Blueshift Ensemble + ICEBERG New Music
Like cool sounds? Like new sounds? We’ve got them for you! Hear Memphis-based contemporary chamber group Blueshift Ensemble perform a concert featuring music written by the composers of ICEBERG New Music.
Friday, August 23rd
Beethoven Club of Memphis (263 S. McLean Blvd, Memphis, TN 38104)
Free and open to all! (Pay-what-you-can donations accepted with love and gratitude!)
Thanks to our partners: The University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music and the Memphis Youth Symphony Program
Marisa Polesky, Jessie Munson, Andy Yu – violins
Aaron Tubergen – viola
Jonathan Kirkscey – cello
Jenny Davis – flute
Hugh Zhu – clarinet
Mark Lynch – saxophones
Adrienne Park – piano
Aaron Tubergen – viola
Jonathan Kirkscey – cello
Jenny Davis – flute
Hugh Zhu – clarinet
Mark Lynch – saxophones
Adrienne Park – piano
ABOUT ICEBERG
“ICEBERG’s roster of decidedly dissimilar composers is one of its greatest strengths: not only does Burtzos lead the audience through the concert with charm, irony, and insight, but I went home after the concert feeling happy and intellectually sated.”
– I Care If You Listen
“ICEBERG’s roster of decidedly dissimilar composers is one of its greatest strengths: not only does Burtzos lead the audience through the concert with charm, irony, and insight, but I went home after the concert feeling happy and intellectually sated.”
– I Care If You Listen
ICEBERG New Music is a collective of ten composers based in New York City. ICEBERG’s mission is to promote the idea that substance, not surface, is the heart of music creation and perception. The collective’s ten member composers hail from different schools of thought and cultivate radically different sounds – from musical theater and indie rock to avant-garde sounds and electronic installations – but their contrasting musical languages belie a shared emphasis on structure and depth of meaning. When these artists compose for the same ensemble and present their works during a joint concert, the result is a glimpse into the ever-widening possibilities of art music in the twenty-first century.
ABOUT BLUESHIFT ENSEMBLE
Blueshift Ensemble is a Memphis-based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. By programming both new and existing classical repertoire alongside multi-genre collaborations, Blueshift aims to connect a wider audience to today’s classical music. The ensemble draws upon Memphis’s uniquely diverse musical heritage by combining classical music with popular music genres such as rock, blues, and soul and collaborating with local musicians, visual artists, and composers. Co-founded by Jenny Davis and Jonathan Kirkscey, Blueshift features musicians you’ve seen perform with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and heard on your favorite albums recorded in Memphis.
