Over fifty students and thirteen faculty from the finest music conservatories and institutions will be part of SICPP 2023.
UCCS Music Faculty will join the SICPP faculty in both instruction and performance.
SICPP has been housed at the New England Conservatory in Boston for the past twenty-five years under SICPP Artistic Director, NEC Professor, and pianist Stephen Drury. Dr. Marti Epstein, Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music is the UCCS / Green Box Composer in Residence for SICPP 2023.
UCCS Music Faculty will join the SICPP in both instruction and performance.
Find the complete concert programs below.
Consisting of programs in Performance, Composition, and Electronic Music, SICPP faculty and student concerts will feature composers such as Karleinz Stockhausen, Anton Webern, George Lewis, Lei Ling, Yvonne Wu, Helmut Lachenmann, Chinary Ung, Andres Carrizo, Amy Williams, and many more.
With over fifty students from the top music institutions in the nation, the week wraps up with a marathon of student concerts.
*The final SICPP performances on June 30 will be held at opening day of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls and feature the music of Composer-in-Residence Dr. Marti Epstein, among others.
Sunday, June 25
SICPP I: Repertoire for Solo Piano
Chapman Foundations Recital Hall
7:30pm-9pm
Purchase tickets for June 25 performances
Marti Epstein: Haven (2006)
Stephen Drury, piano
Nicholas Vines: AntipodEntoMenagerie: twenty-one miniatures for piano
Ryan McCullough, piano
John Psathas: Avenoir
Corey Hamm, piano
Karlheinz Stockhausen: selections from Natural Durations
Yukiko Takagi, piano
Monday, June 26
SICPP II: Mirrors and Water Bowls
Chapman Foundations Recital Hall
7:30pm-9pm
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Chinary Ung: from “Seven Mirrors”:
1 – A Window in the Sky
2 – Dotted Path
3 – “…Roar, lion of the heart…”
5 – “…space between the fish and the moon.”
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano
György Kurtág:. Requiem po drugu, Op. 26 (1987)
Haleh Abghari, soprano
Andrés Carrizo, piano
Rahilia Hasanova: Agog – Sonata for Clarinet
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Younghi Pagh-Paan: AA-GA 1
Stephen Marotto, cello
Amy Williams: Child’s Play
Jan, Stuart Gerber
Marti Epstein: Waterbowls
Corey Hamm, piano
Tuesday, June 27
SICPP III: Chamber Music, Inside on the Outside
Heller Center for Arts & Humanities
*free admission*
7pm-9pm
Student Ecoacoustic Ensemble and wind harps (outside)
George Lewis: Tuning In
Stuart Gerber, Jan Berry Baker
Anton Webern: Drei Lieder, op. 25
Haleh Abghari, soprano
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano
Jerome Combier: Dog Eat Dog
Stephen Marotto, cello
Colin McAllister, guitar
Andrés Carrizo: Voces (2017)
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Younghi Pagh-Paan: AA-GA 1
Stephen Marotto, cello
Toshio Hosokawa: Vertical Time Study I
Stephen Drury, Stephen Marotto, Gleb Kanasevich
Wednesday, June 28
SICPP IV: an Evening of Kontakte and Electro Acoustic Music
Osborne Studio Theater
7:30pm-9pm
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte
Stephen Drury, Stuart Gerber
Lei Liang: Migration
Paul Beaudoin: The complex responsibility of a simple line
Stephen Drury
Jon Forshee, trumpet and electronics – world premiere
Glen Whitehead, trumpet
Thursday, June 29
SICPP V: Iditarod, part I – Student New Works and other Repertoire
Chapman Foundations Recital Hall
3pm-10pm
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Student Showcase including Marti Epstein: The Nemophilist
Friday, June 30
SICPP VI: Iditarod, part II – Electronic Music Program Student Compositions, Kontakte Reprise
Osborne Studio Theater
*free admission*
11am-2pm
SICPP VII: SICPP Finale featuring the music of Marti Epstein
Green Box Arts Festival
*free admission*
5pm-6pm
Farm Stand
Student Ecoacoustic Ensemble
Glen Whitehead: excerpts from Pale Blue
Glen Whitehead, trumpet
“Timber” by Michael Gordon for six percussionists
*free admission*
7:30pm
Church in the Wildwood
Marti Epstein: A View From My Window
Glen Whitehead, trumpet
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano
Marti Epstein: Hothouse
Stephen Drury, Yukiko Takagi, piano
Marti Epstein: Shades of Blue
Stephen Marotto, cello
Marti Epstein: The Spangled Sea, Calm and Cool
Jan Berry Baker, tenor sax
Corey Hamm, piano
SICPP VIII: Iditarod, part III
Green Box Arts Festival
Marti Epstein: The Piano at the Palace Beautiful
Pauline Pu, piano
Marti Epstein: American Etudes
various puppies
Marti Epstein: To Streak With Several Colors
2 violas
Marti Epstein: Lazy Susan
vc, pno
Yvonne Wu: Inflection: Two
Jan Berry Baker, Stuart Gerber, puppies
- UCCS students receive free admission.
To reserve your ticket contact the Ent Center Box Office at 719-255-8181 or tickets@uccs.edu.
General admission tickets are $10, $8 seniors and military (unless noted as free).
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