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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Why did ALIAS Artistic Director Zeneba Bowers eat liver snacks as a child? Why does she occasionally go by the name “Lisa?” It’s all inside an in-depth profile of Bowers in the Nashville Scene’s latest edition, the People Issue 2010.
Closing out the season, and the Emerging Voices series focusing on women composers past and present, is a remarkable string quartet by Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Gabriela Lena Frank. Also on the program is Frank’s Danza de los Saqsampillos for two marimbas. Soprano Sharon Mabry returns to the ALIAS stage to sing three songs by Lili Boulanger. Rounding out the program is a rarely heard work for two cellos by French composer Philippe Hersant, and the well-loved Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel…
Watch an ALIAS performance from the Feb. 17, 2010 wine tasting event, presented by Woodland Wine Merchant.
An appreciative crowd at last Thursday’s wide-ranging concert by the ALIAS Chamber Ensemble made clear what a strong connection ALIAS has formed with its community, and the announcement of a major new project confirmed the group’s continuing artistic success…
