LIVE FROM COLUMBIA Pop-Ups in the Lantern
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VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2021 Information: millertheatre.com PRESS CONTACTS Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450 [email protected] Lauren Bailey Cognetti, [email protected] "Those thirty minutes number among the most intense I’ve experienced as a listener... The close-up, multiple angle and high resolution shots of the performance gave a view not even accessible to an audience member sitting in the front row.” — Elizabeth Lyon in The Hudson Review Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts announces the extension of LIVE FROM COLUMBIA Pop-Ups in the Lantern With two additional concerts The GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet Video Premiere: Tuesday, April 6 at 7pm The Brooklyn-based Brazilian choro band Regional de NY Video Premiere: Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts Virtual & Free Concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered on select
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VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 17, 2021Information: millertheatre.com
PRESS CONTACTSAleba Gartner, 212/206-1450
[email protected] Bailey Cognetti, [email protected]
"Those thirty minutes number among the most intense I’ve experienced as a listener...The close-up, multiple angle and high resolution shots of the performance gave
a view not even accessible to an audience member sitting in the front row.” — Elizabeth Lyon in The Hudson Review
Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts
announces the extension of
LIVE FROM COLUMBIAPop-Ups in the Lantern
With two additional concerts
The GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca QuartetVideo Premiere: Tuesday, April 6 at 7pm
The Brooklyn-based Brazilian choro band Regional de NYVideo Premiere: Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm
Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts
Virtual & Free
Concerts in the Live from Columbia series are filmed live and premiered on select
dates at 7pm, with on-demand streaming available immediately after.
millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia
LIVE FROM COLUMBIAPop-Ups in the Lantern
Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts
Miller Theatre’s celebrated, fun and free Pop-Up Concerts resume, with a change of venue.Filmed live in the awe-inspiring Lantern—the top floor venue in the Lenfest Center for theArts—Miller invites the public to take a virtual front-row seat for performances by world-class musicians. Miller brings Columbia to audiences around the world through theseunique digital concert experiences showing the breadth of Miller's programming, whilehighlighting the iconic beauty of the campus of Columbia University.
In previous Pop-Up Concerts, audiences sat on the Miller stage and enjoyed a free drinkduring hour-long weeknight concerts, mingling with the musicians and fellow concertgoersafter the show. While this season’s iteration features a change in setting, it offers the sameup-close opportunity to experience music—virtually.
Viewers can tune in to millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia to watch andlearn more.
Video premiere: Tuesday, April 6 at 7pmAttacca Quartet
Amy Schroeder, violin; Domenic Salerni, violin Nathan Schram, viola; Andrew Yee, cello
The GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet, praised by The Strad as “stunning” and for possessing “a musical maturity far beyond its members’ years,” returns after making their premiere at Miller last February. Passionate advocates of contemporary music, the ensemble presents a captivating program featuring the works of three living composers.
PROGRAM:Paul Wiancko: Benkei's Standing Death (2020)Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution (2015)John Adams: selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances (1994)
Video premiere: Tuesday, April 27 at 7pmRegional de NY
Vitor Gonçalves, accordion; Kahil Nayton, cavaquinho; Cesar Garabini, 7-string guitarGrant Ziolkowski, mandolin; Eduardo Belo, bass; Ranjan Ramchandani, percussion
The incredibly talented Brooklyn-based choro band, Regional de NY, returns to Miller’sPop Up Concerts series to share the choro tradition of Brazilian culture—a highly energetic,improvisational music that is full of joy and deeply grooving.
Watch previous Live from Columbia:Pop-Up Concerts on-demand
Mariel Roberts, celloPremiered on November 17, 2020
Brandee Younger, harp & Dezron Douglas, bass
Premiered on January 19, 2021
JACK Quartet
Premiered on February 16, 2021
Attacca Quartetattaccaquartet.com
The Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in thepresent aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past.” They are one of themost versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment—a quartet for moderntimes. First prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, topprize and Listeners’ Choice award recipients of the Melbourne International ChamberMusic Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman ChamberEnsemble Competition, the ensemble has received international acclaim and become oneof America’s premier young performing ensembles. They have served as The JuilliardSchool’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, the Quartet in Residence at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, and the Quartet in Residence at Texas State University.
Touring extensively, the ensemble’s recent performances in the U.S. include LincolnCenter’s White Lights Festival and Miller Theatre at Columbia University, The PhillipsCollection, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, among others. Internationally, they haveperformed at Kings Place (London), the Vertavo Haydn Festival (Oslo),Gothenburg Concert Hall (Sweden), MITO SettembreMusica (Italy), and SociedadFilarmónica de Bilbao (Spain). The ensemble has also been featured in a number of filmedand streamed concerts for the Banff String Quartet Festival, Duke Performances, theAustin Chamber Music Center, and the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Theirnew film Plan and Elevation premiered in late 2020 at The Juilliard School.
Dedicated to presenting and recording new works, Attacca Quartet received great criticalacclaim—including a 2020 GRAMMY Award—for their most recent album, Orange,featuring works by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Previous recordingsinclude three highly praised albums with Azica Records, including a disc of MichaelIppolito’s string quartets, and the complete works for string quartet by John Adams, which
was the recipient of the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial ChamberMusic Award.
Regional de NYfacebook.com/choronyc
Regional de NY is a traditional choro group in the style of the great Brazilian ensembles ofyears past and present. Since 2011, their mission has been to keep the rich musicaltradition of choro alive in a contemporary U.S. context. They bring a deep love for thehistory of the genre together with a modern attitude towards arrangement andperformance to create a style of choro that reflects our time, place, and backgrounds. Pre-COVID, they also hosted regular rodas—informal jam sessions—for an extendedcommunity of musicians, contributing to the thriving choro scene in New York City.
Columbia University School of the Artsarts.columbia.edu
Columbia University School of the Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film,Theatre, Visual Arts and Writing and the Master of Arts degree in Film Studies; it alsooffers an interdisciplinary program in Sound Arts. The School is a thriving, diversecommunity of talented, visionary and committed artists from around the world and afaculty comprised of acclaimed and internationally renowned artists, film and theatredirectors, writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, playwrights, producers, critics andscholars. In 2015, the School marked the 50th Anniversary of its founding. In 2017, theSchool opened the Lenfest Center for the Arts, a multi-arts venue designed as a hub for thepresentation and creation of art across disciplines on the University’s new Manhattanvillecampus.
Miller Theatremillertheatre.com
Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New YorkCity and one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming. Inpartnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Miller is dedicated to producingand presenting unique events, with a focus on contemporary and early music, jazz, opera,and multimedia performances. Founded in 1988, Miller Theatre has helped launch thecareers of myriad composers and ensembles over the years, serving as an incubator foremerging artists and a champion of those not yet well known in the United States. A four-time recipient of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous
Programming, Miller Theatre continues to meet the high expectations set forth by itsfounders—to present innovative programs, support the development of new work, andconnect creative artists with adventurous audiences.
Miller Theatre 's 2020-21 season is supported by the New York State Council on the Artswith the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature,
and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Support for contemporary music is provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
Additional support is provided by the Amphion Foundation.
For further information, press tickets, photos, and to arrange interviews,please contact Aleba & Co. at 212/206-1450 or [email protected].
For photos, please contact Lauren Bailey Cognetti, [email protected]
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