Sentences with phrase «eighth blackbird»
The event features set elements by visual artist Max Guy and music performed by Yvonne Lam of Eighth Blackbird.
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An avid chamber musician, she has been a guest artist with ensembles such as the Emerson, Brentano, Enso, Mendelssohn, Chiara and Guarnieri string quartets, the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, 21st Century Consort, Speculum Musicae, Da Capo Chamber Players, Sospeso, New York New Music Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Da Camera of Houston, eighth blackbird, Dolce Suono Ensemble, the Ensemble Moderne, Nash Ensemble, Klangform Wien, Schoenberg - Asko, and Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Dessner's recent commissions include pieces for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland, the Grammy Award - winning Kronos Quartet, and the new music ensemble eighth blackbird, among others.
Previous winners of the Meadows Prize were Grammy - winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird and New York - based public arts organization Creative Time (2010); playwright and performer Will Power and choreographer Shen Wei, artistic director of New York - based Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011); Tony - winning playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh and choreographer Michael Keegan - Dolan, artistic director of Dublin - based Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (2012); violist Nadia Sirota and socio - political artist Tania Bruguera (2013); and choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (2014).
A free open house marking the centennial will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 22, with eighth blackbird presenting performances of a specially commissioned work by David Lang based on a text by Gertrude Stein.