Perspectives Ensemble

New York, New York, United States

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Bringing great performances and context to the works of composers both living & historical.

Perspectives Ensemble was founded by its Artistic Director Sato Moughalian in 1993 as the resident ensemble for the series Perspectives in Music and Art at Columbia University. The ensemble has presented thematic concerts, contextualizing the work of composers as well as programs on subjects that bridge the visual, musical, and literary arts, consistently receiving the highest critical accolades. Among the programs presented are Familiar Strangers: Gypsy Musical Heritage; The 19th & 20th Century Melodrama; Under the Influence - Popular Culture and the Arts in 1920s Europe; Charles Tomlinson Griffes - An American Original; and The Prairie and the Search for an American Style and El Amor Brujo: Flamenco y Falla introducing the great cantaora Esperanza Fernandez to New York audiences in 1999. Praise from The New York Times includes “first-rate performances by accomplished musicians,” “a superb recital by the Perspectives Ensemble,” and “rhythms were remarkably precise, supple and subtle.”   Perspectives Ensemble collaborates with some of the most dynamic and visionary conductors today, including Angel Gil-Ordóñez, who became the group’s Principal Guest Conductor in 2012, Paul Hostetter, Rob Kapilow, Roger Nierenberg, Francisco Nuñez, and George Steel, in concerts and recordings that feature the works of living composers and historic figures, shedding new light on their work through explorations of their music in the context of their time and place. Perspectives Ensemble has collaborated with PostClassical Ensemble in programs of Spanish and Catalan music of the Modernist movement & for world premieres of music by Vadillo, Artero, Sotelo, & Erkoreka, and with The Foundation for Iberian Music for a program entitled Suriñach and the Creation of Modern Dance in New York. In 2010, Perspectives Ensemble presented a full evening of works by the Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, including the premiere of a specially commissioned work, Four Darks in Red, inspired by the American artist Mark Rothko. In 2011 MAYA Trio, a project of Perspectives Ensemble presented a program Music of Spain, collaborating with the Galician gaita player Cristina Pato, and presenting new works Eneko Vadillo, Gabriel Erkoreka, Cristina Pato, and Joan Valent. Perspectives Ensemble also presented a concert of New Works by Joan Valent, a Catalan composer at the City University Graduate Center, featuring the composer’s Quatre Estacions a Mallorca.  The New York Times called the ensemble’s performance of El Amor Brujo “stunning. Perspectives Ensemble worked [without a conductor], yet gave a performance that was remarkably polished, fastidiously balanced and full of electricity.” In May of 2012 Perspectives Ensemble was appointed Artist in Residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY Graduate Center.   Perspectives Ensemble has been presented in Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Lincoln Center, Columbia and New York Universities, the Morgan Library, the Ethical Culture Society, and has recorded for Sony Classics, Newport Classics, New World Records, and in September, 2012, for Naxos, among others. It has served as a resident ensemble for the Young People’s Chorus of NY’s Transient Glory commissioning program, and also for the Miller Theatre’s groundbreaking Pocket Concerto Project and Composer Portraits. Recordings include Sonnets to Orpheus by Richard Danielpour (Sony), Recollections by Karl Husa (New World), and Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Goddess of the Moon (Newport), of which The New York Times wrote: “The performances by the Perspectives Ensemble, an outstanding aggregation based in New York are first-rate, with particularly fine playing by the flutist Sato Moughalian.” The Perspectives Ensemble / MAYA Commissioning Project began in 2005, and Perspectives Recordings, featuring music of emerging composers, was launched in December 2007 with the release of its debut CD MAYA In The Spirit. MAYA Trio, a project of Perspectives Ensemble, subsequently released two more CDs, on the Innova and the American Modern Recordings labels featuring the work of composers Neil Rolnick and Robert Paterson.   <a href="http://www.perspectivesensemble.com">www.perspectivesensemble.com</a>  www.facebook.com/perspectivesensemble

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