Tuesday Night New Music: Ishida, Boyarin, Chapman

NEC: Brown Hall | Directions

290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
United States

The newest works from the next generation of composers.

Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla.  It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers.  This year the series is directed by student composers ChangJin Ha ’24 and Stellan Bettany '25 under the supervision of composition chair Michael Gandolfi.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live.

  1. Mason Ishida | Two Pieces for Solo Piano (2023)

    Dance of Frustration
    An Exaggeration

    Program note

    Dance of Frustration was composed as an assignment for the class Composition and Tonality in the 18th and 19th Centuries. It isn’t exactly tonal but is more an exercise for composing in binary form. “An Exaggeration” is the original piano version of my orchestral piece.  Personally I feel this could be a sort of rock song.        
    - Mason Ishida

     
    Artists
    • Changjin Ha, piano

  2. Gabriel Boyarin | 1948 Nakba (or 75 years of dispossession) (2023)

    Program note

    Requiem for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in occupied Palestine.                                                       
    – Gabriel Boyarin

     
    Artists
    • Anthony Coleman, piano
    • Jake Wise, clarinet
    • Lemuel Marc, trumpet
    • Rita Hughes-Soderbaum, viola
    • Beth Ann Jones, double bass

  3. Coco Chapman | Trinity (2023)

    I. Doubt
    II. Hope
    III. Faith

    Program note

    I started writing this story before I knew the ending. Last January, on my first day ever at NEC, my parents took me to check out the classrooms. I stopped in one of them, sat myself down at the piano, and improvised the piano and voice parts of the second movement of this piece, Hope, which represented where I was in my faith journey at the time. When I brought it to my first ever lesson with Dr. Agócs, she recommended I add strings, which provide the ethereal quality that makes this piece truly spiritual. Upon returning this semester, I composed the first and third movements, which, together with Hope, share my entire testimony. Since this is a highly personal story, Dr. Agócs thought I should be the one to deliver the words of this message by singing the voice part. In addition, I invited several of my dear friends to help me tell this story. A big thanks to Peter, Eleanor, Inácia, and Alex for going on this journey with me!                           
    – Coco Chapman

     
    Artists
    • Coco Chapman, mezzo-soprano
    • Eleanor Markey, violin
    • Inácia Afonso, viola
    • Alex Aranzabal, cello
    • Peter Vazquez, piano
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