Classic and contemporary: Baritone Jeffrey Gavett returns for Chatter concerts of modern and old works
Sep. 1—Baritone Jeffrey Gavett will return to New Mexico for three Chatter concerts in September.
Director of Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, conductor, composer, member of the new music chamber group loadbang (2008-2022), choral and church musician, Gavett is known for his performances of new music, as well as masterpieces of the past.
Gavett will appear as part of Chatter Late Works at 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, and as part of Chatter Sunday at 10:30 a.m., on Sept. 8, at 912 Third St. NW. In Santa Fe, he will perform as part of Chatter North at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail.
Called a "brilliantly agile singer" by The New York Times, he has performed with a broad array of artists, including Alarm Will Sound, ICE, Meredith Monk, New Juilliard Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, SEM Ensemble, Ensemble Signal, Talea Ensemble, and his own ensembles Ekmeles and loadbang. As a recording artist he appears on a Kairos release of the music of Chaya Czernowin with ICE conducted by Steve Schick, and conducted and music directed for Roomful of Teeth's CD, "The Colorado."
This program will include music by Harry Partch and Mick Barr, an original arrangement of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Tarkus" created by percussionist Jeff Cornelius, and the epic ...pas à pas — nulle part... for baritone, percussion and string trio by Hungarian composer Gy?rgy Kurtág, with a setting of texts by Samuel Beckett.
Gavett will also perform on that weekend's Chatter North and Chatter Sunday concerts, performing rarely heard music by the Russian composer and pioneering microtonal experimentalist Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
Composing in the 1920s in Paris, Wyschnegradsky created a haunting set of songs with texts by Friedrich Nietzsche for baritone and two pianos tuned in quarter tones. Chatter musicians Judith Gordon and Luke Gullickson will perform these parts on electronic keyboards.
The program will be rounded out by a more familiar Russian work, the Trio Elegiaque no. 1, performed by Gordon with David Felberg, violin and Felix Fan, cello.
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