Ensemble Mise-En
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Sergio Cote: Rand (2016, 2017 rev.)
Robert A. Baker: all the lights are gathered in your eyes (2016)
Anna Meadows: Flight (2017)
Frederic Rzewski: Moonrise with Memories (1977)
Amanda Feery: Those So Moral (2016)
Moon Young Ha: (in)stillness (2015)
Ensemble Mise-En is a New York-based contemporary music collective led by composer Moon Young Ha. Comprised of talented young musicians, Mise-en strives to bring a repertoire of challenging new sounds to diverse audiences, wishing to impart an experience that is simultaneously multi-cultural, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically pleasing. As a collective, the diverse musicians have coalesced around an aesthetic agenda, crystallized in the name mise-en: “mee”, in Korean, means “beauty”, and “zahn”, “to decorate”, and the group unabashedly promotes “beautiful” artwork to increasingly diverse audiences of contemporary sounds.
Ensemble mise-en has premiered dozens of works by lesser known or underperformed composers alongside reigning powers of the contemporary scene. This has included portrait concerts of composers Bent Sørensen, Wolfgang Mitterer, Hans Abrahamsen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lukas Ligeti and others.
