We Are Water Recording Session
Cayenna records at OVADA w/Limpet Space Race and OSJ strings
Originally intended for musicians to record at home, as the lockdown eased it became possible to bring players together in a socially-distanced manner. It was made possible by the generosity of OVADA for making their atmospheric warehouse available and the swift work of an incredible crew including: Toby Young (producer), Upcycled Sounds and Mike Hill (audio engineers), Ross Harrison and Sibohán Cox (videographers) and Paul Allen (lighting). Read more about the recording process and the piece here in this interview with Cayenna on OSJ's We Are Water webpage.
24 July 2020
We Are Water Project Launch
A Covid-era climate justice commissioning project with Limpet Space Race
We Are Water is the second in a series of water-focused climate change compositions Cayenna has commissioned from Limpet Space Race for the Orchestra of St John's. It raises awareness around global issues of water security, engaging with the research of Dr Catherine Grasham of REACH: Improving water security for the poor, an initiative let by the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. The new electro-orchestral piece interweaves orchestral strings with the bands own diy electronics and water sounds recorded by listeners from across the globe. We Are Water is funded by an Arts Council England’s Emergency Covid-19 grant. Read more about the project on the We Are Water webpage.
14 July 2020
Journey:
Bridging Cultures Through Music
With collaborator and composer Toby Young Cayenna launches the Orchestra of St John's newest project to amplify voices and break down cultural barriers through an orchestral composition project in partnership with the Oxford Spires Academy and the University of Oxford. This musical initiative brings together year 12 students with young asylum seekers and other newly arrived international students who are part of the STEP (Steps Toward English Proficiency) programme at the Oxford Spires Academy. Together, with the support of Toby, Cayenna and students from the Music Faculty's Music in the Community Course, they are tasked with exploring each other's musical heritages, sharing the journeys which have brought them together today, and discussing how music is part of their individual and collective identities. Working with musicians from OSJ and workshop leaders, the students will design a new composition for orchestra which interweaves the musical histories and identities of the group, and amplifies the voices of these creative young people within the Oxford Community. Cayenna will conduct performances of the new work with OSJ at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford, as well as at the Oxford Spires Academy. A research strand, exploring the experiences and impact of intercultural musical initiatives is embedded in the project, conducted by postgraduate students and supervised by Music Professor Samantha Dieckmann at the University of Oxford. This project is funded by the Arts Council England and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities - Read more about the project on the TORCH WEBSITE.
5 February 2020
Leverhulme Fellowship
University of Sheffield
Cayenna has been awarded a prestigious 3-year postdoctoral Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to commence in March 2021 at the University of Sheffield. The award is will enable her to research and write a book in collaboration with Afghan colleagues which charts the extraordinary history and current activities of orchestras in Afghanistan. This project builds on her long-standing relationship with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and Ensemble Zohra, the first all-female orchestra in Afghanistan, which she brought to the UK in March 2019 for a residency at Somerville College, Oxford with the Orchestra of St John's in partnership with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Harrow Council and the Embassy of Afghanistan in the UK. Cayenna will maintain her current roles as Associate Conductor of the Orchestra of St John's and the Director of Performance at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
16 May 2020
Appointed Director of Performance
St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
From October 2019, Cayenna will be Director of Performance at St Catherine's College. One of the larger colleges at the University of Oxford, Catz is home to a vibrant music community with many exceptional musical alumni including composer and clarinetist, Mark Simpson, keyboardist Jonathan Swinard, Head of Music at Garsington Opera, cellist Duncan Strachan of the Maxwell Quartet and recorder player Catherine Groom, Director of Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Music Plus Interview
Cayenna Featured in Classical Music Magazine Podcast
Cayenna spoke to internationally acclaimed journalist Chris Gunness about promoting social justice through music, and her experience of hosting the Afghan Women's Orchestra in Oxford. Listen online to the full interview.
Sounding 2020
Dreams of Peace: New voices from Afghanistan
At the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, young musicians are transforming the musical landscape of Afghanistan. This project brings the musical compositions of two extraordinary individuals, Arson Fahim and Qambar Nawshad to the US for the very first time...READ MORE... The commission will be premiered on 21 July by the GrassRoots Festival Orchestra in Trumansburg, New York, conducted by Cayenna Ponchione. Tickets to the Festival are available at the GrassRoots Festival.
July 2019
Sounding 2020 is a 5-year commissioning project dedicated to highlighting current humanitarian and environmental issues through the generation and performance of new orchestral works. It facilitates the pairing of individuals, groups or organizations interested commissioning a piece of music about a specific topic with composers, and then presents these works in concert.
Up to 10 new works (no more than two each year) will be commissioned and performed between 2016-2020 READ MORE...
After sold out concerts in Dorchester Abbey, Oxford and King's Place London, the talented poets of the Oxford Spires Academy perform at the Tandem Festival in Oxfordshire on 23 June with Sinfonia Gaia, conducted by Cayenna. The poets, Halema Malak (pictured here), Merzia Qahramany, Timmy Amusan and Ftoun Abu Keresh delivered their poetry over live orchestral 'backing-tracks' that they co-composed with composer, Toby Young in a project organised by Cayenna and the the Orchestra of St John's.
Read more about the concerts and their impact from Dr Jackie Watson, Head of Sixth-Form at the Oxford Spires Academy.
The concert also includes works by Elgar, Butterworth, Anthony Hedges and Charlotte Tetley singing Toby Young's setting of Ftoun Abu Keresh's moving poem "Doves of Damascus".
June 2019
Cayenna conducts the Clara Schumann (nee Wieck) piano concerto with Canadian pianist, Carson Becke with Oxford University's flagship student orchestra. The piece has been rarely performed since Clara Schumann's death and it is highly likely that this was the very first performance of the concerto in the iconic Sheldonian Theatre in the piece's nearly 200 year history. Written by the teenaged prodigy, the concerto is fiendishly difficult and simultaneously absolutely delightful (for listeners, that is!). The concerto is paired on the programme with Robert Schumann's Manfred Overture and Brahms Symphony No. 4.
25 May 2019 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
The first-ever all-female orchestra from Afghanistan, Ensemble Zohra, will be in residence at Somerville College, University of Oxford from the 12-19 March 2019. Organised by Cayenna, this visit is part of an enduring relationship between OSJ and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). After her visit to ANIM in August 2018, Cayenna has created a distance learning programme for students at ANIM with the musicians of OSJ and a mentorship programme between University of Oxford students and the young musicians at ANIM. Read more about Cayenna's work on the University of Oxford Arts Blog
March 2020
Cayenna will conduct the Oxford University Orchestra on their tour to Japan from the 19-26 March 2019. On the tour the orchestra will join forces with Orchestra Motif and perform at Keio University in Tokyo before heading to Fukushima to make music with the young musicians of El Sistema Japan. On the tour the orchestra will perform Japanese classic Rhapsody for Orchestra by Yuko Toyama and Grace Mason's incredible work Kintsukuroi as well as a variety of well-loved British works by Holst, Elgar and Butterworth.
March 2019
Displaced Voices is an umbrella initiative that encompasses a constellation of engagement projects which bring together school and university students with the professional musicians of OSJ, community members, refugees and asylum seekers through musical participation, and raises awareness about refugee issues in Oxfordshire through artistic expression in orchestra performance.
Two concerts, one at Somerville College and one at King's Place on the 18th and 19th of January are the culmination of a three-month project with the Oxford Spires Academy. Four refugee and migrant students from the Academy worked with composer Toby Young and Cayenna to create orchestral 'backing tracks' to spoken word performances of their own poems. The project builds on the award-winning poetry programme at the school developed by author Kate Clanchy. Three additional poems from Clanchy's edited volume of the students' poems: England: Poems from a School (Picador 2018) have been set by composers Shirley Thompson, Sadie Harrison, and Toby Young for mezzo-soprano, Charlie Tetley, and string orchestra, creating the Displaced Voices Song Set. Performances also included the Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Op. 110a, dedicated by the composer to the victims of fascism and war, and the Barber Adagio for strings.
The project also included a panel discussion at Somerville College exploring the issues facing refugees and a reception and poetry reading by the Oxford Poetry Library hosted by Open House Oxford: a public talking shop on housing and homelessness with food from the Refugee Resource Women's Group.
