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Saturday, May 18th @ 8PM
Sunday, May 19th @ 3PM
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Ave, NYC
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In advance of our spring 2024 concerts, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro and composer Lukáš Janata discuss his cantata "But Love is Stronger" -- a Cantori commission!
Watch the full interview: ua-cam.com/video/tezoe6ffA1I/v-deo.html
Audio excerpted from: Sinfonia #2 by Lukáš Janata soundcloud.com/look-j/sinfonia-n-2-midi-demo-1
Lukáš, a Czech San Francisco-based artist and composer, explores empathy in various forms, serving as a composer, educator, performer, and organizer. His recent endeavors include board directorship at The Resonance Project, a nonprofit focusing on music as a conflict transformation through neuroscience. He co-organized a San Francisco Ukraine-benefit Concert of Compassion, uniting national American and Ukrainian artists on one stage. Lukáš co-curated SUMU in Helsinki, supported by the EU Commission and the international empathy-provoking new-music festival ECHOES in Prague. He instructs at The Walden School and the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music.
In 2024, Lukáš will be Composer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, ISCM’s VICC (Sweden), and received the Susan and Ford Schumann Fellowship for the 2024 Aspen Music Festival and the Orchestra St. Luke’s DeGaetano Composition Fellowship. His compositions have been commissioned by renowned ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony, Cantori New York, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, Friction Quartet, 2Low duo, Bluvenduo, and Punkt Prague, among others.
Lukáš has received several awards such as the Highmisth Award (2022), Southwest American Prize (2019) Kühn Choir of Prague Composition Award (2022); or International Composition Competition Riga (2014). His composition mentors include John Corigliano, David Conte (San Francisco Conservatory of Music), and Otomar Kvěch (Prague Conservatoire). He has participated in masterclasses with composers George Lewis, Allain Gaussin, Liviu Marinescu, Dimitris Maronidis, Michel Merlet, and Ériks Ešenvalds, and has collaborated with many composers, including Nico Muhly, and conductors, such as Ragnar Bohlin, Mark Shapiro or Alena Hron.
www.lukasjanata.cz/
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This interview is the latest edition of our salon series Cantori/QUASI. Conceived during the pandemic, Cantori/QUASI brings the best of music and scholarship directly to your home. Each season, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro curates listening sessions with distinguished guests on themes of choral music past & present.
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This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the NY State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.