Nobuko Igarashi	Andrew Drannon	Daniel Gilbert	Wesley Emerson	Perry Mears	Sabrina Warren	Paul Murray

Luna Nova Winter Concert - Monday, December 9, 7:30 p.m.
Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 1720 Peabody
Free admission, reception to follow in parish hall

Program

In the Bleak Midwinter (1906) - Gustav Holst
Wesley Emerson, organ

Six Studies in English Folk-Song (1926) - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Nobuko Igarashi, clarinet • Andrew Drannon, piano

Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6 (1906) - Roger Quilter
Songs from A Shropshire Lad (1911) - George Butterworth
Paul Murray, bass • Perry Mears, piano

Elizabethan Songs (1912) - Ivor Gurney
Sabrina Laney Warren, soprano • Andrew Drannon, piano

Four Watercolors, Op. 15 (1899) -Tor Aulin
Daniel Gilbert, violin • Andrew Drannon, piano

Songs of Travel (1904) - Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Sea Fever (1913) - John Ireland
Paul Murray, bass • Perry Mears, piano

“Nimrod” from The Enigma Variations (1899) - Edward Elgar
arr. by William H. Harris
Wesley Emerson, organ

2013-14 Luna Nova Season Concerts

2014 Student Composition Contest

Luna Nova Music and the Beethoven Club of Memphis sponsors a student composition contest that is open to student composers worldwide up to the age of 30. Winners received a performance at the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival and a recording of the work made by members of the Luna Nova Ensemble. It is open to student composers under the age of 30. Details for entry are available here. There is no entry fee associated with this competition.

What We Have Been Busy Doing for the Last Seven Years

• 130 free concerts open to the public
• 300+ complete performance recordings available on the website and iTunes podcasts
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• benefit concerts for the House of Mews and the Woodruff-Fontaine House
• premiere performances of approximately 70 new works by academic student and faculty composers
• hosting young composition contest winners from all over the US as well as Italy, China, Turkey, Australia, Taiwan, and Korea at our annual Belvedere Festival

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Since its formation in 2002, Luna Nova, a group of artists devoted to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, has performed in colleges, museums, churches, and concert halls across the country. Its repertoire consists of recognized masterworks as well as works by emerging composers. With concerts, masterclasses and private instruction, Luna Nova maintains a strong commitment to the education of performers and listeners, and to the cause of new music. Luna Nova is currently the core ensemble for the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival held each June in Memphis, Tennessee.