Read more about the concerts by Dr Jackie Watson in her open letter.
February 2019
In September Cayenna was appointed by John Lubbock, OBE, to be the Orchestra of St John's first Associate Conductor in its 50-year history. Cayenna will work alongside John to support OSJ's mission of bringing concerts of unrivalled artistic excellence to OSJ's communities with the aim of making the emotion, drama and culture of live classical music available to everyone.
Deborah Prichard
Deborah Pritchard is the next composer to be commissioned for Cayenna's 6-year commissioning project. This is an exciting addition to the existing compositions, by Nicola LeFanu, Rachel Lockwood, Kate Whitley, Solfa Carlile and William Marshall. Deborah's recent violin concerto Wall of Water was composed in response to Maggi Hambling painting of the same name and has received national attention and acclaim. The commission is scheduled to be premiered in 2021 by the Orchestra of St John's.
Cayenna has received a Fulford Non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She joins a vibrant musical team including composer and researcher Toby Young, who is director of studies for music at Somerville, Will Dawes, Director of Chapel Music and conductor Hilary Davan Wetton, Senior Music Associate.
Returning after a thunderstorm inducing performance of Beethoven 6 in 2015*, Sinfonia Gaia, conducted by Cayenna Ponchione, performs again at the Tandem Festival. This year we welcome back mezzo-soprano, Charlotte Tetley, to sing the UK premiere of 'Trying To Live' by Rachel Lockwood. 'Trying to Live' is part of the Displace Voices Project which commissions works to set the words of refugees. The programme will also feature works by Ravel, Debussy and Smyth.
Performance response visual artist Merlin Porter will lead the audience in a live artistic response during the concert.
17 June 2017
Lower Farm, Ramsden, Oxfordshire, OX7 3AZ
3.00 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.tandemcollective.org
*In 2015 the orchestra managed to invoke a thundershower by playing the last three movements of Beethoven's 6th Symphony which depicts a happy people in the countryside in the 3rd movement, an approaching and then drenching thunderstorm in the 4th movement, and the return of the sun at the beginning of the 5th movement. The weather couldn't have been more precisely choreographed to the music! We had never see so many drenched but thoroughly delighted audience members!
A Polyphony of Personalities:
With the assistance of Aara Edwards, we have collected statements from people living with mental health issues throughout Tompkins County. They were asked to express in prose or poetry what they would tell the world about their experience living with mental health if given the chance. Ithaca-based theatre artist, Camilla Schade will curate the texts into spoken word to work with music written by composer Josh Oxford.
The commission will be premiered on 23rd July by the GrassRoots Festival Orchestra in Trumansburg, New York, conducted by Cayenna Ponchione. Tickets to the Festival are available at the GrassRoots Festival.
Up to 10 new works (no more than two each year) will be commissioned and performed between 2016-2020 READ MORE...
Sinfonia Gaia
Bringing Displaced Voices to the Tandem Festival
After sold out concerts in Dorchester Abbey, Oxford and King's Place London, the talented poets of the Oxford Spires Academy perform at the Tandem Festival in Oxfordshire on 23 June with Sinfonia Gaia, conducted by Cayenna. The poets, Halema Malak (pictured here), Merzia Qahramany, Timmy Amusan and Ftoun Abu Keresh delivered their poetry over live orchestral 'backing-tracks' that they co-composed with composer, Toby Young in a project organised by Cayenna and the the Orchestra of St John's.
Read more about the concerts and their impact from Dr Jackie Watson, Head of Sixth-Form at the Oxford Spires Academy.
The concert also includes works by Elgar, Butterworth, Anthony Hedges and Charlotte Tetley singing Toby Young's setting of Ftoun Abu Keresh's moving poem "Doves of Damascus".
June 2019
Oxford University Orchestra
Clara Schumann Piano Concerto
Cayenna conducts the Clara Schumann (nee Wieck) piano concerto with Canadian pianist, Carson Becke with Oxford University's flagship student orchestra. The piece has been rarely performed since Clara Schumann's death and it is highly likely that this was the very first performance of the concerto in the iconic Sheldonian Theatre in the piece's nearly 200 year history. Written by the teenaged prodigy, the concerto is fiendishly difficult and simultaneously absolutely delightful (for listeners, that is!). The concerto is paired on the programme with Robert Schumann's Manfred Overture and Brahms Symphony No. 4.
25 May 2019 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Afghan Women's Orchestra
Oxford Residency with the Orchestra of St John's
The first-ever all-female orchestra from Afghanistan, Ensemble Zohra, will be in residence at Somerville College, University of Oxford from the 12-19 March 2019. Organised by Cayenna, this visit is part of an enduring relationship between OSJ and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). After her visit to ANIM in August 2018, Cayenna has created a distance learning programme for students at ANIM with the musicians of OSJ and a mentorship programme between University of Oxford students and the young musicians at ANIM. Read more about Cayenna's work on the University of Oxford Arts Blog
March 2020
Oxford University Orchestra
Japan Tour
Cayenna will conduct the Oxford University Orchestra on their tour to Japan from the 19-26 March 2019. On the tour the orchestra will join forces with Orchestra Motif and perform at Keio University in Tokyo before heading to Fukushima to make music with the young musicians of El Sistema Japan. On the tour the orchestra will perform Japanese classic Rhapsody for Orchestra by Yuko Toyama and Grace Mason's incredible work Kintsukuroi as well as a variety of well-loved British works by Holst, Elgar and Butterworth.
March 2019
Displaced Voices
Amplifying the Voices of Young Refugees
Displaced Voices is an umbrella initiative that encompasses a constellation of engagement projects which bring together school and university students with the professional musicians of OSJ, community members, refugees and asylum seekers through musical participation, and raises awareness about refugee issues in Oxfordshire through artistic expression in orchestra performance.
The project also included a panel discussion at Somerville College exploring the issues facing refugees and a reception and poetry reading by the Oxford Poetry Library hosted by Open House Oxford: a public talking shop on housing and homelessness with food from the Refugee Resource Women's Group.
Read more about the concerts by Dr Jackie Watson in her open letter.
February 2019
Past Projects & Events
Cayenna Appointed Associate Conductor
Orchestra of St John's
In September Cayenna was appointed by John Lubbock, OBE, to be the Orchestra of St John's first Associate Conductor in its 50-year history. Cayenna will work alongside John to support OSJ's mission of bringing concerts of unrivalled artistic excellence to OSJ's communities with the aim of making the emotion, drama and culture of live classical music available to everyone.
Water-Culture: Women's Work(s)
Deborah Prichard
Commission For Water-Culture: Women's Works
Deborah Pritchard is the next composer to be commissioned for Cayenna's 6-year commissioning project. This is an exciting addition to the existing compositions, by Nicola LeFanu, Rachel Lockwood, Kate Whitley, Solfa Carlile and William Marshall. Deborah's recent violin concerto Wall of Water was composed in response to Maggi Hambling painting of the same name and has received national attention and acclaim. The commission is scheduled to be premiered in 2021 by the Orchestra of St John's.
Junior Research Fellowship
Somerville College
Cayenna has received a Fulford Non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She joins a vibrant musical team including composer and researcher Toby Young, who is director of studies for music at Somerville, Will Dawes, Director of Chapel Music and conductor Hilary Davan Wetton, Senior Music Associate.
Sinfonia Gaia
Tandem Festival 2017
Returning after a thunderstorm inducing performance of Beethoven 6 in 2015*, Sinfonia Gaia, conducted by Cayenna Ponchione, performs again at the Tandem Festival. This year we welcome back mezzo-soprano, Charlotte Tetley, to sing the UK premiere of 'Trying To Live' by Rachel Lockwood. 'Trying to Live' is part of the Displace Voices Project which commissions works to set the words of refugees. The programme will also feature works by Ravel, Debussy and Smyth.
Performance response visual artist Merlin Porter will lead the audience in a live artistic response during the concert.
17 June 2017
Lower Farm, Ramsden, Oxfordshire, OX7 3AZ
3.00 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.tandemcollective.org
*In 2015 the orchestra managed to invoke a thundershower by playing the last three movements of Beethoven's 6th Symphony which depicts a happy people in the countryside in the 3rd movement, an approaching and then drenching thunderstorm in the 4th movement, and the return of the sun at the beginning of the 5th movement. The weather couldn't have been more precisely choreographed to the music! We had never see so many drenched but thoroughly delighted audience members!
