[Voxnovus] Composer's Voice features Thomas Piercy and Irfan Tengku with Jay Anthony Gach and David Evan Jones

[New Voice in New Music]

Composer's Voice featuring Thomas Piercy and Irfan Tengku
Saturday, December 9, 2023 2:00 – 2:30pm
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Saturday December 9th at 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-5) Composer’s Voice features 
Thomas Piercy and Irfan Tengku.  This episode will be presenting the 
works of composers Jay Anthony Gach and David Evan Jones.  “ELEMENTS of 
STYLE” by Jay Anthony Gach and “Daichavoza Maiko” by David Evan Jones 
are performed by clarinetist Thomas Piercy and pianist Irfan Tengku.

Jay Anthony Gach’s original concert music has been critically acclaimed 
as: “music [that]dances with charisma,” (Parterre Box), “a natural 
crowdpleaser,” (NY Newsday), “vibrant textural transformations,” 
(NYTimes), “multi-layered, whirling and propulsive,” (MinneapolisStar), 
“witty, virtuosic and accessible,” (Clarinet & SaxophoneMagazine, UK), 
“so exuberant [and] so full of character,” (SPNM New Notes, 
UK).Summarized by the composer Lukas Foss during his tenureship as 
conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, “[Gach’s] writing for orchestra 
is brilliant beyond words.” The composer Hugo Weisgall wrote of him, “a 
composer…ofextraordinary technical command and intellectual grasp of 
what music is all about.”

He has received commissions and awards in over 40 national and 
international competitions including the American Lyric Theatre Poe 
Opera Project, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Astral 
Foundation (Pew-Bandy) of New York andPhiladelphia, Frederick P. Rose 
Prize,

David Evan Jones is a composer/theorist with diverse publications in 
chamber music, chamber opera, computer music, computer-assisted 
composition, and music for Korean instruments.  Some of his theoretical 
and compositional work focuses onstructural relationships between 
phonetics and music.

His compositions have been honored by first prize awards in the Premio 
AnconaCompetition (Italy), the American New Music Consortium 
competition, and theMACRO International Composition Competition and by 
awards from Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), the Bourges Electro-Acoustic 
Music Competition (France),and the National Opera Association.

Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, 
concerto, solo and chambermusic appearances throughout the Americas, 
Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as 
"passionate," "pulling out allthe stops," "the best Piazzolla in NYC," 
and by the New YorkTimes as "brilliant," "playing with refinement and 
flair"and "evoking a panache in the contemporary works."

www.thomaspiercy.com

Malaysian-born Tengku Irfan has appeared around the world as a pianist, 
composer, and conductor, and has been praised by New York Times 
"eminently cultured" and possessing "sheer incisiveness and power".

www.tengkuirfan.com

Composer's Voice is a concert program featuring the works of living 
composers and the musicians who champion new music.

Composer's Voice airs its half-hour show every 2 weeks on Saturday at 
2:00 PM EDT (UTC-5) on NYC cable access TV with Manhattan Neighborhood's 
Network channel 2.

View on the following TV cable channels in Manhattan:

Channel 83 on RCN

Channel 67 on Spectrum

Channel 34 on Verizon FIOS
 


Watch and listen online at the following:

https://www.mnn.org/watch/channels/lifestyle-channel