for 12 musicians
commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente
Michael Lewanski, conductor

To Paint Their Madness (2016)// chamber ensemble

Signs And Wonders - III. Intercession

Signs and Wonders - IV. Vamp

for the Copland House
performed by the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble; Barbara Schubert, conductor

Program Note:

Dream Logic emerged from a directed improvisation composed of images derived from the brain’s response to electric stimulus. As a transcription and development of an improvisation, it follows the kind of formal structures that arises when a group of musicians begin to play together - where motives return unannounced, or an unpredictable march emerges from a single repeated note. This kind of logic resembles that of the dream, in which the quotidian materials of daily life are recombined into a series of surreal vignettes that, though seemingly unconnected, find common ground in the subconscious mind of the dreamer.

Dream Logic (2017) // clarinet, violin, cello and piano

performed April 27, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. 

Michael Lewanski, conductor
Ensemble Dal Niente

That Dark Electric (2018)// trombone and chamber ensemble

for soprano, violin, cello and piano
text by Stephanie Anderson

performers:

Adanya Dunn, soprano
Erika Raum, violin
David Hetherington, cello
Gregory Oh, piano

Wooden Balloon: IV. Before Carving Out Bootjack

Wooden Balloon:  III. The Understory

Wooden Balloon: II. Wearing A White Wide-Awake

Wooden Balloon: I. As The Pupil In A Black Eye

performance by the University of Texas New Music Ensemble
Loren Welles, clarinet; Nick Tavani, violin; Alan Richardson, cello; Charlie Magnone, piano

Hearing Voices: II. Aria (2011) // chamber ensemble

Pierce Gradone’s music has been performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and has been featured in festivals as diverse as the Florida State University Festival of New Music, Red Note New Music Festival, Artosphere Festival, and the Great American Brass Band Festival. His works have been performed by Pacifica Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Line Upon Line Percussion, Ursa Ensemble, the Sacramento Youth Symphony, the Parhelion Trio, Concert Black, the McCain Duo, the Peterson/Hayes Duo, and many others. As both a composer and educator, he has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Sacramento Youth Symphony and as a guest composer at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He holds degrees in composition from Florida State University (B.Mus.) and the University of Texas at Austin (M.Mus.), and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. For more information, visit www.piercegradone.com. 


Pierce Gradone

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