CHARLES E. GAMPER

FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

The Gamper Festival features the works of of 20th century and contemporary American composers including the festival's guest composers, composers-in-residence, and students. 

2009 Dates

July 30 and August 1 & 2, 2009    

7:30pm at Studzinski Recital Hall
Suggested donation $10.00

2009 concert information will be posted in March, 2009.

The following program information is from our very successful 2008 season.

Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music

July 24, 2008

Samuel Adler

Canto VIa a scherzo for Solo Double bass   

Based on the Scherzo from Beethoven's 5th Symphony

(version for Double bass section)

Kurt Muroki & students

Erin Huelskamp

Meditation , for flute and tape – premiere

Martha Long, flute

Steven R. Gerber

"Elegy on the Name Dmitri Shostakovich"

Michael Klotz, viola

Christoper Deane

Etude for a quiet hall   

Joshua Gates, marimba

Samuel Adler

Canto XVI (2004), for Viola 6'

Michael Klotz, vla

Leonard Ball     

Promise of Sunlight (2002)

for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon

Mary Kerr, flute

Andrew Koch, oboe

Suzanne Westbrook, clarinet

David Richmond, bassoon

György Orbán

Sonata

Jia Zhang, violin

Paul Schoenfeld

Cafe Music

For Piano Trio

Amy Yi , violin

Stephanie March, cello

Tian Tian, piano

Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music

July 26, 2008

Daniel Schlosberg

Claustrophobia , for Solo Viola – premiere

TBA, viola

Richard Francis

Fantasy for Uwe, for cello and piano – premiere

Amy Gillingham, cello

Naoko Sugiyama, piano 

Steven Stucky

Piano quartet     

Muneko Otani, violin 
Rami Solomonow, viola 
Andre Emelianoff, cello
Naoko Sugiyama, piano 

Carl Schimmel

Tocororo , for 2 guitars – premiere

Colin Thurmond and Patrick Sutton, guitars

Luciano Berio

Psy , for solo Double Bass (1989)

Matthew Weber, doublebass

Sequenza II (1963), for Solo Harp

June Han, harp

Pierre Boulez

Derive I (1984)

Martha Long, flute

Kevin Schaffter, clarinet

Kirsj-Maria Alanen, violin

Casen Ross, cello

Naoko Sugiyama, piano

Josh Gate, vibraphone

Simone Fontanelli, conductor

Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music

July 27, 2008

Elliott Carter (100th birthday)

Changes (1983) 

Ricardo Iznaola, guitar

Aron Frank

Deserted Garden – premiere

Martha Long, flute

Eli Marshall

Old-Time Tunes of Brunswick – premiere

Dennis Kim and Lewis Kaplan, violins

Olivier Messiaen (100th Anniversary of Birth)

Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (1987)

Emma Tahmiziàn, piano

Béla Bartók

Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)

Stephan Hempel, violin

Terry Riley

In C

Realization by Joshua Gates

Performers TBA

Simone Fontanelli, conductor