Lisa Bielawa's Double Album Release Concert & Screening December 19, 2010

Lisa Bielawa's Double Album Release Concert & Screening

Composer Lisa Bielawa celebrates the releases of two new albums – Chance Encounter (December 14, Orange Mountain Music) and In medias res (June 2010, BMOP/sound) – with a concert and screening. The performance will feature music from both albums including selections from Bielawa’s Double Violin Concerto for violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt and violinist Colin Jacobsen and from Chance Encounter for soprano Susan Narucki and The Knights, as well as Bielawa’s Synopses solo pieces for Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) members pianist Sarah Bob, percussionist Robert Schulz, and harpist Ina Zdorovetchi.

Two short films about Chance Encounter will be screened. Director Lisa Guidetti’s short was created during the world premiere of Chance Encounter in New York in 2007, and in 2008 won a Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival and was honored by the Cannes Short Film Corner. Director Renato Chiocca’s film documents Chance Encounter as it was presented in partnership with urban placemaker Robert Hammond (co-founder of the High Line in New York) and produced in collaboration with the organization Tevereterno on the Tiber River in Italy in 2010. This is the film’s first screening in the U.S.

Bielawa spent a year in Rome at the American Academy as a winner of the Rome Prize, returning to New York this past August. She often takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations, and says, “The pieces on these two CD releases bring back memories of the incredible musical communities and audiences in Boston and New York, and I am thrilled that these wonderful performers, my closest collaborators, are joining me to share in the celebration. What a great way to come home!”

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