Red Light New Music + Mario Diaz de Leon

Thu 16 Jun, 2011, 8pm

Red Light New Music presents a concert of music by Earle Brown, Bruno Maderna, and premieres by Scott Wollschleger and Vincent Raikhel. The ensemble, started in 2004, presents repertoire of composers that have perhaps been neglected, as well as their own music.

Mario Diaz de Leon (b. 1979 in St. Paul, MN) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. Praised by the New York Times for their “hallucinatory intensity,” his works for classical instruments and electronics have been performed in USA and Europe by ensembles such as ICE, Talea, iO Quartet, JACK Quartet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Romania’s Hyperion Ensemble. He has performed, toured and recorded in many bands as a guitarist, and currently plays guitar in Mirrorgate. He is a member of the Shinkoyo collective, founded in 2002, and has collaborated extensively with Shinkoyo members Severiano Martinez, Zeljko McMullen, and Doron Sadja. He helped run the West Nile performance space in Brooklyn (2006-2010).

Red Light New Music: Program

Cello and Piano - Earle Brown
Again Beginning - Scott Wollschleger
Viola - Bruno Maderna
Video Art - Jesse Ricke

Red Light New Music has received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Amphion Foundation, and the Argosy Foundation, among others.

Red Light Ensemble Ted Hearne, conductor Natacha Diels, flutes Eileen Mack, clarinets Kevin Sims, percussion Yegor Shevtsov, piano Caroline Shaw, violin Erin Wight, viola John Popham, cello Vincent Raikhel, artistic director Scott Wollschleger, artistic director Christopher Cerrone, artistic director Liam Robinson, artistic director

The Darmstadt Institute is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Dedalus Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council