Sounding 2020
A Polyphony of Personalities:
A commission for the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County
With the assistance of Aara Edwards, we have collected statements from people living with mental health issues throughout Tompkins County. They were asked to express in prose or poetry what they would tell the world about their experience living with mental health if given the chance. Ithaca-based theatre artist, Camilla Schade will curate the texts into spoken word to work with music written by composer Josh Oxford.
The commission will be premiered on 23rd July by the GrassRoots Festival Orchestra in Trumansburg, New York, conducted by Cayenna Ponchione. Tickets to the Festival are available at the GrassRoots Festival.
Sounding 2020 is a 5-year commissioning project dedicated to highlighting current humanitarian and environmental issues through the generation and performance of new orchestral works. It facilitates the pairing of individuals, groups or organizations interested commissioning a piece of music about a specific topic with composers, and then presents these works in concert.
Up to 10 new works (no more than two each year) will be commissioned and performed between 2016-2020 READ MORE...
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloists:
Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin and Elizabeth Simkin, cello
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 23th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
This year's programme celebrates the diversity of humanity through the premiere of Sounding 2020's newest commission for the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County (see more information above) and a programme featuring the music of some of histories more colorful composers.
Schumann: 'Manfred' Overture
Smyth: Serenade in D, mvt 1
Oxford, Josh: A Polyphony of Personalities
Brahms: Double Concerto, mvt 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Scherzo
Cayenna has been awarded a three-year postdoctoral position as a Research Assistant on the AHRC funded research project, Transforming 19th-Century Historically Informed Performance. She will work in collaboration with Principal Investigator, Claire Holden, Co-principal Investigator, Professor Eric Clarke, and Research Assistant, Marten Noorduin. The project explores the way in which musicians rehearsed and interacted with each other in the 19th Century. 
Cayenna returns to conduct the Oxford Sinfonia this spring in a concert which features the works of composers whose works were deeply inspired by nature and a sense of place. The programme will feature Nielsen's less frequently performed 6th Symphony alongside Copland's hallmark composition, Appalachian Spring. The orchestral version of Guy Woolfenden's Divertimento is performed in memory of the composer who passed in the last year. 8 April 2017
St Mary's University Church, Oxford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.oxfordsinfonia.co.uk
At the invitation of music director John Lubbock, Cayenna will conduct the Orchestra of St John's in the world premier of Nicola LeFanu's newest work for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, May Rain, on 16th May as part of the orchestra's Ashmolean Museum Proms series. LeFanu was commissioned by Cayenna Ponchione and Graeme Bailey as part of Cayenna's on-going project Water-Culture: Women's Work(s), an initiative which works to raise awareness about global water scarcity through the commissioning and performance of new works by women composers and writers. Mezzo-soprano, Charlotte Tetley, will perform LeFanu's composition alongside previous Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) commissions by Kate Whitley, Rachel Lockwood and Solfa Carlile. May Rain is a setting of Kerry Hardie's poem of the same name and will be performed in the presence of the composer, honouring LeFanu's 70th birthday year. The concert will also feature works by Ibert, Milhaud and Ravel conducted by John Lubbock. 16 May 2017
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.osj.org.uk
Cayenna will conduct the Bournemouth based, Magna Sinfonia, in a concert featuring Sibelius Symphony No. 1, Copland Appalachian Spring, and the premiere performance of the orchestral version of Samuel's This Precious Earth. Cayenna premiered the original chamber version of This Precious Earth in the Holywell Music Room in March 2016 with her ensemble, Sinfonia Adesso. This piece by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel explores the joys as well as the sorrows of life on this precious planet. Paired with the Earth inspired works of Sibelius and Copland, this programme celebrates the connection between human life and our natural environment.
4 February 2017
St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
7.00 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.magnasinfonia.org
Cayenna conducted the City of Southampton Orchestra in a concert featuring Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. She was joined by pianist Ashok Gupta for the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2.
12 November 2016
Thornden Hall, Chandler's Ford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: http://www.csorchestra.org,
The Utari Percussion Duo with internationally renowned percussion artist, Haruka Fujii and her sister Rika Fujii, recorded the latest version of Cayenna's percussion duet, Rumble-Stiltskins for their debut album UTARI to be released spring 2015 from ALM Records.
Scored for two 5.0 marimbas and two pairs of bongos, this virtuosic piece has showcases the incredible talents of these two start performers.
Multi-percussionist Haruka Fujii has become one of the most prominent solo percussionists and marimbists of her generation. She has won international acclaim for her interpretations of contemporary music, having performed premieres of works from composers including Tan Dun, Nico Muhly, Joji Yuasa, and Maki Ishii. Since 2010 Ms. Fujii has performed as a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, joining Mr. Ma and a group of international musicains for several tours. She has frequently collaborated with composer Tan Dun, performing his Water Percussion Concerto... READ MORE 
Commission fulfilled! In lightning speed, composer, Kathleen Ballantyne, and poet, Melissa Tuckey have collaborated on a new work for orchestra and mezzo soprano to promote the work of We Are Seneca Lake, a grassroots campaign working to keep Texas-based oil company Crestwood Bidstream from exploiting the land around Seneca Lake for the storage of fracked gas products (read more on their website.
The commission is supported by 31 generous backers who pledged to Sounding 2020s first Kickstarter campaign earlier this spring. The piece will be performed and recorded by the GrassRoots Festival Orchestra on Sunday, 24 July at the GrassRoots Festival. Track the process of the project on the Facebook page. READ MORE...
Cayenna has been awarded a grant from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy for the commission of a new work by Rachel Lockwood as part of the composer's Displaced Voices commissioning project. Rachel will set the words of UK refugees for voice and chamber orchestra. The GrassRoots Festival Orchestra will premiere the work on 24 July 2016 at the GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg, New York.
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloists:
John Paul Tobin, viola and Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 24th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Programme to include premieres from the Displaced Voices commissioning project (Rachel Lockwood, composer) and Sounding 2020's We Are Seneca Lake commissioning project (Kathleen Ballantyne composer and Melissa Tuckey, poet). The concert has been supported in part by a grant from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy which supports the performance of Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata by John Paul Tobin and the commissioning of the Displaced Voices project. Scroll down for more information about these exciting new music projects!
Also on the programme will be works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Butterworth.
This conference will explore issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology as well as from practitioners. The tripartite aims of the conference will be to engage researchers and practitioners in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.
Organized by the Oxford Conducting Institute, the committee members include Dr John Traill, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford; Dr Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music; Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford; and Benjamin Loeb, Executive Director, Quad City Symphony Orchestra.
Please visit the conference website for information about the programme and registration or the Facebook page: OCI Conducting Studies Conference. For more details you can also email: oci.conference.info@gmail.com
Cayenna will present on the embodied process of orchestral performance at the Performing Knowledge Conference at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on 26th April. View or download the abstract here.
Monday, 7 March 2016, 6.30/7.00pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Sponsored by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Daniel Grimwood, piano
Madeleine Easton, violin
Roderick Morris, counter tenor
Sinfonia Addesso, Cayenna Ponchione, music director
6.30 Pre-concert discussion with Nicola LeFanu and Rhian Samuel
7.00pm CONCERT
Elisabeth Lutyens: Driving out the Death
Nicola LeFanu: La Cancion de la Luna
Lili Boulanger: D'un Matin de Printemps
Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
Rhian Samuel: On This Precious Earth (World Premiere)
Germaine Tailleferre: Concerto pour Piano et 12 Instruments
Admission is free of charge, but seating is limited (so come early!).
Celebrating the achievements of women composers over the past 100 years, this concert dares to exhale the optimism of a new season in a passage from darkness to light. Performing a mixture of small and large ensemble pieces internationally recognised soloists, Daniel Grimwood, Madeline Easton and Roderick Morris, will be joined by Sinfonia Adesso and conductor Cayenna Ponchione.
Welsh composer Rhian Samuel's new composition for large ensemble has been specially commissioned for this concert. The concert will culminate with the premiere performance of the original orchestration of Tailleferre's Piano Concerto No. 1, reconstructed from the manuscript held at the Library of Congress.
