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A successful Residency for Mivos quartet at the Anchorage museum

3/23/2017

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"I’ve just returned to snowy New York City from a fantastic two-week residency at the Anchorage Museum with Mivos Quartet. Anchorage was clear, white, and cold—a welcome change, I’m told, from the previous two winters—forming a perfect backdrop for investigations into contemporary string music about the north and by northern voices. 

We presented daily pop-up concerts at noon in various spots around the museum, concerts in the planetarium with commissioned visuals for Hans Abrahamsen’s String Quartet 4 and Robert Honstein’s Arctic, and a final concert within the new Polar Bear Garden exhibition about the cultural and geographic zone between Russia and Alaska. On this concert, Mivos performed Sofia Gubaidulina’s fervent String Quartet 4, using a backing track (and superball mallets) that Mivos recorded and I edited and mixed with dedicated engineering by the Museum’s Jay Hall. The show also featured movements by Canadian composer Taylor Brook, American composers Scott Wollschleger and Robert Honstein, and Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.

In addition to these museum activities, Mivos performed at 6:45am on Channel 11 KTVA Alaska, and visited the music department of UAA, playing excerpts and discussing repertoire, collaborations with living composers, and making a life in contemporary music.​

We even managed to squeeze in a couple of visits to the surrounding mountains and glaciers of southcentral Alaska, to face-plant in the deep snow, to freeze our toes at the start of the Iditarod, and to savor the strange and persistent dusky colors of the subarctic winter." - Conrad Winslow, Wild Shore Artistic Director
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Welcome Shelley Washington to the Wild SHore Team! 

3/23/2017

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"I am beyond excited to have joined the Wild Shore team earlier this fall! This past summer I had the experience of a lifetime attending the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and participating in the "Composing in the Wilderness" course, where 9 composers get to do backcountry hiking through Denali and the Yukon Charlie Rivers National Parks then write a piece based on our experiences. I've always had a love of the great outdoors, but never have had the opportunity to combine my love nature with my love of music. When Katie, Andie and Conrad approached me about joining the Wild Shore team I immediately agreed! To be able to share new music in any capacity is a gift, but an even rarer one is to share it with the most isolated and farthest reaching edges of where many commonly perceive it to reach. I hope to help spread new music as far and wide as possible, and for me it's even more satisfying to be so connected with nature while I do so! Can't wait to see where we go next!" - Shelley Washington , Wild Shore Program Associate

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Southern-born and Midwest-raised Shelley Washington (b. 1991), writes music to fulfill one calling- to move. As a composer and baritone saxophonist with a heavy background in jazz, American folk, rock and classical styles, Washington strives to create a hodgepodge of sound with hard grooves and indelible melodies. Her major body of work is written for saxophone, large and small chamber ensembles and string quartet.  contact: shelley@wildshore.org

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Wild Shore New Music Commemorates Seward’s Day and Alaska’s Sesquicentennial

3/14/2017

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March 30th, 7:30pm, FREE to the public
The McGowan Theater at the National Archives Museum + YouTube Live Stream
Constitution Ave. NW
[between 7th & 9th St.]
Washington, DC 20408
Metro: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter
Information and Reservations HERE

The State of Alaska is sponsoring in the nation’s capital commemorations of the life and contributions of William Henry Seward on Thursday, March 30, 2017, with a luncheon at the National Press Club, a reception at the US State Department, and concluding with an evening performance of Wild Shore New Music. 

Wild Shore New Music performs the work of living composers who have found inspiration through their experiences with the natural beauty and indigenous cultures of Alaska:
 
My Country, Tis of Thee sung by Jon Ross in the Dena’ina language
First Lady of Alaska Donna Walker: Why Alaskans Celebrate Seward’s Day
Shelley WASHINGTON: Their Name is Yours
John Luther ADAMS: Make Prayers to the Raven
John Luther ADAMS: The Light Within
Conrad WINSLOW: The End of the Road
 
Two of the composers, Conrad Winslow and Shelley Washington will be in Washington, and will attend the concert. Throughout the program, scenic and historical photos of Alaska will be projected on a backdrop screen that will enhance rather than distract from the musical program. This event will be live streamed.
 
Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3wU2aKjQ4
 

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Wild shore's Andie springer & Katie Cox at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 

3/14/2017

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Last month Wild Shore's Andie Springer (violin) and Katie Cox (flute) presented a kids concert at the Jamaica Bay Wild Life Refuge. They demonstrated their instruments and lead the kids in an interactive composition activity centered around creating melodies. Katie played the traditional C flute, alto flute, and piccolo, showing the different sounds each instrument makes. Andie introduced the audience to her violin Millie and played a traditional fiddle tune that tells the story of passengers riding a locomotive train.

"Katie and Andie charmed an audience of some 50 people in a recent program at Gateway's Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge during which Andie's violin, Millie conversed with Katie's flute demonstrating their abilities and differences. The introduction of some duet pieces was capped with the  Orange Blossom Special with some clues as to its program had kids listening intently throughout with a reprise that was such fun.  There was rapt attention as kids got musical answers from Millie posed by audience members.  And the most fun was when the kids created a melody line with string played by both players.  The wonderful presentation and perfect timing wrapped up with an instrumental petting zoo, and many enthralled kids... Come back soon, and bring some friends!"  

— Charles Markis, Park Ranger and Arts and Culture Program Manager, National Park Service

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