MARCH 25 - Nomi Epstein - Music Mansion First Fridays

88 Meeting St,Providence RI 02906

25 March, 2022

Description

Composer-performer Nomi Epstein shares an evening of solo piano music to continue The Music Mansion's 2022 First Fridays season! ** EDIT MARCH 16 ** - Postponed to March 25!!! The music of Boston-based composer Nomi Epstein centers around her interest in sonic fragility, where structure arises out of textural subtleties. Her works have been performed throughout the US and Europe working with ensembles such as SurPlus, ICE, Wet Ink, Mivos Quartet, Wild Rumpus, Dedalus, Southland, and counter)induction. In 2020, she released her first solo composer album "sounds" under New Focus Recordings including performances by Reinier van Houdt and for Collect/Project, and her ‘collections for Juliet’ was released in a compilation album by Juliet Fraser under HCR. An active practitioner and advocate of experimental music, she is the founder/director of the critically acclaimed, experimental music ensemble a•pe•ri•od•ic, in which she also performs. Her curatorial work includes large scale festivals as in the Chicago area 2012 centennial John Cage Festival, the 2014 Chicago Wandelweiser Festival, the 2017 Galina Ustvolskaya Festival, as well as experimental music concerts in the US and abroad involving guest composers from across the globe. She continues to research, write, and lecture on post-Cagean, notated, experimental music. Epstein currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music. ** LIMITED IN-PERSON TICKETS AVAILABLE ** IN-PERSON COVID PROTOCOLS: K/N95 MASKS AND PROOF OF VAX REQUIRED, NO BEVERAGES SERVED ALSO STREAMING ON MUSIC MANSION YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEzONUF94B7cSGbkAzbCRaw FULL SEASON INFO AT: http://www.musicmansion.org/2022-season.html The Music Mansion's 2022 First Fridays season is curated by Artist-in-Residence Kristina Warren. Warren is a sound artist and musician who uses a variety of self-designed and received audio tools to compose and improvise with sound. Creative interests include noise, rest, and re-imagining the "instrument" character of non-human collaborators. kmwarren.org