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Nissim's vocal piece, Rising, has been chosen to be included on The SCI Chapter of the composition division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America's New Voices Festival. As a result, Nissim will be in Washington, DC, for the performance on September 11, 2010. The show will be bright and early, at 10am, in the St. Vincent de Paul Chapel on the Catholic University campus.
Nissim's new Trio will be US-premiered by Shawn Galvin and New Music Raleigh in Raleigh, North Carolina, as part of SparkCon (not sure about this NC thing with sticking "con" at the end of events??), on September 18th at 4pm, at the Flanders Art Gallery (302 S. West Street in the warehouse district I think that neighborhood is called).
The Trio, in a revised quartet form (for three flutes and percussion), is also scheduled for a performance led by Kelli Kathman on November 30 in New York City.
New listening! The Trio from Music X and Scratching the Ice from Acanthes. That's cellist Agnieszka Kolodziej, percussionist Yu-Chun Kuo, and, on violin, Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, for the one and the Orchestra National de Lorraine for the other.
Nissim is reentering the academy. He will be pursuing another bloody masters degree at Paris 8 this fall where he will research the combining of electronic means with period instruments like harpsichord.
Nissim's arangement of the Algerian song, Yelha Wourar, for chamber orchestra and traditional Algerian percussion instruments, was recorded in concert on June 4 at the Maison de la Radio in Paris for the France Musique program, Couleurs du Monde. An excerpt of the recording was broadcast, with insufficient attribution, on June 16.
On the blog, hurdy-gurdy time!, John Cage's Roaratorio and public art, and a good quote.
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