conText
Photo credit: Geoffrey Silver
Voice and flute duo conText (formerly known as Aurae) consists of Mary Hubbell and Alice Jones, musicians known for their colorful, thoughtful, and sensitive performances. The ensemble was founded in 2011 at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and their repertoire emphasizes new music while celebrating the entire common practice era. They have performed at Boston College, Cornelia Street Café, The Firehouse Space, Elebash Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Westbeth Art Gallery, and the Composers’ Voice Series at Jan Hus Church in New York City.
Commissions:
Gregory W. Brown - Drei Jahreszeiten (2012)
Inés Thiebaut - cuncta fluunt (2013)
Eric Nathan - Wing Over Wing (2013)
"Fifteen Minutes of Fame" (2014):
Andrew Haile Austin – Départ
Louis Sauter – Coeur qui as tant battu
Rodrigo Baggio – Resemblances from an Era
Dana Richardson – Mémoire
Christopher M. Wicks – Time Regained
David Bohn – Un Grand sommeil noir
Hinse Mutter – Désordre lumineux
Traci Mendel – After Monet’s Haystacks at Giverny, Sunset, 1890
Jean-Patrick Besingrand – Tableau parisien
Paul Cowell – Valse vocale
Fabio Monzù Rosselli – Hotels
Gary Powell Nash – To a Creolean Lady
Carrie Magin – Mondschein
Angelina Panozzo – Fairy Lights
Commissions:
Gregory W. Brown - Drei Jahreszeiten (2012)
Inés Thiebaut - cuncta fluunt (2013)
Eric Nathan - Wing Over Wing (2013)
"Fifteen Minutes of Fame" (2014):
Andrew Haile Austin – Départ
Louis Sauter – Coeur qui as tant battu
Rodrigo Baggio – Resemblances from an Era
Dana Richardson – Mémoire
Christopher M. Wicks – Time Regained
David Bohn – Un Grand sommeil noir
Hinse Mutter – Désordre lumineux
Traci Mendel – After Monet’s Haystacks at Giverny, Sunset, 1890
Jean-Patrick Besingrand – Tableau parisien
Paul Cowell – Valse vocale
Fabio Monzù Rosselli – Hotels
Gary Powell Nash – To a Creolean Lady
Carrie Magin – Mondschein
Angelina Panozzo – Fairy Lights
Recent performances:
May 17, 2015
with Ensemble 365
Queens New Music Festival at The Secret Theatre
Program: Frangis Ali-Zade, Three Watercolours; Bun-Ching Lam, Autumn Sound
May 13, 2015
with Ensemble 365
Queensborough Community College
Program: Frangis Ali-Zade, Three Watercolours; Bun-Ching Lam, Autumn Sound
March 8, 2015
Carole Farley masterclass organized by the New York Chamber Music Festival
Christ and St. Stephen's Church
Louis de Crèvecoeur: Haï-kaï d’Occident
December 10, 2014
Elebash Recital Hall
with Derin Öge, piano
"Music of the Belle Époque": André Caplet: Écoute, mon coeur, Louis de Crèvecoeur: Haï-kaï d’Occident, Maurice Ravel: La flûte enchantée, Philippe Gaubert: Soir Païen, Cécile Chaminade: Portrait (Valse chantée), Claude Debussy: Bilitis, AND a reprise of our new “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” set with works by Andrew Haile Austin, Rodrigo Baggio, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, David Bohn, Paul Cowell, Damon Lee, Carrie Magin, Traci Mendel, Hinse Mutter, Angelina Panozzo, Gary Powell Nash, Dana Dmitri Richardson, Fabio Monzù Rosselli, Louis Sauter, and Christopher Wicks
November 23, 2014
Composer's Voice Series: "Music for Voice and Not-Piano"
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
Program: Ines Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, choreographed and danced by Tamora Petitt and "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," presented by Vox Novus (premieres by: Andrew Haile Austin, Rodrigo Baggio, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, David Bohn, Paul Cowell, Damon Lee, Carrie Magin, Traci Mendel, Hinse Mutter, Angelina Panozzo, Gary Powell Nash, Dana Dmitri Richardson, Fabio Monzù Rosselli, Louis Sauter, and Christopher Wicks)
June 5, 2014
First Thursdays at The Firehouse Space
Program: Eric Nathan: Wing Over Wing, Inés Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, Gregory Brown: Drei Jahrseiten
May 28, 2014
"Time Notations: Silence, Words, and Music" at Westbeth Gallery
Program: André Caplet: Ecoute, mon coeur, Albert Roussel: Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26, Inés Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, Dan Welcher: The Bequest
April 7, 2014
with Brent Funderburk, piano
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Gregory Brown: Drei Jahreszeiten, Albert Roussel: Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26
February 14-15, 2014
Stony Brook Graduate Student Symposium: "Music and Nature: Between Scientific Reason and Divine Power"
Lecture-recital: Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard and Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing
February 9, 2014
Jan Hus Church
Program: Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing
October 29, 2013
Church of the Transfiguration lunchtime concert
Program: André Caplet, Écoute, mon coeur; Louis de Crèvecoeur, Haï-kaï d’Occident; Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard; Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folksong Settings
October 11, 2013
GC Composers-DMA collaboration concert
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Inés Thiebaut, cuncta fluunt (world premiere)
October 10, 2013
with Mirna Lekic and Derin Öge, piano
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Inés Thiebaut, cuncta fluunt (eternal flux) (world premiere); Dan Welcher, The Bequest; Dana Dmitri Richardson, Sonata for Ellen (world premiere); Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing (world premiere); Gregory Brown, Drei Jahreszeiten (world premiere); André Previn, The Giraffes Go to Hamburg
March 13, 2013
Cornelia Street Cafe
