In an evening of performance and conversation, Margaret Brouwer, Esperanza Spalding, and Du Yun share their music and discuss their creative process as part of a series designed to showcase the diversity of living composers, and create a forum for meaningful exchange among composers, performers, and audiences.
Program
Margaret Brouwer: Fleeting Images (World Premiere)
Performed by Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; Blair McMillen, piano; and Michael Lipsey, percussion
Du Yun: A few stops on the 7 train (World Premiere)
Performed by Du Yun and String Noise
Esperanza Spalding: What A Friend and Refugees of the Zodiac
Performed by Esperanza Spalding, bass and vocals; Leala Cyr, vocals; Dan Blake, saxophone; Carlos Homs, piano; Terri Lyne Carrington, drums
Co-presented with Composers Now.
BAC Salon is a series of concerts performed in an intimate salon setting.
Leadership support for music programming in 2016 provided by the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and the Thompson Family Foundation.

Margaret Brouwer
Margaret Brouwer is known for creating music that abounds in lyricism, strong imagery and emotional power. The Dallas Morning News declared she “has one of the most delicate ears and inventive imaginations among contemporary American composers.”

Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding, four-time Grammy Award winner, is a composer, bassist, and vocalist, expansive, iterative, shape-shifting, open, and progressively innovative. The New York Times declared that she "has made her mark not just as a virtuoso jazz bassist or an effortlessly nimble singer but as an exotic hybrid of the two. The very nature of her talent is exceptional".

Du Yun
Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and currently based in New York, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, and activist for new music, working at the intersection of orchestral, opera, chamber music, theater, cabaret, pop music, oral tradition, visual arts, electronics, and noise.

Tania León
Tania León, born in Cuba, is highly regarded as a composer and conductor, also recognized for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. She has been profiled for ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Univision, Telemundo, and independent films.