Fonema Consort and Chicago-based Ursa Ensemble join forces to present Cassandra Miller's eerie, suspense-to-nowhere work bel canto.  In addition to this work, each ensemble will curate a set of their own repertoire, weaving a larger atmosphere around this centerpiece.

Program
Juan Campoverde // Los lugares del deseo (v 2) // voice, flute, clarinet, guitar // 2017
Nina Dante // With her waist wreathed in shadow // voice, flute // 2019
Cassandra Miller // bel canto // voice, flute, clarinet, guitar, violin, viola, cello // 2011
Ivan Sparrow // entre las grietas // voice, clarinet, guitar // 2014
and a performance of the Jean Cras string trio by Ursa Ensemble

Fonema Consort premieres new works from the undergraduate composition studio of Georg Haas.

Fonema performs works by University of Florida composition students Diogo Carvalho and Jordan Alexander Key alongside pieces from our repertoire.

Fonema Consort presents a program for voice, flute and double bass anchored by the world premiere of visionary Mexican composer Julio Estrada's Yuunohui'sa'ehecatl'nahui. The program additionally features new trios by Pablo Santiago Chin, Louis Goldford; and  duos by Katherine Balch and Stratis Minakakis.

Our warmest thank for the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation who made the Estrada commission possible; and the Amphion Foundation, which is supporting our Estrada performance activities this season.

In “The unknown, my flaws, your building...”, Fonema Consort delves into the expressive musical potential that lies in the convergence of painting and language, the voice and poetry. This program takes as its starting point the work of iconic Latin American creators Clarice Lispector, Roberto Matta, and Chavela Vargas. At the center of the program is Richard Barrett’s virtuosic tour de force Coïgitum, which took its inspiration from Chilean painter Roberto Matta’s large-scale homonymous work. Featured are new works by Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Pablo Santiago Chin, and an excerpt from McKnight Fellow Tiffany Skidmore’s opera-in-the-making.

Program
Richard Barrett // Coïgitum // voice, flute, oboe d'amore, piano, percussion // 1984
Pablo Santiago Chin // Si Chavela met Matta II // voice, piano, percussion // 2018 (world premiere)
Fernanda Aoki Navarro // New work // voice, piano, percussion // 2018 (world premiere)
Tiffany Skidmore // no stars // voice, flute, piano, percussion // 2016

LECTURE-CONCERT: This fall Fonema Consort delves into the expressive musical potential that lies in the convergence of painting and language in a program of works that take as their starting point the work of iconic Latin American artists and writers Clarice Lispector, Roberto Matta, and Chavela Vargas. This listening session explores the particular linguistic devices and manipulations used in two newly commissioned pieces by Fernanda Aoki Navarro and Pablo Santiago Chin as well as a virtuosic tour-de-force by composer Richard Barrett. Navarro and Chin will draw connections between their approaches to language in composition and those used in various forms of poetry and prose, like the phonetic prominence in sound poetry, grammatical and formal transgression, and the exploration of song writing as literature as recently debated following the latest Nobel Prize edition.