Percussionist

Bringing the festival to a close with music built from small, repeating patterns, Closing Night:Wireworks explores how repeated shapes give rise to deep emotional worlds. Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 unfolds in flowing, intricate layers, each phrase subtly echoing the last, while Brahms’s Two Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano weaves voice and viola into a tender, interlaced duet. Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story selections bring energy and elegance to the finale, grounded in the iconic tritone interval that underpins the entire score and its vision of love and equality. Like the textiles of Ruth Adler Schnee, whose work inspired this season, each piece turns careful design into something luminous, human, and alive.

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Closing Night: Wireworks

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Matthew Duvall, founder, artistic director and percussionist of Eighth Blackbird, and Jocelyn Conselva, vocalist and co-director of New Music Detroit, bring an exciting program that merges rhythmic nuance with harmonic color.

Vignette, Opus 2: Matthew Duvall, percussion and Jocelyn Conselva, soprano

Experience the sound of an Alaskan glacier in Transient Landscapes, an extraordinary, fully immersive live performance installation created by composer Matthew Burtner and percussionist Matthew Duvall. Featuring percussion, keyboards, voice, and field recordings of Alaska’s Matanuska Glacier, Transient Landscapes explores a performative means of remapping climate change into sound. In Burtner’s own words, “this work confronts the transience of interconnected and human-altered landscapes… in which glacial melt becomes flood water on the other side of the world.” Join us for this monumental, once-in-a-lifetime sonic experience!

Transient Landscapes

St. John's College

A discussion with Matthew Burtner, composer, and Matthew Duvall, percussionist, moderated by Paul Sta. Ana. Duvall and Burtner’s monumental collaboration, Transient Landscapes, brings the sound of an Alaskan glacier to Santa Fe. Learn how sound art, data modeling, and ecoacoustics make data emotive and connects human imagination to climate change.

Percussionist

Matthew Duvall

Events

Past events

Jun 21, 2025

Closing Night: Wireworks · Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

May 10, 2025

Vignette, Opus 2: Matthew Duvall, percussion and Jocelyn Conselva, soprano · Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

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