With Exploded Ensemble and friends
Thursday, February 27, 2020
7pm-9pm
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
Free and open to the public
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble performs live in concert in collaboration with Exploded Ensemble, Pauline Kim Harris, and School of Music students. The concert will feature extended live improvisations as well as compositions by CEE members.
Sarabande – David Jaeger
For solo viola and tape
Performed by Sara Frankel
Psalm – Larry Lake
For oboe and tape
Performed by Hanna Senft
The CEE and Exploded Ensemble in rehearsal
Biographies:
Sara Frankel is a violist based out of Pittsburgh and New York. Sara is currently pursuing her BFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA studying with violist Professor David Harding. In the past, Sara has worked with artists such as Andres Cárdenes, Xian Zhang, Gerald Schwarz, Joshua Gersen, JoAnne Falleta and many more. Frankel has performed in orchestras including the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, New York Youth Symphony, the Academy Orchestra with the NJSO as well as attended festivals such as the Castleman Quartet Program, Brevard Music Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, and American Music Abroad. She is a supporter of new music and has helped to premiere works of all kinds ranging from solo to chamber and symphonic works. She has also premiered and composed electronic pieces with the Exploded Ensemble at CMU. Sara is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota and has served as her chapters social and education chairs.
Pauline Kim Harris, aka PK or Pauline Kim is a GrammyTM-nominated violinist and composer. The youngest student to have ever been accepted into the studio of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz, she has since appeared throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director. Committed to the idea that music is one continuous lineage of expression and demonstration of time, Pauline has been dismantling the norm of expectation of a typical classical violinist by performing in concerts presented in museums, churches, nightclubs, out of doors, rooftops, pop-ups to major stages with an openness to genre.Active in the experimental music scene, her work extends into interdisciplinary worlds, crossing boundaries and connecting visual art, electronics, media, film and dance to music. She has premiered and recorded works by Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, George Lewis, David Lang, Du Yun, Annie Gosfield and more.
Oboist Hannah Senft is an avid performer and teacher. She has performed with many ensembles throughout Pennsylvania and North Carolina including the Greensboro Opera, Opera Wilmington, Fayetteville Symphony, Bel Canto, Altoona Symphony, Johnstown Symphony and many school wind ensembles and orchestras. Before returning to her native state of Pennsylvania, she taught middle school band, worked with high needs youth in a non-profit organization and served as the oboe professor at UNC Wilmington. She holds Bachelor degrees in Music Education and Oboe Performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Music from UNC Greensboro and a performing certificate from UNC School of the Arts. She is currently completing a performance certificate at Carnegie Mellon University where she studies with Cynthia DeAlmeida, the principal oboe of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Exploded Ensemble is Carnegie Mellon University’s hybrid music research wing, fusing traditional orchestral performance practice with experimental, electronic, multi-media and non-Western approaches to live music performance. Its multi-sensory performances incorporate live video, computer-controlled lighting, architectural scale inflatable sculpture, wearable technology, and many other intermedia elements. Exploded concerts have received copious attention from the press and have taken them to some pretty unusual places, including hundreds of feet below the Earth’s surface. In a review of the Ensemble’s overnight concert, SNOOZEFEST, the Pittsburgh Post Gazzette described Exploded Ensemble as “one of the city’s most creative musical performance groups.”
Founded in 1971, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) is the oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world. The CEE started touring Canada in the mid-1970s, and the group had its first European tour was in 1979. In the years since, the group has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. CEE’s concerts have become a major venue for new electroacoustic works by artists from every province in Canada, as well as international artists from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. Almost fifty years after its first concert, the CEE is still at the forefront of live electronic music. Using old (and new) analog instruments, laptop computers, standard instruments, found sound, field recordings, and in fact anything electronic, they continue to cut a sonic swath through the ears of the world.
The CEE in rehearsals with Exploded Ensemble.