Lorenz Gamma Los Angeles, California Violinist LORENZ GAMMA is internationally active as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. As former co-leader of the Amar Quartet of Switzerland he has performed in many of Europe’s most important chamber music venues, including the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Residence in Munich, the Stefaniensaal in Graz and the Cologne Philharmonic, as well as in many other cities such as London, Paris, New York, Teheran etc. Prior to his activity with the quartet, he served as Principal of the Zurich Opera Orchestra and as concertmaster of the Northwest Sinfonietta in Seattle. Mr. Gamma has often appeared as soloist with orchestra having performed over twenty different concertos and holds an extensive record of appearances on radio, both in Europe and in the United States. His radio and CD recordings include Schubert’s String Quintet and Piano Trio in E-flat, the Quartet for the End of Time by Messiæn, the complete String Quartets as well as works for Violin and Piano and the Piano Sextet by Carlos Chávez, the Dvorák Piano Quintet, two Sonatas with Keyboard and a solo partita by Bach, the Mozart Clarinet Quintet, as well as string quartets by Ullmann, Janacek, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Ravel, Debussy, Verdi, Brahms, Dvorák, Haydn and Mozart. Having performed string quartets by more than sixty composers as well as most of the other standard chamber music repertoire Lorenz Gamma dedicates himself to coaching chamber ensembles in addition to teaching violin as a faculty member at UCLA and as a much sought after private teacher in the Los Angeles area. He is a frequent guest at various summer festivals and serves since 2003 as first violinist of two times GRAMMY ® Award winning Southwest Chamber Music. Ming Tsu Los Angeles, California MING TSU has concertized in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Southeast Asia, and her performances have been broadcast on German National Radio and Radio King FM in Seattle. In addition to the traditional piano and chamber music repertoire, Ms. Tsu has been equally involved with the performance of contemporary music, having collaborated with the Aurage New Music Ensemble in Calgary, Contemporary Group in Seattle, Brandenburgisches Colloquium für Neue Musik in Berlin and the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt. Ms. Tsu serves as pianist of two times GRAMMY® Award winning Southwest Chamber Music and performs in various summer festivals in the U.S. Recently, she recorded the complete chamber works for piano and strings by Carlos Chávez as well as chamber music by Chinary Ung on Cambria Records. In addition to her performing career, Ms. Tsu has dedicated herself to an active teaching schedule and has become a much sought after adjudicator in California. She has given master classes at the Hanoi National Conservatory in Vietnam and the Phnom Penh Royal University of Fine Arts in Cambodia. After serving as Assistant Instructor in piano at Indiana University and coordinator of the secondary piano department at University of Washington, she became a member of the piano faculties at Pacific Lutheran University and the Music Academy Northwest in Seattle. Ms. Tsu’s students have gone on to continue their studies at prestigious schools such as the Peabody Conservatory, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the California Institute of the Arts and University of Washington. Ms. Tsu was founding director of the Young Internationals Chamber Music Society and has served as Director of Chamber Music and Piano Seminars at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California. Ms. Tsu earned degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Washington.
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including classic Musique Concréte
& Contemporary Acousmatic Compositions by
Nov. 21-22:
dedicated to electronic & computer concert music
March 27-28:
dedicated to
electronic, computer,
& instrumental
 concert music
 
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March 27, 8:00 PM ::
Featuring
violinist Lorenz Gamma and pianist Ming Tsu as well as works for solo electronics.
 
March 28, 6:00 PM :: Works by Composers from the Studios de Création et Recherche en Informatique et Musique Electroacoustique (SCRIME)
 
March 28, 8:00 PM ::
Electronic and electroacoustic works for mutli-channel distribution.
 
All concerts feature live spatial projection.
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PDF of the program coming soon.
The 6th Season
April 23-24:
dedicated to electronic & computer music
in collaboration with Christian Eloy
and SCRIME
The 2008-2009 || 5th Season
Nov. 20th-21st:
dedicated to electronic & computer concert music
Featuring  Compositions by
 
                                                                          
                
                                          
                        
                                  
          
 
 
  Christian Eloy
 
 
                                                                                                                              Joseph Larralde
 
    Laurent Maza
 
      Carl Stone