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"SPaNKing New Music" Oct. 22 at UW

Uncategorized | October 17, 2008

“New Frontiers: The Laramie Contemporary Music Project,” a four-day music festival including three concerts and three interactive events, will be Oct. 22-25 at the University of Wyoming.
Passport tickets, which include entry to all concerts, cost $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available by calling the Fine Arts Center box office at (307) 766-6666 or at the Web site www.uwyo.edu/finearts.


The festival will feature this year’s UW Artists-in-Residence Alaunde Copley-Woods, a flutist/composer from Boulder, Colo.; Beth Custer, a San Francisco-based composer; and Monica Demarco, a New Mexican composer, plus performances by the chamber ensemble, SPaNK and UW faculty and students. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., and will be in the UW Fine Arts Center concert hall.

The concert series opens Wednesday, Oct. 22, with “Spanking New Music,” a recital by SPANK, which includes Nicole Riner (flute), Anne Guzzo (clarinet and composer), Maureen Sorensson (soprano) and Theresa Bogard (piano).

The second concert, titled “Shiny New Chamber Music,” is Friday, Oct. 24, and includes performances by featuring Copley-Woods and Custer.

The final concert, “Great and Small,” will feature Demarco, UW Wind Ensemble Director Bob Belser and the UW Collegiate Chorale.

The festival also includes interactive discussions/workshops on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. (Fine Arts 127) and 2:10 p.m. (Fine Arts 254) and Thursday, Oct. 23, at 1:10 p.m. (Fine Arts concert hall).

Photo: The chamber ensemble SPaNK, which includes Anne Guzzo, Maureen Sorensson, Theresa Bogard and Nicole Riner, will open “New Frontiers: The Laramie Contemporary Music Project,” with a 7:30 p.m. recital Wednesday, Oct. 22
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