Seattle Modern Orchestra, "Entangled Sounds"

Seattle’s contemporary music orchestra performs György Ligeti's piano concerto, featuring faculty pianist and SMO member Cristina Valdés, alongside new works for sinfonietta by faculty composers William Dougherty, Joël-François Durand, and Huck Hodge. SMO is joined onstage by select graduate-student members of the UW Modern Music Ensemble in this large-ensemble format.

György Ligeti describes his piano concerto as encompassing music that embodies “…frozen time, as an object in imaginary space that exists simultaneously in all its moments.” This dazzling, multi-layered work features SMO’s tour-de-force pianist Cristina Valdés. SMO presents the concerto alongside recent works for sinfonietta by UW faculty composers. Seattle newcomer and recently appointed UW composition professor William Dougherty's the new normal juxtaposes a wide range of musical quotations and styles, directly engaging with social issues of xenophobia and racism in our current political climate. Huck Hodge's La Llorona draws on images from the 1585 Florentine Codex of Bernardino Sahagun, featuring UW faculty flutist Donna Shin. The program also features a preview performance of select movements from Jöel François-Durand's new wind quintet Livre d'images.  Don’t miss this chance to hear SMO with select graduate-student members of the UW Modern Music Ensemble in this large-ensemble format.