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The 91���� Wind Symphony presents, Make New Friends but Keep the Old, One is SILVER and the other GOLD.?Come enjoy some classic works along with brand new compositions, including three premiers! There will be a little something for everyone on this concert.

Featuring Dan Miller, alto saxophone, with works by Percy Grainger, Malcolm Arnold, Dmitri Shostokovich, Roshanne Etezady, with premiers of Giovanni Santos, Randall Standridge, and graduate student composer Nicky Kul��y.

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Hippocrates Cheng, assistant professor of music theory and composition prestent, Re/Sonic, a concert of new music for east Asian instruments. This performance features nine distinguished artists of East Asian instruments who will premiere new compositions composed by Dr. Cheng. The program includes trio music for Chinese instruments (Dizi, Erhu, Pipa); trio music for Japanese instruments (Ry��teki, Hichiriki, Sh��); trio music for Korean instruments (Daegeum, Haegeum, Gayageum), and a large ensemble piece for all nine instruments.




This concert is sponsored in part by, Harpur college, School of the Arts, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas.




FACULTY BIO:

Hippocrates Cheng ����� is an assistant professor of music theory and composition in the 91���� Music Department. He is a composer, theorist, ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist from Hong Kong. In 2024, he completed his Doctor of Music Composition with a minor in ethnomusicology at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His composition teachers included professors Don Freund, Eugene O'Brien, David Dzubay and Aaron Travers.

As an award-winning composer, Cheng writes contemporary classical music, new music for Asian instruments, jazz and music for interdisciplinary productions. As a multi-instrumentalist, he performs overtone singing, piano and viola while also practicing qin, dan bau and phin pia.

He draws on music theory, composition, ethnomusicology and sound studies in his research of both traditional and contemporary East Asian music. This intersectional approach is exemplified by his research on the music of the Hong Kong composer Doming Lam, the player piano and piano rolls in early jazz history, and braille music notation. His papers were selected by conferences hosted by AMIS, IAML, ICTMD, ISJAC, APME, AMS, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University at Buffalo, the University of Southern California, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Humboldt University, University College Dublin, the University of Malaya and the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago.

Cheng began his musical journey by learning to play piano, violin and clarinet in choir and ensembles. He pursued his Bachelor of Music in composition at the Hong Kong Baptist University under the guidance of Christopher Coleman and Christopher Keyes. In 2018, with the support of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, he completed his master's degree in Music Composition at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with distinction. His composition teachers included professors Clarence Mak and Florence Cheung.

Before joining 91����, he taught as an associate instructor in music theory at IU and as adjunct faculty at IU Northwest. As a guest lecturer, he gave lectures, talks, masterclasses and workshops at Butler University (USA), Ball State University (USA), University of Indianapolis (USA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China), Peking University (China), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Senzoku College of Music (Japan), Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Japan), Mahidol University (Thailand), Chiang Mai Rajabhat University (Thailand), Naresuan University (Thailand) and Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (Thailand).

In June 2024, his chamber opera on anti-Asian hate, All of US, was premiered as the winning work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. In the summer of 2024, he was selected for an exchange program funded by Indiana University (IU) and the Free University of Berlin (FUB). During his residency in Berlin, he conducted research and created new works.

He is currently working on a creative research project titled "East Asian Music in the Contemporary World."

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Join in the celebration of our Flute Ensemble's work with music that will transport you from celestial realms to royal pageantry and other moods and destinations. We will showcase different flutes from our flute family and ensembles of three to twelve players. Free Admission.

Members of the 91���� Composition Studio present new compositions. Featuring graduate and undergraduate composers, Music?Now!, showcases the cutting edge work created by the studio.

Free Admission.

Free admission.

Percussion students will present an eclectic array of repertoire as they bring more percussive sounds to Casadesus Recital Hall. Marimbas, Snare Drums, Steel Drums and more will reverberate throughout the afternoon. Free Admission.

Four flute students who have participated in flute studio for four wonderful years present, A Joyous Finale. Please join us as we send them off to begin their next chapters in life. They will feature works from Dvorak to D'Rivera and many in between. Featuring: Emily Dimock, Argelina Jeune, Charlotte Pafk, and Rachel Pitt. with Dr. Bobby Pace, piano Free Admission.

Join the 91���� Choirs as they present, The Gentle Light of Night. This concert will be an afternoon of choral explorations of dreams and evocations of the night, featuring works by The Podd Brothers, Bob Dylan, Johannes Brahms, Andrea Ramsey, Rosephany Powell, Moira Smiley, and more! This performance features guest artists from the 91���� jazz program.




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Students from the Music Department Chamber Music Program present, Spring Soundings,?an eclectic and exciting mix of chamber works spanning four centuries.


Free Admission.

