Join us on Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30 pm at MATCH and be a part of the first audience to experience world premieres by emerging composers Ben Morris and Marco-Adrián Ramos along with new poetry by Justin Jannise, as well as Marcus Karl Maroney’s Piano Trio. 

BEN MORRIS 

Ben Morris is a composer and jazz pianist whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. His eclectic output includes chamber and orchestral pieces, operas, musicals, film scores, incidental music, immersive installations, and electroacoustic works. He recently lived in Oslo, Norway on a Fulbright Grant and received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant to study the influence of folk music on Norwegian jazz, culminating in his 2022 debut album, Pocket Guides. His recent accolades include receiving two Downbeat and ASCAP Herb Alpert Awards. For Musiqa, Morris has composed a series of comedic miniatures inspired by negative reviews of national parks as captured by Amber Share’s ironic posters. These short, quirky pieces are meant to reflect humanity’s tendency to find boredom in even the most beautiful and awe-inspiring surroundings. 

MARCO-ADRIÁN RAMOS 

Marco-Adrián Ramos is a composer whose music spans a variety of media including works for voice, instrumental and electroacoustic ensembles, and dance. His work has been performed by ensembles including the FLUX Quartet, the New York Youth Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Emmanuel Music, the Juilliard Orchestra, and 45th Parallel. Recognitions include an artist grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the William Schuman Prize from the BMI Foundation. Marco-Adrián holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University’s School of Music. In 2023, Ramos won the Black, Latinx and Indigenous Commission from the Cross-Country Chamber Consortium, which Musiqa co-founded in 2020 in order to amplify under-represented voices in chamber music repertoire. Musiqa will premiere his new work entre azul y buenas noches. 

MARCUS KARL MARONEY

Musiqa Artist Board member Marcus Karl Maroney’s Introduction & Barrage is a virtuosic showpiece for piano trio, from the highwire intensity of the Introduction through the relentless energy and eventual self-immolation of the Barrage. 

JUSTIN JANNISE 

Musiqa is proud to team up with Inprint – which has served readers and writers in Houston and beyond since 1983 – to present new poetry commissioned for the occasion by Justin Jannise. Jannise is the author of How to Be Better by Being Worse (BOA Editions 2021), which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. They grew up in rural southeast Texas and attended Yale University, where they won the 2009 Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize for Poetry. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa awarded them a Teaching-Writing Fellowship in 2013 and named them the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Poetry in 2014. While earning a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, Justin served as Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art from 2018 to 2020 and was the recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry, and Inprint Marion Barthelme Gulf Coast Prize. Their poem “Flamingosexual” won The Pinch Journal’s 2020 Pinch Literary Award. Justin currently serves as Inprint’s Development Manager. 

NEW VOICES features performances by Garrett Hudson (flute), Yevgeny Dokshansky (clarinet), Astrid Nakamura (violin), Christopher Ellis (cello) and Chelsea de Souza (piano).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 at 7:30 PM

RUNTIME:
90 minutes with no intermission

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