April 15, 2018
the wulf@Automata:
Morgan Evans-Weiler
Michael Pisaro
Morgan Evans-Weiler will perform a new work for solo violin titled General Motions in Relation. He will also be joined by Los Angeles composer/performer, Michael Pisaro, for a performance of his work Concepts of Sustain.
Morgan Evans-Weiler maintains a busy performance schedule and has performed throughout the United States. He is director of the New England based ensemble ‘Ordinary Affects’ whom have performed works by Eva-Maria Houben, Magnus Granberg and premiered works by Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger and Michael Pisaro.
His album ‘Violin/Sine’ was called ‘transfixing’ by writer Steve Smith and included in the Boston Globe’s list of ‘Best Local Classical Albums of 2015’. Chicago writer, Peter Margasak, writes "the degree of focus and the richness of Evans-Weiler’s sound-worlds are nothing short of astonishing" about the recent recording 'Unfinished Variations (for Jed Speare)'. His music has been released on the ‘Suppedaneum’, 'Another Timbre' and Weigher' recording labels and he has forthcoming releases on ‘Rhizome’ and ‘ErstAEU’.
Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, and a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble. He has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. A particularly large category of his works is solo works, notably a series of 36 pieces (grouped into 6 longer works) for the three-year, 156-concert series organized by Carlo Inderhees at the Zionskirche in Berlin-Mitte from 1997-1999. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, and was selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) Most of his music of the last several years is published by Timescaper Music (Germany). Two CDs of his work have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records.