Ted Hearne’s "In Your Mouth" was commissioned by Liquid Music, Walker Art Center and Carnegie Hall and premiered November 21 & 22, 2019 at Walker Art Center. The immersive 12-song suite incorporated words by poet Dorothea Lasky, live stage direction by Daniel Fish, and real-time installations by Rachel Perry, featuring collaborators/musicians Ashley Bathgate, Ron Wiltrout, Nathan Koci, Taylor Levine, and Diana Wade. Enjoy a glimpse of this fascinating creation with this highlight reel by Kyle Kehrwald.
Ashwini Ramaswamy's "Let the Crows Come" was commissioned by Liquid Music and made its world premiere November 8 & 9, 2019 at The Lab Theater. Evoking mythography and ancestry, this work was created in collaboration with dancer/choreographers Alanna Morris-Van Tassel and Berit Ahlgren, and composers/musicians Jace Clayton, Brent Arnold, Prema Ramamurthy, Rohan Krishnamurthy, Roopa Mahadevan and Arun Ramamurthy.
Camera: Kelly Anderson and Andrew Nordstrum
Video Editor: Andrew Nordstrum
James McVinnie and Darkstar: Collapse was commissioned by Liquid Music and premiered May 4, 2019 at Northrop at the University of Minnesota. Special thanks to project sponsor Jon Oulman.
“1 0 0 1" by composer Dustin O'Halloran, choreographer Fukiko Takase, and lighting designer Yaron Abulafia was commissioned by Liquid Music and premiered April 18 & 19, 2019 at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis. The electronics-forward existentialist performance—inspired by Masamune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell"—explored ideas of technology, humanity, and mind-body dualism. Link to highlight reel by Nathan Matson in bio.
Ecstatic chants of Hildegard of Bingen, new music by Julianna Barwick, and world premieres by Ben Frost and Angélica Negrón.
Co-commissioned and copresented with Walker Art Center
March 23, 2019
On March 4, 2019 Kim Gordon and Dimitri Chamblas offered improvised music and movement in an intimate gathering of Liquid Music patrons at the American Swedish Institute’s Turnblad Mansion.
On January 9, 2019, Jennifer Koh, Vijay Iyer, and Tyshawn Sorey performed works from Koh’s original series “Limitless” at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in Saint Paul. The performance infused the hall with a softly intense energy—relive the experience in this video.
Special thanks to project sponsors Jennifer Leopold and Steve Katz, hotel sponsor Intercontinental St. Paul, and beverage sponsor LIFEWTR.
Let the Crows Come is a Liquid Music project in development, premiering November 2019 at the Lab Theatre in Minneapolis. Concept/choreography by Ashwini Ramaswamy; music by Jace Clayton, Brent Arnold and Prema Ramamurthy; with dancers/movement collaborators Alanna Morris-Van Tassel and Berit Ahlgren. Work-in-progress conversation February 11, 2019 at The Parkway Theater, Minneapolis.
On September 23, 2018, Hanna Benn, Deantoni Parks, and musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra premiered "Procession," composed by Benn and Parks. The piece, a Liquid Music commission, filled Machine Shop with an ethereal, effervescent energy—catch a glimpse in this video.
Special thanks project sponsors Tom von Sternberg and Eve Parker, Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot, Agra Culture Kitchen, SotaRol and LIFEWTR.
TU Dance and Bon Iver collaborate through Liquid Music to create the new work, Come Through. From the studio to the stage, follow artists Toni Pierce-Sands, Uri Sands, Justin Vernon and curator Kate Nordstrum through the process as they discuss their inspiration for the work and their unexpected partnership. (Video courtesy MN Original)
TU Dance and Bon Iver perform “Naeem 2” from the world premiere of Come Through, commissioned by Liquid Music and performed April 2018 at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul. (Video courtesy MN Original)
Highlights and interview excerpts from the March 14, 2018 world premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s Fanm d’Ayiti, commissioned by Liquid Music, featuring musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Highlights from the February 7, 2018 Twin Cities debut of Anna Meredith and her band, co-presented with Walker Art Center at Aria Minneapolis.
Highlights from the November 16, 2017 world premiere of Emily Wells’ This World is Too ___ For You featuring violinist/composer Michi Wiancko, percussionist Greg Fox, and musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Highlights from the October 21, 2017 world premiere of guitarist/composer/electronic music artist Rafiq Bhatia’s virtuosic and emotionally intense "Breaking English", co-commissioned by Liquid Music and Walker Art Center. Bhatia’s work for electroacoustic ensemble (Bhatia, Ian Chang, Jackson Hill, Nina Moffitt) mixed contemporary sound art with high-energy improvisation, and was transformed into an immersive multimedia experience by Minneapolis-based visual artist Michael Cina and video artist Hal Lovemelt.
Preview the sixth season of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music, a concert series that creates a space for innovative new projects and iconoclastic artists in unique presentation formats.
The 2017.18 season includes premieres and performances by Bon Iver, TU Dance, Anna Meredith, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Vijay Iyer, Teju Cole, Emily Wells, Rafiq Bhatia, Nathalie Joachim and more.
Highlights from the May 18-20, 2017 world premiere of Tunde Adebimpe’s "A Warm Weather Ghost", featuring Money Mark, Mia Doi Todd, Aaron Steele, Sean Okaguchi, Morgan Sorne and Tracy Wannomae, presented at the William and Nadine McGuire Theater at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. This work was co-commissioned by Liquid Music, Walker Art Center and The Current.
