16 March 2010, 7:00 pm

The Montreal-based Transmission Ensemble will pay tribute to Greek/French composer Iannis Xenakis in its New York debut concert presented in conjunction with the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, on view at The Drawing Center through April 8. Organized with the Xenakis Project of the Americas of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, the event will take place at Elebash Hall at the CUNY Graduate Center, and will begin with a pre-concert talk by James Harley, author of Xenakis, His Life in Music. The program will be accompanied by a 16-poster biographical exhibition about Xenakis in the lobby of Elebash Hall.

ABOUT TRANSMISSION ENSEMBLE
Transmission Ensemble is a group of six musicians putting the good word out about modern music in post-modern times. Six personalities (without a conductor) have come together to play chamber music written since 1900. Within the ensemble, they work in various combinations from solo to sextet. Each member of Transmission has an established reputation as a soloist and chamber music player: Guy Pelletier (flute), Lori Freedman (clarinet), Alain Giguère (violin), Julie Trudeau (cello), Julien Grégoire (percussion) and Brigitte Poulin (piano).

PROGRAM
Iannis Xenakis, Charisma (1971)
Pierre Boulez, Dérive (1984)
Tristan Murail, 13 couleurs du soleil couchant (1978)
Claude Vivier, Paramirabo (1978)
Philippe Leroux, Continuo(ns) (1994)
Iannis Xenakis, Plekto (1993)