Saturday, 19 March 2016, 7.30pm
Thornden Hall, Chandlers Ford
Featuring Joint Venture Percussion Duo
Dvorak: In Nature's Realm
Sejourne: Double Percussion Concerto for Marimba, Vibes and Orchestra
Sibelius: Symphony no. 6
Traill: Double Percussion Concerto (new commission)
As part of Cayenna's ongoing commitment to bringing environmental concerns to the concert stage through programming and the commissioning of new works, this concert features the compositions of composers whose music was profoundly influenced by nature. The new work by John Traill has been written specifically for the Joint Venture Percussion Duo as part of a larger project which engages students with environmental issues through musical outreach programs.
Cayenna is one of five women conductors to be selected to participate in an exclusive conducting masterclass with Maestra Marin Alsop and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London on Saturday 5 December.
The Ithaca College Alumni Magazine, IC View, features Cayenna in an article about her doctoral research at the University of Oxford and her visit to Ithaca College in May 2015 to conduct her composition Consecration for 20 percussionists and saxophone quartet, with the Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble and Steve Mauk's graduate student saxophone quartet. Read the article HERE.
Saturday, 21 November 2015, 8.15pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Ireland: Threnody from Concertino Pastorale (1939)
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (1914/1919), Alycia Jewes, violin
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Dvorak: Mass in D, Op. 86
Roman Z. Novak, conductor
In a concert that commemorates the contributions of Czech pilots to the Royal Air Force during WWII, the Hlahol Choir visiting from Prague performs with the Christ Church Orchestra.
Cayenna presented a paper The Authorship of Orchestral Performance on Friday 8 October in the Salle Stravinsky at IRCAM in Paris as part of Tracking the Creative Process in Music Conference 2015. The paper explored her research to-date on orchestral creativity and offered a provisional framework for understanding the distribution of agency during orchestral performance. View or download the abstract here.
Invited by Eriberto Eulisse, director of Centro Internazionale Civilta dell'Acqua and 'Visualizing Water Worlds', Cayenna Ponchione and Gail Holst-Warhaft took part in a press-conference featuring the Art, Science & the Thirsty World video. Gail presented a paper which called for an interdisciplinary approach to addressing water scarcity issues in the Mediterranean which was followed by a screening of the video and a question and answer session with the audience. The panel included Professor Carlo Giupponi, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia and was moderated by journalist Paola Pastacaldi. 
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloist:
Augusto Diemecke, violin and Paige Morgan, English horn
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
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Saturday, 20 June 2015, 2pm
Hill End, Oxford
Featuring soloists
Madeleine Easton, violin
Charlotte Tetley, mezzo-soprano
Sinfonia Gaia is a newly founded orchestra by Cayenna which is dedicated to raising awareness of environmental and humanitarian issues through innovative programming, commissioning, and collaborations with artists and organizations.
The debut performance by Sinfonia Gaia will take place at the Tandem Festival (19th-21st June), an Arts and Environmental festival at Hill End, just outside of Oxford.
The concert will consist of music by composers who were significantly inspired by their natural surroundings, highlighting the impact of climate change on these now disappearing landscapes. Australian violinist, Madeleline Easton, will perform Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending and mezzo soprano Charlotte Tetley will perform several of the Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) songs Cayenna has been commissioning since 2012. Sinfonia Gaia will give the UK premiere of Transeki by South African composer, Antoni Schonken.
Sunday, 3 May 2015, 2pm
Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
Cayenna's newest composition for large percussion ensemble was commissioned by Julie Hill and the University of Tennessee-Martin Percussion Ensemble for the opening of their new music building in 2013. Consecration: dedication or devotion to some cherished purpose or pursuit is scored for 20 percussionists and saxophone quartet and includes the deployment of 20 tambourines...
Returning to her alma mater after 10 years, this concert marks the first time the composer conducted her newest percussion ensemble composition which was Webcast live from Ford Hall at Ithaca College. The webcast is still available online.
Friday and Saturday, 7-8 March 2015
Wadham College, Oxford
In collaboration with Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack, Emily Payne and Adam Harper, Cayenna organized and hosted this pair of study days which explored issues surrounding the notion of 'authorship' in relation to different kinds of engagement with music across cultures and genres and from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives including musicology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.
Cayenna's own paper, 'Attributing Creative Authorship in Orchestral Performance', offered a theoretical perspective on the subject while providing insights through data collected from orchestral musicians on their experiences during specific rehearsal and performance contexts using an innovative online research interface.
Featuring:
Charlotte Tetley, contralto
Solfa Carlile's Little River, the most recent commission from Water-Culture: Women's work(s)
Building on the Art, Science, & Thirsty World conferences (University of Oxford, June 2014 and Cornell University, November 2014), and her continuing work on Water-Culture: Women's work(s) Cayenna has curated a concert which explores musical waterscapes through the lenses of imaginative composers and poets over the past two centuries.
CONCERT PROGRAMME
Butterworth: On the Banks of Green Willow
Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) Song Set
Lockwood: At the Falls
Carlile: Little River WORLD PREMIERE
Whitley: Flood Days
Smetana: Vltava from Ma Vlast
Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden Concert Overture
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Saturday, 24 January 2015, 8pm
St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford
This holiday concert features a range of festive music intermixed with some American classic tunes to bookend the interval which will be filled with mince pies and mulled wine!
Sunday, 14 December 2014, 7:30pm
St Mary's Church, Kidlington
Internationally renowned percussion artist, Haruka Fujii and her duo partner Rika Fujii, record the latest version of Cayenna Ponchione's percussion duo Rumble-Stiltskins for their debut album UTARI to be released spring 2015 from ALM Records.
Scored for two 5.0 marimbas and two pairs of bongos, this virtuosic piece has showcases the incredible talents of these two start performers.
Multi-percussionist Haruka Fujii has become one of the most prominent solo percussionists and marimbists of her generation. She has won international acclaim for her interpretations of contemporary music, having performed premieres of works from composers including Tan Dun, Nico Muhly, Joji Yuasa, and Maki Ishii. Since 2010 Ms. Fujii has performed as a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, joining Mr. Ma and a group of international musicains for several tours. She has frequently collaborated with composer Tan Dun, performing his Water Percussion Concerto... READ MORE
Featuring:
Daniel Grimwood, piano
The Soloist of the Oxford Philomusica
The Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 16bis is one of the rarely heard jewels of the romantic era.
Saturday, 23 November 2014, 7pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
A new festival marking a collaboration between Banco Santander, the University of Oxford, and the Conservatorio Provincial Luis Gianneo, Voice of Argentina presents the exciting music and ideas of living and expat Argentine composers. Created by composers Eugene Birman and Luis Tenaglia, Voice of Argentina is the first trans-continental festival of Argentine new music and the first to examine the historic and cultural inspiration behind both well-known and emerging composers of the 21st century.
Saturday, 15 November 2014, 8pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
7-8 November, Cornell University
This innovative two-day interdisciplinary conference brings together graduate students from across continents and disciplines. It proposes a critical exploration of interdisciplinary practice through collaborative presentations and performances, while facilitating dialogue between researchers and practitioners in the arts and environmental sciences in order to foster creative, innovative and trans-disciplinary discussions about water scarcity solutions.
What and where is the art and environmental science nexus and how is it relevant? In what way can we leverage these diverse ways of knowing and engaging to cooperatively address the water crisis?
Twelve students at Oxford and Cornell University in faculties of the arts, environmental sciences and engineering, have been put into teams and have been working on creative collaborative projects over the course of several months. The teams presented their work-in-progress at the conference on the 30th of June in Oxford and their final projects will be presented on the 7th and 8th of November at the conference at Cornell University.
"One of Ireland's most exciting young composers" Solfa Carlile is the most recent up-and-coming woman composer to have been commissioned as part of this multi-year project.
Carlile will write a piece for solo mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra using the text of a traditional Greek children's song, 'Where are you from Little River?'. Popular Greek folk singer, Mariza Koch, used this song to teach children about the value of their threatened natural resource on a tour through rural Greece with a an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University.
The premiere for piano and voice will take place in Barnes Hall, Cornell University on 7 November at 8pm as part of the 2nd Art, Science, & the Thirsty World conference.
The orchestral premiere will be performed by Oxford Sinfonia in St Mary the Virgin, University of Oxford on 24th January, 8pm, with Cayenna Ponchione conducting.
