The Music for Peace Project: Stony Brook

March 28 - April 2, 2006

The Music for Peace Project: Stony Brook is sponsored by:
The Musicians' Alliance for Peace, The Charles B. Wang Center, The Department of Music, The Univeristy Cafe, Undergraduate Student Government, The Graduate Student Organization, The Graduate School, Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action, The College of Arts and Sciences, The Office of Student Affairs, The Office of the President, The Communter Students' Association, NYPIRG, The Humanities Institute, The Office of the Provost, The Office of the Dean of Students, The Latin American and Carribbean Studies Center, Undergraduate College of Leadership and Development, The Program in Women's Studies, The Department of Art, The Social Justice Alliance, The Department of Africana Studies, The Latin American Students' Organization, Catholic Campus Ministry, Friends of Flax Pond, the Sulfolk County Peace Network and numerous local businesses.

Helpful info below:

Stony Brook Campus map:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/map/
(Click on the Academic Mall for a larger view; all festival venues will be visible.)

Festival venues:
Staller Center for the Arts (Staller Center Recital Hall)
Charles B. Wang Asian-American Center (Wang Center Theater, Wang Center Chapel)
Student Activities Center (SAC) (SAC Auditorium)
Student Union (University Café; entrance is at western end of building)

Directions to Stony Brook University:
By train, ferry, car, or plane (also parking info, where to stay):
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/visiting.shtml

Local taxi service:
Lindy's Taxi (631) 473-0707

Questions? Email us at: peacefestival@m4p.org

Concert details

March 29

Bakithi Kumalo and The South African All-Stars present
Set it Free: A Journey Through Apartheid
March 29, 4:00pm The University Café
International recording artist Bakithi Kumalo, best known for his indelible contributions to the music industry, including Paul Simon's Graceland album, recounts his life in the townships of Johannesburg, and how music has shaped his path. Since age 7, Bakithi found that music had a way of bringing people together regardless of race, culture or beliefs. Set It Free: A Journey Through Apartheid gives insight to understanding the delicate balance of life in South Africa. Embark on a journey into South Africa: beyond images of South African poverty, violence, HIV, and diamonds lies a complex nation of people. Hear about Bakithi's experience growing up Zulu during apartheid, and his journey through that time.

Musicians' Alliance for Peace concert
March 29, 8:00pm Staller Center Recital Hall
Pieces and performers include:

• Sophie Patey, piano: Ligeti Etudes No. 4, "Fanfares" (1985)
• Leopoldo Erice, piano: Schubert Piano Sonata, Slow Movement
• Luba Poliak, piano: Debussy "L'isle Joyeux"
• Kirsten, cello and Leo, piaon: Rachmaninoff Sonata Op. 19 for piano and cello
• Christine Free, alto: Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs: "Nature, the Gentlest Mother" ; "There came a Wind like a Bugle" ; "I've heard an Organ Talk Sometimes"
• Kathleen Flynn, mezzo-soprano and Leo, piano: Schubert song
• Tuyen Tonnu, piano: Buddhist piano piece
• Kathleen, mezzo and Ellen Lindquist, piano: Britten folksong, "O Waly, Waly"
• Intrada Winds (or a flute solo by Conor)
• Jenny Labonte, double bass

March 30

Concert: Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
March 30, 8:00pm Staller Center Recital Hall
Program:
George Crumb - Idyll for the Misbegotten
Kaija Saariaho - Cendres
Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique
Arnold Schoenberg - Kammersymphonie 1

March 30 - April 30

A Mantra for Peace
March 30 through April 30
Opening and reception: March 30, 4:00pm Wang Center Skylight Lobby

A Mantra for Peace is an art exhibition whose goal is to establish a space of dialogue in which different visions of 'peace' come into contact and coexist. The exhibition has been conceived as a tangible way of presenting a diversity of voices together that intone the word 'peace' as their mantra, crossing cultural, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. The exhibition is based on the act of inviting artists from around the world to send a piece of artwork through the mail that reflects on the word 'peace' and invokes its name as a mantra. 'Mantra' is the repetition of a sacred word or verse which creates a singularly focused musical vibration that solicits higher spiritual forces. The mantra's shape, meaning, and color resonate with the universe's own form and sounds, and its iteration allows for a contemplative, peaceful state that harmonically connects the physical and the immaterial. Artists were also asked to invite others to participate as well, and the exhibition has organically extended its branches to unforseeable places expanding this call for peace and understanding through art and music.

