Wesleyan Experimental Music Festival - Night One

This weekend, the Wesleyan Experimental Music Group proudly presents a season of concerts condensed into a three-day festival.

Featuring: Cat Toren (NYC), Jasmine Lovell-Smith, Stephanie Lavon Trotter, Ben Zucker, Sean Sonderegger & Nathan Friedman
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9pm: Avant-operatic goddess Stephanie Lavon Trotter (voice) and inimitable performer Ben Zucker (piano) play works from the new song cycle by Wesleyan graduate composer Nathan Friedman,
blended with improvisations. The music is elegant, oblique, and aims to
defy genre categorization - art songs for the 21st century.
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9:30pm: Menschenduett: Graduate composers Sean Sonderegger
and Nathan Friedman (clarinets) play a repertoire of composed and
improvised music, originals and arrangements, that emphasize complex
interplay and powerful difference tones. These musicians prove that
sometimes 1+1=3.
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10pm: Guest artist Cat Toren is a Canadian-born and Brooklyn-based jazz pianist. Her new duo with graduate composer Jasmine Lovell-Smith
(soprano saxophone) arises from their longstanding collaborations and
mutual gifts for effortlessly lyrical improvisation. The two perform
original compositions, written and spontaneous, as well as realizations
of intaglio-print graphic scores.