We are chuffed to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang to the Help Desk this November! He is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can and his work has been recorded on the Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi, Teldec, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, and Cantaloupe labels, among others. And it would probably be more efficient to list the major performers and ensembles that haven’t played his work, rather than the staggering number of those that have.
So, yeah. David knows a thing or two about this business we call music. A brief hangout – a chance to vent, encourage, and check in – will immediately follow the presentation.
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The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated. Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and keep creativity flowing for artists hemmed in by the ongoing struggles of the past two seasons.
We will select a few questions in advance and then open it up to attendees using the Zoom Q&A feature. Which is to say, even if yours is not one of the few chosen beforehand, you can still ask us your question live during the event. If we don't get to your query this time around, have no fear. We’ll keep all submissions in the mix for future Help Desk sessions.
This is frankly a scary time for all of us in the arts. We hope the New Music Help Desk brings at least a little glimmer of hope and assistance to our fellow artists.
Spektral Quartet’s programming is supported by our members, our donors, and by the following foundations and organizations:
