New Music Festival 2023 (March 6-7, 2023)

This year's featured ensemble is the Khasma Piano Duo

This year we will also feature visual artist Chris Craychee

The Khasma Piano Duo will perform works from their "Trekking" project, featuring newly-commissioned music from Chris Catone, Hong-Da Chin, Kyong-Mee Choi, Jeff Herriott, Amy Kaplan, and James Romig. Each score will be accompanied by video art by Chris Craychee.

The festival directors are Hong-Da Chin and James Romig.

Featured Ensemble - The Khasma Piano Duo

The Khasma Piano Duo was formed in 2012 by Ashlee Mack and Katherine Palumbo. They have been playing together since meeting at Bucknell University in 2000. Because of their shared enthusiasm for contemporary music, the duo has dedicated themselves to the performance and recording of works from the 20th and 21st centuries. They have given world-premiere performances of music by notable living composers including Matthew Heap, Robert Morris, Lawrence Moss, James Romig, and David Vayo. Their concert tours have taken them to Illinois, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, including performances at the Eastman School of Music, the Marshall University Festival of New Music, the Illinois College Fine Arts Series, and the SCI National Conference at Ball State University. Khasma is planning a 2022-2023 tour for their 10th anniversary, which will feature six new works commissioned by the duo and a collaboration with visual artist Chris Craychee. Their albums Switchback and Time Seems To Pass are available at Amazon, iTunes, and Bandcamp. Additional recordings can be heard on Innova and Navona Records.

Featured Artist - Chris Craychee

Chris Craychee is a visual artist and freelance project manager/producer living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. His art has embraced painting, drawing, printmaking, writing, sculpture, photography, video, animation, and performance, and has utilized such non-traditional media as synthetic carpet, gunpowder, ice cubes, googly eyes, aluminum foil, plastic toys, and Chuck-A-Luck wheels. He received a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University, and has worked for Concept Art Gallery, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Clear Story, and Deeplocal.

Schedule of Events

FEATURED ENSEMBLE — The Khasma Piano Duo

FEATURED ARTIST — Chris Craychee

Location

COFAC Recital Hall
School of Music
College of Fine Arts and Communications
Macomb, IL 61455-1390

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