TEMPO

A dynamic, excited collection of performers, TEMPO strives to promote and perform today's music - written by both emerging and established composers - and present it in a meaningful, engaging context. The ensemble is an organization that consists of instrumentalists, vocalists, and composers. The "organization" format allows us the ability to perform lager-scale chamber orchestra-type works as well as small ensembles, duos, or even solos, depending upon what a given program requires, and allows participants the flexibility to devote time to one or two pieces with the group per semester rather than grappling with an entire multi-program season. Members of TEMPO have performed internationally in a variety of contexts, and are dedicated to the task of making the music that they love inspiring to a diverse audience. TEMPO's primary tasks are to inspire, to teach, and to escort the next generation through music by living composers, and to work with these composers to sculpt the direction of music into the next century.

Free admission - donations suggested

TEMPO New Music Ensemble

Evan Meier, artistic director
Alexandra Bryant, administrator
Tomek Regulski, administrator and computer
Laura Armstrong, clarinet
Eric Plewinski, percussion
Nick Montopoli, violin
Natalie Spehar, cello
Mike Langlois, piano
Seng Choo Ong, piano
Michael Jacko, conductor

PROGRAM

Jacob TV (b. 1951)
Nivea Hair Care Styling Mousse (1999)

Nick Montopoli, violin
Natalie Spehar, cello
Mike Langlois, piano

Evan Meier (b. 1985)
Mad Song (2012)
"To think that all this work began in columns," from the chamber opera, The Last Act of Revolution (2011)

Hillary LaBonte, soprano
Michael Langlois, piano

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Cello Sonata No. 2 (1994)

Natalie Spehar, cello
Mike Langlois, piano

INTERMISSION

Alexandra T Bryant (b. 1985)
Of Science & Learning (2012)

Laura Armstrong, clarinet and bass clarinet
Nick Montopoli, violin
Natalie Spehar, cello
Seng Choo Ong, piano
Michael Jacko, conductor

Morton Subotnick (b. 1933)
Then and Now and Forever (2008)

Laura Armstrong, clarinet
Nick Montopoli, violin
Mike Langlois, piano
Tomek Regulski, computer