October 7, 2024

Emma Hospelhorn

Dal Niente violist Ammie Brod sat down with composer Wang Lu to talk about her piece Pecking Orders, commissioned by Dal Niente with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Dal Niente will give the world premiere of Pecking Orders at Constellation on October 13.

February 27, 2020

Emma Hospelhorn

Interview: Katinka Kleijn on Forward Echo

Katinka Kleijn explains the genesis of her epic work for 11 musicians, Forward Echo.

October 7, 2019

Emma Hospelhorn

Luis Fernando Amaya on Bestiario: Tres - ...

“The premise behind this cycle is basically that I try to write a piece that helps me to create an imaginary animal in my mind and compose with it. And I mean actually compose with it, where the animal has volition and ends up helping to drive the form and ideas in the piece.”

May 22, 2018

Emma Hospelhorn

Chris Fisher-Lochead: Stutter-Step Revisited

May 20, 2018

Ammie Brod

Teaser: Chris Fisher-Lochhead's "stutter-step ...

Ammie Brod

September 24, 2019

Interview: Ben Melsky on the many voices of the harp

Ammie Brod

September 24, 2019

Interview: Ben Melsky on the many voices of the harp

Ammie Brod sat down with Ben Melsky to talk about his new record, Ben Melsky / Ensemble Dal Niente, and the process of creating new music for the harp.

Ammie Brod

May 20, 2018

Teaser: Chris Fisher-Lochhead's "stutter-step the concept"

Ammie Brod

May 20, 2018

One of the centerpieces of Party 2018 is Chris Fisher-Lochhead's "stutter-step the concept". We'll have more from Chris in a few days about his ongoing work with this piece, but for now here's a look back on our 2016 premiere (and a few words from Chris about his process).

"In hip-hop beat-making, I am drawn to the way that samples, found sonic objects pried from their original contexts, are able to reassemble a musical intelligibility in their new settings, much like the linguistic process of creolization. In stutter-step the concept, I tried to mimic and leverage this formal process."