Explore a performance showcase that features a collection of instruments and sound installations designed by students from the Musical Interfaces and Robotics class.
Join us for a presentation by George Lewis, American composer, musicologist, computer-installation artist, and trombonist.Lewis’s central areas of scholarship are exemplified by his widely read book, "A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music" (University of Chicago Press, 2008) which received the American Book Award and the American Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture Award.
Opening the concert will be Beethoven's delightful Creatures of Prometheus overture followed by Wolf-Ferrari's Idillio Concertino, featuring world renown oboist Richard Woodhams.
Featuring new music by the University of Pennsylvania’s Doctoral student composers David Acevedo, Andrew Burke, Eliana Fishbeyn, Max Johnson, Brendan McMullen, and Susanna Payne-Passmore (with collaborator Elise Mark).