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin and Alex Shuhan, horn
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
9:30 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Mozart: Marriage of figaro Overture
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, 'Dance of the Knights' & 'Romeo and Juliet before Parting'
Beethoven: Romance in F, Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin
Strauss, R: Horn Concerto in Eb, Alex Shuhan, horn
Strauss, J: An der schonen blauen Donau
Puryear, arr. Hyman: Mystic Water
Featuring:
Alexander Ullman, piano
The Mozart Requiem, with the Magdalen College Choir and Daniel Hyde, conductor
The premiere of Solfa Carlile's Ithaca
Saturday, 22 February 2014, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Carlile: Ithaca World Premiere
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Mozart: Requiem
Featuring:
Becky Lu, piano ~ winner of the 2013 OUPhil Concerto Competition
And the premiere of one of the two winners of the OUPhil Composition Contest by composer, Maria Kallionpaa
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music After the Great War
Kallionpaa: El Canto de la Guerra World Premiere
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 3 The Pastorale
Past Conference:
Hosted by Cayenna Ponchione and Emily Payne
Featuring the premiere of one of the two winners of the OUPhil Composition Contest by composer,Toby Young
In collaboration with the Oxford University Student Chorus, Jacob Swindells, conductor
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music During the War
Young: Slow Down World Premiere
Elgar: For the Fallen from The Spirit of England
Holst: The Planets
Up to 10 new works (no more than two each year) will be commissioned and performed between 2016-2020 READ MORE...
GrassRoots Festival Orchestra
CONCERT: A Polyphony of Personalities
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloists:
Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin and Elizabeth Simkin, cello
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 23th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
This year's programme celebrates the diversity of humanity through the premiere of Sounding 2020's newest commission for the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County (see more information above) and a programme featuring the music of some of histories more colorful composers.
Schumann: 'Manfred' Overture
Smyth: Serenade in D, mvt 1
Oxford, Josh: A Polyphony of Personalities
Brahms: Double Concerto, mvt 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Scherzo
Transforming 19th-Century Historically Informed Performance
Cayenna has been awarded a three-year postdoctoral position as a Research Assistant on the AHRC funded research project, Transforming 19th-Century Historically Informed Performance. She will work in collaboration with Principal Investigator, Claire Holden, Co-principal Investigator, Professor Eric Clarke, and Research Assistant, Marten Noorduin. The project explores the way in which musicians rehearsed and interacted with each other in the 19th Century.
Oxford Sinfonia Concert
Woolfenden, Copland and Nielsen
Cayenna returns to conduct the Oxford Sinfonia this spring in a concert which features the works of composers whose works were deeply inspired by nature and a sense of place. The programme will feature Nielsen's less frequently performed 6th Symphony alongside Copland's hallmark composition, Appalachian Spring. The orchestral version of Guy Woolfenden's Divertimento is performed in memory of the composer who passed in the last year. 8 April 2017
St Mary's University Church, Oxford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.oxfordsinfonia.co.uk
Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) Newest Commission
Nicola LeFanu: May Rain
At the invitation of music director John Lubbock, Cayenna will conduct the Orchestra of St John's in the world premier of Nicola LeFanu's newest work for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, May Rain, on 16th May as part of the orchestra's Ashmolean Museum Proms series. LeFanu was commissioned by Cayenna Ponchione and Graeme Bailey as part of Cayenna's on-going project Water-Culture: Women's Work(s), an initiative which works to raise awareness about global water scarcity through the commissioning and performance of new works by women composers and writers. Mezzo-soprano, Charlotte Tetley, will perform LeFanu's composition alongside previous Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) commissions by Kate Whitley, Rachel Lockwood and Solfa Carlile. May Rain is a setting of Kerry Hardie's poem of the same name and will be performed in the presence of the composer, honouring LeFanu's 70th birthday year. The concert will also feature works by Ibert, Milhaud and Ravel conducted by John Lubbock. 16 May 2017
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.osj.org.uk
Cayenna Conducts Sibelius, Copland and Samuel
Magna Sinfonia
Cayenna will conduct the Bournemouth based, Magna Sinfonia, in a concert featuring Sibelius Symphony No. 1, Copland Appalachian Spring, and the premiere performance of the orchestral version of Samuel's This Precious Earth. Cayenna premiered the original chamber version of This Precious Earth in the Holywell Music Room in March 2016 with her ensemble, Sinfonia Adesso. This piece by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel explores the joys as well as the sorrows of life on this precious planet. Paired with the Earth inspired works of Sibelius and Copland, this programme celebrates the connection between human life and our natural environment.
4 February 2017
St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
7.00 pm
For more information and tickets visit: www.magnasinfonia.org
Cayenna Conducts Bartok and Britten
City of Southampton Orchestra
Cayenna conducted the City of Southampton Orchestra in a concert featuring Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. She was joined by pianist Ashok Gupta for the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2.
12 November 2016
Thornden Hall, Chandler's Ford
7.30 pm
For more information and tickets visit: http://www.csorchestra.org,
Rumble-Stiltskins to be released by ALM Records
The Utari Percussion Duo with internationally renowned percussion artist, Haruka Fujii and her sister Rika Fujii, recorded the latest version of Cayenna's percussion duet, Rumble-Stiltskins for their debut album UTARI to be released spring 2015 from ALM Records.
Scored for two 5.0 marimbas and two pairs of bongos, this virtuosic piece has showcases the incredible talents of these two start performers.
Multi-percussionist Haruka Fujii has become one of the most prominent solo percussionists and marimbists of her generation. She has won international acclaim for her interpretations of contemporary music, having performed premieres of works from composers including Tan Dun, Nico Muhly, Joji Yuasa, and Maki Ishii. Since 2010 Ms. Fujii has performed as a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, joining Mr. Ma and a group of international musicains for several tours. She has frequently collaborated with composer Tan Dun, performing his Water Percussion Concerto... READ MORE
Sounding 2020
We Are Seneca Lake Commissioning Project
Commission fulfilled! In lightning speed, composer, Kathleen Ballantyne, and poet, Melissa Tuckey have collaborated on a new work for orchestra and mezzo soprano to promote the work of We Are Seneca Lake, a grassroots campaign working to keep Texas-based oil company Crestwood Bidstream from exploiting the land around Seneca Lake for the storage of fracked gas products (read more on their website.
The commission is supported by 31 generous backers who pledged to Sounding 2020s first Kickstarter campaign earlier this spring. The piece will be performed and recorded by the GrassRoots Festival Orchestra on Sunday, 24 July at the GrassRoots Festival. Track the process of the project on the Facebook page. READ MORE...
Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Grant
For Promoting Women Composers
Cayenna has been awarded a grant from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy for the commission of a new work by Rachel Lockwood as part of the composer's Displaced Voices commissioning project. Rachel will set the words of UK refugees for voice and chamber orchestra. The GrassRoots Festival Orchestra will premiere the work on 24 July 2016 at the GrassRoots Festival in Trumansburg, New York.
GrassRoots Festival Orchestra
PAST CONCERT
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloists:
John Paul Tobin, viola and Ivy Walz, mezzo-soprano
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 24th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Programme to include premieres from the Displaced Voices commissioning project (Rachel Lockwood, composer) and Sounding 2020's We Are Seneca Lake commissioning project (Kathleen Ballantyne composer and Melissa Tuckey, poet). The concert has been supported in part by a grant from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy which supports the performance of Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata by John Paul Tobin and the commissioning of the Displaced Voices project. Scroll down for more information about these exciting new music projects!
Also on the programme will be works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Butterworth.
Oxford Conducting Institute Conducting Studies Conference
24-26 June 2016
St Anne's College, University of Oxford
This conference will explore issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology as well as from practitioners. The tripartite aims of the conference will be to engage researchers and practitioners in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.
Organized by the Oxford Conducting Institute, the committee members include Dr John Traill, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford; Dr Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music; Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford; and Benjamin Loeb, Executive Director, Quad City Symphony Orchestra.
Please visit the conference website for information about the programme and registration or the Facebook page: OCI Conducting Studies Conference. For more details you can also email: oci.conference.info@gmail.com
Cayenna gives paper at the Performing Knowledge Conference in Cambridge
The Body Orchestral
Cayenna will present on the embodied process of orchestral performance at the Performing Knowledge Conference at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on 26th April. View or download the abstract here.
