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Pascal Le Boeuf
The Next Festival with Kronos Quartet (Performs "Transition Behavior" for String Orchestra)
Merkin Concert Hall At Kaufman Music Center
129 W 67th St
New York, NY 10023
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The legendary Kronos Quartet joins The Next Festival of Emerging Artists for a celebration of Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, part of a program featuring world premieres by some of today’s most adventurous contemporary voices.
Founder and Artistic Director Peter Askim leads a string orchestra of talented early-career string players in Terry Riley’s The Sands (composed for Kronos) and the world premieres of Jungyoon Wie’s Starlings, inti-figgis vizueta’s music by yourself for string orchestra, and his own new work, Songs My Mother Taught Me. The program also includes GRAMMY-winning composer Pascal Le Boeuf’s kinetic Transition Behavior and Serenade for Strings by Jan Radzyknski.
The Next Festival is dedicated to the nurturing of emerging artists with a passion for 21st-century music. Learn more at www.next-fest.org.
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
Peter Askim, Artistic Director and Conductor
Kronos Quartet, Guest Artists
TERRY RILEY – The Sands for String Quartet and String Orchestra
JUNGYOON WIE – Starlings for String Quartet and String Orchestra (World Premiere)
PETER ASKIM – New Work (World Premiere)
INTI FIGGIS-VIZUETA – music by yourself for string orchestra (World Premiere)
PASCAL LE BOEUF – Transition Behavior
JAN RADZYNSKI – Serenade for Strings
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Pascal Le Boeuf Biography
Described as "sleek, new" and "hyper-fluent" by the New York Times, Pascal Le Boeuf is an award-winning pianist-composer and electronic artist whose interests range from modern improvised music to cross-breeding classical with production-based technology. Le Boeuf's most recent awards include a 2015 New Music USA Grant, the 2015 ASCAP Foundation Johnny Mandel Prize, a 2014 Herb Alpert Young Composer Award, and a 2015 New Jazz Works Commission from Chamber Music America in collaboration with JACK Quartet. In 2012, his music was awarded "Best Electronica Song" and "Best Eclectic Song" by the Independent Music Awards for remixes of his compositions. He was also nominated for "Best Keyboardist" in the 2012 Downbeat International Readers Polls, composed music for the 2008 Emmy Award-winning movie King Lines, and won first place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition. Pascal performs and records regularly with the piano trio "Pascal's Triangle" featuring bassist Linda Oh, and drummer Justin Brown. As a keyboardist, Pascal has opened for Dangelo (Black Messiah tour), British electronic group Clean Bandit (Rather Be), and regularly performs with Australian pop artist Meg Mac. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Princeton University as a Naumburg Doctoral Fellow. Described as "sleek, new" and "hyper-fluent" by the New York Times, Pascal Le Boeuf is an award-winning pianist-composer and electronic artist.
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