NASHVILLE’S HERALDED NEW CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, JUNE 20 & 21
Performances to Feature Music Spanning Glass’s Career, Including Work Composed for Fain
Legendary Composer’s First Appearance in Nashville Since 2007
Trailer video: http://vimeo.com/81202679
“Transcendent, technically rich and intercontinentally flavored music.”—Pitch
“Fain is one of the few soloists for whom Glass has composed solo material; asked why,
Glass answered, ‘Because he’s that good.’”—The Village Voice
OZ, Nashville’s groundbreaking new contemporary arts center, brings the legendary composer and pianist Philip Glass to Nashville for a remarkably intimate duo evening of chamber music with dynamic young violinist Tim Fain. The concert will feature compositions spanning Glass’s career, including works for solo piano and solo violin, and duos. The program includes the technically demanding Chaconne, from Glass’s celebrated Partita for Violin, written specifically for Fain and premiered as the centerpiece of Fain’s acclaimed multimedia work Portals in 2011.
An Evening of Chamber Music Featuring Philip Glass and Tim Fain offers Nashville and regional audiences a rare opportunity to experience, firsthand and at close range, one of the most influential composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, performing his own work. Concertgoers will also witness the exceptional artistry and virtuosity of Tim Fain, who is on a sharp rise of his own. Reviewing a recent performance by the duo, The Chicago Tribune wrote of the violinist’s playing, “You had to hear it to believe it. Fain was astonishing.” At OZ, the rich relationship between these artists—who first met in 2007, when Fain was the featured violinist in Book of Longing, Glass’s song cycle based on the poetry and artwork of Leonard Cohen—will be on full display.
Details
Performances will take place at 8pm. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased online at www.oznashville.com. The concert runs 80 minutes, with no intermission. OZ is located at 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle in Nashville, TN.
About Tim Fain
With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, Fain, an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning violinist, has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene. He was seen on screen and heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of the hit film Black Swan, and gives “voice” to the violin of the lead character in the film 12 Years a Slave, as he did with Richard Gere’s violin in the film Bee Season.
Fain is equally at home in virtually all genres of music. He is a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers, with a repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Corigliano. His recitals have taken him to the Ravinia Festival, the Kennedy Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camera, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, and New York’s 92nd Street Y.
He has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Mitsuko Uchida, has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s Double Aria. He has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus), guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), and appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20). A sought-after chamber musician, he has toured with Musicians from Marlboro, appeared with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performed at the Spoleto, Ravinia, and Santa Fe Festivals and continues to tour internationally in this duo-recital program with Philip Glass.
Fain made his debuts with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony, with Marin Alsop conducting, and appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hague and Mexico City Philharmonic, Maryland and Cincinnati Chamber Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center among others. Fain’s albums include Arches, River of Light and The Concerto Project IV, with the Hague Philharmonic.
About Philip Glass
Philip Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company, evolving a new musical style featuring extended repetitive structures – dubbed minimalism. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson.
Since Einstein (which had full revivals in 1984, 1992 and 2012), Glass has continued to expand his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Martin Scorsese’s Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show), while Koyaanisqatsi, Glass’s initial filmic landscape with Godfrey Reggio and the Philip Glass Ensemble, is maintained as his most radical and influential mating of sound and vision. Glass continues to compose soundtracks for films, including Visitors in 2014. Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 8—Glass’ latest symphonies—along with Waiting for the Barbarians, an opera based on the book by J.M. Coetzee, premiered in 2005. Glass’s music also continues to permeate the dance world, from performances at the Hollywood Bowl to TPAC in 2014.
Over the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty operas, eight symphonies and multiple concertos for pianos, violin, timpani and saxophone. More recently, several new works have been unveiled including Book of Longing (Luminato Festival) and an opera about the end of the Civil War entitled Appomattox (San Francisco Opera). Glass’ opera Kepler premiered with the Landestheater Linz, Austria in 2009, and his recent opera, The Perfect American about the death of Walt Disney premiered at the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2013 with additional performances by the English National Opera. His Symphony No. 9 was completed in 2011 and premiered by the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz, Austria in 2012, and his Symphony No. 10 made its European premiere in France that same year. Glass’most recent opera, Spuren de Verirrten (The Lost), premiered at the Landestheater Linz, Austria in 2013, and in the same year he completed his twenty Etudes, enjoying performances in Australia, Mexico, Iceland, Germany and California alongside fellow piano greats Maki Namekawa, Sally Whitwell and Nico Muhly. In August 2011 Glass launched the annual The Days And Nights Festival, a multi-disciplinary arts festival in Carmel and Big Sur, California.
About OZ
As the first contemporary arts institution in the region, the arrival of OZ transforms the cultural landscape of Nashville. Through a year-round program of performing and visual arts events, OZ supports the creative explorations of leading artists from around the world and inspire curious audiences of all ages. Nashville’s Ozgener family established the non-profit OZ in the building that once housed their cigar company, C.A.O. Under their leadership, OZ has been transformed into a column-free, 10,000 square-foot performance and installation venue nestled amidst artfully landscaped grounds.
In addition to presenting celebrated national and international artists, OZ serves as a catalyst for local creativity. The organization provides a platform for local artists through the monthly TNT (Thursday Night Things) series.
OZ’s first season is programmed by Artistic Director Lauren Snelling, who came to the organization following posts at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia. She has engaged the artists in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost curators, Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA and previously the Consulting Artistic Director for the Park Avenue Armory, the Artistic Director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and the Founding Executive & Artistic Director of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) and the TBA Festival (Time-Based Art) in Portland, Oregon.
For tickets and more information, please go to www.oznashville.com
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