Doors at 7pm, music at 7:30pm.
The Extradition Series welcomes Ashland-based performer/composer Tessa Brinckman, who will present her new solo work Box | Grown Men Sing and join members of the Extradition Ensemble for a group performance of Eva-Maria Houben’s Haiku for Seven.
> Brinckman’s Box | Grown Men Sing (2019) is a 35-minute electro-acoustic meditation on loss, seen through the lens of solitary confinement, its connections to colonization and climate change, and our yearnings beyond dehumanization. Performed by the composer on bass flute and waterphone with fixed audio and video, the piece incorporates interview recordings with three survivors of solitary within the US prison-industrial complex. What did they hear, smell, taste, dream, remember, resist? What did they love?
> Houben’s Haiku for Seven (2003–2019) brings together seven of the composer’s solo “Haiku” scores for different instruments, creating a simultaneous, interlocking realization. The piece will be performed by Tessa Brinckman (flutes), Loren Chasse (percussion), Lee Elderton (clarinet), Annie Gilbert (trombone), Matt Hannafin (percussion), Jacob Mitas (viola), and Collin Oldham (cello).
New Zealand flutist Tessa Brinckman has been described by critics as a “flutist of chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), an “excellent…flutist” (Willamette Week), and a “highlight of Portland” (New Music Box) who “play(s) her instrument with great beauty and eloquence” (Music Matters New Zealand). She enjoys a versatile career, having worked in many classical music ensembles and concert series in the United States, South Africa, France, and New Zealand. Her orchestral, chamber, and solo music performances include the Oregon Symphony, New Haven International Arts, Festival of New American Music, Britt Festival of Music & Arts, Ashland Independent Film, Oregon Bach, Oregon Shakespeare, Ernest Bloch, Bumbershoot, Oregon Fringe, and Astoria Music Festivals.
