Virtual Festival 2020

Welcome to the Makrokosmos Project Virtual Festival!

We hope you enjoy this eclectic selection of performances from our stellar team.  Some of the videos are hot off the press!  Others are from previous Makrokosmos Project festivals and performances.  All are the contributions of our awesome MP artists and show their dedication and love to our craft.

Please consider making a donation to Makrokosmos Project at any amount.  This year’s festival is brought to you free of charge, but your generous donation will benefit our performers and help fund future performances.  Please help keep our dreams alive.  We need your help more than ever.

In this tremendously difficult time we call on our community to unite as one.  The current pandemic raging through our cities, our hospitals and our families must be brought to an end.  We fight a parallel pandemic, a pandemic of systemic racism against people of color.

Originally, Makrokosmos Project 6 was going to be called Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman.  That will be the theme for next year’s festival.

The new title for this year’s festival is:

Makrokosmos Project 6: Compassion
In Memoriam: Widney Moore
In Memoriam: George Floyd and Victims of Systemic Racism
Dedicated to the Victims of COVID-19

Enjoy the music!  Please take good care, stay healthy and keep in touch.  We hope to see you in person again before too long.

Yours,
Stephanie & Saar

To make a donation at any amount click below.  All donations to benefit the performers and future Makrokosmos Project events.

Caroline Shaw   Gustave Le Gray
Stephanie Ho, piano
Dedicated to the unclaimed victims of Covid-19 in New York City

 

Alexander Schwarzkopf   Five Sketches for Piano
(MP World Premiere)
Alexander Schwarzkopf, piano

 

Martin Bejerano   Petite Corvette Rouge
(MP commission 2020)
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Portland Percussion Group

Philip Glass   Etude 5
Saar Ahuvia, piano
In memoriam Widney Moore

Philip Glass   Etude 6
Saar Ahuvia, piano
In memoriam Widney Moore

Gordon Stout   Skylark Orange Circles
Paul Owen and Chris Whyte, Marimbas

 

John Zorn   Carny
Jeff Payne, piano

 

Michael Johanson   In Memoriam Jóhann Jóhannsson
Susan Smith, piano

 

Michael Johanson   Ozymandias
George Skipworth, baritone
Deborah Cleaver, piano

Kenji Bunch   Etudes
Monica Ohuchi, piano

Paul Lansky   Threads Movements 8-10
Portland Percussion Group

John Cage   Sonatas and Interludes
Julia Lee, piano

Meredith Monk   Ellis Island
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos

 

Meredith Monk   Obsolete Objects
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos

 

Branic Howard   In the Nothingness
DUO Stephanie & Saar, piano
Branic Howard, electronics

Ben Justis   Nucleation
Portland Percussion Group

 

Julia Wolfe   Compassion
Dedicated to New York City’s heroic first-responders
Stephanie Ho, piano

George Crumb   Music for a Summer Evening I. Nocturnal Sounds
DUO Stephanie & Saar, pianos
Chris Whyte & Paul Owen, percussion

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