Performers:
Ekaterina Kichigina (soprano)
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble:
Ivan Bushuev (flute), Oleg Tantsov (clarinet), Mikhail Dubov (piano), Dmitri Vlasik(percussion), Vladislav Pesin (violin), Oleg Vedernikov (cello)
Program:
Music by professors and students of California’s universities
John M.Kennedy
“Lamentations: Hayasdan” for flute and piano
Vera Ivanova
“Aura” for clarinet solo
Daniel Rothman
Two pieces for piano solo:
1. Telling the Bees
2. The Nature Poem
Jamie Thierman
“Dance” for flute, clarinet, violin and piano
Thatchatham Sulsupan
“Kalamasutra” for clarinet, cello and piano
David Lefkowitz
“Snows sing a farewell” for soprano and ensemble on Avrom Sutzkever’s poems:
1. Siberian Spring
2. Frozen Jews
3. Stone Mirrors
4. On My Father’s Yourtsayt