Miranda Cuckson and Nunc - Visiting Artist Series
Wed, April 26th, 2023
7:30 pm
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The Williams College Department of Music presents Miranda Cuckson and Nunc. This event is free and open to the public.
Miranda Cuckson and Nunc present music by Talib Rasul Hakim – Duo (1963); Scott Wollschleger – Brontal Symmetry (2015); Gala Flagello – In a Past Life (2016); and Michael Pisaro – fields have ears [4] (2009). Miranda Cuckson also presents the world premiere of a work for violin by Williams music faculty member Ileana Perez Velázquez titled, The Road Not Taken.
The musicians of Nunc Music are Annie Nikunen, flute; Madison Greenstone, clarinet; Blair McMillen, piano; Miranda Cuckson, violin; and Andrew Janss, cello.
Since its successful inaugural concert in 2007 in New York City, Nunc has presented distinctively curated programs and given celebrated world and United States premieres by composers including Stefano Gervasoni, Patricia Alessandrini, David Rakowski, Michael Hersch, Ileana Perez Velasquez, Diego Tedesco, David Fulmer, Jonathan Dawe, and Ralph Shapey. In addition to self-producing events at diverse venues in New York, Nunc has performed as guest ensemble at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Contempo series at University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Williams College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
Nunc (the Latin word for “now”) was begun by artistic director and violinist Miranda Cuckson as an ad hoc concert series, and incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2012. Comprising a flexible assemblage of performers and composers, Nunc is a programming and concert-producing organization, dedicated to presenting musical innovations, interpretations, and compositional contributions of our time.