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The Glass Farm concerts were inaugurated in 2000 when
pianist Yvonne Troxler began presenting programs of new works by cutting edge
American composers and music from Europe’s thriving new music scene in the
industrial Glass Farm Building on Manhattan’s far west side. From the
beginning these concerts provided a place for a broad range of musicians and
audience members to interact up close. Likewise the programming created a
space where all manner of new music could rub up against important early twentieth
century chamber music, improvisation, wild experimentalism, non-Western music,
and even Schumann lieder. The frequent players from these early concerts
eventually coalesced into the Glass Farm Ensemble.
By the fall of 2003 the Glass Farm Ensemble had outgrown its
original space and moved to the Tenri Cultural Institute where it now holds its
annual four-concert New York season. With its flexible roster of core
musicians the ensemble is capable of configurations ranging from solo instruments
to the expanded group that appeared in the 2003 Swiss Peaks Festival. The
Glass Farm Ensemble continues its focus on presenting imaginative programs in
often non-conventional spaces that invite the broadest possible audience to
intimately experience music. Composers with whom the ensemble has worked
closely or whose works have often been featured include György Ligeti, Louis
Andriessen, Frederic Rzewski, Wolfgang Heiniger, Balz Trümpy, Dieter Ammann, Roland Moser, Elizabeth Hoffman, Elliot Sharp, and Peter Herbert. In addition, the Glass Farm Ensemble has been building an
ever-expanding body of commissioned works and arrangements.
The Glass Farm Ensemble is supported by:
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