2023-2024 Concerts

Urban Impressions 
Sat., Sept. 14, 2024 7 PM Phoenix, AZ

Urban Nocturnes‘ members Viviana Cumplido, Erin​ Finkelstein, Karen​ Sinclair, Christopher​ McKay, Melita​ Hunsinger and pianist Andrew ​Campbell will perform a concert featuring works composed by Arizona-based composer Glenn Stallcop.

PROGRAM

Episodes is a trio for violin, cello, and piano that evokes the emotional rollercoaster experienced in the continuing quest for social change. Alt Shift, a sextet for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano, explores in 3 movements (Tether, High Wire, and Fantasia) alternate lifestyles in the search for meaning and purpose. Also on the program is Nuance de Noir for flute/alto flute, tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), viola, and double bass.

Commissioned by the Telluride Chamber Music Association in the Spring of 2022, Nuance de Noir’s unusual instrumentation triggered a comparison of modern stresses to the nuclear shadow which triggered the “Noir” period in cinema during the 50s and 60s.

This concert is co-sponsored by the American Composers Alliance (New York).

 

Urban Impressions
Sat., Sept. 21, 2024 7 PM
Prescott, AZ

Urban Nocturnes‘ members Viviana Cumplido, Erin​ Finkelstein, Karen​ Sinclair, Christopher​ McKay, Melita​ Hunsinger and pianist Andrew ​Campbell will perform a concert featuring works composed by Arizona-based composer Glenn Stallcop.

PROGRAM

Episodes is a trio for violin, cello, and piano that evokes the emotional rollercoaster experienced in the continuing quest for social change. Alt Shift, a sextet for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano, explores in 3 movements (Tether, High Wire, and Fantasia) alternate lifestyles in the search for meaning and purpose. Also on the program is Nuance de Noir for flute/alto flute, tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), viola, and double bass.

Commissioned by the Telluride Chamber Music Association in the Spring of 2022, Nuance de Noir’s unusual instrumentation triggered a comparison of modern stresses to the nuclear shadow which triggered the “Noir” period in cinema during the 50s and 60s.

Proceeds Benefit the Coalition for Compassion and Justice.

This concert is co-sponsored by the American Composers Alliance (New York).

 

Augustana Orchestra
Sun., Oct. 29th At 4 Pm

Pete Folliard, Cond. 
Augustana University, Hamre Recital Hall.

 

Hamre Hall is in the Music and Humanities Building of Augustana University, 2001 S. Summit Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD 

The concert will feature John Casey performing the first movement of Glenn Stallcop’s Concerto for Double Bass. 

LIVESTREAM 10/29 AT 5:30pm MST (Arizona), 7:30pm CDT 

 

 

Stallcop Bass Concerto Augustana University Oct 29

sarah walder amata

Cello Trip 2023

— 9/22 at 7:00 pm in Flagstaff at Flagstaff Federated Community Church
— 9/24 at 3:00 pm in Prescott at Trinity Presbyterian Church
— 10/1 at 3:00 pm in Albuquerque at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church

These performances of Cello Trip include Bach’s joyful Third Suite, the live premieres of Restless in Loops by Grammy nominated Arizona composer Glenn Stallcop and Crooked Tide by student composer David Wauters, and Sarah’s own compositions for cello with looper.

Sarah grew up in the deserts and mountains of Arizona. After graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 1992 with degrees in cello and viola da gamba, she moved to The Netherlands, graduating from The Royal Conservatory in The Hague with a masters in Baroque Cello in 1994.

Sarah currently performs as principal cellist of several modern and Baroque orchestras, as a chamber music player and as a soloist.   

 

urban nocturnes

chamber Concert

2PM Sun., Aug. 27th, 2023

St. Andrews Bach Society
Grace St. Pauls
2331 E. Adams
Tucson, AZ 85719

Urban Nocturnes members Karen, Christopher, and Erin will be joined by two guests, violinist Ruggero Allifranchini and cellist Morgen Johnson, in a concert featuring works for strings and clarinet. The program will include Mendelssohn’s Tema con variazioni and Scherzo for String Quartet, Rêverie Orientale for Clarinet and String Quartet by Alexander Glazunov, and W.A. Mozart’s incomparable Clarinet Quintet in A maj K581. Also featured on the program is a piece entitled String Quartet, by Phoenix-based composer and retired Phoenix Symphony double bassist, Glenn Stallcop. 

Virtual:
“The Unreal dwelling”

 

The morning that I received the call from Steven Moeckel asking me to write a piece for unaccompanied violin, I had been reading from a collection of literary prose by Matsuo Basho, the famous Japanese haiku poet.  We were in the midst of the long shutdown for the Covid-19 pandemic.  Musicians were not working; whole symphony seasons had been cancelled.  We discussed the artistic (let alone financial) crisis the situation was creating.  He talked of having taken a trip to the Oregon coast and taken long walks through misty forests to facilitate some serious artistic soul searching.  He had formulated a plan for an unaccompanied recording and wanted to commission a new work for it.  The album, Sei Solo Looking Within, was released in June of 2020.

 

 

 

 

urban nocturnes

chamber Concert

Thurs., Feb. 9th, 2023
7:30-9pm 

St Barnabas Episcopal Church (map)

Sat., Feb. 11th, 2023
2-3:30pm

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix (map)

Urban Nocturnes‘s program includes the premiere of String Quartet 1980 by Glenn Stallcop, a Phoenix-based composer and former Phoenix Symphony double bassist;  Mendelssohn’s Tema con variazioni and Scherzo for String Quartet, Rêverie Orientale for Clarinet and String Quartet by Alexander Glazunov, and W.A. Mozart’s incomparable Clarinet Quintet in A maj K581.