It’s that time of year again and the concerts for the 2015 June in Buffalo festival have commenced with Saturday’s concert presented by the June in Buffalo Performance Institute. This year’s composition faculty includes director David Felder, Martin Bresnick, Brian Ferneyhough, Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Harvey Sollberger, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, and Charles Wuorinen. Featured ensembles and performers include Ensemble Signal, Meridian Arts Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble, Talujon Percussion Ensemble, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Slee Sinfonietta, Heather Buck, Brad Lubman, Ethan Herschenfeld, and Irvine Arditti. A schedule of all the events is available online at http://music21c.buffalo.edu/june-in-buffalo/concert-schedule/
The Music Library is pleased to host an exhibit written and curated by Ethan Hayden, Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition. Ethan’s exhibit celebrates this year’s festival as the 30th anniversary operating under the direction of Dr. David Felder. Ethan has written a series of blog post articles about the members of this year’s composition faculty and also interviewed David Felder for this year’s festival. The exhibit draws on some of those articles (available in the Blog archive at http://edgeofthecenter.blogspot.com/2015/05/david-felder-interview.html).