Chris Swithinbank

Tonight, Rane Moore (bass clar­inet), Chris Gross (cello) and Alex Lipowski (per­cus­sion) of Talea En­sem­ble with con­duc­tor Ed­uardo Le­an­dro will give the first per­for­mance of my new trio The In­credulity of St Thomas at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity’s John Knowles Paine Con­cert Hall. Also on the pro­gramme are new works by fel­low com­posers at the Har­vard Sum­mer Com­po­si­tion In­sti­tute Clara Ian­notta, Ray Evanoff, Thatchatham Sil­su­pan, Car­olyn Chen and Sanzhar Baiterekov. A sec­ond con­cert fol­lows on Sun­day, fea­tur­ing music by Ran Duan, Brian Grif­feath-Loeb, Justin Hoke, Mauri­cio Pauly, Robert Phillips and Kather­ine Young. Both con­certs are free and are com­ple­mented in the af­ter­noon by dis­cus­sions of var­i­ous top­ics from 12:30pm in the Music De­part­ment.

The past two weeks have been an in­tensely valu­able ex­pe­ri­ence — from the dis­cus­sion in the anachro­nis­tic sur­round­ings of Con­cord’s Colo­nial Inn last week to the sem­i­nars at Har­vard Music De­part­ment this week. The hard work of Chaya Cz­er­nowin, Hans Tutschku, Steven Taka­sugi and Michelle Lou in mak­ing us wel­come and or­gan­is­ing the finest of de­tails to cre­ate a warm and trust­ing en­vi­ron­ment of ex­change is quite frankly in­spi­ra­tional.

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