Muse Fest 2012

The festival will feature the NEW MUSE ensemble and special guests including dancer Janelle Bentley (Ephemeral Art), spoken word artist Gabriel De Los Reyes (UW-Madison First Wave Program), and piano/percussion duo Sole Nero (UW-Madison faculty Jessica Johnson and Anthony Di Sanza).The music – most of which was composed within the last decade – will include works selected from our national call-for-scores that resulted in more than 30 submissions from across the U.S. This includes pieces by Robert Honstein (co-founder of the “Sleeping Giant” collective) and John C. Griffin (Western Michigan University), the winners of our call for scores contest, as well as music by Wisconsin-based composers Jeff Herriott (UW-Whitewater) and Guggenheim Fellowship winner  Laura Schwendinger (UW-Madison).

This event is made possible by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, with additional funds from the Overture Foundation and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, and generous support from the UW-Madison New Arts Venture Challenge, the UW-Madison School of Music, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Following is the full schedule for Muse Fest:

1:00pm –  Sunroom Cafe: Intimate Dialogues – Chamber Solos and Duets
Works by Robert Honstein, Greg Steinke, and Hans Werner Henze

2:00pm –  Fair Trade Coffeehouse: Caffeinated Move – Music and Dance
Works by Laura Schwendinger, Jerry Hui and Payton MacDonald, with dancer Janelle Bentley

3:00pm – Nick’s Restaurant: Electric Jam – Spoken Poetry and Electroacoustic Music
Works by Patrick Chan, Jeff Herriott, with a spoken word performance by Gabriel De Los Reyes

5:00pm – MMoCA: Muse Fest Gala Concert
Featuring special guests Sole Nero, and works by Laura Schwendinger, Evan Hause, Robert Honstein, John C. Griffin, Elizabeth Nonemaker, and Lansing McLoskey