New Music Collective presents CME (Contemporary Music Ensemble) March 26, 2010

Brooklyn Conservatory’s New Music Collective
Presents
Contemporary Music Ensemble

Who: CME, CUNY based Contemporary Music Ensemble
What: New Music Collective at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
When: Friday, March 26, 8pm
Where: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, 58 7th avenue, Brooklyn. NY
Cost: $15 / 10. Go to Zerve ticket services at 212.209.3370 or www.bqcm.org

Graduate Center/CUNY hosts this student-run and operated chamber orchestra known as CME (Contemporary Music Ensemble). First created as a platform for reading student compositions, the group's focus has expanded to the great literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. CME’s most recent concerts have featured works such as Copland's Appalachian Spring and Milhaud's Creation du Monde as well as the music of important living composers such as George Tsontakis and Efraim Amaya. CME has premiered over 25 students compositions and aims to put on great concerts by taking advantage of the enormous talent amongst faculty and student composers as well as interested players throughout the City University system.

This upcoming concert features vocal music by mostly CUNY faculty and students: CUNY faculty Ben Bierman, doctoral student Casey Hale and Brooklyn College alumnus Jay Vilnai as well as BQCM's own Mike Rose. The concert will be led by Joshua Feltman, CUNY doctoral student, faculty member and instructor in BQCM's program Music Partners.

Now in its sixth year, Brooklyn Conservatory’s New Music Collective commissions and premieres new music while providing a professional performance forum for New York–based composers and performers of contemporary music. Nurturing contemporary and emerging composers is essential to the advancement of music and is an integral part of the Conservatory's artistic philosophy. Past performers in the series include David Del Tredici, Lucy Shelton, Margaret Leng Tan, and more than 100 others. The series has hosted some twenty-five world premieres by many of New York City's leading composers.

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