D'un Matin de Printemps
Concert in Celebration of International Women's Day
Monday, 7 March 2016, 6.30/7.00pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Sponsored by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Daniel Grimwood, piano
Madeleine Easton, violin
Roderick Morris, counter tenor
Sinfonia Addesso, Cayenna Ponchione, music director
6.30 Pre-concert discussion with Nicola LeFanu and Rhian Samuel
7.00pm CONCERT
Elisabeth Lutyens: Driving out the Death
Nicola LeFanu: La Cancion de la Luna
Lili Boulanger: D'un Matin de Printemps
Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
Rhian Samuel: On This Precious Earth (World Premiere)
Germaine Tailleferre: Concerto pour Piano et 12 Instruments
Admission is free of charge, but seating is limited (so come early!).
Celebrating the achievements of women composers over the past 100 years, this concert dares to exhale the optimism of a new season in a passage from darkness to light. Performing a mixture of small and large ensemble pieces internationally recognised soloists, Daniel Grimwood, Madeline Easton and Roderick Morris, will be joined by Sinfonia Adesso and conductor Cayenna Ponchione.
Welsh composer Rhian Samuel's new composition for large ensemble has been specially commissioned for this concert. The concert will culminate with the premiere performance of the original orchestration of Tailleferre's Piano Concerto No. 1, reconstructed from the manuscript held at the Library of Congress.
Cayenna Conducts the City of Southampton Orchestra
Saturday, 19 March 2016, 7.30pm
Thornden Hall, Chandlers Ford
Featuring Joint Venture Percussion Duo
Dvorak: In Nature's Realm
Sejourne: Double Percussion Concerto for Marimba, Vibes and Orchestra
Sibelius: Symphony no. 6
Traill: Double Percussion Concerto (new commission)
As part of Cayenna's ongoing commitment to bringing environmental concerns to the concert stage through programming and the commissioning of new works, this concert features the compositions of composers whose music was profoundly influenced by nature. The new work by John Traill has been written specifically for the Joint Venture Percussion Duo as part of a larger project which engages students with environmental issues through musical outreach programs.
Conducting Masterclass with Maestra Marin Alsop and the BBC Concert Orchestra
Saturday 5 December
Cayenna is one of five women conductors to be selected to participate in an exclusive conducting masterclass with Maestra Marin Alsop and the BBC Concert Orchestra in London on Saturday 5 December.
IC View Article
The Ithaca College Alumni Magazine, IC View, features Cayenna in an article about her doctoral research at the University of Oxford and her visit to Ithaca College in May 2015 to conduct her composition Consecration for 20 percussionists and saxophone quartet, with the Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble and Steve Mauk's graduate student saxophone quartet. Read the article HERE.
Christ Church Orchestra
Commemorating WWII Czech Air Pilots
Saturday, 21 November 2015, 8.15pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Ireland: Threnody from Concertino Pastorale (1939)
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (1914/1919), Alycia Jewes, violin
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Dvorak: Mass in D, Op. 86
Roman Z. Novak, conductor
In a concert that commemorates the contributions of Czech pilots to the Royal Air Force during WWII, the Hlahol Choir visiting from Prague performs with the Christ Church Orchestra.
Cayenna gives paper at IRCAM
The Authorship of Orchestral Performance
Cayenna presented a paper The Authorship of Orchestral Performance on Friday 8 October in the Salle Stravinsky at IRCAM in Paris as part of Tracking the Creative Process in Music Conference 2015. The paper explored her research to-date on orchestral creativity and offered a provisional framework for understanding the distribution of agency during orchestral performance. View or download the abstract here.
ASTW featured in press-conference in Venice
Invited by Eriberto Eulisse, director of Centro Internazionale Civilta dell'Acqua and 'Visualizing Water Worlds', Cayenna Ponchione and Gail Holst-Warhaft took part in a press-conference featuring the Art, Science & the Thirsty World video. Gail presented a paper which called for an interdisciplinary approach to addressing water scarcity issues in the Mediterranean which was followed by a screening of the video and a question and answer session with the audience. The panel included Professor Carlo Giupponi, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia and was moderated by journalist Paola Pastacaldi.
Art, Science, & the Thirsty World
IN VENICE!
Art, Science & the Thirsty World is now in Venice, Italy as part of a video installation "Visualizing Water Worlds", Venice Arsenale Tesa 105. This is a project implemented by Comune di Venezia and Centro Internazionale Civilta dell'Acqua Onlus with the participation of UNESCO Venice Office, supported by the Eulabor Institute.
View the video online here.
Art, Science & the Thirsty World was an interdisciplinary conference project between the University of Oxford and Cornell University organized by Oxford graduate students Cayenna Ponchione (Music), Jessica Thorn (Biodiversity) and Benedict Morrison (Film) in collaboration with Cornell Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft (Comparative Literature and Biological and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies Mediterranean Initiative). The conference cast together academics in the arts and the sciences to pursue...READ MORE...
Video Installation
IN VENICE!
Art, Science & the Thirsty World is now in Venice, Italy as part of a video installation "Visualizing Water Worlds", Venice Arsenale Tesa 105. This is a project implemented by Comune di Venezia and Centro Internazionale Civilta dell'Acqua Onlus with the participation of UNESCO Venice Office, supported by the Eulabor Institute.
View the video online here.
Art, Science & the Thirsty World was an interdisciplinary conference project between the University of Oxford and Cornell University organized by Oxford graduate students Cayenna Ponchione (Music), Jessica Thorn (Biodiversity) and Benedict Morrison (Film) in collaboration with Cornell Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft (Comparative Literature and Biological and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies Mediterranean Initiative). The conference cast together academics in the arts and the sciences to pursue...READ MORE...
GrassRoots Festival Orchestra
Past Concert
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Soloist:
Augusto Diemecke, violin and Paige Morgan, English horn
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
READ MORE...
Cayenna conducts Sinfonia Gaia at the Tandem Festival
The 2 degree Challenge
Past Concert
Saturday, 20 June 2015, 2pm
Hill End, Oxford
Featuring soloists
Madeleine Easton, violin
Charlotte Tetley, mezzo-soprano
Sinfonia Gaia is a newly founded orchestra by Cayenna which is dedicated to raising awareness of environmental and humanitarian issues through innovative programming, commissioning, and collaborations with artists and organizations.
The debut performance by Sinfonia Gaia will take place at the Tandem Festival (19th-21st June), an Arts and Environmental festival at Hill End, just outside of Oxford.
The concert will consist of music by composers who were significantly inspired by their natural surroundings, highlighting the impact of climate change on these now disappearing landscapes. Australian violinist, Madeleline Easton, will perform Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending and mezzo soprano Charlotte Tetley will perform several of the Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) songs Cayenna has been commissioning since 2012. Sinfonia Gaia will give the UK premiere of Transeki by South African composer, Antoni Schonken.
Cayenna conducts the Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble
New York premiere of Consecration
Past Concert
Sunday, 3 May 2015, 2pm
Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
Cayenna's newest composition for large percussion ensemble was commissioned by Julie Hill and the University of Tennessee-Martin Percussion Ensemble for the opening of their new music building in 2013. Consecration: dedication or devotion to some cherished purpose or pursuit is scored for 20 percussionists and saxophone quartet and includes the deployment of 20 tambourines...
Returning to her alma mater after 10 years, this concert marks the first time the composer conducted her newest percussion ensemble composition which was Webcast live from Ford Hall at Ithaca College. The webcast is still available online.
Royal Musical Association Study Day(s)
Authorship in Music
Friday and Saturday, 7-8 March 2015
Wadham College, Oxford
In collaboration with Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack, Emily Payne and Adam Harper, Cayenna organized and hosted this pair of study days which explored issues surrounding the notion of 'authorship' in relation to different kinds of engagement with music across cultures and genres and from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives including musicology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.
Cayenna's own paper, 'Attributing Creative Authorship in Orchestral Performance', offered a theoretical perspective on the subject while providing insights through data collected from orchestral musicians on their experiences during specific rehearsal and performance contexts using an innovative online research interface.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE
Cayenna conducts the Oxford Sinfonia
Music for a Thirsty World
Past Concert
Featuring:
Charlotte Tetley, contralto
Solfa Carlile's Little River, the most recent commission from Water-Culture: Women's work(s)
Building on the Art, Science, & Thirsty World conferences (University of Oxford, June 2014 and Cornell University, November 2014), and her continuing work on Water-Culture: Women's work(s) Cayenna has curated a concert which explores musical waterscapes through the lenses of imaginative composers and poets over the past two centuries.
