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"Those thirty minutes number among the most intense I’ve experienced as a listener...The close-up, multiple angle and high resolution shots of the performance gave

a view not even accessible to an audience member sitting in the front row.” — Elizabeth Lyon in The Hudson Review

 

Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts

 announces

 

LIVE FROM COLUMBIAPop-Ups from Morningside Campus

Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts

Miller Theatre continues its popular Pop-Up Concerts series,

offering audiences a virtual front-row seat to three performancesfilmed on Columbia University's Morningside campus.

Virtual • Free as always

Featuring performances by

Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Filmed from the Miller Theatre stageLive Stream: Saturday, September 18 at 4pm

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Filmed in Butler Library's famous reading roomVideo Premiere: Tuesday, October 12 at 7pm

Yarn/Wire

Filmed from the Miller Theatre stageVideo Premiere: Tuesday. November 9 at 7pm

Concerts in the Live from Columbia series are livestreamed

or filmed live and premiered throughout the Fall 2021 season,with on-demand streaming available immediately after.

millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia *

Miller Theatre will announce its full 2021-22 season later this fall.

From Melissa Smey, Executive DirectorArts Initiative and Miller Theatre:

"I am thrilled to continue our Live from Columbia series with the School of the Arts,welcoming a global audience to incredible, free performances. This fall we celebrateMiller Theatre’s commitment to contemporary  music, with two world premierespresented alongside important recent works. Viewers will enjoy an immersive, up-close perspective of beautifully filmed performances on the Morningside campus. Iam especially excited to share one of Columbia's most iconic reading rooms in ButlerLibrary for a rare concert event."

LIVE FROM COLUMBIAPop-Ups from Morningside Campus

Co-presented with Columbia School of the Arts

Miller invites the public to take a virtual front-row seat to performances by world-classmusicians as part of its celebrated (and free) Pop-Up Concerts. In anticipation of the returnof in-person programming, Miller shares rare, up-close access to concert experiences inunique Columbia settings, and highlights its commitment to contemporary music,including the long-awaited world premiere of Mundoagua,  a new commission from theSchool of the Arts in honor of Columbia's Year of Water. In previous years of Pop-Up Concerts, audiences sat onstage and enjoyed a free drinkduring these hour-long weeknight concerts, and mingled with the musicians and fellowconcertgoers after the show. This season’s iteration features a change in setting for theperformers and the listeners, but still offers the same intimate opportunity to experiencemusic—virtually.

Viewers can tune in to millertheatre.com/live-from-columbia to watch andlearn more.

Arturo O'Farrill, photo by Laura Mariet

Live Stream: Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 4pmFilmed from the Miller Theatre stage

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

This fall, as campus life and society relaunch, art plays a leading role. Livestreamed fromthe Miller stage, located just inside the entry gates to the Morningside campus, ArturoO’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform an exciting program. 

In 2019, Columbia University launched the Year of Water, an interdisciplinaryinvestigation of water in all of its social, political, cultural, economic, and environmentalcomplexities. As part of the initiative, the School of the Arts commissioned the composer,musician, and seven-time GRAMMY Award-winner Arturo O’Farrill to write a new work.Mundoagua receives its long-awaited world premiere, paired with another work byO’Farrill, Gulab Jamón, both performed by the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, “one of the bestjazz orchestras in existence" (The New Yorker).

Program:Arturo O’Farrill:  Mundoagua (2020) world premiere, commissioned by ColumbiaUniversity School of the Arts in honor of Columbia's Year of WaterArturo O’Farrill: Gulab Jamón (2019)Commissioned by The Greene Space through the auspices of the J L Greene Foundation

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Plus: A Special Lecture by Arturo O'FarrillTuesday, September 14

More info and Livestream at https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/events/arturo-ofarrill-transposing-genres-

fluidity-arts

Transposing Genres — Fluidity in the ArtsIntroduced by Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts

Arturo O’Farrill, composer, pianist, and Professor of Global Jazz Studies at UCLA’s HerbAlpert School of Music, will discuss several aspects of his music, including how a classicallytrained musician with an Irish-Mexican-Cuban-German heritage and a propensity towardthe avant-garde became the poster boy for Afro Latin Jazz, as well as the creative process inhis music, his influences, process, and his newest composition, Mundoagua. Co-presented by the Arts Initiative; Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia Global Centers, Institute for Latin

American Studies, The Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Miller Theatre, Mortimer B.

Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, and the School of the Arts.

Simone Dinnerstein, photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Video premiere: Tuesday, October 12 at 7pmFilmed in Butler Library

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Presented in collaboration with Columbia University Libraries

Composer Richard Danielpour listened repeatedly to pianist Simone Dinnerstein’srecording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations over the pandemic in search of solace and peace.During that time he became inspired to write a new work for solo piano dedicated to themany individuals affected by this dark period. Dinnerstein performs An American Mosaicin the rare setting of one of Columbia’s most iconic reading rooms in the prestigious ButlerLibrary.

