Past Wa Concert Series
coming soon!
2024-2025
"WIND MINITURES"
May 9th. 2025
Reynold Hahn: Sarabande et thème varié pour clarinet et piano
Elinor Armer: Dounble Sonner for Two Bb clarinet
Takashi Yoshimatshtu: Parallel Bird Etude Op.39
Intermission
Gilda Lyons: “hush ” for solo Alto saxophone
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich nee Mary Teresa: Remembrance (Lullaby and Lament) 2024 for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Gabriela Ortiz: Las Dolly Sisters for Bb Clarinrt and Alto Saxophone
Camille Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata, Op.167
Saxophone
Carrie Koffman, nee Elizabeth Rose Sipes
Clarinet
Charles Neidich
Ayako Oshima
Piano
Mohamed Shams
2023-2024
"The World of the Expanded Clarinet"
March 1 8:00pm, 2024
Ernest Chausson, Nadia Boulanger, Edison Denisov, Yayoi Kitazumi, Michael Lowenstern, the in-person world premiere of my “Why?” for two clarinets, ending with the monumental César Franck Sonata in a new version for clarinet and piano.
2020-2021
LIVE STREAM CONCERT
"TO be Remembered"
April 25 7:30pm 2021
Works by : Ethel Smyth
Grazyna Bacewicz
Lili Boulanger
Keiko Fujiie
Amy Beach
Julia Perry
Germaine Tailleferre
2020-2021
"Not to be Forgotten"
March 28 7:30pm 2021
~ Program ~
Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884): Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1870?)
Ed Bland (1926-2013): One on One (1996) (for 2 clarinets)
Gary Powell Nash (b.1964): Deformation and Tranquility (1987)
~ Intermission ~
Dorothy Rudd Moore (b.1940): Night Fantasy (1979)
Alvin Singleton (b.1940): Fifty Times Around the Sun (1999)
Andile Khumalo (b.1978): Tracing Hollow Traces (2016)
Florence Price (1887-1953): Fantasy No.2 in F-sharp minor based on a folk melody arranged for clarinet and piano by Charles Neidich
2019-2020
"The Return of Quintet"
March 8 8:00pm 2020
Framed by 3 Fugues from Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue and Ludwig van Beethoven's Quintet op. 4, their program will include works of three very important composers from the 12th century to the present day: Hildegard von Bingen, Amy Beach, and Thea Musgrave.
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The New York Woodwind Quintet
Flute: Carol Wincenc
Oboe : Stephen Taylor
Clarinet: Charles Neidich
Bassoon: Marc Goldberg
Horn: William Purvis
2018-2019
"The Perilous Pursuit of Perfection"
December 8 8:00pm 2019
Program:
Anton Webern, 6 Lider nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl, op. 14
J.S. Bach, Selections from the Art of the Fugue (arranged by Charles Neidich)
INTERMISSION
Anton Webern, 5 Canons, op. 16
J. S. Bach, Selections from the Art of the Fugue (arranged by Charles Neidich)
2018-2019
"The New York Licorice Ensemble"
November 24 7:00pm 2019
Program:
George Gershwin : 3 preludes arr, Satoshi Ipponjima
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Adagio in B for 2 clarinets and 3 basset horns KV 411
Elliott Carter : Canonic suit for 4 Clarinets
Satoshi Ipponjima : Minimal de KOKIRIKO (Japanese folk song)
Ginka Mizuki : Kokiriko (Japanese folk song)
Intermission
Yuriko Keino : Mt. Semba Fantasy (Japanese folk song)
Lukas Ligeti : Simultaneous Variations (Japanese folk song)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: : Adagio in F for clarinet and 3 basset horns KV 580a
(Compelited by Charles Neidich )
Charles Neidich : Chi-Lai
A Reception Will Follow
Ayako Oshima
Michiyo Suzuki
Akari Yamamoto
Ikuko Tsukamoto
Fusayo Oike
Yumi Ito
Chie Mastura
Saerom Kim
Please join us for the next WA concert presenting the NY Licorice ensemble.
the NY Licorice Ensemble was founded by clarinetist Ayako Oshima, All the members studied in New York with Ayako's husband, the well known clarinetist, Charles Neidich. The Members have received awards at many international competitions. The members are a variety of ages and have performed in Asia, the United States, and Europe.
The New York Licorice Ensemble has released two recordings on the Penguin Record label in Japan, including Warabe-uta Remix (2016) and Licorice Rhapsody (2015). The group also released a disc in 2013 entitled New American Works for Clarinet Ensemble on NAR Records.
2018-2019
"Memory and the Expressiveness of Time"
Oct 20 7:30pm 2018
2018-2019
"The Noridic Voice"
May 10 7:30pm 2019
Charles Neidich & the Danish Award-Winning Ensemble MidtVest
​​program of music by Nielsen, Mozart, Mahler and Dohnányi.
2018-2019
"Wind Power"
New York Woodwind Quintet
April 12 7:30pm 2019
"The Golden Triangle"
with Parker Quartet
2018-2019
March 20 7:30pm 2019
2018-2019
"Old is New"
February 23 7:30pm 2019
to be continued...
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