(NOTE: Chris McIntyre postponed due to weather related circumstances beyond our control.)
“Suite-ness Expanded”: Bach’s Suite No.1 in G major for cello is opened up to include works by contemporary composers from the USA, Mexico, and Italy.
Music of:
J.S. Bach
Jeffrey Stadelman (World premier)
Andrew Rindfleisch
Luciano Berio
and Mexican composers
Mario Lavista and Nicandro Tamez
Cellist/composer Jonathan Golove is a native of Los Angeles, California and a resident of Buffalo, New York, where he serves as Associate Professor in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Music. Mr. Golove’s career is marked by its versatility, sense of adventure, and commitment to the performance of both new and traditional works, as well as of improvised music. Mr. Golove has been featured as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Slee Sinfonietta, New York Virtuoso Singers, and, as a baroque cellist, with the USC Early Music Ensemble. He has recorded for the Albany, CRI, ICMC, Sunken Gong, and Nine Winds labels, and his performances and interviews have been broadcast by public radio stations of Colorado, Buffalo, and Dayton, as well as the West German Radio and Radio France. His summer festival appearances include the Sebago-Long Lake and Roycroft Chamber Music Festivals, as well as numerous festivals devoted to new works, including June in Buffalo, the North American New Music Festival, the Aki Festival of New Music, and the Festival del Centro Histórico, Mexico City. A member of the critically acclaimed Baird Trio, Mr. Golove is a former member of the Elisha and June In Buffalo String Quartets, and has performed as a guest with the Cassatt Quartet and the Cleveland Octet.
Mr. Golove is also active as an electric cellist, particularly in the field of creative improvised music. He has performed and recorded with groups including the Michael Vlatkovich Quartet, Ubudis Trio, and Vinny Golia’s Large Ensemble, and made appearances at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival (Oakland), and the International Meeting of Jazz Musicians (Monterrey, Mexico). He has also been honored to perform with such leading figures as Andrew Cyrille, Rashied Ali, Sonny Fortune, Ramón Lopez, and Andre Jaume. His collaborators in experimental electronic improvisation have included Cort Lippe, Barry Moon, and Misha Nogha.
Jonathan Golove’s original works have been performed in a variety of locations in the North America and Europe (USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and Italy), by such ensembles as the Slee Sinfonietta, VOXNOVA, the Ensemble Court Circuit, the Bozzini String Quartet, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet, Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, and The Instrumental Factor. Some of the important venues where his music has been heard are the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., Venice Biennale, Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II, the Kitchen, and the Sonic Circuits and June in Buffalo festivals. The 2004 season featured two world premieres of his chamber works at Carnegie (Weill) Hall. His opera (in progress) Red Harvest was commissioned by the European Academy of Music and received its premiere in Festival of Lyric Art of Aix-en-Provence in 1998. He has received commissions, awards and grants for his works from organizations including ASCAP, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, Meet the Composer, the Darius Milhaud Society, and the Hyde Foundation. His primary interests as a composer are the integration of music and text, the combination of electronic resources in the realm of acoustic music, and the exploration of human relationships within musical settings.