Brass Ensemble DIAPASON Presents
LONG GRADUS by Sarah Davachi
CLOUDS by Ellen Arkbro
Sunday, December 17 2023 at 8pm
The premiere performance of the full brass version of Long Gradus by Sarah Davachi. This long form work will be performed by the LA-based brass quartet Diapason. The concert will also feature a rare performance of Ellen Arkbro’s Clouds for three microtonal tubas.
Diapason is a Los Angeles-based brass ensemble composed of Mattie Barbier (trombone and euphonium), Nev Wendell (trumpet and slide trumpet), Nicholas Ginsburg (french horn), Mason Moy (tuba). Guest artist Luke Storm (tuba) will join for these performances.
Tickets:
Sunday, December 17, 2023, 8pm
$15 Students, members, seniors, underemployed
$18 General Admission
Seating is extremely limited, advance reservations strongly encouraged
About the Composers:
Sarah Davachi (b. 1987, Canada) is a composer and performer whose work is concerned with the close intricacies of timbral and temporal space, utilizing extended durations and considered harmonic structures that emphasize gradual variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and tuning and intonation. Her compositions span solo, chamber ensemble, and acousmatic formats, incorporating a wide range of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. Similarly informed by minimalist and longform tenets, early music concepts of form, affect, and intervallic modal harmony, as well as experimental production practices of the studio environment, in her sound is an intimate and patient experience that lessens perceptions of the familiar and the distant. https://www.sarahdavachi.com/
Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer, musician, and sound artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony and installation. Arkbro composes for acoustic instruments, synthetic sounds, and combinations of the two. https://www.ellenarkbro.com/