Upcoming Events!
02/1910
Ethos NewSound Festival: Alexandra Gardner, composer;
Brian Sacawa, saxophone;
Molly Sheridan, journalist/blogger.
8pm. Rosch Recital Hall. Free.
02/21/10
Ethos Presents…Rob Auler, piano
8pm. Rosch Recital Hall. Free.
02/27/10
Ethos NewSound Festival:
Steven Bryant & Jonathan Newman, composers.
8pm. King Concert Hall. Free.
03/03/10
Ethos Presents…
Clara O'Brien, mezzo-soprano
8pm. Rosch Recital Hall. Free.
About Ethos New Music Society
Ethos New Music Society is a presenting organization established at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Since 1977, Ethos has been one of the most important advocators of contemporary concert music in Western New York State. Through concerts and workshops by nationally known visiting composers, performance artists, and new music ensembles, as well as concerts featuring student composers and performers, Ethos is able to provide an important cultural service to the university and the surrounding region. Sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Student Association, Ethos New Music Society is administered and operated by SUNY Fredonia students, under the supervision of its advisor, Dr. Rob Deemer.
Student Composers Series
As live performances of new works is an important aspect of the student composers' artistic growth, Ethos has provided multiple concert opportunities every season since its inception. With concerts of choral music, multimedia works, art songs, and chamber works, the students have the chance to experience various performance genres. The final concert of every season has recently been renamed Past. Present. Future., which brings works by former Ethos members, as well as the winning composition(s) of the Young Composers Competition to the stage along with works by current students.
NewSound Festival
Since 2001, Ethos has presented its NewSound Festival. Featuring composers, performers, and lecturers from across the country, Ethos has provided the SUNY Fredonia community with public concerts, student master classes, and lectures/demonstrations that have showcased the music of the 20th and 21st century.
Ethos Presents…
Ethos Presents… is a new addition to the concert season that was created to bring focus to the performance of contemporary concert music by providing concert opportunities to both student performers and emerging professional artists. In its first year of existence, Ethos has spotlighted the Erie Saxophone Quartet and violist Aurélien Pétillot.
Our guests have included:
Composers:
- Samuel Adler
- William Albright
- David Amram
- Leslie Bassett
- Roland Dyens
- William Kraft
- Margorie Marryman
- Missy Mazzoli
- William Neil
- Murray Schafer
- Joseph Schwantner
- Stephen Scott
- Marilyn Shrude
- Rob Smith
- Morton Subotnick
- Persis Vehar
- Dana Wilson
- Randall Woolf
Performers/Ensembles:
- Auros Group for New Music
- Pearl Bailey
- Bowed Piano Ensemble
- Amy Briggs
- Buffalo Guitar Quartet
- Continuum
- Das Puppenspiel
- eighth blackbird
- Ethel
- Florestan Recital Project
- Gregg Smith Singers
- Meridian Arts Ensemble
- Aurélien Pétillot
- Michelle Schumann
- Kathleen Supové
- Tashi Chamber Ensemble
- Billy Taylor
- Tremont String Quartet
- Flux String Quartet
- Amy Williams
Lecturers:
- Stephen Arthur Allen
- Elliott Antokoletz
- Mervyn Cooke
- Vivian Perlis
- Howard Pollack
- Lynne Rogers
- Pieter van den Toorn
History
Ethos New Music Society gave its first official concerts in the spring of 1977, presenting two concerts featuring dance and electronic music with the help of its founder, Dr. Donald Bohlen. The following fall the organization was acknowledged by the Student Association. Five years later Ethos began its tradition of inviting composers and scholars to campus with a conference on Women in the Arts and a concert featuring Murray Schafer as guest composer. Throughout the 1980s, Ethos presented several student composer concerts and an electronic music concert every year. Several composition clinics were presented in the early 1990s that brought composers to campus to discuss composition pedagogy and young composers. Jazz and rock concerts were sponsored during this time as well, bringing in guitarists Mike Stern and Michael Hedges to campus. By 2001, conferences and symposiums that the organization had sponsored evolved into the Nusound Festival with guest composers Leslie Bassett and Dana Wilson working with chamber groups and large ensembles at SUNY Fredonia. Since then, many composers, performers and ensembles have presented concerts and workshops sponsored by Ethos New Music Society, and in 2007 Dr. Rob Deemer became the new head of composition at SUNY Fredonia and the advisor to Ethos.
