[Voxnovus] Contemporary Recordings with Thomas Piercy and Tengku Irfan - March 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM EST (UTC-5)

[New Voice in New Music]

Contemporary Recordings with Thomas Piercy and Tengku Irfan

March 11, 2023 at 8:00 PM EST (UTC-5)

Clarinetist Thomas Piercy and pianist Tengku Irfan will be performing 
the works of Leo Brauneiss, Jay Anthony Gach, Matthew Hetz, David Evan 
Jones, and Lawrence Kramer.

The Contemporary Recordings Project is creating a new way to produce 
contemporary works from living composers.

This live recorded virtual concert will be broadcasted on March 11, 2023 
at 8:00 PM EST (UTC-5) and can be viewed online at:

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/live/VMIo-VCSlh8

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Come join us online live!  Meet and enjoy the composers and the artists 
making music today!

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

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". 
Irfan has performed with orchestras worldwide with conductors Neeme 
Jarvi, Kristjan Jarvi, Robert Spano, Osmo Vanska, Jeffrey Milarsky, 
among others.

Leopold Brauneiss, born 1961 in Vienna, studied musicology at the 
University Vienna as well as piano and musical education and composition 
at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Jay Anthony Gach’s instrumental concert music has been critically 
acclaimed as "witty, virtuosic and accessible", "so exuberant [and] so 
characterful", "a natural crowd pleaser", "vibrant textures", and 
"multi-layered, whirling and propulsive".

Matthew Hetz is a native to Los Angeles, where he still resides. He 
began piano lessons at age sixteen.

David Evan Jones early theoretical work focused on structural 
relationships between phonetics and music and resulted in a series of 
pieces for instruments with electroacoustics. Jones has worked 
extensively in computer music, composing in residence at EMS Stockholm, 
IRCAM in Paris, and Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon 
Appleton.

Lawrence Kramer is an American musicologist and composer. His work is 
associated with the humanistic, culturally oriented New Musicology, now 
more often referred to as cultural or critical musicology. He is a 
Distinguished Professor in English and Music at Fordham University.

Contemporary Recordings is a Vox Novus project featured on the 
Composer's Voice Concert Series.

Reaching out to audiences everywhere, Commposer's Voice is a project 
dedicated to giving a composers opportunites for their music to be heard 
and empowering musicians who champion new music.

Vox Novus is a new music production and promotion company based in New 
York City.