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Introducing Talea’s Interim Executive Director – Adrian Morejon
Please join us in welcoming Adrian Morejon, Talea’s Interim Executive Director! Adrian assumed the new role in December 2021 and has been a member of the Talea Ensemble as a performer since 2011. Adrian is an accomplished bassoonist and administrator and brings his depth of experiences from both on and beyond the stage to his Continue Reading »
Artist Spotlight: Oscar Bettison
Oscar Bettison, Composer Talea kicks off the 2018-19 season—Our 10th anniversary year—with its opening night as part of TIME:SPANS Festival 2018. The program is a split bill of large ensemble works by Oscar Bettison and Felipe Lara, colleagues at the Peabody Institute of Music. I sat down with Oscar during a break from rehearsal to Continue Reading »
Artist Spotlight: Maxwell Dulaney
Talea premiered Scenes 2-5 of Maxwell Dulaney’s “Already Root” in April 2018, after working in-person in residence in New Orleans. We brought the show back to New York to close our mainstage season on April 13 at St. Peter’s, alongside works by Courtney Bryan, Anna Walton, and Rebecca Saunders. Read on to learn more about Continue Reading »
Grüße aus Darmstadt
We arrived at the Frankfurt International Airport as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as jet-lagged travelers can be, looking forward to a fantastic week ahead at the International Music Institute Darmstadt. Usually packing for a tour not only involves your traditional travel items- layered clothing, sleeping masks, power outlet converters- we also need to think about concert Continue Reading »
From Russia with Love
St. Petersburg: May 2016 Beth Weisser Helgeson At the very end of May, Talea had a whirlwind trip into St. Petersburg to play at the Mariinsky Concert Hall as part of the reMusik Festival. What the trip lacked in length (we were there for just slightly less than 48 hours) was made up for in Continue Reading »
Notes to Russia
As we gear up for Talea’s Russian debut, checkout a preview by Matt Mendez. For nearly a decade now, the Talea Ensemble has been one of the principal American conduits for recent music from the Continent—vital compositional work that remains all too slow in making its way over the Atlantic, even in our age of Continue Reading »
A Seasonal Talea Tune
You know Rane and Matt Gold and David and Steve Beck, Chris Gross, Greg, Beth, Adrian, Yuki Numata Resnick**- But do you recall? The common thread of them all… Alex Lipowski founded it Along with his friend Anthony Cheung And if you ever heard them You’d say it was super fun. All of the great Continue Reading »
He’s Making His List and Checking It Twice!
Wondering if Santa’s coming down your chimney? Talea has the inside look at Santa’s list: Gave a compliment? ✔ Nice! Didn’t get your flu shot? ✘ Kinda naughty Listened to a new composer? ✔ Definitely nice! Didn’t try anything new? ✘ Not naughty, but kinda boring. Took a risk on a world premiere? ✔ Very Continue Reading »
NATURAL WAYS
Read what Hannah Duebgen, librettist from Toshio Hosokawa’s Matsukaze, says about Hosokawa’s connection to nature. Re-posted from Talea’s blog from January 2012. “When I first met Toshio Hosokawa, two things about him struck me immediately: On the one hand his life in two cultures, the Japanese and the Western world, and, along with it, his Continue Reading »
Learning Ferneyhough
This is one way of learning Brian Ferneyhough’s Incipits- graphed above by Talea violist, Elizabeth Weisser. Come out for June in Buffalo on June 5th to hear Elizabeth and Talea featured at this year’s festival!
Stockhausen
In case you missed Talea’s performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I, you can checkout a recording of the concert here. Happy listening!
Sequenza VI
Read what Talea violist, Elizabeth Weisser, says about learning and performing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VI. Then come hear her shred this Sunday, February 26th at 4 PM, at the Roger Smith Hotel! iNSIDE Out Series Negative Space: Music and Silence for One Viola Works by Ianns Xenakis, J.S. Bach, and Luciano Berio I was Continue Reading »
Get to know Donatienne
We are excited to have the fabulous Donatienne Michel-Dansac joining us from Paris very soon. Come hear her sing Bernhard Lang’s DW 16: Songbook 1 as a part of the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 10th Anniversary Series at the Bohemian National Hall on February 17th. Get to know her here first! You joined a chorus Continue Reading »
Welcome to the New Talea Site!
Welcome to the Talea Ensemble’s newly revamped website! With this digital makeover we are pleased to announce the 2011-12 season and several new features of the site itself: updated audio/video clips as well as the beginning of a regular blog series that will feature the contributions of performers, composers, and audiences. 2011-12 marks Talea’s fifth Continue Reading »
