Event

Thomas Buckner, Baritone

PROGRAM:
An evening of new works, presented by baritone Thomas Buckner, with premieres, including Bun Ching Lam's "Canzoniere CXXVI" for voice, flute, and therobo (based on Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca's most famous poem to Laura) and an epic new work from "Blue" Gene Tyranny, "Solving Scriabin's Chord (Love, Consider, Imagine)" , for voice and piano. Also on the program is an untitled work for solo theorbo by Kyle Hovatter performed by Adam Cockerham, and Wadada Leo Smith's "Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience, 1849, Six Ideas" for voice, piano, cello, alto flute, viola, percussion and pre-recorded sounds by Louis Lopez, conducted by Wadada Leo Smith.

Over the past 30 years, new music baritone Thomas Buckner has achieved notable success as an innovative performer, as well as producer and promoter of some of the most adventurous music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through his live and recorded work with both established and emerging contemporary composers and improvisers, Buckner continues to be a pioneer in a wide range of musical contexts, mixing genres and breaking barriers in his on-going pursuit of the yet-to-be-imagined.