Join us for UMBC’s 14th annual Livewire new music festival, an exploration of new sounds presented in six concerts over three days, October 24 to 26.
Livewire 14: Resounding, featuring Annea Lockwood, celebrates the work and completion of I Resound Press, an online archive of scores and recordings by women composers selected for their imagination, innovation and craft. Featured guest composer Annea Lockwood will interact with students and audiences in a variety of events, including a sound installation, public conversations, open rehearsals, and a concluding portrait concert of her recent works. Hub New Music, Sofia Kamayianni and Tim Ward, Caballito Negro, and the UMBC faculty contemporary ensemble Ruckus will present concerts including works from the I Resound archive by composers Rahilia Hasanova, Patricia Repar, Sofia Kamayianni, Linda Dusman, Anna Rubin, Lois V Vierk, Caterina Calderoni, Jane Rigler, and Eleanor Hovda. Livewire 14 features premieres by Hasanova, Dusman, Alexandra Gardner, and others, including Sam Garrett, the commissioned alumnus composer for 2024.
In recent years, Lockwood (b. 1939) and her music have received widespread attention, including a Columbia University Miller Theatre Composer Portrait concert, a feature article in The New York Times, a SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award, a documentary film by director Sam Green, and most recently, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her recent collaborative works Into the Vanishing Point with the ensemble Yarn/Wire and Becoming Air with avant-garde trumpeter Nate Wooley were released on Black Truffle Records to great acclaim. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Tectonics Athens Festival, Signale Graz, Counterflows International Festival of Music and Art, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and many others.
Schedule of events
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, various times
Annea Lockwood’s A Sound Map of the Hudson River
Thursday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.
The Ruckus new music ensemble
Friday, October 25, 12 p.m.
Student and Alumni Concert
Friday, October 25, 2 p.m. (this event only will be in The Music Box)
Sofia Kamayianni and Tim Ward
Friday, October 25, 6 p.m. (outside in a wooded area)
Annea Lockwood’s Piano Garden
Friday, October 25, 8 p.m.
Hub New Music
Saturday, October 26, 12 p.m.
Caballito Negro + Friends
Saturday, October 26: 3:30 p.m.
Open rehearsal of Lockwood’s bayou-borne, for Pauline
Saturday, October 26, 4:30 p.m.
A Conversation with Annea Lockwood
Saturday, October 26, 5:30 p.m.
Annea Lockwood Portrait Concert
Linehan Concert Hall, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.
Livewire is sponsored in part by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).
