Shared Madness with Jennifer Koh

Every weekday from June 5 through July 14 at q2music.org

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Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang

David Lang joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his Shared Madness piece "low resolution" and discuss a more meditative approach to virtuosity. Jul 14, 2017

  • Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang

    David Lang joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his Shared Madness piece "low resolution" and discuss a more meditative approach to virtuosity. Jul 14, 2017

    Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang
  • MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe

    Composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss American folk traditions in her Shared Madness piece, "Spinning Jenny." Jul 13, 2017

    MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe
  • Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon

    Gordon joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his shared madness piece "kwerk" and the changing definition of virtuosity. Jul 12, 2017

    Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon
  • Composer & Sound Designer Mark Grey

    Grey joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the influence of Grey’s experience with technology on his approach to composition, and his re-construction of material from Paganini’s 20th caprice. Jul 11, 2017

    Composer & Sound Designer Mark Grey
  • Grawemeyer Award Winner Andrew Norman

    Norman joins Jennifer Koh to discuss performed silence as exemplary of delicate virtuosity, and the “deconstruction of technique.” Jul 10, 2017

    Grawemeyer Award Winner Andrew Norman
  • Bedroom Community's Daníel Bjarnason

    Bjarnason joins Jennifer Koh to discuss compositions as self-contained universes and the challenges inherent in maintain many disparate voices in a work scored for a solo instrument. Jul 7, 2017

    Bedroom Community's Daníel Bjarnason
  • Finnish Icon Kaija Saariaho

    Kaija Saariaho joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the tricky relationship between intricacy and virtuosity, and the extent to which extended techniques are (and aren’t) actually extended. Jul 6, 2017

    Finnish Icon Kaija Saariaho
  • Transatlantic Composer David Bruce

    British composer David Bruce joins Koh to discuss the vulnerability and humanness that both Bruce and Koh find in folk music tradition, and the concept of a “gift.” Jul 5, 2017

    Transatlantic Composer David Bruce
  • Sante Fe Composer Marc Neikrug

    Marc Neikrug is a composer and pianist whose career has spanned thirty years. He joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his first solo violin work, "Flash," written for Shared Madness. Jul 4, 2017

    Sante Fe Composer Marc Neikrug
  • Curtis Institute's David Ludwig

    David Ludwig joins Jennifer Koh to discuss elemental sounds in instrumental music, use of palindrome, Paganini, and the geometric phenomena of the mobius strip. Jul 3, 2017

    Curtis Institute's David Ludwig