers in curriculum-based classes and public performances. At The Greenwood School, Yellow Barn’s presence is not only intended to enhance the students’ musical activities, but, more importantly, the school’s overarching curriculum, teaching them how to apply what they hear in the creation of music to all other aspects of their learning experience. In the greater-Putney community, Yellow Barn will present a series of public performances at various venues in Windham County. Yellow Barn’s resident musicians represent a range of styles and cultures, and are among the most influential artists working today. September 2010 World-renowned clarinetist David Krakauer will be in Putney for eight days to develop an entirely new ensemble with two of his colleagues, Iva Bittova, a violinist/vocalist from the U.S., and Merima Kljuco, an accordionist from Amsterdam. This new ensemble will experiment with new repertoire focusing on music from a variety of backgrounds. During their residency the group will lead a workshop with Greenwood School students that focuses on the birth of musical ideas. October 2010 Zara Lawler and Paul Fadoul, a flute and marimba duo on the educational staff of the National Symphony Orchestra, will expand the repertoire for their ensemble and explore issues related to transcribing preludes and fugues by Bach and Shostakovich into music for their own instruments. In a hands-on workshop, Greenwood School students will experiment with their own types of adaptation based on other aspects of the school’s curriculum. Off campus the duo will present a public performance of their finished work. November 2010 In partnership with the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX, Yellow Barn will host the acclaimed British actor Walter van Dyk, Yellow Barn faculty members Curtis Macomber and Alan Kay, and a group of Yellow Barn alumni for a presentation of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King, a theatrical chamber music piece based words of King George III. Following their Putney visit, the group will tour to Dallas for the inaugural performance of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s new concert series. During their five-day residency the group will lead a workshop drawing connections between the piece and the life of King George III. The residency will culminate in a staged performance the work at the New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro, VT, with set pieces designed and built by NEYT students and staff. April and May 2011 In April and May 2011 the Jupiter Quartet will be in residence for a total of two weeks preparing the complete Beethoven string quartets in preparation for a performance at the 2011 Aspen Music Festival. One of the most revolutionary artists of the late-17th and early-18th Centuries, the Jupiter Quartet will shed life on his life through his music. Like the Ariel and Parker quartets before them, the Jupiter Quartet will give public concerts during their time in Putney. |
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