“Thoughts from the Future” is a Live Sounds concert featuring music of our time (and one from the past) and a commission by Scott Wollschleger with film and a new collaboration of graphic scores with pianist and composer Eli Wallace.

Program

• Fanny Mendelssohn- String Quartet in E Flat, Adagio ma non troppo
• Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti- to you (the architects are most courageous)
• New Composition/World Premiere in collaboration with Eli Wallace
• Scott Wollschleger- Dead Horse Bay... (thoughts from the future) for two violins and film

Performers

• Aimée Niemann and Friends

Featuring Special Guests

• Megan Atchley (violin)
• Charlotte Munn-Wood (violin)
• Abby Swidler (viola)
• Talia Dicker (cello)
• Eli Wallace (piano)

About the Artist

Aimée Niemann is a violinist and improviser who investigates sound through its intersection with movement. Steeped in the worlds of experimental music, dance, and theatre, they compose graphic scores that are used as structures for interdisciplinary invention and the unearthing of new sounds.

Aimée is a founding member of Du.0 (do-point-oh), an experimental violin duo specializing in contemporary noise-based music that “[shines] in moments of deep listening” (I Care if You Listen). The duo has premiered new works by composers Leah Asher, Emily Praetorius, and Scott Wollschleger; their debut album is forthcoming. Niemann often plays with the J. Pavone String Ensemble, appearing on Pavone’s two most recent albums, Lull (Chaikin Records) and ...of Late (Astral Spirits). Aimée is honored to have played on the premiere performance and recording of 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti’s with eyes the color of time (SOB, New Focus Recordings).

A passionate educator, Niemann teaches violin, chamber music, and Creative Sound Lab at Third Street. Niemann has trained more than 50 teachers in the CAD method, which incorporates improvisation practices into Suzuki-focused music classrooms, and has given graphic score workshops across the country. Originally from the prairies of Colorado, Aimée currently lives in Queens, New York.

About the Series

Third Street’s Live Sounds faculty concert series is free and open to the public on select Fridays at 7:00 p.m. in the Anna-Maria Kellen Concert Hall at Third Street Music School (235 East 11th Street).

The series presents a wide range of solo and collaborative performances highlighting many genres, instrumentation, and composers and spotlights the world-class professional teaching artists at Third Street.

Time: 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM EST

Free!

Registration