A trailblazing new music group from France, Ensemble Zellig was founded by composers Hersant and Gualtiero Dazzi, along with performers Etienne Lamaison and Silvia Lenzi (appearing at this concert).
Program:
- Philippe Hersant: Cinq Miniatures for Alto Flute (1995)
- Don Freund: Crunch Time for Bass Clarinet, Cello and Piano (World Premiere)
- Philippe Leroux: PPP for Flute and piano (1993).
- Gerald Shapiro: Change and End for Clarinet and Cello (World Premiere)
- Philippe Hersant: Six Bagatelles (trans. for clarinet, cello and piano (World Premiere)
- Edmund Campion (UC Berkeley faculty composer): Auditory Fiction for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Cello and Computer (2010)
Commissioned by Mécénat Musical Société Générale
This project and the premiers benefit from the support of The French-American fund for contemporary music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Sacem, CulturesFrance and the Florence Gould Foundation; of ADAMI; FCM, Mécénat Musical Sociéte Générale, and Spédidam.