Program:Richard Danielpour: An American Mosaic (2020) originally commissioned by Oregon Bach Festival

Yarn/Wire, photo by Cherylynn Tsushima

Video premiere: Tuesday, November 9 at 7pmFilmed from the Miller Theatre stage

Yarn/WireLaura Barger and Julia Den Boer, piano

Russell Greenberg and Sae Hashimoto, percussion

The “fearless” (Time Out NY) percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire performs a pair ofworks written expressly for them. Thomas Meadowcroft’s Walkman Antiquarian, whichjuxtaposes music technologies to create an altogether unique sonic experience, is pairedwith the world premiere of Laminar Flow by the Italian composer and sound artist ZenoBaldi.

Program:Thomas Meadowcroft: Walkman Antiquarian for grand piano, sampler, and twopercussion (2013)Zeno Baldi: Laminar Flow for piano and percussion quartet (2020-21), world premiere

About the Artists

Arturo O’Farrill

Arturo O'Farrill (pianist, composer, and educator) was born in Mexico and grew up inNew York City. He received his formal musical education at the Manhattan School of Musicand the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. His professional career beganwith the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists

including Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte. In 2007, O’Farrill founded the  Afro Latin Jazz Alliance  as a not-for-profit organizationdedicated to the performance, education, and preservation of Afro Latin music. InDecember 2010, he traveled with the original Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra toCuba, returning his father’s musicians to his homeland. He continues to travel to Cubaregularly as an informal cultural ambassador, working with Cuban musicians, dancers, andstudents, and bringing local musicians from Cuba to the U.S. and American musicians toCuba. Arturo O’Farrill has performed with orchestras and bands including his own Afro LatinJazz Orchestra and the Arturo O’Farrill Sextet, as well as other orchestras and intimateensembles in the U.S., Europe, Russia, Australia, and South America. An avid supporter ofall the arts, he has performed with Ballet Hispanico and the Malpaso Dance Company, forwhom he has written three ballets. In addition, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company toured aballet entitled “Open Door,” choreographed by Ron Brown to several of O’Farrill’scompositions and recordings. Ron Brown’s Evidence Dance Company has commissionedhim to compose New Conversations, which premiered in the summer of 2018 at Jacob’sPillow in Becket, MA. He has received commissions from Meet the Composer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, ThePhiladelphia Music Project, The Apollo Theater, Symphony Space, the Bronx Museum ofthe Arts, the Young People's Chorus of New York, Columbia University, and the New YorkState Council on the Arts. O’Farrill’s well-reviewed and highly praised “Afro-Latin Jazz Suite” from the album CUBA:The Conversation Continues  (Motéma) took the 2016 GRAMMY Award for BestInstrumental Composition and the 2016 Latin GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.His powerful “Three Revolutions” from the album Familia-Tribute to Chico and Bebo wasthe 2018 GRAMMY Award winner for Best Instrumental Composition. His most recentalbum Four Questions  (ZOHO), which  won the 2020 GRAMMY  Award (his seventh) forBest Latin Jazz Album, is the first to embody all original compositions, including the titletrack, which features the brilliant orator Dr. Cornel West.

 

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

The GRAMMY Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), led by ArturoO’Farrill, brings together big band jazz, Latin music, and eighteen of the world’s mostaccomplished solo musicians. Eighteen years of critically acclaimed performancesinternationally have firmly established the ALJO as the standard-bearer for creativeinterpretation of Latin jazz greats such as Tito Puente, Frank “Machito” Grillo, and ChicoO’Farrill, as well as the driving force behind new commissions from Latin music’s mosttalented composers and arrangers.

The ALJO has performed at Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, Lincoln CenterOut-of-Doors, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Symphony Hall, BRICCelebrate Brooklyn! Festival, The Newport Festival, Litchfield Jazz Festival (Kent, CT),Joyce Theater (New York) and Mahalia Jackson Theater (New Orleans, GA), with Ballet

Hispánico, Rialto Center for the Performing Arts (Atlanta, GA), Megaron Concert Hall(Athens, Greece), and the Taichung Jazz Festival (Taiwan), among numerous other venuesaround the world. The ALJO has commissioned and performed new compositions and bigband arrangements by Antonio Sánchez, Miguel Zenón, Dafnis Prieto, Guillermo Klein,Pablo Mayor, Michele Rosewoman, Emilio Solla, Papo Vázquez, Vijay Iyer, as well asO’Farrill, and many others. 

