Eight Songs for a Mad King

The Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance, now in its sixth season, is excited to present two concerts during its 2020 festival, featuring Institutional Artists Georgia Bourderionnet, Nicholas Davies, Wesley Ducote, Francesca Ferrara, and Lena Vidulich. The first concert of the festival will feature soloist Jonathan Z. Harris in the Louisiana premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ monodrama, Eight Songs for a Mad King. Additional guest performers include percussionist Stephen Montalvo and a cello quartet comprised of members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Marigny Opera House
Doors open at 7:00PM, Performance at 7:30 PM
Tickets: $20/$10 Student & Senior

Program:
Gabriela Frank, Las Sombras de los Apus
Elliott Carter, Con Leggerezza Pensosa
Kaija Saariaho, Noanoa
Improvisation on Fats Waller’s Alligator Crawl
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, 8 Songs for a Mad King

The performers are:
Jonathan Z. Harris, Bass-Baritone featured soloist
Georgia Bourderionnet, cello
Nicholas Davies, clarinet
Wesley Ducote, piano
Francesca Ferrara, flute
Lena Vidulich, violin
Stephen Montalvo, percussion guest performer
Cellists from the Louisiana Philharmonic:
Jeanne Jaubert, Rachel Hsieh, Karen Ray, and Daniel Lelchuk