The aim of A Mantra for Peace is to bring together in a single visual chant a multiplicity of languages and visions by means of art works that intone 'peace' as their mantra.

Curated by Carla Macchiavello

A Mantra for Peace is sponsored by Stony Brook University's Musicians' Alliance for Peace, Charles B. Wang Center, Department of Art, Dialogues Across Differences, and The President's Office.

List of Participating artists:

• Carlos Alarcón(Colombia/Spain)
• Sylvia Arévalo Noordam(Netherlands/England)
• Sofía Botero(Colombia)
• Alton Fabretti (USA)
• María Joé Fernández (Chile)
• Margarita Irarrázabal(Chile)
• Maite Izquierdo Armendáriz (Chile)
• Laura Leonicio (Chile)
• Enrique Moreiro (Spain)
• Nicole Pemjean (Chile)
• Soledad Pinto (Chile)
• Claudio Quinteros (Chile)
• Ernesto Salmerón(Nicaragua)
• Daniel Sánchez(Peru)
• Wally Schlechter Snow-Valenzuela (Chile)
• Inéz Szigueti (Argentina)
• Paulina Urmeneta (Chile)
• Guadalupe Valdés (Chile)
• Germán Tagle (Chile)
• Daniela Veas (Chile)

A Piece of Peace
2005-2006
Postcards sent from around the world
Organized by Takafumi Ide

March 31

Concert: Colin Carr, cello with Thomas Sauer, piano
March 31, 4:00pm Staller Center Recital Hall
Program: Profofieff Sonata in C major op. 119; Beethoven Sonata in D major op. 102, no. 2; Chopin Sonata in g minor op. 65

April 1

Talk and Meditation Instruction: Karen Porterfield
Manifesting Genuine Heart: Meditation as a Path of Peace
April 1, 10:00am Wang Center Chapel
Description:
Will personal and societal aggression ever cease? Can we expect it to? In this experiential workshop, we will address the notion of 'peace' and our ideas about what 'peaceful' might look like. From the Buddhist point of view, as we relax our concepts, we are often in a better position to relate with the world as it is. With this, we can discover our inherent goodness and bring our genuine heart and sense of humor to the world, regardless of the circumstances.

Concert: Sacred Spaces
April 1, 4:00pm Wang Center Theatre
Performances by Asian artists of the Stony Brook community that will bring us to sacred spaces of tranquility, elation, ecstasy and transcendence. Featured performances include DDKY, a Korean drum group, and Mustard Seed, a collaboration between Indian classical dancer Malini Srinivasan and composer Ilari Kaila.

Mustard Seed is a dance piece based on a Buddhist tale about a woman who has lost her baby son. Overwhelmed by grief, she pleads for the Buddha to save her by bringing her son back to life. The Buddha promises to help her, on the condition that she brings back a mustard seed from a household that has never experienced death. The woman begins her search for the mustard seed, but finds that every house she visits has indeed experienced death. Now overwhelmed by the universality of her grief, she understands the lesson the Buddha teaches.

Mustard Seed is choreographed by Malini Srinivasan, a classical Bharatanatyam dancer, using the movement and _expression techniques of Bharatanatyam. The music for Mustard Seed is composed by Ilari Kaila. The music is based on Western classical music but also incorporates some South Asian elements.