Program: André Caplet, Ecoute mon coeur; Jacques Ibert, Deux Stèles Orientées; Albert Roussel, Deux Poèmes de Ronsard; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings; Dan Welcher, The Bequest; Joaquín Rodrigo, Pajaro del Agua and Verde, Verderol
February 17, 2013
Gasson Hall, Boston College
with Mirna Lekic, piano
Program: "Turn of an American Century" -- Greg Brown [world premiere settings of Rilke]; Thomas Oboe Lee [world premiere work]; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings; André Previn, The Giraffes Go to Hamburg; Dan Welcher, The Bequest
December 14, 2012
Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory Faculty Winter Concert
with Mirna Lekic, piano
Program: Greg Brown, Vor der Sommerregen (world premiere); John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings
September 13, 2012
New York Chamber Music Festival, Master Class with Carole Farley
Symphony Space
Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26 with Mary Hubbell, soprano
February 21, 2012
GC Performers Forum
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26
May 17, 2015
with Ensemble 365
Queens New Music Festival at The Secret Theatre
Program: Frangis Ali-Zade, Three Watercolours; Bun-Ching Lam, Autumn Sound
May 13, 2015
with Ensemble 365
Queensborough Community College
Program: Frangis Ali-Zade, Three Watercolours; Bun-Ching Lam, Autumn Sound
March 8, 2015
Carole Farley masterclass organized by the New York Chamber Music Festival
Christ and St. Stephen's Church
Louis de Crèvecoeur: Haï-kaï d’Occident
December 10, 2014
Elebash Recital Hall
with Derin Öge, piano
"Music of the Belle Époque": André Caplet: Écoute, mon coeur, Louis de Crèvecoeur: Haï-kaï d’Occident, Maurice Ravel: La flûte enchantée, Philippe Gaubert: Soir Païen, Cécile Chaminade: Portrait (Valse chantée), Claude Debussy: Bilitis, AND a reprise of our new “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” set with works by Andrew Haile Austin, Rodrigo Baggio, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, David Bohn, Paul Cowell, Damon Lee, Carrie Magin, Traci Mendel, Hinse Mutter, Angelina Panozzo, Gary Powell Nash, Dana Dmitri Richardson, Fabio Monzù Rosselli, Louis Sauter, and Christopher Wicks
November 23, 2014
Composer's Voice Series: "Music for Voice and Not-Piano"
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
Program: Ines Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, choreographed and danced by Tamora Petitt and "Fifteen Minutes of Fame," presented by Vox Novus (premieres by: Andrew Haile Austin, Rodrigo Baggio, Jean-Patrick Besingrand, David Bohn, Paul Cowell, Damon Lee, Carrie Magin, Traci Mendel, Hinse Mutter, Angelina Panozzo, Gary Powell Nash, Dana Dmitri Richardson, Fabio Monzù Rosselli, Louis Sauter, and Christopher Wicks)
June 5, 2014
First Thursdays at The Firehouse Space
Program: Eric Nathan: Wing Over Wing, Inés Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, Gregory Brown: Drei Jahrseiten
May 28, 2014
"Time Notations: Silence, Words, and Music" at Westbeth Gallery
Program: André Caplet: Ecoute, mon coeur, Albert Roussel: Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26, Inés Thiebaut: cuncta fluunt, Dan Welcher: The Bequest
April 7, 2014
with Brent Funderburk, piano
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Gregory Brown: Drei Jahreszeiten, Albert Roussel: Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26
February 14-15, 2014
Stony Brook Graduate Student Symposium: "Music and Nature: Between Scientific Reason and Divine Power"
Lecture-recital: Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard and Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing
February 9, 2014
Jan Hus Church
Program: Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing
October 29, 2013
Church of the Transfiguration lunchtime concert
Program: André Caplet, Écoute, mon coeur; Louis de Crèvecoeur, Haï-kaï d’Occident; Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard; Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folksong Settings
October 11, 2013
GC Composers-DMA collaboration concert
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Inés Thiebaut, cuncta fluunt (world premiere)
October 10, 2013
with Mirna Lekic and Derin Öge, piano
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Inés Thiebaut, cuncta fluunt (eternal flux) (world premiere); Dan Welcher, The Bequest; Dana Dmitri Richardson, Sonata for Ellen (world premiere); Eric Nathan, Wing Over Wing (world premiere); Gregory Brown, Drei Jahreszeiten (world premiere); André Previn, The Giraffes Go to Hamburg
March 13, 2013
Cornelia Street Cafe
Program: André Caplet, Ecoute mon coeur; Jacques Ibert, Deux Stèles Orientées; Albert Roussel, Deux Poèmes de Ronsard; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings; Dan Welcher, The Bequest; Joaquín Rodrigo, Pajaro del Agua and Verde, Verderol
February 17, 2013
Gasson Hall, Boston College
with Mirna Lekic, piano
Program: "Turn of an American Century" -- Greg Brown [world premiere settings of Rilke]; Thomas Oboe Lee [world premiere work]; John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings; André Previn, The Giraffes Go to Hamburg; Dan Welcher, The Bequest
December 14, 2012
Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory Faculty Winter Concert
with Mirna Lekic, piano
Program: Greg Brown, Vor der Sommerregen (world premiere); John Corigliano, Three Irish Folk Song Settings
September 13, 2012
New York Chamber Music Festival, Master Class with Carole Farley
Symphony Space
Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26 with Mary Hubbell, soprano
February 21, 2012
GC Performers Forum
Elebash Recital Hall
Program: Albert Roussel, Deux poèmes de Ronsard, Op. 26