…is a soprano-clarinet duo dedicated
to performing standards in 20th and 21st century repertoire, contemporary works that are underperformed, and new commissions. NOISE-BRIDGE is especially dedicated to the experience of the audience. The duo was formed in 2009 when German clarinetist Felix Behringer and soprano Christie Finn met in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. NOISE-BRIDGE has performed as such venues as The Tank NYC, Vicky Chow‘s contagious sounds series at the Gershwin Hotel, and An Die Musik LIVE! (Baltimore, Maryland). NOISE-BRIDGE often works with American and European composers, many of whom collaborated with the duo at Darmstadt 2010.
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Current Project: Tandem, a collaboration
with Chicago-based composer Christopher Fisher-Lochhead
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Recent concert: Dialogues
26 May 2011
Gershwin Hotel / New York City
contagious sounds series,
curated by pianist Vicky Chow
Featured PREMIERES by
Gregory Emfietzis, Frederik Neyrinck, Nicholas Peters, and Stuart Saunders Smith, as well as works by Matt Aelmore, Turkar Qasimzadeh, and a new arrangement of Jimmy Roberts.
Information about the concert:
As members of a duo, the concept of “dialogue,” which is defined as both a conversation and an exchange of ideas or opinions, also defines our existence. And, as performers of new music, we are in a constant dialogue with composers. This concert represents many dialogues over the past year between us and with our composer friends in New York and Baltimore as well as abroad. All of the pieces on this concert are either premieres, new arrangements, or were premiered earlier in 2011 by NOISE-BRIDGE. Many of the composers whose works will be heard on this concert were commissioned to write works for NOISE-BRIDGE while working with the duo at the 45th International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany in July 2010.
Click for audio: Turkar Qasimzadeh’s “birds whisper“
Past repertoire includes…
Matt Aelmore: Aria of a Young Woman (commissioned by NOISE-BRIDGE)
Drake Ralph Anderson: Photons (commissioned by NOISE-BRIDGE)
Tzvi Avni: Leda and the Swan
Stuart Saunders Smith: Notebook
Ralph Vaughn Williams: Three Vocalises