New Music Festival March 6-7 at WIU
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- 03 Mar 2023
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The 36th annual Western Illinois University School of Music New Music Festival will be held Monday-Tuesday, March 6-7. The festival's featured artists are the Khasma Piano Duo and visual artist Chris Craychee.
The duo has commissioned six new works to be premiered in its program, along with music by Meredith Monk. The featured composers are Chris Catone, Kyong Mee Choi, Jeff Herriott, Amelia Kaplan, and WIU faculty composers Hong-Da Chin and James Romig. Each new composition will be accompanied by video art created by Chris Craychee. The project is called "Trekking."
"Trekking is a project inspired by people and nature moving through space and time," said Ashlee Mack, Khasma Piano Duo co-founder and director of Piano Studies at Knox College. "In celebration of Khasma's 10th anniversary, and 20 years of friendship, we decided to invite some of our favorite composers and artists to collaborate with us. They have all contributed to our lives in a meaningful way, and are people we have grown to love, respect and admire over the years."
Event co-director WIU Professor James Romig said this is the first time in the history of the festival one of its featured guest artists is not a composer or musical performer.
"I suspect that having Chris here for a couple of days will provide an opportunity for all of us to consider the concert experience from a different angle, and with broader perspective," Romig added. "WIU student composers, who will have their music performed on Tuesday afternoon, are each integrating video into their own compositions, so there will be a lot for them to talk about during sessions on Monday and Tuesday."
Craychee is a visual artist and freelance project manager/producer living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. His art has embraced painting, drawing, printmaking, writing, sculpture, photography, video, animation, and performance, and has utilized such non-traditional media as synthetic carpet, gunpowder, ice cubes, googly eyes, aluminum foil, plastic toys and Chuck-A-Luck wheels. He received a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University, and has worked for Concept Art Gallery, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Clear Story and Deeplocal. Read More…
