Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s contemporary classical music ensemble, contraBAND, presents an energizing evening of avant-garde chamber works under the direction of Assistant Professor of Orchestral Studies and Contemporary Music Vimbayi Kaziboni. Program features:
GÉRARD GRISEY: Stèle (1995)
JOHANNES SCHÖLLHORN: Berstend-Starr (1993)
HENRY PURCELL: Fantasia 7 (1680, trans. 1995 by George Benjamin)
DAI FUJIKURA: Breathless (2004, rev. 2015)
JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND: His House Is Not of This Land (2015)
MISSY MAZZOLI: A Thousand Tongues (2009, rev. 2016)
KEVIN PUTS: And Legions Will Rise (2001, rev. 2010)
How to Watch
This performance will be livestreamed from Ipswich 106, starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Performers
Vimbayi Kaziboni, artistic director
FLUTE
Emma Rose Bauman, B.M. '21
CLARINET
Walter Yee, M.M. '21
PIANO
Jack Yarbrough, M.M. '21
PERCUSSION
Matthew Carey, M.M. '21
Wesley Fowler, M.M. '21
VIOLIN
Brian Stuligross, P.S.C. '21
VIOLA
Elizabeth Han, M.M. '22
CELLO
Alan Hlozek, B.M. '21
Featured Artist—Artistic Director Vimbayi Kaziboni
Zimbabwean-born conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni is an assistant professor of orchestral studies and contemporary music at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Kaziboni has served as assistant conductor to two of the foremost leading orchestras of contemporary music, Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris, France) and Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt, Germany), ensembles he now regularly guest conducts. In addition to these ensembles, regular collaborators include the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Frankfurt), International Contemporary Ensemble (New York), Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva), the Omaha Symphony, Hamburg Camerata, the Dream Unfinished (New York), Omnibus Ensemble (Tashkent), and the Martha Graham Dance Company (New York).
Kaziboni has led many critically lauded performances across the globe, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan, performing at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, Lincoln Center, South Bank Centre, Philharmonie de Paris, Elbphilharmonie, Deutschlandfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Oper Frankfurt, and Sala Sao Paulo, among others.
In the upcoming season, Kaziboni will debut at the Berlin Philharmonie, Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Royal Concertgebouw. He will also make debuts conducting the London Sinfonietta, Boston Lyric Opera, Grossman Ensemble (Chicago), Los Angeles Philharmonic National Composers Intensive, and will serve as assistant conductor to Sir Simon Rattle at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall in London.
Among the foremost interpreters of modern and contemporary music of his generation, Kaziboni has worked directly with many of the leading composers of the day that include Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, George Benjamin, Heiner Goebbels, Augusta Read Thomas, John Adams, George Lewis, Liza Lim, Morten Lauridsen, Dai Fujikura, Rebecca Saunders, Matthias Pintscher, Olga Neuwirth, Bruno Mantovani, Nicolaus A. Huber, and Jacob TV, among many others.
A former Fulbright Fellow (2013–2014), Kaziboni holds degrees from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Germany.