ensemble mise-en Concert
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8PM
The FIREHOUSE SPACE
(246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY)
On Friday, February 10 at 8pm ensemble mise-en will perform a free concert at the gorgeous FIREHOUSE SPACE in Williamsburg. This concert will feature new and recent works by New York composers Elizabeth Hoffman and Yoon-Ji Lee; as well as pieces by Elizabeth Ogonek, Kaija Saariaho, and a special performance of Luciano Berio's "O King".
A brand-new project, ensemble mise-en seeks to promote large-scale composition projects and intense performances of contemporary and new music in New York City. The fifteen-plus member ensemble has the breadth of a “chamber orchestra”, but defies the associated hierarchies of power, developing collective long-term programming and performance goals that interrogate canonicity in the contemporary scene. As a collective, the multi-national personnel has coalesced around a real aesthetic agenda, crystallized in the name mise-en; "mee" in Korean, means "beauty", and "zahn", "to decorate", and the group unabashedly promotes "beautiful" artwork to increasingly diverse audiences of contemporary sounds.
This concert will present the mise-en personae in sundry combinations; ranging from Elizabeth Hoffman's "wisprs" for string quartet and electronics to Berio's "O King", featuring famed mezzo-soprano Fay Victor.
The concert is free and open to the public; audience members are invited to meet with the musicians and composers at a post performance reception. For more information, please call 646-369-9329, or visit http://www.mise-en.org or http://www.thefirehousespace.org.