David Felder, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Birge-Cary Chair in Music Composition at the University at Buffalo, is 60 years old this year, a fact that will celebrated by gala birthday concert of his music on November 8.
Tickets: $10(Burchfield Penney members/students; $20 "not yet" members). Call 716-878-6011 during gallery hours. Online tickets can be purchased using PayPal (follow the links on the right of this page).
Support provided by the Amphion Foundation, Inc, Alice M. Ditson Fun, The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, University at Buffalo and M&T Bank.
60th Birthday concert for David Felder
Crossfire:
Another Face (1987) David Felder
Yuki Numata Resnick, violin
TweenerB (1991; 2013) David Felder
(world premiere) Tom Kolor, percussion
November Sky (1992) David Felder
Emi Ferguson, flutes
BoxMan (1986; 2013) David Felder (November 27, 1953)
(world premiere of the version for horn) Adam Unswurth, horn
JT Rinker, electronics
Intermission
Three Songs from Three Watches ( 2013); a preview performance)
David Felder
1. Buffalo Evening (poem by Robert Creeley)
2. Insomnia (poem by Dana Gioia)
Emi Ferguson flutes, Jean Kopperud, clarinets, Yuki Numata Resnick, violin, Virginia Barron viola, Lauren Radnofsky cello,
Tom Kolor, percussion, Oliver Hagen piano/celeste,
Ethan Herschenfeld, bass voice
Dan Bassin, conductor
JT Rinker, Olivier Pasquet, electronics
Shamayim (2006-8) Music by David Felder, image by Elliot Caplan
Nicholas Isherwood, bass voice
JT Rinker, Olivier Pasquet, Ben Thigpen, electronics