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"Dance with Contemporary Composers:"
Winners Concert of the 2019 TME Call for Scores
(In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven)

Date: Saturday, May 23, 2020, 7:30pm
Venue: The Chalmers Performance Space in the Canadian Music Centre (20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto ON M4J 1Y9)

In collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre, the TME announced its first Call for Scores in 2019, and received more than 450 compositions from composers all around the world (over 50 countries). The TME proudly presents five winners' works in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven.

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Serenade in D Major for flute, violin, and viola, Op. 25 (1801)
(Ludwig Van Beethoven)
Mvt. I: Entrata: Allegro

Two Movements on the theme of "Angry Birds" for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion (2018)
(Gideon Gee-Bum Kim, Korea-Canada)

*A Plug for Pflug for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2010)
(Scott MacMillan, Canada)

*^Winterlied for flute, clarinet, cello, and piano (2017)
(Nicola Straffelini, Italy)

*^Balkanika II for for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2011)
(Octavio Vazquez, Spain/USA)

Intermission

The Second Waltz for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion (1955)
(Dmitri Shostakovich, Instr. Gideon Gee-Bum Kim)

*^Oasis for clarinet and piano (2014)
(Bracha Bdil, Israel )

*^Retrace for flute, violin, and cello (2018)
(Nell Cohen, USA)

**Divertissimo for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (2014)
(John Gray, Canada)

Romanian Folk Dances for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano (1915)
(Béla Bartók, Instr. Gideon Gee-Bum Kim)

 

* Selected work
** World premiere
^ Canadian premiere

 
Gideon Gee-Bum Kim, managing/artistic directo
 
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