Ensemble Dal Niente: Contemporary and Electroacoustic Works

Cosmopolis Festival

Main Hall, Shaw Auditorium

<p>Ensemble Dal Niente (USA), one of America’s premiere contemporary music groups, will make their Hong Kong debut, performing a diverse program of boundary-pushing acoustic and electroacoustic works. Hailed as “superb” by the <em><em>The New York Times</em></em>, the Chicago-based ensemble will offer an evening of unique sonic exploration and genre cross-fertilization.<br><br>The event is free and open to the public.<br><br></p><p><strong><strong>Ensemble Dal Niente</strong></strong> performs new and experimental chamber music with dedication, virtuosity, and an exploratory spirit. Flexible and adaptable, Dal Niente’s roster of 27 musicians presents an uncommonly broad range of contemporary music, guiding listeners towards music that transforms existing ideas and subverts convention.<br><br>Over the past two decades, Ensemble Dal Niente has performed concerts across Europe and the Americas, including appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC; the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City; Radialsystem Berlin, MusicArte Festival in Panama City; the Library of Congress and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; the Americas Society; and the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Germany. Dal Niente is the recipient of the 2019 Fromm Music Foundation prize, and was the first ever ensemble to win the Kranichstein prize for interpretation in 2012. The group has recordings available on the New World, New Amsterdam, New Focus, Navona, Parlour Tapes+, and Carrier labels. They held residencies at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Stanford University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, among others, and collaborated with a wide range of composers, including Enno Poppe, George Lewis, Hilda Paredes, and Roscoe Mitchell.<br><br>The ensemble’s name (“from nothing” in Italian) is a tribute to Helmut Lachenmann’s <em><em>Dal niente (Interieur III)</em></em>, a work that upended traditional conceptions of instrumental technique, and also a reference to the group’s humble beginnings.<br><br></p><h3>For details: <a href="https://cosmopolisfestival.hkust.edu.hk/news/ensemble-dal-niente-contemporary-and-electroacoustic-works" title="https://cosmopolisfestival.hkust.edu.hk/news/ensemble-dal-niente-contemporary-and-electroacoustic-works" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><strong><strong>https://cosmopolisfestival.hkust.edu.hk/news/ensemble-dal-niente-contemporary-and-electroacoustic-works</strong></strong></a></h3><h3><br></h3><p><br></p><h3>Registration </h3><ul><li>Free admission. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.</li><li>This event is for ages 6 and above.</li><li>Registrant who successfully made the booking will receive a confirmation email with a PDF attachment of printable tickets and QR codes for all the guests he/she registered.</li></ul><h3><br><br>Admission Details</h3><ul><li>Registrants are required to show the QR code on the ticket for check-in at the reception on the day. Each QR code is unique and cannot be transferred to other guests.</li><li>Check-in will start at 7:00PM on the day.</li><li>The HKUST reserves the right to make the final decision regarding your admission.</li><li>No hourly parking or free parking will be provided to registrants. Please take <a href="https://hkust.edu.hk/visit" title="https://hkust.edu.hk/visit" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">public transportation to HKUST</a>.</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>House Rules</h3><ul><li>No eating and drinking is allowed during the performance.</li><li>No unauthorized photography, recording or filming is allowed.</li><li>No mobile phone and other electronic devices should be used during the performance.</li><li>Please keep noise to a minimum during the performance.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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