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June 9 – Live Concert: Wild Shore New Music
June 9, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Wild Shore New Music Features the Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr.
Kenai Art Center welcomes Wild Shore New Music, a New York-based, Alaska-raised chamber music collective featuring composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 7 p.m at the Kenai Art Center located at 816 Cook Dr, Kenai, AK 99611.
The concert is a free event with a suggested donation of $20 at the door.
Wild Shore New Music presents new chamber music in south-central Alaska and is one of the only organizations dedicated to contemporary chamber music in the state of Alaska. Wild Shore fosters collaborations between living composers, versatile musicians from all over the U.S., and creative artists and residents from the state of Alaska. Founded in 2012 by three Alaska-raised musicians, Wild Shore presents concerts, lecture recitals, and education workshops across Alaska and the US. This year, Wild Shore will feature musicians from Alaska performing the works of Brooklyn-based composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and have a group of performers from New York and Alaska.
The program will feature several of Mr. Phillips’ works including Unlimited, from his larger work Changing Same. Mr. Phillip writes that Unlimited is “about my conscious acknowledgment of my heritage in popular and contemporary music and culture, but reflects a post-black aesthetic… Through a lens of individual experience, Changing Same explores some of this richness, diversity, and complexity of blackness in America during my lifetime.”
Other works include The Spell of Vanishing Loveliness, a piece about Mr. Phillips’ personal experience on the day the Twin Towers were attacked, and Never Has Been Yet, a piece for piano and narrator setting the text of Langston Hughes’ poem “Let America Be America Again.”
Performers Includes:
Sunrose Winslow, voice (Homer, AK)
Katie Cox, flute (Brooklyn, NY)
Sandra Cox, clarinet (Anchorage, AK)
Rose Crelli, violin (San Francisco, CA)
Andie Tanning, viola (Brooklyn, NY)
Mannfried Funk, cello (Homer, AK)
Kade Bissell, percussion (Anchorage, AK)
Scott Hansen, piano (Fairbanks, AK)
Jame Moore, guitar (Princeton, NJ)
Joseph C. Phillips Jr., composer/conductor (Brooklyn, NY)