Princeton Sound Kitchen presents Longleash Piano Trio
Event Overview
Dates
February 18, 2020
Hours
8:00 PM
Location
Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall
Admission
FREE; no tickets required
NOTE 2/17/20 — This event has been cancelled.
The Longleash Piano Trio performs new works by Princeton University graduate student and faculty composers, as well as past Princeton Arts Fellow Shawn Jaeger.
PROGRAM
New Works TBA — by Princeton University graduate composers
PLACES WE KNOW (2018) — by Shawn Jaeger
I. Muscota (Marsh; Inwood, Manhattan) II. Beargrass (Creek; Louisville, KY) III. Red Hook (Channel; Red Hook, Brooklyn) IV. Chenoweth (Run; Louisville, KY) V. Coleman (Run; Nerinx, KY)
Presented by the Department of Music’s Princeton Sound Kitchen and the Lewis Center for the Arts.Shawn Jaeger’s commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ABOUT
2016-18 Princeton Arts Fellow and composer Shawn Jaeger
Described as “mournful” (New York Times), “luminous” (Washington Post), and having “a sound world of its own” (Pioneer Press), the music of composer SHAWN JAEGER (b. 1985, Louisville, Kentucky) often engages Appalachian folksong, field recording, and creative placemaking. He has worked with leading performers, including Dawn Upshaw and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Dal Niente, Longleash, Contemporaneous, Alexi Kenney, Ryan Muncy, and Vicky Chow. His music has been featured at venues including Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Morgan Library, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Roulette, Jordan Hall, and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and on such festivals as Tanglewood, MATA, FERUS, and Resonant Bodies. He has received commissions from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, the American Composers Forum/Jerome Fund for New Music (JFund), Roulette/Jerome Foundation, the BMI Foundation/Concert Artists Guild (Carlos Surinach Commission), and Chamber Music America. His awards include the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, Northwestern University’s M. William Karlins and William T. Faricy Awards, the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and two BMI Student Composer Awards. His opera, Payne Hollow, received coverage in Modern Farmer and a mention in Gene Logsdon’s Letters to a Young Farmer.
Jaeger holds a DMA from Northwestern University, and a BM from the University of Michigan. He has taught composition at the Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, Tufts University, Princeton University (as a 2016-18 Princeton Arts Fellow), and Brown University. He lives in Brooklyn.
Map + Directions
Taplin Auditorium is located in Fine Hall, off Washington Road near the Lewis Library on the Princeton University campus.
ALEXANDER BRIDGE CLOSURE
Alexander Street, between Lawrence Drive in Princeton and Canal Pointe Boulevard in West Windsor, will close for about six months beginning on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, for road construction.
Construction makes traveling to campus more time consuming. Traffic congestion from all routes to campus during peak times (weekdays, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) will be higher than normal. Drivers traveling to campus along Route 1 will see the greatest delays.
