Present the music of

Wilhelm Killmayer and Sandeep Bhagwati

Wednesday November 22, 2017 at 8pm; pre-concert talk at 7pm

$25 | $10 Students (Cash only)

This concert was intended to mark the 90th birthday of German composer Wilhelm Killmayer. It was with great sadness that we heard the news that he had passed away on August 20, a day before his birthday. We will celebrate his w ork and its enduring legacy none-the-less!

Killmayer’s insidiously surreal yet incisive music is underappreciated everywhere. However, it does have some fierce advocates around the world, including Arraymusic Artistic Director Martin Arnold. Another is Killmayer's former student, the remarkable Indian-German-Canadian composer, Sandeep Bhagwati. Since 2006 Bhagwati has held the Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory and directed the Matralab at Concordia University, Montréal. The Array Ensemble will perform two trios and a quartet by Killmayer as well as a new piano quartet by Bhagwati dedicated to Killmayer, written to mark his passing. Array Ensemble pianist Stephen Clarke will perform a half-hour selection of pieces from Bhagwati’s Music of Crossings.

THE ARRAY ENSEMBLE:

Sheila Jaffé - violin

Stephen Sitarski - violin

Margaret Gay - cello

Stephen Clarke - piano

Programme

Stele IX (für Wilhelm Killmayer) (2017) Sandeep Bhagwati

(for 2 violins, cello and piano)

Trio (1984) Wilhelm Killmayer

(for 2 violins and cello)

Brahms-Bildnis (1976) Wilhelm Killmayer

(for violin, cello and piano)

Quartett (1975) Wilhelm Killmayer

(for 2 violins, cello and piano)

from Music of Crossings (2015) Sandeep Bhagwati

(for piano)