April 2

Meditations for Peace concert
April 2, 12 noon Wang center Chapel
Pieces and performers include:

• Dawn and Musicology a cappella, OR just Dawn: Scottish folksong "The Banks of the Nile"
• Elena Yarritu, flute: Takemitsu
• Tenny: "Swell Piece" (all performers)
• Kathleen and Jim: Ellen's piece
• Michelle W, bass and Lisa, gamba: Baroque piece
• Kirsten: J.S. Bach Suite No.1 for Unaccompanied Cello

Artists to Include:

Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players

The Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (the CCP) is part of the performance program of the Department of Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island. The group is co-directed by renowned performance faculty artists Gilbert Kalish and Eduardo Leandro.

The CCP ensemble performs a large number of concerts annually including several in New York City and on tour. These include the World Premieres Concert, Stony Brook Composers Concerts, Percussion Plus, Postmodern, 20th Century Classics and other new music concerts.

Players from the CCP have been heard in performance with groups such as Continuum, New Millennium, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Aequalis, New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Earplay, The Guild Trio and many other new music groups.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/cchamber

Colin Carr

Colin Carr has appeared throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.

As a concerto soloist, Colin Carr has played with major orchestras worldwide including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia and Montreal, with Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowaczewski and Marriner. He has played at the BBC Proms, toured Australia twice and has recently played concertos in South Korea, Malaysia and New Zealand. Recent highlights also include his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Mark Elder which led to immediate engagements with Elder and the Hallé Orchestra playing Dvorak, Elgar and Walton Concertos. Other memorable performances have been the Dvorak Concerto to close the Prague Autumn Festival and Beethoven Triple Concerto with Sir Colin Davis conducting at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Recitals take him to major cities each season. He has given recitals in the US with the distinguished pianist Lee Luvisi and has recently performed five cycles of the Bach Suites including London and New York. As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio he recorded and toured extensively for twenty years before forming Sequenza with Mark Kaplan and Yael Weiss. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

His recordings of the unaccompanied cello works of Kodaly, Britten, Crumb and Schuller and Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello performed live at Boston's Jordan Hall (GM Recordings) have been highly acclaimed. He has recorded the Brahms Sonatas with Mr Luvisi for Arabesque. He was also the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic on a BBC Music Magazine cover CD.

Colin Carr is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award and Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition.

He first played the cello at the age of five; three years later he went to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Maurice Gendron and later William Pleeth. He was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998 having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years; in 1998 St. John's College, Oxford created the post of "Musician in Residence" for him and in September 2002 he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

He is playing on the Marquis de Corberon Stradivarius, generously loaned by the Royal Academy of Music.

Colin lives with his wife Caroline and 3 young children Clifford, Frankie and Anya in an old house outside Oxford.

http://www.carolinebairdartists.co.uk/html/carr-1.htm
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/carr

Folklore Urbano

Folklore Urbano features the original music and arrangements of NYC composer/arranger/pianist Pablo Mayor. In his music, the seductive Colombian rhythms of his native country entwine with sophisticated jazz harmonies and form, inciting both dance and intrigue. The sound is fresh; New York City-based Folklore Urbano features a stellar jazz horn section comprised of soprano/alto saxophone, euphonium, baritone saxophone, and flute, a jazz rhythm section (drumset, bass, and piano), Colombian folkloric drums/ percussion (tambora, alegre, maracas), and most recently, trumpet and vocals.

Folklore Urbano forges new territory by presenting the improvisatory elements of jazz while retaining the rhythm and flavor of a Colombian tradition that is mostly unknown today. The group's CD, Aviso, has been broadcast throughout South America, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico, Miami, and New York.
http://www.folkloreurbano.com/