Highlights from the May 9, 2017 Liquid Music / American Swedish Institute presentation of Bedroom Community & Friends featuring Valgeir Sigurðsson, Daniel Bjarnason, Sam Amidon, Jodie Landau, Channy Leaneagh, SPCO Artistic Partner Pekka Kuusisto and musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Highlights from the April 5, 2017 Midwest premiere of Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and sonic experimentalist Nick Zammuto’s ToBeGinAgain at Aria in Minneapolis. This project was co-presented with the Walker Art Center and Schubert Club Mix.
Excerpt from the March 11, 2017 U.S. premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered featuring vocalists Shara Nova, Padma Newsome, DM Stith, conductor Mischa Santora, poet and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows, and musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Highlights from the Midwest Premiere of David Lang’s "darker", featuring visual art by Suzanne Bocanegra and musicians of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. December 3, 2016, Ordway Concert Hall. Copresented by the SPCO’s Liquid Music Series and the Walker Art Center.
An excerpt from the Polica and s t a r g a z e collaboration "Music for the Long Emergency". Recorded Friday, November 18, 2016 at the Fitzgerald Theater
A trailer showcasing music and animation from Tunde Adebimpe's upcoming world premiere, "A Warm Weather Ghost," copresented with Walker Art Center and The Current,
On May 13 and 14, 2016, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series and the Walker Art Center presented Devendra Banhart and Friends in a program entitled Wind Grove Mind Alone. Along with Banhart, the evenings featured unforgettable performances from Lucky Dragons, Jessica Pratt and Greata Morgan, Helado Negro, William Basinski, Rodrigo Amarante, Hecuba and Harold Budd.
Artists: Devendra Banhart, Lucky Dragons, Jessica Pratt and Greta Morgan, Helado Negro, William Basinski, Devendra Banhart and Band, Rodrigo Amarante, Hecuba, and Harold Budd
Videography: Andy Underwood-Bultmann, Brian Dehler, Christian Jensen
Artist Portraits: Gene Pittman, Walker Art Center
Video editing: Andrew Nordstrum
A preview of the fifth season of Liquid Music, a concert series presented by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra that expands the world of classical music through innovative new projects, boundary-defying artists, and unique presentation formats.
On April 26, 2016 at the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, Saul Williams and Mivos Quartet presented a program entitled No One Ever Does which included the Minnesota premiere of NGH WHT, a collaboration between Williams and composer Thomas Kessler, as well as world premieres by composers Ted Hearne and Jace Clayton, and Moonblood by Mario Dias de Leon. The performance was presented by The St Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series and in partnership with the Givens Foundation for African American Literature.
Artists: Saul Williams and Mivos Quartet
Videography: Nathan Matson, Patrick Pehlham
Video editing: Kyle Kehrwald
On Feb 11, 2016 Daniel Wohl, Mantra Percussion and visual artist Daniel Schwarz performed Holographic, an album and multimedia performance series commissioned by The SPCO's Liquid Music, MASS MoCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Indianapolis Museum of Art.
February 11, 2016
Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul
Video by Nate Matson and Patrick Pelham
Edited by Patrick Pelham
Part 1 of a mini-documentary series following Liquid Music virtual residency artists Poliça and stargaze as they collaborate on a fall 2016 premiere performance. Co-presented by The Current.
Wye Oak and William Brittelle: Spiritual America (WORLD PREMIERE)
With special guest Michi Wiancko
Copresented with the Walker Art Center
Sponsored by First & First
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015
Aria, Minneapolis
Videography: Spaces
Video editing: Justin Staggs, McNally Smith College of Music
Composer Nina C. Young discusses her contributions to violinist Miranda Cuckson’s Liquid Music performance on November 14, 2015 at Amsterdam Bar and Hall.
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Miranda Cuckson harnesses the physicality and unique technicalities of her repertoire to “go organically with what the music needs” making her, as Downbeat Magazine notes, “one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music.”
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A preview of the fourth season of Liquid Music, a concert series presented by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra that expands the world of classical music through innovative new projects, boundary-defying artists, and unique presentation formats.
Featuring, Bryce Dessner, Caroline Shaw, Richard Reed Parry, Buke & Gase, Benjamin Lanz, Quiet River of Dust, So Percussion, and the Minneapolis Music Company with conductor Mischa Santora
Thanks to our co-presenter, the Walker Art Center.
Recorded: April 3-4, 2015 at the Walker Art Center
Helado Negro: Island Universe Story
WORLD PREMIERE: March 21, 2015, Ordway Concert Hall
Presented by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series
Video editing by Justin Staggs (McNally Smith College of Music)
Videography by Ryan Melling and Eli Ljung
Audio by Performance Today (American Public Media)
Julia Holter & Spektral Quartet
Feb 23, 2015, Amsterdam Bar & Hall
Video editing by Justin Staggs (McNally Smith College of Music)
Videography by Ryan Melling, Nate Matson, and Angela Matson
Audio by Performance Today (American Public Media)
Jherek Bischoff: Composed was presented by the SPCO's Liquid Music series and Walker Art Center
Octotober 18, 2013 at the Historic Fitzgerald Theater
With special guests Olof Arnalds, Channy Leaneah, Sondre Lerche and Greg Saunier
Videography by Dan Huiting
Video and sound editing by Andrew Nordstrum
Audio recording by Minnesota Public Radio
"Counting" by Bob Lind, newly arranged by Jherek Bischoff