ALIAS is proud to announce the group’s major new project featuring Guggenheim Fellowship- and Latin Grammy-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank as the centerpiece. The overarching project, to take place in 2010, includes a commission of a quartet (for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) by composer Gabriela Lena Frank, through partnerships with Vanderbilt University and The Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minn.

The project also includes the first-ever ALIAS recording, which will feature Ms. Frank’s chamber works for NAXOS, on its American Classics label…

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We’re featuring a radio interview with award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Vanderbilt faculty members Jennifer Lena and Jonathan Neufeld as they discuss the upcoming GLF Project, which will include a performance and recording by ALIAS of Frank’s works. The project includes a partnership with the Music, Authority and Community research project at Vanderbilt, which includes the contribution of Neufeld, a professor of philosophy, and Lena, a professor of sociology.  ALIAS will perform the piece in October. The interview includes clips of ALIAS performing Frank’s quartet “Leyendas”, and discussion about the …

ALIAS returns to the stage at Blair School of Music’s Turner Recital Hall on Friday, May 14 to close out its 2009/10 season. ALIAS’ Spring Concert, which begins at 8 p.m., features two works by composer and Guggenheim Fellow Gabriela Lena Frank, including her acclaimed string quartet Quijotadas. ALIAS will record both works, as well as three other Frank works, for Naxos Records this fall.
The program for ALIAS’ upcoming concert boasts four very different pieces for two musicians. ALIAS percussionist Chris Norton will perform one of the Frank works, Danza de los Saqsampillos for …

Spotlight on ALIAS cellist Michael Samis, who has helped introduce many students and new listeners to the joy of chamber music as ALIAS Education and Community Outreach Coordinator.