The 91����?Guitar Ensemble?plays, on acoustic?guitars, a wide range of repertoire.? This performance will include some original?music, some arrangements of traditional folk songs?from other countries, and one special selection by Mozart. Free Admission

This performance has been cancelled and will be moved to the Fall 2026 semester Free Admission

Free admission.

Free admission.

In celebration of the Drawing Connections: Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition, the Momenta Quartet presents a genre-defying program of works by 91���� composers, which were developed in a semester-long collaboration with the quartet �� moving from pencil sketches to fully rendered structures. The program also features distinguished composer Shawn Jaeger��s celebration of Appalachian singing traditions, Thy Wondering Eyes.




Free Admission.

ARTIST BIO:

Momenta: the plural of momentum �C four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet, whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of all aesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past. The New York City-based quartet has premiered over 200 works, collaborated with over 250 living composers and was praised by?The New York Times?for its ��diligence, curiosity and excellence.�� In the words of?The New Yorker��s Alex Ross, ��few American players assume Haydn��s idiom with such ease.��
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The quartet came into being in November 2004, when composer Matthew Greenbaum invited violist Stephanie Griffin to perform Mario Davidovsky��s String Trio for events celebrating Judaism and Culture at New York��s Symphony Space and Temple University in Philadelphia. A residency through the composition department at Temple University ensued, and the rehearsals and performances were so satisfying that the players decided to form a quartet. Through this residency, Momenta gave two annual concerts highlighting the talents of Temple University student composers alongside 20th-century masterworks and works from the classical canon, repeating the programs at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. From the outset, Momenta treated all music equally, devoting as much time, care and commitment to the student works as to the imposing musical monuments.
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Word of Momenta��s passionate advocacy for emerging composers spread quickly. Composers started inviting Momenta for similar concerts and residencies at other academic institutions. Today, Momenta��s educational-performing circuit includes 91����, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Hawaii Pacific, Michigan State, New York, Temple, Tufts, Washington and Yeshiva Universities; Bard, Barnard, Bates, Haverford, Hunter, Ithaca, Lehman and Williams Colleges; and Boston, Cincinnati, Eastman and Mannes conservatories. Momenta has received commission grants from the Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Jerome Foundations, and a Chamber Music America commission for Alvin Singleton, whose resulting work, ��Hallelujah Anyhow�� (2019), is featured on their 2022 album of his complete string quartets. Deeply committed to the musical avant-garde of the developing world, Momenta has premiered and championed the works of Tony Prabowo (Indonesia), Cergio Prudencio (Bolivia) and Hana Ajiashvili (Georgia); has collaborated with numerous gamelan ensembles; and in 2018, was brought by the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Embassy La Paz to Cochabamba, Bolivia for new music concerts and a teaching-performing residency at the Instituto Laredo.
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Momenta has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian��s Freer Gallery, Rubin Museum, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Chamber Music Cincinnati, and the Louisville and Philadelphia Chamber Music Societies. Festival credits include the renowned Cervantino Festival in Mexico; MATA; Music from Japan; Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic; Red Note New Music; the Smithsonian��s ��Performing Indonesia��; the Yellow Barn Artist Residency; and since 2015, the quartet��s own annual member-curated Momenta Festival in New York City, featuring world premieres, guest artists, and samplings from Momenta's unique personal repertoire.
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Momenta has recorded for the Albany, Bridge, Centaur, Furious Artisans, Innova, Navona, New Focus, New World and PARMA labels; and has been broadcast on WQXR, Q2 Music, Austria��s Oe1 and Vermont Public Radio. The quartet��s latest album ��Alvin Singleton: Four String Quartets�� was released to critical acclaim in 2022 by New World Records. Their debut album, ��Similar Motion,�� featuring visionary works by Debussy, Philip Glass and Arthur Kampela, is available on Albany Records. Upcoming recording adventures include a project to record all thirteen string quartets by Mexican microtonal maverick Juli��n Carrillo (1875-1965) for Naxos, the complete string quartets of Roberto Sierra, and an American album featuring diverse works by Elizabeth Brown, Jason Hwang, Shawn Jaeger, Yusef Lateef, and Matthew Greenbaum.
The Momenta Quartet's 2025-26 season is made possible, in part, through the support of the Amphion Foundation and the Alice M. Ditson Fund.

Free admission.

Free Admission

University Composers premiere pocket sized operas, transforming stories written by local students into new works for the stage, performed by?Tri-Cities Opera's resident artists.

Transforming student stories into masterful mini-operas!

The Pocket Opera Project is telling stories with a distinct new voice! Local elementary and middle school students have been selected to have their story submissions transformed into mini-operas �� in collaboration with 91���� composers.

These incredible ��pocket operas�� come with big theatrical moments and tell deeply human stories filled with adventure, tragedy, and magic!

K-12 students who would like a chance to see their story transformed into a ��pocket opera�� in 2027 are encouraged to enter the??by May 1, 2026.

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