Imagine New Music Festival comes to U of M
3/08/08
Imagine New Music Festival comes to U of M
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Imagine New Music Festival returns to the University of Memphis next week, bringing composers and performers from around the world to celebrate contemporary composition.
Composer and music professor Kamran Ince, recently returned from Istanbul, will host the Memphis premiere of his "Ambient Music Project" on Thursday.
Ince's compositions, written during his sabbatical last year, blur the distinction between popular and serious music.
On Friday, The Contemporary Chamber Players will perform new pieces by student composers.
The event culminates with a performance by the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre.
Among the works to be played by the experimental string ensemble is a composition written by the Norwegian electrofunk outfit Xploding Plastix and the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros.
2008 Imagine New Music Festival partial schedule
7:30 p.m. Thursday -- "Kamran Ince's Ambient Music Project." U of M Harris Concert Hall. Admission is free.
7:30 p.m. Friday -- The Contemporary Chamber Players. U of M Harris Concert Hall. Admission is free.
8 p.m. Saturday -- Kronos Quartet at GPAC. Program includes rearranged music by Xploding Plastix, Sigur Ros, Clint Mansell (former lead singer and guitarist of Pop Will Eat Itself), and Amon Tobin (a Brazilian electronic musician). Tickets are $38.50-$48.50.
For more information on the Imagine New Music Festival, call 678-5400 or 678-1651.
For tickets to the Kronos Quartet Concert at GPAC, call 751-7500.
-- Christopher Blank: 529-2305