CONCERT PROGRAMME
Butterworth: On the Banks of Green Willow
Water-Culture: Women's Work(s) Song Set
Lockwood: At the Falls
Carlile: Little River WORLD PREMIERE
Whitley: Flood Days
Smetana: Vltava from Ma Vlast
Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden Concert Overture
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Saturday, 24 January 2015, 8pm
St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford
Cayenna conducts Kidlington Concert Brass Christmas Concert
Recent Concert
This holiday concert features a range of festive music intermixed with some American classic tunes to bookend the interval which will be filled with mince pies and mulled wine!
Sunday, 14 December 2014, 7:30pm
St Mary's Church, Kidlington
Utari, percussion duo, give Japan premiere and record Rumble-Stiltskins
Internationally renowned percussion artist, Haruka Fujii and her duo partner Rika Fujii, record the latest version of Cayenna Ponchione's percussion duo Rumble-Stiltskins for their debut album UTARI to be released spring 2015 from ALM Records.
Scored for two 5.0 marimbas and two pairs of bongos, this virtuosic piece has showcases the incredible talents of these two start performers.
Multi-percussionist Haruka Fujii has become one of the most prominent solo percussionists and marimbists of her generation. She has won international acclaim for her interpretations of contemporary music, having performed premieres of works from composers including Tan Dun, Nico Muhly, Joji Yuasa, and Maki Ishii. Since 2010 Ms. Fujii has performed as a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, joining Mr. Ma and a group of international musicains for several tours. She has frequently collaborated with composer Tan Dun, performing his Water Percussion Concerto... READ MORE
Cayenna conducts von Henselt Piano Concerto
Recent Concert
Featuring:
Daniel Grimwood, piano
The Soloist of the Oxford Philomusica
The Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 16bis is one of the rarely heard jewels of the romantic era.
Saturday, 23 November 2014, 7pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Cayenna conducts The Voice of Argentina
Recent Festival
A new festival marking a collaboration between Banco Santander, the University of Oxford, and the Conservatorio Provincial Luis Gianneo, Voice of Argentina presents the exciting music and ideas of living and expat Argentine composers. Created by composers Eugene Birman and Luis Tenaglia, Voice of Argentina is the first trans-continental festival of Argentine new music and the first to examine the historic and cultural inspiration behind both well-known and emerging composers of the 21st century.
Saturday, 15 November 2014, 8pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Recent Conference
Art, Science, & the Thirsty WorldAn interdisciplinary dialog on creative responses to the global water crisis
7-8 November, Cornell University
This innovative two-day interdisciplinary conference brings together graduate students from across continents and disciplines. It proposes a critical exploration of interdisciplinary practice through collaborative presentations and performances, while facilitating dialogue between researchers and practitioners in the arts and environmental sciences in order to foster creative, innovative and trans-disciplinary discussions about water scarcity solutions.
What and where is the art and environmental science nexus and how is it relevant? In what way can we leverage these diverse ways of knowing and engaging to cooperatively address the water crisis?
Twelve students at Oxford and Cornell University in faculties of the arts, environmental sciences and engineering, have been put into teams and have been working on creative collaborative projects over the course of several months. The teams presented their work-in-progress at the conference on the 30th of June in Oxford and their final projects will be presented on the 7th and 8th of November at the conference at Cornell University.
Recent Commission for WCWW
Water Culture: Women's Work(s)Composer Solfa Carlile Commissioned
"One of Ireland's most exciting young composers" Solfa Carlile is the most recent up-and-coming woman composer to have been commissioned as part of this multi-year project.
Carlile will write a piece for solo mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra using the text of a traditional Greek children's song, 'Where are you from Little River?'. Popular Greek folk singer, Mariza Koch, used this song to teach children about the value of their threatened natural resource on a tour through rural Greece with a an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University.
The premiere for piano and voice will take place in Barnes Hall, Cornell University on 7 November at 8pm as part of the 2nd Art, Science, & the Thirsty World conference.
The orchestral premiere will be performed by Oxford Sinfonia in St Mary the Virgin, University of Oxford on 24th January, 8pm, with Cayenna Ponchione conducting.
Water-culture: women's work(s) is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations.
GrassRoots Festival Orchestra
Recent Concert
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin and Alex Shuhan, horn
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
9:30 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Mozart: Marriage of figaro Overture
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, 'Dance of the Knights' & 'Romeo and Juliet before Parting'
Beethoven: Romance in F, Leila Nassar-Fredell, violin
Strauss, R: Horn Concerto in Eb, Alex Shuhan, horn
Strauss, J: An der schonen blauen Donau
Puryear, arr. Hyman: Mystic Water
Water Culture: Women's Work(s)
The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities awarded three prizes for work in visual, literary and musical arts as part of their 'Mind the Environmental Conference' in October.
Water-culture: women's work(s) won the top prize in the music category
Mind the Environmental Gap TORCH-Smith School Prize for work on the Environment
The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities awarded three prizes for work in visual, literary and musical arts as part of their 'Mind the Environmental Conference' in October.
Water-culture: women's work(s) won the top prize in the music category
Water-culture: women's work(s) is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations. This event draws together fourteen researchers and musicians into an integrated performance, highlighting the cultural and practical impact of water scarcity around the globe.
READ MOREOxford Philomusica
Past Concert
Featuring:
Alexander Ullman, piano
The Mozart Requiem, with the Magdalen College Choir and Daniel Hyde, conductor
The premiere of Solfa Carlile's Ithaca
Saturday, 22 February 2014, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Carlile: Ithaca World Premiere
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Mozart: Requiem
Oxford University Philharmonia
Past Concert
Featuring:
Becky Lu, piano ~ winner of the 2013 OUPhil Concerto Competition
And the premiere of one of the two winners of the OUPhil Composition Contest by composer, Maria Kallionpaa
Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music After the Great War
Kallionpaa: El Canto de la Guerra World Premiere
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 3 The Pastorale
Past Conference:
RMA Study Day: Researching Music As Process
Hosted by Cayenna Ponchione and Emily Payne
Framed by papers from Professor Eric Clarke (University of Oxford) and Dr Jason Toynbee (Open University), this Royal Musical Association (RMA) Study Day will bring together researchers investigating the creative process in music from diverse disciplines, including sociology, ethnomusicology, psychology and anthropology, with the aim of discussing recent developments in the study of musical action, interaction, dynamism and change.
Friday, 22 November 2013 - All Day
University of Oxford, Faculty of Music
Oxford University Philharmonia
Upcoming Concert
Featuring the premiere of one of the two winners of the OUPhil Composition Contest by composer,Toby Young
In collaboration with the Oxford University Student Chorus, Jacob Swindells, conductor
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music During the War
Young: Slow Down World Premiere
Elgar: For the Fallen from The Spirit of England
Holst: The Planets
Merton College Music Society
Michaelmas Term 2013 Concert
PREMIERE:
Past Concert:
The Oxford University Philharmonia is pleased to announce two winners for the 2013 OUPhil Composition Contest
WINNERS
Toby Young
Maria Kallionpaa
Each composer has been commissioned to write a piece reflecting on WWI as part of the Oxford University Philharmonia's the three part series Exploring English Symphonic Repertoire Before, During and After WWI
Both premieres will take place in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England during OUPhil's 2013-2014 season
Wednesday 27 November 2013, 8pm ~ Toby Young
Wednesday 5 March 2014, 8pm ~ Maria Kallionpaa
Conducted by Cayenna Ponchione
European PREMIERE:
IKMMA 2013
International Katarzyna Mycka Marimba Academy
6-13 September 2013
Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Virtuoso percussionist, Pedro Carneiro, commissioned this piece for the damper pedaled marimba he is developing with Majestic. A short 3 minute etude, this piece explores the new world of articulations opened up by this new innovation.
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Mia Gormandy, Steel Pan
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Featuring Mia Gormandy, steel pan soloist, performing the world premiere of Manifesto by Eugene Birman.
