Lewis Nielson will be premiering a new work on April 27 at 8pm at the Zipper Concert Hall as part of an event by Monday Evening Concerts, spotlighting the composer and his work. Performers include the Formalist Quartet, Jonathan Hepfer, percussion, and Alice Teyssier, soprano.
Lewis Nielson Portrait
Monday, April 27, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
*All concerts in the 2015 season of Monday Evening Concerts are held at Herbert Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School.
Concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. The hall box office opens 1 hour before.
The Colburn School is on the east side of Grand Avenue, one block south of 1st Street and across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
About Lewis Nielson
Perhaps more often recognized for his efforts as a teacher at Oberlin Conservatory than for his own work, Lewis Nielson has dedicated much of his life to helping cultivate a new generation of American composers - ones whose names now regularly appear as recipients of the highest honors in the field of contemporary music. Nielson's work draws upon notions of memory and ethics, such as in his new string quartet Verge, dedicated to his close friend Helmut Lachenmann, as well as respect and virtuosity, as his percussion concerto Axis/Sandman, written for his lifelong collaborator Steven Schick. Love, loss and overcoming are the themes of his staggering duo Herzplatten, a work meditating upon, and ultimately celebrating the manifold functions of the heart through the texts of Dante Alighieri, Paul Celan and the Jewish-Polish social activist and cardiologist Marek Edelman.