Simone Dinnerstein

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is known as “an artist of strikingly original ideasand irrefutable integrity” (The Washington Post). Her self-produced recording of Bach’sGoldberg Variations in 2007 brought her considerable attention, with The New YorkTimes calling her “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.” She has made twelvealbums, all of which topped the Billboard classical charts, with repertoire ranging fromBeethoven to Ravel. Her most recent album is An American Mosaic (2021) featuring musicby Richard Danielpour. The New York-based pianist’s schedule has taken her around the world, playing withorchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and the Montreal SymphonyOrchestra to the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai, andthe Havana Lyceum Orchestra, which she brought from Cuba to tour the United States forthe very first time. She has also played in venues from Carnegie Hall and the KennedyCenter to the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center, and theSydney Opera House. Performance highlights include Piano Concerto No. 3, a compositionby Philip Glass for her that was co-commissioned by twelve American and Canadianorchestras; New Work for Goldberg Variations, a collaboration with choreographer PamTanowitz; and the premiere of André Previn and Tom Stoppard’s Penelope at theTanglewood, Ravinia, and Aspen music festivals, working with Renée Fleming and theEmerson String Quartet. Most recently, she created her own string ensemble, Baroklyn,which she directs from the keyboard. Their performance of Bach’s cantata Ich Habe Genugin March 2020 filmed live at Miller Theatre and streamed to audiences was the last concertshe gave before New York City shut down.  Dedicated to her community in Brooklyn, Dinnerstein founded Neighborhood Classics in2009, a concert series that raises funds for music education programs in New York Cityschools, and Bachpacking, a music program for elementary schools. A graduate of TheJuilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Dinnerstein is on the faculty of theMannes School of Music.

 

Yarn/Wire

Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto andRussell Greenberg, percussion; Laura Barger and Ning Yu, piano) dedicated to thepromotion of creative, experimental new music. Pianist Julia Den Boer will join as guestartist for the 2021-2022 season. Described by The Brooklyn Rail as “fascinating andexciting, with playing that is precise and full of purpose,” the ensemble is admired globallyfor the energy and precision it brings to performances of today’s most adventurous

compositions. Founded in 2005, the ensemble seeks to expand the representation ofcomposers so that it might begin to better reflect our communities and experience newcreative potential. 

Yarn/Wire appears internationally at prominent festivals and venues including the LincolnCenter Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall,Rainy Days Festival (Luxembourg), Ultima Festival (Norway), Transit Festival (Belgium),Dublin SoundLab, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Contempuls Festival (Prague),Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York’s Miller Theatre at Columbia University, River-to-River Festival, La MaMa Theatre, Festival of New American Music, and London’s BarbicanCentre. Their numerous commissions include works from composers such as Enno Poppe,Michael Gordon, George Lewis, Ann Cleare, Raphaël Cendo, Peter Evans, Alex Mincek,Thomas Meadowcroft, Misato Mochizuki, Tristan Murail, Sam Pluta, Tyondai Braxton,Kate Soper, and Øyvind Torvund. The ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bendingartists such as Tristan Perich, Ben Vida, Mark Fell, Sufjan Stevens, and Pete Swanson.

Through the Yarn/Wire International Institute and Festival and other educationalresidencies and outreach programs, Yarn/Wire works to promote not only the present butalso the future of new music in the United States. Their ongoing commissioning series,Yarn/Wire/Currents, serves as an incubator for new experimental music.

Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO, Northern Spy, Distributed Objects, Black Truffle,Populist, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint.

Columbia University School of the Artsarts.columbia.edu

Columbia University School of the Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film,Theatre, Visual Arts and Writing, and the Master of Arts degree in Film and Media Studies;it also offers an interdisciplinary program in Sound Art. The School is a thriving, diversecommunity of talented, visionary, and committed artists from around the world and afaculty comprised of acclaimed and internationally renowned artists, film and theatredirectors, writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, playwrights, producers, critics, andscholars. In 2015, the School marked the 50th Anniversary of its founding. In 2017, theSchool opened the Lenfest Center for the Arts, a multi-arts venue designed as a hub for thepresentation and creation of art across disciplines on the University’s new Manhattanvillecampus.

Columbia University Librarieslibrary.columbia.edu

Columbia University Libraries is a top-tier academic research library, serving one of theworld's most important centers of research and learning. The Libraries build, sustain, andmake discoverable collections that transcend traditional boundaries of format and domain,

keeping pace with a dynamic and rapidly evolving information environment and creatingunique opportunities for users to encounter global thought. As vital partners in theUniversity's research and learning ecosystem, the Libraries connects users with rich anddistinctive collections, fosters meaningful learning experiences, and provides innovativeresearch support for a large, diverse user population.

Miller Theatremillertheatre.com

Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New YorkCity and one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming. Inpartnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Miller is dedicated to producingand presenting unique events, with a focus on contemporary and early music, jazz, opera,and multimedia performances. Founded in 1988, Miller Theatre has helped launch thecareers of myriad composers and ensembles over the years, serving as an incubator foremerging artists and a champion of those not yet well known in the United States. A four-time recipient of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for AdventurousProgramming, Miller Theatre continues to meet the high expectations set forth by itsfounders—to present innovative programs, support the development of new work, andconnect creative artists with adventurous audiences.

Miller Theatre 's 2021-22 season is supported by the New York State Council on the Artswith the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and

by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

Support for contemporary music is provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music

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