Encounters partners with Duke Performances for 2013-14 yMusic Residency

Encounters: with the music of our time is joining with Duke Performances and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University, to present a yearlong residency with New York sextet yMusic.

yMusic will work with graduate composition students in the Department of Music, presenting their new works at a concert on March 25, 2014. On Nov. 5, yMusic will perform a concert of pieces from their upcoming second album.
 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Works by Timo Andres, Annie Clark, Judd Greenstein, Gabriel Kahane, Dave Longstreth, Son Lux, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden, and more
8 pm, Casbah, 1007 W. Main St., Durham
$15 general / $10 Duke students

Tuesday, March 25, 2014
New works by Duke graduate composers Ben Daniels, D. Edward Davis, Sid Richardson, Vladimir Smirnov, Kenneth David Stewart, and Justin Tierney.
8 pm, Motorco Music Hall, 723 Rigsbee Ave., Durham
$15 general / $10 Duke students
 

Photos of yMusic's recording session on Nov. 4, 2013 of a new work by Duke graduate composition student David Kirkland Garner.  (Photos by Robert Zimmerman. Click photos to view.)