The group performed the following works:
Chen Yi: Night Thoughts (2004/2009)
Jeiran Hasan, flute
Gabrielle Baker, viola
Rebekah Efthimiou, harp
Donald Erb: Suddenly It's Evening (1997)
III. Winter in My Heart
IV. Eyes of Flame
Pall Quinn Kalmansson, cello
Chen Yi: Happy Rain on a Spring Night (2004)
Jeiran Hasan, flute
Blair Holz, clarinet
Jinjoo Cho, violin
Chen Chen, cello
Daniel Parvin, piano
Program for April 6 concert:
CIM New Music Ensemble
Keith Fitch, director
Chen Yi, guest composer
CHEN Qi (1996-97)
CRUMB Madrigals, Books II (1965) and III (1969)
CHEN Night Thoughts (2009)
CHEN Woodwind Quintet (1987)
ERB Suddenly It's Evening (1997)
CHEN Happy Rain on a Spring Night (2004)
Keith Fitch currently heads the Composition Department and holds the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he also directs the CIM New Music Ensemble. Called “gloriously luminous” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, his music has been consistently noted for its eloquence, expressivity, dramatic sense of musical narrative, and unique sense of color and sonority. Reviewing a performance of his work Totem by Wolfgang Sawallisch and The Philadelphia Orchestra (chosen by Maestro Sawallisch to celebrate the orchestra’s centennial), The Wall Street Journal praised “the sheer concentration of his writing, and its power to express a complex, unseen presence shaping the course of musical events.” His works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan by such ensembles as The Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and new music ensembles around the country. Additionally, his music has been heard at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the June in Buffalo Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and New York’s Carnegie and Merkin Halls. Highlights of recent seasons include the premieres of ’Tho Night Be Falling (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for the Colorado String Quartet); Midnight Rounds (written to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Da Capo Chamber Players); and Mean Fiddle Summer, composed for the acclaimed violinist Lina Bahn. The 2012-13 season brought the premieres of Knock on Wood (for the harp/guitar duo of Yolanda Kondonassis and Jason Vieaux); Cascade, a fanfare commissioned by Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art for the inauguration of their new building; and In Memory, commissioned by the Orchestra of the League of Composers.