I/O Fest - Iota Ensemble

I/O FEST ’11

Steven Dennis Bodner and Matthew Gold, directors

After a very successful debut of the I/O Fest last year, the Williams College Department of Music proudly brings it back for a second year. Performances will take place over three days from Thursday, Jan. 6 through Saturday, Jan. 8, at ’62 Center and Greylock Hall. NO tickets necessary.

After Hours

Iota Ensemble
Never Burn Beethoven

Jacob Walls ’11, Chaz Lee ’11, and Noah Fields ’11, curators

Works by Rob Silversmith ’11, Jacob Walls ’11, Marcos Balter, Nick Didkovsky, György Kurtág, David Lang, and Marc Mellits

PROGRAM:
Marc Mellits                    Machine V
György Kurtág
David Lang                    Sweet Air
Marcos Balter                Live Water
Nick Didkovsky              Plague
Rob Silversmith             O vos omnes (world premiere)
Jacob Walls                   new work (world premiere)

Formed in the fall of 2009, Iota Ensemble is a fully student run new music ensemble dedicated to performing works by young composers, especially Williams College students, and the composers who have influenced them. The student members of Iota curate and organize the After Hours concert on the annual I/O Fest, presenting a program of works representing many of the newest trends in contemporary music. The ensemble’s contribution to this year’s festival, titled “Never Burn Beethoven,” is described by its directors as a program featuring “contemporary music that feels like many things—rock, jazz, metal, samba, Renaissance vocal music—but it is not a night of musical terror. Contemporary music does not set out to desecrate Beethoven. Instead with this concert we are sharing several constructive strands in contemporary music, strands that should intrigue all stripes of music-lovers, from those steeped in pop or indie rock to jazz and classical!”