Upcoming performances

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March 12, 2008

  • Argento Ensemble
  • Italian Academy, Columbia University- New York, NY
  • Works by Helmut Lachenmann

March 17, 2008

  • East Coast Composers Ensemble
  • Denver, Co
  • Works by Fueting, Lara, Aylward, and others

April 14, 2008

  • Argento Ensemble
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Works by Helmut Lachenmann

April 16, 2008

  • TALEA Ensemble
  • The Stone, 8 PM
  • Works by Eckardt, Aperghis, Vivier, Holbrook, Cheung

May 17, 2008

  • Solo Recital
  • Juilliard School, Room 309 8 PM
  • Le Corps a Corps- Georges Aperghis
  • Komboi- Iannis Xenakis
  • Le Marteau sans Maitre- Pierre Boulez
  • Special Guests: Steve Beck, Erin Lesser, Miranda Sielaff
  • Oren Fader, Greg Beyer, Matt Gold, Bo Chang, Michel Galante

An advocate of contemporary music, Alex Lipowski has performed in ensembles such as the Second Instrumental Unit, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Janus Trio, Argento Ensemble, is a co-director of the Talea Ensemble, and the newest member of the Timetable Percussion Trio. He has been seen on concert stages throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Recently, he gave a recital in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the State University of Campinas featuring works by Globokar, Hurel, and Xenakis. As a soloist and chamber musician he has premiered works by Denisov, Zorn, Malpica, and Lunsqui. After performances at Harvard University, New Music Connoisseur labeled him, '...remarkably demonstrative and pleasing.' Other recent collaborations include working with the Columbia Composers Ensemble and the Latin American composers group, altaVoz. While on tour with the East Coast Composers Ensemble in 2007, Lipowski presented guest lectures at the University of Virginia Commonwealth and a lecture on the music of Georges Aperghis at Denver State College. In the past, Lipowski has served as the director of the Juilliard Pierrot Ensemble and Duo Maintenant with whom he commissioned works extensively for french horn and percussion. In 2006, he was featured with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble on NPR's Performance Today. During the summer of 2007 he toured with Pierre Boulez through Europe and then to Japan performing Boulez's work, sur Incises. During the same summer he served as Artist-Faculty at the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea. He has recorded works by Alexandre Lunsqui with the Argento Ensemble and can be heard on the Living Artists Label with the Talea Ensemble.