MUSIKOS 2024/25 SEASON
cīnēmata
Program:
The Miles Brothers - A Trip Down Market Street
Norman McLaren - Dots
featuring the Oberlin Soundpainting Ensemble
James DeLisio - Alacrity
featuring a new work by Oliver Hecht *World Premiere*
Daybreak Express - DA Pennebaker
featuring Noah Lin
Twenty Minutes of Love - Charlie Chaplin
featuring music by Antonin Servière, performed by Cendan Dillon
AYANE AND PAUL
Known for their vibrant, high-level performances and progressive programming, New York-based duo AYANE & PAUL bring a fresh perspective to the viola/cello combination via thoughtfully-crafted sonorities and inspired musicianship. The duo formed in 2014, after Ayane Kozasa commissioned Paul Wiancko to compose a work for viola and cello. The resulting piece, “American Haiku,” explored Ayane's background as a Japanese artist growing up in the United States as well as Paul's Japanese-American heritage. Over the course of the collaboration, the two discovered a musical bond and a penchant for connecting with listeners on and off the stage.
Musikos is excited to collaborate with Oberlin Chamber Music and Strings to present Ayane in Paul in a Chamber Music Masterclass and a solo Cello Masterclass!
NICK & FRIENDS
In a special guest performance, Nick Photinos presents a night of music in collaboration with longtime friends at Oberlin!
Program:
Paul Wiancko - When The Night | with Oberlin Cellists
Improv Set | with Dana Jessen
John Nordal - Duo | with Sibbi Bernhardson
Ellen Reid - Ground to Steel Dust - Uneaten | with Ross Karre
Maria Grenfel - Time Transfixed | with Yasuko Oura
Louis d’Heudieres - Laughter Studies No. 2 | with Jan Miyake
Dolly Parton/Aphex Twin - Avril 14/Light | with Oberlin Cellists
URANIA
Visit Oberlin’s Peters Observatory for immersive stargazing with music from the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Relate Arts) program!
Program:
Swells - Robin Gillespie (b. 2006)
Music 2 - Indigo Brandstein (b. 2004)
Autumn Sky - Claire O’Brocta ‘23 (b. 2001)
No Signal - Matthew Cummings (b. 2002)
Yarn - Bram Belonsky-Stern (b. 2003)
Between Stars - Henry Samra (b. 2004)
Tail of the Eye - Lincoln Domina (b. 2006)
Dreamscape - Becca Galbraith (b. 2002)
OCTÓ|OKTΩ
Musikos’ Third Annual OCTÓ|OKTΩ concert features four octets ranging from baroque, to classical, to free improv, to…. chocolate!
Program:
Marin Marais: Chaconne from Alcyone
Aurelia Lawson, traverso, Gabriel Roth and Marie Graham, violin, Holly Bogle, viola, Layla Morris and Kotomi Inaba, viola da gamba, Arielle Zakim, bass, Noah Duckwall, harpsichord
Pauline Oliveros: 13 Changes
George Rogers, saxophone, Ian McEdwards, clarinet, Hannah Stone and Daniel Knapp, cello, Jonathan Lucke and Martin Kent, percussion, Jesse Herdman, keys
inti figgis-vizueta: Music for Chocolate
Evelyn Astafiev-Holmes, Olivia Brash, Noah Duckwall, Daniel Knapp, Annika Lindholm, Hannah Stone, Olivia Wohlgemuth, Kingsley Price Wood
Dmitry Shostakovich: 2 Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
Ben Seah, Erin Koo, Matthildur Traustadóttir, Gabriel Roth, violins, William Mathangani, Holly Bogle, violas, Miles Reed, Michael Bridges, cellos
IIIIImprov
A feature performance of Oberlin’s improvisation ensembles featuring":
Oberlin Soundpainting
Oberlin Creative Music Lab
Oberlin PI Ensemble
Oberlin Jazz Ensemble
Oberlin Improvisation and New Music Collective (OINC) with Per Bloland
A Celebration for Sarah Gibson
Sarah Gibson was a Los Angeles based composer and pianist whose works draw on her breadth of experience as a collaborative performer. Her compositions reflect her deep interest in the creative process across various artistic mediums—especially from the female perspective. She has received commissions from the League of American Orchestras and the Toulmin Foundation, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Summer Music Festival & School, Grossman Ensemble, and Seattle Symphony, among others.
Musikos’ celebration of Sarah’s life will feature performances by students and faulty with music by Sarah Gibson, Caroline Shaw, and inti figgis-vizueta.