Bakithi Kumalo

Bakithi Kumalo is well known for his indelible bass licks on Paul Simon's Graceland album, released in 1986. His precise and sinuous bass lines went far beyond simply marking time: they thundered out a countdown for the dismemberment of apartheid. Considered one of the world's most talented living bassists, this South African's musical style reflects world influences, including South African traditional folk, contemporary jazz, salsa and electronica. Vocalist Robbi Kumalo, an exhilarating singer-songwriter who has worked with Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and Harry Belafonte, infuses jazzy interpretations with African chants. This inspirational concert reminds us all that we are connected through music.
http://boneinthenose.com/

Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabeg, is an internationally acclaimed expert on social and environmental concerns. She has won numerous awards for her proactive solutions to local and global problems, which use music to give a voice to many who go unheard. Ms. LaDuke, who co-chairs the Indigenous Women's Network, has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award, the BIHA Community Service Award, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights award. With the money from the latter she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project; she is also program director of the Honor the Earth Fund, for which work she received Ms. Magazine's Woman of the Year Award.
http://www.speakoutnow.org/People/WinonaLaDuke.html

Karen Porterfield

Karen Porterfield's formal musical training began and ended with bagpipe lessons in junior high. Nevertheless, her quest for a larger perspective took her to India and Nepal in the mid-1980's, where she became a Buddhist. Having studied with a number of prominent masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, she practices and teaches today within the Shambhala community of Chõgyam Trungpa Rinpoche. To more directly integrate the learnings of her Buddhist practice into her professional work, she left her career in arts administration in 1998 to obtain an M.B.A. and pursue work as an organizational consultant.

Sativasur

Sativasur was created in the Fall of 2005 with the intent of exploring the rich traditions of Colombian folk music within the context of improvisation.

The diversity of its members' interests and backgrounds produces a rich variety of elements - ranging from folk melodies and rhythms to free jazz - that combine to create a unique and fresh sound.

The group considers itself an integral part of a much larger movement of young Colombian artists, both in their country and elsewhere, who are searching for a new approach to folkloric elements as the essence of their output.

Members: Ricardo Gallo (piano), Alejandro Flórez (guitar), Jim McNamara (bass), Sam Sadigursky (saxophones/flute), Martín Vejarano Ávila (drums/percussion)

http://sativasur.alejandroflorez.com/

Thomas Sauer

B.M., The Curtis Institute of Music; M.M., The Mannes College of Music; D.M.A., The City University of New York

Thomas Sauer teaches piano, Musicianship Skills, and Fundamentals of Music at Vassar. An active performer, he is a member of the Mannes Trio--ensemble-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music in New York City--and frequently collaborates with noted instrumentalists such as violinist Midori, violist Misha Amory, and cellist Colin Carr. Recent appearances include a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Quad-City Symphony, a performance of Birtwistles Harrison's Clocks at Merkin Hall, solo recitals at Oxford University and the Garden City Chamber Music Society; recitals with Colin Carr at St. John's College, Oxford and the Wolf Trap Center; recitals with violinist Mark Steinberg at Princeton and Yale Universities; performances at the Marlboro, Portland, Seattle, El Paso Pro Musica, Four Seasons, and Salt Bay Chamber Music Festivals; recitals with Midori at the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels; performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress; and numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet. His recording with Misha Amory of two Hindemith viola sonatas is available on the Musical Heritage Society label and his recording of five Haydn piano sonatas has recently been released by MSR Classics. He has also recorded for the Tzadik label, and appears on discs issued by the Seattle, Portland, and Salt Bay Chamber Music Festivals. In recent seasons, Mr. Sauer has premiered works by Robert Cuckson, Sebastian Currier, Keith Fitch, David Loeb, Donald Martino, and David Tcimpidis.

Mr. Sauer holds degrees from the Curtis Institute, the Mannes College of Music, and the City University of New York. His major teachers include Jorge Bolet, Edward Aldwell, and Carl Schachter. Mr. Sauer has served on the music faculty at Vassar College since 1998. He is the founder and director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute and co-artistic director of Chamber Music Quad Cities, a festival based in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.
http://www.mannes.edu/college/studying_at_mannes/college_programs/biography.jsp?b=14841