"Two Songs for the Sounds Outside" by Kathleen Bader

Kathleen Bader joined Emerging Voices Project for our recent show at Minás Gallery and Boutique (Baltimore, MD). Below you can watch her talk about our commissioned piece "Two Songs for the Sounds Outside", plus a live performance from our NYC CD release show! Funded in part through New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections program.

Pre-performance talk:

 EVP premiere in NYC, from 2011:

Talk with Kathleen Bader

Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program. Before our recent Baltimore show, we got a chance to sit down with composer Kathleen Bader for an in-depth talk about her music, text writing, and love for Arizona.  Kathleen was commissioned by us for our CD project, resulting in "Two Songs for The Sounds Outside". We'll post again tomorrow to share a short talk and a performance video of her piece.

Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program.

CD anniversary: live-stream concert

Happy 1-year CD anniversary! We are streaming a concert from Zach's living room starting at 3pm. Tune in here and send us questions/comments during the show via Twitter: @ZachHerchen and @ElisabethMusik.

Program:
Adam Knauss: Portrait
George Lam: The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
Kathleen Bader: Two Songs for the Sounds Outside

If technical disastor occurs and our stream ends early, check http://www.youtube.com/user/ZachHerchen for a new stream.

EVP premiere of Kathleen Bader's "Two Songs for the Sounds Outside"

Continuing our video releases... here's Kathleen Bader's "Two Songs for the Sounds Outside"!

MetLife Creative Connections award for EVP composers

Emerging Voices Project has earned a MetLife Creative Connections award from New Music USA! Elisabeth Halliday and I will be performing works by Kathleen Bader, Amy Beth Kirsten, and George Lam in an East Coast tour this winter.  The award will support pre-concert talks by our composers, interviews, and performance videos posted to YouTube. We are very grateful to have our project "Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program"!

New Music in Hand

This weekend we received our third score and have all the music for our CD in hand! Here's the breakdown:

Adam Knauss - Portrait
-soprano and bari sax

Kathleen Bader - Two Songs for the Sounds Outside
-soprano and alto sax
-two movements: "The Stars Are Laughing" and "Hush"

George Lam, libretto by Benjamin Rogers - The Person In The Room Wishes To Be Left Alone
-soprano, alto sax, and tape
-prologue, 5 chapters, and epilogue

I'll post detailed info on each piece as we record them. Many thanks to our composers for their hard work!

106% funded!

What a busy couple of weeks! We've been blown by everyone's support and the project is now 106% funded. What's this mean for us? We will be able to commission three new pieces for voice and sax from composers Kathleen Bader, Adam Knauss, and George Lam and create a CD with their new pieces alongside Lori Laitman’s I Never Saw Another Butterfly!

This doesn’t mean that we are going to sit back a relax though. We would love to add one more composer (TBA) to the project and expand our planned CD release tour (Boston and NYC) to include cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, or a city of your choice! Here are our new funding goals:

$3,500 – We will add one more composer

$4,000 – We will expand our CD release tour

Head over to our Kickstarter page to join in supporting the project.