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Premiere of Kareem Roustom’s Letters Home
Issa Sonus ensemble performs the world premiere of Kareem Roustom‘s new version of Letters Home arranged for Laura Falzon as a flute and viola work. On May 17th, at the Queens New Music Festival, Laura Falzon, flute, and Edmundo Ramirez, viola, premiered Kareem Roustom’s work, originally for clarinet and viola. Other works premiered in the same ISSAS Sonus…
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World Premiere of Yui Kitamura’s Train
Laura Falzon, OneEnsemble and Stockholm’s Curious Chamber Players, conducted by Rei Munakata, performed the world premiere of Yui Kitamura’s Train at the Di Menna Center, New York, on April 12 2015.
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World Premieres: Alyssa Reit & Robert Puleo
2Flutes premiered works written for them by Alyssa Reit and Robert Puleo in April 2015. When the Clouds Clear by Alyssa Reit In 3 movements, and scored for flute and Alto flute, When the Clouds Clear was written for 2Flutes, Laura Falzon and Pamela Sklar, by composer Alyssa Reit. The first 2 movements were written…
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Premiere of Anze Rozman’s The Two Rivers
2Flutes ensemble Laura Falzon and Pamela Sklar, together with Daniel Beliavsky on piano premiered Slovenian composer Anže Rozman’s The Two Rivers at Music at St Paul’s concert series. As the title suggests, The Two Rivers reflects the flow of nature and talks about two entities becoming one. The two flutes and piano exchange melodies and…
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Awarded New York Women Composers grant
2Flutes, an ensemble of two flutes by Laura Falzon and Pamela Sklar, has been awarded the New York Women Composers’ grant. The Disseminated Grant will enable the ensemble to premiere music by New York Women Composers in concerts across New York City and Westchester County for the coming season. September 23rd, 2014 at Saint Peter’s…
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World Premiere of Carlos José Castro’s Nocturno
A new piece by Costa Rican composer and Latin Grammy winner Carlos José Castro was premiered by Laura Falzon in New York City at Somethin’ Jazz Club during the Costa Rican CONCIERTico organized by CRNGNYC, and curated by Edmundo Ramirez. “As the name of this new work states,” explains Carlos José Castro, “it has to…
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Laura Falzon & Carlos José Castro in conversation
“My music is a voyage of self-discovery. In every piece I ponder deeper inside my self, a self which is, of course, social. Every piece has to be a window for something beyond music.” – Carlos José Castro, composer In preparation for her premiere of Castro’s Nocturno, flutist Laura Falzon discussed several aspects of this…
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World premiere of Nickos Harizanos’s Honeycombs
On Friday May 9th 2014, flutist Laura Falzon and violist Edmundo Ramirez performed the US premiere of Nickos Harizanos’ Honeycombs at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, NY for NYSoundCircuit 5.2 concert series. Honeycombs-for flute and viola composed by Greek composer Nickos Harizanos – an active board member of the Greek, Xenakis founded, KSYME,…
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Premiere of Jan Gilbert’s The Indigo Rooftop of the Night
As part of New York’s city-wide festival, Composers Now!, the American Composers Alliance collaborated with Lunatics at Large, to present recent works by Richard Brooks, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Eleanor Cory, Brian Fennelly, Thomas Flaherty, Jan Gilbert, and Louis Karchin at Symphony Space, New York. Amongst the works performed was the premiere performance of Jan Gilbert’s The Indigo Rooftop of…
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US Premiere of Bushra El Turk’s Marionette
On January 12th 2013, flutist Laura Falzon and pianist Kathleen Tagg performed the US premiere of composer Bushra El-Turk’s Marionette for flute and piano at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Marionette depicts the struggle against constraints and doctrines of society, religious authority and all those who impose their beliefs upon others. The three ‘Nos’…
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World Premiere of Medea Sparagmata in Thessaloniki
On Monday July 17 2012, flutist Laura Falzon together with vocalist Natassa Mare Moumtzidou, double bassist Agamemnon Mardas and percussionist Stelios Romanidis performed the world premiere of Nickos Harizanos’ Medea Sparagmata op.135 at the Megaron Hall in Thessaloniki, Greece. This project was the result of a collaboration between the US based Id-Dinja ensemble and the Greek, Xenakis founded, Contemporary…
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Interview on Radyo Turkum
On June 6 2012, Laura Falzon was interviewed on Radyo Turkum by Mert Sanivar. This live radio interview discussed her recent work with Turkish-American composer Munir Nurettin Beken.