Great Noise Ensemble’s founder and Artistic Director, Armando Bayolo, has been blogging over at Sequenza 21, where he’s now in the process of chronicling GNE’s upcoming production of Louis Andriessen’s opera masterwork De Materie, which will be presented at The National Gallery of Art on October 24, 2010. This is a truly epic undertaking for [...]
As we close out our fifth season and prepare for our blockbuster sixth year performing together, we’d like to share one of the highlights of our season from our final concert: the world premiere performance of D.J. Sparr’s incredible percussion concerto, The 41st Rudiment. For those of you who couldn’t make it out to the [...]
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GNE founder Armando Bayolo contributes to Anne Midgette’s article about the up-and-coming new music scene.
[ January 31, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble presents:
Colorfield Passions And Vespers
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:30pm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
Great Noise Ensemble returns to the National Gallery of Art for Colorfield Passions, a program of world premiere works inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko (Armando Bayolo’s Kaddish:Passio:Rothko) and the music of Claudio Monteverdi (Carlos Carrillo’s Motets from Vespro [...]
[ December 5, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble presents:
Illusions & Hallucinations
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 7:30pm
Ward Recital Hall, The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
The Catholic University of America
General $25 / Students & Seniors $15
CUA Students, Faculty & Staff Free with CUA ID
Inspiration can come from a myriad of places, and not all of them exist in the realm of the [...]
[ October 30, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] The Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring hosts GNE on October 30, 2009 for Twilight Music, a program of works by David Smooke, John Harbison, Roberto Sierra, Masatoshi Mitsumoto and Blair Goins inspired by light, poetry and musical intervals.
[ September 25, 2009; 7:30 pm; ] Great Noise Ensemble’s fifth season opens with Urban Saloon, a program highlighting works inspired by scenes from evocative locales such as the Deep South and the historic American West, as well as music from the Balkans, India, jazz and John Cage.
Saturday, May 30, 2009 7:30 pm
The Terrace Theater, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
On Saturday, May 30, Great Noise Ensemble makes its official Kennedy Center debut, performing with one of D.C.’s best-loved choral groups, the Congressional Chorus! This concert features the world premiere of part of Revolutions of Ruin by Daniel Felsenfeld, co-commissioned [...]
