New Music Concerts’ 31st season opens with a portrait of electroacoustic composer Robert Normandeau on October 26. The Penderecki String Quartet’s performance of new works by Gilles Tremblay and Raymond Luedeke, and the presentation of the 2001 Jules Léger Prize, form NMC’s contribution to the Massey Hall Festival, on November 19.  NMC and the Music Gallery co-present Slowind performing contemporary Slovenian woodwind music on January 6, 2002.  January 20 brings the Canadian premiere of Alexander Goehr’s cantata, Sing Ariel, with mezzo-soprano Patricia Green, and a new work by Hope Lee for accordion and strings.  March 3 German composer and ethnomusicologist Dieter Mack joins the NMC ensemble, violinist Mark Fewer and the Evergreen Club Gamelan in a concert of Sundanese-influenced music.  Soprano Ingrid Atrott is featured in works by eminent Hungarian composer György Kurtág on April 13.  The season concludes May 26 with a portrait of Linda Bouchard, and a new flute composition for artistic director Robert Aitken by Henry Brant. 

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