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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL EVENTS
Contemporary Music Weekend
April 4-5, 2009

April 4

2:00-5:30 PM Master Classes with Chen Yi
7:30 PM Concert of the Music of Chen Yi

April 5

7:30 PM Contemporary Music Concert
Tickets are $12/15

The Portland Conservatory of Music presents a Contemporary Music Weekend with special guest composer Chen Yi, one of the most well-known modern composers in America. Chen Yi was born in China and came to the United States at the age of 33 to study composition at Columbia University. Her music has deep roots in traditional Chinese music, but shows little of the suffering that she and her family shared during Mao's Cultural Revolution.

Chen Yi's music fuses Asian and Western styles, and she has achieved tremendous success and received critical acclaim for her work. She is the recipient of numerous awards, has written music for the Seattle Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and cellist Yo Yo Ma, and has held numerous faculty positions.

During Chen Yi's residency at PCM, she will give master classes to musicians both professional and amateur who will be performing a public concert of her work on April 4, 2009 at 7:30 in the Sanctuary at Woodfords Church. The following day, April 5, PCM will present a concert celebrating all of modern music at 7:30 at Woodfords Church. We hope you will be able to attend these wonderful events that celebrate new music and its champions.


Lecture Series on Modern Music with Elliott Schwartz
Tuesdays 7:00-9:00 at PCM

Beginning in March and continuing through June 2009, composer Elliott Schwartz will give a series of monthly lectures in support of PCM's Contemporary Music Festival called "Heirs and Rebels: Four Tuesday Evenings with Twentieth Century Music."

Series Dates

Tuesday March 17
The First Fifty-Five Years, Part: I Music Between 1890 and 1920
 Pitch crises; the impact of non-Western art; a new kind of Romanticism; the century of percussion begins

Tuesday April 14
The First Fifty-Five Years, Part II:  Music Between 1920 and 1945
 The many faces of Neo-classicism; system and process; mavericks underground

Tuesday May 12
The Second Fifty-Five Years, Part I: Music Between 1945 and 1970
 The loudspeaker revolution; high modernism; chaos and order; eclectic time travel;  multi-media

Tuesday June 16
The Second Fifty-Five Years, Part II: Music Between 1970 and 2000
 Collage-quotation; space and ritual; the return of tonality; minimalists and maximalists; game-playing and puzzles

All lectures are to be held in the Woodfords Chapel at PCM. Admission is $10.