US-born Jennifer Torrence is a percussionist, composer and artistic researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Storytelling, erasure, and place unite the three works in her programme. Deserted places, sites facing erasure, and their abstracted and fragmented memories receive quiet recognition. Message from the Lighthouse by Hanna Hartman combines field recordings and electronic sound with percussion and found objects, calling for a precision in listening that is wholly unique to Hartman’s music. Riuti from Walter Zimmerman’s cycle, Lokale Muzik, sets a disappearing one-woman marching band into motion as she roll-calls deserted German villages. And Ecology 2 by Gloria Coates is a work for voice, objects, and electronics where children’s fairy tales warn us about the loss of ecosystems. At its premiere in Berlin in 1978, Coates removed the spoken text and retitled the work Between, arguably due to pressure from the coal industry and the government that protected it. Torrence presents the work in its original version: “May the resistance be heard”, she asserts.

TECTONICS: Jennifer Torrence

The Old Fruitmarket

Pianist-composer Conrad Tao invites UK-based new-music collective Distractfold to make their NYC debut with the world premiere of Andrew Greenwald’s A Thing Made Whole VIII and music by Jürg Frey, Hanna Hartman and Mauricio Pauly. A leader of his generation, Tao is “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” (New York Magazine).

Hanna Hartman

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May 4, 2025

TECTONICS: Jennifer Torrence · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

May 23, 2024

Distractfold with Conrad Tao · Kaufman Music Center

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