Recent PREMIERE:
Zeltsman Marimba Festival
Wednesday, 5 July 2013, 8pm
Native Forum, Humbolt State University, Arcata, California
Virtuoso percussionist, Pedro Carneiro, commissioned this piece for the damper pedaled marimba he is developing with Majestic. A short 3 minute etude, this piece explores the new world of articulations opened up by this new innovation.
Michaelmas Term 2013 Concert
Past Concert
Merton College Music Society
Fidelio Orchestra ~ Cayenna Ponchione and Jacob Swindells, conductors
Kodaly Choir ~ Charles Warren, conductor
16 November 2013, 7.30pm
Merton Chapel, Merton College, Oxford
Program
Mozart: Veni sancte spiritus
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Mozart: Symphony No. 35,in D "Haffner"
PREMIERE:
Commission from the University of Tennessee Martin Percussion Ensemble
This work for saxophone quartet and 20 percussionists has been commissioned to celebrate the new music building.
Sunday, 11 November 2013 (time TBA)
University of Tennessee-Martin
Past Concert:
Walton's Facade
With Richard Baker OBE, and Margaret Bateman Narrators
Saturday, 26 October 2013 ~ 8.00pm
Old Mill Hall, Wantage, England
Wantage not justBetjeman Literary Festival
Click here for information about tickets
Oxford University Philharmonia
OUPhil Composition Contest Results
The Oxford University Philharmonia is pleased to announce two winners for the 2013 OUPhil Composition Contest
WINNERS
Toby Young
Maria Kallionpaa
Each composer has been commissioned to write a piece reflecting on WWI as part of the Oxford University Philharmonia's the three part series Exploring English Symphonic Repertoire Before, During and After WWI
Both premieres will take place in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England during OUPhil's 2013-2014 season
Wednesday 27 November 2013, 8pm ~ Toby Young
Wednesday 5 March 2014, 8pm ~ Maria Kallionpaa
Conducted by Cayenna Ponchione
European PREMIERE:
Inside Out and Outside In
Upcoming Performance by Pedro Carneiro
IKMMA 2013
International Katarzyna Mycka Marimba Academy
6-13 September 2013
Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Virtuoso percussionist, Pedro Carneiro, commissioned this piece for the damper pedaled marimba he is developing with Majestic. A short 3 minute etude, this piece explores the new world of articulations opened up by this new innovation.
GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra
Recent Concert
Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Leila Nassar-Fredell, leader
Mia Gormandy, Steel Pan
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Featuring Mia Gormandy, steel pan soloist, performing the world premiere of Manifesto by Eugene Birman.
Recent PREMIERE:
Inside Out and Outside In
Upcoming Premiere
Zeltsman Marimba Festival
Wednesday, 5 July 2013, 8pm
Native Forum, Humbolt State University, Arcata, California
Virtuoso percussionist, Pedro Carneiro, commissioned this piece for the damper pedaled marimba he is developing with Majestic. A short 3 minute etude, this piece explores the new world of articulations opened up by this new innovation.
Merton College Music Society
Trinity Term 2013 Concert
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music Before the War: The three B's
Bridge: The Sea
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
Trinity Term 2013 Concert
Recent Concert
Merton College Music Society
Fidelio Orchestra ~ Cayenna Ponchione, Jacob Swindells and Elizabeth Leather conductors
Kodaly Choir ~ Jacob Swindells, conductor
13 May 2013, 8.30pm
Merton Chapel, Merton College, Oxford
Program
Sullivan: Overture to Iolanthe
Sullivan: Vocal selections
Strauss: The Blue Danube
Haydn: Te Deum
Water Culture: Women's Work(s)
Curated by Cayenna Ponchione
Saturday 25 May, 4pm
TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College, University of Oxford
Tickets available at the door £10/5 General admission, Oxford Students and Mertonians, FREE
Interdisciplinary Symposium
Curated by Cayenna Ponchione
Saturday 25 May, 4pm
TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College, University of Oxford
Tickets available at the door £10/5 General admission, Oxford Students and Mertonians, FREE
Water-culture: women's work(s) is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations. This event draws together fourteen researchers and musicians into an integrated performance, highlighting the cultural and practical impact of water scarcity around the globe.
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Upcoming Concert
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
English Symphonic Music Before the War: The three B's
Bridge: The Sea
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
Conducting Masterclass with Valery Gergiev and the Oxford Philomusica
Cayenna was one of three conductors selected to participate in a masterclass with maestro Gergiev and the Oxford Philomusica, comprised of London's top orchestral players.
1 April 2013 2pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Watch footage of the masterclass and the Philomusica's documentary about Gergiev's visit here.
Cayenna was one of three conductors selected to participate in a masterclass with maestro Gergiev and the Oxford Philomusica, comprised of London's top orchestral players.
1 April 2013 2pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Watch footage of the masterclass and the Philomusica's documentary about Gergiev's visit here.
Merton College Music Society
Hilary 2013 Concert
Hilary 2013 Concert
Past Concert
Merton College Music Society
Fidelio Orchestra ~ Cayenna Ponchione and Peter Berry conductors
Kodaly Choir ~ Jacob Swindells, conductor
February 11th, 2013 8:30pm
Merton Chapel, Merton College, Oxford
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Schubert: Symphony in B minor, 'Unfinished'
Handel: Coronation Anthems - 'Zadok the Priest' & 'My Heart Is Inditing'
Water Culture: Women's Work(s) II
Recent Concert
Oxford University String Ensemble Performance
Queen's College Chapel
Oxford, England
Monday, 26 November 2012
8:00 p.m.
Tickets available at the door £8 Adults, £4 Students/concessions
Water-culture: women's work(s) is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations. On November 26th, soprano Susanna Fairbairn and the Oxford University String Ensemble will give the world premiere the newest addition to the project "Lovers' Confessions" by 2010 BBC Young Composer of the year, Will Marshall and the U.K. premieres of "Flood Days" by Kate Whitely and "At the Falls" by Rachel Lockwood. All three compositions are scored for string orchestra and voice, and set the poetry of Tompkins County Poet Laureate, Cornell professor, and water awareness activist, Gail Holst-Warhaft.
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Merton College Music Society
Michaelmas 2012 Concert
Michaelmas 2012 Concert
Recent Concert
Merton College Music Society
Fidelio Orchestra ~ Cayenna Ponchione, conductor
Kodaly Choir ~ Tristan Franklinos, conductor
October 29th, 2012 8:30pm
Merton Chapel, Merton College, Oxford
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture (D. 644)
Chaminade: Concertino Peter Berry, flute
Faure: Requiem in D minor
Anna Steppler, Organ; Elizabeth Leather, violin; Graeme Bailey, 'cello; Ellen Davies, harp
Merton College Music Society Recital
Recent Concert
Merton College Music Society
Cayenna Ponchione, marimba and Peter Berry, flute
October 18th, 2012 1:15pm
Merton Chapel, Merton College, Oxford
Program included works by Stucky, Beazer, Smadbeck and Ponchione
Water Culture: Women's Work(s)
Recent Concert
GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra Performance
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
Water-culture: women's work(s) is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations. On July 22nd, mezzo-soprano Ivy Walz and the GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra gave the premieres of compositions by U.K. based composers Kate Whitley (BBC Young Composer of the Year 2007) and Rachel Lockwood written for string orchestra and voice, and setting the poetry of Tompkins County Poet Laureate, Cornell professor, and water awareness activist, Gail Holst-Warhaft. Judy Hyman, film composer and performer, has arranged Jeb Puryear's Mystic Water for full orchestra.
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GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert 2012
Recent Concert
GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra Performance
GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance
Trumansburg, New York
Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
9:00 a.m.
Grandstand Stage
For tickets, visit: http://www.grassrootsfest.org/festival/
This year's concert was part of a larger endeavor, Water-culture: women's work(s), which is an international project aimed at raising water-crisis awareness by connecting women artists to global audiences through artistic collaborations read more about the project here.
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Fuji Duo performs Rumble Stiltskins
Recent Concert
The Fujii Duo concert
Haruka and Rika Fujii
July 19th, 2012 8pm
Room 309, The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center, New York
Haruka and Rika Fujii presented a program of percussion and marimba duo repertoire
Works by Ishii, Hirayoshi, Naito, Ponchione, etc
Hosted by the Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar