Institute For Advanced Study Announces Concert Series Lineup

PRINCETON, NJ — Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang will curate a series of performances as part of the 2018–19 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton announced. Lang is in his third year as an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute.

“This season marks the finale in my three-year series titled ‘The Pattern Makers,’ about the different ways that patterns participate in the building of larger musical structures,” Lang said.

Lang will guide participants through an array of works performed by Vox Clamantis Choir, Zoë Keating, Nicholas Phan, and a joint concert by Paul Lazar and Sandbox Percussion.

The season will open on Oct. 19 and 20 with the Grammy Award-winning Vox Clamantis Choir from Estonia, singing both Gregorian Chant and contemporary music based on Gregorian Chant, and including the American premiere of a new work by composer Arvo Pärt, one of the great composers of our time.

On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, composer and cellist Zoë Keating, will perform long musical phrases on her cello, using various technologies to record them on the spot, superimpose them, and build up dense layers of melodies that collide dramatically on top of each other.

On Feb. 1 and 2, the young superstar tenor Nicholas Phan will sing Franz Schubert's 1823 masterpiece of storytelling “Die Schöne Müllerian” accompanied by pianist Myra Huang.

The season will conclude on March 8 and 9 as acclaimed film and theater actor Paul Lazar delivers John Cage's revolutionary lecture “Indeterminacy”, accompanied by and coexisting with Cage's rhythmically propulsive percussion music, performed by Sandbox Percussion.

All concerts in the series will take place at 8:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute. Concert talks, providing discussions of the music in the program and related topics, will be held each Friday following the performance.

The concerts are free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved online. Seating is limited. For further information about tickets and the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence program, visit www.ias.edu/air.

Lang became Artist-in-Residence in July 2016 and continues his appointment in 2018–19, to pursue his creative and intellectual work, and exchange ideas with scholars from all disciplines.

As part of the program, Lang curates the Edward T. Cone Concert Series, named for noted composer, teacher, pianist and author Edward T. Cone, a tireless supporter of the arts and humanities at the Institute and elsewhere.

The Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1994 to underscore the Institute’s dedication to scholarly and artistic endeavors.

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