New Music Collective presents East Meets West February 6, 2010

For its second concert of the 2009-2010 season, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s New Music Collective welcomes a group of innovative composers and performers in a presentation of East Meets West. Juho Laitinen, cello , Oren Fader, guitar , Jon Liechty, piano and , Joanne Lin, cello will perform original works by Giacinto Scelsi, Toru Takemitsu, Jon Liechty, Michael Rose, Salih Dede Efendi, Juho Laitinen, Ton-Thât Tiêt, Param Vir and Ge Ganru.

Program:
Juho Laitinen, cello (*w/Jon Liechty on piano)
Giacinto Scelsi: Maknongan
*Toru Takemitsu: Orion
*Jon Liechty: Listen To The Lover Cry
Michael Rose: Year Zero
Salih Dede Efendi: Two melodies
Juho Laitinen: Improvisation
Ton-Thât Tiêt: Bois Terre

Oren Fader, guitar - performing Param Vir's "Clear Light, Magic Body"
Jon Liechty, piano (accompanying Juho on two pieces - see above)
Joanne Lin, cello - performing Ge Ganru's "Yi Feng"

Tickets are available online at www.bqcm.org, and may also be purchased by phone at 212-209-3370 or in person at the Conservatory.
About the Performers:
Oren Fader, Guitar
Oren Fader is highly regarded as a performer of classical guitar repertoire, both solo and chamber, traditional and contemporary. Reviewing his solo New York City recital, Guitar Review magazine stated: "His scholarship, technique, and intelligent musicianship are plainly evident and the beauty of his tone is consistently compelling". Reviewing his latest CD, "First Flight", Guitar Review noted "Oren Fader serves up a nourishing feast of new music...Fader's skill, particularly his conductor-like understanding is palpable on every track." In 2009 Mr. Fader received favorable reviews in the New York Times for three different concerts.

Joanne Lin, Cello
Cello Joanne Lin is an enthusiastic explorer of chamber music. She frequently performs with the New York-based mixed chamber ensemble Transfiguration and is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area’s conductorless New Century Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Lin has attended such festivals as Bowdoin, Musicorda, Yellow Barn, and Norfolk, studying with artists Syoko Aki, Bonnie Hampton, James Buswell, William Purvis, Andre Emelianoff, and members of the Cassatt, Tokyo and Vermeer String Quartets, among others. As a Masters student at The Juilliard School, Ms. Lin studied chamber music with Jacob Lateiner, Seymour Lipkin, Toby Appel, Jerry Grossman and Joel Smirnoff. Her piano trio was featured in an Alice Tully Hall chamber music series concert with the Brahms B Major Piano Trio, and her string quartet performed in the St. Paul’s Cathedral Chamber Music Series, New York.

Juho Laitinen, Cello
Juho Laitinen is a cellist, improviser, composer, writer, teacher and researcher. He performs music composed in the last four centuries but has lately concentrated his efforts towards 21st and 20th centuries. Mr. Laitinen performs as a soloist and chamber and orchestral musician, teaches at Sibelius Academy and Kokkola Conservatory, records for Finnish Broadcasting Company and is the editor-in-chief for online magazine Amfion.

Jon Liechty, Piano
An American composer and pianist, Liechty was born in Goshen, Indiana. At age fourteen he wrote a number of short piano pieces that were performed at the Goshen College Piano Teachers Workshop, where he gave a lecture-demonstration on aleatory compositional techniques. Soon afterwards, the string orchestra at a local junior high school premiered one of his pieces.

Liechty has appeared as a pianist in London; Brussels; New York; Chicago; Miami; Seattle; Vancouver; Atlanta; and Baku, Azerbaijan. A founding member of the Sabá Ensemble, he is heard on the CD, Sabá, Breeze of the East. He has performed at the Summer Keys festival in Maine, at the Lotus World Music and Dance Festival in Indiana, at the American Composers Alliance festival in New York City, and at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Now in its seventh 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.