Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  Oakland

Start Date:

  5/23/2013

End Date:

  5/23/2013

Start Time:

  8:00 PM

End Time:

  10:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the New Century Chamber Orchestra conclude their 2012-2013 season May 23-26 with the world premiere of String Symphony "Memoria de la Luz" by Featured Composer Lera Auerbach. An abstract exploration of past memories, String Symphony is a six movement work that blurs the boundaries between the secular and sacred. Each movement incorporates extended techniques and effects for the ensemble serving as a soul searching "prayer" connecting the listener with distant memories of the primordial light. Also featured on the program is Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Haydn's Symphony No. 45.

Lera Auerbach is the Featured Composer for the 2012-2013 Season, a program established by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in her first season as music director to commission new works for the chamber ensemble. Ms. Auerbach is the orchestra's fifth Featured Composer, following Clarice Assad, William Bolcom, Mark O'Connor, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Characterized by her stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language, composer-pianist Lera Auerbach is known for exploring a wide range of forms and genres, from opera to chamber music. A virtuoso performer, Auerbach continues the great tradition of pianist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and appears regularly at renowned venues such as the Lincoln Center in New York, Orchestra Hall Chicago and Moscow Conservatory.

Born in the city of Chelyabinsk, lying at the gateway to Siberia, Auerbach wrote her first opera at twelve years of age and moved to the USA in 1991 where she studied piano and composition at New York's prestigious Juilliard School. In addition she attended classes in comparative literature at Columbia University. Her ballet The Little Mermaid, originally commissioned by Hamburg Ballett and the Royal Danish Ballet, has been performed worldwide since its premiere in Copenhagen in 2005 and recently has received its U.S. premiere with San Francisco Ballet.

http://www.ncco.org

Location:

  First Congregational Church in Berkeley

Room:

Address:

  2345 Channing Way

Phone:

City:

  Berkeley

State/Province:

  CA