Concert II
June 24, 7:00PM
MISE-EN_PLACE (45 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10026)
Program
Maja Cerar (Switzlerland/USA) and Douglas Geers (USA): Icon Echo (2025)
Ben Lunn (UK/Scotland): String Trio (2023)
Johnna Wu, violin / Philip Carter, viola /
Iva Casian Lakos, cello
Ursel Quint (Germany/Germany): Troubled Bridge over Water
Adam Mirza (USA/USA) & Akiva Zamcheck (USA/USA): Studio NYC (2025)
About the composers
Luciana Perc is a composer, performer and researcher creatively and critically exploring technologies at the intersection of intermedial performance, music theatre and sound art. Her work has been recently presented at Festival MÀD (Bordeaux), NIME (Utrecht), Latinx Composer Miniature Challenge Anthology (US), Winter Composer Festival (Austin), IRCAM’s Forum Workshops, Darmstädter Ferienkurse Open Space, Cite des Arts Paris, Tête-à-Tête: The Opera festival (London), and Music of the Americas (NYC). A fellow of the HEA, she has lectured and facilitated workshops at London College of Communication, Festival d’Aix’s Outreach Programme (France), Trinity Laban, and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London).
Ursel Quint was born in Bonn, Germany, 1958.
Piano,Chamber Music and Composition studies in Cologne, Bloomington, Ind.(USA) and Zurich, as well as German language and literature in Bonn.
Lives and works in Bonn as pianist, composer, media artist, and is teacher of piano at the municipal conservatory. After a period of performing as a solo classical pianist she started working with new media, in 2009 in a collaboration with
Barry L. Roshto as the Media Art Duo SnowKrash. Since then, SnowKrash has created over 50 Audio-Visual works. These have been presented in Germany, Greece, Slovenia, the UK and NYC.
Ben Lunn has forged himself a unique position within the new music landscape. As a composer, Lunn’s music reflects the material world around him, connecting to his North-Eastern heritage or how disability impacts the world around him or his working-class upbringing. Alongside this, he has become renowned for his championship of others, which have seen him creating unique collaborations with musicians from across the globe and developing unique concert experiences and opportunities for others
Maja Cerar has performed as a violin soloist with orchestras since her debut in the Zürich Tonhalle in 1991, and has played at the Davos “Young Artist in Concert,” the Lockenhaus Festival, the ISCM World Music Days, the ICMC (Singapore, Barcelona, etc.), SEAMUS, “Viva Vivaldi” in Mexico City, Diffrazioni (Florence), etc. A featured performer at NYCEMF since 2016 (then an event of the NY Philharmonic Biennial), her collaborative works have been presented at venues including “Re:New Frontiers of Creativity” (Columbia), “Listening in the Sound Kitchen” (Princeton), the Tribeca Film Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Balcony Bar. www.majacerar.com