This event is part of the residency with Jennifer Koh ’97 and VIjay Iyer. Watch the webcast! This event will be streamed live at the time of the event.

A performance by the Oberlin Sinfonietta, conducted by Timothy Weiss, featuring a workshop performance of Vijay Iyer's new violin concerto with soloist Jennifer Koh ’97 and Clint Needham's 2008 Chamber Symphony.

An interesting feature of the April 7 performance is the opportunity to hear an early reading of a brand new piece. Violinist Jennifer Koh '97 and composer Vijay Iyer are now preparing his new violin concerto, Trouble for violin and chamber orchestra, for its world premiere performance at the Ojai Music Festival in California, on June 8. The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble will join the Oberlin-founded International Contemporary Ensemble, directed by Steve Schick, in that performance.

This preliminary workshop performance of Iyer's new violin concerto here in Ohio gives our audience a unique chance to hear the piece in progress. Written specifically for Koh, Iyer’s Trouble for violin and chamber orchestra was co-commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival, Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, music director. Iyer is the 2017 music director of the Ojai Festival which runs June 8-11.

Program:

Trouble for violin and chamber orchestra (Workshop Performance) by Vijay Iyer (b. 1971)

Prelude

Part I

Part II, for Vincent Chin

Part III

Interlude

Part IV

Jennifer Koh, violin soloist

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Chamber Symphony (2008) by Clinton Needham (b. 1981)

Hammering Out

Open-ended Echoes

Radiant Nation





