The Ethos New Music Society, SUNY-Fredonia's completely student-run new music organization, will present the internationally recognized "Bowed Piano Ensemble" with director and composer Stephen Scott. The event will include a concert on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m., as well as a lecture presentation on Friday, Feb. 13.
Both events will take place in Rosch Recital Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The lecture is free for all to attend, while the concert's tickets are only $5 for the general public and $2 for students and senior citizens.
 Bowed Piano Ensemble |
Composer Stephen Scott and the ensemble are part of the 9th Annual NewSound Festival, presented by the Ethos New Music Society at SUNY Fredonia.
Featuring several performers and composers from around the country, this year’s NewSound Festival shines new light on one of the staples of concert music: the piano.
The Bowed Piano Ensemble has made six European tours and two to Australia. They have made four well-reviewed recordings with the prestigious new-music label New Albion Records and one with the classical label Albany Records.
They have appeared numerous times on network and cable television in the U.S., Europe and Australia and are frequently heard on live and recorded national broadcasts such as NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition” and “New Sounds.” Film credits include "Traffic" (DVD version) and "Beyond the Keyboard," a recently released documentary on the group by London filmmaker Peter Savage.
The Ensemble's 1996 recording of Scott’s "Vikings of the Sunrise" has been the subject of several recent NPR programs, including “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” and “Art Beat.” The recording was hailed by Gramophone magazine as one of "50 recordings that are among the finest ever made...". Billboard magazine called it, “...the first truly provocative work of new music for the ‘90s.” Keyboard magazine cited it as “...vividly evocative.” Tom Manoff of “All Things Considered” called the work “...brilliant...if you can sail these mythic waters, you’re in for quite a journey.”
Among the Ensemble's most recent recordings are a compact disc re-issue of Scott’s post-minimalist classic "New Music for Bowed Piano," favorably reviewed by The American Record Guide (“...intensely resourceful music”), Wired magazine and other publications, and "The Deep Spaces" with soprano soloist Victoria Hansen.
